User:Wasp-shot23
The font of much useless trivia concerning minor details in the world of Transformers. As a UK resident, he has a first hand appreciation of how Hasbro's distribution teams screw up. Expect him to tell you about all the mistakes in the Titan Revenge of the Fallen comic. There's a lot of them. Also a self-confessed Beast Wars and Armada lover, take that purists!
Coined the term "wasping" to denote hunting for blind-packed Mini-cons after alerting the international transfan community to the release of UK exclusive single-packed 2008 12-pack figures, of which some were variants. Through the days after the discovery and subsequent Seibertron forum chatter, he coined the term on December 11th 2010 (the term was used exclusively on Seibertron.com, so don't worry if you haven't ever heard it in use) to connote the hunting of blind-packed UK Mini-cons in the hope of finding variants for one's own collection or to sell the figures found to an overseas collector. To this end a "wasper" is someone who hunts for these figures.
In case you're wondering, the name is an amalgam of Armada Hot-Shot and Beast Wars Waspinator. Speculate the reason why at your peril. He also likes to talk about himself in the third person and likes to make lists.
Here's one, now.
Problems with my collection
('cos, hey, I play with mine.)
Beast Wars
Waspinator: missing missile, broken missile.
Terrorsaur: missing gun.
Spittor: broken neck tab.
Buzzsaw: broken insect leg hinge.
Movor: missing tail rudder.
Ironhide: missing gun.
Mirage: missing gun.
Hot Shot: broken engine block peg.
Takara Smokescreen:broken door tab.
Clench: chipped Powerlinx port.
Skyblast: broken attachment peg.
Crumplezone: spring inside turret out of mounting.
OP 4 Sub Drone (Optimus Prime): Broken "antenna" piece on top (one of 2 tiny cylinders on the uppermost bit, the bridge maybe?).
Storm Jet: loads of worn off paint on the chest/ cockpit.
Thundercracker: well, he's not broken but he's a piece of scrap.
Starscream: overly loose left shoulder
Rodimus: scratched flame detailing.
Brawl: missing missile. (I swear it just seemed to vanish into some other dimension, I fired it one day and never saw where it went.)
Prowl: sticky paint on hood.
Brimstone: left arm snapped off due to overly tight socket joint. But I've got a new one now.
Legends Starscream: two small pegs behind vehicle mode cockpit snapped off and stuck in corresponding holes on fold over panels/ robot mode null rays.
Trailcutter: face fell off. But I've got a new one now.
So remember transfans, your bots can break! Handle with care!
Holy grails
Transmetal Megatron (I've wanted this figure forever)
Complete Armada Unicron, all I've got is bits.
