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Popular culture or pop culture is the entirety of attitudes, ideas, images, perspectives, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid-20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century.

Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society.

The most common pop culture categories are: entertainment (movies, music, television, games), sports, news (as in people/places in news), politics, fashion/clothes, technology, and slang.

Popular culture has a way of influencing an individual's attitudes towards certain topics.

A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules.

Some games are based on pure strategy, but many contain an element of chance; and some are purely chance, with no element of skill.

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device, but as of the 2000s, it implies any type of display device that can produce two- or three-dimensional images.

Some theorists categorize video games as an art form, but this designation is controversial.

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form.

Although some origins in 18th century Japan and 1830s Europe, comic books were first popularized in the United States during the 1930s.

The first modern comic book, Famous Funnies, was released in the United States in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor comic strips, which had established many of the story-telling devices used in comics.

The term comic book derives from American comic books once being a compilation of comic strips of a humorous tone; however, this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres, usually not humorous in tone.

The is a line of toys produced by the Japanese company Takara (now known as Takara Tomy) and American toy company Hasbro.

The Transformers toyline was created from toy molds mostly produced by Japanese company Takara in the toylines Diaclone and Microman.

Other toy molds from other companies such as Bandai were used as well.

In 1984, Hasbro bought the distribution rights to the molds and rebranded them as the Transformers for distribution in North America.

Hasbro would go on to buy the entire toy line from Takara, giving them sole ownership of the Transformers toy-line, branding rights, and copyrights, while in exchange, Takara was given the rights to produce the toys and the rights to distribute them in the Japanese market.

The premise behind the Transformers toyline is that an individual toy's parts can be shifted about to change it from a vehicle, a device, or an animal, to a robot action figure and back again.

The taglines "More Than Meets The Eye" and "Robots In Disguise" reflect this ability.