Drift Notes #5: TFNation 2019
On the Saturday morning of TFNation 2018 I woke up in a tent in Devon. Poor planning meant I needed to pack and make the trek to Birmingham as soon as possible, but when the […]
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TakaraTomy MP-28 Hot Rodimus
MP-28 Hot Rodimus, AKA Masterpiece Hot Rod, has the distinction of being the first Transformer I ever pre-ordered. That’s no surprise. Being late to the Masterpiece game meant I missed out on MP-09, but due […]
Drift Notes #3: One Man’s Junkion…
1990. With two months’ worth of pocket money saved, a lifetime at 7 years old, I finally ride the escalator to the top floor of John Lewis and approach the display of Transformers Classics. There […]
Mech Planet HS-05 Soundboard
Call me a heathen, but I’ve always thought Soundwave looked better in black. Released in 2017 in the traditional blue of Soundwave, Mech Planet’s Soundtrack figure soon saw re-release as Soundboard, filling that ‘bigger than […]
Drift Notes #2: Rewind Frenzy
The late 1980s. Luke’s house, the living room. His Mum pulls a video from a generic middle-class faux leather case. The film starts playing and Luke and I sit enthralled as a demon planet emerges […]
Drift Notes #1: The (Lapsed) Transformers Collector
It started with this truck. I was too young to remember much else, but the truck is vivid in my memory – robot, cab, robot, cab. Removable fists and massive gun. I had no idea […]