toyfu332.bsky.social
Toy-Fu buys and sells Transformers toys, with all of our profits going to the fine people at Mary's Meals! We started in 2009 and have raised over £200,000 so far. Fair prices are always offered, and donations are always welcome.
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What was the Douglas Adams quote?
Something about, if you went to the deepest, darkest, most inhospitable environment on Earth that's technically accessible to humans, and put a button there marked "END OF THE WORLD BUTTON DO NOT PRESS" the paint wouldn't have time to dry?
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Did it help you to post?
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For a line launched in the late 80s, the early 2010s is when the nostalgia wave should have hit. Nothing really came of except for Hasbro doing Matt Tracker as a GI Joe for SDCC.
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One kid who was quite new to the area became a local celebrity because his folks got him the VENOM tanker truck for his birthday. Barely saw some of my friends for weeks because they were over playing with him.
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A kid in my class, who lived round the corner from me, had Boulder Hill.
It seemed like every kid I knew had 1-4 MASK toys, but no-one had one that another kid had. I don't know if it was us or our parents co-ordinating.
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We could find good homes for all of these in no time flat. Prime does nearly as well for us as Animated! Please tag us if you're looking to sell :)
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Were you, by any chance, an owner of one of the Commodore Amiga line of home computers back in the day?
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When I found out about Road Caesar (on Prime Saber's Japanese Transformers site, I think) I immediately went into the cupboard to retrieve my Motorvators from the storage tub.
I plugged Lightspeed and Flame's heads into Gripper's feet, looked at them in bafflement, then took them apart again.
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This is when the lecturer warned us "the general public doesn't think quantitatively". That includes average newspaper journalists and the new head of the USA's Dept of Health.
High fluoride makes people sick => fluoride bad.
The same logic as
You can drown in water => don't drink water
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I learned about this in undergrad. Apparently, parts of Bangladesh have natural soluble fluorides in their groundwater, and fluoride levels 1000s of times higher than in processed tap water. In Bangladesh, these high fluoride levels make people sick.
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Sonic the Comic the Podcast is worth a punt if you enjoy the dulcet tones of Chris McFeeley and/or Dave Bulmer.
They have kept my head together on many a long train journey.
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Yeah, that checks out.
Anything by Noah Caldwell Gervais is worth a listen, especially if you are a fan of a franchise he's reviewing (or long US road trips).
I highly recommend Kill James Bond or Well There's Your Problem for long-form podcasts.
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I mean... if you haven't seen Jenny Nicholson's full review of the Star Wars Galactic Cruise... that'll eat up an afternoon's soundscape.
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I did that with Doom Eternal. I think ID took it personally when people said Doom 2016 was only "quite challenging".
I can't see myself playing Eternal again unless I can find a mod that nerfs the Marauders. From a quick google search, there seem to be plenty options available.
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My mum took me to this to see if I could sit still through Transformers: The Movie. I was 4.
I mean, she wasn't to know.
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That's what decades of being talked about/down to by the media will do to you.
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I would take a Missing Link Slicer ahead of Exhaust, who I think is too similar to Wheeljack.
I could see myself paying over the odds for a (Prime) Dead End version if they wound up doing one for a convention or something.
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I love Aileron. What if Crasher had a Damascene conversion and also a physical conversion to turn into a plane.
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I am intrigued by this... Skeg-Vegas.
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Scotland should do the same thing.
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Oh daaang!
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I haven't done tiktok.
What?
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This is a fine thing to do in midwinter. Midsummer? Not so much.
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If you have
- bought from us
- sold to us
- donated to us
- bought raffle tickets for Matt's customs
- bought TMUK and/or Thunderclash zines
- watched/shared Gavin Spence's TRDQ videos
- watched/shared Gav's numerous TV & radio appearances promoting our work
you rock.
That is all. Happy new year.
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Mary's Meals is currently providing free school meals to 2,429,182 of the world's poorest children every day, with the help of donors like us and local volunteers.
This year, 2,109 of those children are fed by money raised by Toy-Fu.
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Since the November Mini-con in Reading ran during Mary's Meals' "Double The Love" aid match campaign, that last £1,990.50 (someone found 50p on the floor and gave it to me) was aid matched to £3,981.
This brought our 2024 total donation to £40,394.
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@tfnationltd.bsky.social hosted 3 events in 2024 and Toy-Fu was at all 3. We continued to sell off a large collection bought in 2023, which kept our costs down.
After covering costs, we raised £1,407 for Mary's Meals in April, an unprecedented £35,006 in August, and £1,990 in November.