TFormers: Where the "T" is for "Truthiness"

Jefferson Ward 24 Oct 1984

Uh-oh, the kiddies who run the Thoroughly Informative Transformer Themed Internet Entertainment Sites are at it again. One of them found time between Pokemon matches to write a fairly informative article about the history of the Transformer toy Jazz. There are a couple of mistakes in there amongst the pictures stolen from other sites, but hey, doing writeups like this is not easy especially when your Naruto headband is on too tight. Like they say, nobody's perfect, but I've found the kids who write the blog entries at Tformers are my favoritest least perfect people.

Target 05 Dec 1984

I enjoy the TFormers campaign of misinformation blog entries for the times like when they write that Sky Lynx was a Dinobot and Sideswipe was the first Alternator. Of course they correct the entries after they're pointed out, but not after a bit of robocock oneupmanship with the readers who point out the mistakes. To their credit they do leave up the comments by the people reporting the error in the first place. So I'm not too bothered by the statement in the Jazz article about how "When Jazz was released in 1984, he was originally retailed at $15." I thought to myself that someone will point out this obviously made up bullshit eventually. I was only ten in '84 but I don't remember anywhere near $15 being the price and I've never found a single ad for Autobot cars over $12 when I'm doing research for the Vintage Space Toaster Palace. But after some contemplation I'm sure it's possible that during the 80's, somewhere in some backwoods crackhouse, somebody may have paid $15 for a Jazz. The 80's were a crazy time. Also, awesome and scary.

Children's Palace 01 Dec 1985

So I let it slide and I figured the last person they want pointing out yet another error in their articles is some 33 year old scary guy like me. Although I am a bit disappointed because you'd think with the writer's strike going on, the TFormers guys could free up some time to do actual research since there won't be any new episodes of Dora The Explorer or Sesame Street for a while. Lucky for me, one reader has tried pointing out the misinformation and he did it just the way I would have. He could have been a total asshole but instead he asked what the source for the $15 price was and pointed out that at most stores Autobot cars ran in the neighborhood of $9.99 back in the day. But instead of graciously accepting the input, it's business as usual and the $15 Jazz guy took a break from watching Baby Einstein videos enough to respond with the lone sentence, "And at which store were yours $9.99?" LET THE ROBOCOCK PISSING CONTEST BEGIN!