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Ok, got HA Bumblebee yesterday. Fantastic looking toy with a fun transformation. Only problems I have are the seats (wished they could at leas fold) and the frontal chest parts. The latter tend to get back to “car form” if you look at them wrong. Don't know if there is a way to secure them in robot chest mode (if I twist to much it feels like it’s going to break). It seems that just cutting a bit of the dark grey plastic next to the spring would make it possible to secure the mechanism in place. Also got voyager SS out on a whim. Don’t know if I should return it. I like how it looks but since there is a Leader SS in the works… Anybody care to share their experience with the mold? Is it fun?

Got lucky yesterday while searching for movie stuff. Picked up Leader Prime for 54€, some 74,50 USD. Now the price sucks, but here in Spain you pay scalper price on normal stores. The lucky part was that the store where I bought it had a special of two free movie ticked for the TF movie for every 50 € spend on TF toys. So technically I only paid 51 USD for the toy. Also found Human Alliance Bumblebee in another store of the same chain but didn’t get it because, unlike the fist place I went, they wouldn’t give me the tickets until the official start of the campaign (which is today). Either way, they are holding the toy for me. Just by looks, I say HA Bumblebee is going to be one of my favourites. The yellow looks great and the Shia figure looks a lot better in person.

Thanks for the pics! Anybody notice anthing new by the pics? Google's headache machine says: and

They could make it anywhere between 1:9999 to 1:1 for all I care: no TV version means no money from me!

Normally I don't like the real cars used in TF toys for their alt modes. I also would like to see some European designs (since those are the ones I see on the streets). That said, Mudflap and Squids car modes look great; I really like the designs so I'm keeping an eye out for Human Alliance Squids.

Some of these things are rather good like the "Devastator Funky Edition" or the "Sheep Convoy". http://kotoys.com/kotoys.php?id=279&ca...r+Funky+Edition http://kotoys.com/kotoys.php?id=264&ca...me=Sheep+Convoy Considering how overpriced the Disney Label MM is for what it actually offers, it's KO wouldn't be such a bad buy.

Wow indeed! Ooh what an unholy of unholy unions would that make *cough*Robotech*cough*

Blackout in Earth helicopter mode instead of the cybertronian thingy is great news.

Got a reply from Overdrive: Sooo no chest lock but maybe better fit and less looseness?

GoW + Castelvania = Epic

Overdrive says this: http://www.over-drive-inc.com/store/produc...c8176a2239bd167 Graham, is this true?

SS would be cool but no Leader Blackout makes me

A pity they took this long to make new schemes for the YF-19. I really wanted an orange supernova but since we never had news I ended up getting the FP buldle. Yamato's orange scheme falls short on what could have been a great recolor. I'm not big fan of the M plus tan color but in person it does look better. Only transformed it once and put it in the closed. Remember feeling that it was a bit loose on the legs and difficult to pose (a version 3 would kick ass considering Yamato's latest works). Once I get access to my closet again I really want to take it for a spin again though.

Having real doubts on this one. Anybody getting the Dygenguar and Aussenseiter set? They look beyond AWESOME combined... but the perfect transformation horse mode (as in "not with the swappable head and legs") looks rather lacking for such an expensive SOC. The display stand better be the best one yet.

And better yet: a transforming and combining Chibi Dancouga!!! Other SD robot goodness http://www.toysdaily.com/discuz/viewthread...%3D1&page=1

Boy is Eva-5 WEIRD! http://ngeekhiong.blogspot.com/2009/05/rev...-and-5-new.html Don't know about the story but the new designs are getting more "toyetic".

Four votes for Madox!! The story was crappy but the design was seven flavors of awesome.

Great news... then you ad ligths and sounds and some other gimmicks for the kids and presto! Fatter than the first movie SS but more expensive!! Now really, I hope they make a great Leader SS like the new Leader Prime. The new pics of Jetfire in robot mode are ok but the kibble is incredible in both modes and combine mode is a giant meh.... I think I'll pass on him. http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/t...ht-mode-167580/

Amazing (and fast) job!

Many thanks Azrael!

