Woot, here I am with another. Oddly while this one focuses on Gigastorm, the title is all about Liege Maximo. As usual read from left to right with this one.
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Oh baby. I was most excited about this for a couple of reasons. The first being, I love Star Convoy and the Nemesis Colouration looks fantastic. Did they miss an opportunity by calling him "Black Star Convoy"? The jury is out. The second was, er... I can't remember now, but it probably has something to do with getting Galaxy Force more love.
Oddly it took me a while to work out what the title meant. Like obviously Evil God can only be Unicron, but the star thing took me a while. While the title used the kanji for star, which can be translated into Star, planet, world for example, my sudden epiphany was that the "Star" that belongs to the evil god is AKCHUALLY Star Convoy. That makes perfect logical sense.
ON TOP OF THAT, I initially thought that Nemesis Star Convoy was an evolved form of Nemesis Convoy. However this is not that case.
There are also a while bunch of clever use things going on, like Nemesis Convoy's trailer spawning billions of Scourge (Nemesis Prime) clones and all sorts of other clever stuff.
Read on for more.
FINALLY!
I finished this mammoth task. Wow, this was a big one for a couple of reasons. 24 pages are a lot of pages. Editing the effects was a difficult task.
However I feel I did learn a lot on this and I really enjoyed doing it. This volume is a lot of fun and the Stunticons are very cute in this. It is essentially a story of bonds being broken and then ...
REUNITED (will make sense as you read it).
*I took down the old post as I went back and fixed up earlier pages term and story consistency.
Read this baby left to right! usual random ass comments at the end.
However, here we go.
More Blokees here. On the one hand, I find them fun and engaging when getting a look at them one by one, but when I do these photo shoots with the whole series, I really see how similar they are and their minor flaws. Blokees are definitely a case of less is more.
This is a look at series 04, which they call Fractured Dimensions, despite all the series fracturing dimensions in some aspect or another.
Once again, I got the official figures from the Chinese release and I nabbed the whole set. Magnus, Snarl, Shockwave and the Constructicons were the major players on my hit list, but then looking at the Nemesis Prime, I decided he was cool enough, so Smokecreen and Tarn are just bonus figures.
In this release we got, eh, I just named them all up there... Shockwave is the one with the limited Variant, which I did not get.
2025 has finished and it kinda went quick. I felt started off well doing toys reviews at the start o the year, but then, I got a PS5 and whew! What a time sink that was. More on that later though.
The toys this year:
So there you go, a not terribly exciting bunch.
Having previously described this guy as abusive in my yearly wrap up post of 2023, I've finally taken some time to tale some pictures of the guy. In that yearly wrap up, I said
"OOoh, this is a tricky one. I remember loving the look of him in pictures, and on the box and initially when I got the toy, but somewhere I came to the conclusion, he looks all right, but he just isn't very Transformer-y. The lean robot mode does feel very comic book, but not quite Transformers. The tank mode falls entirely into the horrible category of "Folded up robot, that makes a space tank" and while that is kinda Transformer-y, it's also lazy and disappointing.
I like Tarn for being something different, but also dislike it for the same reason. It's weird, I'm not able to reconcile my feelings for him.
What an abusive relationship we must have."
And I stand by that statement. Now though, I would like to delve deeper into my thoughts.
As you can tell by the title, there was another pop-up store made for the wonderful money vacuum we call the Transformers. I went to it and will now share what I have.
This one was cleverly called:
Well lookee here, my first Age of the Primes figure. This line is apaprently going to have a focus on the Thirteen Primes, essentially the first guys of Transformers. Or whatever. TBH, I care very little about the Thirteen Primes, but they do have some interesting toys. Er, Well, one? Is Star Convoy one of the Thirteen? I have no idea, also I believe they've called him Star Optimus Prime. Yeah, I know that Str Convoy was a reborn G1 Convoy, so I guess Star Optimus Prime makes perfcet sense, but it just sounds unwieldy. When I get mine, he will be solely called Star Convoy.
However this is a post about the also unwieldly named "Megatronus The Fallen." So let's have a look.
The best looking ass in all Transformers belongs to this guy. Admit it, if you're a fan of G1, you've spent more time than you care to admit looking at the glorious ass of the Ark as it sticks up in the air from the base of Mt St. Hillary. A few years ago, Hasbro decided that the Ark need to become a Titan Transformer. I've often longed for an Ark playset and so grabbed this guy. What's he like?
