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06/11/2007: New Transformers and gum-related updates.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at my best friend’s house across the street — seemingly as much time as I spent in my own house. As such, I grew to know his family almost as an extension of mine…his uncles were my uncles and his cousins were my cousins.

At the tender age of five, and I swear I remember this, my “in” with his family worked wonders. One early afternoon, I pranced across the street onto his property as I so often did, and caught a glimpse of one of his aunts giving my friend and his two brothers each a Transformers “mini-car” — the smallest of the original figures, like Bumblebee and Cliffjumper and what have you. Jealousy burned my soul as I approached the porch, but unbelievably, his aunt got me one, too! I always wondered why I bothered to call his aunt Rose “Aunt Rose” when she really wasn’t my aunt…now it was all clear.

The figure she got me (or at least, the last figure left after everyone else called dibs) was named Huffer. Huffer wasn’t an incredibly important character on the cartoon, but he was free, so who gave a fuck. Easy to transform and perfectly pocket-sized, Huffer would go on to become one of my favorite action figures ever. He came with me everywhere, even after losing a few limbs. I mention this only because some of the new Transformers toys totally recapture the magic of the “small and simple” Autobot, and I’m glad that a new generation of kids will know what it feels like to have a robot close to their groin even when they’re being forced to tagalong on Home Depot lumber runs. Meet “Spy Shot 6,” one of the new “Real Gear Robots!”

(click here to see the packaged version in camera mode)
Transforming from a simple digital camera into a simple robot, Spy Shot 6 is the kind of toy that I can easily see kids carrying around forever and ever. The robot looks almost generic, and that lends itself to play sessions that went far beyond the mere struggle between Autobots and Decepticons. In effect, this kind of toy becomes a kid’s new little robot friend — a mechanical imp, meant less to engage in war and more to help get those pestilent little straws into Capri Sun pouches on the power of animism and hand support.

Some of the “Real Gear Robots” are bigger and more intricate, but the best ones aren’t. My favorite action figures never forced me to adhere to loyalties and personas set by a cartoon or movie. Instead, they were the ones with origins I got to completely make up on my own. I honestly don’t know if Spy Shot 6 is an “official” character or something they made up just for the toy collection, but it doesn’t matter. If you’ve got him in your pocket, he’s not concerned with energon cubes or Megatron’s master plan. He just wants to come to the zoo with you and pretend to photograph zebras even though he really can’t.

While I’m on the topic, I’ve been really blown away by all of the new Transformers movie toys. They have a distinct flavor about them — Hasbro is definitely positioning them more as “standard action figures” than traditional Transformers, even though they share the intricacies and gimmicks. Example being the new Starscream figure, which in size and shape is an absolutely perfect third wheel for any dinner dates between Donatello and Spirit World Aang. I’ve never been into the Tranny toys that felt more like puzzles than figures, so these new ones are aces.

Spy Shot 6 ran me seven bucks, which is the primary reason for this online petition.

In other news, remember that Big Red gum scandal I posted about a while back? You know, the one where a hundred people called me stupid for not realizing that the money shot of a white-striped piece of holy gum in all of those old Big Red commercials was actually meant to represent a stick of Dentyne? Click here for a refresher.

It just so happens that I own a pack of both the original Big Red and the original Dentyne gum, if for no other reason than to be the only person on the planet who does. With these artifacts, we can draw a few conclusions.

First, a screengrab from one of the old ads:

And below…chewable evidence!

Yup, it’s pretty clear that the “tiny” gum was meant to represent Dentyne, which couldn’t hold a candle to Big Red’s ENORMOUS size. The curveball is that the gum shown in the commercial wasn’t based on an actual stick of Dentyne, but rather, its packaging. And while the world weeps with the knowledge that there has never existed a gum with the white stripe as shown in the ads, it’s good to finally reach a catharsis on this issue.

Interestingly, the particular pack of old Dentyne I have boasts its new “bigger sticks,” which is almost certainly in direct response to all of the bad press they received from the Big Red people. I’d feel stupid for covering something so trivial, but I just turned on CNN and learned that Paris Hilton took a shit shaped like the leg lamp from A Christmas Story. I can drone on about gum if I want.

I never was much into the Transformers but I remember a bunch of kids carried them around while I was in elementary school. And they were “prizes” for reading or other things.

