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Newsy news of newsiness abouts Hobbitses

Today I went and saw The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I won't give anything away, but IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, that's enough with the exclamation marks.

Geekyness pile

Hi!  This is Mab.  As you can see from the title, this is my Geekyness pile. Well, the only one tidy enough to put on the internets.  In case you can't tell, here's what's on there:

1. Homemade Iacon Speedway Roller Coaster.
2. G1 Wheelie.
3. G1 Brawn.
4. G1 Starscream.
5. DOTM Ratchet.
6. Generations Sergeant Kup(unfortunately not G1).
7. Solved Rubik's Cube.
8. Shattered Glass Straxus(or, as it says on the bag, Spraxus).
9. Black Kyurem Pokemon card.
10. Fall of Cybertron Optimus.
11. Nerf Nite-Finder Pistol.
12. Spelling Bee Trophies.
13. Star Wars Model of Darth Vader's Tie Fighter.
14. Halo Mega-Bloks "Warthog Resistance" set.
15. Plush Red Dalek(It TALKS!!!!!).
16. Mini Lego X-Wing with X-Wing Pilot.
17. Mini Lego Yavin 4.
18. Cyberverse Vehicon

Well, that's is everything that's on there. Merry Christmas!!!



*Note: I have merged my Transformers Blog(Mab's Transformer Stuff) with all the other Geeky stuff I like, like Star Wars, Lego, Halo, Doctor Who, Pokemon, and Star Trek(Speaking of Star Trek, Woot for the new movie coming out!).

WTFR5 Botcon 2012 Boxed set part 1: SG Ultra Magnus, Tracks, and Soundwave.

           Ultra Magnus's vehicle is an semi truck. It is blue and red, and has small flames on the hood. Since he is SG Ultra Magnus, his Autobot Symbol is purple.

           In robot mode, he has a sword. His shoulders are big and bulky, but he has pretty good articulation, except in his wrists. He has the same body as Reveal the Shield Optimus.

         

           Tracks' vehicle mode is a car. It has flames on the hood, and purple exhaust pipes on the side.
Again, he's SG, so he has a purple Autobot symbol.

           In robot mode, he has a handgun and two shoulder guns. He doesn't have very good articulation except in his elbows. He has the same body as Reveal the shield Tracks.

           Soundwave's vehicle mode is an S.U.V. It has some king of logo on the side and green lights. His license plate says SND WVE.

          In robot mode, he has a weapon that can either be a gun or a sword. He is bulky, but overall has pretty good articulation. He uses the same body as some Ironhide toy.

WTFR4 War For Cybertron Soundwave

This is Soundwave's robot mode.  He has a very good range of movement, and his handgun has an extending missile that is very accurate to the G1 version.

 His chest opens for weapon storage, but there is a lot of opportunity to make a custom cassette robot like Rumble or Laserbeak.

 Weapons in his chest.

 The vehicle mode is kind of bulky, but it has holes in the sides for the weapons, which can be stored in the front also.

Weapons out.












This was bought at a local store called "The Batcave".
You can check out their website here: www.batcavecardsandcomics.com

WTFR3 Minicon combiner: Recon Minicon team Venture

 This is my Minicon Combiner named Venture.
He is made up of my self made recon team. The minicons are Tankor(PCC Pinpoint), Backtrack(Pan- handler), Depthcharge(Deep Dive) and Sandstorm( Guy that makes the left arm).

 Tankor: head.

 Depthcharge: legs.

 Backtrack: right arm.

 Sandstorm: left arm.

 Vehicle modes.

Robot modes.

 Sandstorm.

Depthcharge.

 Backtrack.

 Tankor.

 Lots of Minicons can work as arms. I tried all of my Minicons that I could find, and these are the ones that will work. Sometimes you have to adjust parts like tank turrets or hooks.

These will not work.

 Regular arms.

Destroyer arms( Buzzsaw and Drillbit).














I made up the tank mode for pinpoint since he didn't have a vehicle mode. That's why he's named Tankor.

WTFR 2 
Kabaya Gaia Guardian (Defensor)


The Gaia Guardian is made by Takara and Kabaya. Kabaya is a Japanese food company.

 The robots are actually small snap-together models.
The pieces come in sheets and you can cut/twist them out. from left to right, the top row is Streetwise, Blades and Skyfeather, and the bottom row is First Aid, Heatrock and Groove.

 This is them in robot mode. They are in the same places.

 To combine, the only things you have to attach are the fists and the feet. All the guns combine to make G.G's gun, and the arms and legs can be switched out.

 Closeup on the head.

 Skyfeather: Head

 Blades: Leg

First aid: Leg

 Groove: Arm

 Streetwise: Arm

 Heatrock: Body

 Sky feather before stickers...

...Skyfeather after stickers.













These also come with gum, and it tastes really good!



(Sorry this was late. I never got around to making this yesterday.)

Places to buy Transformers:

www.amazon.com. Has pretty good prices on most Transformers.

Yard sales/ Flea Markets. Most of the time, the people have no idea what the Transformers are worth. Ex: I bought a ROTF Rampage for 50 cents.

Last day of BotCon. Sometimes people need to get rid of their TFs, so they mark the price down. Ex: I bought An Animated Cybertron Optimus Prime for $4.

Gaia Guardian!

In a few days, I am going to get the Kabaya Transformers Gaia Guardian set with all 6 parts. The Gaia Guardian is a combiner with 6 robots: 1 for each leg, 1 for each arm, 1 for the body and 1 for the head.

If you want to see it, search for Kabaya Series Gaia Guardian Stop Motion Video Review on YouTube.

WTFR 1 (Weekly Transformers Review 1)
Transformers Generations Sergeant Kup

The TF generations Kup is basically a remake of the G1 Kup, and it looks pretty close to the G1 version.

    Kup turns into a bluish-green pickup truck.
It has 2 clips on the top where his "Laser Musket" can attach. The body is actually pretty low to the ground, making it hard to see the wheels from the front and the back.

      His robot mode actually has a lot of movement. Unfortunately, the wheels on his shoulders move out of place often, and the top parts of his legs don't usually move when you bend his legs, so you have to push them all down together.








                                                                      Kup's laser musket can go in his hand or on the clips on his back, or the clips on the side of his arms.











Other weapons with clips like SG Straxus' or Tracks' can clip onto him as well, either on the arm clips, back clips, or the Laser Musket.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Weapons attach to truck mode.

Arm clips

For my blog, I'm going to post lots of stuff about Transformers (the robots, not the other thing). I will post things like TF reviews, good deals on Transformers, interesting facts and more Transformer-related things.