Transformers 'Evergreen' Designs Lenticular Valentines Cards at US Retail

These are just a way to sell TF products. Most girls wouldn't choose them to send to a lad and most boys wouldn't send them to a girl. The fact that they sell them in packs of 27 and that the greeting is on the back is also a big hint that these are basically TF pictures sold under the guise of Valentine's Day cards.

But like the Hallmark TF Christmas Tree "decorations".

Deadput wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:These are just a way to sell TF products. Most girls wouldn't choose them to send to a lad and most boys wouldn't send them to a girl. The fact that they sell them in packs of 27 and that the greeting is on the back is also a big hint that these are basically TF pictures sold under the guise of Valentine's Day cards.

But like the Hallmark TF Christmas Tree "decorations".

Did your school do the whole give Valentine's day cards to the class thing?

No one ever gave personalized valentine day cards every kid got their parents to buy packs of cards like these to give to our class.

That's what these are for.

In the UK, that never happened. Boys usually bought INDIVIDUAL cards for a girl they liked, then signed it "From ?" and snuck it into the bag of the form they liked and that was that. No reward, just heartbreak or the pain of unrequited love. If the girl found out, it was instant social life death. Sometimes boys might get a card (very rare) and the same happened. Neither party knew who sent the cards. Normally, though, only popular boys or girls got a card. For everyone else, it was a normal day.

And God help anyone that bought something like a Transformers card... Your social life would be OVER.

...bastard beat me to it again.

primalxconvoy wrote:And God help anyone that bought something like a Transformers card... Your social life would be OVER.

There were worse then Transformers cards, there were many different brands and themes.

It's a children's thing that was constant in Elementary, sometimes but starting to fade away in middle school, and non existent in High school.

People gave and did a lot worse in the schools I've been at (And my younger sibling's been at) and their social lives were fine.

Va'al wrote:I bought a previous TF pack of things and sent them all to Burn one year.

I'm planning on getting these for both Burn, some of my friends, and my partner, this year.

The school card exchange thing is a very North American tradition, not to be found in the UK, as Mr So Fun at Parties explained above. But also...

And God help anyone that bought something like a Transformers card... Your social life would be OVER.

If you really think that geek and nerd interests are limited to boys only, and/or that no one would find a silly cute card with robots on it ..well, silly and cute, I pity your childhood and understand a lot more about your fun demeanour now.


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These are just a way to sell TF products.

Duh-doi.

It's not my past, it's the state of mainstream British culture (past and present), especially with regards to Transformers. It's not that popular in the UK.

Also, with regards to Valentine's Day, cards are meant to be romantic (or sexy), or cute in the UK. That's it. In the past and now, kids simply don't send cards of this type to one another. Girls, on the whole, in the UK, don't rock the nerd stuff.

Obviously, like you said, these are US cards, but I always thought those were small cards sent at (Elementary) school, not bigger ones like these TF ones?

And who said I wasn't fun? I may have had some very interesting experiences involving the fairer sex and TFs (ones a which Sikomofo can only draw from imagination, and not recollection) .

You know nothing, Joahanna Snow

primalxconvoy wrote:In the UK, that never happened. Boys usually bought INDIVIDUAL cards for a girl they liked, then signed it "From ?" and snuck it into the bag of the form they liked and that was that. No reward, just heartbreak or the pain of unrequited love. If the girl found out, it was instant social life death. Sometimes boys might get a card (very rare) and the same happened. Neither party knew who sent the cards. Normally, though, only popular boys or girls got a card. For everyone else, it was a normal day.

It definitely happened in the UK at my primary school in the late 80s but not in my secondary school.

Nice! I may need to get someone to pick me a set up of one or the other..

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:In the UK, that never happened. Boys usually bought INDIVIDUAL cards for a girl they liked, then signed it "From ?" and snuck it into the bag of the form they liked and that was that. No reward, just heartbreak or the pain of unrequited love. If the girl found out, it was instant social life death. Sometimes boys might get a card (very rare) and the same happened. Neither party knew who sent the cards. Normally, though, only popular boys or girls got a card. For everyone else, it was a normal day.

It definitely happened in the UK at my primary school in the late 80s but not in my secondary school.

Really? What type of cards were sent? The American style ones (like these TF cards), or more romantic ones?

I spotted these slightly different ones at Target last weekend.





Is "thumb war" a new innuendo the kids are using now?