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LoveBots – OP x BA

It’s that time again~ Where I post pictures of a figure I got. XD

This time around it’s that special two-pack from Wal-Mart (That I had to get from Ebay b/c my Wal-Mart refused to carry it…no really. I check every week and they never have a single TFA toy. >_<)

And not just any two-pack! But my favorite couple from TFA!!! That’s right. Optimus Prime x Blackarachnia.

It's blue tinted because I don't know how to work my camera.

If you know me well, you know that I can’t watch anything without shipping something – and Optimus Prime x Elita-1 has always been a OTP. So…naturally it carries over into TFA (even if Blackarachnia x Silverbolt is my OTP for Beast Wars…. Why do you mess with me so TFA!?)

Anyway, the figures are great even if Blackarachnia is a little hard to model. But I love ‘Battle Damage’ Prime. Makes him look manly.

OP is whipped.

Still whipped.

But he's still got a giant Ax.

And hey~ It's OP's lady. Gotta' give her the lovin.

Anyway. I’d take more pictures but I’m out of time. So now they’re just cuddling on my desk next to Arcee & Blurr.

Arcee. Rules.

Making Arcee a Toys R’ Us exclusive was the cruelest thing I think Hasbro could have done to the Animated Toy line.

That said – I looked for her in Toys R’ Us. I looked for her quite often. But, I work normal hours which means I could never make it to the store on delivery days. So, thanks to other rabid fans and scalpers – I was out of luck.

And I refused to pay $30+ or more before shipping for a $12 figure.

Well, one day I got lucky. I was browsing Ebay and saw one for $10, I went ‘okay’ and went ahead and bid. I got outbid immediately so curious of the other person’s High Bid – I went all the way up to $21. And then – I find an Arcee for $9.50 that ends in 20 minutes. I went ‘what the hell?” and bid. And ended up winning her for $11. I was freakishly happy and if you follow my Twitter you probably heard me squealing. (Thankfully someone who knows who he is outbid me on the other figure. XD)

She arrived in the mail and I am, very very happy. This is a nice figure and well worth it. They really should have printed more of her because she would have sold out no matter what.

But – I’m going to show you pictures of the other Toys R’ Us Exclusive figure first just to hold out the suspense! :D

Cybertron Mode Ratchet – I actually found him in the store. And he’s a cutie:

Cybertron Mode Ratchet

Ratchet!

But none of you care about him (as noted by the fact there’s still another figure of him sitting on the shelf in my local Toys R’ Us…) So here’s Arcee!!

Animated Arcee Poses

She is Hard. Core.

I was not a huge fan of Arcee in G1 – sure I adored her paired up with Springer (OTP!) but she was mostly just there. And that thing with her and Daniel later in the series was just plain creepy. Animated Arcee – now her I liked. She was still meek and modest, but you could tell she was well, useful. Girl was a school teacher! You know she had some brass.

Animated Arcee Poses

She glitters.

And let’s face it – her Animated ReDesign was slick and probably called back to the original G1 design more than most of the cast. This figure just looks good – and it glitters. *_* (See, this is how Glitter is done Edward Cullen! Take some notes!)

Animated Arcee Poses

Swords

And best of all – the figure revealed some other fun stuff about her, like the fact her weapon of choice is dual swords. You know she used those on her students. :D

Ratchet and Arcee

Awesome Duo

And much the way Animated drives me crazy with screwing with my OTP’s (G1 Optimus x Elita-One & BW Silverbolt x Blackarachnia somehow morphing into TF:A Optimus x Blackarachnia) – it does it again messing with G1 Arcee x Springer to the above. Ratchet & Arcee in Animated are ridiculously adorable together.

Figures Battle

Blurr is Jealous

And now Blurr is jealous because he’s no longer my favorite TF:A figure. It’s okay, Blurr! Your’e still the second favorite!

Transformers Animated Japanese Opening

I can’t stop watching it. XD Don’t get me wrong; I love the English opening b/c it was a great Remix of the Classic Transformers Theme – but all the animation is just taken from the series. So it wasn’t all that great.

And now TFA is finally getting ported to Japan – and they get this for an OP:

The animation is spectacular, the song is catchy and good grief they made Sentinel Prime look hard core. Sentinel people!

