i like powerglide

starting with prowl, he’s very nice. i’m so glad he’s made out of solid plastic because i would be absolutely TERRIFIED to touch him if he still had all that clear plastic. his transformation was not made for clear plastic. the legs are extremely hollow, but aside from that i like him a lot and he fits right in with my other g1 autobots. i’m really glad to have him.

as for shockwave, he’s also excellent. the only shockwave i’ve owned was the original toy from animated (circa 2010-ish) and i’ve always wanted a g1 shockwave so i’m so happy to finally have one. i really like the colors in him and while yes, he is a retool of the siege version, i kinda don’t care because i think he’s cool.

starscream is also spot on. i’ve wanted a good modern toy of g1 starscream for a long time and to finally have one is basically a dream come true. and the fact that i have the other two seekers too just makes him that much better. i can’t attach a picture of them but trust me when i say they look beautiful together. it’s also nice to have him as a juxtaposition to my bayverse starscream so i can now more effectively convince my friends that the bayverse designs are bad (mwahahahah)

now i dont say this to downplay how awesome the other toys i got are (because they are all very awesome) soundwave here completely steals the show. i love everything about this idiot. the colors are vibrant, the posing is so excellent, the cassettes are cool, and he looks amazing. i’ve owned an original g1 soundwave for as long as i can remember so having that toy but actuall my good and with knees that bend the right direction is doing something to my soul. ravage looks a tad strange in tale mode but other than that this thing is great and i can’t wait to own this set for the rest of my days

for context about two months ago i bought a reactivate bumblebee with a qc error that prevented him from transforming. i ended up keeping him because i couldn’t stomach the though of him ending up in a landfill but i did contact hasbro customer support about this and they told me they would send me a replacement figure. well now two months later said replacement has finally arrived. it arrived in this box (sensitive information is blacked out because i don’t feel like doxxing myself on tumblr.com right now)

now you might be saying to yourself “but mrpowerglide, reactivate bumblebee is a deluxe class toy! why would hasbro send his replacement in a box so much bigger than it has any right being?” and i will tell you that the reason the box is so big is because in response to me buying a busted deluxe class, hasbro for some reason sent me a leader class. laser prime specifically

now laser prime was never a toy i had any intention of getting, but i am so glad they sent him over because holy hell he is absolute fantastic

everything about him is really solid. the build quality is great, the transformation is super fun (he’s shockingly complex for an idiot wearing most of the truck on his shoulders), and his joints are loads of fun to need with. i love that he comes with his trailer too. i think it adds a lot of value to the toy, and while yes i did get this for free, i feel like i would be more than satisfied if i had paid full price for him. i have no idea where in my display i’m going to put him, but i don’t care because he’s really great and i’m glad to have him

i pre ordered these idiots who even knows how long ago and they finally came in. actually they came in a month and a half ago but i wasn’t available to pick them up so i had one of my friends do it for me and due to circumstances today was the earliest possible opportunity for them to finally make their way to me. anyway the story of how i got them aside the wait was well worth it i’m enjoying them immensely

hound is great. he’s really simple, but it works. he’s poseable, fun to flip back and forth, and he looks great. his shoulder canon could attachment point could be a bit stronger but aside from that i don’t really have any issues with him, and i feel largely the same about hot rod

the magenta on this guy is beautiful and aside from his shoulders being not great he’s a lot of fun to pose. he’s a bit small for a voyager, but he comes with lots of accessories that i’m not going to use ever so i think it works out. not they’re supposed to be a pair or anything but they do look great together which is a point in both their favors.

unless of course you’re in charge of my finances, in which you have a warrant out for my arrest. skywarp’s pretty great though

obviously he’s cool by himself, but he also looks great next to thundercracker

two years ago today, as a gift from my father, i received the below pictured transformers legacy united animated universe optimus prime.

this was intended mostly as a one off thing, a single toy to fill a childhood desire. little did we know what was about to happen.

as i’m sure you can gather, the acquisition of this particular optimus prime resparked my passion for transformers after many years away from the hobby, and now two years back in to it the obsession runs deeper than ever.

this year was overall a solid improvement from last year. it was of course not without its low moments (does a year even happen if it doesn’t try to crush your soul at least once? i think not) but compared to last year the baseline was a lot higher. i obviously still have challenges that i have to face everyday, and there’s still a lot of work i need to do to get to a place where i would consider myself to be truly happy, but i’ve learned a lot about myself over the last year ().

i attribute this overall improvement in part of course to (among other things) new friends, a new living arrangement where i don’t hate my neighbours, new passions and new creative projects that i’m over the moon to get to work on, but i think we all know that the reason this year was better than last year was because i got 40 new toys. that’s almost double what i got last year! for the love of god don’t tell my accountant.

