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I so want these Robosen Transformers toys!

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxEA_XJd_8pfPR5QSUoUNcSbrK9sRPeZ8j?si=ItYcWI_OPQwxgQWa 

You like?

Slim Pickins down Cas Car Boot: Transformers and Scalextric

 It was the annual massive Bank Holiday Castleford Rugby Club car boot today.

The Missus bought tons for the Grandkids. My own was a rather meagre haul.

The Scalextric bundle was a fiver. I've no idea of it's age but it looks displayable. The Mercedes SL has been daubed with varnish, which has turned an awful brown. See what you think.

The black car is a Gen 1 Hasbro Transformer, ID yet to be ascertained. It was two whole pounds and will go in the Transformers cabinet.

Any good?

GALVATRONICS

 A quick update on Galvatron. 

A new battery contact and it works! The eyes light up fine and a couple of sound effects can be heard. I'm please because its the first real bit of battery unit re-wiring I've done. Nothing fancy but its a step forward. 

An orange pen top made for a decent head laser too.

Finally, on this bench, my DIY ripcord made from three long plastic tree ties glued together well and after pulling it through the SSP flywheel teeth I can report... it worked! The teeth on the tree ties were enough to catch. 

Job done. 

I just need to show Junior now. It was a gift from him on [Grand]Fathers' Day.

Shipley Shuffle

 Back on childminding detail, we get Tuesdays to ourselves before school pick-ups. Today we re-visited Shipley for a shifty round the charity shops.

Stuff I saw:

Various unknown figures sold as a punnet.

Vintage badges as a lot and Dr. Who annuals, £6 each. Is that good?

Old and new. No idea what the tiny white figures are.

Turtles and wrestlers. Very dear I thought.

£20. What is it?

Lone Star train set items. £70 the bundle.

Jigsaw cover. Sweets of the Sixties. Yum-mee! Which was your favourite?

Modern plastic vehicles. No idea what from. You?

My only purchase, a Transformer each for Junior and me. £3 each.

Gen1 1980's Galvatron for me - missing it's laser unit and not working - and modern Transformer for the boy. No idea where the batteries go on this. You readers?

Anything here you would have got?

RODIMUS PRIME AND A HOT WHEELS ZOWIE! BINGO! ... Oh and a couple of mystery figures!

 Last Sunday's boot sale was fun.

I was so chuffed to pick up a modern re-issue of the Transformers Rodimus Prime, the big truck at the back here.

As I'm unlikely ever to find an original 1980's Generation 1 Rodimus, this is as close as I'll get without taking out a second mortgage. For just £6 I got the front cab - Hot Rod - and the fabulous opening rear trailer. Its a wonderful thing, which I first really noticed in my Loose Action Figures 'bible' bought way back in 2000 at the NEC. I've been steadily collecting its contents ever since!

My new Rodimus is just missing the secret canon. Think SPV and Swift Removals and you get the idea.

Have you got a Rodimus Prime?

We also picked up a nice 1993 SPV for Junior for Easter for £2 - just missing the missile and in great shape, together with a slew of late 1970's Hot Wheels including a tiny Zowie, the little one at the end. 

I've cleaned them up a little since getting them home.

The metallic red Corvette is very Hot Wheels in looks but is actually a Matchbox Superfast. The 'Woody' and Hot Rod are both late 1970's Hot Wheels, with the brand name in straight lettering on the base.

The little Zowie is my fave of the bunch and is the first I've seen for decades. I had them as a kid in the Sixties, together with tiny planes, although I've no idea what the planes were now. Zowie planes? The Zowie doesn't pick up much speed so I can't imagine Mattel issued track for it. Anyone know about Zowies?

 I may make a missile for the Vivid SPV.

Other items seen on the day included this Lanard jet. Was it for their Corps! range of action Joes?

I think this was a mis-shot, though the seller always has interesting bundles for a pound!

...... including the mystery 12 inch figure sprawled across the Go-Kart in the centre. What is that? Head shot and background removal added for clarity.

And the 12 incher next to the Batjet with black shorts. Who's that?

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Postscript!

Mystery solved! I checked it's make this week! Taiyo 2002.

