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Nothing was broken, still no idea how it happened. Considering when I put him back on the shelf he barely fits and his antenna head actually touches the top of the shelf.

Probably work on the movie crap tonight ... probably should just wheel the bin upstairs for them.

Burn wrote:Got back into it tonight, this time the Minicons plus Armada and Energon.

Armada was a bit hit and miss, but Energon stepped up with some fantastic figures. Looking at Energon Megatron / Superlink Galvatron I really am tempted to put together a Megatron/Galvatron "shrine"

Of course looking at Starscream from Energon and the seekers from Armada I'm tempted to put together a seekers "shrine".

Oh and soon after I started, for some reason CW Computron decided that would be the appropriate time to fall off the back of the shelf, onto the floor, and take a few other figures with him.

It happens, the other day, I took my Wei Jiang EMOP off the top Prime shelf to do some photos with the new Bumblebee Movie Prime, and five minutes later, on the opposite end of the shelf, PotP Prime took a leap of faith, and took seven other Primes of various size with him.

I was not amused.

Bins have nothing to my real collection fear...

Packed up the remaining movie figures (I culled the Bumblebee's a while back, I need to cull more) plus Beast Machines, plus Machine Wars plus all the BW Maximals and a few Japanese exclusives.

I can actually see where I've made a dent now. So much more to go though.

Burn wrote:Packed up the remaining movie figures (I culled the Bumblebee's a while back, I need to cull more) plus Beast Machines, plus Machine Wars plus all the BW Maximals and a few Japanese exclusives.

I can actually see where I've made a dent now. So much more to go though.

I feel you man. Just keep slogging through!

At the time of this posting there's less than 6 hours until settlement.

All the Beasts are packed. I thought of putting them off until last, but that was going to be constantly weighing on my mind so I started on the G1's. Got a bunch of small boxes so things are packed lightly.

They're not aging well, especially the joints. Had my first break, Brainstorm's arm fell off. Turns out the arm is screwed on from the inside and the thread in the shoulder has given way. Second time I've seen threads failing in a TF, both have been in spots where there's a bit of pressure.

Really makes you appreciate how far they've come with joints.

Turns out I had a lot of **** to move.
And I work too much.
And it's been bloody hot.
But my townhouse is all empty and clean, just awaiting tenants.

Finally I have time to start unpacking. So behold! The first pics of the new room!



Yes there will be a curtain.
The tape is there for cyclones.

Just got these into place (will most likely move the tall upright) as I picked up two ex-display glass cabinets from the local electrical retailer. (Hoping for a third)

Nice, is that shelf on the bottom one of said ex display cases?

carytheone wrote:Nice, is that shelf on the bottom one of said ex display cases?

Nope. Got that one from an auction of my old high school, it used to be in the science department.

Paid $10 for it (amongst a heap of other ****). I don't remember how we got it upstairs at the townhouse, but getting it down resulted in a couple of crushed fiancé fingers!

Welcome home Burn and bots!

Looks like a good setup so far! Can't wait to get all the bots moved in!

So I snared a third display cabinet from Harvey Norman. Had them deliver the first two, picked this one up in two trips (doors and shelves first trip, cabinet itself second trip).

Hoped to get everything in place and set up today, simply didn't happen because we did other stuff with the house, BUT ... everything is kind of in place, they just need to be cleaned up or in the case of the display cabinets, doors and shelves put in (I have to get doors made for one of them).

So rather than pictures, here's a dodgy Facebook video.

One good thing about the cases, they come with lights (one on the left has a fluro bulb, the one on the right has LED strips, as does the middle one but I don't have the power cable for it)

Wow, so much shelving, nice. So it's a room just for TFs? Did you have one at your last place? Would you say the room is transforming nicely? Should I see my way out?

carytheone wrote:So it's a room just for TFs?

Yes

Did you have one at your last place?

Yes

Would you say the room is transforming nicely?

Yes

Should I see my way out?

Yes

He'll be back.
If not, I'll just get to him through Instagram.

Exciting times, Chief! It's gonna be great!
Those new glass cases are sweet.

What's up with the metal grates on the window?
Tsunami/Hurricane guards?

Maybe it keeps the kangaroos out....

They're just normal security screens to keep people out.

The fact they keep the wallabies out is an added bonus
(Though realistically, they'll just use the door)

OK, I'm going with, Tsunami guards to keep the 200 mph wind powered flying people and wallabies out.

Tsunami's aren't an issue when you have a great barrier reef in the way ...
And we actually don't joke about 200mph winds around here, not after the last two cyclones.

Looks like nice cases, I hope to get a few like that at some point.

Glass cases are always a collection display win. Hope the moving in and settling in is going well! Maybe I'll donate a stolen Sousaphone to the madness!

I haven't posted any updated pics here ... but some of you have seen them on Instagram. Suffice to say I have two cabinets full of G1. Have started on all the Optimus Prime/Convoy figures, should get a lot of that done this weekend. Slow going but I'm making the effort.

But it's time for a break from Transformers for a bit. A package arrived in the mail today.

See, Transformers weren't my first plastic robot toys. No, that honour belonged to one of those generic space robots. They used to be made of tin and you'd wind them up, then they moved to plastic and you put batteries in them.

And I had one. When I was blonde and skinny.


And I never forgot about that robot, I have no idea what happened to it. Probably discarded when Transformers came along. But I never forgot ...

When we moved into the new house, we got talking about all the different things we could put on the walls, floating shelves for example, and what we could put on them. It was around that time I started thinking about that little robot again. I started looking on E-Bay, was blown away by the prices of some of those "vintage space robots" (seriously, hundreds to thousands of dollars) but finding the one I had? Needle in a haystack. Most of them had no specific title.

Then I happened upon an auction from the UK. I watched it for a few days. It was ending at 1am or so for me, so I put a bid on and went to bed. Apparently I can sleep through e-mail, Facebook, Messenger alerts, but an E-Bay alert? Yeah, that wakes me up. I blearily looked at my phone expecting to be told I'd been outbid, but nope, I'd won.

$105AUD and less than two weeks later he arrived today. It's not EXACTLY the same as what I had (mouth is the major difference) but it's close enough. Required a small repair to it's foot, have yet to test it with batteries, but I have him. This may be my small side collection, just a couple of them to put around the house.
(Oh and he also came with two missiles (one discoloured) and his original box which is in fantastic condition)

That is super cool, Chief!

Dat pic!!