March 2008 Archives

I like when customizers take some some liberties to repaint a toy.

I noticed this "Movie" Ultra Magnus custom today

Custom Ultra Magnus

Custom Ultra Magnus

The red works as-is, and I like just the small areas of blue in the cab for the flames to contrast against.

This custom Classic Megs is great too.

I think that if I just watch the episodes of Transformers: Animated that do not have human villain/criminal antagonists and only focus on the appearances of Decepticons I can find a lot more enjoyment in watching a kid's show.

That being said, I'm still trying to figure out exactly where in Michigan (or Ohio for that matter) some of these shows can take place in.

Dinobot Island is likely Pelee Island or maybe Middle Island.

However, some of the strange pine forested mountainous landscapes don't quite make much sense to me.

Michigan has some higher areas, but nothing that I can remember actually ever looking like it does in the show, especially in southern MI where these series takes place.

Come to think of it, when I become that successful television producer, I plan on many shows taking place in Ohio and I'll be sure to put mountains on the horizons no matter where in the Cowlands the story will take place!

And here is the moment it turned into.

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One of you who I can't remember recently asked me if I was going to sell my PVCs.

Anyway, as I said, I'm not, but I did just find this auction for a shitload of them!

Have at it!

Fresh and exciting.

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Finally!

Someone new!

Keep adding to the list with fresh faces and my opinion may change.

Well.

Maybe.

You see.

I don't really want to be a hater.

I don't want to become the type of fan I can't stand.

But I need more new hotness in my life now.

Catch phrases!

Every cool hip cat on the internets has 'em.

While I never use them in real life, the have embedded themselves at various times as literary devices into my online persona.

And... thanks to a recent Gil Thorp strip... I have my new one.

My new catch phrase!

Get ready for taco casserole!

Note quite as good as "Who wants chowder?" but what can you do?

Must have Lego Sandworm... NOW!

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Now it is obvious I have a certain love-hate relationship with transforming robots, all of that interest pales in comparison to my true love of Frank Herbert's Dune, God-Emperor of Dune, and the other 4 novels.

Yes. Here at The 'Crack, those fan fiction novels that have been produced over the past years by certain low-talented writers under the Dune banner do not even exist in their own little bubble continuity. They are kindling and that's about it.

Anyway, I've never had any wish for ancillary crap about Dune at all. In fact, I've never purchased any of the (crappy) 80s movie toys even. And that's a good thing.

However, while catching up on my reading at Toybender today I came across this awesome little Lego Dune creation!

I love the Fremen with their thumper, stillsuits, and chrysknife!

I'm wondering what I'd have to do... and the cost associated with it... to buy enough of the right Lego sets to make me a full-on Leto the God-Emperor surrounded by a 20-30 Fish Speakers!

Or Darwi Odrade leading the Bene Gesserit against the Honored Matres... all in Lego plastic goodness.

Hmmmm...

I love my Daddy!

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Big Daddy!

Now this is the way this mold is supposed to have been painted!

The predominantly orange and black colors, with a bit of light blue and silver/grey really works.

The red flames and exposed carb just make this one of the best painted alt modes in 20+ years of TFs.

Now the original Cybertron Wheeljack Downshift was ok, but with this repaint in Big Daddy hotness comes a repaint that is worth every penny.

However, with that said, mine has awful quality control as is even broke.

The silver should paint is really bad and the one clip to hold his waist to his chest is broken off.

Revoltech Starscream

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Revoltech Starscream

Revoltech Starscream is the 2034th Transformer that I've acquired.

Revoltech Hot Rod

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Revoltech Hot Rod

Revoltech Hot Rod is the 2033rd Transformer that I've acquired.

Transformers Henkei Megatron

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Transformers Henkei Megatron

Damn! He looks nice.

I so so so so so wish I had my light box for some decent pics.

Alas, I got this shit.

Transformers Henkei Megatron is the 2032nd Transformer that I've acquired.

Transformers Movie Big Daddy

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Transformers Movie Big Daddy

So DL had an extra Big Daddy and quite frankly I no longer have the inclination to drive around the frick'n Cowlands looking for a silly toy.

So I bought it off of him.

Transformers Movie Big Daddy is the 2031st Transformer that I've acquired.

Emergency Post (Hopefully)

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I don't even know if this post will work.

Whatever the problem is, this blog installation is probably toast.

Working with Dreamhost support hasn't helped yet.

