I was at TFcon, Canada’s Largest Transformer Convention; people even drove up from the States. It was in a 10,000sq.ft. room in a hotel by the airport and I was there helping out a friend who deals the stuff.
One of my tasks was to build Superion, a Transformer made up of 5 smaller Transformers and ya, it’s harder than you think. And kinda scary since it’s 25+ years old, delicate, rare and expensive. It sold. And that’s the Transformer Bible, no joke.
I ended up having to get help to finish it. This ex-soldier guy made it fly together and then taught me how to bring someone to their knees by moving around their knuckles when you shake their hand.
Top left is a very special, limited edition semi-truck trailer from Fans Project. Only 500 were made before they broke the mold and all were sold here at the show. Top right is a dealer there with a rumoured… ready?… $1 million of merchandise. And there on the bottom are empty boxes for sale. There is even a scale (1 – 10) to rate the condition and quality of a box.
Top right is the Superion I built, bottom left is an Asia exclusive set and bottom right are ones from circa 1980, $90+/each.
There’s also some photos of me and people dressed up as Transformers (my friend has to email me them still) and wait till you see the yellow one (Bumblebee?) – amazing.
Awesome!