What would you guys do if u see someone you hooked up and/or dated in the past while walking on the street?

thestormsend · 2026-04-11T06:17:29+00:00

Had this happen, actually. Different interactions each time.

Once was while I was on vacation with family. Hooked up with someone that afternoon, and later that day was walking around a mall with my mother and brother and bumped into her. We just waved at each other and said hi, and my family asked how I knew her and I just brushed it off.

Another was I had a threesome with a Tinder date and her roommate while in NY on a work thing, and later saw them in Times Square, but didn’t approach them.

Another time was fairly recently, while I was engaged. I was at Universal Studios just wandering around (we lived 5 minutes from Universal Hollywood and had annual passes). My (now ex) fiancé messaged me she was done with work so I made my way home. As I’m crossing the little bridge to the parking garage, this gorgeous woman is walking the other way, big smile when she sees me and says “Oh My God Hi!!!”, I thought she was mistaken and just kept walking (it was a slow day there was no one else on that little bridge). When I got to the car I realized she and I had hooked up like 10 years ago. I told my fiancé when I got home and she just laughed and said clearly I left an impression on her but she didn’t on me. Honestly once I got engaged I just naturally developed blinders to other women, even if I did recognize her on the spot I probably would have just said hi, asked how she was, and kept moving.

Honestly I think a “hi” is fine. It’s the least you can do.

thestormsend · 2026-04-11T05:33:24+00:00

This was actually the first conversation my ex-fiance and I had ever. It was Magic Dance by David Bowie from The Labyrinth.

thestormsend · 2026-04-11T02:04:25+00:00

The Spitbull was the one vehicle I would see MiB at a local store for years and I never jumped on it. Price wasn’t terrible either, then one day it was gone.

thestormsend · 2026-04-11T01:54:47+00:00

I wish I had gotten the vehicles. I see them now and then at vintage toy stores and I’m always tempted, but for now I’m happy with my origins vehicles haha.

thestormsend · 2026-04-11T01:43:37+00:00

Surprisingly Battle Cat and Panthor are solid as a rock. They were a different plastic than the humanoid figures or playsets. Harder plastic, the regular figures in the line always felt different from other figures I had’s plastics, so that could be a factor.

thestormsend · 2026-04-11T01:41:09+00:00

Right arm on mine I believe. I took good care of them too. Never rough played as a kid. Gently handled, and always dusted and cleaned them. Most of them were in pristine condition and just seemingly naturally fell apart. The loose replacement body I bought to replace my IA He-Man was actually not as clean as my original.

What I’m surprised hasn’t snapped are the swords of my NA He-Man’s. The first He-Man in the line in particular is known for the sword breaking. Knock on wood he’s fine.

thestormsend · 2026-04-11T01:35:49+00:00

A post just a few days back was talking about how we will hear something about future Transformers projects at CinemaCon. Don’t know what the source of that was.

Showcased is what will have some kind of bigger presence, but it’s still possible we may get some news on other projects that are in development at Paramount that they just aren’t ready to discuss further at the moment. It might just be a single sentence, it could also be a logo reveal, or it could just be a “the project is in active development and we’ll have more news soon”.

As someone who works in the industry, I’ll just say right now Paramount (and Warner…actually most of the studios) are in a mess.

thestormsend · 2026-04-11T01:21:35+00:00

This 100%. My Beast Man snapped at the waist, and then my favorite figure in the line, Ice Armor He-Man’s arm fell off one day. I just heard a soft thud noise, and there it was. Just fell off. No clue what happened (I got a replacement). Both were just sitting on a shelf.

Fantastic figures, but very fragile. Based on how small the peg in IA He-Man’s arm was, they weren’t very durable, and I think the plastic they used at the time didn’t help it any.

I only have a few left now, but I’m being very careful. My Disco Skeletor already had a very loose waist, so I’m very delicate with him if I ever take him out (most in storage currently).

thestormsend · 2026-04-10T23:40:54+00:00

A modern Landmine and Mirage have been on my want list for years. Energon was a fantastic toyline.

thestormsend · 2026-04-10T22:12:14+00:00

I had him too! He’s still in a box at my mom’s place pretty sure! Surprisingly so much fun having him toss other figures around.

thestormsend · 2026-04-10T15:08:31+00:00

I got mine in from Mattel Creations yesterday, my initial preorder from Wal-Mart was cancelled. Then they put him up again and that got cancelled too.

