u/pugilisticcephalopod

Back when I was building AOTP Superion, I tried to order Skydive to finish the set. I was a bit impatient and didn't want to wait 3+ weeks for Hasbro to actually get it to me, so I ordered him from a 3rd party reseller off Amazon. Anyway, I got swapped and they sent me Combiner Wars Skydive in AOTP Skydive's box and without any weapons, accessories, or instructions (so he wouldn't even be worth having as part of a CW Superion set). Originally I was going to send him back and recoup my money but I decided to keep him; thought it would be nice to have an undedicated bot that didn't really belong with anything else I was collecting at the time. After a while, though, he's become one of my favorite daily desk toys. Skydive was always my favorite out of the Aerialbots and I don't mind having multiple versions of him, even without the rest of the team and despite how stiff and awkward CW bots can be. Does anyone else have any bots like this? Maybe they fell in your lap or, like me, you got them in a sour deal?

I've since armed him with Legacy Slipstream's guns since they didn't suit her to begin with.

EDIT: This is now a post about getting scammed/how I've been collecting for 20 years but I'm still somehow a dumbass 😂

*not the Covenant of Primus

I'm talking Transformers x Dungeons and Dragons. Hasbro owns Transformers AND they own Wizards of the Coast (who own D&D) so how is it the only D&D related transformable figures we get are these D20 Dice Changers? Mind you, they're kinda cool for what they are but imagine red dragon Megatron (I mean, you don't have to, since it happened) vs Paladin Optimus with a great sword battlemaster.

I didn't take this picture but I did see this same display at Walmart today and it occurred to me that this might be a response to resellers and scalpers, being that there's only one or two of each figure on the entirety of the display and none on the general Transformers section of the shelves. This occurred to me shortly after cutting through the Hot Wheels aisle of the toy section and immediately encountering a group of at least 5 scalpers/resellers tearing through the Hot Wheels display with phones in hand (likely price matching). Is Hasbro getting a little wise to this or am I thinking too much into it?

I was rearranging my collection after getting some new bots and I sat TFOne Airachnid next to Siege Skywarp and it hit me how they have the exact same shade of gray. This triggered the single monkey neuron in my brain and I said "I ship it". Then I remembered they are both aircraft and I said "I literally ship them". I don't know where I'm going with this, because I don't have the wherewithal for fanfiction but accept my double entendre.