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1. chrissie | 18-Dec-07 at 6:01 am | Permalink

   Is he talking about a Transformer?

2. Julie | 18-Dec-07 at 6:59 am | Permalink

   I thought Transfromers too. They talk and change into cars.

3. shokufeh | 18-Dec-07 at 7:52 am | Permalink

   I am also of the Transformer opinion.

4. Andrew Kottenstette | 18-Dec-07 at 9:56 am | Permalink

   My question is how would he know what one is if his mom didn’t?

   I grew up poor, and gratefully Christmas has become a season less about presents than anything else. We came to ask Santa for stuff we needed, and it wasn’t so hard to see how much more “needy” a lot of better off people seemed.

   As for me, the oldest at five, I got an electric train. I think it was more of my dad trying to hand something of my grandfather down than anything else. Left alone in my room for long periods of time I would of course try to figure new ways to make it climb up a ramp and pile itself into a train wreck.

5. Christoph | 18-Dec-07 at 10:31 am | Permalink

   Holly! You were there for the 1980s. Of course it’s a Transformer.

   Get him Optimus Prime. Trust me.

6. Fluffy | 18-Dec-07 at 2:51 pm | Permalink

   Yup, it’s a Transformer. Even my 50+ brain knows about them!

   The good news is that I’ve seen some of them in the stores, even lately.

7. Cold Spaghetti | 18-Dec-07 at 7:47 pm | Permalink

   Oh, we know all about Transformers (my brother, the man who wants the middle name of his first child to be “Prime,” has run the Robotech fan website for years). Will has seen and played with Uncle Skip’s Transformers before.

   This one was different and Will had let me know it.

   So actually, what Will wants isn’t a transformer. He’s been into the “classic” robot (think ‘Danger, Will Robinson!’) for awhile — this is what he’s been talking about for months… we’ve made them out of boxes, etc. Then he suddenly started talking about it changing into a car, which threw me. Tonight, we watched ‘When the Grinch Stole Christmas’ which we had TiVo’ed awhile back. We had it on while we decorated the tree a few weeks ago, but tonight we all watched it together. One of the commercials was a V-Bot (V-Box?) robot that changed into a car and came with a remote control… hence, the robot that turns into a car. Mystery solved!

   We got him one of the ibot robots (the $12 ‘human’ one that walks around and lights up) — fingers crossed that this works for him.

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