We celebrated my son Noah's 7th birthday over the last few days. We had a beach party for his friends on Sunday. Unfortunately we could not shoot of the cache of fireworks we bought due to a strong wind out of the North off Lake Erie, but decided to head back up on his actual birthday, July 3rd, have a fire and shoot of our stash. It was a wonderful night.
The prize presents of the week were the new Transformers that have been marketed to every kid in the the country to go with the new Transformers movie. Now we spent the afternoon at the Paramount Theater in Fremont, watching the new Michael Bay movie, and I must say it was actually one of the best action movies I have ever seen. With that said, I will get back to the topic of this rambling.
The several Transformer toys Noah received were unpacked over the last few days and even though they come with instructions on how to "transform" them, of course they are handed to me to transform them, and make it look easy at the same time, easier said than done sometimes. It sometimes seems like it takes a membership in Mensa to unfold and fold the marvels of plastic engineering.
Some of the Autobots and Deceptacons toys have so many twists and moves to open them up and re-form, I almost consider the Transformer toys the modern day version of the Rubik's Cube. I can only hope that my son and his friends get as much fun from the Transformer toys dexterous moves as me and my friends did when the Rubik's Cube came out in the early 80's.
It is too bad the Rubik's Cube did not transform into some of the cool robots the Transformers do today. Maybe we would not of been so prone to just throw the cube across the room when we could not solve the puzzle as fast as we wanted.
Maybe this is why there was never a Rubik's Cube movie...
