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Trading Post / Collection Liquidation
October 13, 2013, 10:00:08 PM
Life moves on, and after a divorce and a new house, I just don't have the space or finances anymore to maintain my collection. Go check out what I have, see if there's anything y'all want, because I'm liquidating 90% of it. The Perceptor stuff is off limits, and some items have been sold already, but it's *mostly* still accurate. If there's something I have that you've been trying to find, let me know, or toss me an offer. You can contact me here or through e-mail - searchcoyote at gmail.
Thanks for looking, all.
http://www.shmax.com/view_collection/1/837
Thanks for looking, all.
http://www.shmax.com/view_collection/1/837
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Trading Post / FOR SALE! BotCon Custtomizing Class kit, in sealed bag!
June 08, 2013, 08:39:19 PM
Just listed this over at eBay: A 2010 BotCon Customizing Class G2 Sideswipe kit, still sealed and unassembled!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281119105176?ssPag...984.m1555.l2649
Rare opportunity to get a sealed custom class kit for the folks who couldn't get in the class that year!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281119105176?ssPag...984.m1555.l2649
Rare opportunity to get a sealed custom class kit for the folks who couldn't get in the class that year!
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Photo of the Day / Re: Figure it out Friday: September 25th, 2009
September 25, 2009, 06:02:47 PM4
Photo of the Day / Re: Photo of the Day: September 24th, 2009
September 25, 2009, 01:51:31 PM
Well, I did give him about 90 figs to play with, several of which he should be able to get a couple pics out of. Sadly, a lot of my collection is sealed, which cuts down on the pics I can help provide. I didn't give him *everything* that I had that needed pictures yet. Didn't want to totally overload him this time. Poor guy has to sleep sometime, after all, plus he's been sickish lately.
I do plan on building myself a photo box, but I just have no time or room right now. Give me another week, and I might be able to be up and running.
As for Wonderfest licenses, it works, as far as I know, like this: You design and build yourself a toy, the toy you have always wanted, or just something that you think is cool. You figure out a way to produce a few dozen or a few hundred. Then you send your design and a prototype off to Takara an apply for a one-day license for Wonderfest, this HYOOOGE toy fair in Japan. If Takara likes your design, or at least doesn't hate it, then you get approved. You pay a sizable fee, and whamo-bamo, your toy is an officially licended (for one day only) Takara toy. You can sell it at Wonderfest as an official Takara release. The day after Wonderfest? Anything you haven't sold yet is no longer a Takara product. It's just a cool scratch-built.
Examples are things like the "Revoltech" G1 armored Ultra Magnus and the "Revoltech" Shockwave figures which Long Haul should hopefully have pictures up of soon. Other examples are the "perfect grade" Gi Wheelie figure from Jizai Toys that came out a couple years ago, and the show acurate Cyclonus that matches him. I'll get images of those up as soon as I get my box built. Jizai toys also did a really rockin' show acurate Powerglide two years ago. Sadly, their train got delayed so badly on the way to Wonderfest that they didn't make it to the show, and all their toys that had that one day license? Can't be sold now because the license is expired. Rather Jizai can still sell them, just not as an official Takara product.
I'll add these notes to things as Long Haul gets them posted for you to add.
I do plan on building myself a photo box, but I just have no time or room right now. Give me another week, and I might be able to be up and running.
As for Wonderfest licenses, it works, as far as I know, like this: You design and build yourself a toy, the toy you have always wanted, or just something that you think is cool. You figure out a way to produce a few dozen or a few hundred. Then you send your design and a prototype off to Takara an apply for a one-day license for Wonderfest, this HYOOOGE toy fair in Japan. If Takara likes your design, or at least doesn't hate it, then you get approved. You pay a sizable fee, and whamo-bamo, your toy is an officially licended (for one day only) Takara toy. You can sell it at Wonderfest as an official Takara release. The day after Wonderfest? Anything you haven't sold yet is no longer a Takara product. It's just a cool scratch-built.
Examples are things like the "Revoltech" G1 armored Ultra Magnus and the "Revoltech" Shockwave figures which Long Haul should hopefully have pictures up of soon. Other examples are the "perfect grade" Gi Wheelie figure from Jizai Toys that came out a couple years ago, and the show acurate Cyclonus that matches him. I'll get images of those up as soon as I get my box built. Jizai toys also did a really rockin' show acurate Powerglide two years ago. Sadly, their train got delayed so badly on the way to Wonderfest that they didn't make it to the show, and all their toys that had that one day license? Can't be sold now because the license is expired. Rather Jizai can still sell them, just not as an official Takara product.
I'll add these notes to things as Long Haul gets them posted for you to add.
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Photo of the Day / Re: Photo of the Day: September 24th, 2009
September 25, 2009, 07:46:28 AM
WOW, Long Haul takes such fabulous shots! I'm glad I took him my toys to photo, rather than me attempt it myself; he can definitely do them justice!
Now, to be fair, the customizing class doesn't actually require folks to paint the figures to the specs provided - those are just suggestions. They *do*, however, require that you at least assemble the figures in class to keep folks from putting the still-on-sprue figure packs up on eBay. Not even in the factories themselves are the toys *ever* complete-but-unassembled the way you receive them in class, so those packs are amoung some of the rarest in the world. And just being able to hold one complete, unassembled, still-on-sprue figure in your grubby hands?
Man, that's the coolest freaking thing in the world.
Probably about the only way one could ever have the exact figure you want (well, what you can come up with from the mould provided) that's Hasbro sanctioned. Unless, of course, you're an insane garage basher in Japan with money to burn to pay for a one-day Wonderfest Takara license. But that's still Takara, and not Hasbro, so... nevermind. heh.
Now just wait until Long Haul gets that Rumble figure posted. The Coby head *rocks*.
Now, to be fair, the customizing class doesn't actually require folks to paint the figures to the specs provided - those are just suggestions. They *do*, however, require that you at least assemble the figures in class to keep folks from putting the still-on-sprue figure packs up on eBay. Not even in the factories themselves are the toys *ever* complete-but-unassembled the way you receive them in class, so those packs are amoung some of the rarest in the world. And just being able to hold one complete, unassembled, still-on-sprue figure in your grubby hands?
Man, that's the coolest freaking thing in the world.
Probably about the only way one could ever have the exact figure you want (well, what you can come up with from the mould provided) that's Hasbro sanctioned. Unless, of course, you're an insane garage basher in Japan with money to burn to pay for a one-day Wonderfest Takara license. But that's still Takara, and not Hasbro, so... nevermind. heh.
Now just wait until Long Haul gets that Rumble figure posted. The Coby head *rocks*.
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