How many Transformers did you buy in 2015?

[Philip Ayres]

WAS: How many Transformers have you bought in 2015 so far?

I missed this by a few days but July 1st was day 183, the halfway point in the year.

So up until 1st of July how many Transformers have you bought in 2015?

and by BOUGHT we mean bought actually have in hand/acquired/been given.

[KnightBeat]

I've reined in my collecting habits due to general disappointment with the Generations build quality in 2014. As a result, I only bought Combiner wars wave 1 & Megatron this year.

Edit: Actually, I bought a second-hand DOTM deluxe Bumblebee as well. Does that count?

[Philip Ayres]

Yup! 2nd hand buys and acquisitions do.

[Philip Ayres]

Here's mine: Assume Combiner Wars unless it says otherwise. Legends is the Japanese toyline not the size. I had my Combiner Wars wave 1 before Christmas so they don't count.

1) Legends Skybyte
2) Legends Jetfire
3) Blackjack
4) Huffer
5) Air Raid
6) Breakdown
7) Dead End
8) Off Road
9) Motormaster
10) Megatron
11) Adventures Roadblock
12) FOC Blaster
13) FOC Steeljaw
14) FOC Ramhorn
15) FOC Rewind
16) FOC Eject
17) FOC Sunder
18) Armada Megatron
19) Armada Leader 1
20) Micron Legend Shockwave
21) Micron Legend Ramjet
22) Dimension X Sail
23) Dimension X Float
24) Dimension X Knot
25) Pyro
26) Groove
27) Warpath
28) Viper
29) Rook
30) Blades
31) Streetwise
32) First Aid
33) Hotspot
34) Cyclonus
35) T30 Legends Optimus (duplicate as Cyberverse Optimus Maximus operator)
36) Legion Ultra Magnus
37) Legion Cliffjumper
38) Legion Skywarp
39) Quickslinger
40) Brakeneck
41) Platinum Thrust
42) Platinum Dirge
43) Platinum Ramjet
44) Star Saber
45) Cloud Rodimus
46) Ultra Magnus
47) Trypticon
48) Legends Tokyo Toy Show Nemesis Prime
49) Legends Tokyo Toy Show Armada Megatron
50) Rodimus
51) Skywarp

(I may remember more!)

In addition I have 12 unreleased toys pre-ordered and paid for: 6 Constructicons, the White Optimus & the 4 Combiner Wars Autobots and MP Blue Bluestreak

[Bogatan]

Combiner Wars waves 2 and 3 (except leaders)
Botcon 2015 set
TFCC Transmutate
TFSS Catgut
Box of Kabaya
Goshooter
around 20 Heroes of Cybertron
Gen Brainstorm
Gen Springer, Roadbuster and Sandstorm
Constructbots Swoop
Constructbots mini Prime, Bee, Drift and hound


Basically I was doing really well till Botcon. Even then it was a smaller haul than I might have expected.

[Pinwig]

I have a list. I have a list with the prices I paid too. I am too frightened to count the list, and total the prices. It may actually stop me buying any more, and we don't want that do we. Especially as I'm just off out to try and find a Hotspot.

[Philip Ayres]

SHOW US THE LIST!

[Philip Ayres]

Thought of 2 more so up to a nice round 50!

3. 51 now

[Shockprowl]

Good question Big Phil.

Errrr

6 Stunticons

Skydive

Apollyon

Scoria




errrr

[Philip Ayres]

So 7 then

[Shockprowl]

Not this again!!!!


They're Transformers to meeeee!!!!!

[Llama God]

To meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Da na, na na, na na, nanana! Da na, na na, na na, nananan!

So you think you can shame me with everything that I've buyyyy-eyyyeeed..!

Okay, I'm stalling. Right. Let's see...

Masterpiece Sunstorm
Chomp and Stomp Grimlock
Universe Legends Ramjet
Universe Legends Thrust
Universe Legends Air Raid
Universe Legends Blades
Universe Legends Skydive
CW Optimus Prime
AoE One Step Lockdown
Cloud Rodimus
RiD Warrior Optimus Prime
CW Legends Thundercracker
Generations Whirl
CW Alpha Bravo
AoE Battler Galvatron
Generations Brainstorm
MP Star Sabre
CW Firefly
Universe Night Slash Cheetor
RTS Perceptor
CW Bombshell

Oh gods. That may only be 21, but this is an unusually active year for me so far...

[Bogatan]

I forgot about Starsaber. Eeeek!

[Shockprowl]

How could you forget about Star Saber?!?! He's the size of a baby!! And costs as much as a divorce!!!!

[Llama God]

Jul 4, 2015 21:48:58 GMT Shockprowl said:

How could you forget about Star Saber?!?! He's the size of a baby!! And costs as much as a divorce!!!!

