TFCon exclusive nightbird thoughts, Device label Blaster thoughts and Reissue Piranhacon Thoughts

Hey all, time for another editorial.

links:

(Nightbird figure TFcon exclusive): http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/tfcon-2010-night-bird-first-images-revealed-170195/

(in hand look at devie label blaster): http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/other-news-20/in-hand-look-at-device-label-blaster-170197/

(Piranhacon): http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/generation-1-1/more-images-of-generation-1-seacons--piranacon-reissue-170196/

Before we get to the linked stories, i just want to mention that TFW2005 piosted news th other day that there's gonna be a g1 Predaking reissue. This i really like the sound of, but the parts that were gold stickers on the original and the prior re-issue are now going to be painted gold plastic. This drives the price up noticeably on a reissue thats already fairly expensive as it is. So we'll see. i do want a complete g1 combiner at somepoint.

Onto the links. LEts start wiht the most underwhleming first. The Nightbird photos, of the TFcon figure leave me underhelmed. i was originally thinking about oredering this figure from TFcon or bigbadtoystore.com, but i'm very underwhelmed by these photos. She's a convention exlcusive repaint of ImpossibleToys.com's version of G1 Arcee. I just saw a review on the oringial figure and the mold seems to be plagued by thin plastic guns molded into her hands. nightbird, which features a new headsculpt and and doubled pricepoint is seeming no worth it unless TFcon's higher-ups have fixed dthe plastic issues. that and the Grey plastic seems very dull.

2nd up: Device label Blaster. I liek the look fo this guy alot. its especially interesting that he's a mini-laptop (a.k.a netbook) and it seems llke theres little kibble on the back. I like the autobot logo on the "screen" in alt. mode. however, the fact that g1 Blaster is being re-issued as an SDCC exclusive this summer, kind of negates my interest in the device label counterpart. here's hoping i can get the SDCC exclusive version, after it all, it comes wiht 3 cassette bots.

last up. more Seacons and Piranhacon photos: I want this set soo much, but i'm willing to hold myself back until maybe the holidays. This is a great combiner, and dthe best example of a beast robots combiner. Better than Magnaboss by leaps and bounds in my opinion, but not as awesome as Magmatron from BWII.

That is all. A succint editorial. i need to change the blog name.

--Zack