Even though I have given up collecting Star Wars stuff (for more on this, click here: http://blogs.starwars.com/Rayten/40), I still visit the toystore every now and then to check out the new Star Wars toys they have. And today, for some reason I decided to pick up the Star Wars: Transformers toys for a good look at them. This particular line of toys (possible because Hasbro owns the copyrights to Transfomers and the toy rights to Star Wars) has been released for a quite a while now, but I never really gave them much notice as I didn't like the idea of it (until today at least), mainly because I'm a very strict SW canon fan, I don't buy into the Expanded Universe, or Infinities, or Lego SW.

So, there I was, taking my first good look at them. I must say that for the first time in I-don't-know-how-long, I felt like a child again. I really liked what I saw, and as I held them in my hands, I recalled my childhood days, how I had always wanted a Transfomers toy, but never got one. I wanted it so bad, I lusted for it. My parents just wouldn't buy them for me. When I was losing hope that I would ever get to own a Transformers toy, I just wished that I could just play with one, even for just a short while, at least transform it once.

Until now, I have yet to own a Transformers toy, or played with it even once. I had a few toys that could transform, from vehicle to robot, but they were extremely small and simple (less than the size of my palm, and made by some lousy no-name toy company), and not real Transformers material. The closest I came was this fake Optimus Prime, which my father bought from some garage sale. It was based on the original OP design, entirely white in color, except for its blue window panes; and it was missing a head, hands, and the cargo area (which in the original cartoon series, just disappeared to who-knows-where whenever OP transformed into robot form). I would transform it countless times a day and it only made me lust for an actual Transformers toy even more.

Out of all the SW:Transformers toys that were hanging on the rack, I liked the Darth Maul/ Sith Infiltrator (it is one of my favorite ships in SW after all) one the best. It's well designed, and looked good enough to me to make me want to buy it. I could finally own and play with a real, original Transfomers toy, even though it's half Star Wars. The only thing stopping me from buying it was the fact that I was now a grown man, and had since long ago gotten over my Transfomers toy lust.

As I contemplated over whether to buy it or not, I turned around, and there was a whole shelf of the "100%" Transformers. My eyes zoomed into Optimus Prime, and it was so cool-looking and huge; even had three transforming modes. Then I looked at the price tag, nearly S$100, compared to the S$39.90 for a half Star Wars one.

I like Star Wars about a billion times more than Transfomers and most other things, and so I decided that if I'm going to buy, I'll buy the half Star Wars one.

But... I left the toystore empty handed, not that my mind was fully made up against buying it. I might eventually buy it, it's just one of those things that I want to buy, but don't really need. So for now, I'll just keep it in my mental list of things which I may eventually buy.