You bastards deleted my awesome thread! Now I have to start all over! Well not really....
Bought a couple of the repro inserts from
Ebay Seller ptrckcrw2. I picked up a Bombshell and a Blitzwing. Because I used the BIN wrong (paid double for shipping) he sent me a Mirage one as well. It comes with the appriopriate cardboard peices to mount on, and a tech spec decoder. The decoder functions properly, but the plastic quality is lower than the original, so its soft. All in all its a great buy.
1. Picture of Mirage insert and the cardboard peices. Also the decoders and an example tech spec to show how it looks.
2. A top-down angle of the Mirage insert, as well as a view of how the Bomshell insert looks in the box.
I didn't take a pic of the Blitzwing insert because I don't have the cannon part for him, so it doesn't rest properly in the box unless I were to glue the plastic on the cardboard. And if I did that, then I wouldn't be able to put the cannon in there!
3. This is a reference pic of my red foot Optimus Prime. The condition isn't as good as I remembered.. No he isn't orange, its just the pic. The trailer is intact, ie the door has its hinge still. It is an all plastic trailer. Roller and accessories are not shown as they are kept in a separate container so I don't end up losing them. Prime's stacks are pretty loose, and I am not sure if I can tighten them. I have no experience using the nail polish trick and the screws on his arms are already tight.
4. Here is a shot of him in robot mode and the underside of the trailer. I bought this Prime from someone here but I can't remember who. The trailer came with the purchase, but there is a 1992 stamp on the bottom of it.
5. This is a close up of the robot dude inside the trailer. He is missing the grapple arm on the top that is on the other side of the cockpit as the radar dish. I could take it apart and replace it with the arm from a G2 Prime but I don't think I will...
6. New additions to my sports card collection. In this picture there are a stack for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, as well as current Rays roster members (the tallest one). The rest of them are Phoenix Coyotes alumni. The Daniel Paille jersey card in the plastic is set aside because I have a deal worked out with a local card store, so that card goes to them. In the back you can see the Korean Brave Max box... and yes, he's actually in it.
Currently, my hockey card collection of Phoenix Coyotes alumni has numbers that look like this:
62 Autographs
106 Game used cards
74 serial numbered cards
725 Keith Tkachuk cards (most of one player)
27 Keith Tkachuk game-used cards (most of one player)
9 autographed Alexei Zhamnov cards (most of one player)
8 serial numbered Alexei Zhamnov cards (most of one player)
11,654 Total cards
