Current Ramblings
Saturday, October 30, 2004
I suppose I can just die now, huh?
Not to brag, but I'll be damned if it hasn't been a banner week for toys for me. It's not even that I've had especially great luck finding them (though the ones I found today were first sighted all of Thursday night or so), it's that I've found three of the toys I spent most of my time outside the art room at OTFCC drooling over in such a small space of time. Not just toys I really wanted because I thought they looked cool, mind you. That would be too easy. These are toys that are new versions of characters I've liked and fixated on so much I've written exceeding geeky and occasionally angsty fanfics about them. Well, sorta. I concede that the Energon "Air Team" is not technically supposed to be the Aerialbots. But Takara gave them the same names and that's good enough to make me happy. (Also, Warabi has some awesome art of them, if you haven't seen it yet. As people. Air Raid/Treadshot and Fireflight/Windrazor are girls FOR NO REASON. I love Warabi.) I actually find myself liking Slingshot/Sky Shadow more as a toy than Air Raid/Treadshot, who is a tad bland despite being Air Raid, and in very Cyberjet colors to boot. Sky Shadow has those big awesome wings sticking off his back, and I just love the shape of his legs.
But Alternators "Meister" - my other awesome toy acquisition of the week - is unquestionably Jazz. He's so Jazz I can't even get my mind around it sometimes. I just look at him and it takes me a second to get my mind around the idea, and then I am SO HAPPY. He doesn't even get to hang out with the other Alternators yet. I'll stick him in the display in the other room, and then I'll bring him and Zoom-Zoom back out to the coffee table half an hour later. It's not even that they're especially amazing toys. They do fix some of the major problems of Smokescreen's design, like ratcheting knees that have a clear position in vehicle mode, but it's nothing particular innovative. Tracks, on othe other hand, is pretty different and exciting. But he's just Tracks. He's no Jazz. And I easily care as much about the characters they're supposed to represent as I do the toys themsevles.
(As a final note: Why was Megas XLR fighting Baron Karza? God, I love that show.)
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