arise, god poseidon
Thanks to negumi, I am now the proud owner of a BBTS exclusive G1 Seacons commemorative set. I don't think I've mentioned this before, but the original set was seriously up there in my top five favorite toys, growing up. (Bruticus, too. But a lot of that was that the limbs and most of the accessories were interchangeable.) So this is basically like having the whole set back again... except that this time I plan to not immediately lose 85% of the little weapons and robot pieces that come with it, and not accidentally snap off all their dorsal fins like a clumsly, uncaring little kid. As an adult, I have a lot more appreciation for the fact that things can permanently break and get lost now (and a lot of that is because of having the original version of this set as a kid).
As a reissue, it's not absolutely perfect. There's a little not-very-noticeable mold degradation, and some of the color schemes aren't quite exactly the same as the original. But at least this time, the stickers come pre-applied (I was never very good at stickers; thank you, small Chinese child whose job it probably was to endlessly apply stickers to toys of greater quality than anything you will most likely ever own in your life; rest assured - your work is appreciated. You get a gold star!*)
But seriously, it's pretty sweet. It's one of those things where you get the set as a kid, then spend years afterward cursing the fact that you've lost most of the parts and broken off little components that can't be fixed, and eventually the whole clusterfrak just disappears at some family yard sale because there's too much lost for you to care enough about what's left. And then, one day when you've (mostly) grown up, it comes back, new and pretty much whole again.
Also, having a girlfriend who thinks it's cute that you still play with Transformers, and that you still (after all these years) remember how to transform them, and who gives them all nicknames like "Squishy" and "Cuddles" even though they're horrible robot isopods or sharks with legs, kinda doesn't hurt.
* - All commendations to be awarded posthumously, so as not to breed counter-revolutionary individualist thought. Stand to your duties, comrade.
As a reissue, it's not absolutely perfect. There's a little not-very-noticeable mold degradation, and some of the color schemes aren't quite exactly the same as the original. But at least this time, the stickers come pre-applied (I was never very good at stickers; thank you, small Chinese child whose job it probably was to endlessly apply stickers to toys of greater quality than anything you will most likely ever own in your life; rest assured - your work is appreciated. You get a gold star!*)
But seriously, it's pretty sweet. It's one of those things where you get the set as a kid, then spend years afterward cursing the fact that you've lost most of the parts and broken off little components that can't be fixed, and eventually the whole clusterfrak just disappears at some family yard sale because there's too much lost for you to care enough about what's left. And then, one day when you've (mostly) grown up, it comes back, new and pretty much whole again.
Also, having a girlfriend who thinks it's cute that you still play with Transformers, and that you still (after all these years) remember how to transform them, and who gives them all nicknames like "Squishy" and "Cuddles" even though they're horrible robot isopods or sharks with legs, kinda doesn't hurt.
* - All commendations to be awarded posthumously, so as not to breed counter-revolutionary individualist thought. Stand to your duties, comrade.