I've downloaded Putty and tried ssh into the server and looking and stuff like their Wiki said but my Unix days are way in the past and I'm lost with this shit.

The one email response said something... and I really found this funny...

Looking at your access logs I don't see anything out of the ordinary,
although I'm not used to dealing with MT. To be honest, the moment MT
sites become somewhat popular they generally outgrow shared hosting. This
may be the reason why.
So see... I can blame you all! :-)

Seriously though, I can't explain the problems and apparently they can't but it all started right after they had their server cluster problem.

Oh...

And I came home today to a box that I thought was Henkei Megs and the 2 new Revoltechs but it was actually my birthday present from Giga.

And for my birthday... Moxie?

Yup!

Moxie!

I had never had it before.

It is... oddly amusing.

Anyway, hopefully things'll be back to running normally and I'll be back to normal and jaded about Transformers for the week.

Though seriously... the thought of dumping some boxed Armada and Energon stuff at the con has brightened my week considerably.

However, don't make me comment on David Kaye as a guest at the con. As my friend said in an email this morning...

All we need now is Simon Furman, Scott McNeil, and Peter Cullen, and I will have absolutely no reason to come back on Saturday.
So glad I'm not staying all weekend. I guess it's nice for people who have never met him. But I really don't need to hear another 10 people ask him to say "Yessssss" in his Beast Wars Megatron voice. Or ask him how to break into voice acting. Ugh."
Yeah... that's about what I thought too.

Absolutely zero care in the world.

And I got White Castle coffee too!

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So for the birthday, former Nala roommate The Pickett found and printed out these custom paper Transformers.

Birthday present from The Pickett

I'm thinking they might have been created by the guy that does that that Incredible Change-Bots comic. Or at least the instructions pages sure look like his style.

Any of you guys seen these before?

What's really funny is the paper G1 Megatron looks a thousand times better than the actual G1 Megatron toy!

Teresa <---- Got it go'n on!

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Wow!

Teresa got it go'n on!

Giga emails me he's reading one of his sites and they're blogging about Teresa sewing!

What a bad crazy net the internets weave.

Unbelievable pleasure can be yours.

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So Giga has a bunch of tables for the next Columbus Toy Show.

I've given up on using it as a venue to sell off Transformers.

The effort to lug the TF crack there and setup never pays off in the same way that Giga's DC superhero crap does.

However, since we have to get his shit out of storage plus the comics I'd like to unload at the show, it may be prudent to try and find the TF crap anyway and try to get rid of it at the GRC.

Thing is though... I really don't want people I don't know in my room.

I know that is silly, but I'm just not keen on it.

If it was one of those Embassy Suites again with the private bed room and public front room I wouldn't think twice since I wouldn't have to put stuff all over the bed or what have you.

Then again, if I only took MIB stuff it would be easier to track and I could setup a table or some such shit in the room.

Grrrr....

I still got a month to decide.

Insomia beckoned me to the computer and I saw some pics at Tformers tonight.

I was never a fan of the Energon Hot Shot mold so I was shocked (and rather surprised) that FP's retooling for the Transformers Club Nightbeat figure actually removes a lot of the suck.

The Hot Shot head really didn't do anything for the body at all but this new head sculpt definitely looks tons better.

Even in the alt mode It really does look like a totally different toy.

Amazing with a little work and a color palette change can do.

Alas, Botcon Richochet still leaves me apathetic.

Now just like the Movie Jolt repaint, I think the car looks great.

Those colors work so well but then once transformed, he just looks so awkward with the black head and hands.

He looks like a total Big Lot Chinese knock-off to me.

Stepper versus Meister

Now Richochet, aka the robot originally known as Stepper, is pretty much an exact inverse of Meister, aka Jazz.

Obviously, I didn't remove the flame sticker or anything but you can see from a simple Photoshop invert that they are opposites so to speak. (Jazz would look kinda cool with the blue flames.)

And even though I'm not a fan of that robot at all, I still think that the original Stepper deco would had been far more pleasing to the eye than what they are doing.

The whole Earth-3 theme doesn't do anything for me toy-wise, and I'm just not seeing much in Botcon Richochet to love.

I mean, FP more or less regurgitated Botcon Jazz without varying much from his G1 appearance so I can't figure out why they just didn't do the inverse here for Richochet too like the original Stepper.

If they didn't do any strange wording on him, then at least he could be used as a "Classics Richochet" for those who get off on the Classics stuff.

