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Moar adventur!

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[queenfanfiction.livejournal.com]

DUDE STOP MOVING AROUND I'M GETTIN' CONFUSED. O_O

[jonaht.livejournal.com]

It's making me dizzy.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

TRAAAAAIN!

I love the train I love the train I love the train :D

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I LOVE IT TOO OMG even though by the time I got home I was like MUST WASH OFF ALL THE TRAIN SMELL.

[aunty_marion]

The end of that train just behind Jack looks curiously like a Cyberman.

[ninquelosse.livejournal.com]

I love how he seems to be gesturing toward the word 'Café' (or Cafe in this case) on the train behind him.

[huesiemama.livejournal.com]

I wish I had neat places to go, to take my Jack and Ianto figures on many an Adventur.

But that would also involve taking them out of their original packaging. Part of me cringes at that, but part of me wants to get all full of fangirl squee and get my play on!

[allmadhere.livejournal.com]

But... whatever is the point of having miniature men if you don't PLAY with them? O.O

[huesiemama.livejournal.com]

I am torn on this. I am of the generation that opened and played the hell out of my Star Wars figures, only to find out to my dismay years later they were worth money if in the original packaging.
Playing, good; money, nice. But of course that would mean I would have to have sold them and parted with them...Blast!

[allmadhere.livejournal.com]

Unfortunatley, I don't think the Torchwood toys are ever going to quite reach the dollar value of Star Wars figures.. (Sorry, Jack.)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL! This is why you buy two. :D I don't figure I'll ever want to sell my Jack figure, so he might as well get a little banged up en route to becoming really special for me. :D

His poor nose is already worn.

[huesiemama.livejournal.com]

I know, I know. Mine were purchased at a gaming convention, so suitcase space was at a premium. I may have to shop online soon or something to pick up some duplicates, so that I may open them up!

[allmadhere.livejournal.com]

His nose? Oh, Jack. What have you been doing /now/?

[queenfanfiction.livejournal.com]

THIS ROFLMAO

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

Glad you're home safe! I woke up around 2, dreaming the train had taken flight and overshot Chicago. I thought, as one does in dreams, "He'll be cold, I'll bet he didn't have a parka...."

[kaesa.livejournal.com]

Last summer, the professor of the class I was taking was delayed for two hours on a Metra train, and in the ensuing conversation, one of the Northwestern students who were my classmates said "Who takes the train? Especially if you live in the city! Why wouldn't you just, like, drive?" I pointed out to them that not everybody enjoyed city driving or city parking to the degree that they evidently did, and that I myself was used to taking the Metra several times a day from suburb to suburb. They expressed concern and horror at this, as though they thought that maybe I was too small to take trains on my own. "Aren't you afraid of the train people?" one asked.

"Oh, the conductors are nice," I said. They are!

"No, not them. The train people."

"...What train people?" I asked.

"You know! Those weirdo train people!"

I'm still not sure whether they were talking about the extensive general weirdness that pervades any large city's public transportation, or people who take pictures of Torchwood toys in public, or vicious nasty aliens. But clearly this is a good thing for Captain! Jack! Harkness! to investigate, and I am glad that he has chosen to do so.

[I know, I know, tl;dr, but I love bizarre train stories.]

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

This is especially funny because they're scared of the people on the METRA.

IT'S THE METRA. It's 99% composed of middle-class suburbanites going to their jobs from the suburbs in the morning and from their jobs to the suburbs in the evening.

Being concerned about some of the folks you run into on the El? Totally get that. There are some superfreaks on the El. Being afraid of people who ride the Metra is like being afraid of accountants or something.

[kaesa.livejournal.com]

I know! I wanted to ask about the city driving thing anyway, because that part didn't make a lot of sense, especially considering that most of their usual conversation was basically "Ugh, I couldn't find a parking spot!" "Me neither!" "WHY DON'T THEY JUST TURN THE REST OF EVANSTON INTO ONE BIG PARKING LOT?" "But then we wouldn't be able to go to Joy Yee's for lunch anymore, and we'd have to go all the way to Chicago to get to an American Apparel!" "...Still."

But then they basically said that they were terrified of those creepy creepy weirdos, other people's embarrassingly boring parents. It was like being in Monsters, Inc. Maybe all of their parents were FBI agents or storm chasers or something?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Wait, they said they were scared of the boring people, or just scared of "creepy people on the Metra"?

[kaesa.livejournal.com]

No, no, just the weirdos that are (apparently!) common on the Metra. (To be fair to them, I have seen creepy people on the Metra, twice, but they did not hold a candle to the weirdness of the people I see regularly on the El. For example, to my knowledge, no Metra rider over the age of eight has ever sat in the middle of the train car roaring violently for his entire ride.)