Reindeer Games

theassortment:

“Command Performances!” (Marvel Transformers #19)

“That looks like it hurts,” I told the other boy in the children’s section at the Boothbay Harbor Public Library. I pointed at the comic I was reading, something called “The Transformers.” The cover showed a big robot blasting a smaller robot with a laser.

“No, that’s silly,” the other boy replied. “Robots can’t feel pain.”

Months later, the public library gave me their copy of Transformers #19, my first ever run-in with the robots from Cybertron. I had read it cover-to-cover so many times that the cover had given up and fallen off. Soon, I picked up Transformers #77 at our local drugstore - the only issue of the comic I ever saw on shelves. I was in love. By the time my dad rented a VHS copy of “S.O.S. Dinobots,” there was no turning back.

Unfortunately for me, it was 1991 (or so). The original Transformers line was in its death throes. None of the characters I grew to love from the Marvel comic and the Sunbow cartoon could be found in stores any longer. At fleamarkets, toy dealers shook their heads and said, “those toys just aren’t worth any money.”

For the remainder of my childhood, it was a desperate search for evidence that my favorite franchise ever existed at all. “Do you have any Transformers?” I’d ask any kid I met. Any toy that transformed, anything at all, was fair game. Hell, I’d watch episodes of “Challenge of the Go-Bots” just to scratch my transforming itch. 

Twenty years later, things aren’t too different. I still scour the world for toys, just not as desperately as Luke, Ages 6-12. Fortunately my hobby didn’t die in 1992.

Which brings me back to Transformers #19. The pages of that comic are concentrated nostalgia: Each panel contains an image that’s burned into my head, each character a collection of shapes and movements that fling back to my childhood. I’m going to discuss a few of those panels and the odd memories they bring, along with toys of the associated characters.

(Complements to my wife for helping me with the photo up there!)

(Source: true-fan-transformers)

rainbowlust:

zorobro:

sublimesublemon:

luna-nova-wynters:

MOTHER
FUCKING
VEST
PORN!

I really love the last two.

swoon

D:

(Source: nitemea)

kamen-rider-equine:

hardboiledandwutnot:

mass-destruction:

shooptastic:

dignified-toddle:

why is the entire world not investing in this 

this is such a good investment why the fuck

guys this is good idea

omg i could probably get from new orleans to chicago in like, 15 minutes as opposed to 150 minutes

…..HOLY SHIT

YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS

WE COULD ALL FINALLY MEET EACH OTHER

HOLY SHIT BALLS

O_O

 

(Source: videohall)