Monday, July 2, 2007

Feeding the Hype

Tomorrow is opening day for Transformers, the Movie. eBay was able to offer its employees a sneak preview last week. Ted said it played like a GM commercial with eBay and PayPal ad placements throughout the movie. Google also procured opening day tickets, but quickly ran out. Most of us in our thirties can still remember the theme song of the cartoon - "Transformers - more than meets the eye. Transformers - robots in disguise." Now they are making a come back and my nephew (4 years old) has graduated from Disney's Pixar Cars to these shape shifters.

Ted found his old Transformer toys from over 20 years ago and is now selling them on eBay. The first two listings sold with both buyers snapping them up with "Buy It Now". the next two are displayed in the column to the left. Tempting to keep them, but better that they are sold to fanatic collectors. We'll always have our Star Wars collection.

2 comments:

Hsien Lei said...

Collections, collections. AHHHH!!!

Master Jedi said...

it's quite amazing to see folks pay these prices for these old toys. i have a bunch of them ending today so at that point i will have one less collection.

I would say i am "improving" on my "inner drive" to collect many things. YEsterday at target i told Mo to "stop" and said "i'm not buying those star wars toys anymore".