"They're not responding to our hailing frequencies, captain!"

There are definitely advantages and disadvantages to TFs becoming mainstream, just as there are pros and cons to TFs being in obscurity. Not too long ago I remember walking into stores and if I asked any staff members about Transformers their reaction would be, "Transformers?! They don't make Transformers anymore." (-_-)

But it seems that Transformers isn't completely mainstream yet. Yesterday I was in Toys R Us and a guy was looking at Transformers toys, and his mate was giving him a hard time and kept on saying, "How old are you?" "Remind me again how old you are." etc. - I so wanted to tell him off, but I needed to catch up with my wife who'd moved on and was waiting for me elsewhere. I walked past and glared at him though and he met my stare and his jolly teasing expression changed to one of an awkward smile - as in, he couldn't say anything with the very embodiment of that which he was teasing walking right by him.

Gah, I would've totally lectured him if I had the time. (-_-)