I said it once, I'lll say it again:
HASBRO Y U DROP THE BALL?!
(Sorry about the watermark, this is from a scan of an article that was put in All Effect's production notes to prep for SC2. The thing's dated May 18th 1987. One year and 9 days after the first movie. I wasn't born. I any chances of me meeting Patrick Troughton died that same month with him. I hate my birthyear for various reasons.)
(Also, I have never seen any cartoon appearances, or heard anything about an apparent request to talk to kids on Sesame Street. OMG. HOW. CUTE. WOULD THAT HAVE BEEN?!?!?!? I do know Eric and J5 got to meet Jim Henson either way, I need to get someone to send me that photo 'CAUSE I WANT TO SEE IT [and be sad a little bit, let's face it, anything late 80's with Jim Henson just has a bittersweet overtone.])
Y'know, the thing is, before I was always like "WELL I sort of don't blame them for not making toys...only really complex robot toys out there that weren't models for Robotech fanbois (like my dad) imported from Japan were Transformers..." WELL. 8| SO MUCH FOR THAT EXCUSE.
Hasbro, don't drop the ball this time. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. *pokes with hoof* Or I will make sure Insano Pinkamena will haunt you for the rest of your days.
(And yes, I know there's real news stuff going down right now, I talked about it all I wanted on Tumblr [which wasn't even that much, but it became enough] that I decided to go to my happy place before bed. I just need to read the other article that got scanned in here and read Eric Allard talking robotics/action props and I'll be fine.)
(TALK ROBOTICS AND ANIMATRONICS TO ME. <3 <3 <3 )
EDIT: Thinking about how I have never really noticed the "Phantom Talking (or Not Talking) Crow Syndrome" on J5* after all the times I've watched the film got me to thinking if I can get the Necker Cube to work on him and now I'm just like "MAN I GOTTA RE-LEARN HOW TO DRAW HIM NOW."
My brain takes strange pathways.
*As for why people noticed the "Phantom Talking (or Not Talking) Crow Syndrome" AND the Necker Cube, Crow was on people's television screens on a two-hour tv show almost weekly during the normal TV season for a decade. And us MiSTies are obsessive...