I was wrong.

I was very wrong!!

Tonight I saw Transformers and my eyes have been opened.  27 years of Transformer fandom realized in live-action movie form!  Go see it.  You will like it.  Your significant others will like it, as did mine.  Your parents will like it, as will mine when I force them to see it!  I will be proselytizing this movie to random strangers starting tomorrow;  I won't stop until the entire world recognizes how great this film was.  If you were ever going to do Transformers as a live-action film, this would be how to do it.

I love you Michael Bay!  All is forgiven!!!

 

It is with both pride and some measure of bittersweetness that I announce I am finally finished collecting Transformers.  Why?  Because of this:

This, my friends, is called untamed ecstacy in a box (or "Predaking" for short).  Most of you out there know that I have an ominously large Transformers collection.  However, what you didn't know is that I had vowed 5 years ago to stop collecting once I found two "holy grail" Transformers, one of which I recieved two years ago and this one above.  In fact, I had given up on getting this one simply because it was so cost-prohibitive; at one time, buying this guy *used*, with parts missing, cost $450 Cdn.  In fact, the giftset you see above used to routinely go for over $1000 US (I'm serious) before it was re-released to the Japanese market only.  Yes, I imported this from Japan.  Truly, as German was saying, this is something to show my in-laws between games of dominoes the next time they are in town.  My father-in-law will no doubt be even more impressed with his favorite white son!

I could go on to describe how Predaking is an engine of carnage - the result of a Decepticon experiment the Autobots can't afford to have repeated - or give detailed biographies of his 5 component parts (Razorclaw the lion, Rampage the panther, Headstrong the rhino, Divebomb the eagle, and Tantrum the bull). 

However, I think you can tell (esp. from the postings about the System.Reflection namespace and this post itself) that this site has a distinct Arthur Fonzarelli/Anand Narayan aura of coolness about it.  Since regaling you with these magnificient details might serve to dim that aura somewhat, I will be silent and let Predaking's glorious rampage - across your hearts and mine - speak for itself.