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My modest #TFN2026 haul, TFN pins, GT Scorcher, One Step OP, Gobot Good Knight, Toy Fu & Legends zines, X-Men'97 figures from Daves Chicken. Highlight is the BT Overdrive I've wanted for ages. Also waiting at home was the last Cybertron Legends I was missing, & 12 Carbon (Field) arrows from Amazon!

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And just like that (for me) #TFN2026 is over. Once again it's been an amazing weekend. Never enough time to see & talk to everyone. Once I'm packed, I'm back off to that there London for my cousins wedding!

ML Grimlock, I don't want to pay the asking price because I'm a tight git. But BIG FOMO with all these pics. Got a shipping notice from Hobby Genki today, but no recollection of it. Checking emails I HAD ordered Grims back in January! Thanks 6 month ago me! No need to keep an eye out at TFN now.

County Short Metric today. 50m distance was 'eh' (209/360) but 30m was spectacular. Score dropped in End 10, turns out I shot out a nock in End 9 & couldn't get my head back in gear after grabbing a spare arrow. Total score is 30 points over last Short Metric so it's going in the right direction.

A bunch of arrows in an archery target. This was the first end at 30m. My arrows (with pink wraps) are grouped together very nicely in the middle.Broken arrow nock, shot out at 30m. It's hard to see but the base of it is actually split.Score at 50m, 209/360. Average of 5.8 which is not much to write home about.My 30m score, 317/360 is much better (average 8.8) which could have been better if I hadn't put myself off with a broken nock. Always next time eh?

Cleared the floor to play Botshots (remember them?) with my daughter. They're in the same box as all my One Steps... so I decided to put them all out! 65 of them from AoE, TLK, RID 2015, Cyberverse, Earthspark to TF ONE! Whirl is still the best, legit one of the best TF's ever. Seriously.

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Transformers Icons Optimus Prime. Not cheap (£54 shipped from Amazon) but I love this sort of gimmicky crap. Sort of has a bio, totally should have been The Last Autobot. As it is his Mr Potatohead robot mode is still pretty cool.

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'Interesting' thing I've observed. Spurred on by Sony, when I am ripping CD's to MP3 via Windows Media player (I know I know, what decade am I living in?) album data is no longer being downloaded. Is the database no longer up? This the same for everyone?

I am being bombarded with ads for miracle air conditioners (designed by NASA scientists!) It took me 5 minutes of checking the claims to realise it is all B.S. And you can buy equivalent versions for £20 or so elsewhere (if you want). The power of critical thinking! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Cool in 90 seconds' - the fake portable air conditioners sweeping the internet

The ASA says adverts claiming small devices can rapidly cool rooms were too good to be true.

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So this is what I want to happen this Summer: Arthur Fery to win Wimbledon England to win the World Cup Count Bin Face to win Clacton-on-Sea.

BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE (Join in now) BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE (With feeling everyone) BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE BIN FACE (Go Clacton!)

*BREAKING* USA to appeal Belgiums 4 goals. Trump said; 'They didn't look like goals to me.' In response FIFA is considering suspending goals as criteria for winning football matches for one year.

Cheeky Field #Archery session between kids Sports days on Fri. Field is still a big novelty because I shoot Barebow, Instinctively, with a glove, & at a new club (alongside my normal Target archery club). Very satisfying to just look at what you want to hit, & then hit it with no conscious aiming.

3 arrows in a foam animal, set up in the woods. All 3 arrows are in the 'kill' zone. My arrow is the black one with the Flour green wrap.3 arrows in a small Hare foam target. The Hare is quite hard to make out, camouflaged in the forest floor.

My arrow is not in the kill zone, it is however right in the head just under the hares eye. Still only counts as a wound though, 16 pts instead of 20 pts for a Kill, or 24 pts for an Inner Kill.3 arrows in a Pheasant foam animal target in the woods. All 3 are in the kill zone! These targets are not big. A couple of Foam Animal targets in the woods with 2 arrows in each. The foreground target is a rabbot with my arrow in the kill zone. The targets are partially hidden/obscured by foliage 'to make the shots harder'.

This set of combining Transformers GO! figures were meant to be photographed & passed amongst TF photographers to see what they could do with them. However, when they got to me, I put them in a box, stopped taking photos of toys & totally forgot about them. To whoever passed them on to me... 1/2

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Picked up a Cyberworld Scourge from The Entertainer (open on a Sunday?!) £20. Very much a gimmicky kids toy. Virtually a 1 Step, 6 POA, spring loaded chest, GITD paint on the sword. But he's a pirate galleon! Scourge of the 7 seas! Avast me hearties! There's plunder/Energon over the horizon! ARRR!

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