 Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime back safe and sound from TFCon in Reston, Virginia, and man, what a weekend that was. I had an absolute blast, but before I start going over all the intricate details, I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here, and have not subscribed to Patriot Prime Reviews, please hit that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing, but will help me and my channel out tremendously. Now first and foremost, I want to give a huge thank you to the hardworking staff who ran TFCon. This thing, in my opinion, from what I saw went flawlessly. Everybody seemed to have a great time. I never heard any complaints. I think the only complaints we had was the elevators. They were terrible. I was on the 11th floor, and you would get on this elevator, say at the 11th floor, you go down, pick up somebody at 9, go back up to 10, back down to 7, up to 15. I swear to God, I was in an elevator for probably about 10 minutes before we finally got off. That was the only complaint from the whole convention. All the people were great. All the vendors were great. There was no complaint. The voice actors very, very friendly, very, very open to any and all conversations. That was fun, and apparently my SpeedStick PSA worked. I didn't smell any funk whatsoever except one time I was looking at some bots at the table. Some dude walked by me and I was one of those, ugh, but that was it. I had so many people come up to me in thanking me for posting that SpeedStick video. Excuse me, I'm dealing with, I think what they call it, concrete, you know, you're with all those people, you're sucking in everybody's germs, so yeah, I have this going on. But speaking of thanking and open conversations, I just have to say that this was a humbling experience for me because of all you guys, all of you viewers, the people that came up to me, you know, they recognized me, they recognized my channel. So I did get fustap for not wearing the hat. I said this before, I'm not a big hat guy. The hat is for videos only. I came into the hotel with a hat on and immediately took it off because it was so warm in there. So a lot of people didn't recognize me until they read the shirt, but so many came up thanking me, being so honored to meet me, and that was, that's just humbling in my opinion. I mean, that really, that got me. You know, a few years ago, I go to a convention, I was just another guy, but here I have people wanting to meet me and right here, that just got me right there. Now I tried my best to get selfies with everybody who came up to me. It was an idea I had to do it through the whole convention, but you know, you get wrapped up in conversations, you get wrapped up in other things. So the selfies didn't happen. But I did get a few and if I missed you, I'm sorry, but it was so great meeting my fans, my viewers. I mean, that was awesome and hearing your different stories and you know, what inspired you or what got you into collecting transformers was really, really cool. And I met folks from all over the place and what was really cool, I met another individual from West Virginia who only lives about two hours away from me. So that was really cool. We got our selfie together. So yeah, guys, I appreciated that. I mean, it really, it really got me, you know, are you Patriot Prime? Well, yes I am. And it just, that was so cool. And I just, I've been bragging about that to my wife, not as much bragging, but it's just, it's just a weird, unique experience when you got people coming up to you, you know, thanking you and hey, I'll watch your channel and all that stuff. It's just, that was really cool. And I thank you. You guys are the reason I do this and hopefully come January, I will be continuing to do this. Maybe those toy rules won't screw up YouTube like we're all worried about. Another thing, I have to give a special shout out to my fellow YouTubers that I met. It was so cool meeting you guys finally face to face, shake your hand, give you a good bro hug. I mean, the very first individual I ran into was engineer hoist. And then I ran into fandom spotlight. I ran into caveman reviews, deluxe Baldwin himself, many others, Bobby Skullface. I've just recently started following his channel because of the recommendations you guys gave me. He was a really cool individual and it was just awesome to get together. I mean, going to dinner, grabbing burgers, grabbing beers, that, that was a blast. And then, you know, aside from all that, going into the convention, all the people, I mean, whether they were fans or not, everybody was there for the same reason. And it was just this great community of togetherness. I mean, not selling all sappy, but you know, everybody's there for the same reason. You're seeing older dudes like me, you got kids there. All races, all collars, didn't