Localized Mandela Effect
This is a crazy one.
I can't remember when I first read about the Mandela Effect, but I do remember the Berenstain Bears one, because I remember my mom reading those books to us, and she pronounced it "Berensteen" (which is how some people pronounce "stein").
But she had not kept any of the books we had as children, so I was not able to personally verify anything. I just shrugged it off. But you keep reading stories of these kinds of things.
Now it's happened to our family, but ONLY our family, and I understand the effect a lot better now.
Here's what happened.
In our years-long quest to collect a good ensemble of G1-like Transformers, I had picked up the Power of the Primes Dinobots. They're OK, but they have this problem in that they were designed to be a combiner, forming Volcanicus. As a result, they're not that great. I have a picture of him somewhere in this stream.
Anyway, when Hasbro started re-releasing the Dinobots as part of the Studio Series, Zoe asked if we could get them because she loves the Dinobots. So I started collecting these ones. At some point in that journey, I got it in my head that Swoop was the last in the series, and I told Zoe, Victoria, and Caleb that multiple times. So when Swoop came out, I picked him up, gave him to Zoe, and she had all of them displayed in her room. At some point she moved them onto a shelf in the playroom.
Well, not too long ago I got a pre notice from Big Bad Toy Store for Studio Series Snarl. And I thought, "That's weird, he was already released. I wonder why they're re-releasing him." About a week later I was looking at the dinobots and noticed there was no Studio Series Snarl. So I got Zoe and we spent about a half hour looking all over the house for him. And we were both CERTAIN that we'd seen him either in her room, or in the playroom, or in some other place, but we could not find him. Caleb also was positive he'd seen him. Victoria was worried she might be the only sane one in the house.
After failing to find him, I started to think that maybe we'd created our own Mandela Effect. Fortunately, Big Bad Toy Store keeps a really long record of your orders. I was able to go back through and see all my orders from them back to the first TF I ever got from them. There was no Studio Series Snarl. We figure what must've happened is that Zoe displayed the old Power of the Primes Snarl with the new Studio Series, until she moved them into the playroom, at which point the old Snarl went to live with the other Dinobots in Caleb's room. And somehow I just got confused over the years and thought I'd already ordered him when clearly, that never happened.
Once we cleared that up, I put in an order for him, and he arrived today. So now, finally, we have the complete set of Dinobots.
I would love to document this as a case study, if anyone knows any Ph.D's studying the Mandela Effect. I mean we were as sure as sure could be that we had this funky piece of plastic. But it just wasn't so.
Localized Mandela Effect
This is a crazy one.
I can't remember when I first read about the Mandela Effect, but I do remember the Berenstain Bears one, because I remember my mom reading those books to us, and she pronounced it "Berensteen" (which is how some people pronounce "stein").
But she had not kept any of the books we had as children, so I was not able to personally verify anything. I just shrugged it off. But you keep reading stories of these kinds of things.
Now it's happened to our family, but ONLY our family, and I understand the effect a lot better now.
Here's what happened.
In our years-long quest to collect a good ensemble of G1-like Transformers, I had picked up the Power of the Primes Dinobots. They're OK, but they have this problem in that they were designed to be a combiner, forming Volcanicus. As a result, they're not that great. I have a picture of him somewhere in this stream.
Anyway, when Hasbro started re-releasing the Dinobots as part of the Studio Series, Zoe asked if we could get them because she loves the Dinobots. So I started collecting these ones. At some point in that journey, I got it in my head that Swoop was the last in the series, and I told Zoe, Victoria, and Caleb that multiple times. So when Swoop came out, I picked him up, gave him to Zoe, and she had all of them displayed in her room. At some point she moved them onto a shelf in the playroom.
Well, not too long ago I got a pre notice from Big Bad Toy Store for Studio Series Snarl. And I thought, "That's weird, he was already released. I wonder why they're re-releasing him." About a week later I was looking at the dinobots and noticed there was no Studio Series Snarl. So I got Zoe and we spent about a half hour looking all over the house for him. And we were both CERTAIN that we'd seen him either in her room, or in the playroom, or in some other place, but we could not find him. Caleb also was positive he'd seen him. Victoria was worried she might be the only sane one in the house.
After failing to find him, I started to think that maybe we'd created our own Mandela Effect. Fortunately, Big Bad Toy Store keeps a really long record of your orders. I was able to go back through and see all my orders from them back to the first TF I ever got from them. There was no Studio Series Snarl. We figure what must've happened is that Zoe displayed the old Power of the Primes Snarl with the new Studio Series, until she moved them into the playroom, at which point the old Snarl went to live with the other Dinobots in Caleb's room. And somehow I just got confused over the years and thought I'd already ordered him when clearly, that never happened.
Once we cleared that up, I put in an order for him, and he arrived today. So now, finally, we have the complete set of Dinobots.
I would love to document this as a case study, if anyone knows any Ph.D's studying the Mandela Effect. I mean we were as sure as sure could be that we had this funky piece of plastic. But it just wasn't so.