That should be on the official advertising. :-)

[Pinwig]

Okay. But this does not put me in a good light, although playing strictly by the rules I can remove a few. My list for this year runs from after Christmas onward, and I got my first CW stuff in the week between Christmas & New Year, so if they don't count I can remove the first wave of Voyagers/Deluxes.

New Purchases 2015

FoC Eject (Ayres Airways)
FoC Ramhorn
FoC Rewind
FoC Sunder
FoC Ravage
FoC Rumble
FoC Frenzy
FoC Ratbat

T30 Sky-Byte
T30 Roadbuster
T30 Windcharger
T30 Thundercracker

CW Bombshell
CW Powerglide
CW Blades
CW First Aid
CW Rook
CW Streetwise
CW Groove
CW Quickslinger
CW Breakneck
CW Dead End
CW Offroad
CW Breakdown
CW Air Raid

Takara Legends Jetfire
Takara Legends Arcee
Takara Legends Chromia
TAV Swoop
TAV Slug

RiD Grimlock
RiD Strongarm
RiD Steeljaw
RiD Bumblebee

Go! G26 Optimus ExPrime
Go! G01 Kenzan
Go! G02 Jinbu
Go! G03 Ganoh
Go! G05 Gekisoumaru
Go! G10 Hishoumaru
Go! G20 Sensuimaru
Go! G25 Go! Prime

Amazon Exclusive G1 AoE Slog
MP22 Ultra Magnus
BH Legion Bumblebee
BH Legion Soundwave
Platinum Trypticon

Second Hand Purchases

WFC Optimus Prime (via Kingoji)
FoC Impactor (loose complete)
FoC Roadbuster
FoC Whirl
FoC Topspin
FoC Twintwist
T30 Dlx Bumblebee (freebie)
Animated Safeguard (Jetstorm/Jetfire)
Cybertron Vector Prime & whatever his minicon is called.
Armada Rhinox & Armorhide

Then if Third Party doesn't count, and in my books it should do as it's all part of the same hobby, these don't count:

Fans Toys Soar
Warbotron Whirlwind
Planet X Summanus
X-Trans Apollyon
Warbotron Fierce Attack

So by the rules that's 60 if Safeguard counts as two. Going by my rules it's 71 since last Dec 28th. Either way you look at it that's waaaay too many, although in my defence a good number of those were bought at reduced prices or in sales. 

[Jim]

Four (massively outweighed by the number I've sold):

1) Brainstorm
2) Budora
3) Guren Dragotron
4) Trypticon, god help me

(3) is in the to-sell pile, (2) might make it there as well.

-Jim

[Dezzeh]

Oh my, I've bought a lot of second hand stuff this year that I haven't kept track of.. I will do some maths tomorrow!

[Llama God]

Jul 4, 2015 22:18:50 GMT Pinwig said:

So by the rules that's 60 if Safeguard counts as two. Going by my rules it's 71 since last Dec 28th. Either way you look at it that's waaaay too many, although in my defence a good number of those were bought at reduced prices or in sales. 

Well exactly. I mean, most of mine I bought reduced, or with offers, or using vouchers or something or other. So it's all valid, right..?

Also, thanks for making me feel better about myself. Just so long as I can not see this as a contest, I'll be saved from disaster...

[Pinwig]

Indeed. A few years ago when Animated finished I really thought I'd reached the end of the road with Transformers. I saw the barrage of movie tat in the shops and remember clearly thinking it was the end for me. Now I frighten myself with the amount of money I spend on the things. Too many to even have time to open, let alone get value out of. At some point I'm going to have one of those moments of realisation and ebay it all.

Mind you I do keep the finances for this mostly separate to everything else. I have been slowly clearing out old junk via ebay for a long time and use that to fund a hobbies account. Most of this list was paid for with that so it doesn't impact on anything else. And relatively speaking hobbies are hobbies, you could pay over £2000 for a season ticket to Arsenal and get 9 months of fortnightly entertainment in return. The missus and I used to follow the local side home and away, and when you factor travel into that the difference is negligible on what I'm now spending on toys instead.

[Bogatan]

Oh I got either MP Bee or Wheeljack this year too.

Depending on how you count some of them my total is around 70.

Frighteningly the Botcon set this year can be interpretted as 30+ characters.

[Shockprowl]

See this is the problem for me, I can't remember when I got stuff! MP Wheeljack was last year wasn't he?

[Llama God]

Jul 4, 2015 22:40:09 GMT Pinwig said:

And relatively speaking hobbies are hobbies, you could pay over £2000 for a season ticket to Arsenal and get 9 months of fortnightly entertainment in return. The missus and I used to follow the local side home and away, and when you factor travel into that the difference is negligible on what I'm now spending on toys instead.

*makes a note of that for the future*

Thanks! ;-)

Although, that said, if you used to follow Portsmouth, I can understand why you stopped... (I do not follow football, but they are my home team, so I have some awareness of their fortunes, or painful lack thereof...)

