Wow! It amazes me the lengths that people will go to in arguing about stupid toys on toy message boards.
On the whole, I really only go into site forums around Gay Robot Convention time to see who will be going and basically what people are looking to buy. I then typically go afterwards to see people's haul pics and then I disappear for another 11 months.
I almost want to jokingly write a "serious" letter to Hasbro and Paramount that the future Transformers film is ripping the fandom apart but I can't muster the effort to really do it. Plus, I really don't have a whole lot of creative skill with words so it would never come out like I intended.
Anyway...
*sarcastically scream-crying* Hasbro... Paramount... please won't you think of the adult toy collectors!?!?! You're ripping their lives apart and causing dissent and hate in the fandom!!!
"What happened to you guys, man. . . it USED to be about the Optimus Prime repaints! And how can you turn your back on RIBFIR/RIRFIB? THINK OF RIBFIR/RIRFIB!?!?!?! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WILL NO ONE THINK OF RIBFIR/RIRFIB?@!??!?!??!?!"
This is exactly why I steer clear of all fandom message boards. (except for the previous occasional trolling and alt.toys.transformers)
Still, I pretty much steer clear of real interaction with ATT. Pretty mucht he only reason I still check it is because it's the first newsgroup I ever started reading/posting to and the only one I've actually stuck with for the past.... 8-9 years?