80s toys

MATRIX OF ENTITLEMENT

The post-college template of Rodimus Prime.

I was in the theater when Optimus Prime died.  I had no chaperone and no moment to mourn as there was still 58 minutes of TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE to thrill through.  So it wasn’t until they returned to their daily  TV schedule that I even realized the Autobots would need a new leader.    And, as demonstrated by the discount bin at Kay Bee Toys,  kids were not a fan.   

AN OUTRAGEOUS CONTAGION

How the neon flash of Jem and The Holograms helped validate Tim’s current life choices.

At eleven years old I wanted to be Jem. To be clear, I didn’t want to date her (my pre-puberty emissions were already a-washed over the Prime-adjacent chassis of Elita-1), rather, this idolization stemmed from the animated lifestyle this drawing of a person lived.