The Energon Pub

by **MAC Prime** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:09 pm

I don't know why, but something about this screams wrong...so let the ueeless mass marketing of TFs begin...I say useless to an extent because you know we're going to get a bunch of crappy toys and merchandise before the actual release. Mind you, I know some will be worth the money, but not everything!

News Credits: 150 · by **GetterDragun** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:18 pm

Yes! Just bring back Transformers Shrinky Dinks and PrestoMagix and we'll be in business!

News Credits: 4 · by **Milanion** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:23 pm

GetterDragun wrote:Yes! Just bring back Transformers Shrinky Dinks and PrestoMagix and we'll be in business!

Yes and yes.

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:00 pm

GetterDragun wrote:Yes! Just bring back Transformers Shrinky Dinks and PrestoMagix and we'll be in business!

Wha?

I *used* to have a Lite Brite, not anymore. Not sure I want one now, either

News Credits: 1 · by **Windracer** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:23 pm

DUDE!

I loved playing with that thing when I was a wee little gal. Wish I still had mine... Anyway, that's AWESOME. XD

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:27 pm

What utter rubbish....

News Credits: 49 · by **Senor Hugo** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:40 pm

Just don't send them to Boston. The city might go into lockdown.

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:21 pm

I'm stealing my niece's LiteBright!

by **Ultra Markus** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:24 pm

i used to have one when i was a kid, i remember the gi joe one

News Credits: 2 · by **Kronos** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:29 pm

Milanion wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:
God Magnus wrote:
Kronos wrote:I may be showing my age here, but remember when Lite Brites and Legos were made for children to use their IMAGINATION? Damn. It's almost like having a puzzle with numbered pieces.

Lite Brites had patterns even when they first came out.

You are correct.

Yeah, I remember mine coming with Snoopy. Those were the days!

I don't remember patterns..I remember basically black pieces of construction paper...and that's about it....Maybe my memory's faulty?

News Credits: 32 · by **UltraPrimal** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:12 pm

Let's hang these up around the city!

News Credits: 4 · by **Milanion** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:26 pm

Kronos wrote:
Milanion wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:
God Magnus wrote:
Kronos wrote:I may be showing my age here, but remember when Lite Brites and Legos were made for children to use their IMAGINATION? Damn. It's almost like having a puzzle with numbered pieces.

Lite Brites had patterns even when they first came out.

You are correct.

Yeah, I remember mine coming with Snoopy. Those were the days!

I don't remember patterns..I remember basically black pieces of construction paper...and that's about it....Maybe my memory's faulty?

Perhaps your folks bought yours from a Kmart, back when Kmart had a little restaurant inside it?

News Credits: 2 · by **Kronos** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:46 pm

Milanion wrote:
Kronos wrote:
Milanion wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:
God Magnus wrote:
Kronos wrote:I may be showing my age here, but remember when Lite Brites and Legos were made for children to use their IMAGINATION? Damn. It's almost like having a puzzle with numbered pieces.

Lite Brites had patterns even when they first came out.

You are correct.

Yeah, I remember mine coming with Snoopy. Those were the days!

I don't remember patterns..I remember basically black pieces of construction paper...and that's about it....Maybe my memory's faulty?

Perhaps your folks bought yours from a Kmart, back when Kmart had a little restaurant inside it?

That wouldn't surprise me. It was as if my aunt spent her life savings to get me my Optimus Prime.

News Credits: 668 · by **Autobot032** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:01 pm

Um...I want one.

Badly.

I so suck.

News Credits: 3 · by **ShGarland_1383** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:04 am

Two thoughts:

1- Your telling me they still make Lite Brite?

2- Wasn't one of the Easter eggs on the 20th anniversary TF Movie DVD released last year a promo for Lite Brite patterns?

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:45 am

So ... for someone who was obviously deprived of these things in his childhood, what the hell are they?

News Credits: 2 · by **Kronos** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:59 am

Burn wrote:So ... for someone who was obviously deprived of these things in his childhood, what the hell are they?

It's a box with a lightbulb in it with holes in the box that you put a pattern over top with a piece of black construction paper, and you put colored pegs into the pattern that shine the light through them and make it all pretty. Lame toy.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:32 am

Sounds exciting.

I'll go play with a shiney metal object now.

News Credits: 1 · by **jgilkinson** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:19 pm

if i HAD a lite brite id get em but no way am i buying the whole thing

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:30 pm

Kronos wrote:
Burn wrote:So ... for someone who was obviously deprived of these things in his childhood, what the hell are they?

It's a box with a lightbulb in it with holes in the box that you put a pattern over top with a piece of black construction paper, and you put colored pegs into the pattern that shine the light through them and make it all pretty. Lame toy.

I beg to differ. Lite Brite offers another way for kids (old or young) to express their creativity. Lite Brite holds the same place in my heart as do Etchasketch (sp?) and magnadoodle. Sure, there's not much in the way of creativity in the patterns, but like a coloring book, a Lite Brite can spark the creativity to allow kids to imagine their own designs. (Somewhere I have a Lite Bright vikings helmet)