For the attendee figure, I guess I wish they'd have done something really unique and special since the volume is so low. Something to make you feel like you really get something for the effort and money you put out to travel and then spend hours in a line.

Hell... in retrospect, last year's translucent blue Mirage looks far more exciting than this year's figure. But I love the Mirage mold so that doesn't help me be objective here at all.

Oh well.

I just can't get over the knock-offishness of it.

And Botcon Blurr ?

Sorry. Double plus ungood bot there for me. I'd forgotten about the Armada line until they dredged this one up.

Once again though, the car alt mode looks great. The lightning paint deco is fantastic and the blue on the black is surprisingly sharp.

If for some reason these guys to make it to The Domicile without being sold off, if I even get Blurr, they'll definitely be in car mode all the time.

TJFT!

Now some of you may have heard that Sci-fi actually got their asses out of their heads this time around and will be airing the new season of Doctor Who starting in April which will only be a week or two off from the BBC1 debut.

However, and this is the balls shocker... they picked up The Sarah Jane Adventures too!

The Sarah Jane Adventures

I just didn't think it would happen at all.

The Sarah Jane Adventures, even aimed at a younger audience, is a thousand times better than the balls sucking stink pile that is Torchwood.

So Battlestar Galactica starts up again April 4. Sarah Jane starts April 11 and I believe that new Who will begin on April 18.

I think those'll fill my Futurama emptiness.

S'gonna be one helluva spring time on the tellie!

Robot Devil and Fry

I'm feeling almost lost without any new Futurama to watch.

For the past month or so I've been rewatching all the seasons, an episode or two a night before I crashed, and I recently finished the "The Devils Hands are Idle Playthings" and well... that's it.

There were quite a few episodes in season 4 that I hadn't seen when they were broadcast because FOX constantly preempted the show because of football or the like. 7:00pm on Sundays was the worst frigg'n place for it. Why they didn't put it at 8:30 after The Simpsons is beyond me.

What started my recent Futurama geek-on was finding Season 3 for $20 at some video gaming store and then just realizing I needed something without much investment every night. Well... that became a "must have" every night.

"The Beast with a Billion Backs" can't get here fast enough!.

The DVDs are worth every penny. Every single creator commentary is worth it too. You really need to rewatch each episode with the commentary on. I can't say that about too many DVDs.

That's the beauty of this show: it was by geeks but not necessarily for geeks!

Lrrr and Ndnd

I'm hoping eventually that figures of Lrrr and NdNd are made.

I do believe that the back and forth married couple bitching between Lrrr and NdNd in "Spanish Fry" may be some of the funniest dialogue I've ever heard. No. Really!

However, I'd pee my pants and blow the Robot Devil himself for a Tinny Tim figure!!! It'd be fantastic if they could make one like the Simpsons figures that have audio clips that play.

Tinny Tim is the greatest character ever!

Tinny Tim is the greatest fictional character ever!

All good things come from Tinny Tim you gentle jerkwads!

Don't forget it!

Ever!

I wear my sunglasses at night...

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These'll do.

I'm extremely pleased with my new frames.

They've got the early 60s vibe that I wanted and they're wide enough too.

Lesson learned: Pick your frames before they dilate your eyes!

A new empire in rags...

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Got an email that my TakaraTomy Henkei Megatron (old school grey and black Classics Megs) and my two new Revoltechs are in at BBTS. I should probably release them as-is and not wait for my Henkei Astrotrain.

After TakaraTomy's reuse of the movie packaging, I was kind of surprised to see that their Classics version is actually back to their own type of packaging.

Ok. I must shower and get to work.

I figure it being a xristian holiday and all, nobody will bother me except the security guards doing their rounds and I can catch up on all kinds of shit.

13870 +1

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Older.

I had a discussion recently with a long time Friend Of The Crack and I really can't disagree with him at all.

Now he's been an attendee of the GRC since either the first or second one and his addiction has spanned many more years than mine, moving with the ebb and flow of Transformers product throughout the various eras.

I went with him to my first GRC back in 2003 and every year since but this year, for both of us, the love just isn't there any more. Not only for the con but for a good chunk of everything else!

He mentioned to me that he probably will now only make a day trip of it, and then only because he's got to get the things he's already paid for . He's even considered taking the small hit and canceling his Primus package because he just doesn't care anymore and the expense can't be justified this year.

He's even decided to drop the monthly hamster cage liner and once again, I can't fault him for that one bit.

