Ugh, I hate Gold Plastic Syndrome

Gonna be fun having the payment for missing link Grimlock come out the same week as TFN. Apparently my preorder of powerglide is put back to July now. Was late may.

Looking forward to this. We don't get enough 2000AD on our screens.

Fuzzbox - Pink Sunshine (Official Music Video) YouTube video by RHINO

Ever just stumble across an 80s song you don't remember but instantly become enamoured with? youtu.be/OLdGBDg-WAE?...

Ohhh. I'll keep an eye out.

Tell ya what though, Blokees kinda fill the void for modern action masters to me. If they all came with some sort of spring loaded weapon they'd basically be spot on.

I want some Action Masters. I only have Grimlock. Did have Tracks but I left at my dad's decades ago and I'm pretty sure it got thrown out with a load of other stuff in a move. Maybe next year I make getting a bunch of them a collecting goal.

The Black Barracuda arrives at the Battle Fortress

Lt Monick (no, me neither) leads a redshirt-tastic team out to investigate and are surrounded by Karnoid robots

Red Venom arrives to take advantage of the distraction!

Mad Karnock announces himself and we witness the gruesome demise of poor Lt Monick!

1/2 M.A.N.T.A. Force Black Barracuda promo comic! As per usual it was bundled with some Black Barracudas & given away in shops and comics. Bluebird returned to Marvel for this introduction to the Karnoid range and it positively *screams* late 80s Marvel UK in a very good way

Action Master Megatron: Thew's Awesome Transformers Reviews 306 YouTube video by Toygrind

We are LIVE! Action Master Megatron drives his big silly tank into my latest #Transformers vid!
youtu.be/Lya8bt6mQK0

📸 TakaraTomy Transformers Missing Link • C-01 Convoy [Optimus Prime] • C-10 Ultra Magnus

Double dealin' with it!

#Transformers

Plus the channel still does way better than my games one with one tenth of the subscribers.

Heh. The Sparkabots vid hit 100 views at the weekend and then stopped getting any more. Like YouTube went "that's enough of this thank you!" Still my second most viewed vid of the last 10 though which is a metric YT likes me to be aware of.

It's so bad it makes me caveat section 31 as the worst star trek thing that isn't this specific episode.

So lucky to be in the mix of cover artists on this AMAZING book!!! Check out the latest from me and @dcjosh.bsky.social!

I see that line up and I just have 'nam flashbacks to how Optimus and scorponok end up. As if the movie didn't traumatise children enough.

Probably worth seeing if anyone can pick it up for you when it goes up for preorder. I know they posted out the first one but I think that caused a load of issues for them.

Will be getting that new thunderclash comic. They've got me back into picking up physical comics the last few years. Always a good time.

G1 Needlenose with Zigzag and Sunbeam

Gimme A Break: The Ads of 1980's Britain YouTube video by Stuart Millard

Breakfast hooligans. Gas explosions. Pork.

Now available for all, cheeky chappies are OUT, yuppies are IN, as my series looking at British adverts continues with a video on the aspiration-obsessed commercials of the 1980s.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCLu...

I think you've been past 25k for a bit. You were nearing 29k when the legacy vid went up I think. Congrats big man!

EYO WHAT?!

I'm...honestly taken aback. Could've sworn it was at 25K yesterday.

...I should...probably edit that overdue Q&A soon...

Ready for combat. Really armed to the teeth this lad is. The gun is holstered on his butt. Solid build. Some slightly confusing bits but not the trickiest I've done. Got that entirely clear one to do still. That'll be a journey.

Oh those white pole things on the backpack are secret sword hilts. This guy has 3 swords. There's also a sword attachment thingie I could clip on. Not now though. It's 2am.

That's some nice sword and shield going on there. No stickers too. Will need to decide if I wanna apply all the stickers. It's an overwhelming amount as usual.

Speaking of extra sprues. Time to free the chromed sword from it's bag.

A late new sprue appearance with some gold. Only 3 pieces on the sprue. Nice to see a company use an extra colour for just a small part of the figure.

Got a shield now. Getting close to having to decide if I need to make weapon holding hands.

Made a little gun. There's another impossibly small bit of green plastic in the gun's sight. The plastic around it is too dark to make it properly visible.

That's a backpack. Sticks out a fair bit. I think it's meant to be able to move on the piece it's attached to but I don't wanna break it.

Looking good. Backpack next. There's a pretty sweet sword in this kit to build. Hopefully I have time for that tonight.