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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈

@autobotsparklight.bsky.social
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She/Her Power armour hoarding goblin/wannabe autonomous robotic lifeform Robot fangirl trash who occasionally makes things (pfp by Galvanity on tumblr/dA)

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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bonus: this weird little alien model kit I found in the trash outside the con that appears to have come from one of those giant blind boxes of assorted cheap crap. I saved it to paint and put in a corner of my record shop diorama as a guitar holder.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I have in fact failed to not buy things. Picked up Skybound TPBs, a couple of other TF comics, some other stuff, prints and a Jazz keychain from Dan Khanna, and prints from George Vega. (sidenote, plz tell Dan you would also buy the Prowl keychain he's thinking of making, bc I NEED that to happen.)
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Work schedule the next couple weeks is kind of fucky, but it led to me having friday through sunday off, so I am free to go to my local comic con for the first time in a couple years. I will try not to come home with any new figures or comics that I don't really have room for, but no promises.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(Most of what they're selling was created by Toymakr3D, but there's also one that looks like Hightail Creations' Whirl.)
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Found some rando on etsy selling printed copies of other people's Transformers figure models, almost certainly without their permission. :/ This is why we can't have nice things.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Got my Jazz and Prowl done only to discover that they came out too tall for the room size because I totally effed up my scaling. Just gonna stick these guys on my shelf and print another set that is actually correctly scaled. One can never have too many of their favourite little robot guys, right?
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally finished all of these damn record sleeves. Printing them on paper and then having to cut them out, glue them on cardstock, cut them out AGAIN, and finally fold and glue them together to finish them was perhaps not the most efficient use of my time, but it's done now, so.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Somehow this whole silly record shop diorama idea and printing a bunch of things for it has now led to me planning to also print two entire figures to live in it, because why the hell not, at this point?
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The Dessicated Husk of Thew @toygrind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
THEY'RE TAKING THE WRONG 80-YR-OLDS
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Got a plate of tiny CD cases printing. Next up is cassettes and then 8 track tapes, because I have completely lost control of this thing and the Jazzes are now running the show.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I may be getting a little too into this record shop diorama thing. I'm currently downloading about three hundred pieces of album art for record sleeves and also making up a couple of fake albums for Cybertronian bands just so the collection is not completely human-centric.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I just found the perfect printable modular tile set to expand the record store diorama for free, which is great news for my ideas for it and absolutely terrible news for my remaining collecting space.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
(Yes, I realize that this stuff is wildly out of scale for most of them, no I don't care. It fits Alternators Jazz and Toyworld Jazz reasonably well, and it will be absolutely hilarious to see all the others in there with them.)
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Questionable financial decisions may have been made in the name of creating cool shit for the orchestra of Jazzes in residence. (And the other guys too, I guess, but this is mostly for the Jazzes.)
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Nick Roche @nickroche.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Bumping Thew's vid again, cos it's great, but also because it gives an excuse to remind folk that @cybertronicspree.bsky.social did a cover version of the Transformers soundtrack a while back, and it's a RUSH. Really great, fresh interpretations, and Jesus, Arcee can wail: youtu.be/u6nEHG_jFp0?...
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Hunger
YouTube video by The Cybertronic Spree - Topic
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New bot for the TFA collection! I found a damaged Prowl on ebay and rescued him to make a Barricade. Poor guy was missing his head and lights and was also lightly mauled (with visible tooth marks) but some paint, a new head, and the leftover Bionicle pieces from my Chase fixed his problems right up.
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Jar Of Loose Screws @jarofloosescrews.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Megatron eBay auction is now live 🔥 www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32730245... Never done an auction so will see how it goes. Sb £2 (gbp) Shares very much appreciated ✨ #transformers
A photo of Transformers Animated Megatron traditional artwork. A black and white head shot.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Re: silly photos of bots, I had to dig these two up because I remembered that a couple years ago I was taking pics of my RTS Jazz with a skateboard and nunchaku (aka the OMEGA JAZZ), which led to the funniest accidental photo I've ever managed when I somehow caught him mid-backflip as he fell off.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Shrapnel acquired!
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Got myself another G1 Shrapnel and now I'm going to be obsessively refreshing the tracking to make sure I actually get this one. Still haven't figured out who stole the first one, but I have suspicions.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I sincerely hope whichever clown stole the G1 Shrapnel I ordered off my steps was severely disappointed. I'm not even really mad, just amused that of all the shit I've ordered over the years, a 40 year old robot bug that cost me eight bucks is what finally got stolen.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I love modern technology. One (almost) perfect replacement door. (My clumsy ass snapped a bit off the clip as i was pulling it off the supports so now I need to print it again, but this one works to show how well it fits.) Windshield is printing now, so he'll just need some paint to be good as new.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I will at some point buy OG Battle Armor Skeletor and He-man, but the Origins ones I picked up suit my inner child's need to have her toys back well enough. (Also it was weirdly difficult to find this single newer BA Skeletor & there were exactly zero OG ones anywhere, so I took what I could get)
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I definitely could have gotten a couple of these guys cheaper on ebay but tbh the convenience of picking them up in person and having them immediately was worth a few extra bucks to me. (Also, Bluestreak is missing his windshield (because G1 Datsun toy, lol), but that's what 3D printing is for.)