First off, why would the petition be to make the Spy Shot 6 get a name change to Spy Shot 7, when you could petition it to be six bucks instead of seven? Wouldn’t it be nicer to have something that is already pretty cheap cheeper?

I said this last time, but I also thought that Big Red was supposed to have a white stripe on it, but I thought that’s how it was sold in the States. I’m glad to see things have been cleared up once and for all!

I too longed for the “other gum” I used to attempt to recreate it by smearing used up mint down the center of fresh sticks of gum, but I never was able to perfect the technique.

So far all I have is the Optimash Prime. The only figure I really want is Barricade. Somehow this makes me sad. I guess the movie figures do nothing for me. Then again there is that advanced Bumblebee that transforms into the camaro concept…

I remember having candy cane bubble tape once. It had large, alternating pink and white stripes going lengthwise across the gum as I recall. Might be worth finding…

I love the new Transformers movie figures, but alas…I don’t have the money for them.

If it makes you feel any better, I also coveted the coolest piece of gum in the world that had the awesome white stripe.

Of course, I got the whole Dentyne vs. Big Red thing but that’s what made it worse–I KNEW Dentyne didn’t look like that either and that somehwere out there, there must be a gum that looks that cool.

You talk about gum as much as you want. You’ve got chewable evidence for goodness sake.
Poor Nathan Bitner better be getting a check in the mail.

I’d feel stupid for covering something so trivial, but I just turned on CNN and learned that Paris Hilton took a shit shaped like the leg lamp from A Christmas Story. I can drone on about gum if I want.

Lmao! Sad but true.. in this day and age X-e is probably about as close to hard hitting journalism as we’re gonna get!

I say we make a petition to change 9Line’s name to 8Line and Squee4242 to Squee4141.

This just in: There’s a new transformer that transforms into a white striped gum.

I have always had a love/hate relationship with Transformers. It’s probably because I broke Megatrons leg off while transforming him on Christmas morning. This led to Dad’s life lesson #651, “Don’t force it.” This was preceded by lesson #650, “Once a rock leaves your hand, you have no control over it.”

The awesomeness of last weekend -winning a gift card to a shopping center that includes a Toys R’ Us- and the greatness of good friends have led me into having a small army of the new toys currently guard my living room. At first I was hesitant, as they felt so complicated at first, but now they have grown to become some of my favorite TF in my collection. Ironhide and Ratchet are my favorites, and Optimus is no joke either. Even the chicken-legged Starcream has grown on me. But 9Line: Barricade is my least favorite of the group. While he looks good in car mode, he doesn’t hold a candle to the weapons of mass destruction that are the rest of the Decepticons. And he has the least articulation of the group -his head doesn’t even turn!- which is inexcusable in a line that has another robot that goes form a solid toy truck into a super articulated god of awesome with a few clicks and turns.

And Matt: my friend’s son ‘bought’- meaning he picked it out and mommy paid for it- the little guy Longview (binoculars) and he has already gone on a trip or two. The best that night was to dinner and the pet store, where he videotaped everyone (he got the video camera guy) and I saw lions and alligators in the far back of the store. Nothing like putting a 6 year old and a 6 year old at heart together for good times to be had by all…

Honestly, I thought they were comparing Big Red with Trident Gum. It’s interesting to be proven wrong.

Not to sure what to think about the Transformer movie. On one hand, I started watching cartoons after the Transformer fad and never really got into the later cartoon incarnations. Heck, never even owned a Transformer toy (other than the Splinter that could transform into the Turtle Van, and I was a big Turtles fan, which is why I had no problem seeing the new TMNT movie).

But…but my name rhymes. And speaking of breaking toys right when you get them, I totallytore copper kids arms right off after trying to get him to “wing it”. I promptly got chewed out as my newest toy was promptly thrown away. I did the same thing to my cousins only to find out years later that it happened to all copper kids. Stupid parents not knowing how to fix “broken” toys.

Transformers, Aunt Rose, gum, yeah great, now where can I find photoblogs of this Christmas Story Leg Lamp log?

My favorite action figures as a young lad were Red Sun from Inhumanoids and Leech from Masters of the Universe, but it was the old 1980’s Leech figurine, not this new modernized scary Leech, it was the one with the button on his back and the sucky face.

