As far as my G1 collection goes, I have most of the ones I want. Primarily my shift is the pre movie bots because they really are the ones that I like the most. I do have a few movie characters though like Magnus, Hot Rod and Rodimus. Planning on Kup and Wheelie and Galvatron as well. Not a huge fan of headmasters though.

 

I'm a diaclone junky, what can I say.. :tftounge

i still collect G1, never give up!!

if have good reissue stuff, i certainly get it :tflaugh

It appears you got all of the Pretenders that are difficult to find. I have a complete Pretender collection, and the ones that were really tough for me to find complete (and in good condition) were the Mega and Ultra Pretenders (Vroom, Thunderwing, Crossblades, Roadblock, and Skyhammer). Roadblock and Skyhammer are especially tough to find in good condition because of their brittle gold plastic. My Roadblock robot has a tiny chip out of his right hand, but otherwise everything is intact. I don't dare try to transform them. The small pretenders like Longtooth and Bludgeon are tough to find complete as well, but, luckily, these didn't have stickers so you don't have to worry about sticker condition.

 

From your list, I'd say that the difficult ones to get would be Sky Lynx (in working condition), TM Scourge, Siren, any of the Micromaster transports, and the Battlefield Headquarters. Bumblejumper is a bit pricey (around $50-60 or so loose), but pretty easy to find on eBay.

 

I noticed that you don't have any Action Masters on your list. Do you have them all, or are you not going to collect those?

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I have all of the US Action Masters. That was actually the first set I completed. When it got to the point where I only needed an AM Wheeljack, I paid $50 to get him out of the way. This is one of the ones where I  learned my lesson on waiting instead of trying to finish something as soon as possible. I thought about putting Vroom on my list because he's missing so many parts that I might as well get a new one. Not just because I don't have him, but form a lot of continued searches on the ones I already have, but I do think Vroom is the hardest Pretender to get one's hands on. I see Crossblades and Thunderwing all of the time (relatively). Hell, I see ten times as many Metalhawks as I do Groundbreaker's even. The micromaster Blot I'm missing is flat out hard, that's all there is to it. TM Scourge is expensive but not hard. Did a search just the other week and there were six on ebay. My Sky Lynx looks to be okay at casual glance so I'm not worried about him.

I have all of the US Action Masters. That was actually the first set I completed. When it got to the point where I only needed an AM Wheeljack, I paid $50 to get him out of the way. This is one of the ones where I  learned my lesson on waiting instead of trying to finish something as soon as possible. I thought about putting Vroom on my list because he's missing so many parts that I might as well get a new one. Not just because I don't have him, but form a lot of continued searches on the ones I already have, but I do think Vroom is the hardest Pretender to get one's hands on. I see Crossblades and Thunderwing all of the time (relatively). Hell, I see ten times as many Metalhawks as I do Groundbreaker's even. The micromaster Blot I'm missing is flat out hard, that's all there is to it. TM Scourge is expensive but not hard. Did a search just the other week and there were six on ebay. My Sky Lynx looks to be okay at casual glance so I'm not worried about him.

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I had a hard time finding Crossblades and Thunderwing with stickers in great condition (I'm a little Outback about sticker condition, and I don't do reprolabels). Vroom was one of my first Pretenders. I bought him complete except for his small gun, but it took me forever to find that small gun.

 

The second wave of large Pretenders such as Groundbreaker and Bugly were a bit difficult to find and much harder to find than the first wave. I got lucky with Iguanus as someone on eBay was selling him MISB for $20. I jumped on that immediately.  :thumb

 

As far as TM Scourge goes, I guess he isn't too difficult to find. But, again, since I'm picky as far as sticker condition goes, he is difficult to find in the condition I'd like. The blue stickers on the front of the alt mode always seem to be torn up.

 

I had to end up buying a lot of my Micromaster stuff MISB or MIB just to get them complete and with good stickers. The transports, Countdown, and the Battlefield Headquarters are the ones that caused me the biggest problems.

I still collect g1. but with there being no more re-isssues im forced to get reclamation projects like my omega supreme and roadbuster. If there was more g1 re issues available minus the internet i would still get them. I dont descriminate just gimme G1"s! :clap

I do both reissues and buy old ones. Reissues are slow  so I do buy some old stuff My 1984 collection is a mix of originals and reissues but it is complete. My 85 collection is missing Omega, Swoop and the deluxes vehicles and insecticons. I do also have Magnus Rodimus Hot rodKup Wheelie, Metroplex Arielbots Soundblasterand the Predacons. I want Galvy, cyclonus and the sweeps. Then I have my Prime collection Yipppe!

i've had a recent resergence in g1 love and, like most of you, made a must have list.  Not every figure makes the list though, mostly show only figures, with the exceptions being upgrades of certain figs, PM prime for instance.

I really love the reissue boxes but I just started to collect them

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other than a few KOs and Predaking Reissue, I don't own more than 5 G1 toys.  I don't have much interest in them either.  I remember playing with them, but I can't remember which ones I used to have, so the nostalgia thing is pretty non-existent for me.

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So far I only have an original Powermaster Prime, weaponless Kup, incomplete Galvatron, Brawn, and Gears in my G1 collection. Everything else is a reissue and that only includes Optimus, Magnus, Prowl. Hoist, and Rodimus. After paying $45 for Prowl in the beginning of the line I totally didn't see the point in collecting these. If I ever do decide to grab any through Ebay or elsewhere I'd probably like to find Soundwave. The Seekers, and Infernal. Vintage or reissue.

 

Right now though I've been finishing up with missed Armada bots, and trying to keep up with Cybertron. I'm also looking into going back and collecting both Beastwars and Beastmachines.

 

Lastly with minicons finally growing on me after so many years of neglect I've been seriously considering finding some of the Micromasters, and sets including Starconvoy.

I've been recently going back and buying all the original G1 stuff after pulled in by all these awesome re-issues.

 

I also collect the Alternators/Binaltech and-- more recently-- the Cybertron line.

 

My goal is to get MOST of the G1 line. I'd try to actually collect the whole line, but I just can't bring myself to buy those super-crappy "Pretenders". Blech!

 

Anyway, here's my collection as far as G1 stuff.