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Feb. 5th, 2008 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI'll be voting today when I get home from work. My polling place is about a block and a half from the light rail station, so I'm gonna take the Hoboken train home and hop the light rail there. The Hoboken train is never nearly as crowded as the Journal Square line, so I'll have a chance at a seat, and the light rail between Hoboken and my stop costs the same as between any of the Jersey City stops and my stop. So, I"m good there.
I also got to the Post Office to pick up my most recent eBay purchase. I now have a Cybertron Vector Prime, largely because I liked the look of the toy in Insecticomics, aka In Space No One Can Hear Starscream. The character sounded interesting when I looked him up on the Transformers wiki, so that helped too. I bought him loose, but he came with all his accessories, including the rubber sword and the Minicon. Looks like he's in pretty good shape. I'm pretty sure he's the first Transformers toy I ever bought that actually changes- the Robot Heroes ones were bought pretty much as desk decoration and as a way of giving small gifts at Christmas that didn't place any kind of reciprocal obligation on the recipient. (Mostly I wanted to make a coworker go 'Eeee! Starscream!'.) Vector Prime's gonna be put on my bookshelf when I get home, on one of the shelves the cats don't bother with. I think he's about the right size to offer to decapitate my Dog Soldiers werewolf if he gets out of line.
I like toys because I can pose them or play with them, and they look good. I am not a collector. If I wanted something to collect for the sake of having a collection or investment value, I would go back into the coin collecting hobby. My dad introduced me to that when I was a little kid, and I still know the terminology reasonably well. I'm good with that.
I also got to the Post Office to pick up my most recent eBay purchase. I now have a Cybertron Vector Prime, largely because I liked the look of the toy in Insecticomics, aka In Space No One Can Hear Starscream. The character sounded interesting when I looked him up on the Transformers wiki, so that helped too. I bought him loose, but he came with all his accessories, including the rubber sword and the Minicon. Looks like he's in pretty good shape. I'm pretty sure he's the first Transformers toy I ever bought that actually changes- the Robot Heroes ones were bought pretty much as desk decoration and as a way of giving small gifts at Christmas that didn't place any kind of reciprocal obligation on the recipient. (Mostly I wanted to make a coworker go 'Eeee! Starscream!'.) Vector Prime's gonna be put on my bookshelf when I get home, on one of the shelves the cats don't bother with. I think he's about the right size to offer to decapitate my Dog Soldiers werewolf if he gets out of line.
I like toys because I can pose them or play with them, and they look good. I am not a collector. If I wanted something to collect for the sake of having a collection or investment value, I would go back into the coin collecting hobby. My dad introduced me to that when I was a little kid, and I still know the terminology reasonably well. I'm good with that.
