Top ListsTopic of the Week: Transformers Fans a decade ago - What were you doing?
Ok, so I was just thinking. Now that we are in the highly futuristic year of 2010, it's been a decade since we entered the highly futuristic year of 2000. In that highly futuristic year, I was still in college (the first time) and working a crummy part time job at Office Max while living with my best friend Chris.
As far as Transformers go, it was a good time for my hobby. I was able to buy more Transformers stuff due to a pay raise at work. Due to my free school provided isp, A.T.T use was spotty at best for me. For some reason no two Usenet groups would appear on the same day. So most of my online nerdings was on Excite, MSN, and Yahoo chat rooms with the occasional venture into the AOL Ark. I would spend most of my evenings at home after work browsing through countless geocities and other TF fan sites while listening to this new radio show type thing called Radio Free Cybertron (it wasn't until around 01-02 when I decided to participate).
I would often boot up the PC version of the Beast Wars game and play the multiplayer on MSN Gaming. There was a small group of us that would play together and chat about various TF stuff in the pregame lobby. A lot of the times we would use the multiplayer to act out some grand storyline we had going on. Characters would be re-purposed for the games as seen fit. You wouldn't believe how many times Scorponok became Hungrr and Dinobot became the Pretender Roadblock. Non of us were interested in MUSHing or a real rpg. So for some reason this multiplayer pretending fit the urge for that kinda fun. I admit it was lame, but know what? I'm a 31 year old man with a 10 year old child's hobby. Humility is my friend.
Often the weekends were filled with friends coming over for beer and Goldeneye on N64 deathmatches between showings of my VHS copy of TFTM (nobody would believe me about Spike cussing), Halloween, and The Evil Dead. We were all broke college kids (and a few drop outs) so we had to make our own fun on a dime. Somewhere in the realm of that reasoning, battling Pokemon while taking swigs of MD 20-20 became a regular occurrence.
Usually I would spend my day on campus, and then going home for a few hours before going to that crummy Office Max. Fox Kids was showing Beast Wars during the afternoons (BM on Saturdays) and I'd always have time to catch it before work. Usually I'd get to work way too early and instead of hiding in the break room(Because customers and managers would try to get me to work before clocking in. I aint working for free dude. Office Max sucks BTW) I'd spend a half hour tooling around the Toys r Us or Wal*Mart in the shopping center.
That usually resulted in a lot of toys purchased. Which is kinda redundant to blame it on, because I would have bought them after work anyway. However for some reason that TRU had a ton of BW and Animorphs on shelf and always on clearance. Like seriously, they would restock them, yet still have them on clearance. So thankfully that's how I picked up a ton of toys with my new found extra money that before would have been passed on. Same thing with the KB toys at my local mall. BW stuff always on clearance, yet always getting restocked. Thanks to Noctorro being only a dollar I got to decide if I didn't like him in person.
Of course the Fox Kids BW toys and BW Mutants weren't on clearance. Nope, they just stuck them on the hooks with BM toys and left it for the informed to figure out the price difference. I was all about the BW Mutants and BM Dinobots, still am in some ways. I'd take pictures of my TF's with my i-Zone camera and scan it at work in the copy center (no money for a scanner back then Dr. Biggles-Jones)to stick up on the cruddy Excite group a few of us Transfans(it was cool to call yourself that back then)formed.
The talk of the time was of course how much better BW was than BM, and general G1/G2 discussion and comparisons to current fiction and plenty of old Marvel TF comics picked up from cheap dump boxes at comic shops. There was this new line called Car Robots in Japan that seemed so awesome and was awesome for those who had the import funds. For the rest of us was a Centosaur Video of the first four episodes and man was that show not what we expected. BotCon was in Fort Wayne Indiana for those that could go and dude SHOCKARACT WAS AWESOME!
Well, that was a rough outline of my usual Transformers doofery in the highly futuristic year 2000. So now that it's the highly futuristic year 2010, what were you people doing TF wise 10 years ago?
I presume this will be fun. :tfgrin
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