awesome 80's childhood: the matrix

---

OTHER PEOPLE HAVE CROSSES

---

If you were a child in the 1980's, the Matrix was at the center of your robotic universe. Long before Keanu Reeves took some crazy pills that were handed to him by a heavily armed and visibly angry black man wearing leather pants in an abandoned warehouse because of something he read online, the Matrix was actually a clever thing.

---

QUALIFIED PHARMACIST

---

See, back in 1985, the Matrix allowed Hot Rod to become Rodimus Prime, light the Autobots' darkest hour, and open a can of thinly-veiled Christian whoop-ass up on Unicron (who had horns, dammit! HORNS!). The Matrix also allowed Hasbro to pump out an entirely new line of toys, which you had to have, because the old ones were - old ... or, something.

In any event, Timothy Miller's Deviant Art gallery had the incredibly dorky totally awesome stained-glass Matrix of Autobot Leadership up there, and I had to post something about it.

You're welcome.