Thursday, August 20, 2009

5+ ???

Easton's new Transformer came in a box labeled "5+"...okay, Easton is 4.5...he can easily complete a puzzle labeled "5+" by himself. He's a bright kid. But his new Transformer is a pain in the patoot to transform.

I'm 30+ and *I* thought it was hard. The instructions didn't help a bit. Lauren and I were downright perplexed. Eventually once we figured out what his actual model was called (they're very specific, you know) we found a YouTube dork to help us out with a little video tutorial. It still wasn't super-easy even with the grown-up toy geek's help and Easton was itching for his Autobot to get back into vehicle form:
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Just about finished!
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Ta da! And poor Lauren and her sore thumbs:
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We're hoping we can figure out how to transform it ourselves without the dude on YouTube's help and then teach Easton the sequence. I sure hope the one Wabie brings is much easier to figure out!

5 comments:

Kyla said...

BubTar has that one and it WAS hard. I figured it out, after playing with it for a long time (that canon arm is the tricky part!), but BubTar is 7 and SUPER mechanically inclined and it was too tough.

Amanda H said...

Just don't get this one: http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2297752

It is 2 transformers that join together to make the Millennium Falcon. After 8 months of transforming it I think I have it figured out.

I personally like this kind
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3758513

or the Activators. http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3145320

One or two steps to transform them. ;)

~aj~ said...

We were never able to figure out one that Santa brought Adam at Christmas. Ever since that bad experience we've stayed clear of Transformers. They are a taboo topic at our house. lol

Jennifer said...

When I saw Laura, I got excited because I thought we were going to see her Cat Woman costume!

Cori said...

Transformers are HARD to do!!!
Thankfully Luke is still on Thomas.
I can even cheat.. names on the bottom of the trains.
Someone was thinking right that day when they did that :)