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trinityvixen) wrote2007-07-06 07:56 pm
trinityvixen) wrote2007-07-06 07:56 pm
Hee!
Okay, I admit it, I want to buy new Transformers action figures. If only for the vicarious thrill of transforming them, which is what I spent my time doing with my brother's old toys back in the day. I could spend hours just changing Soundwave back and forth from a robot to a boombox. So I went to Toys R Us to see what cheap crap offerings are out there.
The bad:
-Action figures that don't transform. WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT?
-Action figures for $5 that I could have made for less and sold for less and still done better. Like this Bumblebee. Or this Ratchet.
-Multiple cheap crap versions of robots I can't quite remember being in the movie or otherwise altered-beyond recognition minor characters. I remember Brawl, okay--he was the tank. Who the F was 'Wreckage'? And I don't ever remember seeing the scorpion thing for long enough to identify that it looked anything like this toy (::mutters:: stupid shaky cam!).
-HOLY LORD, THEY WANT $100 for this Bumblebee figure? Just because it lights up (and, uh, actually looks like the movie version?). No way, man. I mean, I'd love it, but I wouldn't pay half that for it. And I'd smack anyone who bought it at that or half price.
The Good:
-Barricade comes with the Jar-Jar Junior droid. This might not seem like a good thing, but let me tell you: when The Phantom Menace came out, I got rid of a lot of aggression beating up on the Jar-Jar soda lid I got at Taco Bell. I figure that having the little skeletal droid dude would do its owner a world of good.
-This Bumblebee figurine isn't much better than the $5 one, but there's something charming about them painting on the peeled-off-and-rusting spots that were behind the old Camaro's doors in the movie. I just find this inexplicably charming.
-Look at Jazz's widdle kitty ears! I don't even know what the rest of him looks like, I'm still cooing over his ears.
-DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN: PLUSHIES! SOFTIMUS PRIME!!! SLUMBLEBEE!!!!
::DEATH BY CUTENESS. RESURRECTION BY CUTENESS::
No, seriously, I was getting pissed off that I couldn't find Transformers toys that actually, you know, transformed, and then I came across the holy grail: PLUSHIE FIGURES THAT CAN TRANSFORM. HOLY SHIT! I THINK I NEED THIS.
The bad:
-Action figures that don't transform. WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT?
-Action figures for $5 that I could have made for less and sold for less and still done better. Like this Bumblebee. Or this Ratchet.
-Multiple cheap crap versions of robots I can't quite remember being in the movie or otherwise altered-beyond recognition minor characters. I remember Brawl, okay--he was the tank. Who the F was 'Wreckage'? And I don't ever remember seeing the scorpion thing for long enough to identify that it looked anything like this toy (::mutters:: stupid shaky cam!).
-HOLY LORD, THEY WANT $100 for this Bumblebee figure? Just because it lights up (and, uh, actually looks like the movie version?). No way, man. I mean, I'd love it, but I wouldn't pay half that for it. And I'd smack anyone who bought it at that or half price.
The Good:
-Barricade comes with the Jar-Jar Junior droid. This might not seem like a good thing, but let me tell you: when The Phantom Menace came out, I got rid of a lot of aggression beating up on the Jar-Jar soda lid I got at Taco Bell. I figure that having the little skeletal droid dude would do its owner a world of good.
-This Bumblebee figurine isn't much better than the $5 one, but there's something charming about them painting on the peeled-off-and-rusting spots that were behind the old Camaro's doors in the movie. I just find this inexplicably charming.
-Look at Jazz's widdle kitty ears! I don't even know what the rest of him looks like, I'm still cooing over his ears.
-DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN: PLUSHIES! SOFTIMUS PRIME!!! SLUMBLEBEE!!!!
::DEATH BY CUTENESS. RESURRECTION BY CUTENESS::
No, seriously, I was getting pissed off that I couldn't find Transformers toys that actually, you know, transformed, and then I came across the holy grail: PLUSHIE FIGURES THAT CAN TRANSFORM. HOLY SHIT! I THINK I NEED THIS.