matter. I mean, everybody was there having a great time. And I thought that was amazing. It was a blast. And I mean, words can't explain it. It was just awesome for somebody like me who lives out in the boonies and I don't get to experience anything like that. Hell, I don't even have anybody to talk to about this stuff. I mean, that's part of the reason why I did YouTube. So that was just awesome. Now I'm rambling on about that and we'll get to the good stuff. You all want to see the haul. You don't care about all this. One more special shout out to my three roommates. They wore my Patriot Prime gear all day Saturday, kind of promoting for me. One funny story. I had this guy come up to me and he goes, are you Patriot Prime? I was like, yes. Yes, I am. How are you? Went to shake his hand. He says, well, good. I saw this other guy wearing the shirt and I was looking at him and I thought, damn, he looks a lot different on TV or on YouTube. And I was like, oh, my buddies, I got them Patriot Prime shirts, but guys, thank you. The rooming thing was awesome. We got to save money because we compiled everything and we all stayed in one room. That was four dudes in a room with two beds. But you know, what happens at TF Con gets streamed on YouTube, but it was a good time. It was a good time. We had a blast. Now, before we start getting into the halls and things I buy, I got a few gifts to me. Gifts to the channel. And I want to give a big shout out to Rick Legospi. I hope I didn't screw your name up. He's a fan of the channel who hunted me down in the dealer room, introduced himself, shook my hand and said, I have a donation to your channel for you and your boy. And what he gave me was a 30th anniversary brainstorm figure. This is the Voyager class one. I don't have this. I've always wanted this figure and thank you so much for it. I look forward to messing around with him and getting him in front of the camera. He looks really, really cool. Just a neat kind of an anime mech suit look to him. I guess that's what's called. It's just he looks a lot different than the Titans return when I have me. This guy looks really cool. Thank you. So this, this is what he gave me and he gave Dylan this Optimus Prime, which is pretty cool. He's got a swinging battle axe motion and this bumblebee. So Rick, thank you so much. Dylan was tickled to death to get these. I actually had to sneak into his room and grab them back so I could have them for this video. So thank you so much for that. Now Saturday morning, let's see, we got to gotten a room, went to bed probably about midnight, set our alarms for four o'clock so we could get up, get showered and get in line to get in the dealer room. I wasn't really after an exclusives, but my roommates were. So I got in line with them, met some really cool people. And one of the individuals I met gave away pins. I mean, he called himself the pin guy. I don't have his card with me, but I'm going to put in the description of this video. He makes these really cool pins. So he handed it to us and the pin he gave me was the, hey, what's going on? He-man. I thought that was so funny. If you have YouTube, you've seen this. That was so cool. He also gave me this Tarn pin. So and he does all, he calls himself the TF Con pin guy. So he makes all kinds of pins. He was giving them out to a lot of different people. So I'll have his name in the description of this, but these are really, really cool. I think my wife's going to steal that one from me. There was another individual walking around and he was handing out these postcards. He's a toy photographer. So he was taking different pictures of toys in these action shots. I of course picked Optimus Prime. So that was really cool. And going back to my story about waiting in line to get into the exclusives. I wasn't really after anything, like I said, but it was announced a couple of days before TF Con that master shooter collectibles was releasing a new version of their Megatron style target masters. This little target master turns into Megatron in Halloween colors, the Mega Lantern. I love this company. I love their figures. I have quite a few of their products and I really wanted to get these. They only had 13 and I was worried because across from us was the premium ticket holders and they got to go in first. They were limited to a hundred. So there's a hundred people going in before us who'd already been there for three hours. We got there at six o'clock and the dealer room opened at nine. So the pin guy knew another guy in line and he told him to see if he could run in and get this for me. And so I showed him a picture of it on my phone and he went in, found it and as I came as the dealer room opened and I went in, he walks up to me and says, I got you one of those mega guns. And I was like, sweet, and I'm going for my wallet to give