Originally Posted by e3NiNe
aaaaaand this is when the poison spreads.
Indeed it does. :chuckles:
Originally Posted by e3NiNe
The first Ultra Magnus reissue was released 2000.
At the "Japan Fantastic Convention" or Jafcon, the yellow Ultra Magnus was released. These were done in an extremely limited number, 800 to be exact. If you look at Suba's #1 figure, he has the black Optimus Prime as his favorite ... this was also released at Jafcon and is often called "Jafcon Prime"
The blue Ultra Magnus is an "e-hobby" release. The pre-transformer version of Ultra Magnus was colored like this. Diaclone sold this toy as "powered" Convoy ... nothing more than armor for Prime.
The yellow UM always fetches the highest prices because of it's rarity. When a MISB yellow Jafcon Magnus hits e-bay, the bidding starts almost immediately.
The blue one, even though not as rare as the yellow, is a bitch to find at a decent price. That said, Andrew's got the blue Magnus. It's freaking cool as shit. I call it Smurfy Magnus.
Originally Posted by reno96teg
From the auction:
"This auction is for 3 different version of Ultra-Magnus. One of them is the Toys R Us (US) re-issue that is MIB. He has been opened and posed. His stickers have been applied. I have included all of his missles, however, for posing purposes, I altered one set of his missles to fit like the original (as you know, the new version had those long stupid looking missles) but they don't shoot.
The other 2 versions are the Japanese Re-issues, one representing the diaclone line and the other is supposed to represent Ultra Magnus when he accepted the matrix of leadership from Prime in the move (or so I'm told). Either way they are both really cool and have the stickers applied. Both have been posed only and put back in their boxes."
I was horrified when I read this. Who in their right mind would open oddball blue or yellow UM's? As I read further on, it looks like this nut doesn't really know what he had to begin with. Then I looked at the picture. Cute table, can't see the tips of the person's feet. Girl's feet? I checked the seller's other auctions, and this person has sold off a good chunk of a G1 collection.
I'm betting some guy let his GF talk him into selling all of his shat on e-Bay to pay for fluffy pillows and Sweedish furniture from IKEA.
If you want opened ones to display, this isn't a bad auction. He did fook with the missles on the TRU UM, but you can always buy missles on e-Bay.
Last edited by Megatron; Feb 5, 2006 at 06:58 AM.