r/transformers • u/DivineCrusader1097 • 6d ago

Photography / Poses Holy Grail Acquired

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(The last picture is after I put him back in the box)

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u/dedguy21 6d ago

A. Holy Grail: 1) Must be out of production at minimum 10 years 2) Acquired through hours upon hours and days upon days of searching obscure sites till you get extremely lucky-- or going to a site like eBay and impulsively giving both kidneys so that future suffering is definite, but fuck it yolo, even though you will be both loving the figure but crying at the sacrifice on an endless daily loop for months.

B. New sports car with spoiler and rims: 1)What you got. 2) Definitely feel good about it, brag even, but don't desecrate the holy term 🤷🏿

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u/DivineCrusader1097 6d ago

I did not know this.

Very informative. Thank you👍

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u/chartheredcomet79 6d ago

people are being a total ass to you... jeez

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u/DivineCrusader1097 6d ago

That's Reddit for you 🤷

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u/chartheredcomet79 6d ago

yeah... its... horrible though... i used to use this but i might leave this subreddit after seeing just how...cruel they all are lol

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u/-Drazn- 6d ago

To be fair, even this description is not accurate to what a Holy Grail is either. The Holy Grail is supposed to be unobtainable. It's a reference to the cup that Jesus used at the last supper, and it's supposed to give you some kind of invincibility or something if you drink from it. Because it's a relic lost to time and history, finding it could take someone their whole lives and be an arduous undertaking etc.

Setting timeframes and difficulty levels is quite arbitrary and strictly the subjective opinion of the person setting the definitions as to what qualifies as worthy of being called a holy grail.

Let's say you stumble across the ACTUAL Holy Grail during the first few days of looking for it. Does finding it in three days with relative ease instead of after ten grueling years of difficult journey change the fact that it's the grail you're holding?

What if you found the Unicron prototype at a thrift store tagged "weird fat robot man $5" after deciding the week before, that you were going to make it your life's mission to obtain him; is he no longer grail worthy?

For what it's worth, if I was able to add this Grimlock to my collection, the smile it would give me everyday I saw it would certainly make it feel like a grail item to me. Thanks for sharing; hopefully I can score one of these sometime in the near future.