him the 20 bucks for the figure. And he says, man, on me, you have a great con. So I'm sorry if I didn't catch your name, but thank you so much for this. I really appreciate it. Like I said, it just gets me right there. Thank you. And that was pretty much it for the gifts. Now we're going to go into the purchases. And I'm going to try to remember how I purchased these in order. So it was a purchase, but a purchase brought to me was caveman reviews. It was a 35th anniversary blue streak for me at his Walmart. He asked me if this was the same individual to hook me up with that siege ratchet. So he's a good guy, caveman reviews. Check him out. He asked if I wanted one of these. I said, yeah, but I haven't found one. He says, well, I grabbed you one. He's yours. 20 bucks. I'll bring him to the con. So 35th anniversary blue streak. Thank you very much. Now from there, as I was walking around, I was looking for a certain individual who I knew had a stand set up there in the dealer room. And this was Sean from mega prime collectibles. He used to be sport and Morton's sport and Morton's toys changed the name to mega prime. Sean has been the guy that has helped with a good portion of my generation one collecting. And I wanted to meeting face to face. I mean, I've been dealing with this guy for years. I mean, probably 2011, 2012, I've been talking to him for a long time. Wanted to meet him in person. And I finally did. It was so great to talk to him and shake the hands of the man who took so much of my money over the years. But at his stand, I decided to purchase a generation two dark wing and smoke jumper. This is a figure, really, really awesome toy, loads and loads of missiles. He has 14 missiles on this figure. You've got all the missiles in the gatling gun, the missiles that double as bombs in this mode and there's hidden missiles for the other figure that I'll go over when I review this guy later on. So I picked this up. I think this is an awesome looking toy, except when you lean it forward, these missiles don't hook in. They will all fall out. And I can't tell you how many times I've picked these up here lately. So I got that from him. And because I'm a Jeep guy, I found one of the little Jeep Mini Spies and this one is a Autobot. So he's going on my Autobot shelf. I love it. So that is now Mega Prime Collectibles. I'm going to put their link in the description as well. This guy is awesome for your vintage needs. Hook him up. He'll take care of you. Tell him Patriot Prime sent you. Next up is I'm going, oh, one more thing. He also gave Dylan something. He gave Dylan this movie Megatron, which I think it was called a fast action battler. It's pretty cool. It has the old He-Man gimmick where he kind of moving to the side and he does that whipping motion. There was another thing I had to get out of Dylan's room. So Sean, thank you so much for the deals over the years. The gifts for my son, brother. You're awesome. Guys, you go check him out. You won't be disappointed. Thank you for this Megatron. So I'm leaving Mega Prime Collectibles. I'm going around and something catches my eye. And I was like, I haven't seen one of those in years. And not only did he catch my eye right off the bat, I saw the price tag first off. And I walk up and grab the Go-Bots Rogan rifle. I wanted to get this guy. I've been looking for him for a while because I found the pistol, which I reviewed a few months back at a local flea market for a quarter. And I always wanted to get the matching rifle. So I see this and I saw the price and like, are you serious? Only $5? Because on eBay, this thing's going like 15, 20, you know, including shipping. And he's like, yeah. So I'm meeting and I'm picking it up. And it's really cool. So you squeeze the legs together, you flip the handle down, turn the head around, extend the barrels, extend the stock. And there you got an awesome rifle. Of course, he's laughing at me because I'm transformed. He's going giddy over this thing because I want it. It's just it's an awesome looking figure and it fires caps. I've got this one cap ring. What's really good? That's got a little bit of schmutz on it. But I mean, it's still still clicks. So that's a plus. So yeah, I'm really happy to have that in my collection. Starting to get way more go-bots in my transformer collection that I originally planned for. So yeah, I'm really tickled with that. Just one of those oddball things you have to have. Next up was I walked by this display, had this music playing and it sounded familiar. It was the 86 soundtrack, but revisited, not remastered. It was like a new take on the 86 movie soundtrack. So I'm listening to it and I thought that was really unique sounding. And I asked to say, well, how much is the CD? He said $15. I said, well, I'm definitely picking it up. I love it. It'll give me something new