More...Much More Than Meets The Eye!
It is a world transformed...where things are not as they seem...
...and I still haven't got that Tracks figure yet :(Why I Love The Transformers
Why do small boys and giant robots mix so well? It's a chemistry that has riveted me to The Transformers for around fifteen years, now. While walking through the toy section of Walmart back in '85, I noticed a blue car on the shelf that looked exactly like my aunt's Mako Corvette. Combined with the appearance of the transforming tape deck Soundwave in school earlier that year, my desire for these new toys began burning strongly. I had to have it, but I also had to wait for Christmas before I could get any of the remarkable robotic vehicles. I got Optimus Prime and Grimlock, thus beginning a beautiful friendship. The rest of you children of the eighties know the rest. But, jeez, I never got that blue Vette with the screaming chicken on the hood... However, with the coming of the Powermasters and increasing peer pressure to stop playing with toys, I decided to end my Transformer years. Eventually I forgot all about the robots in disguise, having relocated them into a cardboard box and exiled them into the attic. Years pass; I enter junior high, then high school, and then college. One day, during my second semester (early '97), I discover the joys of the Internet. Pretty soon, I learn of another TV show, called Beast Wars. I'd never heard of it; no broadcaster in my area was airing it at the time. At first, I'm incensed; how dare they bastardize the old Transformers legends? Eventually, I learn to appreciate the newer, more modern Transformers, especially when Cartoon Network airs Code of Hero, Transmutate, and the Agenda 3-parter during Spring Break '98 (due to wisdom tooth surgery; planned to be in agony the whole week, thus no partying. However, I'm now glad I didn't have anything better to do!). My love for the time honored and CGI rendered robots coalesce into a newborn sense of happiness and contentment. Don't read too much into this post; I still maintain a reasonable life style. However, I really can't imagine living without Optimus Prime and his friends battling Megatron and his minions in a never-ending struggle for supremacy. Can you? Shwiggie
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6/10/2000