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Holy Grails

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So everyone who collects Transformers probably has a list of these... (any excuse for a gratuitous Monty Python picture) But I'm talking about Holy Grail's. These are the toys that you have always wanted but have never had chance to own. This is a breakdown of mine. I've missed out on a few of them on eBay over the years (damn you snipers!) and still regret them even now. So in no particular order here we go... 1) Mini-con 8 Pack These were a European exclusive release (sadly not in the UK). My guilty pleasure are Mini-cons. I have pretty much every Mini-con ever released. I have a ludicrous amount of repaints of all of the Armada Mini-cons (X-Dimensions, Universe, Micron Booster, etc). This set always managed to fall outside of my grasp. I remember coming very close in an eBay auction and then work got in the way (some sort of meeting if memory recalls), which meant I missed out. Yes everything in this set is pretty unspectacular but it has always been one of my...
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15th Year of Collecting

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So just 2 days short of my 40th birthday I decided to create a new blog about my collecting over the past 15 years.  Although I was had Transformers as a kid I didn't start collecting figures until just shy of my 20th birthday. I loved Transformers as a kid and had figures all the way into the end of G1. My last figure being Action Master Jazz. I then thought I'd grown up...... We skip ahead to the summer of 2002. I had been ill over the summer and my parents were at work (yes I lived with my parents at the time). I was sat at home and bored out of my skull so I was channel hopping on Sky. I skipped to the kids channels (as all teenagers do obviously) and stumbled across a listing for Transformers on Jetix. I decided I needed a bit of nostalgia and thinking it was the old cartoon I knew I sat down to watch. I was surprised to see it was something new and I sat there and watched a few episodes and I was hooked. The memories of my childhood were flooding back and I was loving...
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