the most recent of these toys i actually got today, which officially brings us into my third year of collecting. everybody say hi to reactive bumblebee!

i’m not kidding i found him new in box in a regular retail store and i felt compelled. his robot mode is really nice.

unfortunately he comes packed with a QC error that prevents him from transforming (he has two left rear wheels so he can’t tab together properly) so i can make no comment on the alt mode. i’ve contacted hasbro customer support but they’re just going to send me a random figure for my troubles (which i will gladly accept don’t get me wrong) so i’m kinda on the fence about keeping him. the thought of sending a toy to die fills my heart with sadness, but at the same time him not being able to transform to a kind of a big deal and it’s really hurting my enjoyment of the toy to the point that i might just cave in and exchange him for a refund. idk i’ll have to think about it some more.

so until i figure what the hell do with reactivate bumblebee, i will leave this yearly check in (or whatever the fuck you want to call it) off with this. this idiots continue to bring me more joy than almost anything else in the world, and no matter how hard life may seem sometimes, knowing that i get to go home every night and gaze upon them gives me the strength persevere through the shit. as stupid as they may sound, it’s true. i am a stronger person because of these idiots and i love them so much. more than is probably healthy in all honesty. each one means so much to me and i’m so happy that i get to have them in my life.

so again, in spite of the financial ruin they’ve put me in, i will forever and always be thankful for these idiots, the way they make me feel, and the people who have helped bring them into my life because i wouldn’t be the person i am today without these stupid hunks of transforming plastic. here’s to another year of spending too much money on toys.

i ordered this idiot like two weeks ago and he finally arrived. in his defence he did have to cross an entire continent and get through border patrol without being detained and/or deported but like still he could have been faster getting here smh my head. great figure though i’m loving him

also oh my god the joints on this thing. holy hell this is up there with megatronus the fallen as one of the most possible figure i have. all he’s really missing is good shoulders but even then they don’t really bother me because of how good the rest of him is. i’m very happy to have him in the collection he’s a lot of fun

there are no words to contain my excitement. my time has finally come. HE’S SO PEAK

i literally don’t think i could have asked for a better powerglide. he’s actually so good and i genuinely can’t believe that he’s real and that i have him. this some dream com true type stuff right here

since he’s an arm for the combiner skeleton and i already have one of those on slingshot, he’s not really anything i haven’t seen before but he is very solid and i’m having a lot of fun with him. he does his kibble management a lot better than slingshot, so that kinda automatically makes him more fun for me to mess with now that he doesn’t have feet the size of texas

i’m still kinda on the fence about if i’m collecting bruticus at this point, but considering how i know have 2 of the 5 required toys it becomes more likely by the day. they should really stop letting me into toy stores unsupervised. at the very least him and brawl look very nice together, which i think is very epic and cool

behold! dorito-pug starscream

ok technically i got this idiot yesterday but i got distracted and forgot to post him 😬 oops

i’ll be honest and say that i really don’t like this design for starscream and this toy is objectively weird in every imaginable way (i mean just look at his diabolical side profile (pictured below)) but i found him for a really good price at the local used toy store and he called to me like the green goblin mask. and now after having had the time to mess with him i’m glad he did. he’s so stupid but that’s his charm

stupid-ass robot mode aside he does turn into a pretty net jet. despite what you may think i actually like this thing and i’m glad to have him for some reason

he reminds me a lot of 86 scrapper in the sense that they have stupidly good articulation and are really fun to pose. also they’re both feet which is yet another in the long list traits they share

he’s certainly not without his funk, but i still like him regardless. some parts of the transformation are a little annoying, but the individual modes are great and i’m enjoying them both immensely

now all i have to do is wait for them to repaint him as starscream and skywarp. whenever the hell that may be. until then he’s just going to have to join the army i guess

it was me. my windcharger preorder came in today. give yourself 5 Powerglide Points™ if you guessed correctly!*

he’s a silly little guy and i’m having lots of fun with him. the colors are immaculate and he’s wonderful to flip back and forth, but he does have the tightest knees on a toy i think ever. like holy hell. he looks stunningly fabulous next to 86 bumblebee though

ok this guy is really fun. he so disproportionately wide, but i love him for that. i love a good chunky transformer. he also has one of my favorite head sculpts of any toy maybe ever. he looks like an aviator straight out of the 30s and his little moustache is so silly. he’s great and you should get one if you’re thinking about it

let me just stat off be saying that this guy is awesome. he so big he’s basically a giant brick and i think that’s awesome. literally the only thing i dont love about him is how the requiem blaster attaches to the tank mode. it’s not terrible, but its not very secure either. but like aside from that he’s epic

visually he’s basically a giant furnace and i love that design concept for megatronus. whoever came up with that deserves a raise. i love the flame effects he comes with too they make him look like he’s on fire