I stopped by Big Lots yesterday with two main goals. Goal one was to buy a blender, which was an entire disaster. I bought a bag of frozen boysenberries at the health food store over the weekend with grand ideals of magical frozen blended treats. Unfortunately I underestimated how much blenders hate me and how full of bazillions of seeds boysenberries are. My second goal was to buy scrapbooking materials because I can never have enough coordinating cut-out martini glass stickers to match all the photos of me getting drunk with my friends. Of course, I can never leave the store without swinging through the toys department.



I stood at one side of the back wall debating with myself if $15 was a good price for a Creepy Crawlers oven and wondering if I could get refill packs of just pink and purple goop. On the other side of the wall was a familiar friend, the bootleg robot line "Quick Change." Unlike previous robots I've encountered from this line, this one was a complete and blatant Transformers rip off, even using the real Transformers logo on the packaging.



When I opened up the two the first two things that hit me were the lack of instructions and how easily the top and bottom parts fell apart. The durability of the plastic is the equivalent of something you'd get of a quarter machine in front of a grocery store. It looks pretty identical in the "Devastator" form, but sadly I don't think I'll ever see it again because I have no idea how to get it back now that I've ripped it apart. There's also odd miscellaneous pieces I'm not sure what to do with and wheels that don't actually move. They tease you by making a couple moving wheels, but most of them are solid plastic. I wouldn't try testing the pieces too much, though, because it's hard to tell which pieces are supposed to move, and which ones you're about to break. There's also a secret robot hiding under one of the trucks that confuses the fuck out of me.

Scrappy, but a great bootleg for $5.

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