The toy makers really missed out when they could’ve have combined the Transformer’s cassette player guy with Pocket Rockers to make a changing robot who could actually play bad songs like the HORRIBLE CCR rip-off rendition in the commercial. Then they could’ve raised the creativity bar even higher and combined Transformers with Heart-to-Heart Bears and have loving robots with beating hearts

I remember when my parents bought me a transformer. He was pretty simple; arms pulled out from the sides of the car, the hood of the car flipped down to form legs, and his head came out of where the car’s ass would be if car’s had asses. I didn’t like him much then, but honeslty, he held up so much better than Rat Trap whom I bought myself and fell apart from playing with him.

My introduction to Transformers was similar to yours. I, too, was given one of the littler figures. It was a Bumblebee, and I got it long before I knew anything about Transformers at all. When I got to know more about the series, toyline, etc., I was very confused to find out that Bumblebee was yellow. My toy of him was red. I recently looked it up to see if this was some kind of super-rare variant. It’s not all that uncommon, it turns out. Oh well, Transformers never really caught my fancy anyway.

It’s not super rare but the red Bumblebees (and yellow Cliffjumpers) were still decent to have. Why did I sell all my Transformers?

This weekend I was a lucky recipient of 2 free movie passes to see Transformers when it comes out! woo! I’ve been on the fence about seeing it (as my friend puts it, I don’t like things that are popular) but hey, free passes to see 60 ft high talking cars. I’m in!

Speaking of toys, I had one of the last original April O’Neils, before they changed her design to having a orange stripe, from a blue one. My entire TMNT collection is still in my parent attic.

If I found out Bumblebee was really yellow, I’d be confused as to why mine was red, rather why the other was yellow. After all, bumblebees are yellow aren’t they?

I keep seeing all the giant Optimus toys everywhere. I can’t help but wonder how long it takes to transform him. Those darn Transformers commercials from yesteryear that showed kids transforming them in seconds confused me so much when I was little. I was young and stupid, not understanding they just sped the video up.

Oh, are you an Avatar fan Matt? I can’t help but be hopelessly in love with the series…

I do most of the Avatar DVD commercials, and I’ve become very much into the show. :) Really great series.

I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I grew up with 3 boys/brothers across the street. Since I was all about the Transformers, my mom decided to start getting me the toys. Apparently she first checked to see which ones the boys had (all the good ones), so as to get me ones they didn’t(the not so good ones!). Wanna know who my first Transformer was? Sky Lynx. I could not figure that stupid thing out. I had no problems with the Lynx part but the stupid Dino-Bird loved to see me frustrated. Thankfully, I soon got the more desirable guys and was able to ignore Sky Lynx forever. I bet I could figure him out now though. Maybe.

I always wanted Perceptor. For some reason having a microscope seemed cool. Or maybe I did not understand what a microscope was.

I saw Spy Shot 6 the other day, and considered buying him except I only wanted him if he’d really take photos. But he was a cute little fellow, I grabbed one and gave him a hug. I have this habit of skipping through toy aisles hugging things, and kicking a leg back as I squeal and make little fists in front of my face. My friends are really gonna love watching me go apeshit all over the NYC TRU next weekend.

I have Perceptor. Not all that fantastic. I always wanted the camera d00ds you had to send away for.

Fort Max can still be yours for a Mystery Peanut, Matt. The offer will never be void

I had Reflector, and he was definitely more cool on paper than in practise. From the G1 line, my other faves would be Ravage, Rodimus and Metroplex. Ravage especially.

I’m not a big fan of Transformers. My sisters and I would occasionally watch the show as kids, but not as obsessively as many other kids we knew. The closest things we had to the toys were the McDonalds toys that could change from a Big Mac or Chicken Nuggets container into a robot and vice versa.

I don’t know if it’s been mentioned, but Pepsi is doing a Transformers promotion. I’ve seen Transformers labels on some of the Pepsi bottles at the grocery store where I work.

Hot Rod
Rodimus
Blaster
Divebomb’s wings (I dunno, I found them abandoned in an department store and never looked back).

I like the Real Gear TFs a good deal but the actual movie bots are pretty blah to me. It’s not just that they’re different from the original counterparts, I’m fine with difference, it’s just the designs themselves. They’re pretty generic to me. Still, if others enjoy them, particularly the kids they’re aimed at, that’s cool by me. I’m not a big enough ass to actually let some robot designs I’m not crazy about ruin my life. Some people just go nuts over that sort of crap.

