It began, as these things often do, with a tremendous burst of light, an alarming whirring noise, and Toasty MacBun declaring, ‘Oooh, look at all the tiny people! They’re adorable!’ Bob Mordough, by contrast, was less enthusiastic. ‘Adorable? They’re strategically vulnerable! I can taste the power vacuum!’ The two toasters had landed, quite unceremoniously, in…