Toys these days, really cool, but they SUCK!

OK one cool thing about having boys is I, as a father, get to "test" the merchandise out. Nothing better than hanging with your son in the toy store. Exclamations of "Dood, check this out!" permeate the air. I am sooooo not like other dads all stick up their ass wearing the black socks with their neatly pressed Dockers scarfing on their Starbucks frappacino half cafe double latte grande mocha latte cappuccino (OK in all honesty I don't know if that drink exists, but it wouldn't surprise me if it does...). Anyway on to my immature behaviour :D My son calls me Dad for the most part and it is a title I wear with pride... most days... unless I am getting checked out by some hotties at the mall then it kinda sucks because I am married with kids but it's still nice to get checked out. And those of you who know me, I do know when I am getting checked out, women are funny when they are checking out a guy. Actually the whole "courting" thing makes me laugh but that is a nother blog. OK back to toys... so anyway when me and the boy are out (he's 5 1/2) checking out the latest wares of Tonka or Hot Wheels he calls me "dood". I like it, it makes me feel like we are more than just father and son... like we are friends which I do hope to cultivate over the next years and well on into his adulthood. So anyway the reason for the trip to the toy store was two fold :D I want a toy too I want a Wii :D and the boy saw some schwag in the flyer that piqued his interest. He had eyes for the Lightning Storm McQueen car and some Tonka stuff and some Transformers (yea baby). I had Transformers as a kid so it was cool to see him take an interest in them... So we check out some Transformers and I talk to him and say well lets check out the Tonka stuff too, you need to make an informed decision of what you want. He couldn't afford the Lightning Storm McQueen soo that was out before we hit the store which he was cool with... oh yeah if you are wondering what I mean by he couldn't afford it, he has a job, he collects the garbage in the house and gets 2 bucks for it 1 of which he has to save and the other he gets to spend how ever he wishes... So he has saved his allowance for like seems like forever, and he's ready to get some schwag for his sweat now. He was all stoked about the Tonka trucks and yeah they are cool and all but I guess the shine sort of wore off them while he was in the store, he just wasn't stoked about them when he saw them. So off we go back to the Transformer display. He saw the motorcycle one and that was a must get and we got some mini ones and a drag racer one. So we we are checking them out and I am "dood check out this one" and he's like "dood this is a wicked one eh?" and on and on it goes. The wife and youngest are looking at us like we are from another planet... well you know what she has a vagina what does she know of Transformers and the youngest is just too damn young to get it. Anyway as we are checking them out I asked him if he wanted bad guys or good guys, ya know Decepticons and Autobots. Well the look on his face, it was priceless, he now had to choose based on good and evil alignments. Well he went with a full Autobot alignment.

So we get checked out and head home. He gets rooked because it's bed time so he can't play, I tell him I'll have them all set up for him for tomorrow, yeah I am a good dad like that. So as I am "transforming" them I see that every piece of them is made of plastic. I am thinking back to when I had Transformers I know they were metal sure they had some plastic parts but the majority of them was di-cast. I found it really disappointing, like it can't cost that much more to make them in di-cast, can it? So I mention it to the woman in our lives and she recalls her brother having di-cast Transformers too... so my suspicions are confirmed. So come on Hasbro get your collective asses in gear and get some good high quality toys out there stop with the cheap assed plastic shit, make some good father and son quality toys and stop yanking your pud.