Transformers

Lemming

From a general conversation had on IRC last night .... here's (some of) my transformers collection.

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Included in the pics are:

Generation 1 (original):

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Optimus Prime
Prowl
SmokeScreen
WarPath
Dirge
Megatron
Metroplex
Jetfire
Cyclonus
Highbrow (headmaster)
Brainstorm (headmaster)
Bumblebee (Pretender variant)
Shrapnel
DreadWind (powermaster)
Optimus Prime (powermaster)
Micromaster "off road patrol"
Micromaster "SkyHopper" (base)
Double Dealer (powermaster)

Armada:

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Optimus Prime
Megatron
Red Alert
StarScream

Amz

Amzeh likes!

Typedef

Jazz
Optimus Prime & Trundle
Rodimus Prime
Metroplex
Scorponox
Sludge
Dirge
Kup
Blastoff (part of Bruitcus)
Overloard


Many magazines and manuals.

Energon........



muhahaha

DiscoStu

omg!!!! original boxed optimus prime and metroplex!!!

the only remenents of my childhood transformers collection is jetfires gun and one of the arches on metroplex's leg

Although i do still have an old vhs copy of desertion of the dinobots.

Ste-

Did anyone elses jaw drop ?
I still gots me old tranformers (heineken ad) in the attic.
Think I'll go watch the movie.

ozpass

Oh man! A boxed original Optimus Prime, that is so sweeeeeet! :cool: :cool: :cool:

ciano

Prime in his original packaging! I wonder how much that is worth??

ozpass

Here's one in much crappier condition than Lemming's if anyone wants it:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3129096427&category=753

ozpass

Using American Ebay as a benchmark it would seem that it's worth quite a lot:

See Here

Lemming

To answer questions on Optimus Prime (1984 original),

it's worth roughly $225, although I paid just over half that.

I have others (Blastoff, Topspin, Broadside etc) but can't find them, and I've several due from Ebay including

Micromaster "Groundshaker" (base)
Micromasters "Battle Patrol"
Jazz (Commemorative Re-issue)

Lemming

Originally posted by ozpass
Here's one in much crappier condition than Lemming's if anyone wants it:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3129096427&category=753

Oh god .....

you DO realise that you are SERIOUSLY undervaluing that?

Prime himself, as you state, is in very good condition! The fact you even HAVE a box and the manual jacks the price up something awful!

Think I'll bid on that one mysel (just for the box and manual)

ozpass

Ah! Should state that it's not actually my auction! Just bringing it to the attention of transformer lovin' ATR readers!

Quigs Snr

I had issues 1-74 of the comics, perfect condition will all free gifts and all specials. My mother threw them out when I was in secondary school because she said they would attract mice !!!!!

To this day, I still like to show her what they would have been worth on Ebay.

Lemming

Originally posted by Quigs Snr
I had issues 1-74 of the comics, perfect condition will all free gifts and all specials. My mother threw them out when I was in secondary school because she said they would attract mice !!!!!

To this day, I still like to show her what they would have been worth on Ebay.

I have a similar tale of woe, although this time with my darling father instead of my mother.

I do still have the original Movie VHS though (which can't be got anymore 'cause it was pulled) & one of the old annuals (the one with Ultra Magnus & Galavtron on the front) & the graphic novel of the film.

GuanYin

Ah the transformer comics.
I still have a folder with the target 2006 collection somewhere (was the introduction of galvatron).

Oh I am a nerd.......

Belle Ende

Transformers were fun toys, for sure!

The comics were the best thing though. I distinctly remember a story of Ultra Magnus fighting Galvatron in a huge forest fire! Great writing and art.

GuanYin

Yeah I remember that one too!

They ended up buried in a volcano.

I was always a bit pissed off how wussy they made UM in the comics though. He was much cooler than that.

Lemming

I was never big on UM for some reason. Dunno.

I absolutely loved JetFire (possibly my fav transformer) and the Dinobots & the Constructicons too

On the comic front, I rather liked "DeathsHead" if anyone remembers him? he was a mercenary bounty hunter introduced around the story of "Target: 2006"

GuanYin

Yeah he was class, he got his own comic and a few mini-stories, but wasn't as interesting as in Target 2006.

lordsippa

Got an old Deathshead comic somewhere...

