Did I let the Big One get away?
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 3:06 amThis is something that's amused me and intrigued me since I found it in a Target a couple of years ago.
One of the TF:A Jazz toys, the one that spoke and transformed when you pushed a button, that had the wrong voice chip inside of him.
When I was pushing the buttons in the store and being a general derpy, nerdy me, I realized that he didn't sound quite like Jazz. And then I heard him say something along the lines of "My Name's Ratchet!" and it hit me why he sounded off! He had Ratchet's voice chip instead of Jazz's! I was so tempted to get him just because it was so off-the-wall and random, it amused me!
I decided against it, though, since I don't really collect the transformers meant for younger children much, and I didn't really have much money to spend. So even though he was $9, I decided it was better to let him slip through my fingers.
However; at the time, it occurred to me that something like that might be valuable on the collector's market. In the TF hobby, is there a market for people who collect the defective toys that have some amusingly silly error like that, or are they all just worthless scrap? I've been pondering it ever since.
Looking back on it, I really wish I'd gotten him.
One of the TF:A Jazz toys, the one that spoke and transformed when you pushed a button, that had the wrong voice chip inside of him.
When I was pushing the buttons in the store and being a general derpy, nerdy me, I realized that he didn't sound quite like Jazz. And then I heard him say something along the lines of "My Name's Ratchet!" and it hit me why he sounded off! He had Ratchet's voice chip instead of Jazz's! I was so tempted to get him just because it was so off-the-wall and random, it amused me!
I decided against it, though, since I don't really collect the transformers meant for younger children much, and I didn't really have much money to spend. So even though he was $9, I decided it was better to let him slip through my fingers.
However; at the time, it occurred to me that something like that might be valuable on the collector's market. In the TF hobby, is there a market for people who collect the defective toys that have some amusingly silly error like that, or are they all just worthless scrap? I've been pondering it ever since.
Looking back on it, I really wish I'd gotten him.