Well, today I intend to reveal that very information to you.
Once again, I am here with more pictures of my addiction, er collection of Blokees. This time though, I 'm looking at Series 03, entitled "Autobot Run," for reasons I am not too sure about, but hey, it tickles the memory about the cartoon though, so that ain't bad now is it?
They come in random selection of boxes, but if you buy a case then, you most likely get the whole set. The case boxes looks like this:
This line up consist of a mere 3 Decepticons and 6 Autobots, although 2 of the Autobots are the same dude. They are:
Okay, let's get on with it then.
The EPOS card is a Japanese credit card that often has cool artwork on the cards in a variety of flavours and they have just started producing 2 types of Transformers credit card. One features the comic artwork above and the other is a black card with the Autobot and Decepticon logos on them. To be honest, the cards looking bloody great. However the problem with EPOS and other Japanese CC companies is they don't have the reach that companies like VISA/Mastercard have, so really there is no point (They are also kind of expensive with monthly fees and whatnot).
Obviously I was not so interested in getting a card, already having a few and need only one. Plus, they are hesitant to offer them to non-Japanese people. They were offering some freebies if you applied, but you had to be successfully approved and I believe you also had to actually use the card before getting them. That's a few too many hoops for me to be bothered jumping through, so I didn't bother. Enough ranting about companies capitalistic tendencies...
I went to another pop up shop a bunch of years ago, and that one was just a tiny stand, so I wasn't expecting much.
Here I go with a review of the figures that come with release 02, cleverly called Galaxy Version 02 SOS, I assume a nod to SOS Dinobots episode. In the review and wave, I'll be looking at:
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| Shining Series 01: Shining Roll Out |
I saw some of these guys on a Transformers Discord chat and thought they seemed decent enough and thought I would like to get at least one to experience for myself. While browsing the website, I saw they actually had a Shattered Glass Optimus Prime version and in the same box is a rather cool looking Grimlock too. Hrm, I says...
And then I had ordered a box with Shatty Prime and this single "Shining Version" of Optimus Prime. Essentially these guys are blind box purakit figures. That is, figures that you need to assemble yourself. I ended up actually using Aliexpress, because these guys don't have a Japanese distributor and even Amazon US seems to have a bit of a spotty range. And so this arrived in the post one day.
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Normally I separate games and toys on these lists, BUT 2024 has been a pretty lean year for me gaming wise. Sure I bagged a fenrir for my Sega Saturn which was a worthwhile purchase, but since it has opened up many games, I am in two minds as to whether to include them here. Mainly because I can't remember the ones I played. And despite having amasse a rather nice collection, I find myself spending all my time playing the translation of Grandia on it.
Hooo, boy. This little fellow I waited a while for. Some reason when I saw the original colour version of this guy from the EarthriseKingdom (all those lines blended together there...) line, I just had a feeling that there was a white version on the way eventually. Thus I held off buying and bided my time; lo and behold! I was blessed by the news that the toy coloured version (this one) was planned.
Kingdom is the purple one. I decided to not link to the TT page, as it'll eventually disappear.
Woot! Now I just had to pray to the Plastic Gods that Taktom saw fit to release him here. And they did, as a TT Mall exclusive (which there was a lot of going on at the time). While the exclusives were a pain, it did mean that I just had to be on the internet ball to get one.
Obviously I did. And here we are now.
More preamble to follow:
Where am I going with this story? Excellent question.
Well, in Superlink/Energon, the main leader of the Decepticons was missing for a while and Scorponok was the leader, then Megatron eventually returned. However, since they carried on from Micron Densetsu, Super link Megs was called Galvatron from the start. I also imported the JP version of Galvatron as it was a smaller size and the Hasbro one was oversized.
As a result of all this, I will probably be calling this figure Galvatron a lot of the time, despite the fact that is not it's official name. Hasbro also have plans to release a Galvatron coloured version (With extra purple bits) later as well, just to add to the possible confusion.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Moar DINOBOTS! Goddam life is good. Sludge is one that I always wanted as a kid and never got. I didn't get any of the Dinobots actually, until I got a gold box Snarl. The Studio series took the wind out of Takaratomy's Generations Selects coloured versions made from the POTP figures, but with nicer paint, and personally I appreciate that as these Studio Series ones are looking good and a leader sized = Darn bigguns.
