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Welcome to Utopia...

.. if you're into rants about toys new and oldish.

This is Collectors Haven, somewhere I've decided to start sharing my analysis on the many, many, random toy purchases of mine. Very much Japanese centric, but you never know what'll show up.

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The Finer Things In Life....

Unsurprisingly, I'm a bit more in touch with collectibles based on Female characters, which includes Transformers. A few years ago, when...

Gobble Gobble

I'm a bit behind in opening them, but the Mainline Transformer Legacy: United figures are still rolling in, though I don't think I've...

Riding Him Like The Village Bicycle

With the passage of time comes the delivery of more Transformers figures. Recently, Deluxe Chromia from the Legacy United line was...

We Don't Need Any Roads....

So, in Summer 2023 or so, a most interesting crossover product was announced - the Lunar Cruiser Prime. This Transformers product aimed...

So I Started Finger Blastin'!

Hasbro has a long history of doing repaints of figures that improve certain aspects of the product while also annoying the shit out of...

Choke Me, Officer...

So as I was browsing the remnants of previous lines, I cam across a few figures that I didn't bother orders for one reason or another. I...

Nice Nozzle!

As we enter the Spring, the second wave of the Mainline Transformers figures have started reaching stores, with distribution in Canada...

You Need To Make Eye Contact....

As many collectors know, ThreeZero has been doing some solid work, specifically on their mecha based properties. By now, I have a few...

How Low Can You Go, Prime?!??!

When I received my Kickstarter Yolopark AMK Pro Megatron back in the Fall, I was genuinely impressed. It wasn't perfect by any means, but...

The Light of... Love?

So I kind of bought something by accident and just decided to roll with it. One day, I saw this really cool stop action video, but I...

Duel Of The Fates

When it comes to store exclusives, Transformers have been very hit and miss. with the multi packs generally not doing so great. One set...

Blow Me Away

First Deluxe Class of the newest mainline is Windblade, the result of a fan design contest about a decade ago now. She's one of those...

You're so Animated, Prime!

Every year around this time, the new Transformers mainline figures start to show up in Canada. For 2024, this line is Transformers...

Gonna Be A Big Load

I've slowly been getting involved with Third Party figures, though as always it's very much a "proceed with caution" type of deal. I have...

I See.. You See,,, Arcee

My dislike of the live action Transformers movies is predominately due to the terrible storylines, but there's also how the designs...

Floats Like A Butterfly.....

So I am a Transformers fan, but more so in the classic sense - transforming toys, but I can appreciate that as the appeal of the...

POWER BOTTOM

For a few years now, I've been trying to get my hands on one of the Fans Hobby MB-06 Power Baser figures. Takara, along with quite a few...

Junk In The Trunk

Right before TFCon went away for a COVID related vacation, the last Fans Hobby exclusive was the MB-12B - Wheelblade. A repurposing of...

THIS... IS... CYBERTRON!

As we approach the mid point of 2023, the Commander class figure for the Legacy Evolution has finally been released. Yes, I'm talking...

Naval Commander on Deck!

I guess I keep forgetting how time passes on, and that Transformers Armada, released by in the early 2000s, is now considered a retro...

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