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| Why the long face? |
An odd choice for a first review, believe me, I know, but I can't help myself. She's pretty! She's rare! She's mine.
I still can't get over it. I own one of the 300 total Paradron Medic statues. A collection milestone that absolutely no one cares about but me.
My hobby is so lonely...
I became so irrevocably in love with this statue once she arrived that I immediately began searching for the original Arcee version. It wasn't fair for them to be apart.
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| Don't feed them after midnight. They multiply. |
And that's just about when my best friend unintentionally realized that my Paradron Medic is missing some wires.
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| Wire you looking at me like that? |
So much for "no apparent breaks or flaws"...
but I don't blame the eBay seller at all. I never would have noticed had it not been for the eagle eye of my personal art student.
It was, indeed, not apparent.
One of the things I find most fascinating about this little piece of history really has nothing to do with the statue itself.
It's this stupid picture on the side of the box.
I would say that I wonder who didn't get paid to slap the blue over the original, but this box has a credits section!
Shoutout to Greg Leeuwen and Erika E. Lewis.
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| They're older than me... |
I'd also like to touch on the fact that these statues were created to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Transformers. It's almost serendipitous that I acquired them during the 40th.
The franchise has come so incredibly far in the last twenty years. Both in general and in terms of their female characters.
I won't sit here and lie to you and pretend that these statues are the height of feminism or something, but I can appreciate them for what they are. They're pretty little time capsules of a bygone era that we have surpassed and evolved from.
And I will cherish them deeply.
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