VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, 2, [3], 4 ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 29/09/02 16:38:47 GMT+10
Author: Goktimus Prime
Subject: Sydney Transfans Meet Report

Yesterday we had a Transfan meet here in sunny Sydney. Here's my report.

We met at Town Hall steps at midday. I arrived at Town Hall Station at about 11:50 and Dirge, Megatron, MaxieWolf and ExcelonZero were already there. We all showed off our respective stuffs -- I brought along Megatron Megabolt and the War Within preview issue. By 12:30, Shadowcaster/Skids/Tracks/RID_Wedge (this guy has too many handles), Charl, Phoenix and Belinda had turned up. Phat Koo (sp?) came along for a few minutes just to say hi to us, but couldn't stay.

We then went to Cartoon Gallery to pick up a box of Super Collection Figures. While we were there, there was a big crashing sound, and much to our horror, Belinda had knocked the 150cm Red Comet Zaku model and the weapons and left arm had fallen off!!! Ooowwwwwwccchhh!! The store attendant was NOT happy at all (of course, she'd also been giving the whole group a dirty stare since we walked through the store) and she took Belinda's details down. We then all chipped in and bought a box set of Act.08 SCFs and divided them amongst ourselves. I walked away with a coloured Dai Atlas PVC. Whee. We then went to a food court to have brunch and chat and play with toys and stuff. I swapped/bought some stuff from Skids, namely Razorbeast, Wolfang, Jawbreaker and Spystreak -- yay, got rid of three crappy pewter SCFs that I didn't want. Had a look at Megatron's Victory Sabre and Dai Atlas toys. His Dai Atlas looks really weak without the stickers. I don't see why he won't apply them. Ah well.

Tranzmetal finally showed up -- told us that he'd slept in (and was hence two hours late). Lazy fcuk. :p

We then went to Galaxy Books, cos Belinda wanted to check something out there. Rest of us were fairly bored because there wasn't anything TF related there. We then headed towards Kinokuniya -- Dirge mentioned that he needed to pee. Along the way, we decided to pose in front of the fountain in front of the QVB. I mentioned to Dirge that we could all avert our eyes if he needed to take a leak in the fountain. Stupid dog statue started talking with John Laws' recorded voice... *sigh*
We then took group piccies with ExcelonZero's digicam (send me those pics, Graeme!). Some dude walked past saying, "Hey! Transformers! I remember that other guy, not Optimus Prime but..." and Belinda goes, "Megatron," and he replies, "Yeah! Megatron!" and walks off. Megatron then says, "That guy's cool! Take a picture of him!" and then silence fell upon our group. We then quickly continued our journey. Arriving at Kinokuniya, we had a look at the Titan Transformers comics that they had there -- in both soft and hard cover formats. Dirge grabbed an issue of the Transformers Recognition Guide and showed everyone his name in the credits. We had a giggle at the "Wonder from Down Under" blurb.

Leaving Kinokuniya, we then went to Kings Comics, where the manager of the store totally chastised me and kicked me out of the store because I was playing with Spystreak. I walked out fuming, grumbling at the hypocrisy of this person lecturing to me about "maturity" while he's working in a shop that sells comic books, toys and cartoon related stuff. Another staff member asked me to come back in. I complained to him and he sort of apologised and asked me to come in. I went back in just to talk to the rest of the group -- but I can assure you that I will never shop at that store again.

After that lovely bitter encounter, we then decided to had back to my place. Dirge then said goodbye to us and went home. The rest of us split up and went back to my pad -- Megatron, ExcelonZero, Skids and Tranzmetal all went back in Tranzmetal's car -- I followed Belinda and MaxieWolf back to Auburn by train so that we could pick up Belinda's car (so that she could drive back afterwards). MaxieWolf and I admired Belinda's BotCon 2000 dinner plate. Mmmm...plate... Belinda grabbed her BotCon album and we headed off to my place.

By time I arrived, everyone else was already there. My flatmates had obviously let them in... Megatron was in my room and mucking around with my figures already (-_-;)
He'd turned Sky-Byte and all my Spychangers around -- which was something that my friends and I used to do to each others' collections we were 13, but to see someone at his age doing that was just... sad.

I chucked on a Car Robot video while the rest of us talked and played with toys in the lounge room. Belinda showed MaxieWolf and I her BotCon 2000 photos. SilntBob then rocked up. Megatron put some batteries into Dai Atlas and showed us its Poweredmaster gimmick. It was almost as painful as watching an episode of Captain Scarlett.

I then got on the floor, took Megatron's Death Zaras out its box and transformed it. I then played with it -- smashed it up against Dai Atlas (shattering it into its components) and then I battered Death Zaras up against Victory Sabre, only to have him return to what was left of Dai Atlas to do some funky rasslin' moves like a couple of suplexes.

We then decided that we were hungry and wanted foodage. So we went off to get fodder. Belinda and ExcelonZero parted and MaxieWolf, Skids and I had the pleasure of experiencing SilntBob's insane "let's drive like a 17 year old" style of driving. Oh well, he's still on his P's, and all P-platers are insane drivers. What's sad are those who don't grow out of it when they get their full license. But of course, nobody chastises these people about issues of maturity for driving like lunatics -- but little ol' me gets told off for playing with a toy in a comic book shop! *insert bitterness here*

We had our dinner -- Tranzmetal, Megatron and SilntBob had dinner at Nando's, whilst Skids and I dined at a very nice Indian restaurant (with Joyride and Doublecross on our table, nyehehehe -- fortunately, we didn't get harassed/kicked out for having toys on our table). The chef came and had a chat to us about our meal and we gave him our compliments and paid the bill and left. Arriving back at my place, SilntBob made his farewell and Megatron and MaxieWolf packed Megatron's toys and left with Tranzmetal.

The End.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.