to listen to on the ride home. Really good stuff. Electronic Saviors. Another individual who gave me a card, but unfortunately I left the card sitting at work. This is a really cool sounding soundtrack. Now it's got the songs, you've got Dare, The Touch, Instruments of Destruction. Of course, they're different. So it took me a couple of lessons to appreciate the vocal songs because you're so used to the ones that, you know, the original artist. But their takes on the instrumentals was fantastic. I mean, that was some really unique tunes. So highly, highly recommended. I'm going to try to put their link in the description as well. This was a really cool listen. Moving on. And speaking of CDs, I got to meet Vince Nicola and he autographed my original soundtrack score. I had the original 86 soundtrack on CD, but I lost the insert. So I had to go buy this new one off Amazon. Now, a funny story, I pull it all out and I'm getting ready to have him autograph and he asked me what my name is. I tell him. He starts writing and then he stops. He freezes and goes, how do you spell your name? And I was like, Jason, J-A-S-O-N. And he scribbles out up top and then writes my name correctly. Now, at first I was ticked. I was like, well, you just ruined this. I mean, you can see right there, hi, he spelled it with a Y, J-A-Y. I didn't even know there were people that spelled Jason with a Y. But he spelled it that way and he crossed it out. And I'm walking around for like 15 minutes just aggravated. So I can't believe, you know, that happened. But then the more I thought of it, it's kind of a funny story. So I have a pretty cool story now to go with my autograph soundtrack. So I'm still throwing this up in the shadow box. It's going somewhere in the room. I mean, it's cool. I still got to meet him. I shook his hand, talked to him for a while. Dylan's favorite song is the Unicron medley that he calls the train song because of the throughout. So I was telling him about it. That that was awesome. OK, then this was the big one. I have been looking at all these different third party figures. I mean, they range from little ones to the big ones to the really big ones. And my roomies, it's peer pressure. You're going to get a third party. You're going to get a third party. And I finally did. And I figured you might as well go big or go home. And I grabbed the reformatted mastermind's collectibles. Or is it reformat mastermind? Terminus Hexatron. What I forgot his name. I'm so in throw with this thing. Carnifex, the giant third party overlord. You know how I am about overlord. This is one I looked at for years when he came out. I thought it was so cool. And so I'm sitting here seeing it. It was on the display for Transformer Land. And it had a really good price on it. I mean, this thing is huge. Had a really good price on it for what it originally went through. But I pulled the old, I'm from West Virginia and I do a lot of flea markets. So I looked at the guy at the booth. And this is day one. And I said, I see you have that price on that figure. But I have this in cash. Will you take this in cash right now? And I'll take this figure off your hands. Because he told me this has been picked up quite a few times and put back. So he looks at me for a while. And he's like, all right, I'll do it. So he came home with me. And yes, there will be a review on this guy. But it might be a while because I've watched a couple reviews myself on him. I need to get myself pretty familiar with this guy first before I put him in front of the camera. So there I busted my third party cherry with a pretty impressive figure. Now, of course, engineer hoist is right beside me when I'm looking at this thing. And he's kind of egging me on as well. So a lot of peer pressure at TF Con. So that pretty much wiped out all my purchases in the dealer room for day one. So we go to the room. We go, we have dinner at a, oh, where do we go dinner? A Thai place. It was really, really good. It's called the Big Bowl. Man, it was delicious. Absolutely delicious. So we go back to the hotel and we hear that there's an after party. After party is on the 14th floor. So we all get ready and head up to the after party. And we're walking down the hallway, and this guy just comes out of this room. And he's looking at us and gets, hey, fellas, you're looking for some deals? Now, the hotel being that close in DC, and any other time, that would involve hookers and blow. But since it was TF Con, we figured it was robots. So we go in the room, and he's got a nice spread everywhere, and I'm looking. I really don't see anything that catches my eye. And we go to leave, and he says, come on, I have to have something you want. What are you into, buddy? And I said, well, I'm a G1 fan. So he points over at this that I happened to miss. That I believe is the reissue, Power