TRANSFORMERS MOVIE TOYS AT MIDNIGHT!!!
on June 4, 2020 at 12:01 am
I’m pretty sure I did this strip because Shortpacked! was, indeed, in the middle of a storyline about characters doing things, and this Important Toy Thing had to be addressed somewhere!!!!!
I guess I’ll go look it up. This storyline here, I guess. Less domestic than advertised.
Ha, it was June 3, 2007. I should have published this yesterday, on the actual 13-year anniversary.
But, like, the first live action Transformers movie’s toyline’s street date was a big deal. Like, EVERYWHERE had insanely-well-stocked aisles full of everything ready to go, punctually. It was an amazing time to be alive.
By the fifth movie, nobody bothered. You’d walk into a toy aisle on street date and it’d empty the same as the day before. This isn’t just a Transformers burn out thing. Ten years later, the toy industry was different and stores cared way less about big street date extravaganzas, whether it be Marvel or Star Wars.
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Just trying to remember where I was on June 3, 2007. Prolly in school thinking about boys… or girls.
In June 2007, I’d just gotten through another year of grad school and was beginning work on my thesis. My wife and I were coming up on our first year anniversary and planning our first fourway with some friends.
June 2007 was shortly after I graduated from high school, so I’m pretty sure at that time I was either playing video games, going to a few friends’ grad parties, or moping about my ex who had recently broke up with me.
2007 was between my first and second years of college. I finished my 2-year degree just in time for the economy to go *pffblt* so actually steady, gainful employment was a couple more years out from that.
We had just purchased our current house, and were in the process of painting and moving. Through dumb luck I managed to time the market crash perfectly and came out with about $50,000 more than I would have normally on the difference on purchase prices of the two houses. I was mainly trying to figure out how we had managed to accumulate so much stuff after 14 years in the old house.
I keep thinking of the Beast Wars Megatron I resold for $120 and the Chrono Cross Serge figure I resold for $300 and wonder what I could get now to sit on for a few years to get the same return on investment
…prolly more animu crap (but which ONES)
You owned a Chrono Cross figure and sold it? Wow. That isn’t something I’d want to part with. Love that game.
On the other hand, it isn’t a Harle figure, so it’s not that big of a deal, I guess.
https://www.pinterest.jp/pin/294000681897001727/
out of fairness, I only got as far as playing the intro to the game and also we were moving a LOT of stuff and selling it was collateral damage
Really. You missed out.
I’ve played Chrono Cross to completion several times. It’s a grind, but well worth it.
I also have the soundtrack. Love that music so much. Radical Dreamers is sooo pretty. And it’s like the fifth prettiest song on there.
… there were Chrono Cross figures?! Curse my childhood, growing up in a third world country where those don’t exist ) :<
oops, the link was meant to be a reply here
https://www.pinterest.jp/pin/294000681897001727/
**purrs**
So pretty.
*Ooerk*
Originally Posted: June 2nd, 2007
Yes, I know it contradicts Willis’ note up there. I’m just posting what the pictures from the archive say.