The thing is... if it wasn't for wanting to get my yearly fix of Zeta Convoy, Mr and Missus Duce, Despotes, and the few others I enjoy meeting up with, I would probably just do exactly the same thing!

The chance to see these people is the only thing keeping me from total apathy right now. My sense of being... and I use this loosely... part of the fandom... revolves around the people I've met and has absolutely nothing to do with the product any more.

The con toys this yearhave zero interest for me. Zilch.

If I don't dump them immediately at the con for maybe dealer table credit I may end up quickly breaking up the sets and auction them or offering them to you all. (My honest feeling on this is that a lot more people will be dumping this set than keeping it so I've got to try and do it before others do.)

This may change when I see the actual figures but quite frankly, I know right now that Jazz, Richochet, Goldbug, the minicon, and even the Prime hold no real interest for me. And my Starscream interest is really tenuous at best.

In our discussions, my friend and I kept coming back to the same problems we have with FP and the con in general now and sure enough, I think a huge part of our issues are with something I've talked about a lot on here: the adult collector.

Neither of us really can tolerate spending money on events or things that we do not know exactly what we will get before hand.

And Botcon unfortunately, is now all about prepaying for something vague and even then historically the same old thing over and over again.

I don't care what the FP apologists say, the fact there's no guest list, and especially one of any uniqueness or caliber, really has to warrant consideration for me again.

I've plopped down thousands of dollars to attend professional conventions and conferences and I know up front exactly what I'm getting and when I can attend it.

Should I expect any less from a toy convention where my typical expenses still run around $1200 or so?

Hell no!

Toy conventions, useless clubs, blogs, and all the other pointless shit don't even bring any enjoyment to me anymore.

And my fandom frustrations? Oy koledy! I don't even want to go there.

I don't even care to even post here anymore (and certainly not contribute elsewhere)... if I did I'd have finished the site redesign and such but it just doesn't matter. This was only supposed to be an online database to keep track of what I owned.

Indeed... maybe it is time I swallow my own pills and remember that they're just fucking toys and move on and pursue my adult interests because frankly, like my friend, when it comes down to it, I really don't care any more either.

Kid's toys, a kid's cartoon, and shitty Hollywood movies based on kid's toys and kid's cartoons aren't worth wasting time on anymore. My own retardation is the only reason I can say why I've lingered for so long with this crap.

My adult frustrations with the con are merely just the tip of the proverbial iceberg for me. Most of you probably know this already. Especially you long time readers.

Maybe it is indeed time for me to just enjoy the little bits of this addiction on a personal level and to say Do widzenia to all this online and fandom toy silliness.

Add 3 extra inches!

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C'mon now.

Which one of you is gonna drop that extra $18,000 you have on stupid toys?

Your child can go without food for a few months.

They're young and resilient. They'll bounce back.

And you can have that Fortress Maximus and Monstructor you've always wanted.

What's funny is that there was a time in my life when I would have been ganked about this.

But there is nothing original anymore.

Absolutely nothing.

Instead of taking a dead franchise into someplace new they just basically are doing what Hollywood always does: the same old shit.

The mere fact that all these characters appear to be in what amounts to a prequel to the series just doesn't ring true to anything remotely like the military would be. Especially where certain much older doctors are concerned.

While I suppose I wish it well, it just pains me to see thing like this created purely because Hollywood and a few... they call themselves creators... can't do anything remotely original.

However, if this fails to do any box office, then man oh man is the franchise truly dead and I'll stand by my post from 2 years ago and say yet again it needs to be dead for many years before trying to bring it back.

Transformers Movie JoltYeah. I had to get him. I was really looking for Big Daddy but alas, he was not to be found.

And the grey and purple goodness just appeals to me so much. I just can't explain it.

Now I will say he'll never be leaving car mode. I can't stand the bot mode on him at all but I do love the car a lot.

I almost bought Stockade and Divebomb but I really didn't want Stockade and Divebomb's paint deco is actually pretty garish.

Oh well... I must now find me the Daddy of Bigness!

Transformers Movie Jolt is the 2030th Transformer that I've acquired.

And he still hates you.

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kiddie shockwave, originally uploaded by puppylove2363.

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While Nala is not usually into "super-deformed" or kiddie stuff, frequent commenter Teresa's drawings on Flikr caught his eye.

Even Kiddie Shockwave still hates you.

She captured the utterly cruel master of Cybertron perfectly.

