Mike Turney long time friend and Jem enthusiast just uploaded an awesome lil test video. The dude has been designing Jem characters for a while now, and his revisions have always been awesome.(Mike’s a Jobry, Jem+Bro? )
Jem was a great show and it deserves to be updated, and if anyone should be doing that, its mike.
The prices for transformer toys in general have become quite rediculous. This had me thinking. What about the kids these toys were originally intended for?
And while we are on the subject of Transformers, what about the fact that the new show is only on “the Hub“?
So I was wondering, will Transformers be the same thing to todays kids, as it was to the original generation from the 80s.?.
Alot of what made transformers what it is to me now was how it took me from a very ruff childhood in the early 80s and allowed me for a small bit of time to escape my surroundings.
On top of that, I didnt really have a good father figure , so I really took alot of the moral and PSA presented in the show to heart.
Alot of the children in my neighborhood were in the same position. I really do feel its that same powerful nostalgia in combination with harsh times,that really embedded transformers into my pyche ..
Now that the new show is exclusive to cable subscribers and the majority of the toys become these expensive hobbyist treasure hunts, how will nostalgia fair in the future for our children today?
DId Hasbro make sure there was room for the poor kids of our time, to be exposed to the same type of characters we had then? Obviously it is us who are now adults, and have this fierce connection to the orginal show, it is we who now buy and show our children these shows, but are our children experiencing the same effect?
Will they keep that fierce sense of what it means to be an autobot with them as we have? and what about the rest? The ones who could really use a role model, but cant afford cable….