And who else wasn’t giddy at the thought of Arcee vs Blackarachnia? Or that freaking pan in on Ultra Magnus looking all sorts of bad ass? Heck, even Prime sparkling looked cool. Take that Edward Cullen! Then again, it’s freaking Optimus Prime. He could walk out in a pink Tutu and still make you cower in a corner. He’s just that rad. Even as a newbie maintenance bot. Yeah.

Man I love Transformers Animated. XD

Just about the only thing the Japanese opening is missing are the twins…who are strangely absent. Huh.

Maybe they’ll show up in a second opening…Come on Japan! Give us a new opening per season! XD

More Transformers Figures

So, I got off work early today and tried to get some errands done. Buy a new purse (as much as I loved my disney donald & daisy purse…it was starting to fall apart…sadly.) mail a package and try and get a tiny dent in my Christmas shopping done.

Well, my Christmas shopping took me to a toy store (because my friends and family like toys as much as I do! Yay!) – Toys R’ Us. And I managed to knock two people off my list.

And well, you know me. Can’t go into a toy section now a days without looking at the Transfomers section (Especially with a 1 in 1000 chance of seeing that exclusive Toys R’ Us Arcee figure). And what did I see? Tons of movie figures (Doesn’t surprise me; the movie figures are kinda ugly…though I did sort of like Barricade). Tons of the younger aged toys (the ones for 5 and under) and the big expensive ones.

Transformers Animated Deluxe? Gone. There was one figure left – Oil Slick.

So I bought it.

I love his Chain Barrel Weapon

I love his Chain Barrel Weapon

It worked out well for me because I liked Oil Slick in his very brief appearance in the show, and of course he invented Cosmic Rust. Which is cool.

His Motor Bike Form Is Cool

His Motor Bike Form Is Cool

And the Ram Head on his bike/arm is way cooler than the Cybertronian looking one from the series. I love the horns.

Well, after securing Oil Slick – I went back to browse the movie figures and realized that most of the somewhat attractive ones were gone (Dead End had promise.) So I resigned myself to leaving the store.

And saw the giant stack of Ultra Magnus & Bulkhead Leader Class figures. And there, wedged between them was a movie deluxe figure. I nearly squealed – It was Bumblebee!!

It took me forever to get him out of car mode. XD I suck.

It took me forever to get him out of car mode. XD I suck.

I’ve never actually caught a Deluxe Bumblebee in a store. Out of all the BayVerse bots, Bumble bee is the only design I actually like. He’s cute, I like his mask and his door-wings are darling.

Anyway. I squee’d and snatched it up. So now you can adore his cute as well:

He is freaking adorable.

He is freaking adorable.

I need to stop looking at figures. XD This is getting as bad as my obsession with Gashapon figures…

Christmas Early – Skyfire!!

Well, it’s December and Christmas is rearing it’s head (which is acceptable now b/c its’ after Thanksgiving. Seeing Christmas stuff out before Thanksgiving has always bugged me…”) and we were out driving and I saw this :

That's a lot of lights.
That’s a lot of lights.

We literally turned the corner onto the street and I gawked. This house was huge and decked out in lights from top to bottom all the way around. I’m sad only one picture really came out.

Second Christmas Early?

Skyfire1

DSCN1118
Skyfire is posing for you.

A gift from Mike that he wasn’t expecting to arrive for another week…and well it’s impossible for me to wait to open anything. And I was greeted with his wonderful Jet Form in a box.

I will not discuss how long it took me to get him to robot mode. The 5+ on the box hurts my pride.

More pictures!

He took off his helmet! Look at that pretty face.
He took off his helmet! Look at that pretty face.

And this is how he looks right now on my desk.
And this is how he looks right now on my desk.
For a size comparison.
For a size comparison.

Just for fun, I slid Blurr2 right up next to him. Ha ha. Not exactly accurate to scale. XD

Tee hee. Hot Rod is so short.
Tee hee. Hot Rod is so short.

Hot Rod3 however is probably closer to scale. And he’s not happy about it.

And that’s about it. I hope you’ve enjoyed yet another waste of time looking at my toys. :D

  1. The box and comics all call him Jetfire but Skyfire was the first name I knew him as in the show. So Skyfire I shall call him.
  2. My first Transformers figure! All my Beast Wars toys don’t count because they belong to my brother…
  3. My second Transformers figure!