[Bogatan]

Jul 4, 2015 22:40:09 GMT Pinwig said:

Mind you I do keep the finances for this mostly separate to everything else. I have been slowly clearing out old junk via ebay for a long time and use that to fund a hobbies account. Most of this list was paid for with that so it doesn't impact on anything else. And relatively speaking hobbies are hobbies, you could pay over £2000 for a season ticket to Arsenal and get 9 months of fortnightly entertainment in return. The missus and I used to follow the local side home and away, and when you factor travel into that the difference is negligible on what I'm now spending on toys instead.

I used a similar logic for a long time through my teens and early twenties when some of my friends started smoking, I spent way less and had something to show for it, not to mention a 50/50 chance of being able to make a profit on it one day.


Others spent on supposedly more grown up hobbies like video games amassing giant collections of games that became largely worthless and obsolete within a few years.

(My friends brother paid for an imported Playstation when it was first released in the US (or possibly Japan) back in 94 or whenever. Importing it and getting it to work in the UK came to something crazy like £500 or £800. That memory always makes me feel a little better when I order something stupidly expensive from the US or Japan as I've still not come close to that cost)

[Bogatan]

Jul 5, 2015 4:59:24 GMT Shockprowl said:

See this is the problem for me, I can't remember when I got stuff! MP Wheeljack was last year wasn't he?

Both came out last year. For me I ordered both at the same time, one arrived before Christmas one after. I think I had Bee for christmas.

[Pinwig]

Jul 5, 2015 8:12:50 GMT Llama God said:

Although, that said, if you used to follow Portsmouth, I can understand why you stopped... (I do not follow football, but they are my home team, so I have some awareness of their fortunes, or painful lack thereof...)

It was actually even more local than that, I was (and still am to a degree) a staunch supporter of Havant and Waterlooville FC in the Conference South. Supporting Portsmouth home and away would cost a lot more than I spend on toys! I ran the Hawks' website for 15 years when the club had no clue what the internet was and were happy for a fan to do it for them for free, and I used to write match reports from time to time for the Portsmouth Sports Mail to sub for the actual journo when he couldn't get to games. It took huge amounts of time though, especially doing 200-300 mile round trips to games on week nights in the dead of winter, so eventually when the club managed to get their own 'in house' web presence up and running I kinda stood down. Or was sidelined. One or the other depending on how bitter I want to feel about it.

I still run my site, but it's a shadow of what it used to be and it exists now only really because the message board community is popular and busy and the club want nothing to do with that. Supporting the fans is still important to me, but the club can look after themselves. I think in the end running the site and keeping the stats database correct was more fun for me than watching the games. I've never actually been a big football fan and outside the world of the Hawks couldn't tell you anything about football at all. 

[Pinwig]

Jul 5, 2015 8:55:49 GMT Bogatan said:

I used a similar logic for a long time through my teens and early twenties when some of my friends started smoking, I spent way less and had something to show for it, not to mention a 50/50 chance of being able to make a profit on it one day.

That's a good comparison. A quick look at Tesco's website (as I have no idea, never smoked) tells us that 200 Benson and Hedges costs £90. Which would make a ten a day habit cost £135 a month. 

Anyway, I feel on dodgy ground getting into the act of trying to justify spending money on toys. It's a valid hobby to us and keeps us happy, but it isn't ever going to be accepted as a sensible use of your money by your mum. 

[Benn]

Hmm...

MP Prowl
MP Smokescreen
MP Soundwave
MP Ravage
MP Rumble
MP Frenzy
MP Ratbat
MP Laserbeak
MP Buzzsaw
MP Red Alert
Gears (courtesy of Big Phil)
And a Sandstorm to be collected at AA from Llama God.

The MP cars and Ratbat are KO, though, so I don't know if they should count...

[The Doctor]

CW Silverbolt and the three wave 1 Aerialbots, wave 2 Tiny Titans, Generations Roadbuster, Springer and Sandstorm, Generations Legends Optimus and Bumblebee, CW Bombshell, AOE Grimlock 2-pack, there is a Generations Whirl somewhere. Only other purchases planned for the year are whatever Generations Legends can be procured and Unite Warriors Devastator. The latter is sufficiently expensive even with saving up for it that it zaps most of the toy budget for the rest of the year!

Happy enough with all that though. It will be more than have been acquired for a good few years when the emphasis was more on massively cutting down a once huge collection rather than adding to it!

-Ralph

[Llama God]

Jul 5, 2015 9:20:07 GMT Pinwig said:

Anyway, I feel on dodgy ground getting into the act of trying to justify spending money on toys. It's a valid hobby to us and keeps us happy, but it isn't ever going to be accepted as a sensible use of your money by your mum. 

My Mum spends hundreds of pounds on going to see Madonna every time she performs in this country. My excuse is sound. ;-)