Bakugan Transformers

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Last Updated: 6/13/10 (Chop Shop and Sundor added)

    When Bakugan first came out, I contemplated getting some for cheap once they bombed and use them as extra planetoids for Unicron. But they didn't bomb, so that idea got filed away for later. By 2010, though, they'd gotten successful enough to start going on overstock clearance, yay!

    Because of all the tiny moving parts, any attempt to radically recolor a Bakugan means dye. After several failed attempts involving cold dye and "lowest level on the burner" dye, I put together a dye vat that let me safely take the temperature to nearly boiling, at which point Rit dye takes in Bakugan plastic.

Bakutapes

    The Wired (warning, wikia.com link) Bakugan is almost perfect for the condor cassettecons Laserbeak and Buzzsaw, but it doesn't come in black. So I dyed some Haos (light gray) Wireds black and repainted them. I later bought some orange dye and made Sundor from a Subterra (light tan) Wired. I also bought blue dye for another project, but ran out of Wired.


Insectigans

    There's some insect Bakugan, a few of which even look like something besides a pile of random parts. The Scraper/Clawder mold is shooting for "earwig with abdomen arched over back" I think. I could be wrong, though.