A Very Special Gift

Charticon provided me with many opportunities. It gave me the chance to meet people I had only known online prior, it allowed me to experience running a convention from the "other side" as it were, and it provided me with invaluable insight to the community as a whole. One very unexpected result of the show was that I was given some wonderful gifts for helping some people out. This is the first of these.

At first glance this may appear like nothing other than a G1 Gnaw. But if you look closely you'll notice it is actually a little different, it has a small gold sticker in the corner which actually indicates it is the Japanese version of Gnaw! In Japan, Gnaw was only available as a mail-away figure, and thus did not receive his own Japanese packaging.

All Takara did was throw the sticker on the Hasbro box and add a Japanese instruction booklet to the weapons pack. They didn't even remove the english instructions!

At any rate, I certainly wasn't expecting to receive a gift of this magnitude. Because Gnaw is one of my all time favorite characters (mainly because it is my wife's favorite character) this really meant a lot to me. I won't oust the gift-giver (just in case they aren't comfortable being revealed), but you know who you are and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Japanese Gnaw now has his own permanent spot alongside all the rest of my Sharkticons.

All the Sharkticons! (Both the wife's and mine)

(P.S. I've been meaning to post this for months, but I had to get my head straight first. See previous post :)