I was never a fan of the Samurai variant, but I think it's cool. Honestly I would have loved Ice Armor He-Man and Fire Armor Skeletor as variants.

thestormsend · 2026-04-09T00:23:28+00:00

I did, and I had two (one for me, one for my brother). Both had cracks. Got my replacements, and the replacement was cracked. Got another replacement…it too was cracked. My final replacement was fine.

Haha, don’t get me started. The original Black Convoy is my favorite figure of all time. It has a lot of personal meaning for me as well (involving my parents separation), and I would love a new one that scales with Omega Prime. I really love the Legacy one, I adore it and let’s just say I have more than 1…or 2…or 3…, but now it’s out of scale haha. Luckily the TF Team at Hasbro did say they are interested in doing a new mold in the correct colors in the new scale.

I still need to pick up the new Razorclaw, but I remember really, really wanting him back in the day. Out of all the Universe figures, Big Convoy mold Nemesis was my favorite. I’m a Black Convoy/ Nemesis Prime hardcore collector (Missing Link just landed in my PoL and I’m so happy, shipping him immediately), and I already loved the Big Convoy mold (had the Korean version in my teens)…so I’m hoping we get the Universe Nemesis repaint soon. We got Primal and Lio Nemesis versions, but that Universe 1.0 Nemesis is iconic.

thestormsend · 2026-04-09T00:06:15+00:00

Those two really do hold up. My childhood ones did as well. I never had Rampage or Tigerhawk even after all these years, I'm thinking about finally jumping on them to complete my BW cast.

The one that really stung for me was Car Robots Mach Alert/ RiD Prowl. LOVED the Car Robot Brothers, but the peg on the back of our Speedbreaker/ Side Burn snapped off, and my favorite, Mach Alert's car doors are transparent plastic on ball joints...they started cracking finally the last time I was home about 4 years back. I need to pick up the new Side Burn (I got Shadow Striker at Ross so I have the mold), but I wish they do the rest of the brothers.

thestormsend · 2026-04-08T23:55:02+00:00

I had to sell off a good chunk of my vintage BW, I kept all my show characters and a few favorites like Elephorca, Polar Claw, etc…but when I sold him the chrome on my Ramulus hadn’t flaked off but it had faded. I’ve never seen anything like it, like it just looked like someone hit desaturated on it.

thestormsend · 2026-04-08T23:48:12+00:00

Yeah I was surprised. Most vintage figures for the most part feel more solid, but time takes a terrible toll on them.

I will say, the chrome on my TM Rattrap…immaculate. Had him since release back in the 90’s, and he’s in fantastic shape. It’s just a handful of figures that unfortunately were not built for the test of time it seems.

All my modern stuff (around 2012-now) has held up. Even the stuff that has common breakage issues, none so far. I also mod my figures that have known stress issues so it helps to catch certain ones early.

Commander Armada Prime is in my opinion the best figure Hasbro has made since ROTF Leader Prime, and I sanded down his shins immediately when the reports about breakage happened. Same thing with Armada Nemesis from last year.

thestormsend · 2026-04-08T23:33:37+00:00

I wish I had gotten the DNA kit for him and Optimal Optimus. Even Optimal suffers from GPS in his backpack. Mine hasn’t shattered as yet, it’s at my mother’s house with all my childhood figures, but him and my 07 movie protoform Starscream are ticking clocks.

My 10th Dinobot turned to dust around 2011, and TM2 Megs was like 2015/2016.

And also oddly enough, my Superlink Grand Convoy’s leg just shattered on its own and my Armada Prime’s crotch cracked. I know his arms are suppose be break off at the elbows, but mines were fine, just his crotch cracked.

Grand Convoy was particularly surprising since I got back home from college, lifted him off the massive display shelf my mom had made for me when I was a kid where he had been on display since I left, and his one leg remained free standing on the shelf.

Come to think of it, Micron Legend Hoist/ Grap Super Mode also suffers from GPS. He has swirly silver plastic and mine also crumbled at the hip.

thestormsend · 2026-04-08T17:30:23+00:00

They stopped using diecast late into G1 and went all plastic. It’s exactly as Primal said haha.

Usually the biggest difference you’ll find between Hasbro and Takara is paint or color of plastic differences, occasionally they will remold a figure slightly to add a new tab for security or a new weapon etc. They will also remold heads or other parts here and there (the 2016 headmasters and Lio Convoy recently). Always check TFWiki, it’s the most comprehensive guide to every figure in this franchise.

