Questions about G-1 Megatron |
11-08-2009, 10:42 AM
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#1 | | Decepticon Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 109 | Questions about G-1 Megatron
Please don't make fun of me for posting this. I'm not trying to be polically correct or a goody two shoes. This is just something I've been thinking about lately and I just wanted to know you guys opinion on it.
Anyway, earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to be able to buy a reissue of G1 Megatron for the low price of only $50.00.  When I got him, I showed my father and my youngest brother and his girlfriend. They thought he was pretty frightening because he looked so much like a real pistol. They said I shouldn't bring him out in public either as a result.
So what I'm thinking is was this toy ever okay for kids to play with when Transformers came out in the 80's? Was there any mother of little boys back in 1984 who had issues with their son buying a Megatron? Being so fond of 80's cartoons and pop culture, I know about how most 80's cartoons weren't as violent as they were today and had postive messages. Yet a toy of Megatron looks so scary to so many people.
What do you guys think?
Again, please don't flame me for this. It's just something I was thinking about. Also, I have Aspergers so I tend to think of topics like this... | 
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11-08-2009, 10:44 AM
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#2 | | Decepticon Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 128 Location: GA Collection Count: Somewhere north of 1 :) | we live in a diffrent world now tham we did as in the 80's.
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11-08-2009, 10:49 AM
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#3 | | May be tripping balls Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 6,850 Location: Staring at the refrigerator Collection Count: Um... this is going to need a trip into the attic | In the 80s, kids ran around with toy guns all the time. Strangely, the world didn't end. 
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11-08-2009, 10:57 AM
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#4 | | The JUICE Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 6,293 Location: Work Collection Count: 650 | In 1985, when I was in middle school, as an elective, we had the option of taking target practice with pellet guns. In High School, during PE, we had archery.
Yeah, the world has changed. My parents wouldn't have had any problems with me getting Megatron, if I would have gotten it, back in the day.
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11-08-2009, 11:03 AM
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#5 | | The Chosen One Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 734 Location: Glendale, AZ Collection Count: 200+ | The world has definitely changed... "Remind me,what's MISB again?" | |
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11-08-2009, 11:04 AM
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#6 | | You want $6 for what?!? Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,734 Location: Scotland News Credits: 2 | Yeah, good times back then. You could run around in the street with realistic toy guns shooting at strangers, with no risk of being actually shot.
I remember opening my childhood Megs in Woolworths (couldn't wait), and carrying him around town with me.
A kid with a gun in the '80s was a kid with a toy, not like now, on my lawn /RANT. 
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11-08-2009, 11:20 AM
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#7 | | Decepticon Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 109 | Well that makes sense. I guess it was the problems with 9/11. Because of 9/11, you can't take Megatron on an airplane now... | |
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11-08-2009, 11:30 AM
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#8 | | Set to KILL Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 280 Location: Texas Collection Count: One Billion-Fafillion and Two | Yeah, by age 6 or 7 is when my parents bought me Megatron for my birthday. Still have him on my shelf in fact. It wasn't a problem at all to have him. No one thought anything of having a realistic toy pistol back then, especially in Texas. Heck, it would still be cool in Texas if federal laws didn't get in the way. It was all fun and games until my older brother borrowed Megatron for a parade and got himself killed by cop... Okay, that didn't really happen. | 
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11-08-2009, 11:38 AM
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#9 | | That one guy Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 204 Location: Tiverton, RI | no, no, the world hasn't changed. people's perception of what's supposed to be right and wrong has changed. 
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11-08-2009, 11:40 AM
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#10 | | Fanservice thru Tyranny! Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 4,752 Location: Auburn, Alabamy Collection Count: 2,084 News Credits: -3 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Toei  Well that makes sense. I guess it was the problems with 9/11. Because of 9/11, you can't take Megatron on an airplane now... | Actually, toy gun regulation such as blaze orange tips and bright colors were passed in the late 1980's and early 1990's, well before 9/11. And I do believe that recently "transforming toys" were allowed back on to the FAA's carry-on list and mentions Megatron specifically. Just as long as he's in robot mode. | |
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