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Grimlock - Power of the Primes
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Special thanks to my mom for kicking and throwing stuff at me during this shoot.
My Latest Lego Transformer - Its Optimal Optimus - check out the vid on our youtube channel to see all the features and transformations of this custom Lego model... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTORLyixf3g #lego #transformers #beastwars #poweroftheprimes #OptimalOptimus #OptimusPrimal
Here is my take on #Lego #Transformers Godmaster Road King or aka Powermaster Slapdash and Lube... I added a lot of articulation because the original toy left a lot to be desired in that department... Anyhow enjoy the first of a few Lego powermasters coming your way this month...Watch the youtube vid to see the transformation and more details on this build .... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcT05rErrnk
Recently an elderly lady from my church moved to Florida, and she did not want to move this big double shelf thing. I hate shopping for shelves, but don't mind putting them together, so I said I'd take it. For some reason her daughter and son-in-law thought it could only be moved as a single unit, but I quickly realized I could break the whole thing down in about five minutes.
So I did, and crammed it all into Victoria's Elantra GT, secured it with pull straps, and brought it to our playroom, to which I've been wanting to add shelving for a while now. Previously, only the Dinobots were on display, along with the big guys down there at the bottom. I told the kids to get all their TFs out and we'd put them all up on these shelves.
This is our family collection, basically. Some are mine, but most belong to the children. It's not complete, but it does contain the characters we love most or that I had a special connection with as a kid, or that I had as a kid. Well, there's also some in there that we thought just looked cool.
There's only three missing that my brothers and I actually had as kids that I wish I could find, but they're all very expensive now - Thrust, Powerglide, and Octane.
This actually isn't the entire collection, either. I counted, and we have 8 Optimus Primes of various sizes and configurations, another 8 Bumblebees, five or six Megatrons, five Soundwaves, five Starscreams, four different Hot Rods and for some reason each of us has a copy of both Sideswipe and Sunstreaker (the War for Cybertron versions). I think I might've purchased things I didn't realize we already had.
The quality is all over the place. Some bots are great right out of the packaging. The materials still feel great, the joints are relatively tight, and everything looks fantastic. Others are a complete disaster right out of the package. Material feels cheap, joints are loose, fit is rough in vehicle mode, and the colors don't look right. And then there's everything in between.
I don't understand how serious collectors in this hobby don't lose their ever-loving minds. I mean this picture represents about 12 years worth of relatively engaged effort (looking at various toy stores every time we went, using Big Bad Toy Store and even TFSource). I can't imagine how annoying it must have been to try and assemble say, a Masterpiece collection or the entire Alternators line when they were out.
I guess that's why people buy third party stuff. I just find it annoying and confusing, though. Anyway, it was a fun journey, and maybe someday we'll find Thrust, but we're done for now.
Not shown: WFC Jetfire, the three main seekers in their Earth forms, and Hot Shot, who I got to know through the fantastic Transformers PS2 game.