For those of you unawares Ktulu is a cornerstone of the community over at FFShrine, a place I have been graciously tolerated for something on the order of 5 months now. He works amazingly hard to keep the TF thread (it’s HUGE) constantly updated. He’s cooler than I could ever hope to be, and I’m honored that he dropped by.

as i recall in the episode Heavy Metal War, Huffer pulled Optimus’ trailer when he was weak from gettin his ass handed to him by Megatron who was illegally enhanced with the powers of the other Decepticons. I could’ve sworn Huffer carried his trailer in a couple other episodes too, but this is definitely something that should not be overlooked by those who doubt Huffer’s importance

“but I just turned on CNN and learned that Paris Hilton took a shit shaped like the leg lamp from A Christmas Story.”

Matt, I had crappy day today (No pun intended), and this sentence made me laugh again. Thanks!

Why, oh why, can’t I remember my TRANSFORMERS? I know which GO-BOTS I had but no TRANSFORMERS?? I even checked a picture gallery last weekend to jog my memory but nothing. I remember getting a TRANSFORMER or two for my 6th or 7th birthday but I don’t know who or what happened to them. I sold my GI Joes (WHY?!), I gave away my MOTU (WHY?!) and I kept my STAR WARS figures but no recollection of what happened to the TRANSFORMERS.

Legitimate question: Does anyone know when it became legal and/or acceptable to offically call out your competitors in commercials?? The aforementioned Dentyne vs. Big Red is a case in point. FOR YEARS, it was “Brand X” or “the other guys” but now, carte blanche to call out your opponent. Does anyone know??

My fav G1s that I have: Jetfire, Shockwave, Megatron (kinda…like most people who had him, he too had his legs fall off), and Soundwave (G1 reissue, but still the G1 version, damnit!)

I also have 3 Perceptors…but only one of them is 100% complete (the other 2 are missing the scope itself and the knobs on his arms too)

Mystie, you are definately gonna love the NYC TRU. You will be definately be squealing there, especially at Geoffrey & that ferris wheel. And if you have time and energy, trek up to 58th & 5th for FAO Schwarz, which will definately not dissappoint, either. I was at both places on friday, and you can see my pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/galileo908/

Manimal: I think it started with Coke vs. Pepsi. Or at least that is what I would like to believe. Here is some info.
http://www.mlmlegal.com/chasing.html

Interesting that Big Red made the “competitor’s” gum look so outlandish, seems it distracted people from their point to be made.

Hey Matt, I hope you get that article done on time, reading them is always a great way to end a day (rhyme not intended).

YES! IMHO, it’s been far too long since Matt posted something purely TF related. It’s why I first started visiting the site, after all.

Personally, I don’t think I’ll be getting any of the new movie toys. I’m trying to save some money right now. Anyway, I’ve got a closet filled from floor to ceiling with TF toys that I bought, and I don’t really do anything with them. I don’t even put them on display, because I’m out of room and because visitors just think it’s too weird.

I was lucky enough to be in 2nd grade and the perfect age when Transformers really made it big. They were an integral part of my childhood, and I still look back on them with fondness. My best friend was really into GI Joe, so we got the best of both worlds- Transformers at my house and GI Joe at his. I had a little GI Joe stuff, and he had a little TF stuff, but we usually ended up trading.

I had a lot of the really great TFs, though I missed out on Sky Lynx, and I really wanted him. I picked up a bunch of the ones that missed a couple years ago when Takara started re-issuing them, but they were expensive. There’s a bunch more I’d like to get (including Perceptor), but they’re just a useless expense since I don’t actually play with them.

I had (and still have) Metroplex, Trypticon, Fortress Maximus, Scorponok, Jetfire, Omega Supreme, and a whole bunch of the smaller figures (including Huffer and his color variant, Pipes). My absolute favorite was of course Optimus Prime. It broke my heart when Mom accidentally stepped on him and broke his trailer. Anyone else have a parent break a favorite toy?

Yes. My mom broke the purple light gun decepticon guy who stayed back on the Transformers planet with the vacuum (I apologize to all the hardcore fans for not remembering the names. I wasn’t that into Transformers back then, and my brain has whethered MANY drugs in between.) My mom’s response while I was screaming “Clean your damn room!”