Hi there, My whole house is full of glass wool particles and we'll probably have to throw out a lot of papers, clothes and other stuff. The computer sadly is also on the list. Don't know how much cleaning it would cost but that PC is really full of crap so I guess all the fans, the processor’s ventilator and the power unit would have to go. By today’s standards the rig is old; and AMD 2+Ghz, 1,5Gb RAM, 500GB HD and an ATI 256M board. Since I'll have to throw money away on new stuff might as well pick up something a bit beefy. I was thinking I could salvage the two hard drives I have in there and get a new rig. Thing is that the HD are of the old ATA type. Could I use those on the new fancy two processor motherboards or do they all use just SATA? I was also thinking of getting one of those portable HD and just downloading all the stuff and reloading it into the new PC. Since we do most of our work at home we've bought a laptop. An emachines E720; Intel Pentium Dual CPU T3400 @ 2.16GHz, 3Gb or RAM, 223Gb HD. I could return this laptop and get a better one with better graphics instead of a clunky PC (I’ve grown to like the little space a laptop takes up). I use the computer mainly for work (Office, Photoshop and such) but want to be able to use some of the newer games and video codecs in a fast way. Are laptops far behind the PCs in terms of graphics/price? Any things I should look for when buying one? How much does a middle to upper layer laptop cost? The spouse wants to get a Mac laptop for herself so as to edit video. How is the compatibility between Mac and PC today?

Well, I went vacuum cleaner hunting today and couldn't find the rainbow brand. In the end I picked up a Dyson vacuum cleaner with a fancy cyclone system and with a supposed higher power which I imagine will be useful for making sure not much is left after cleaning, but I'm not completely sold on it being a better choice than a water filter based one. The water filter brand I had my sights on was Polti so I was hoping if anybody has had any experiences with either and what they would suggest. As for samples and lawyers, that's already in process, hoping I can get an architect to confirm the monstrosity that's on the roof to give it all legal strength and have already started talks with a lawyer. I'll tell you how that all ends up... Thanks in advance to all of you.

Thanks for all the answers guys. Two days ago we leaved the house. The night before we left we started having throat pain and we got really worried since that was a new symptom. The windows were left wide open that night. When we came back we started having the symptoms again. My wife went to the roof (we live on the last floor of the building) and said that up there she felt like she couldn’t breath. I went there and sure enough I felt irritated lips and found the reason behind this: Glass wool rockwool or a similar material The building is installing a new heather system with solar panel on the roof. The a$$holes doing this the past few month have pieces of this highly toxic crap laying on the floor plus some of the glasswool covering some of the pipes is in contact with the air. We investigated about this material because the fake wall behind the workdest has this thing inside. But we couldn’t figure out how it could get past the wall. Then we looked at the roof and remembered that the opened windows just made it worst. Now I don’t know if I should kill someone or feel happy to finally know what was causing us this. We went to the ER last night and apart from the throat irritation we are fine. But we’ve been exposed to this $hit for months and my wife is really worried about any long time effects on the baby. We’ve rented a room close to home and will begin nailing the balls to the wall of the idiots responsible for this as legally best as we can.

Hi, I want to know if this has happened to any other member here: Ever felt a strong itching after manipulating your collection or an area close to it? See my wife and I have had terrible intermittent itching for months now. It normally starts after we do an in dept cleaning. We start scratching for a few days and then it stops until it pops up again. We've pinpointed the area down to the computer desk of the work room, right were I've been keeping most of my collection. Showers relieve the itching but just sitting down or touching something in the desk gets you started again. We don’t know if it’s due to bugs or another toxic product in the house or maybe just a dust allergy (some of the things I have in the desk are second hand and still have some leftover dust from who knows what conditions). Now, we did some remodelling in the house last summer and the parquet floor got a new coat of varnish. The idiot that did it did an incredibly sloppy job leaving great blobs of varnish on the corners. We now *think* this might be the source of the itching. Maybe the desk hits the floor while we are using it and lets loose some particles and when we clean they get distributed all over my collection and the computer. The thing that opposes this hypothesis is that the rest of the house does not make us itch... that is until yesterday when the living room sofa started making us itch after cleaning the floor beneath it. The itching is bearable; it just makes sleeping while scratching a pain in the arse. What worries us is that we have a five month baby in the house who will start crawling any day now over what could be a toxic floor or who knows what.

Meh, that just reminds me that over-drive has to RE-ship my VF-1D because the stupid mailman didn't feel like delivering it and the package got returned. And buying it today would be cheaper We need a single universal currency to shield our collecting. I propose the rupee; you find them chopping down weeds and such other things while dressed like an elf.