The Energon Pub

by **Altertron** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:19 pm

so do you ever feared of getting caught, especially by your wives or parents. if so what's the first you do? explain the situation or simply telling a lie by hiding all your precious toys away safe. worse case scenario, have this ever happens to you once you get caught buying a transformer, and your wives decided to destroy it as a punishment or a warning to tell

don't you ever spend money on those again, or else they will all go to toys' heaven.

by **Ramtough** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:36 pm

LMAO I just finished doing a show and tell with my wife for my Alternators Rodimus that just came in by the way...but I didn't let her transform it, she still has to get past transforming my Beastwars Tigerhawk before I give her the pleasure.

I guess I don't fear getting caught buying transfomers by my family because my parents actually still have many of my bots at their house in storage. Which by the way I need to get since they only brought half of them to my house last time they visited :-(

My wifes family is just glad that their daughters husbands only quirk is his like of transformers. My co-workers know I'm a die hard fan and would be surprised if I didn't purchase a bot or two every few months.

By the way WTF are these "other toys" you mention? There are no "other toys"...besides maybe sex toys...and I'd be embarrassed buying those :oops:

by **Tiemar** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:42 pm

My parents are fine with me buying Transformers toys, I just don't want to get caught by one of my friends. >_>;; Very awkward moment, even though they probably wouldn't make fun of me.

by **Decatron** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:44 pm

No. Alot of my friends got into the toys when the movie came out.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:45 pm

Love the Frenzy in your sig Ramtough. I have him, but I like the video of it. It looks sweet!

Not embarrassed at all normally. I am slightly embarrassed right now because I have let things get out of hand over the last 6 months, and I have a whopper of a credit card to pay off. My wife is cool about it though, and I am usually within my limits so it's not a problem.

In the store it's never a big deal. I don't care who sees me, I just try to be patient, and let kids have their looks or stay out of kids way when I'm looking.

At home my collection is something of a point of pride for my family. They like it, and I don't overdo TFs around them, so it's no big or small deal even.

by **BigDude** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:47 pm

Not at all, my friends know that i'm a Transformers fan since G1 and, hell, one of 'em collects Star Wars Legos.

News Credits: 1 · by **iheartarcee** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:47 pm

my wife thinks its funny i like buying these toys so no.. i have no embarrassment here buying at the stores either... there are worse things I could be buying.. like spiderman figures or pirates of the Caribbean..

News Credits: 2 · by **blkbitcloud1** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:47 pm

I dont care what people think!! My wife loves the fact I collect toys. I could be doing other things with my money but she can see where my money is being spent. As far as family goes...they all know I collect toys.

blkbitcloud1

News Credits: 1 · by **SoundStang** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:17 pm

Nope... I usually jump right in if there is a bunch of kids or parent with a stroller and get the bots I want, if I get funny looks I just give them right back. And because my Partner is tall, I get him to reach the overstock stuff for me. Or be the one to hold boxes while I am searching...
The only one who gets embarrased is my 12 yr old Daughter, but then, what doesn't embarrass a tweenager these days, :oops:

LOL.

However, she did tell me that she likes how the boys tell her that her Dad has a cool car when I come to pick her up from school in my Decepticon stickered Mustang.

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:20 pm

No not really. Why would I? Everybody who knows me well enough for me to care knows I buy tfs.

by **Maldroth** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:35 pm

nothing to be embarased about as long as you don't obsess over it. Most times you see people get annoyed is when its all you talk about or you spend too much money when there is a need for it elsewhere.

by **neliz** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 4:23 pm

although not everyone agrees or understands.. it's not that they're questioning what I'm doing.. as long as I can pay the mortgage..

News Credits: 1 · by **Danish-Liokaiser** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:39 pm

The only who knows about my collection is a few members of my family, including my mom and dad, and my best friend ...

Im still in school, last year now, and i dont dare to tell em about my hobby, which is really depressing ...
Its hard to hide the things there make you glad ... :-(

Before i enter a toy store, i allways look behind me, " Any of my 'friends' there ? "

...

by **Mourningstar** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:17 pm

I have no shame!

