Okay, I'm officially a geek. I got home today just in time to open a package packed with . . . six MOC Transformers cassettes straight from my childhood. Lazerbeak, Frenzy, Rumble, Ravage, Ratbat, and another Frenzy (he was packed with both Laserbeak and Ratbat). I got really lucky online and managed to score all three packs for a lot less than a ( Read more... )

Gina and I stopped in Hastings this afternoon just to poke around and get out of the house. (I found a copy of the Transformers: Identification and Price Guide which -- despite the questionable quality of many of the photos -- is one of the best Transformers guides I've seen so far ( Read more... )

Gina's dad gave me cash for Christmas. KB is shutting down (read about it) and has everything marked 50 to 70% off.

You do the math.

I just got back with a mound of new toys, many of which I wouldn't have normally bought. G.I. Joe and Transformer toys, mostly, plus some Transformer knockoffs. The store was insane, with piles of toys on the floor ( Read more... )

While poking around at Rogues Gallery, a Round Rock, Texas comic and game store that I try to hit at least a few times each year, I spotted IDW’s Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Official Guidebook. A 260-page trade paperback written by James McDonough and Adam Patyk, it only took me a few moments of flipping through the book to decide that ( Read more... )

The reason I've been thinking of toys from my childhood lately is because I've been flipping through Cybertronian
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1986. Summer. I was 14 and working a couple of part-time jobs during the summer. One job, picking produce for a small farm, required me to spend something like three hours each day bending over and then standing up. The other job, at the local school, required me to paint, sweep, mop, move furniture . . . pretty average summer job work, in fact.

( Waste your time. Click me. )

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