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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 7h

It's not a small thing, it's literally the name of the franchise
Them being around since G1 doesn't make it a good thing, actionmasters nearly killed the brand

I don't understand the appeal of just 1/3rd of a Transformer
It doesn't make sense to me

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 8h

I wouldn't, because Gobots aren't all inherently able to transform
Zod, for instance
Gobots didn't stake their whole identity on the ability to change shape

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 8h

Because they're transformers, the name describes the thing they do

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 9h

No, I googled single colour Rubik's cube

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 9h

This is what transformers toys that don't transform are like

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 10h

Ming!!!

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 10h

3 330ml cans, yea

🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 10h

And I'm a big guy, I'm probably on the 4 litre end of that

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 10h

Stomachs can hold like 2-4 litres
990ml isn't gonna fill your stomach

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 10h

After drinking 3 cans of pepsi?

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 11h

Got carried away and drank 990ml instead of 330ml

🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 15h

To counteract this I am going to be consuming three hundred and thirty millilitres of my preferred carbonated beverage: Pepsi Max from Pepsi-Cola®

The consumption of this beverage should alleviate my thirst

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 11h

I hadn't even considered that

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 12h

Naked

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 12h

I really miss when we got like 30 new characters every year and not everything was just the G1 cast in a different outfit

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, and I don't like that

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 12h

"Can we have cool steampunk or samurai transformers Mr Hasbro?"

"Yes, but they have to be the same 4 guys that are in literally fucking everything"

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 13h

A unique thing can never just be unique, it needs to be G1 or G1 adjacent

There's no other way to make transforming robots interesting unless you're referencing a 40 year old cartoon in some way

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 13h

The timelines toys would be infinitely better if they were original characters
Doing Optimus, Bumblebee, Megatron, and Starscream over and over again kinda diminishes it

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 13h

Noice

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 13h

I never really got the hype of the Optimus with a Megatron arm thing

It's just giving edgy OC energy, but as Optimus Prime

"Like, he's a good guy but he uses bad guy weapons, woah so cool"

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 14h

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 15h

It is cold
And I don't like Dr Pepper

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 15h

To counteract this I am going to be consuming three hundred and thirty millilitres of my preferred carbonated beverage: Pepsi Max from Pepsi-Cola®

The consumption of this beverage should alleviate my thirst

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 16h

I'm t hirsty

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🎃 :D 🎃 @householdwheel.bsky.social · 16h

Like, you name a kid after a family member to honour and remember them
You name your kid after yourself, that's kinda weird

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