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I'm Gherkin, a visibly queer discontent creator and unique vegetable entity in the sphere of toy robots. He/him/his but not a man. Rantsona designed by @maiaf.bsky.social! LINKUS: https://thelastgherkin.tumblr.com/links

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Yes please!

09.11.2025 14:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The Real Ghostbusters: A Hard Day's Fright, a digest sized comic book collection sat facing forward on a library shelf.

The Real Ghostbusters: A Hard Day's Fright, a digest sized comic book collection sat facing forward on a library shelf.

A lesser concern is the contents of The Real Ghostbusters Collected Comics. I'd assumed, like Combat Colin, the title could never reprint the story involving the Gwanzulums, until I ran into a 2005 Titan omnibus in Stourbridge library and there it was clear as day

09.11.2025 09:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

...but there never WAS a strip where Col and Steve tried to gatecrash a 200th issue party. There was one where they tried to gatecrash the Transformers' *Christmas* party – is there a weird Christmasless edit inside no. 9?

09.11.2025 09:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Front cover of The Marvel Bumper Comic issue no. 9 (cover date 21st Jan 89).  A brightly coloured, wacky computer shows pictures of Slimer (from Ghostbusters), Dr Who (Sylvester McCoy), Combat Colin and Semi-Automatic Steve, and ALF (ALF).  The hand of Galvatron rests on the computer's keyboard.  A phone handset sits nearby, with a speech bubble reading "TRANSFORMERS is 200 issues old this week, boys – so watch out!  They'll probably try something on!"

Front cover of The Marvel Bumper Comic issue no. 9 (cover date 21st Jan 89). A brightly coloured, wacky computer shows pictures of Slimer (from Ghostbusters), Dr Who (Sylvester McCoy), Combat Colin and Semi-Automatic Steve, and ALF (ALF). The hand of Galvatron rests on the computer's keyboard. A phone handset sits nearby, with a speech bubble reading "TRANSFORMERS is 200 issues old this week, boys – so watch out! They'll probably try something on!"

Transformers was never reprinted in the Marvel Bumper Comic (that we know of), but Galvatron cameoed on the front of issue 9, where a voice warns him that Combat Colin and Steve might try to gatecrash their 200th issue celebrations

09.11.2025 09:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
eBay screenshot showing various issues of the Marvel Bumper Comic.  Prices range from £14.95 for one issue, to £104.68 for eleven issues, to £149.95 for one issue.

eBay screenshot showing various issues of the Marvel Bumper Comic. Prices range from £14.95 for one issue, to £104.68 for eleven issues, to £149.95 for one issue.

Me latest white whale is the Marvel Bumper Comic. A Marvel UK monthly anthology title that ran for 31 issues plus a special. We know what all the covers look like but the contents are an enigma. There could be all sorts of Combat Colin reprints in them. And I'd buy 'em myself but, well,

09.11.2025 09:50 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 1
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Post by @thelastgherkin · 10 images 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · AGE OF THE PRIMES Deluxe Sideways · Maybe he's just got a trustworthy face. More like this: Universe "Battle Beneath the Streets" Ratbat Legacy United Voyager Class Cybertron Un…

#Transformers AGE OF THE PRIMES Deluxe Sideways

Maybe he's just got a trustworthy face.

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06.11.2025 19:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Escape key is highly underrated. Try it today on some of your favourite websites

06.11.2025 14:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love you Ben!!!!

05.11.2025 22:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Post by @thelastgherkin · 10 images 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 5 · AGE OF THE PRIMES Deluxe Excellion · Not Rod. More like this: Legacy United Deluxe Class Cybertron Universe Hot Shot Legacy Evolution Armada Universe Powerlinx Hot Shot Legacy:…

#Transformers AGE OF THE PRIMES Deluxe Excellion

Not Rod.

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05.11.2025 19:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Machine Man, the living robot

Machine Man, the living robot

05.11.2025 15:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Stay safe out there king

04.11.2025 20:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Anyone with a year of birth later than mine is a little baby despite all evidence to the contrary

02.11.2025 12:15 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

And I'm already taken, fellas

02.11.2025 09:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm the type of guy who owns Mr Blobby's single on two discrete albums

02.11.2025 09:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Pikmin

01.11.2025 12:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If Cyndi Lauper had leprosy she'd b

29.10.2025 22:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If Cyndi Lauper were in Quantum Leap she'd be Cyndi Leaper

29.10.2025 22:18 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

If Cyndi Lauper were in a Victorian workhouse she'd be Cyndi Pauper

29.10.2025 22:18 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

If your lock screen has the clock with the two digits of the hour above the two digits of the minutes then you and I will never see eye to eye. No clock readout in history has looked like that

28.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm not saying it's anything to do with farts but

27.10.2025 21:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Amalgamous has always been "the other one" of the Primes for me. The least to latch onto. A guy defined for his ability to Transform among other Transformers. And I genuinely think he'd endear himself to me more if it were spelled "Amalgamus"

27.10.2025 20:22 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Thew throwing horns in a paragliding position.  The paraglider has been poorly edited out.

Thew throwing horns in a paragliding position. The paraglider has been poorly edited out.

THE PEOPLE DEMAND THE TRUTH which is why I unearthed this unedited photo from before you added the parachute in to obfuscate the fact you've mastered self propulsion

27.10.2025 20:05 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah why don't you write a post and forget the play on words that's key to the punchline ya genius

27.10.2025 14:07 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finding about that there wasn't really a cartoon called "Blue Moo" and it was actually just a segment called "Blue Cow" on The Story Makers has really affected my mandela

27.10.2025 14:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To be fair, I couldn't get 10,000 people to support me either

25.10.2025 08:35 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To be fair, I think if they'd straight up just released all those TRON toys at retail and they failed to sell from there, that'd be even more pathetic than what we've got now

25.10.2025 08:22 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Last night I bought a pack of Cybermen for £24.99, which seemed like a lot. Then I looked up the RRP of the first release of the same pack, and it was £29.99, and I didn't feel like I'd made a savings. Then I looked up inflation, and £29.99 back in 2010 is about £60 today. So now I feel a bit better

24.10.2025 08:41 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also had a dream about a new kind of popup ad that goes straight to your printer

23.10.2025 05:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Had a dream I sat next to Chris Pratt in a convention panel audience and he was just. SO annoying. Keep your trap shut while the people are speaking

23.10.2025 05:35 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Post by @thelastgherkin · 10 images 💬 0  🔁 2  ❤️ 3 · RETRO Deluxe Autobot Gears · Blazar rides again! More like this: Legacy United Deluxe Class G1 Universe Gears Generations Selects Go-Bot Smallfoot Retro Deluxe Autobot Bumblebee

#Transformers RETRO Deluxe Autobot Gears

Blazar rides again!

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21.10.2025 18:15 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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