I got a TRANSFORMER (R) for my birthday!

Holy crap this thing is awesome. My parents mailed it to me. The TRANSFORMERS® Generation One: More than meets the eye! It’s an Autobot: Ricochet, with Nightstick (some little robot dude–I’m not sure what he’s for) from the Commemorative Series IX. It looks like he has some sort of gun that shoots little plastic missiles. I haven’t taken him out of the box yet to play with.

You know you’re jealous.

The box says “Ages 5+”
Oh right, I’m 24…I guess I should go back to my job now.

::skips back to work while humming the theme song::

Indeed, I am.

You know, when I was 8, I used to tell the kids I knew the Transformers Theme song in Japanese, and just sang it with really bad ‘Japanese sounding’ sounds. I amazed them on the playground at recess, I did. My parents still have all my Transformers in the attic somewhere. I’m sure they’ll migrate to my place if they ever clean it out. Wonder how much I could make on eBay?

Last Christmas, Mrs. Cliffy got me a gift certificate from my comic book store and wanted to enclose it in something fun and kitchy, so she bought the Commemorative version of Dirge, one of the 2d generation Decepticon jets. What she didn’t know is that I asked my Dad for Dirge when I was 12 and was bitterly disappointed when I didn’t get him, so I was ecstatic over this present. Which then put my wife out a bit, because the real present was the gift certificate! :o

–Cliffy

That’s a great story. :slight_smile:

My fiance (he’s 32) still has all of his. He was such an anal kid so they’re still in excellent condition. All the joints are still nice and tight. He has his GI Joe’s too. And his Lego’s. He still plays with the Lego’s. Not so much with the Transformers and Joe’s.
He’s been thinking of buying some of the commemorative Transformers. Thankfully, he’s just miserly enough to keep him from indulging.

Ruken were you trying to make the ® ?
Press ALT and at the same time type on the keypad 0174 and you get ®