So many years ago back in the magical time that was known as the 1980’s. I, like many kids my age, really liked Transformers. My folks bought me quite a few, and they were fun. To me they were like 2 toys in 1. You got a cool car, or an awesome robot.

However, like all kids I started growing up and towards the start of the 90’s Hasbro started to release the “Generation 2” Transformers. I being the mature age of 11 or 12 decided that It was time to “grow up” and stop playing with toys like a little kid. So even though I thought they were cool looking. I stopped asking my folks for them, because I wanted to “grow up” . I don’t really recall thinking about them again for quite a few years.
I suppose we should jump forward to when I was in high school and 17 or maybe 18 years old. I’ll spare all of the gory details but was I wasn’t making all of the best decisions and I was miserable. It was pretty typical teenager shit looking back at it. However like all teens I hated everyone and thing.
To that end I started eating breakfast in my bedroom to avoid my family. I had a TV in my room, and wouldn’t be caught dead watching the news or any of the other boring morning shit. However there was before school cartoons on fox. Those cartoons weren’t the newest but it didn’t matter, It was noise while I ate. One of those cartoons that was in rotation, was Transformers Beast Wars

I really identified with one of the good guys named RatTrap . He was cocky asshole type character. I feel like I kept talking about cartoons on the downlow with other kids in high school, but I must have mentioned it enough, because one of my friends snatched me up a RatTrap toy. I hadn’t thought about them making a toy version of the cartoon, and to that end. It wasn’t the same version of RatTrap that was on the show, but unknown to me. I was watching a few seasons behind. I didn’t care, it was a cool toy, and sort of a “gate way drug”

I feel like that one toy send me down a different path than I could have been on. I was partying a lot, and doing lots of stupid shit. However I slowly switched from spending my money on partying to buying toys. It’s hard as hell to afford “party supplies” when you are busy buying toy robots. That being said Hasbro has just released a new subline for Transforms called “Kingdom”. That line is stuffed full of updated versions of Beastwars figures.
I was out shopping a week or two back and came across “my boy” an updated version of Beastwars RatTrap

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Is Kingdom RatTrap the perfect version of Beastwars RatTrap? Not by a long shot, there have been other versions over the years I’ve liked a lot better, but they were a bit complicated, and that took away from the fun factor. He is a simple fun figure, and well worth the $10 to dredge up good memories for me.

Uh if you like to see a 40 year old man ramble about plastic robots., well you are in the right place.

Uh please look forward to me talking about transformers toys and putting up photos.