>>10408812Sometimes it pays off to go to the real ghetto places to look for toy stuff. They don't know what they have and are happy to price things real cheap just to get rid of them and make a sale. Case in point these guys I just got at an indoor flea market. Ironhide was $5 and Rattrap $3. Granted they are missing a good bit of stuff. Neither have any weapons, Ironhide's missing his altmodes back halves, and Rattrap's been gutted so he doesn't have his robot mode bits and head. So they're pretty much stuck in one of their modes, but I don't mind as they're the modes I'd prefer for them. The real surprise was Ironhide's electronics. I opened him up to find nearly two decade old exploded batteries all crusted up in him. So I figured they weren't gonna work. Went about cleaning him without much care, soaking him in soapy water for a while and scrubbing out the mess inside of him, separated the electronic bit from the main body, drowned it in alcohol, and set in rice on the off chance it'd make it. Lo and behold, it works! These toys really were made outta somethin' else, holy shit. Modern stuff feels like it'll break if you look at it wrong, but these thing's feel like they'll outlast me. Anyways, I've just been nostalgic for 2000's era stuff lately and just felt like sharing. Thanks for reading my blog post I guess lol.