Blink...blink...blink....

[dvandom]

I got one of the new wave of Sigma 6 GIJoe figures the other day (Hi-Tech, with HOUND autonomous drone). It had this blinking red LED in the package that could not be shut off. The whole shelf of them was blinking out of synch (although, if they were IN synch it woulda been kinda scary). I figured, well, okay, light-up gimmick for the toy. Cool.

Tonight I finally got around to opening it up.

The LED has a battery pack with 2 AA's. And it has NOTHING to do with the actual toy. At all. Not even a way to connect it to the footlocker you make out of the package endcaps. It's only there to make the packaging more eye-catching.

I'm old enough to remember when LEDs were actually something kinda special. I know they've been dirt cheap for years, but it's still a sort of future shock to realize that they're now at the level of disposable packaging glitz. Wow.

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[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Pink Floyd's Pulse, 1995. Years of sitting in the living room of my apartment, being constantly, subliminally distracted by Zoner's goddam copy of Pulse, blinking relentlessly on the bookshelf across the way. The horror. The horror.

[z4nd4r.livejournal.com]

Oh how I -=HATED=- that album.
For the exact reasons you describe...

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Heh. At least that was packaging you were supposed to retain. Sigma 6 packaging is very difficult to reuse, because you have to cut apart so much to get it apart (at least cut a lot of tape, and then undo some very finicky tabs).