Doesn’t that make you feel great?
on September 10, 2013 at 12:01 am
Let’s see. Joe wants to design Transformers. If this is 1999, that means working for Kenner. Unfortunately, since this is 1999, Kenner’s being consolidated into Hasbro, who bought them years ago, so if Joe times it right, he can move to Cincinnati just in time to lose his job.
HURRY, DANNY
(Oh, by the way, Roomies! is sixteen years old today, so for the next week you can use coupon code SIXTEEN to get 10% off any purchase in the online store.)
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Danny can’t stand anyone actually being happy.
What, so he’s gonna get a job there as a college sophomore? What does the Transformers landscape of 2001 look like?
Imported Japanese series, one guy on staff to give things English names.
*checks wiki* So the Robots in Disguise toys were all Japanese designs with redecos? Yeah, Joe had better wait for Armada.
Congrats on 16 years.
When did Kenner produce Transformers? And didn’t Hasbro make Kenner Kaput around 95?
If I recall correctly the Kenner group was given Beast Wars and they really added the more action figure style articulation that the franchise really needed. I’m not sure when Kenner was fully absorbed into Hasbro but you see the name on early Beast Wars figures.
Good ol’ Danny. Friend to the end.
This is the first time I realized, fully and consciously, that Danny was a jerk. Before, yeah he had a couple tendencies, but he seemed okay. Now, no. Asshole.
I’m embarrassed to admit that the first time I read this, I didn’t even notice that much.
To be perfectly honest, I understood he wanted to still have his friend, that’s perfectly reasonable. But really, he just saw how happy the very IDEA made Joe and he’s putting his friendship ahead of his friend.
Still cute as a button after all these years.
Danny, you and Joe don’t even like each other. I will buy that you were childhood friends who bonded over Robo-Vac, but I think it’s time to let that go.
Yeah, Ruth, you really affected some positive change in the world and turned someone’s life around. Didn’t that feel great? Maybe you should look for other opportunities to do that in the future!
311+x
Thanks for having the sale! I just ordered the complete Joyce & Walky! 😀 But it didn’t ask me for my email address. I’m hoping that since I paid via PayPal, it just goes to that email address?
I believe I emailed you back with links, yes!
Holy carp! I got the email. That’s a lot of links. Woohoo! 😀 Thanks!
1) Danny, dick move. 2) I notice in the Joyce progress illustration that she’s gotten progressively more average-looking and realistic and also she somewhere became much more modest in her clothes with no real warning. Before it was mostly tshirts and jeans. Now we have sweatervests.
Sweatervests are Dumbing of Age, where she’s back to being a Fundamentalist Christian Good Girl fresh in college, and without the weird stalkery habits she had in Roomies. So… yeah, pretty appropriate.
The best friend you share no interest with and annoys you every moment of every day and you two have nothing in common or any reason to hang around each other.
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Why do you not want him to go to another college?
I like 2008 Joyce the best (on that poster at least), if only ’cause I like her pose and ’cause I actually wave at people like that.
Originally posted:
January 22, 1999