I was six hours into what was then the longest airplane ride of my life, when a friend sitting by the window started rummaging through his bag. He placed several items on his seat back tray before adding what I was pretty sure was the smallest Transformer I’d ever seen. I picked it up, trying to decide if it was supposed to turn into a plane or a laser gun. I couldn’t seem to get it to “transform”, as it were. I finally asked for a little help.
“Dude, what the hell is this?”
He stared at me for a second.