They are Toying with us!
Monday was Delta-Boy's 6th birthday. He's been on a big Transformers kick, so I thought it would be cool to get him some real Transformers. Delta-Boy was very excited, but it didn't take THIS big kid to be disappointed in my son's gifts...Check out the quality of Scorponok and Longview from Hasbro's current Transformers lineWhen the Transformers first came out in 1984, they were sturdier. I remember thinking that some of the toys didn't quite want to transform the way they were supposed to transform, but I don't remember them breaking.
All toys seem to be higher quality back then. Sure, you'd lose your GI Joe guns and Masters of the Universe swords, but the action figures stayed together and you could pretend that they had weapons, or better yet your guys would fight hand-to-hand, which was always more exciting than using weapons.
Duke: "Stop, Cobra Commander, or I'll shoot you with my Sub-machine gun!"Cobra Commander: "You can't ssstop me!"
Sub-Machine Gun: "Bratatatatatatatatatatat"
Cobra Commander: "Ahhhh...I'm mortally wounded. *cough cough* I ssshould have told Ssscarlet that these terrorissst activitiesss were just feeble attemptsss to get clossse to her. I never wasss any good with women. Uhhhhh *life expelling gasp*"
You know, it was much more fun without the guns, using the swivel grips to contort the figures into impossible wrestling positions, and throwing each other off the cliff, which was really the bed with the floor being the bottom of some canyon where the victim luckily didn't die and was ok enough to continue their epic battle.
I bought Delta-Boy some dragon toy where the dragon was wrapped in its wings like it was in an egg, and then you unfold the wings and you have a dragon. Well, the wings wouldn't stay on. It seemed similar to some of the Masters of the Universe toys in size and materials, but you had to TRY and remove He-Man's arms, and the legs were permanent...Not that I mistreated the lead hero of the Masters of the Universe who was oddly the most BORING of the lot. But I digress...
Toys should be made to last. Delta-Boy has seen another Transformer, Payload, that he's interested in, but he's expressed concern about it falling apart. He spends more time making his own Transformers out of paper or Lego blocks. I'll show you his home made Transformers later...
For now I'm going over to Johnny's. He's got the new Star Wars Transformer of the Death Star transforming into Darth Vader. I'll be back in time for supper.
posted by Bodog @ 8:07 AM
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