It's the Taiyo Edge BMX rider! Presumably the horrible hollowing of his limbs was to lighten the load!

Here he is on the Tube in action on an RC version!

https://youtu.be/hkAiMmzRRK4?feature=shared

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Till next Sunday! More Car boot therapy!

We've got your Numberbots - Take One Again!

Hello Woodsy! That Numberbots post zapped into my brain and I searched through my Robot displays to find the orange and green number 1 I knew I had...

It was difficult finding the little fella, although I got immense joy from looking more closely at all my other "plastic pals that are fun to be with"!

Finally I located him and as you can see, he's rather straightforward and upstanding. But as I compared him to the ones in your Post, I realised he wasn't the same. A brief re-acquaintance with his transforming procedure and lo and behold, he's not a Number 1 - he's the letter L (for Looey!).

  It looks like you've got 25 of his pals to locate now!

As a briefly traumatic finale to this tale, I was re-transforming him while chatting to my wife and inadvertently broke him in two!

Luckily the nearly 40 year old plastic was quickly fixed with two dabs of superglue and he transforms again!

Phew!

Lock that display case before anything else happens!

Cheers, 

Looey

Oz Base

WE'VE GOT YOUR NUMBERBOTS

Grandson Junior collects plastic Numberbots and I was amazed to see online just how they fit together!

A very clever design I thought. You?

February Finds

Slim Pickens at the February boot sale. Still, very enjoyable and with a cooked breakfast tasty too!

Here's what I got

Left to right: Walter De La Mare Ghost Stories Folio Hardback 1958, Corgi Batmobile on the ropes, Corgi DB5 and a Bandai 1990s Transformer. £3 total.

Any good?

ED'S TRAINS-FORMERS!

Woodsy and Gang,

Never having been into Transformers much, I still ended up with a couple:

I bought Hubcap because it resembled a '40s era car and was the right size for my train layout. Lockdown was an impulse buy and doesn't actually fold out or transform. It's a cheap version of the Transformer's line.

Do you collect them?

From Vegas Base

Ed

Hasbro 2009 #C-3138A Transformers Scout Class - Hubcap

Hasbro 2010 #10961 Transformers - Lockdown

PAINT YOUR GEN1 WAGON

 With prices for an original white Prime trailer being prohibitive, I bodged together my own using a cheapo Eddie Stobart plastic truck.

Covered in white paper and paint and home-made Prime racing stripes, the final icing came today using some ace Autobot decals Bill had made.

Not perfect and non-transforming, it seems to look the part with my Gen1 Magnus cab.

See what you think readers.

TRAILER PARK

 Its been a busy and enjoyable week in the spruce-up corner. When I can I sit in my favourite chair with a nice lamp on, cuppa tea to hand a few model cars to touch-up.

This week I tidied up some mid-1980's blue Corgi Batmobiles, an orange racing car and a couple of white Transformers G1 Ultra Magnuses.

To display one of my new Ultra Magnuses I decided to make my own trailer from a cheapo Eddie Stobart plastic toy.

Going for an impression rather than perfection, my Magnus trailer is currently drying on the bookshelf.

Watch this space!

Skorpinok nok nokin' on Heaven's Door...

Hi there, Woodsy! We were chatting about G1 Transformers and I mentioned I had a Skorpinok bought way back in the day.

It's a bit difficult to get him out of the display case without moving a lot of other wall mounted pictures first, as you can see!

I hope these snaps will suffice.

What's your favourite G1 model Moonbasers?

I guess as a Scorpio who's just had his birthday, for me it has to be this Headmaster!

Cheers, 

Looey

Oz Base

P.S. Having just done "my own research" I've discovered these puppies run for about US$500 on eBay. But even given that absurd price, I've found out that they are all KO grade.

Hmmm, another new word this boomer needs to learn!

https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/buyer-warning-knock-off-g1-scorponok-is-now-complete-and-ready-to-hit-the-markets.955831/

MY GENERATION

 Here's some of my old Transformers and friends like Gobots, a recent collecting passion of mine. Some Generation 1 from the 1980's with some later bots, they've all been found at Car Boot Sales over the past couple of years. It really is fun rummaging through boxes to find these old toys.

Do you collect Transformers?