Children of 1985, Leave Your Transformers at Home!
Some principals just aren’t any fun at all. A Pelican Rapids, Michigan principal, Bill Stutsman, cracked down on his school and 166 Transformers, GoBots, and other transforming robot toys. Considering the story comes from January 30, 1985 and the Free Lance-Star newspaper I guess I shouldn’t be shocked that there were so many transforming robot toys at school.
Still, don’t transforming robots deserve an education?
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It doesn’t say *why* they are considered unwelcome. I can’t see the problem with the ‘bots. Now, the Cabbage Patch Kids are scary…
Ironically, school was one of the only places I could play with Dinobots. One of my elementary school teachers had several Dinobot Transformers we could play with, I think they must have belonged to her son or something. If memory serves me correctly they were Grimlock, Slag, and Swoop. She may have had Snarl also.