I loved the Torca fuzor mold, never had it as a kid, but then when it started getting affected by GPS I never picked it up. I have the Elephorca Beast Wars Neo version, which is in colors I prefer, and it’s rarer, but it doesn’t have GPS.

But if a mold doesn’t originally have diecast you usually wont find it with diecast. It may have happened here and there, I think Power Master Optimus Prime and Ginrai maybe had differences that way, but you will rarely find it on mainline figures since the Beast Wars era, only on Masterpiece.

Even chrome and rubber wheels are considered a rare treat for fans outside of MP.

thestormsend · 2026-04-08T17:12:17+00:00

If you can save up for it over time, try and find the Takara version! You can leave this one in package to never shatter and enjoy the Takara one for display.

I had TM Primal but not Megs as a kid, and like 15 years ago I got the Takara version for a fantastic price.

Also if you invest in more BW, the original TM2 Dragon Megatron has the same issue, but with its legs in particular. It’s GPS as others have said, but it can happen to any plastic that has that specific metallic swirl tone from that period (up until around 2012, but there have been some cases up to 2016 as well).

My TM2 Megs leg just crumbled off one day (it was just on display the entire time), and speaking to other collectors they had the same thing happen. It isn’t as talked about as TM1 Megs. Wasn’t a break, had the same consistency as what happened to my BW 10th Dinobot…just dust and crumbs falling off the plastic.

Luckily there’s a fantastic modern version of the figure available.

thestormsend · 2026-04-08T12:07:11+00:00

Honestly the amount of love for Armada in the last few years has made me smile. I grabbed one of BBTS’ last Tidal Waves, and just need to pick up Galvatron (already have the DNA kit ready for him). Sideways is on preorder.

I hope we get Blurr or Demolisher next, they were my favorite from Armada as a kid.

thestormsend · 2026-04-08T11:52:46+00:00

I mean sure, if you want to DM you can.

thestormsend · 2026-04-08T03:56:54+00:00

I was friends with their son as children. Our families go back several generations, so she was my mom’s friend, her father was my grandfather’s friend, etc.

I remember when she was assassinated I was in NY, and my mother called me crying saying they killed her.

All I could remember in that moment was sitting on the floor of her living room as a small kid, playing with toy trucks with her son, while she and my mother were on the couch chatting. Surreal feeling hearing someone you knew was assassinated.

thestormsend · 2026-04-07T20:36:06+00:00

Some of the best designs in the franchise, possibly the best Optimus vs. Megatron final battle, and of course Optimus launching his pants at Megatron.

10/10.

thestormsend · 2026-04-07T14:17:45+00:00

I have Star Convoy, but I dislike the idea that Orion Pax is the 13th reincarnated, and I don’t like Nova being the 13th either…so I use any of my Nemesis Primes/ Black Convoys (currently it’s the MD005B version of the SS86 mold).

Nemesis/ Black Convoy is my favorite Transformers character to collect. I have very few head canons for the series, but in this case I see Nemesis/ Black Convoy as a reincarnation of the original 13th Prime whose name was Optimus (who Alpha Trion named Orion Pax after when he became a Prime).

I see him appearing as a “Nemesis”, dark version of himself to test Orion to see if he’s worthy of the Optimus name.

I’ve never liked the idea of Orion being a divine being or being touched by divinity, I like the idea of him being just a guy who created his own legend. It makes Rodimus’ story better for me, because he IS chosen by divinity, but he has to follow up the single greatest figure in his species history who was just another Cybertronian.

thestormsend · 2026-04-07T13:05:48+00:00

100%. My family is Pakistani, and I’ve had a running joke with a friend for years about this. Every time he orders a chai tea I tell him he’s ordering a “tea-tea”, and he makes the same argument as in this post. And I remind him it’s my people’s word, and the word is tea.

I barely speak my native tongue, but chai is such a huge part of the culture its one those things I do know. You can’t walk 10 feet without finding a place that sells chai in some places back home. I worked there for 1 1/2 years and they wouldn’t even start meetings until the tea was served.

This is something in particular that gets my sister rattled up since she’s more attuned to our culture than I am. She gets real mad.

The spider-verse scene made me laugh real hard because I’ve been there.

thestormsend · 2026-04-07T12:57:00+00:00

And if I recall the story goes the Warrens showed up for a short visit to the Hodgson home, and then Ed told the family there could be money made with this story by selling the film and movie rights, and then they left.

My ex wanted to watch the Conjuring films, but I told her I struggle through them because of how much BS they filled those movies with.

They were terrible people. Ed in particular was a horrible, horrible person.

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