Zobovor <
zm...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 11:48:32 PM UTC-7, Gustavo Wombat, of
> the Seattle Wombats wrote:
>
>> 1. The first Transformers I owned as an adult were the G2 Autorollers, and I
>> have never stopped loving them (also, I am a Dirtbag/Roadblock 'shipper...)
>
> I've never really distinguished between my "childhood" toys and "adult"
> toys, so I don't really know what my first adulthood Transformer would
> have been. Whatever I acquired after March 1994, I guess. Ooh, maybe
> the G2 Laser Rods, then. How fitting! I still adore those toys!
>
> I think you and I may be close to the same age so I accept this statement as true.
I think I'm a few years older, so I didn't have a lot as a kid before I got
out of toy age. The toys I got as an adult were bought years later off of
eBay.
It occurs to me that my memory was completely faulty here, because
something must have prompted me to get back into Transformers -- and that
was watching Beast Wars in the morning before heading off to work. I think
I briefly forgot Beast Wars when I wrote this. First adult toy had to be a
Beast Wars toy -- I have no idea which one. Looking at Tfwiki to refresh my
memory of what came when... still no idea. I know I bought a lot of the
show characters from some website's clearance sale after I was already
hooked, so I think it was a second year toy.
So, because I forgot entirely about Beast Wars, this is accidentally false.
The Autorollers were the first G1/G2 toys I bought as an adult. I was
scanning the listings, looking for something cheap that looked interesting,
after discovering that G2 existed and that many had better articulation
than G1.
Part of the fun of three truths and a lie is discovering just how utterly
unreliable your memory is.
>> 2. I have a wooden trunk as a coffee table in my living room, filled with
>> Transformers. Unfortunately, I lost the key two moves ago, and have only a
>> vague idea of what is in there. (I think it is all MISB Beast Wars era toys?)
>
> I'm going to call you out on this one. You would know if you had a MISB
> collection of Beast Wars toys or not!
I just forgot that Beast Wars existed, are you sure?
I know I bought up a bunch of toys during the Transmetal/Fuzor era,
including Japanese versions, etc. I also know that I donated a bunch of
them when moving, but that was probably mostly fuzors. (Someone went to
Goodwill, and was able to buy old BW toys, MISB. Hopefully they enjoyed
them). At other times, there were G1 reissues in there -- I have clear
memory of digging through to get out Hot Rod. Who is in there now? I have
no idea. I suspect my Japanese TM Megatron is there, all in one piece with
no broken waist or shoulder.
True.
I really need to find the key, or pick the lock. Does Megatron suffer from
GPS? That would be a sad conclusion to the adventure...
>> 3. I have owned a Nuclean Quest Powermaster Optimus Prime for at least a
>> decade with the intention of making a Powermaster Nemesis Prime, but have
>> done nothing with it.
>
> Given your love for Nemesis Prime characters in general, this does seem
> very much like something you would do.
True.
He might be in that wooden chest.
>> 4. I used to have Botcon MegaZarek (Armada Megatron redeco) on my desk at
>> work, until he was used as a chew toy by one of the dogs in the office. I
>> never told the dog or his owner how much the toy was worth.
>
> Hmm. I know you have a penchant for displaying toys at work, so this seems credible.
Never got chewed. False. Deliberately false, in fact.
And, he's not on my desk now, so I won't walk in on Monday and discover the
office dog ate him after I left. So not even unintentionally true.
--
I wish I was a mole in the ground.