Matt, if your such a Ravage fan, you should check out the Robot Heroes line -you have some of the Star Wars line; they are like ‘cartoony’ little statues of characters from certain series. They have a two pack of Ravage and Prime…Ravage is cute and badass at the same time

I’m pretty much done with buying things to add to my collection as well. In fact, all I’ve bought this year was Transformers stuff (first the Classic line then the movie stuff). I use to be big into Marvel Legends, but the new stuff has no appeal to me at all (thanks Hasbro)…but at least I can contain my collection to my back office.

Favs from G1: Optimus (I collect Optimuseses…hard to pluralize), Soundwave, Powerglide, the Technobots, and the Protectobots…think they got the most play as a kid

Wonder if the fights in the new movie will be as good as this one was? (Clicky my name for more)

Why didn’t they make Spy Shot 6 cost ten bucks more and make it a dirt-cheap digital camera?! I was super-bummed when you revealed the fakeness of Spy Shot 6.

Holy crap. I’ve got to get a Spy Shot 6 so it can go on my camera shelf, right between my Rollei TLR and Leica rangefinder.

Hello, eveyone! I have the day off from work today, so I might go check out the Transformers movie toy offerings at the local Target. By brother has an Energon Optimus Prime, but we’re both too young to have been contemporary Transformers fans. We were into power rangers. I am, however, looking forward to this new movie, although I hope Shia LeBeouf doesn’t have any nude scenes this time. In response to another post, there is indeed a pepsi/mountain dew contest promotion revolving around the movie. One of the prizes is a limited edition pepsi truck Optimus Prime. That sounds like perfect fodder for a commercial: the Decepticons attack L.A., leaving chaos in their wake, until a mild-mannered pepsi truck transforms into Optimus Prime and saves the day, handing out ice-cold pepsis to the weary survivors. I can almost visualize it.

Matt, trivial shit like gum that’s 20 years past its chew by date is the reason I come here! It’s your bread-and-butter, man, don’t let it go!

I was at ShopKo the other day (needed my glasses fixed) and decided to run by the toy section. I do this pretty much every time, so it’s not weird… Anyway, when I saw the Transformers sitting there, my first reaction was to throw a tantrum until someone bought me one. Then I remembered that I’m 25, was with my girlfriend, and had money in my pocket… I picked up a couple, but my favorite so far is a Star Wars crossover: it’s a Tie Fighter that transforms into Vader. Vader with DUEL LIGHT SABERS!!!! Hot damn…

My roommate has been buying every new transformer he can find, and we currently have a war on our coffee table. I’m not even sure who’s winning anymore.

Aza: The giant Optimus Prime takes two grown men roughly 5 minutes to transform. Not too bad, the first time it took us almost 30 minutes! The “Target” edition is smaller, but seems to be more complicated…

Yes, Granites were ok, I only remember Granok though and that one of them did have the creepy green eyes that Redsun had. Redlen was another “Redwood”, but I wasn’t much of a fan of his for reasons still unknown, probably because his eyes weren’t green, so I’m going to keep it real and throw it up for my homey Redsun, ya dig?

I never had any Transformers. They were in that really awkward price bracket where if I ever saved up enough money without blowing it on individual GI Joes, I might as well buy a midrange LEGO kit instead. Oh, the tragedy of elementary school finances.

From what I have heard in reviews, Spy Shot 6 is definately in the film. He does some spying on the army (appropriate to his name I guess)
Also, glad to see you writing more these days Matt. I know how it is to be super busy, but happy that you are still writing.

I can’t remember if it was supposed to be a true one-time only set of Transformers, or just a rip off collection, but one of my favorite TF (or TF type) toys was the Big Mac transformer that came with my happy meal quite some time ago.

I can’t remember what else was available in the collection, I only remember that 2 pieces in the middle opened up (hinged in the back) and it had a piece that came up on top of the bun. I can’t recall what it was I liked about it, I just remember playing with it all the time.

Hokey smokes! Huffer was my first Transformer! I remember wandering into the local five and dime (do those places exist anymore?) and seeing it on the display rack. There was Bumblebee and a few of those other little guys as well, but Huffer appealed to me for some reason. I remember the one or two times I saw him on the cartoon I went apeshit… I think I still have all my old ‘formers around somewhere - maybe time to dig them out and pass them on to my boys.

