I need to vent!

[jazzcomp]

DAMN IT!

I completely forgot about an eBay auction I was going to bid on, the bloody thing went for a steal too!
($25 for an original G1 Soundwave working Cassette Player is ridiculous! )

I hope it went to a good home of a member here though.

same here. forgot to bid as well

[1AZRAEL1]

I got given a dirty look for holding open a door for a woman at the gym as I was leaving this class. Thing is though, I wasn't doing coz she was a chick, I did it coz otherwise it would've smacked her in the face. If it was a bloke behind me, I would've held the door open.

That's just silly. If I know someone is walking behind me or is going to come through the door after me, I always hold it open for them. I think next time you see her, you should just let it close in her face

[ITZTRU]

Today. Target. Waverley Gardens shopping center. I walk past a mother with her two children. One of them who was about 4, was holding a GEEE ONEEEEE SOUNDWAVE and he was DECIMATING IT right before my very eyes! Legs were being bashed into place. Cassette deck was ripped open and punched shut. One of the cassette's had dropped and was stood on by the other sibling! Noooooo! I know it's a toy. And toys are meant to be played with, blah blah, freaking blah. But a MIB/MISB TFC Soundwave is one I'm looking to buy at the moment...and this kid was just killing his soundwave like it was just some...P.O.S. Beast Wars or Animated figure!

(Relaaaax...only joking about them being a P.O.S...)

All I could do in the end was just...walk away. *sigh*

[LordCyrusOmega]

Toys are meant to be played with, not used as punching bags or stress relief balls.
I have that same fear at the moment but I guess what people do with their toys is there own business

[gdmetro]

Today. Target. Waverley Gardens shopping center. I walk past a mother with her two children. One of them who was about 4, was holding a GEEE ONEEEEE SOUNDWAVE and he was DECIMATING IT right before my very eyes! Legs were being bashed into place. Cassette deck was ripped open and punched shut. One of the cassette's had dropped and was stood on by the other sibling! Noooooo! I know it's a toy. And toys are meant to be played with, blah blah, freaking blah. But a MIB/MISB TFC Soundwave is one I'm looking to buy at the moment...and this kid was just killing his soundwave like it was just some...P.O.S. Beast Wars or Animated figure!

(Relaaaax...only joking about them being a P.O.S...)

All I could do in the end was just...walk away. *sigh*

Was it a reissue soundwave-i.e. with double cassette deck? or single?

Arghh... I can feel your pain. Is it fair to infer that it was the father's soundwave? Man is he going to get pissed.... or perhaps it really is a vintage g1 and the father is not a collector merely gave his children his old tfs.

[Sky Shadow]

Today. Target. Waverley Gardens shopping center. I walk past a mother with her two children. One of them who was about 4, was holding a GEEE ONEEEEE SOUNDWAVE and he was DECIMATING IT right before my very eyes! Legs were being bashed into place. Cassette deck was ripped open and punched shut. One of the cassette's had dropped and was stood on by the other sibling! Noooooo! I know it's a toy. And toys are meant to be played with, blah blah, freaking blah. But a MIB/MISB TFC Soundwave is one I'm looking to buy at the moment...and this kid was just killing his soundwave

Awesome - that made my day. Now someone buy that kid a Drift.

[ITZTRU]

Was it a reissue soundwave-i.e. with double cassette deck? or single?

Honestly man, I'm not sure. I couldn't bare to stick around to find out if it was vintage or not. Oh, the humanity!

[Hursticon]

Today. Target. Waverley Gardens shopping center. I walk past a mother with her two children. One of them who was about 4, was holding a GEEE ONEEEEE SOUNDWAVE and he was DECIMATING IT right before my very eyes! Legs were being bashed into place. Cassette deck was ripped open and punched shut. One of the cassette's had dropped and was stood on by the other sibling! Noooooo! I know it's a toy. And toys are meant to be played with, blah blah, freaking blah. But a MIB/MISB TFC Soundwave is one I'm looking to buy at the moment...and this kid was just killing his soundwave like it was just some...P.O.S. Beast Wars or Animated figure!

(Relaaaax...only joking about them being a P.O.S...)

All I could do in the end was just...walk away. *sigh*

Please, someone give that kid a Drift!

[GoktimusPrime]

Toys are meant to be played with, not used as punching bags or stress relief balls.

+1. I have NEVER understood the reason why children bash their toys about. What fun is that??

Even as a child I always played with my toys, not trashed them. I treated my toys with care - which is why the majority of my childhood Transformers survived my childhood quite well. And most of my Transformers that are broken were broken by OTHER kids like the one ITZTRU described... which ticked me off big time and made me quickly learn to hate sharing my toys. I think quite frankly, if I went about abusing my toys, my parents would have probably stopped buying them for me -- or just bought me cheap crappy "expendable" toys.

Maybe this Soundwave was a hand-me-down from an uncle or something... <sigh> but still... children should be taught to respect property. If they don't respect their own property, they're not gonna respect other people's property. I bet that kid also breaks other children's toys, just like how other children broke my toys!

My 22 month old daughter throws her toys about a lot, but that's cos she's a baby who lacks finer motor skills -- and you wouldn't give a baby a toy with so many small parts and is as easily breakable as Soundwave. And if she starts deliberating smashing her toys, I'll do something about it like tell her not to do it, and if she doesn't comply I'll confiscate the toy from her. The fact that the parent would stand there while their child deliberately abuses a toy... well...

A former colleague of mine has two sons, and she has a rule where her boys aren't allowed to play with any toy that's older than they are.

[Golden Phoenix]

+1. I have NEVER understood the reason why children bash their toys about. What fun is that??

Fun is a completely subjective thing.
I find it fun to play Pokemon. Some of my friends find it mind numbingly boring.