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
So I didn't end up with most of what was on my list but I am very pleased with what I DID find: Rumble/Frenzy and Eject/Rewind, Powerglide, Whirl, Bluestreak, Bombshell, Battle Armor Skeletor & He-man, Rattlor, Panthor, Battlecat, and the Action Edition Blokees kits. Not a bad haul, I think.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
*Columbo voice* Just one more thing...
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
At the toys expo and, uh. I bought a few things. The Panthor and Battlecat are modern ones but I thight they were cool and they were right there in the booth with He-Man and Skeletor so I grabbed them all together.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I'm going to a toy expo tomorrow, so I'm making a list of stuff I want to look for, and it's almost all either Transformers or stuff I owned between about 7 and 12 that I really want to have again. We shall see how well I manage to stick to the list and not just go OOH SHINY at other random things.
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Tyler James @tjomega.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Repost if your account is a safe place for the trans community 💙🩷🤍
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Saw this ad on the bus today and was torn between laughing and puking. Not ony is it an ad for a crisis pregnancy center that preys on vulnerable pregnant people, it's an *AI slop* ad for a crisis pregnancy center preying on vulnerable pregnant people. Please do better than this, MTA.
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DiaBrave Sid @diabrave.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
So, how old were you when you realised Soundwave has a pause button and a play button molded into his head crest? More obvious on the tape player where it is painted, but the same detailing is on G1, MP et al
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I needed more stitch markers, so I printed more stitch markers...possibly too many stitch markers. (I'll be honest, this was at least 50% an excuse to finally open all of my filament and use the entire array of colours for *something*.)
A paper bowl full of 3D printed stitch markers shaped like cat heads in a rainbow of colours
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Finally got some spare time and brain space for finishing one of my franken-Blokees, so here's a very silly little guy made from spare parts (including a leftover Legacy Animated Prowl head). I have zero explanation for whatever this is besides the fact that I like the Constructicon colour scheme.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
All the official lads together, plus Nightwatch, who fits in surprisingly well. Still feels a little wild to see Dead End right here with the rest of them tbh. (Yes, I know the holsters for the nunchaku are supposed to flip up, but I'm lazy and I didn't feel like taking them out to do it properly.)
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
He's here! ...I feel a sudden need to go hide all of my Poe and anything resembling emo music, just in case. Pretty sure I'm already hearing him mutter something about "the inevitable march towards death", so I'm not sure how much good it will do.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yeah, I think that's exactly what it is! I got lucky-my Five Below only had four of these KOs on the shelf and three of them were the tank (who I think is a Brawl?). Pretty decent upscaling of her for the price, IMO.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Got home and opened them up. They're kind of terrible but I like the chopper more than I probably ought to.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The call of the cheap knockoffs at Five Below successfully lured me in, I fear.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Went to a neighbourhood festival today and ended up picking up a few things. Not pictured: the funnel cake the size of my head and gigantic teriyaki chicken skewer I had for lunch.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I was looking for something else TFA-related on Cults3D today and instead discovered that someone had recently made a replacement missile for the leader Bulkhead figure! I printed a set and gave them a bit of paint, and my dude is looking pretty good with his missile racks full again.
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MoOoOonie 🐾🎃 @moonieloonie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Be sure to support this art with reposts and comments because all I can really say is, theres more of it to come and its for a big reason! Can't say any more than that.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
So, uh. I might have just accidentally stumbled upon an Animated Dead End on ebay and bought him before I could talk myself out of spending 150 bucks on him. Just casually finding one of my personal grails at 9PM on a Wednesday, no biggie.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Pretty crap photo, but I picked up a Rodimus Minor on ebay for 30 bucks (super cheap compared to the others listed rn) because the back piece with the spoiler is broken at the hinge. Plan was to try to fix it but the piece tabs into his back well enough that I don't know if I even need to bother.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I'm not going to say that he's particularly well painted, but he's done-ish. This idea has lived in my head rent-free for years since I saw a twitter post about it, and I finally sat down and made one of my own. Presenting: Rodimouse Prime, who exists purely because it's goddamned hilarious.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The orange paint is as annoying as ever to work with and I might have to strip it and use a different orange, but have a WIP photo of this ridiculous thing
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Couple of new bots arrived today! Well...technically one new bot and one old one, but y'all know what I mean. (I have Plans™ for a custom using the Rattrap, I just might need to order some more paint in the colours I want to use before I can start working on it.)
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James Marsh @jamesotron.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
"I think politics should be kept out of Transformers and we should all get along" I think you should fuck off.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I JUST had this convo with a dipshit on Reddit (yes, I know). Apparently it's hard for him to comprehend that "freedom is the right of all sentient beings" is a stance that some of us apply to more than just cartoon robots & that we can't "get along" with people who think there are qualifiers to it.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Haha. Got called an "ignorant asshole" today by a Trump supporter on the Transformers sub for answering the question of "but why can't we just come together without real-world politics", and I'm still laughing. Def a guy who thinks "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings" is just a catchphrase.
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Autobot Sparklight 🏳️‍🌈 @autobotsparklight.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Oh lol. Guess who just realized she forgot Animated Soundwave in the photo of the 'Con shelf? I sat him down after cleaning the filth he arrived with off and then just...totally forgot I did it until about ten minutes ago when I saw him on the towel where I left him. Guess I need another photo later
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