Anyone who knew me well as a kid would know what my three favorite toy franchises were -- Star Wars, Transformers, and GI Joe. (Our Legos served primarily as a way for us to build vehicles for all three of those, so those fit into all of them...)

Well, you can really tell who they're marketing these toys to now... us 30-year-old kids!


Star Wars Transformers! So Darth Vader becomes a TIE Fighter, Obi-Wan becomes a Jedi Starfighter, General Grevious becomes his wheel bike, and Luke Skywalker becomes an X-Wing Fighter. I'd say I was born in the wrong decade, because today's toys are so much cooler than they were when I was a kid, but if I was a kid today I'd probably think Transformers were goofy. Then again, most kids back in the day thought Transformers were goofy. But hey, it's all relative. Nothing was as goofy as The Tomorrow People. (And yes, mom, I'm officially sorry for having subjected you to that show... at least they never had Tomorrow People action figures!)

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