Reading all these Tranformers posts, I keep thinking about the Robot Chicken sketch where Optimus Prime has cancer. So I laugh. Then get sad.Then laugh again, then… Oh, its a never ending vicious cycle.

Whatever his name was that stayed on Cybertron, the purple gun dude, they constantly had knockoffs of him at the flea market and I must have owned 10 of those knockoffs throughout the years.

Sigh, all this talk, I miss my childhood with transformers. Was probably a bigger deal for us that were pre-neo BD.

The site was fucking with me, maybe even challenging me. I gave it a talking to.

After looking at that Dentyne package I noticed “7 STICKS GUM” in the bottom right hand corner. Shouldn’t it be “7 GUM STICKS”?

I forgot to mention this earlier, but speaking of the Pepsi Transformers promotion, there’s a japanese Prime figure called Pepsi Convoy, an Optimus who has a trailer that can hold 1 Pepsi bottle or 3 cans and he’s colored in Pepsi colors. According to his tech specs:

“Pepsi Convoy is a warrior equipped with fierce strength and a soda gun. The Bottle Station is a mobile headquarters that carries large cola bottles and related goods.

In the hands of the Autobot forces, the “living metal” developed by NASA that once created the mysterious hero Pepsiman has now been given the form of their legendary commander. He loves freedom, peace, and the refreshing sensation of Pepsi, and considers it his mission to cure people’s thirst.”

Apparantly the US version is possible the prize of the extremely small chance of winning that contest Hoverbored talked about. It might be easier just to buy him online (costs around $50 depending on which site you go to)

I’m not sure if this is ok or not, but with quite a few Wii owners on here I hope this is ok, especially being this crowd, I’m sure most of us love blasting zombies.

But FamilyVideo.com has Resident Evil 4 for Wii for sale for $23.63 (for MOST states) including shipping on pre-order. It doesn’t come out until the 20th and it’ll only be $30 when it does, but I figured some people might like to take advantage of it.

If this isn’t ok, then my apologies, but the link directly to the order page is in my name, just punch in coupon code NEWMEM5F …

No, I don’t work there nor do I get anything for this, I just figured a few blog readers might be up for saving a few bucks on the game, which is one of the best rated, if not the best, Resident Evil games out of the entire series.

meepy, If we know that Pepsi is an Autobot, I think we can assume Vanilla Coke will be a Decepticon, and I think Soundwave would fit that role in an amusing way, instead of holding transforming cassette tapes, he shoots out refreshing bottles/cans of Vanilla Coke.

And the “Purple Light Gun Guy” is Shockwave, and the one I have seems to have also suffered the same fate (many of his accessories are gone, and the battery outlet that lights him up no longer works)

Reading Matt’s blog, especially the last thing he wrote, brought to mind this weirdly perfect vision of Matt having a show on CNN. How’s that for a slice of fried gold? Let’s start a petition on it.

Why does only Prime look anything like he’s supposed to? Megatron looks more like the Escaflowne armor than anything. Couldn’t he look mre like his Classics form, or at least have a big honkin’ fusion cannon?

Dr. Sketch: I’ve got the same battle happening on my coffee table; I don’t think anyone wins. However, they scared the shit out of me this morning -Ratchet was in vehicle mode on the table last night and when I went to the living room this morning he was across the room by the chair. Creepy. I’m telling myself he rolled off, landed perfectly and those 3 feet. That way I can sleep tonight…

Yeah, that was a compliment, Norbert. I can’t think of any time I’ve told someone they look like someone with the intent of insulting them.

Buuuuut, If I tell someone they look like Shia LeBeouf, well that’ll be another story

My biggest problem with Transformers as a child was the noise. In the cartoon, where it’s all smooth, you get a simple “wacka-chicka-wok” and it’s done. My sugar addled young brain however would transform take a good 30 seconds or longer to get it done meaning I had to sit there the whle time going “wacka-chicka-wok-wokchick-woka-chicka-wok..” for an insanely long time and force any nearby adult to wonder if I was addicted to paint chips.

hey hey hey!
damn not bein ableto post!!!!!
NEW ARTICLE TONIGHT!!
good to hear you’restill alive buddy
and all the rest who know me, hope all is well!!! manimal(i believe its you who has a new babe…) CONGRATS SIR!
SPEEEECIAL K!! CONGRATS ON THE ENGANGEMENT DAHLIN’ AND TO EVERYONE ELSE: HELLO TO YOU ALL!!!