No matter how he's drawn.

He hates you.

Pssst... take it to 11... have him holding a small version of himself in gun mode.

Now that's a Shockwave that really really really hates you by flaunting his awesomeness right in your face!

Swarms of Transformer-style robots to be built (The Telegraph)

ThePickett™, aka a Mr. Kelmeister and also FRoN posted this on one of my other blogs.

A £4.6 million project to create swarms of hundreds of autonomous, Transformer-style robots has been launched.

Scientists aim to create a prototype team of self-organising, shape-changing mini robots that work as a team by 2013.

The self-healing robots will be able to dock with each other, share energy and co-operate to maximise their abilities to achieve different tasks.

It then goes on to say...
Prof Winfield denied the swarms could go wrong and cause harm to humans, but said scientists could not take responsibility for how societies decided to use them.

"It might sound like something scary from science fiction but it's not, it's just a complex engineering system.

We are so going to have ourselves a Butlerian Jihad a couple of hundred years from now.

Well.

Maybe not.

We'll probably kill ourselves off before the thinking machines enslave us.

On the flip (and totally unrelated) side, I'm thinking there's a thesis in this somewhere in regards to the number of scientists who predict shit in the 10-15 year period that never ever amounts to anything.

Hell. We need 50-60 mile per gallon engines (or km per litre for my non-Murican brethen) before we need frigg'n minicons terrorizing our lives.

I can imagine that thesis defense too... almost like out of a Carlin routine.

"Eh! Your full of shit! It is now a proven fact that 9 our of 10 scientists in *fill in the blank* field are full of shit!"

Damn! This took a shitload of work!

There's something incredibly mesmerizing about his pelvic thrusting during the YMCA song.

Which is incredibly sick isn't it.

I was happier then with no mind-set.

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So apparently the Gay Robot Convention registration crap is in the mail.

Some peoples on the Club board got them already.

It angers me to a degree... well a lot actually... that there are still absolutely no guests listed at all.

Part of me, the retarded part actually, always gives FP the benefit of the doubt, and then the other part of me constantly wonders if they really don't have too much in the queue and that's why this shit gets dragged out for so long.

Do any of you go to the Dollcon? Is it run the same way as this?

Personally, I'm hoping for a reappearance by that guitarist from that band that played that one song on the 80s soundtrack. He was so awsome!!!

mrduce1018 has popped up on the Club boards which always heralds that the GRC is near. At least I think so.

Me popping up on that board is actually a definite indicator that the con is coming. Woozles however seems to be all over that. I haven't figured out if he intentionally causes trouble or not. (I kind of hope that's the affirmative!)

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to seeing zetaconvoy, mr and missus duce1018, Woozles, creepy snack stealing/eating boy, and so many others.

I just wish I were in better health. Why couldn't the damn thing been after summer! Grrrr.

Thalidomide Megatron really really really hates you.
Window Revoltech Megatron hates you.

What's funny is that a part of me wants to always think of Megatron as this penultimate, and relatively honorable, emperor of (moderate) destruction and then I make the mistake of putting in the G1 DVDs and I'm once again reduced to thinking of his weekly "scheme to steal earth's energy" ploys.

Screw you and your ruby crystals!

If you really look at the true canon of G1 cartoon characterization there ain't a whole lot to appreciate about the guy.

However, with that said, he sure as hell had a lot more to do in any single minute than that lame ass other version. Hell... I'll take a whining psychotic Galvatron over that even!

Can someone remind me why Frank Welker couldn't have been hired to provide those 10 lines of dialogue again?

WWCSD?

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Internet acquaintances, my brothers in Polonia, fellow geeks-in-geekdom, lend me your eyes.

I come not to bury Nala... just to bury his will and self-control.

No. Really.

One side of my internal monologue has declared shenannigans and is seeking fisticuffs with the other side of my internal monologue over the dumbest possible thing that I've even blogged about recently.

Do I... or do I not... buy BT-19 and BT-20 to continue the now complete Binaltech, Binaltech Asterisk, and Kiss Play collection that I own?

Hell... I even own E-Hobby Rijie and Wonderfest Black Convoy!

That is the question... do I... or do I not?

It is during trying questioning times I ask myself "What would Crazy Steve do?"

Ya know... that's not too bad of a question to ask myself everytime I waste money on useless crack.

WWCSD?

G'bye Mr. Stevens.

