Transformers
So.. We’ll make this short and sweet.. I wholly expect the new transformers movie to suck balls. I don’t like the robot designs and I don’t like the director.. I’m not gonna bother seeing it. However, I do like the Alternators / BinalTech series of transformers and I was browsing around, pricing out the all-metal ones from Japan, when I ran across this poll at the official Hasbro site.
TRANSFORMERS Fan Poll
A new generation is experiencing TRANSFORMERS for the first time. How many TF items have you purchased since 6/2 for a relative or friend under 10 years old?
Wait, what? What kind of brain-dead marketing department thought this question up? Since 6/2? for relatives or friends? under 10? ugh.
Also hilarious: Both the Honda Civic and the Jaguar XK Alternators were released as Wal-Mart exclusives. Why these two models?
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:07 am
Whenever I think of the Transformers movie, I think of the Penny Arcade strip where Optimus Prime transformed into a fondue pot.
“Fondue Pot?! Optimus Prime is a bitchin’ semi truck.”
And I’m pretty sure that all the marketing groups are pushing the toys. The movie will just be a bunch of cool-looking robots without really much of a plot to go on, but kids will love it. And kids buy the toys.
July 12th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
I saw Transformers and thought it was very entertaining. But I’m not a Transformer expert (unlike Sabrejack, who as I recall as a child was very savvy on the subject, even though he lost his Starscream jet on top of the elementary school, still a sad memory) …The only other movie Michael Bay made that I ever liked was “The Island” but mainly because of Ewan MacGregor, who is too cute for his own good!
But yes, the robot designs could have been a little better. They made them too complicated looking for my tastes. Especially Megatron. But a Camaro as Bumblebee was inspired.
By the way, we have boxes of old 80s Transformer toys in the garage still!
Mom
September 7th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
It’s time to write somthing new.
October 11th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Yeah, what Robert said!
Get off your butt already, don’t MAKE me go out there.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
I will put a comment here every single weekday until you update.
(think Shawshank Redemption)
October 15th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Hmmmm, haven’t posted yet….