For the record, I am not an eastern European immigrant with no comprehension of English as that last post of mine would make it seem. That’s why you proofread, I suppose.

My senses have never been so offended by a bottled soda, and I’ve had some crappy bottled sodas.

I should clear up that I haven’t actually sensed it, but my senses don’t like the idea of it. It’s a Japan-only deal.

Dang it, those real gear toys look really cool, but every time I hit up my wal-mart, they’re gone! Oh well, I did manage to get Devastator who due to some weird connection in my brain, quite possible involving me watching voltron with my friend immediately after buying it, I always get the “Form feet and legs… arms and body… and I’ll form the head.” image when constructing him, If I can get the Energon Saber, I can even reenact the “Blazing Sword.”

Also: you may wanna hit up your local wal-mart, target, or k-mart. I got Rumble and Ravage on clearance for five bucks each.

I remember that one time I got a boner and… oops, I done gone popped myself another.

BTW, for Rumble and Ravage fans, Nightboomfer was NOT talking about the tapes, but about the new Alternators versions.

I loved watching the Transformers when I was a kid…I don’t remember ever owning any though…

What did Huffer look like?? All this talk about him being Matt’s favorite…I’m curious as to what kind of robot he was

Unfortunately, my part of the world has a limited release for these toys. There is a sizable amount of toys you can get, but also sorely lacking in some key players. For example, you cannot get Megatron anymore period.

For myself, I’d want to get that transforming Soundwave mp3 player, and those funny pillow type transformers. Fun poopoo.

I can’t be bothered to read three miles of comments, but the ones I skimmed didn’t seem to have what I’m about to post in them, so here we go. The Real Gear guys aren’t in the movie as far as anyone knows, they were made to capitalize on the fact that the “Energon Cube” (which apparently is not just a glowing purple hunk of Transformer fuel like it ought to be) makes a bunch of mundane earth technology suddenly come to life as Transformers. Which is absolutely retarded, but Michael Bay doesn’t seem to care that half the things he butchered the original concepts of for this movie are retarded. But the toys are pretty cool, I got Booster X-10 (which is just a stupid name) who turns from an MP3 player into, well, pretty much Laserbeak.

Again, late to the party because I was out of town all last week…but I have to post about my love for Real Gear Transformers. Spy Shot was the first one I got, and I’ve also picked up Booster X-10 and the binoculars. These toys are awesome because of their simplicity and because they look like real world objects. They are reminiscent of Soundwave’s cassettes, and whatever it is that I love about them is what I loved about GoBots.

Plus, it’s too awesome that they took Buzzsaw/Laserbeak and updated him from the old cassette technology to the now more relevant mp3 player. He’s the best one so far, but I can’t wait to get the watch one that’s coming out. I just hope it functions!

I’m still a practicing member in the church of Transformerigery and I have to say my “so awesome I soiled myself/so crappy I soiled myself” jitters over the movie were pretty high when I heard about it. I’ve heard some disturbing things, so we’ll see I guess. At least the toys look cool. I owned so many of the gen 1’s that it’s shameful to post them all here. Suffice it to say I haven’t forgiven my parents(or me, or maybe aliens) for losing them all while I was busy chasing girls. As soon as I realized how useless that was I wanted my Transformers back. At least I still have some of my the comics and can make out with Arcee.

I just so happen to have Huffer also… the favorite of my transformers. I have many of the odd Gen-1 transformers… but my transformers never could compare to my Go-bots! I kept all my toys from when I was a small child… all locked away it a big box. Most are very odd toys most people never heard of.

My parents bought me the die-cast Megatron for Christmas one year and it stands to this day as the greatest X-Mas gift I have ever received. It sounds crazy but the fact that my 60’s era hippie holdout parents would buy me a toy that transformed into a weapon solidified in my brain that this was the coolest toy ever. I loved the Transformers cartoon so much, I insisted that people call me Spike so that I could feel closer to my heros. Ahhh memories.

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