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Dave Steven's The Rocketeer

Most of you probably don't know who he is, but Dave Stevens recently passed away from leukemia.

His character The Rocketeer was one of the first characters a 12-year old Nala was introduced to outside the often limiting confines of DC and Marvel comics.

He was an incredibly fine illustrator and painter.

Phantom Lady and Silver Age Catwoman

His full page illustrations of Phantom Lady and the Golden Age Catwoman from DC's 80s series Who's Who are still two of my favorite superhero illustrations of all-time.

I mean... Sandra Knight kicking Nazi ass drawn by Dave Stevens? S'like a slice of heaven there kids.

Transformers Encore Ironhide

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Transformers Encore 05 Ironhide


Encore Ironhide is the 2029th Transformer that I've acquired.

Transformers Encore Ratchet

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Transformers Encore 06  Ratchet


Encore Ratchet is the 2028th Transformer that I've acquired.

Revoltech No. 25 Megatron

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Revoltech No. 25 Megatron


Revoltech Megatron is the 2027th Transformer that I've acquired.

Ugh,

I think my headache is from trying to work with this Movable Type system.

That? Or I'm having a stroke.

Wet and ready for penetration.

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The day after: Sunny as could be.Well, even though I've been snowed in the past 2 days, I've actually accomplished nothing but shoveling inches and inches and inches of the shit over and over again. Thankfully the storm is over and done with and now we can deal with the water that'll be created from the melting.

I've slacked off totally. No work on the website. No work in getting really started on Domicile Project 4.

All I did was finally watch Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Superbad. Damn I loved Superbad!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse as "Macluvin" has got to be one of the funniest characters I've had the pleasure of watching, made even more so great because I remember many guys like him in high school. (What's creepy is that I was 19 frigg'n years old when this kid was born! Talk about something to really start the depression on a Sunday morning!)

Oh. And I rewatched Futurama: Bender's Big Score because I've been on a major Futurama kick. I think the season 4 set would have arrived yesterday if it had not been for the weather. Thankfully Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs will be out in less than 10 days!!!

I suppose I should get dressed and try to get the cars out of the snow since the sun is making it wet and ready for penetration by my shovel. Maybe even try to get the Beetle down into the street.

Getting it back up into the drive should be easy since there's not much in the way of ice.

I saw this link over at Hoop's site and found it pretty funny.

From the best Google can translate, it looks like a custom Energon Tow-line homage out of an Encore Ratchet.

Custom Energon Towline

Though I have no idea what " ビークルモードは..."左のいらない部分をそぎ落としたら右になりました" ってカンジ?" really means.

The Google Translation of "Vehicle mode is left to whittle the unwanted portion" leaves a lot to the imagination.

I assume it refers to the platform part.

The snow. It has stopped.

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See the subject?

After 36 or some such ungodly number of hours the snow has finally stopped.

All I can say is this is going to be a major bitch when it melts.

The ground around here can't take any more moisture.

So many people's basements, including mine, have had water leaks or flooding.

And when this 15-18 inches of snow melts it'll be that much worse.

It has been snowing for a little under 24 hours. There have been a few lulls here and there but we've got at least 8" or so and it isn't supposed to stop until 5pm or so.

We may just end up with 10-12" total.

Cowtown Snowstorm - Clintonhood under 10 inches

Cowtown Snowstorm - Clintonhood under 10 inches

Cowtown Snowstorm - Clintonhood under 10 inches

Cowtown Snowstorm - Clintonhood under 10 inches

I shoveled for an hour yesterday and Giga shoveled this morning but every time you clear something more snow just comes in (or blows in dammit) to fill the space!

Cowtown Snowstorm - Clintonhood under 10 inches

And Hoont Poop Zones? Ugh! Almost impossible to keep clear.

It is a sad sad thing when the snow is taller than your dog.

Holy shit! Cowland snow!So about 20 minutes or so our little fun and exciting Winter Snow Warning was upgraded to a Blizzard warning with the possibility of an additional 3" to 10" over the 3-4 we already got.

While we've had shitloads of rain, we've been pretty much snow free most of the season.

That's about normal for Cowtown where December through February is pretty much just a damp grey dreary want-to-slit-your-wrists kinda of season.

I spent an hour getting the snow shoveled but if it picks back up like the weather geeks predict then it'll have been for naught.

Looks like I'll have a full weekend to work on getting the the site redesign finalized and try to at least get the future layout spread to the entries and archives. There's so many frigg'n templates to search out and redo. Not fun.

