[1337W422102]

Last week, I got the red "Transformers movie" Scissorcar, the GI Joe Resolute Gung Ho vs Copperhead pack, and some parts for my Halloween costume.

So I was at Sears today looking at their "up to 50% off" liquidation toys. Generally, they were older toys that didn't move and some had opened packages. Most sucked and/or weren't even CLOSE to 50% off. They even had a crappy quick-changing Sports-Coupe-to-Batmobile set from The Dark Knight and both figures were missing. They must've only dropped the price by $5. Open palm, insert face.

Anyway, among the liquidation toys was this:




The box looked like it had been Christmas-morning'd and the robot head had popped off, rattling around inside the box (you can see it in the first pic, in front of the rear wheel). The human figure looked like it had never been removed at all. Seemed to me like someone bought it, maybe transformed it once and managed to get it back into car mode, and returned it.

There was no red liquidation price tag on it, so I brought it to a Customer Service desk and told them I found it at the 50% liquidation table. Since Sears charges $40 for HAs to begin with, I walked away with him for $20+tax. He's only missing the instructions (found them at Unicron.com, anyway) and a single missile.

I was glad to find out that the car mode is large enough for StarCom figures! I used to try to fit StarCom space marines into my Alternators. They'd usually just end up in the passenger seat, if they fit at all.

So anyway, I teamed up one of my StarCom guys with this Camaro, as for me, it's a generic suit of transforming battle armour and not a Transformer, and I really find the idea of an alien war machine having an organic person sit on its arm to control a weapon the robot could fire itself in the first place excessively stupid. My story is that the space marine pilots a mech and needs to go undercover, so he's paired up with an undercover cop and his mech is able to disguise itself as a civilian vehicle. It feels good to imagine again!

One of the marine's guns fits in the missile storage area, giving that arm some much-needed firepower:



Folding the foot stand down inside the 'cockpit,' I made a seat for the mech pilot (please excuse the really crap photo):



And there's room for his partner, too (purely functional storage, as it makes no sense to have him floating like that):



Oh, and I naturally did the legswap mod. It just looks better. (You can see the StarCom figure sticking out a bit):



Not bad for $20!