Everything broke this last week. I swear, everything!
The morning of BotCon, my glasses broke. The legs of one of my lighting studio lamps broke off. On the way home, my laptop stopped recognizing its wireless card. Leader Starscream tore a hinge. That same lighting studio lamp burst a bulb. One of the legs of our bed frame snapped. (woo hoo) We had to take Pirate Ham to the vet.
Clearly I buy insurance for all the wrong things.
Well, Starscream’s glued. The lamp bulb is replaced (but still can’t stand). Pirate Ham has some medicine to control his eye inflammation. This morning I got new glasses.
This stuff should not happen all at once.
*acoustic guitar riff*
Anyway, back to toys. I now have five versions of the Universe not-a-Nissan-Z mold. I already had Prowl, Silverstreak, and Smokescreen, and BotCon gave us two more. Thankfully, one of them is the best version of the mold yet! That guy is Rapido!
Rapido was rank 10 the year he came out. Funny story, an Optimus Prime came out that year, too, and he was rank 9! Ha ha ha. Wonder what the story behind that is. In honor of Rapido’s enviable rank, this new toy’s tech spec card gives him a rank of 10+. See, he’s not usually in charge, but is authorized to take charge in emergencies. That’s the sort of guy he is. (Also, his tech spec card is written entirely in Spanish. This is awesome.)
Another odd quirk about the original Rapido is that due to the engineering, you couldn’t see his head over the top of the hood. Kind of comical. Well, new Rapido fixes that! Rapido’s head, since it’s the Prowl/Silverstreak/Smokescreen mold, is up on a big ol’ neck plank! You can see it fine! And what an awesome head it is. I think it’s one of the best heads BotCon has ever done. It’s nice and sharp and distinctive, and the teal face really works.
2Fast 2 Furioso
The head works in great concert with the rest of the body. The red, teal, silver, and black is “loud” but in a fairly classy way. And he is the only version of the mold which doesn’t throw its door kibble at me as I try to transform it. It stays on the whole way through. That is impressive.
Color wise, head wise, and tolerance wise, I think he’s a winner.
Plus, dudes, he’s friggin’ Rapido. Represent.
(And there’s some left over from the convention!)
102 bucks for 2 10 dollar figures if you aren’t a TFCC member or 72 if you are?
Umm no.
Besides, best G2 is Windbreaker who I am PROUD to own alongside the magnificent Chrome Minicar Bumblebee and Black Sideswipe.
Rhinox’ great grandpappy is far more deserving of an overpriced exclusive repaint.
(Cmon with that name? So related to Rhinox!)
eee, don’t remind people, my paycheck won’t go through ’til Wednesday!
RASHGFASGNA! I want that soooo much, but I can’t afford 100$ for it. Especially since I don’t really care so much about Cindersaur. Sigh.
If only I could get a G2 colored Blue Masterpiece Grimlock.
It amuses me to think that Rapido and Jorge Figueroa are “Human Alliance” partners, because they’re the only ones who can understand each other. . .
Crap! Why are the BC exclusives so awesome and making me want them? Rapido rocks.. and those Sharkticons… *cry*
Yeah, the Sharkticons are the very definition of “Want-So-Much-Can-Never-Have.” Kinda like last year’s Sweeps…
Oh well, I got a Rapido (and Cindersaur) on order, and if FunPub would ever get around to shipping anything, they owe me the actual Con Set, so it’s just Scorch, Double Punch, and gods willing, a Slicer on the “need to overpay for these awesome toys” list…
Anyone else notice the color pattern’s resemblance to Captain Planet?
I was re-arranging my shelves last night and realized that I do, in fact have an original Rapido. The reason this sucks is that I passed on rapido at Botcon because I have so many of that mold. I could have had them sitting next to each other! Yes, I realize that the Rapido/Cindersaur set is available from the club, but I spent all that money on other stuff at the ‘con. I can’t even afford all the stuff coming to retail now.