Transformers Bunny Farm

I expected this would be a slow week at work, what with the Fourth, but it's been pretty normal so far and it looks like tomorrow will be too. Not complaining, just confused.

Got slowed up on the crochet plant progress because my focus shifted to finishing reading my last book of June and then I just kinda forgot about it yesterday. Still, I'm pretty sure I can get everything finished up this weekend. Might do a few for myself after this, tbh, I'm finding these super charming. If not a full plant, maybe just some vines I can hang from my window or something. Although having a little prop plant for my Transformers could be fun...

Making myself decorations takes a backseat to finishing the organizing, of course, which I'm still also aiming to do this weekend. I won't quite be able to get everything I wanted done, unfortunately. Looking at what I've got to work with financially, I just don't think the furniture pieces I had in mind are high enough of a priority to be spending on right now. I let myself forget sometimes but I'm still recovering from that fiasco last year. I also let a credit card balance go off the rails because I forgot which accounts I was using. I really need to close a few of these now that my credit score is so solid... Anyway, yeah, I'm gonna have to make space on the closet shelves that I wasn't planning for but that'll be fine. I'll still have things at ground level pretty well dealt with and I can just look at this as having more time to find the perfect pieces.

I've got plans after work with my sister tomorrow but I don't expect to be out too terribly late. I can get some work on the plants, get some work done on my room and make up a to-do list for the long weekend. I know I've said this before and had mixed results but I really feel good about wrapping things up! Well, as much as is possible right now, anyway.

I've got a comment alert in my Dreamwidth inbox that just says,

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Okay, but why is it in my inbox then??

I won a drawing on Twitter for some random Transformers merch. Which is cool and all but... most of the pool of merch that my prize will be randomly selected from is for Transformers One. I don't want to seem like I'm complaining about winning a drawing I willingly entered but I very much do not want Transformers One merch, lol.

Honestly, I thought when I entered that winners would be able to choose which piece they wanted or at least list preferences. That's my own fault for assuming, obvs. Ah, well. The prize, whatever it is, is on its way to me now. I am, in spite of my reservations, a little excited. Maybe I'll even get the one (1) item I actually wanted! Low odds, granted, but the odds of me winning weren't great either. You never know! I any case, I've been asked by the people behind the merch/drawing to post when I receive my package, so I should probably start thinking now of something tactful to say, lol.

There was a Transformers fan stream today that I didn't watch because I was at work, as I am every time they do one of these streams. Like, I get it, Transformers Tuesday-- but can we do just one of these on a weekend, please??

Wasn't too fussed about the "reveals" anyway. We've had a lot of leaks these last few months. I still enjoy hearing the team talk about their process and future plans and it's kinda fun to see who guessed correctly about what would be revealed when but the artificial sense of urgency isn't there, y'know? The only thing I was really anticipating was SS Widowmaker going up for pre-order and I didn't have any expectation of the demand for her making that an issue. (Don't worry, I was right.) I'm not even sure I will bother to pre-order her. I think it's cool that she exists but I don't really care about the Bayverse, never mind dropped concepts from the Bayverse-- and that's exactly what she is. My only interest in getting her is based in wanting to customize her into a different character and it's not really a priority. Especially since I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a variant that's already the color I want.

I'll tell you what I definitely didn't expect was the fallout from something that wasn't even really announced. During the stream, there was a poll regarding one of the current lines. SS, or Studio Series, was originally a line for the movies-- the hint is in the name, see. Specifically, the lineup was live action movie characters. Somewhere along the way, though, it occurred to the folks at Hasbro that Transformers: The Movie the '86 animated feature is, y'know, also a movie. This led to the Studio Series '86 subline, which sought to present the most screen-accurate versions possible of the characters who appear in the movie. And also their corpses, where applicable. Now, this was a divisive move. Live action fans, who had been getting pushed more and more to the side, didn't like that "their" line was being used to push yet more G1, not least because not all live live action characters are yet accounted for. Many fans in general were also just kinda tired of seeing another excuse to pump out more G1 product. I'm in the middle, personally-- so much G1 is exhausting, yes, but also the toys are quite good and I do like those characters. And there have been rumors that the rather broad application of the word "studio" could eventually mean more sublines for other shows, games and even comics, so that could be cool.

Back to that poll. It was asked whether people would be interested in seeing "Studio Series '86" expand to include non-TFTM G1 characters. Specifically '84 (in other words, season one) characters, I believe. And the answer was overwhelmingly yes. And a lot of people have had very intense feelings about that. An important thing to note here is that SS 86 is not the only G1 or G1-heavy line at the moment. G1 has been the driving force behind retail product for years now. Even non-G1 characters being released in the last couple years have had a "but make it G1" design philosophy. My immediate reaction to even the possibility that we're going to get an explicitly G1 line is just, "Seriously?" So, yeah, I absolutely get the people who are sick of G1. Heck, I get the people who have been curating their definitive G1 collections only to be faced with better versions soon being offered so soon after the fact.

On the other hand. Listen. If we get an '84 line, it stands to reason that they'll expand into an '85 line. And that could mean a shot at a better Elita One than the last one we got in Legacy three years ago and new, better molds for her female Autobot team-- who all had the same or basically the same mold the last we saw of them in 2019. Maybe they'll even be good rather than simply kinda decent! I don't have high hopes of this, I grant you. But I don have hopes and so I just can't be totally mad about it.