Woden

i loved the ones that used to connect up together to form a bigger robot, from 4 or so smaller parts and the one main one, oh yeah then i'd get optimus prime to smash em to pieces

swalsh

does anyone remember that when you put your finger over or rubbed the holagram sticker it changed. i also had optimus prime but in my younger days i was a destructive little b*****d. probably buried in little pieces out the back yard.

richindub2

I have about 50 G1 transformers (prime, jazz, prowl, sunstreak etc) all in perfect condition (most with boxes) in my attic. Along with about 200 comics (ok to good condition) and about 10 annuals.

I love the way my mother hoards everything!

Lemming

Originally posted by richindub2
I have about 50 G1 transformers (prime, jazz, prowl, sunstreak etc) all in perfect condition (most with boxes) in my attic. Along with about 200 comics (ok to good condition) and about 10 annuals.

I love the way my mother hoards everything!

/meh whimpers :eek: :ninja:

smoke

I have that Optimus Prime '84 at home. No box though and the part that pushes the car out is broken.:(

ozpass

That boxed Optimus Prime on ebay went for £13.50 - did anyone here buy it? (Seems like a good price).

The Brigadier

I have every episode on Transformers on CD as Mpeg files. 98 Episode in total!!

Quigs Snr

James, you and I should talk !

Anyone else remember the scrambled graphs on the backs of the boxes with that robots stats, you got a little slip of red plastic to hold over it and you saw the graph of the robots stats then.

Up till a few years ago (when I gave them away, almost mint to a kid who smashed em up), I had an original soundwave and ravage/laserbeak, huffer, prowl, grimlock, starscream and ramjet and the hardest to come by for me, shockwave. What was I thinking of ?

Ramjet was my fav, although a little silly, raming things in a plane ? Actually that's been done.

I recall good stories about shockwave and the dinobots early on in the comics, also later on in the comics when they got to cybertron, that small guy who turned into a wheel but died in a big melting vat, great storyline, would love to read them all again.

Belle Ende

a little silly, raming things in a plane ? Actually that's been done.

Hah hah hah!

I recall good stories about shockwave and the dinobots early on in the comics, also later on in the comics when they got to cybertron, that small guy who turned into a wheel but died in a big melting vat, great storyline, would love to read them all again.

The nimble-fingered Scrounge.

Lemming

Got some new beasties

I'll put up pics later cause my dig. camera needs a recharge.

Micromasters Battle Patrol (Autobot)
Micromasters GroundShaker (Autobot Base/Tank)
Autobot Jazz (U.S. Commerative Re-Issue)
Limited Ed. PredaKing Litho (24" x 18")


Currently attempting to get my hands on a BOXED Fortress Maximus .... which is going to hurt something awful in the bank ... and Scorponok.

Belle Ende

Apparently there is a new Transformers: ARMADA comic out in the shops. Written by none other than Simon Furman , and soon to be drawn by Andy Wildman , Geoff Senior, and Lee Sullivan!

Hooray and hurrah!:D :cool:

Lemming

Originally posted by Belle Ende
Apparently there is a new Transformers: ARMADA comic out in the shops. Written by none other than Simon Furman , and soon to be drawn by Andy Wildman , Geoff Senior, and Lee Sullivan!

Hooray and hurrah!:D :cool:

Armada's been out since last year.

Belle Ende

Originally posted by Lemming
Armada's been out since last year.

You misunderstand ...... this is a UK-only comic by Panini.

Dont be at yourself

Armada is awful. The Generation 1 comic and The War Within are both good reading though.

Belle Ende

Originally posted by NekkidBibleMan
Armada is awful.

Damn. It was just the mention of those artists and writer I mentioned above that piqued my interest in Armada, not directly because of Armada itself.

Given that you've noted that Armada is crud, I'd much prefer Furman/Senior/Sullivan/Wildman to work on a comic featuring the original G1 characters. Rock that would.

Lemming

I must say that I'm not overly fond of Armada, although I don't dislike it either. What troubles me about it is that we know what happened (roughly speaking) during the civil war. What they've done with Armada is create an alternate parallel universe thingy, which is a bit wierd to get used to.

Hence why G1 & the War Within are more popular me thinks.

Makaveli

I don't like the artwork in Armada, so I just can't get into it at all.
But I heard it's crap anyway.