Free Comic Book Day 2011 Roundup / Haul with Protoman

Now that Free Comic Book Day is behind us, let's kick back, crack open the free books and enjoy what we can gotten from the good men and women of the "funny pages world". And it didn't cost us a DIME! (Well.... I bought some stuff so.... a couple of bucks)

Big thanks to Carsley Comics, Captaine Quebec, 1,000,000 Comix and Cosmix Comics.

Transformers Masterpiece Rodimus Convoy / Prime MP-09 HK Edition

Tron 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition DVD Overview

Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Collection Unboxing

Astrotrain Handkerchief from France

An oddity I found during my late night hunting of robots on the net. It's a handkerchief of Astrotrain circa 1985 from France. What's so special about a hankie with the design of the best Decepticon triplechanger? Dude look at it.

Only in Europe do you find colors like this. I swear it could have been like a long lost G2 UK reissue from the early 90s. But I kid, it's just straight up a bad coloring of G1 Astrotrain's boxart along with the toy's shuttle alt mode (The original boxart had the train alt mode shown)

Well Hasbro, it looks like the search for your next repaint of the Astrotrain Classics/Henkei mold has come to an end. Hop on the DISCO TRAIN!

No major blog today, so instead........

Super busy today but at the same time a bunch of great stuff came in the mail, so I will show you one of the smaller items for now.

A replica of the Wonderfest Ultra Magnus armor for the WST Ultra Magnus chase figure...... but done in glow in the dark plastic. Here is a little video I did (Turn up your screen brightness a bit for the effect)

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=jpk5zp&s=7

Anyhow hopefully more tommorow!

Wonderfest Retrospective Part 14: 2002 Convoy Ring

Back in the swing of the Wonderfest thing for a bit. Next up we have......

The Wonderfest 2002 Artisan Wisdom Convoy Ring (aka Optimus Prime for your dirty gaijin ;D ). The ring was made of cold casted Lustrium (Sounds hot eh? No it's just a metal) and sold for a whooping 150,000 yen. Only 300 were made.

Price and rarity aside, it's "transformable". The base ring itself is the front truck cab of Convoy, when you open it downward, you can then flip up Convoy's head (inside the ring cavity reveals Convoy's famous line "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings"), and then close it up to make a "semi" robot mode.


The ring was rather large and expensive and so far I only know 2 people who got their hands on it. One of the earliest Wonderfest TF related items and atleast to me..... one of the coolest. To quote Sam's mom from the Bay movie; Transformers 2007 "It's his bling"

Fresh Beast Wars of Bel Air

I have a huge comic/toy convention this weekend so today's blog is going to be a quick one

Ah Fresh Prince and Beast Wars, 2 important pieces of my high school years. Combine them and they lead to some FUNNY. Youtube Video

I think the only problem I have with this is Will says "Razorbeast" but indicates Beast Wars Croc Megatron. He is a great guy, but he ain't perfect.