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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

: 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.

: And this is how he looks right now on my desk.

: 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.

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

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.
My first Transformers figure! All my Beast Wars toys don’t count because they belong to my brother…
My second Transformers figure!

Twilight – Attempting to Read

Recently, thanks to Amazon & Kindle I have acquired all four Twilight books for about $22.

Now, let me set this up for you – I’ve been going back and forth with reading Twilight. On the one hand – it seems like one of those things that seems so horrible you have to read it for yourself to prove it, however I had a bit of an issue:

1) If it was really that bad I didn’t want to pay for it.

2) I felt too guilty just downloading it.

3) I always conveniently forget there’s a library down the street.

So instead, I went to see the first movie instead. (You’ll get a real review of that later…).

It was horrible. But I enjoyed it because it was so bad that I laughed the entire way through (Much the same way I do watching YuGiOh! The Movie). So, I saw the second one for the same reason – and liked it.

Yes. I liked New Moon. It was still bad and had no plot, but it was actually funny when it was trying to be.

Point? I decided – I should read it before I go off about it.

I’m three chapters into book one and…I’ll save it for the first book/movie/combined review. To come!

Wish me luck! Gonna’ need it.

(And yes I realize I’m way behind and Twilight’s been out forever. Blah blah blah I’m slow. XD)

Gashapon Madness – Misato my Love

The other title of today’s post should be – I love figurines. I have tons of them. Not all of them anime/manga mind you – but I have quite a few (even if they all are in boxes b/c I’m lazy and have yet to you know, unpack them after we moved houses a year and so ago…)

I digress. Today’s post is about – bum bum bum! GASHAPON!!!¹

I don’t usually go crazy over toys, but I really, really like these and they arrived today. In fact – I just finished putting them together about oh, maybe thirty minutes ago?

The Figures:

Above, you see from left to right: Kisaragi Honey (from re:Cutie Honey), Misato, Rei and Asuka (All from Evangelion) And I picked up all of them from Mugentoys.com :D

Now then. Let’s talk about them!

Kisaragi Honey:

re:Cutie Honey was ironically the first Cutie Honey series I watched. I missed out on all the references, I’m sure. But it was one mini series I adored to bits and pieces (which is odd for me considering there was like one male cast member…very odd for me.).

So, when I saw this figure of Honey I had to have it. Especially when the pose comes from the incredible opening:

Rei & Asuka:

Rei & Asuka from Evangelion are a new one for me. Normally my brother’s the one collecting figures of these two. But – I finally found a set I thought was adorable.

There’s not much more to it than that for this one – I love winter gear and they’re cute.

Misato:

However – the piece de’ resistance had to be this figure of Katsuragi Misato. Misato has always been my favorite character from Evangelion and I have been looking everywhere for a figure that really grabbed me. This one – it grabbed me.

Let’s face it – this figure is sexy. I love everything about it from the pose (the foot on the footstool? Love.) to her jacket hanging off her arm. And she looks amazing next to my laptop on the desk.

Or even on the computer! She looks amazing everywhere~

AHH!!! Oh no! Rodimus Prime² is jealous that he’s no longer the favorite figurine! Whatever will I do!?

Oh wait! I know:

There we go. Now Rodimus is happy because he’s got a pretty lady on his arm. She’s way better than that Arcee girl.³

Other:

And just for fun, here’s a couple pics of the other Anime/Manga figures I have hanging out on my desk:

I hope you’ve enjoyed this brief waste of your time. Thank-you.

Gashapon figures are random vending machine figures. Think of those quarter machines in super markets that give you a random little toy in an egg – only they’re actually nice and worth more like $3-20+ dollars depending on the figure.
Revoltech Hot Rodimus as seen detailed here.
Arcee x Springer forever.

Cinder Report 02

Hanging out with my shoes.

Well, tomorrow it’ll be two weeks since Cinder came to our house. She’s not explored most of it and finds favorite places under the bed, in my closet, in front of my bathroom sink and on my lap from my computer chair.

She still bites a little when she’s in a bad mood. But for the most part she’s fitting in nicely.

And when she’s in a good mood she follows me around. She’s so cute! :love:

patchwork

patches of the life of liliy

More Transformers Figures

Christmas Early – Skyfire!!

Twilight – Attempting to Read

Gashapon Madness – Misato my Love

Cinder Report 02