Master Optimus Prime with the Godbomber armor all still sealed in the plastic. And he looks at me and says, 60 bucks, you can take it home. By God, it came home with me. So this will be a nice add-on to my Power Master reviews. Got to talking to the guy. He was a military veteran as well. I believe he was a New York police officer. Great guy. It was really cool. So there was my last minute late night purchase, Saturday night. OK, now we roll into Sunday morning. We're going to hit that dealer room one more time. I've got limited funds now. I really don't want to spend much more because I got spent way more than I intended to. So rolling around, I approach, I see Bobby Skullface. He has his table set up. I didn't realize he was an artist. He does all kinds of neat art. And a lot of his proceeds go to, like, firefighter groups, police officer groups. He's got a cool website, too, that I'm also going to put in the description. Being that he donated to these causes, I had to buy something off of him. So I bought this really cool Transformers mousepad with some of Bobby Skullface's original art. He had sold all out of the Optimus Primes because I was going to take it to work. I thought that would be really fitting. But this will look good right here on the computer. I hate to do it, but I may replace my US Army mousepad with Soundwave. So really, really cool buy right there. We're getting ready to leave. And I'm like, OK, I've got $30 on my wallet. There's got to be something that catches my eye. Something did. This right here. And this caught my eye because of the name. I was like, it's an omen. I have to buy this. So I opened it up. And to really seal the deal, I mean, I really don't know anything about this. The GoBot rifle just fell over. Well, this one is military green. So I was like, sold. And I was like, what do you take for this? 25. So yeah, I couldn't beat it. A really unique figure. It looks awesome in the vehicle mode from the pictures. I haven't even taken this out. I mean, it's a nice foam right there. But we'll take a look at that on Patriot Prime reviews before too long. So that pretty much wraps up my haul video. Now, right before we were heading out the door, I ran into some friends of mine from ShardaCon back in 2013. And we decided we need to get us a ShardaCon reunion photo. And I had the idea. I didn't think it would happen. But one of the guys helping to work TFCon, worked for ShardaCon, or was our friend. And I was like, do you think it's possible if we could get Paul Eyding, G1 Perceptor, and David Sobov to be in the picture with us? Because they were in ShardaCon 2013. David Sobov was the voice of Dept Charge and Blitzwing in the Bumblebee movie. Now in my mind, I'm like, it's not going to happen because these guys are charging like $20 for a photo. We walked up to their table. And first off, Paul Eyding remembered me from ShardaCon 2013. That blew my mind. I mean, you think about, you got these celebrities that meet millions of fans. And he remembered me from six years ago. I mean, a Facebook friend. But you know, Facebook got a friend, an entertainer, a celebrity, you think you're never going to look at your stuff or pay attention. He shook my hand, congratulated me on all of this, even said he liked Dylan's Halloween costume. So that amazed me. Just goes to show the type of people some of these transformer voice actors are. I mean, he does, it just, I was kind of dumbfounded first because my whole thing was, hey, I'm Jason. I met you such and such. And he knew me right off the bat. So that was really cool. But anyway, I'm rambling on. He and David both said yes. And we got this awesome picture for the ShardaCon reunion. I mean, it was great. It was so, so cool. And that was pretty much it. I got with my roommates, we checked out. We decided to head down to a really cool burger joint called BGR Best Grilled Burgers, or Burgers Grilled Right. I'm sorry, fantastic food. We shook hands, we bro hugged. I hit the road four hours straight all the way back home. And it was just a fantastic experience. I cannot wait to go again. I believe the next one's gonna be in Orlando, Florida, but that's five months away. And it's a little too close to me. I'd love to go because I know Bert the Stormtrooper would go there and I'd love to meet him. I'd love to shake hands with him. He's great. We've become really good friends over the last year. But I'm really hoping it rolls back around to DC again. I think they said maybe every two years. So in two years, we'll be there. And for sure, I'm gonna take Dylan with me. I think he'll have a blast. Guys, this went on way longer than I intended. And once again to you. Thank you guys so much. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be doing this. And you guys mean the world to me. Guys, this is Patriot Prime, signing out. HELLO!