I recorded my third daily vlog this morning after a night of work, then Church and then breakfast with my family at my parents’ house. I’m a bit out of it and I totally forgot things like how one show made Wheeljack an Autobot Turncoat, how he was killed off in Transformers 3 and how he was killed in the comics, too. I am about a year or so behind in the comics so he probably has come back by now. But you can check out my video and below is the transcript of the vlog.

Vlog Transcript:

Hey, Happy Sunday Everybody, this is Drew Bennett from BenSpark.com. And today is my day three for blogging every day for 2006. (Yeah I said 2006, so wiped out ugh). I’ve just gotten home from work. Work, Church, Lunch, Breakfast with Family. So, Sundays I don’t get a lot of time to sleep because when I get up it’s take care of the trash and all that stuff and head out to work as quickly as I can. So probably the best time for me to do this daily vlog on a Sunday other than to sneak off to a room for like five minutes while I’m at work which I really shouldn’t do I’ll have to take these and make these right before I head out for the day. So, uh I mean head to sleep, ugh, I’m like out of it.

Talking about today, I thought I’d get into some of the things.. that…. Toys, that I really enjoy. And one of the things that I love ever since I was a kid, about 10 years old 1984 that’s when Transformers came out. I was at the peak time for that toy. And that series and those comic books and the video games, not video games, there were not video games of Transformers at that time. It’s too bad, there should have been, that would have been really cool. Then there was a bit of a lull for me. Then there was a resurgence with more shows and more toys and just tons of things that came back out. I actually even attended two Botcons and those were a lot of fun. One of them was at the release of the Transformers movie, the live action movie that happened in 2007 because Botcon was over in Rhode Island. Which is a stone’s throw from me and so I was able to go there and that was a lot of fun.

I remember my Christmases growing up. At that time when I was 10, 11, 12 I was really into the Transformers and my grandparents would go all up and down the Eastern Seaboard to Bradlees, Zayres and all different malls and stuff. They would look for Transformers for me and Cabbage Patch Kids for my sisters. And I got a ton of Cab… Transformers when I was a kid. One of the very first ones that I ever got was a Transformer called WheelJack and he was a white Lancia. I only remember that he was a Lancia because there was a guy that I used to work with and he owned a Lancia and he was very, very much into that car. I will always remember that guy and that car and WheelJack.

WheelJack actually, he kinda went away a little bit, but then he came back in Transformers Prime which was probably one of the best cartoon series for Transformers that I’ve ever watched. They brought him back and instead of a mad scientist he was really more of a bad ass. He was one of The Wreckers. And he wasn’t, like, one of The Wreckers from the series or anything like that from the comic books. He was one of The Wreckers in this new storyline which was the Transformers Prime. He was a weapons expert and demolition expert. He used these energon swords which attached here on the bottom of his toy. Just one of the coolest characters I really enjoyed from the original G1 series and also Transformers Prime. He was just a cool character so whenever a WheelJack figure comes out I’ll pick it up. This is another one. Then they had these ones called Binaltech or Alternators and they made WheelJack into a Mustang. WheelJack has been all different kinds.

One of the toys that I have of WheelJack is the original WheelJack and it is actually in the box. Now it’d be really cool if I had it with me right now but unfortunately it’s one of those things that I have packed away that I just.. I saw WheelJack on my desk buried under a whole bunch of stuff and thought, “Well, you know what I’ll talk about him today in this daily vlog.” In the future I will show you that WheelJack in the package and my very first WheelJack which is one that is out of the package that I played with. It has a busted wing and is missing some stuff. Anyway, this is Drew Bennett from Benspark.com. You can find me on Instagram as BenSpark. Also on Twitter as BenSpark. On Facebook at facebook.com/ImNotAFamousBlogger and right here. So tell me “What was your favorite toy growing up?” Thanks.