2008-03-07-chick.jpgMaybe it is because I'm just a TF guy with the occasional foray into Getters and 80s Micronauts but can somebody out there explain to me who would buy this and why would they buy it?

I don't understand a lot of that sorta-deformed-lolita-anime-half-naked teen girl crap.

Be it statue, poster, figure, or what have you.

So according to Mister Terrific, the folks that bring you Dollcon are having a contest to create a 25th Anniversary Custom Figure.

And little do you all know that I've secretly been waiting all these years to unleash upon the poor and downtrodden masses the most awesome G.I.Joe character never created!

Yes!

It is true!

I may have to unleash one of my most cherished 1980s creations: Swamp Ass™.

And yes, he's a Dreadnok if you didn't know.

Damn you Frowny McBeardo!!!

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Revoltech Megatron ThumnailSo I've been emailing back and forth with the awol Frowny and while he doesn't send any regards, I can assure you he's alive and well.

Our conversations turned to JRSToyworld and I had quite frankly totally forgotten about that store.

Of course, they had some shit on sale that I wanted and I also snagged some surprise crack for Giga as an Arbor Day present or something.

Revoltech Megatron?

Yup! And JRSToyworld has him on sale for only $16.99!!!

That's the cheapest I've ever found him. I'd have bought him from BBTS with the other order but they were sold out.

I bought a few other Encore things that were on sale.

I kind of feel guilty about that though since I don't really get off on the G1 stuff.

Oh well.

Once an addict... always an addict.

But something happened at work today that makes me feel good enough to wipe the toy guilt out this time.

He acts three when he chokes.

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Playmobil

Kelmeister sent me this great link to Amazon.com's customer reviews of the Playmobil Security Checkpoint toy set.

I was a little disappointed when I first bought this item, because the functionality is limited. My 5 year old son pointed out that the passenger's shoes cannot be removed. Then, we placed a deadly fingernail file underneath the passenger's scarf, and neither the detector doorway nor the security wand picked it up. My son said "that's the worst security ever!". But it turned out to be okay, because when the passenger got on the Playmobil B757 and tried to hijack it, she was mobbed by a couple of other heroic passengers, who only sustained minor injuries in the scuffle, which were treated at the Playmobil Hospital.
I love when geeks bomb open review submissions like this.

Yes! I have a flag!

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Eddie Izzard

Holy shit!!!

Thanks to Kelmeister's alert, and Giga figuring out what the presale code is, I just snagged us 2 super mega decent seats to Eddie Izzard here at The Palace for his May show.

This is better than toy robots!

Lots better!

LugnutIs it wrong to just automatically love a figure without even owning it yet?

I ask this because it has been a rare occurrence where I actually almost feel that a frigg'n toy arouses arousement in me.

And man oh man... Lugnut arouses mega major... how does one say...amor plastico in me.

It has gotta be the purple and grey and obvious Shockwaveyness of him.

I mean sure, he looks like a typical game drone or something like the toys that were created for the movie tie-in shit.

But damn!

He's fine!

I wonder what Wave he'll be released in.

Greetings.

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Hey.

How's it go'n?

You do'n well?

That's cool.

Anyway, I'm very very very close to starting what likely may be a first for pointlessly lame Transformers blogs.

Then again, I've been blogging the Transformers lameness for so many years now that I've probably had a few more firsts than I ever cared to think about.

But anyway...

I know it isn't Transformers-related in your lives, but it is most definitely stupidly geektastic in my own.

Some of you may think it blog clutter, but I'm going to cross-post the Domicile: Project 4 here since many of you have contributed your thoughts and ideas and have even sent some real good possible links for future elements.

Domicile: Project 4 is the creation of the future Crack Vault™, replacement for the once mighty but now long gone but never forgotten Attic of Love™.

Now my goal is simple: Create a stylish place for my shit that is something an adult can appreciate.

And by adult, I mean it has to be free of so much of what I hate about people's toy rooms. It can't have shelves that cost less and look worse than some of the toys that are sitting on them. It has to be Nala, but it has to be the currently aging Nala and not the 20-something Nala that started buying all this crap.

That's an important thing for me... something that I think can often get lost in the mind of most collectors.

We eventually become very different people from the ones that started collecting. And aesthetics and what we find acceptable at 37 are very different than what we might find acceptable at 21 or even 27.

So.

Won't you join me on my journey of room redesign and remodeling to make the Crack Vault™ not look like shit?

