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2018 - A Year In Review - Part 1

Nightstrike
Dec 27, 2018
2 min read

'Nothing like an annual review from your favorite customizer to close out one year of life in the TF fandom, before heading into the next!'

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I'm starting it off here with a handful of my current favorites . . . the Power Of The Primes line. In "June"(October), we saw the end of the line that had started last year. I've only managed to get my hands on a few of the figures from this line but so far, I'm satisified. While the forums are rife with complaints from fans who were begging for a "geewun"-faithful iteration, I consider these pocket-sized guys superior to the source material. True, I was kind of hoping for some more articulation and detailed coloration, but let's face it...these fellows are a fine effort by Hasbro.

We got decent Pretenders, especially considering the fact that Play With This Too had failed to release theirs. Shown below is my collection so far, including completed customizations to them.

Left To Right:

Waverider (custom, made from Cloudburst)

Bomb-burst(inner robot's paint job pending)

Bludgeon(inner robot's paint job pending)

Skullgrin

Octopunch(inner robot's paint job pending)

Submarauder(inner robot's paint job pending)

Metalhawk(inner robot painted, based off of original appearance)

Landmine

Cloudburst

I've also got an Oilmaster and Crossblades I'm working on, but they're not quite ready for showing off.

Sizing up, we finally got Abominus! And he's not a 3P figure that costs 400-500!

[Image Source, because mine is still incomplete: http://www.transformers-universe.com/include.php?path=galerie/pic.php&pid=45065#Titel]

Hydra and Buster, er---I mean Dreadwind and Darkwing saw a proper release(minus Powermasters, though)

True, there were spots where Hasbro cut corners, but hey! It gives me an opportunity to make upgrades. And they scale rather nicely with most versions of Overlord.

And . . .