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bend it where it seemed to separate. The gun was turning into a robot, how
KAYE’S COLLECTOR CORNER cool was that!? I remember discarding the Styrofoam and destroyed box as I
continued playing with the robot for a while. After a short while I wanted to
By Mike Kaye see it back to its original gun shape. Like trying to refold a map that’s been
opened, I had trouble being able to folding it back into a gun. I found myself
forcing the pieces in one direction and wondering where certain parts sticking
out belonged. After a while I lost interest and tossed it in the pile of toys in my
TRANSFORMERS closet. The pile of toys being He-man Masters of the Universe, Smurfs, Knight
Transforming Me in Time… Rider, Gremlins, Garfield, Pacman, Popeye, Pink Panther, Star Wars and other
80s stuff.
Once upon a time in the city of Sunrise, Florida As time passed, I’d find myself back in Kmart with my parents. Are we here
in a town called Welleby, I was in my room opening for another lunchbox? There were times where I’d be stuck in the lunchbox
my birthday gift. The year was 1984 and my mom aisle choosing a replacement so my sandwich wouldn’t get rust on it but today
handed me what appeared to be a wrapped shoebox. I’m able to visit the toy aisle! As I walked down the aisle I was attracted to
Was it another pair of Buster Brown shoes? Hmm, the art genre type toys like invisible ink pads, Lite Brite, Shrinky Dinks but
what can it be? To my surprise it was a toy gun, not suddenly I found more transformers. There were
just any toy gun, a Transformers gun! The colored all different kinds, with some in boxes and others
sticker on the box had a Kmart price tag showing hanging on pegs. A cool Transformer that turned
$19.99. A hefty price for a toy back then, but what into a radio caught my eye. I didn’t know the
did I know. I laid it on the shag carpet to further names of the characters or what a “Decepticon”
assess what I just attained. The art on the box was was but I just liked the toys.
computerized looking, like nothing I’d ever seen, I picked up one that was a red car and my
and through the clear plastic was a toy I couldn’t mom asked if that was the one I wanted, I
wait to get my hands on! The latest series in stores is nodded my head and placed it in the wagon.
I quickly ripped open the box (not yet a collector, Transformers Siege War for As we got to the register, I remember the
Cybertron Trilogy.
thinking of keeping the original packaging in pristine Some of the Transformers in pinwheels and long strips of colored lollipops
condition). Not opening it at all would have been the set are Chromia (above) with white smiley faces hanging near the
my best bet but what did I know? I held the gun in Ironhide, Prowl and the checkout lines. After paying, walk past the 10¢
my hand and aimed it a few places. I then started to Decepticon Megatron (right) Continued >

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