On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 10:43:04 PM UTC-7, Zobovor wrote:
> A few weeks ago when the Age of Extinction toys first came out, my store got in these cute, tiny little Rescue Bots dinosaurs. There was a red brachiosaurus named Heatwave and an orange pteranodon called Blades (if I'm not mistaken, these are regular Rescue Bots characters in new forms). They're adorable, and were only $3.97 or something like that, but I have so many toys to take care of already that it's irresponsible for me to adopt more.
I made room for them, and they are adorable. I like them way, way better than the Construct-O-Bots (or whatever that line is called), Kreons, Hero Mashers, One-Step, Action-Battlers (or whatever the deluxe scaled toys built around gimmicks are called) and stuff like that.
But there's not much to say about them. They are small and cute. They hold together better than the Generations Legends, with tighter tolerances. But, they aren't characters anyone really cares about.
> There was a time when everybody on the newsgroup would have gotten super-excited over something like this. I mean, people used to go crazy over the McDonald's toys, for crying out loud.
I think I've actually bought McDonald's toys off eBay... For Animated, if I remember correctly. They weren't bad.
> I know I'm not the only one who's running out of room to store my collectibles, though (I acquire toys at more or less a steady rate but I very, very rarely get rid of stuff) so maybe more of us are just being selective.
I will never buy Crosshairs. That toy looks terrible.
There are also so many lines of Transformers related product that I feel like I have to be selective because I just can't buy all of it. And a lot of it just doesn't look good -- Construct-O-Bots, Dinoriders... yich!
> Same deal with the regular Rescue Bots. They've downscaled the toys slightly, and they've got stuff now like Optimus Prime as a monster truck and Bumblebee as a motorcycle and Heatwave as a fairly snazzy-looking fire rescue boat. I don't collect these but there was a time when I was buying the Playskool toys and the Go-Go-GoBots. Nobody else is interesting in these? Really?
The Go-Go-GoBots were really very nice. I need to dig them out and hand them off to a small child.
Optimus as a monster truck just reminds me that I need to get the older Optimus as an Optimus Truck for a friend's kid.
Optimus as a T-Rex... Now that one I kind of want, but I want to see it in person. Is it T-Wrecks worthy? Could it possibly be T-Wrecks, resembling Optimus instead of Megatron?
> Is it just because there's so much product out there now that we can afford to be far more choosy? There was a time when I would have bought nearly anything with a Transformers logo on it just because I was so happy that the merchandise existed.
But... Energon kites.
> I think it was probably the 2007 film where I completely bailed out; it wasn't hard to pick up an Energon kite here or an Armada digital watch there, but by the time the live action movie hit, it got to the point where there was absolutely no keeping up with all the peripheral merchandising.
Oh, you poor man.
> I think there's only a single person on the newsgroup who's buying the one-step Age of Extinction toys, and that kind of surprises me a little, too.
The Japanese toy commercial makes me want to buy one-step Drift. The transformation just looks fun.
But I really, really hated the movie and don't really want more of it in my home. What a shitty movie that was. It commits a sin far worse than being offensive and incomprehensible and filled with Shia La Bouef (hello ROTF!) -- it is boring.
It made Optimus Prime riding a dinosaur boring. Optimus Fucking Prime riding a fucking dinosaur. Boring.
> So, seriously. What's going on?
Gah! Earwormed! But at least earwormed with a classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M
Now I will be up half the night listening to Marvin Gaye. I hope you're happy. I will be.