9 Years

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:14 pm

Well, nine for that Sprunkner fellow, and when he bought it I got his transformation cog and steam whistle.

When I started here I was engaged, a junior in college, and rather enamored of Worlds Collide, but middling on the rest of the current TF output.

I have two, soon to be three, kids, two teaching jobs, a graduate degree, and am rather enamored of MTMTE but middling on the rest of the current TF output.

Post by **Computron** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:27 pm

It's a bit crazy how long people have been here, and how much has changed but here is to another 9 years! By then we'll be meeting in holodecks I imagine.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 12:56 am

Snarl will take the safeties off without telling us, I imagine.

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 7:08 am

Time flies when you are having a good time!

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 7:06 pm

Indeed! Good times, glad to have known ya, awesome to have met ya and broken bread (or whatever you call that naan-ish Ethopian starch) with you, the Missus, and the singular offspring you had those many moons ago. I still have that bookish early Marvel TF collection you gave me. Didn't I give you something too? I don't remember what it is, but IIRC, it was pretty awesome. lol

As for me, when I first got here - which will be 9 years in September, although clock time is so passe in this instantaneous Internet age - I was a single guy living in a single world who just found out that some smashing fellow named Pat Lee had resurrected comic TF and it was - gasp - popular! Thanks to my massive amounts of disposable income - did I mention I was single? - I soon found myself supplanting my newly reinvigorated hunger for TF comics (These days, there's MTMTE making RiD and ReGen look bed, but back then, I was willing to look the other way for War and Peace) with a nostalgic spending spree on toys. For several glorious months, I was one of the peons checking boards for the "latest" shipment of toys at my Big Box stores, driving miles to go to THIS Target where THIS particular wave had JUST arrived.

Now I'm a married guy living in a married world, married world meaning I have a real career, I can't let the dishes sit in the sink, and I have to not buy toys so as to buy things like "a house". I have nothing to show from my TF salad days except for my Alternators, 8-10 Takara Bookstyle Reissues, my good 'ol MP Op, a longbox of mostly crap (until recently, of course), and all the friendships and conversations I've made and had here. Which one do you think I treasure the most?

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 11:42 pm

Yeah! You know what's funny; I never used to buy the toys. I was dirt-poor until I got a salaried position in 2011 and only then did I have some dispensable income. I don't think I cracked the toy forum before then, ever.

And YOU, you beautiful man, gave me an Ultra Magnus reissue and a bunch of World's Smallest Transformers. Still have most of the pieces, though the kids got a hold of one of the Seekers and that was it for him.