So a few weeks ago Uncle Brad and Aunt Karen came up to hang out and visit the store for the first time. After donating a bunch of stuff to the store and taking it all in, they then began to look at what could be fixed. One of the first things Brad tackled was pulling all the weeds out of the little square of ground right outside our store. They suggested we plant some flowers and about a week later Liz did just that.
Part of the daily chores here now includes watering those flowers, re-setting the wire fence around it that people keep running over when parking and throwing out about a metric ton of litter that gathers in that spot constantly. Recently when picking out the trash, I noticed a peculiar rock that seemed to be somewhat out of place and brought it in the store for further inspection. Little did I know that the "rock" that I had collected was actually from Planet Quartex - a Shock Rock, a rock warrior with awesome might!
He sort of reminds me of a mix between the little guys from Batteries Not Included and a Gorgon from Zelda. We actually came across him because we got a couple Rock Lords in the store and were looking them up to price them, but when looking on www.tfu.info at all the Rock Lords listed and saw him there, we had to buy him instantly. Luckily there was one on eBay for a reasonable BIN price so now he's hanging out in our personal collection being the cutest rock-based toy we have.
He's one of those guys that you can't help but be happy around. He's always got a smile on his face and rarely, if ever, speaks a word. Seriously, go make friends with a rock (whoops, sorry - Rock Lord), they're perfect companions.
A lot of people today would laugh about the thought of Tonka/Bandai making a line of transforming rocks back in the 80s, but honestly kids loved these things. Most kids actually get into rock collecting at one point or another and while most of the rocks they pick up are of the boring brown variety, Tonka and Bandai gave kids a wide variety of colorful rocks that just also happened to transform into robots. Although there were a few gray and brown rocks included in the line as well, there were figures with translucent parts and really pretty color schemes. Rock Roller here being part of the later. Who wouldn't want to find a blue and white swirl rock in the wild? That shit would be the prized possession of any boring rock collection and you know it.
While we're still somewhat on the subject of silly things that transformed into robots in the 80s, I want to point out this scene in Big where Tom hanks tells all the bigwigs at the toy company that buildings aren't cool alternative forms for alien robots. I feel the same sentiment could have been given towards transforming rocks.
Part of the daily chores here now includes watering those flowers, re-setting the wire fence around it that people keep running over when parking and throwing out about a metric ton of litter that gathers in that spot constantly. Recently when picking out the trash, I noticed a peculiar rock that seemed to be somewhat out of place and brought it in the store for further inspection. Little did I know that the "rock" that I had collected was actually from Planet Quartex - a Shock Rock, a rock warrior with awesome might!
He sort of reminds me of a mix between the little guys from Batteries Not Included and a Gorgon from Zelda. We actually came across him because we got a couple Rock Lords in the store and were looking them up to price them, but when looking on www.tfu.info at all the Rock Lords listed and saw him there, we had to buy him instantly. Luckily there was one on eBay for a reasonable BIN price so now he's hanging out in our personal collection being the cutest rock-based toy we have.
He's one of those guys that you can't help but be happy around. He's always got a smile on his face and rarely, if ever, speaks a word. Seriously, go make friends with a rock (whoops, sorry - Rock Lord), they're perfect companions.
A lot of people today would laugh about the thought of Tonka/Bandai making a line of transforming rocks back in the 80s, but honestly kids loved these things. Most kids actually get into rock collecting at one point or another and while most of the rocks they pick up are of the boring brown variety, Tonka and Bandai gave kids a wide variety of colorful rocks that just also happened to transform into robots. Although there were a few gray and brown rocks included in the line as well, there were figures with translucent parts and really pretty color schemes. Rock Roller here being part of the later. Who wouldn't want to find a blue and white swirl rock in the wild? That shit would be the prized possession of any boring rock collection and you know it.
While we're still somewhat on the subject of silly things that transformed into robots in the 80s, I want to point out this scene in Big where Tom hanks tells all the bigwigs at the toy company that buildings aren't cool alternative forms for alien robots. I feel the same sentiment could have been given towards transforming rocks.
And while that may have shut up all those high-powered 80s executives that were out of touch with the common boy (ew), Mr. Hanks doesn't know what he's talking about.
Photo courtesy of www.tmnttoys.com - http://www.tmnttoys.com/reviews/transformers/metroplex/review.html
That's a few building toys that any kid from the 80s would have killed for. And they probably could have used their transforming rock toys to do so. Well, now that we're all thinking it, Death by Rock Lord stoning should be seriously looked at by each state as a new form of euthanasia if they carry a death penalty. I'm not saying that I'm in favor of or against the death penalty - but honestly if I had to go, I'd be happy if Rock Roller here was the last thing I saw.
Liz: Seriously stop running over the fence.
Liz: Seriously stop running over the fence.
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