A lot of kids at school have been talking to me more about Transformers, typical question being "Who's your favourite Transformer?" Yesterday a kid in one of my Year 8 classes asked me this question and I said, "Ultra Magnus." Half the kids went, "Who?" but
one kid actually knew who I was talking about. The kid who asked the question thought it was a funny sounding name and said, "Wouldn't it be funny if he was a small Transformer inside a bigger one?" and I said, "Well, he pretty much is. He's been a series of load-bearers," then I went on to explain what load bearers are. But the one kid who knew who UM was nodded knowingly at me and said,
"He's some kind of police officer."
"Well, he's the Duly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord."
"Yeah! That's it!"
We then talked about Minimus Ambus and the concept of Ultra Magnus being an identity rather than an individual character. I was actually really surprised that a kid in my class knew all this! :eek:
After the class finished, he came up to me and showed me some pics on his mobile phone of his
Beast Wars collection, including some figures which never came out here (and even I don't have! :eek:), such as Ikard & Takotank,
two Clawjaws, Gelshark, Hellscream, Autostinger,
Wal*Mart Slapper (I don't have any version of this mould!) etc. A few months ago he also showed me the customisation he did on his Classics Grimlock -- basically touched it up with paints to add in a bucket of gritty details etc.! :eek:
Although today he was playing with Deluxe TF1 Jazz in class and I had to prompt him to stop playing with his toy and get one with his classwork. All the while with Generations Drift sitting on my desk :p (although I never played with it during class, he just decorated my desktop. ;))
