Rip off in disguise

Keeping with the theme of 80′s toys rising from the dead with 21st century movies.  How could you not go wrong with cars that could turn into death machines?  Oh, right, Gobots.

Luckily, my son loves Transformers and they even have re-makes of the “classic” figures from my childhood.  Unluckily, much like most things of this generation, they are cheap and made of all plastic.  In my grumpy old man days, they at least had a little bit of metal in them.  Nowadays, you can rip the plastic legs and arms off and “transform” them like you would “solve” a Rubik’s Cube.  You can even purchase tiny Transformers that don’t transform.  The package actually says, “does not convert”.  Since when does anyone refer to a Transformer’s transformation as converting?  How can it still be a Transformer if it doesn’t convert?

That’s like buying a computer that doesn’t compute.  Oh, right, Macs.