Today, I solved a mystery that has been Perplexing me for over thirty years. It feels like I finally fully unlocked the past...now if I could just remember what was on that weird VHS tape...
Anyway.
As a small child, I received a Christmas gift of this really cool white and blue transforming truck and trailer. I remember thinking it was the coolest, most incredible toy I had ever seen. It was the first time I remember being awed by the plastic stuff the japs were giving us, a trend that would continue deeply into my childhood (Transformers/Diaclone, Power Rangers, Brave series etc.).
Now, every time I tried to remember this toy, I couldn't place what it was. All I knew is it wasn't a Transformer, and it was a blue and white space ship/truck that had folding down wings and folding up wheels. I could remember nothing else. In my memory I could only recall seeing bits and pieces of it.
Well...tonight, I
finally found out what it was. It WAS a Transformers toy after all.
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I had never put the stickers on it, so it just sat within my mind as "blue and white space truck" memory blob, and OF COURSE every time I tried to google search for this thing I just got Ultra Magnus, which didn't fit the memory. In fact I was
this close to replacing this thing WITH Ultra Magnus in my memory because I almost resigned myself to believing I misremembered him.
You have no idea how relieving this was.