I grab a shopping cart and stockpile it full of whatever I'm obsessed with at the moment :lol:

My mom, family, friends, teachers, professors have all seen me buy TF's and other toys. I had $196 of TMNT toys and other doo dahs (Bed sheets, beach towel, candy) at Walmart back in March. Sure the old lady checking me out (not in that kinda way lol) gave me wierd looks but I just smiled and blamed the looks on her lazy eye :lol:

*That was mean* So far I think Iv'e spent about $700 of TF movie stuff and the time I spent $1200 of my vacation money on Madonna stuff.... oh how I loathe myself

*end rant*

by **Whammy** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:19 pm

yeah. even though I'm only 13 I think my friends will make fun of me. But I do It anyway cause they're cool to me

by **Bigdaddymcqueen** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:21 pm

no shame in my game either! my wife and kids by me some for gifts and holidays and such!!

by **starhorse** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:29 pm

There really seems to be a lot of these kind of topics showing up in threads lately. I'm not trying to say your feelings are wrong, or put you down, but I really feel sorry for you if you are constantly feeling ashamed for enjoying a hobby. There are far more important things to worry about without focusing so much energy on what other people may or may not think of you. The quicker you realize that this doesn't matter and you become comfortable in your own skin, the quicker you will be truly happy with life.

by **Bigdaddymcqueen** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:32 pm

words to live by!!! well said!! :grin:

by **G1 Blaster** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:08 pm

Hell no. Every one who knows me knows my hobby. The best part is no one says anything bad about it because they all think I'm insane because I have 'Criminally Insane' tattooed on my back.

Also, a little off topic but still kinda on it. One time I had a rotten day at work. Everything that could have gone wrong, did. But it didn't matter. I was going to Wal-Mart after work and get the Prime VS Meg Classics box. So I'm in the store in a foul mood but I pick up the box and start to feel better. I take it up to cashier and the guy asks me if this is for my son or something. I told him no that I collect TFs and have been almost my whole life. He starts giggling and says....

"You mean you collect toys? You spend your money on toys for kids? What is wrong with you?"

Something inside my snapped. I reared back and decked him. Now I've been in many fights in my life because of my temper but I swear to you that I don't think I have ever hit a man so hard. My arm actually hurt from my hand to my elbow after I did it.

Needless to say this caused a scene, I was supposedly banned from the store (even though I still go in there now) and sent to county jail for a 24 Hour Cooling Period. As soon as I got out, I went to a different Wal-Mart and got the box. Luckily that guy didn't press charges.

So the moral of the story for the young ones on this board is never to be ashamed of your hobby, even if you nearly have to kill a man to defend it.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 7:19 pm

G1Blaster wrote:Hell no. Every one who knows me knows my hobby. The best part is no one says anything bad about it because they all think I'm insane because I have 'Criminally Insane' tattooed on my back.

Also, a little off topic but still kinda on it. One time I had a rotten day at work. Everything that could have gone wrong, did. But it didn't matter. I was going to Wal-Mart after work and get the Prime VS Meg Classics box. So I'm in the store in a foul mood but I pick up the box and start to feel better. I take it up to cashier and the guy asks me if this is for my son or something. I told him no that I collect TFs and have been almost my whole life. He starts giggling and says....

"You mean you collect toys? You spend your money on toys for kids? What is wrong with you?"

Something inside my snapped. I reared back and decked him. Now I've been in many fights in my life because of my temper but I swear to you that I don't think I have ever hit a man so hard. My arm actually hurt from my hand to my elbow after I did it.

Needless to say this caused a scene, I was supposedly banned from the store (even though I still go in there now) and sent to county jail for a 24 Hour Cooling Period. As soon as I got out, I went to a different Wal-Mart and got the box. Luckily that guy didn't press charges.

So the moral of the story for the young ones on this board is never to be ashamed of your hobby, even if you nearly have to kill a man to defend it.

That story is a winner! You did what a lot of us in our lives have wanted to do to folks who are narrow minded like that.

by **G1 Blaster** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 12:43 am

That was the only time I have ever thrown a punch without being hit first or there being a woman involved. I'm positive if my day hadn't have been crappy I wouldn't have done that but like I said, I just lost it.

"The mind bends to deal with the preasures and horrors of life but sometimes it bends so much, it just snaps."

by **kkl1014** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 1:39 am

Fear getting caught?

hahahah

Today I walked around Frank and Sons with my girlfriend's Optimus Prime voice changer and did the robot, and this morning I went to Toys R Us to buy Transformers and I wasn't the oldest person there. I'm definitely not ashamed nor afraid; playing with Transformers is something I love, ever since my mother gave me her G1 Slag when I was a toddler.

by **Kanyon** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:08 am

Ashamed? nah.
Annoyed when people make fun of my TF love and hobby? Very

Each time I walk in the door and got a TF fig in a bag and my grandmother sees it, she throws a piss and moan fit saying I don't need anymore toys. "Transformers are not toys." And she just keeps going on and on.

How is collecting TFs embarassing compared to the other hobbies? There's people still doing the Dungeon and Dragons scene and they're in their 30's. People collecting the Might and Magic cards. Or even Sports cards.

Transformers is a hobby like anything else we could collect.

And G1Blaster FTW.