Sky-Byte, that's me!

Ah, Sky-Byte, a poet, scholar, brilliant military strategist... not.

Source : http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sky-Byte_(RID)

Who's the baddest shark around? Who's the smartest shark in town?

Sky-Byte, that's me!

Everybody loves a haiku-spouting born loser, right? 

I have both the LG 06 Gelshark and the older Transformers RID Sky-Byte. The LG 06 has a better shark mode while its robot mode is unspeakable.

 

Here's the robot mode... The RID Sky-Byte looks more like the Predacon military genius from the cartoon. 

Super Ginrai - TR Powermaster Optimus Prime

Super-God Masterforce - the series that left a deep impression on me, much, much more than G1. I was stunned the first time I saw Ginrai combine with his trailer to form Super Ginrai. Since then, I can't remember how many times I rewatched how Super Ginrai defeated King Poseidon on YouTube.

Credits to Dinobolt1 for the excellent video.

Here's is Hasbro's Titan Returns Powermaster Optimus Prime (what a mouthful). To me, this will always be Super Ginrai. 

This is a great 'generations' update of that old brick, which happens to be my favourite toy among my collection. 

Traditionally, Ginrai is a human who keeps combing his hair. He is also quite a contortionist who bends his legs in some horrible angle to become the godmaster engine situated in front of Super Ginrai. The current 'upgraded' version looks more like roadkill with Ginrai splattered in front of the cab. Poor Ginrai, his previous life wasn't good, this current reincarnation is worse... (- - !!!)

So I took out my trusty brush and gunmetal paint and painted the front part, if nothing more than to hide the blood stains... sigh... poor Ginrai.

While I got my brush out, I proceeded to do some simple wash to bring out all the beautiful details.

More pics of this awesome toy. The horrible hollow forearms are really obvious. Thank goodness Takara Tomy fixed that.