{"id":47305,"date":"2020-09-17T08:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T12:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47305"},"modified":"2020-09-17T08:43:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T12:43:37","slug":"when-kids-make-grown-up-money-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47305","title":{"rendered":"When kids make grown-up money #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have a hard time answering whenever anyone asks what I want for my birthday\/Christmas.\u00a0 For those people whom I do exchange gifts with, I imagine it\u2019s extremely aggravating having to shop for me; shit I aggravate the piss out of myself whenever I want to do my own recreational for-me shopping, so I know this is fact.<\/span><\/p>\n

So back in April, when my sister asked what I wanted for my birthday, I actually had an answer for her: I wanted a Tyrannosaurus Rex Dinozord<\/a> that I\u2019d seen existed.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am nearly a 40-year old man, and I wanted a toy back from my grade school days.\u00a0 Like when I got my DragonZord<\/a> figure a few years back, and ultimately my MegaZord<\/a> a few years after that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, the issue with this is that the price of this particular toy remake is that the price has a tendency to fluctuate, as it seems to be available in only places that are not the United States as if America needed any more reasons why I\u2019m beginning to think we suck on a daily basis.\u00a0 During the holidays, I\u2019d seen it dip down into the $50s, but at around April, $100 was the typical going rate.\u00a0 I implored my sister to keep watch and she basically told me to keep watch and let her know if the price dipped to something more reasonable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Long story short, it dipped down to $65, and my sister pulled the trigger on it.\u00a0 However, this also coincided with the biggest spike of coronavirus across the fucking planet and the seller was in Japan and explained that JapanPost was no longer sending to the US for the time being, so that the shipping would be on hold indefinitely.\u00a0 But as I am nearly a 40-year old man with no rush on when this toy should arrive, I told my sister to hold out and wait it out.<\/span><\/p>\n

That was back in April.\u00a0 Needless to say, after like July it seemed pretty obvious what was happening; the seller was making shit up to get my sister to refund and cancel the order, so that the guy could relist the toy back up to $110, where it seems to have spiked back up.\u00a0 If it were up to me, I\u2019d have held true and maybe gotten Amazon involved to see if they could strongarm the dick in Japan to pony up, but my sister is not me, and she instead just got the refund and gave me a $65 gift card.<\/span><\/p>\n

Slightly dejected at not getting my tyrannosaurus Dinozord, I went on eBay to see if I could test my luck.\u00a0 And lo and behold, I found some figurine collector in France who was selling the same toy, brand new, for $50~.\u00a0 And to sweeten the pot, I had just gotten an email from eBay to congratulate me on being an OG member back from 1999, and they gave me a $25 coupon code, so now I was in a position where I couldn\u2019t not buy this thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, my T-Rex dinozord arrived today, and I\u2019m quite pleased.\u00a0 It\u2019s amazing the lengths and money I expend in order to acquire things that ultimately just end up sitting dormant on shelves or walls, but damn it, they make me happy.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the best part about this new toy, was the evident ability to compare it to the old toy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Back when I got my MegaZord, I took great delight in playing with it, breaking it down into the five OG zords, and reconstructing MegaZord along with DragonZord Battle Mode and all other configurations available to me now that I had both MegaZord and DragonZord.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in the day, I used to really enjoy the Zord fights where the Power Rangers would go into DragonZord Battle Mode, because it meant that T-Rex could fight independently.\u00a0 Granted, as was often times the case with 80% of Zord fights, the monster would beat their asses for another two minutes before the Power Rangers decide to say fuck it, summon Titanus, go Ultra MegaZord and blast the monster to smithereens, but I always loved the idea of T-Rex getting an opportunity to shine on its own.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But one of the things that I remember standing out was that when all split apart, the original T-Rex DinoZord couldn\u2019t have been more pathetic and sad on its own.\u00a0 It was painfully evident that in the grand spectrum of the MegaZord toy, the T-Rex wasn\u2019t really meant to be played with independently, and served primarily as to be the base in which all the other Zords connected to in order to construct MegaZord.<\/span><\/p>\n

Putting DragonZord Battle Mode together, the original iteration of the T-Rex looks like the special needs little brother that wants to play basketball with the varsity squad but they\u2019re not a team of nice guys that will talk all the opponents and refs into standing down for 20 seconds for him to shoot an uncontested three.\u00a0 Original T-Rex is a sad shell of a toy Zord, that has actual literal dinosaur arms that couldn\u2019t scratch the other arm, much less fight off the forces of Rita Repulsa or Goldar.<\/span><\/p>\n

Standing it next to the new, stand-alone T-Rex DinoZord, and the comparison is night and day.\u00a0 It\u2019s so much superior than the old one it\u2019s not even really funny.\u00a0 Actually it is, but that\u2019s the expression.\u00a0 The best part is that the new T-Rex DinoZord, I\u2019m pretty sure it has more points of articulation than the pile of cardboard boxes that comprised of the actual T-Rex DinoZord from the original Power Rangers show.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019m pleased with my new toy, and it\u2019s proudly up on my shelf to stand vigilantly over my living room until the end of time.\u00a0 And it\u2019s on the top shelf, so that hopefully my young child will not get the idea to climb up there any wreck my shit one day.\u00a0 Wishful thinking, but I\u2019ll enjoy it while I can.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a hard time answering whenever anyone asks what I want for my birthday\/Christmas.\u00a0 For those people whom I do exchange gifts with, I imagine it\u2019s extremely aggravating having to shop for me; shit I aggravate the piss out of myself whenever I want to do my own recreational for-me shopping, so I know … Continue reading When kids make grown-up money #2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,76,129],"class_list":["post-47305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-geeks","tag-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47309,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47305\/revisions\/47309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}