Luck...As It Happens...Part II

As collectors, we're often not privy to some of the amazing finds out there. Occassionally we'll hear about a "once-in-a-lifetime" score, or maybe we'll happen to watch a very public eBay auction which then results in a fallout years later.

But sometimes, a find happens that is too good not to share.

On to Part II...

Luck...As It Happens Part 1

Looking back on almost forty years of "collecting" (as of this writing, I'm 45 and while I received my first Transformer at the age of four, I certainly wasn't a collector then), I'm always astounded by what are often referred to as "once-in-a-lifetime" finds. Things that happen by pure luck or circumstance, or even hard work, but that will never, ever happen again. And in all my years, I've never had a story like that.

Until now.

A Different Kind of Galvatron...maybe?

Of all the toys I received as a kid, few hold the kind of real estate in my memory that the original Galvatron does. Christmas 1986. I remember tearing open that box and finding him there in his cannon mode, that massive neon orange barrel staring back at me, and thinking this was easily the most impressive thing I'd ever owned.