My 4 year old niece made tonight an adventure.
She's very good about not touching things that aren't hers and has never gone after my figures unless I've handed them to her. Tonight, however, she asked if she could play with my plane - ie: Armada Thundercracker. I thought, what the heck. He's a brick.
She had an absolute ball with that thing, running from my room, down the hall and back more times than I can count. She had him "soaring" through the "sky" and shoot objects with his "water gun" (the noise button) for quite a long while. I was even shot at one point! Of course I should mention Thundercracker wasn't "a boy." Nope. He was girl. A mommy in fact! RtS Starscream was her daughter and don't you dare take her away! It spawned a great rescue effort
When at last the seeker-baby was safe with Mommy-Cracker, my niece took allegiance with Barricade and chased Movie 1 Bumblebee (played by me) around because he was being a "bad boy" and needed "to be punished". Bumblebee won a few races, but found himself snatched and flipped more frequently than not. Barricade later banished him under the dresser for being "bad" and saying "mean things." Because police men are nice people and only do good things. Even Barricade.
The bot shots - Optimus 1, Trailer Optimus 2, Prowl, Roadbuster and Megatron - later convened for a top secret meeting and invited RtS Optimus to join them (so there were three Autobot leaders in attendance). They discussed how to save "the little one" (ie: McDonalds Animated Bumblebee) from danger, but never actually got to the job... My niece became too infatuated with transforming the bot shots and forgot about the entire meeting
She was rather upset when her mom said they had to leave. She wanted to stay and play.
Have any of you guys ever played Transformers with kids?
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