I’m pretty sure I had one of those when I was a kid. It was one of the turtles (even at that age, I couldn’t tell them apart unless they were actively referring to one another by name) wearing a really boxy, improbable looking fireman uniform, and it turned into him driving a firetruck. As a transformer, it was clumsy and unconvincing and honestly pretty lame, but it made a great fidget toy (though really, any transformer makes a great fidget toy).
Yeah those came later. They got very.. let’s say “creative”
The ones that actually turned into what they were meant to mutate into, though, those were so creative that they recycled their basic bodies for each new iteration.
Offshoot: Does anyone remember the line of Transformers toys that *didn’t* transform? They marketed them with the idea that the Transformers gave up the ability to change shape so they could be “faster, stronger, more alive!” or something.
Never make a lick of sense to me. It was like a Rainbow Brite doll in gray scale.
Every fast food restaurant and, increasingly, every business in general seems to operate on that principle now. Be whatever you aren’t, appeal to everyone BUT your clientele.
All of us webcomic artists need to start producing embroidered toaster cozies if we want to keep up with the trends.
Ok, I know Rally’s switched to kaiser rolls and stopped offering the bacon-swiss Buford (prompting me to leave Ohio altogether), but what other fast food is abandoning itself?
Popeyes is doing the sandwich thing, but that’s not exactly off the mark. Arby’s has basically taken to claiming they offer every sandwich imaginable, but I’m still ordering the three-cheese angus.
Burger King offers a wide variety of whatever at any given time, but their thing has always been good burgers plus anything they can make in the fryer.
Did Wendy’s start making round burgers when I wasn’t looking? (I doubt it; I had Wendy’s last week.)
Well I don’t mean they STOP doing the thing they’re known for, but that they put all of their focus and attention into things NOBODY is going to that restaurant for, and nobody is going to come there to get, instead of the normal place you get that. You’d think McDonald’s would’ve learned from that McPizza debacle.
He’s not the hero we deserve, but he’s the hero we got
I dunno. What’s more American than a problem solver with no regard for collateral damage?
A problem creator with no regard for collateral damage?
I had an experience identical to that when I first saw the ads for the Mutatin’ line of Ninja Turtles figures.
Just right through the walls.
BrokenEye: Touché.
Cold: I’d never seen those before. Transforming turtles would’ve rocked my socks when I was a kid. Alas, these adult socks are rock-resistant.
I’m pretty sure I had one of those when I was a kid. It was one of the turtles (even at that age, I couldn’t tell them apart unless they were actively referring to one another by name) wearing a really boxy, improbable looking fireman uniform, and it turned into him driving a firetruck. As a transformer, it was clumsy and unconvincing and honestly pretty lame, but it made a great fidget toy (though really, any transformer makes a great fidget toy).
Yeah those came later. They got very.. let’s say “creative”
The ones that actually turned into what they were meant to mutate into, though, those were so creative that they recycled their basic bodies for each new iteration.
Offshoot: Does anyone remember the line of Transformers toys that *didn’t* transform? They marketed them with the idea that the Transformers gave up the ability to change shape so they could be “faster, stronger, more alive!” or something.
Never make a lick of sense to me. It was like a Rainbow Brite doll in gray scale.
Every fast food restaurant and, increasingly, every business in general seems to operate on that principle now. Be whatever you aren’t, appeal to everyone BUT your clientele.
All of us webcomic artists need to start producing embroidered toaster cozies if we want to keep up with the trends.
Ok, I know Rally’s switched to kaiser rolls and stopped offering the bacon-swiss Buford (prompting me to leave Ohio altogether), but what other fast food is abandoning itself?
Popeyes is doing the sandwich thing, but that’s not exactly off the mark. Arby’s has basically taken to claiming they offer every sandwich imaginable, but I’m still ordering the three-cheese angus.
Burger King offers a wide variety of whatever at any given time, but their thing has always been good burgers plus anything they can make in the fryer.
Did Wendy’s start making round burgers when I wasn’t looking? (I doubt it; I had Wendy’s last week.)
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Well I don’t mean they STOP doing the thing they’re known for, but that they put all of their focus and attention into things NOBODY is going to that restaurant for, and nobody is going to come there to get, instead of the normal place you get that. You’d think McDonald’s would’ve learned from that McPizza debacle.
isto: It’s worse than that. Wendy’s has started making burgers that are round, but only when you’re not looking.