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Jim Sorenson, writer of the Transformers Animated Allspark Almanac and Ark Compendium books, has listed a very special item on eBay. Jeanne Robinson, wife of noted science fiction author Spider Robinson, is suffering from a rare form of cancer, and in order to help, Jim has donated his one of a kind custom Wedding Cake topper to the We Dream for Jeanne charity auctions. The piece features Hot Rod and Arcee together with custom bridal veil, bow tie and tux tails. It is a true unique piece and for a good cause. View the auction here, and visit the We Dream for Jeanne blog here.
lowem
Well done. That reminds me of their immortal lines :
And I remind me of Kup
killingbee
Webz is bickering over the sanity of marriage on a Transformers website, completey stupid all the way around
Moonscream
The wedding cake is not part of the ceremony, its part of the reception. Where everybody parties however the heck the groom and bride want to party. While big formalized receptions are parts of various cultures and religions, in the US the culture says 'do it the way that will have meaning for YOU because this is YOUR special day!' Heck, people can even elect NOT to have a reception, rare as that is.
With your attitude, you'd have hated my sister's delicious organic cupcake 'wedding cake', tapas, and rosemary lemonade, not to mention her husband's band doing all original music for the ceremony and him singing to her as she walked down the aisle.
–Moony
Counterpunch?
Technically, I wasn't saying you were wrong. I was saying you were being judgemental in light of what appears to be an underlying Christian philosophy on marriage.
Also, Western society is decadent and dead? I'm not really sure how anyone can throw that time-honored gem out there on a website dedicated to the discussion of mass-market toy franchises and the 30-minute commercial presentations we hold so dear.
Is it very lonely up there on such a high horse?
But it's cool that Jim is trying to help a friend out. My mom has breast cancer and I understand full well how it impacts a family financially.
DJW107PRIME
Should been Springer but still neat.
rattrap007
To be fair you stated your opinion more as fact than a "I feel like.."
That is why when ever I state my opinion I try to say "I feel that…"
So in this case I feel they were justified. Again you state your opinion as fact with the line about western society being dead. Please. You are making a huge deal about people celebrating their special day the way they want to. You are saying that they should have to have the same old traditional marriage ceremony. Frankly I think that having a Star Trek wedding is a little silly, but if I had a MST3k wedding where I dress in a Jumpsuit, and my best men dress as Dr. Forresster and TV's Frank, then that is MY business, not yours. How would you like it if someone forced you to dress in Star Wars get ups for your wedding? You wouldn't like it. So don't rain on other people's special day because you don't agree with how they should celebrate it.
That is just my opinion mind you…
webz
Wow… I state my honest opinion, defending a ceremony/social contract humans have had for thousands of years, and get a bunch of people telling me I'm wrong (even though my beliefs have decades of acceptability behind them). Only proves my original point. Western society is decadent and dead.
Counterpunch?
::hands you a stone::
I suppose you'll be needing that for throwing, since you know, you being perfect and all would give you the right to throw it before any of us.
Paxtin
Heh, no it's not.
People are allowed to celebrate their marriage however they want, It doesn't matter.
There are people who dress up as fictional characters and recite their vows in made up languages. That makes a little robot cake topper look pretty mundane by comparison.
Oracle_Aesir
do calm down, the guy works for the Transformers Franchise, its perfectly acceptable that he has a Transformers based wedding topper, just like if someone worked in a circus, they might have a couple of clowns as a wedding topper
Its just a bit of fun to make people laugh or to make their big day more memorable
webz
More of the idea that a marriage celebration means so little to someone that they top a wedding cake with cartoon characters. It's quite saddening. No one shows the sacred institution of marriage any respect anymore. Today it's just another excuse to throw a party. It's disgraceful. I'm sorry their friend has cancer, but tasteless tackiness is all this is, regardless of the good cause.
Paxtin
You mean a couple auctioning off a personal collectors item to rise money for a friends cancer treatment?
Yeah I know, what the hell has humanity come to?
webz
The very existence of this item, custom or not, shows how very far we've dropped as a society. I weep for western civilization.
Fairlady_Z
That's a cute cake topper. And I'm getting married in two weeks. Too bad I'm too broke at this point to win an auction (plus I'm not sure all my guests would apreciate such a topper.)
jackets
squawkbox74
Does this mean Arcee is a slut?
squawkbox74
…rattrap?
thygriever
Well i hope they get lots of money to help the cause It's a nice item. I see a four way drama thing with arcee-hotrod-springer-ultramagnus romance
primal-convoy
I have to agree with Neuco on this. The cause is worthy, but I'd rather give the money and they can keep the "custom". It's just two PVC Hasbro/Takara Tf's with cardboard bow-ties super-glued to some flowery thing. Nice as a homemade effort or as a gift, but hardly worth money.
Still, DONATE away, regardless people! It's going to a good cause!
jackets
I don't know maybe someone funny and i agree