I know you want to.

I've got the Hypno Toad on my side.

I caz has baby sonbot now?

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For the other Mister T...

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Dai Atlas is free!

A totally blurry crappy quick photo for Mister Terrific.

TF Movie Incinerator (Black)  (Takara exclusive)

Damn! I loves the black!

Takara exclusive TF Movie Incinerator is the 2026th Transformer that I've acquired.

Encore Sky Lynx

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Encore Sky Lynx (Takara)

I'm not exactly what the kids call a "GeeWunner" at all.

But Sky Lynx was a figure that if you ever told me they'd re-release him I'd have told you that you were full of shit and then smacked you upside the head for spreading anti-truth.

So... that being said.

I finally gots me a fully operational brand new Sky Lynx.

Encore Sky Lynx (Takara) is the 2025th Transformer that I've acquired.

TF Zone: Dai Atlas mega pvc - (WonderFest 2007 Exclusive)

I'm gonna rip this to shreads later tonight.

TF Zone: Dai Atlas (WonderFest 2007 Exclusive) is the 2024th Transformer that I've acquired.

Fusion Cluster Protoform Starscream

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TF Movie Fusion Cluster Protoform Starscream (Takara exclusive)

Even still in the packaging he's great! Especially if you have a translucent plastic fetish.

Fusion Cluster Protoform Starscream is the 2023rd Transformer that I've acquired.

No toys to be found.

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Came to The Domicile at lunch after voting.

No crack.

Just came home from work.

No crack.

"Out for Delivery" is quite the cruel mistress.

And I want to tap dat azz!

Ok. I'll spill the beans.

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Truck

So I was talking with FP today and they said I could spill the beans about the Botcon 2009 exclusives.

Apparently, due to a constant stream of demands, they've caved in and are going to do a full set of exclusives with a truck theme.

And not only will it be a truck theme, they'll all have special Japanese Dekotora paint jobs and retooling!

I for one can't wait for these.

Awesome!

Totally awesome!!!

Torchwood: Reset

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Holy crap!

One single appearance and she made Torchwood feel fun.

And Jack... he even briefly acted like the Jack from Doctor Who and not the usual version we see on this show.

Bummer ending though.

Wonder if there will be a standard sci-fi clichéd reset in Torchwood's near future.

Tformers Scan of Transformers magazineI've neither read nor for that matter have I ever seen a copy of Transformers Magazine but this post about it over at Tformers.com had something that made me happy.

There's nothing happier than actually seeing a kid with Transformers toys!!!

It puts a smile on my face that the past few GRCs have actually had some kids there, happily playing with toys in the n10zguy and Evebird guarded toy area, while hundreds and hundreds of us whiny ass adult bitches aimlessly wander the same 2 rows of tables over and over and over and over again looking for some ungodly pointless thing to put on a shelf.

I'm happy I'm over my totally insane and pointless "mint-in-box" era of collecting as well.

What a sad thing it is to waste large sums of cash on stuff and then have it sit there unopened on a shelf as it had any real human value whatsoever.

You know that one day I'll just a give my Black Fire Convoy away to some kid or charity.

It is going to happen.

You know it.

I know it.

And on that day, I think I'll let The Hoont chew on Botcon 2007 Thundercracker for kicks too.

TF:A and other crap.

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Finally! Some Decepticons!

I was getting sick of the rejects from the first season of Smallville being used as adversaries.

I'm all about Lugnutz.

And yes, my purple/grey/one-eye fetish must be playing some role here because I'm not usually into the dull lummox type.

I actually didn't mind Blitzwing, even though the multiple personality gimmick kind of got old rather quickly for me. I'm far more into straight up decent characterization.

It'll be nice when these frigg'n toys'll be out.

But man, this is one line where unretooled repaints are going to totally suck in terms of characters.

The design aesthetic is really anti-repaint here because it'll look like the original character with simple a new paint job. (I know. You seeker people just love that!)

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I'm hoping to at least get the entry page and page redesign implemented, along with some tweaks to my CSS.

I'm having problems with the commenting form codes working right in my new layout.

Damn Movable Type 4.1 can be brutal for templating.

Since I'm tearing down and emptying the future Crack Vault for remodeling starting this week, I won't have my desktop tower and files easily available so if it doesn't get done, it won't until I've got the room remodeled and such.

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Got an email from BBTS. My toys'll be here tomorrow! Woot!!!

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