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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...

Till All Are None

A few months ago, a fellow collector introduced me to Tech Inn , a Spanish based tech company that, for some reason, also dabbled in...

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...

HAWK TUAH! SPIT ON THAT THANG!

Summer is here and generally speaking, this is when the Commander class of the Mainline Transformers series is released. For the...

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...

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...

Lil' Bow Wow

My respect for Beast Wars is basically in the revolutionary CGI (for the time) and story telling, because most of the earlier toys were...

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...

Nutcracker

So I collect a wide variety of zany things because they make me smile. A line that never ceases to impress is the Magic Square Mukudo...

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...

The Power of Primus COMPELLS YOU!

This one jumped the queue by a few figures, but it's a special one. My addiction to Transformers isn't as crippling as with anime waifus...

Here Catcher Catcher Catcher!!

The early 2000s was a time of renaissance for the Transformers franchise, or at least it was in this part of the world. In Japan, the...

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...

Soundwave... SUPERIOR!

As I was impressed with the ThreeZero DLX Arcee figure, I decided to adopt another figure from the line, Soundwave. More specifically, I...

The Ultimate Combiner

The Haslab Transformer for 2023, Deathsaurus, finally released. It's currently shipping to customers all over the world, and I was...

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...

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