Things I always wanted – January 29th 2009
This week I thought I would write about something I always wanted that my best friend growing up had. These situations where always pretty tough to deal with, I mean on the one hand you loved your best friend.
He was the one who convinced you throwing tennis balls at your neighbors IROC-Z to set off the alarm was a good idea, then ran and hid while you got in trouble.
He was also the one who said your endo sucked so you went faster and went over the bars and knocked out half your tooth.
He was the one who helped you throw snowballs at local neighbor hood girls ruining their self esteem forever.
Ya Andrew was awesome.
However when it came to this one thing, he had it I didn’t, I secretly hated him for it.
What was it?
Behold!
Voltron!
At the time, I don’t think I actually watched the original Voltron on tv, or knew much about it. [Note: The person talking in the intro is Optimus Prime or Peter Cullen]
Actually this might have been a hand me down from his older brother. Regardless, it was an awesome toy.
Apart it was 5 lions like below
But together it was the fantastic robot you see above, so really it was six toys in one.
It’s combined physical size of it meant that in our action figure wars waged in VHS tape built battle fields, my Ninja Turtles where easily slain, and even my beloved (and later stolen) Power Master Optimus Prime was no match for the might of Voltron.
So he pretty much always won I might have even created a no Voltron rule at some point just to save face.
While I pretty much needed Voltron in my army, I don’t actually recall asking my parents to buy me one,or trying to buy one myself. For some reason I had it in my head that Andrew would grow bored of it one day and give it to me for being a loyal friend, and then glory would be mine.
Obviously that never actually happened, and sounds idiotic today, but I was young and dumb, as opposed to being old and dumb now.
One day I will probably purhcase a Voltron figure off ebay and and it to my collection of 80s toys that is currently made up of mostly Transformers, but until then. It’s something I have always wanted.
Tags: Peter Cullen Voice, Powermaster Optimus Prime, Voltron
