When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back. Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What the hell am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am?! I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down... with the lemons. I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
Yeah pretty insane. I'm guessing they had many golden touches banked from their buddies, since earlier we saw they had a golden buddy + 2 normals it was probably made golden by eyes of the earthmother. But still, lucky enough to find shops with titus already. Macaw could've been bought and tripled (eyes or normal triple) at any turn before and then was just waiting to transition properly.