Azure79 Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 While shopping for a gift for my three year old nephew this holiday season, I came across some Transformer figures of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, Starscream and Astrotrain. They immediately caught my eye due to the fact that they were the 20th anniversary edition and were similar in appearance to the old cartoons...exception for Megatron. He was a phaser or something. But his Robot mode was pretty similar. Well, I immediately had the urge to buy them and now I have them set up on my coffee table waging a battle that will decide the fate of Earth. I still can't get over how cool they are and I transform them from vehicle to robot form at least twice a day when I'm home while giggling madly to myself. Now, I've never had the urge to buy toys like this before but I couldn't help myself this time! I subsequently went into the Hasbro site and now I want to buy the 20th anniversary edition of Rodimus...you know, just to even the odds. And now I'm browsing Wikipedia in order to rekindle my memory of Transfomers...during working hours. I'm starting to scare myself. Is this the lure of geekdom/nerdom that I've buried within me? Or is just a temporary flash of nostalgia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 You are the victim of well-targeted marketing. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astr0creep Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I wish I was your nephew. http://entertainmentandbeyond.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krookie Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Nostalgia. In a month or so you'll be out of it. Save your money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sand Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 When I tell you that I destroyed both my Transformer collection and my GI Joe collection when I was a kid using firecrackers in a large scale battle done in table top rpg style how does that make you feel? Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer. @\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?" Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy." Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tale Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 When I tell you that I destroyed both my Transformer collection and my GI Joe collection when I was a kid using firecrackers in a large scale battle done in table top rpg style how does that make you feel? Homicidal. "Show me a man who "plays fair" and I'll show you a very talented cheater." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colrom Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Sounds like fun. Enjoy yourself. As dark is the absence of light, so evil is the absence of good. If you would destroy evil, do good. Evil cannot be perfected. Thank God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sand Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 It was fun. In the end my mom grounded me for a week because of the mess. During that week however I took apart a phone, a radio, and almost the television set. Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer. @\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?" Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy." Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azure79 Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share Posted December 28, 2006 Nostalgia. In a month or so you'll be out of it. Save your money. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> But Rodimus is only 9.99! How can I resist! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deraldin Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Nostalgia. In a month or so you'll be out of it. Save your money. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> But Rodimus is only 9.99! How can I resist! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Do it... you know you want to buy it. $10 is so little, you won't even notice it gone. Think of all the fun that you would have with it. Wait a minute, Rodimus? Forget that garbage. Go buy something good with that $10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tale Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Nostalgia. In a month or so you'll be out of it. Save your money. But Rodimus is only 9.99! How can I resist! Buy me one. "Show me a man who "plays fair" and I'll show you a very talented cheater." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oerwinde Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Welcome to the fold. TF Classics are awesome. The area between the balls and the butt is a hotbed of terrorist activity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musopticon? Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 "What does this make make me?" Un geek enorm kirottu said: I was raised by polar bears. I had to fight against blood thirsty wolves and rabid penguins to get my food. Those who were too weak to survive were sent to Sweden. It has made me the man I am today. A man who craves furry hentai. So let us go and embrace the rustling smells of unseen worlds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pope Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I have the same thing whenever I see the latest Lego Knight's Kingdom toys. Luckily I've been able to resist the urge of buying them. But I fear it will not be so easy to resist once my own kids start getting into Lego. Which I now suspect to be the reason why my own father used to buy me so many... and why my figures always seemed to be in a completely different position from the way I had left them before going to sleep. Oh, and I too am guilty of recently refreshing my knowledge of Transformers history on Wiki " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 "You are the victim of well-targeted marketing." Victim? Over dramatic mayhaps? DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sand Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 VOLOURN! *pounces on Volourn and rummages for change then bounds off* Murphy's Law of Computer Gaming: The listed minimum specifications written on the box by the publisher are not the minimum specifications of the game set by the developer. @\NightandtheShape/@ - "Because you're a bizzare strange deranged human?" Walsingham- "Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy." Joseph Bulock - "Another headache, courtesy of Sand" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelfiredragon Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 i feal your pain. the first two transformersi ever got were mirage and bumblebee, so i had t ogo and buy them. also have a blurr somewhere around, the roiginal blurr somewhere around, the optimus prime from one of the series RC is laying in my desk, and that other female transformer whos name i forget. but i want grimlock Strength through Mercy Head Torturor of the Cult of the Anti-gnome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azure79 Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share Posted December 28, 2006 i feal your pain.the first two transformers i ever got were mirage and bumblebee, so i had to go and buy them. also have a blurr somewhere around, the original blurr somewhere around, the optimus prime from one of the series RC is laying in my desk, and that other female transformer whos name i forget. but i want grimlock <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, the new Grimlock looks totally badass. He was always my favorite character. Probably due to my fascination with dinosaurs at that age too. I always wondered why the dinobots couldn't combine into a super huge Dinosaur. That would have been teh awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 "You are the victim of well-targeted marketing." Victim? Over dramatic mayhaps? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It behooves one not to use the same word twice in the same sentence; I couldn't very well say "the target of well-targeted marketing." OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 (edited) LOL But victim? How 'bout 'you are the target of well done marketing' or something even better that someone not named Volourn cna think of. It irks me (well... not relaly.. not much irks me.. but this comes close) when people refer to marketing targets as 'victims' or 'brainwashed' or other such silliness. A product was advertised. He was interested in it. He bought it. That's not brainwashing. It's called good business sense to get your product/service out there. Edited December 29, 2006 by Volourn DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azure79 Posted December 29, 2006 Author Share Posted December 29, 2006 (edited) I wasn't insulted in the least, if any of that matters. I just laughed and said to myself, "Meta is probably right". Someone over at Hasbro marketing knows that there are grown men that will covet these things I hardly have any urge to buy most things because I'm cheap, but something about these damn toys... Edited December 29, 2006 by Azure79 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deraldin Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 I was given these two transformers as a gift for Christmas. Three inch figures about half plastic, half metal. My brother got Grimlock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 I used to have Scorponok, but after suffering a particularly bad case of fever I discovered I had shot him into pieces. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 LOL But victim? How 'bout 'you are the target of well done marketing' or something even better that someone not named Volourn cna think of. It irks me (well... not relaly.. not much irks me.. but this comes close) when people refer to marketing targets as 'victims' or 'brainwashed' or other such silliness. A product was advertised. He was interested in it. He bought it. That's not brainwashing. It's called good business sense to get your product/service out there. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Victim is a much more emotive word, and gets across a certain je ne sais quoi ... I wasn't insulted in the least, if any of that matters. I just laughed and said to myself, "Meta is probably right". Someone over at Hasbro marketing knows that there are grown men that will covet these things I hardly have any urge to buy most things because I'm cheap, but something about these damn toys... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> A lot to do with imprinting, I would guess ... just like how all the tv shows of the seventies have been made into films now (Brady Bunch, Scooby-Doo, et alia). I am immune from Transformers, as I grew up earlier (and so I have different triggers): I don't respond to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, either; but I have a soft spot for the Thunderbirds, though there has never been anything that would coerce me into buying those products (well, I did get a Thunderbird Two about thirty years ago for a present), except perhaps to buy the old shows to re-watch. . OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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