Re: My Megatron Collection, Other TFs, and other figures non TF related
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 3:07 pm
Well it's been here. I just decided to add pictures of the other stuff I happen to collect actually.
I did have a Dinobot (can't remember which one specifically) and G1 Optimus Prime when I was about 2 or 3. Then I hopped into Thundercats (which I thankfully and mostly forget) and then got into dinosaurs after a museum visit when my family went on vacation.
So, while growing up I was more focused on dinosaurs. Initially my mom got me some of the Dino-Riders toys (not realizing they were for older kids) but then switched it getting them alongside the Playskool "Definitely Dinosaurs" line in from 1987 to about 1990. I was born in 1984 actually so that's why I didn't have too many TFs while growing up at that time because they were kind of above my level.
After those collections I went to Jurassic Park and then the scale replicas from Safari Ltd. The Carnegie Collection was essentially the main thing I'd buy from every museum visit I'd go to. Eventually JP waxed and wanned and eventually I got into Star Wars collecting. I went back to Transformers during the time of Beast Wars and I got myself a Transmetal Megatron. I actually missed out on the original 96 one, but I also got a few others to boot. The Transmetal Megatron is actually still in very decent and respectable shape, some of the silver paint has flaked off in spots though. I don't transform it very often especially ever since I heard about the fragility of it about a couple years ago. It was my "go-to" Megatron. Anyways I started getting more focused in my specific collections. I usually hopped between Jurassic Park and Star Wars for a bit there. After the Transformers '07 movie it rekindled my interest in it again. I started going more into it in recent years because JP, while I still love dinosaurs, has changed from what it started out as in 1993 and in 1997. Star Wars I took a breather from because I got too carried away before going back to it to focus on my favorite faction, the Empire and Sith (I like the bad guys).
I decided with TF to take a character focus of sorts with Megatron. That has been expanding somewhat at times with me getting other characters I like the look of or they are specific staples of the faction/brand.
I did have a Dinobot (can't remember which one specifically) and G1 Optimus Prime when I was about 2 or 3. Then I hopped into Thundercats (which I thankfully and mostly forget) and then got into dinosaurs after a museum visit when my family went on vacation.
So, while growing up I was more focused on dinosaurs. Initially my mom got me some of the Dino-Riders toys (not realizing they were for older kids) but then switched it getting them alongside the Playskool "Definitely Dinosaurs" line in from 1987 to about 1990. I was born in 1984 actually so that's why I didn't have too many TFs while growing up at that time because they were kind of above my level.
After those collections I went to Jurassic Park and then the scale replicas from Safari Ltd. The Carnegie Collection was essentially the main thing I'd buy from every museum visit I'd go to. Eventually JP waxed and wanned and eventually I got into Star Wars collecting. I went back to Transformers during the time of Beast Wars and I got myself a Transmetal Megatron. I actually missed out on the original 96 one, but I also got a few others to boot. The Transmetal Megatron is actually still in very decent and respectable shape, some of the silver paint has flaked off in spots though. I don't transform it very often especially ever since I heard about the fragility of it about a couple years ago. It was my "go-to" Megatron. Anyways I started getting more focused in my specific collections. I usually hopped between Jurassic Park and Star Wars for a bit there. After the Transformers '07 movie it rekindled my interest in it again. I started going more into it in recent years because JP, while I still love dinosaurs, has changed from what it started out as in 1993 and in 1997. Star Wars I took a breather from because I got too carried away before going back to it to focus on my favorite faction, the Empire and Sith (I like the bad guys).
I decided with TF to take a character focus of sorts with Megatron. That has been expanding somewhat at times with me getting other characters I like the look of or they are specific staples of the faction/brand.