One of the best things about being an adult is that you can buy all the toys you want and no one can stop you.

With that observation, I will now reveal that I've been a Transformers fan since I was a little kid. And now that I actually have a disposable income of sorts, I've decided to take up collecting Optimus Primes. I think I've got the majority of them now, or at the least, a representative sampling. There's a few holes in my collection (RiD Optimus is stupid-looking enough that I haven't been willing to shell out the amount that they tend to cost), but I think I've got a pretty fair spread. In my usual geekish way, I'm going to post a series of in-depth commentaries about the relative merits of each one.

But to start us off, here's the top of my TV cart: