Yeah.
Not much really go'n on in the world of the roboplasticos is there?
The FansProject Ultra Magnus kit keeps looking better and better.
I'm actually kind of liking the repaint Binaltech Arcee.
I had a request from Brunei to try and snag one of the SDCC Nemesis Prime Scourge exclusives so I'll probably get one myself.
I don't think it is possible for me to care less than I already do about Transformers 2.
And I need Robot Heroes Cheetor badly.
How's your world?
So Giga and I spent the evening with Eddie Izzard yesterday for his Stripped tour.
On the whole I really loved it. So far, none of his tours has topped Dress To Kill for me though. That entire routine is gold through and through no matter how many times I see it.
Stripped is very heavy on the religion and god stuff which was actually quite unexpected.
Obviously, if you are paying to go see Eddie Izzard you have to have some knowledge of his work and general style so getting offended at this material would be your own fault.
It seemed to play well to the Palace Theatre crowd. A Tennessee crowd? Probably not so much.
And how often can I get comedy about paleontologists and geologists arguing and fighting?
Not often I tell you!
I'll take every comedy bit about archæology I can find too!
Ok. This photo of Earth-3 Convoy definitely makes the figure look like it is lickable and less than sellable.
I mean... s'kinda sad with FP can't do "make your panties moist" photos of their own stuff to get the conventioneer rabble truly excited.
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Speaking of FP. Did you read the news about their threatening legal action against Chinese ebay sellers with all the stolen toys?
If you really want something funny, try rereading the supposed letter but think of the voice in the video here.
They just not better pull this shit on the toys I wanted to dump out of the box! Not that they are likely to get much out of me in the next year anyway.
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So. While there's something photoshoppy about this, the smaller Energon Galvatron mold that was barely released in 'Murica is a likely Botcon add-on.
If this is real, the head retool works, but the blue translucent parts would have worked so much better for me if they were tranlsucent red.
There I was walking through Target yesterday and I found these totally different packages on the Deluxe Movie figures.
The cylinder packaging, with the figure in bot mode, is really fantastic. I love it.
However, can anybody tell me if it is different from the previous mainstream release?
He looks a lot bluer but I never opened that one so I can't tell.
If you know... tell me.
I'll take this back if it is the same. I do not have a package variant fetish.
Of course, you probably know that I'm an enormous Howard Stern Show fan.
I listen to the show daily on Sirius and also subscribe to Howard TV where I often get my fix of what I miss when I can't hear the show.
Well... the one day (Thursday) when I don't listen some of the most crazy bad shit goes down between Artie Lange and his assistant Teddy.
A verbal tiff becomes an on air fist fight, then Artie accused Howard of being the trigger, and then Artie quits!
Bad craziness!
That explains why when I tuned in after work on Thursday there was a slightly unusual replay of Monday's show and not the Thursday one. Howard apparently won't let the show be heard again and obviously we'll never see the televised footage.
But... thankfully... I got to hear the blow up on YouTube.
Artie's become a vital part of the show for the past 7 years. I can't imagine the show without him.
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So while I spent the day priming and painting, Giga unloaded our offsite storage unit of all of the toys and comics.
Mind you... the garage is already packed with Transformers and the basement has many boxes too.
Somehow he got it all locked up in the garage.
Someday, I hope to actually be able to use that garage to park the car in.
In less than 90 minutes the final season of the best drama series this side of my beloved Snots Landing begins.
Battlestar Galactica is back.
And hopefully, it'll go out in a blaze of television glory!
New BG! New Doctor! New Sarah Jane! And even new Hells's Kitchen too!
Here I am barely watching more than an hour or two of television a week and now all of my favorite shit is all back on!!!
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!
Older.
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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.It then goes on to say...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.
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.We are so going to have ourselves a Butlerian Jihad a couple of hundred years from now."It might sound like something scary from science fiction but it's not, it's just a complex engineering system.
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!"
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.
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.
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!
And Hoont Poop Zones? Ugh! Almost impossible to keep clear.
It is a sad sad thing when the snow is taller than your dog.
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.
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.
So I'm not sure if I'm fighting the influenza or if if I've got some kind of ulcer or other stomach condition going on.
Of and on for the last few days I've felt randomly pukey, but yesterday at work it got bad enough that I came home at 1.
I felt more or less the same this morning so I've taken a sick day to lay in bed and see if it goes away.
Thankfully, I can do a lot of my "virtual paper pushing" remotely so I can still keep in touch via VPN and stuff.
So. I suppose I should look up simple treatments for my symptoms.
Maybe I just have a case of the vapors.
Obviously, with Toyfair in full on mode, there was bound to be some TF-related stuff being announced.
Classics 2 Galvatron was not something that I seem to remember being previously discussed.
I'd say he is a pleasant surprise but I'm not a Galvatron fan at all.
He's like my #2 TF cliche right up there after Unicron.
No doubt G1 Galvatron's introduction as a reformatted Megatron is the cause. It left a bad taste in my mouth character-wise in 1986 and continues to this very day with Hasbro constantly playing the Galvatron card for a Megatron repaint. I'm shocked we haven't seen one in the movie line.
At least this time he's an original mold and that head is really great.
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I shouldn't have been too surprised that they'd regurgitate other molds for Classics 2 but Cybertron Soundwave done up as Blaster?
That really looks like a Botcon kind of repaint.
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The news about Hasbro wanting to get Alternators back on the shelves is about the best thing I could have heard.
I'd still love a Mini Cooper and a Dune Buggy.
Well I've managed to start understanding the new logic in the new Movable Type and was able to get some of these "widget" modules to work.
Figuring out the rather complex CSS styles is always fun.
Managed to implement some changes to the entry page comments too.
It'll come.
But alas, I've wasted too much time today on pointlessness.
I'm done for now.
Hey Geeks!
I saw this CGI old school Getter 1 image somewhere and I'm hoping that one of you may have crossed paths with these before and may know where I, Nala, could find a GGI Getter 2 and Getter 3 like this one.
Any of you seen any of these?
UPDATE:
Found 'em!
And this...
Ahhh...
Man oh I wasted time after school watching the dubber version of this called Starvengers.
And that was on Showtime too!
It took 4 hours to rebuild the archives but everything seems to be working. The rebuild only occurred on part of the archives last night, hence why some pages no longer existed. (I hate to think what the other blogs with 4000+ entries and such will take.)
And for those of you who've been emailing me about comments... they aren't broken. They are just not the same as before.
Back in the day, comment and trackback spam were horrible blog problems and I used the best hacks around at the time to prevent them from queuing up. Since it was a hack, it broke part of MT's authentication and comment options.
That's all operational again.
So... some of you who I've known for years are trusted commenters, some of you get queued for approval, and others will get trusted as they resign in and post for the first time. Some comments, if not relative, will get trashed.
And no... there's no anonymous commenting anymore.
So I had a major moment of glory this evening in my quest to move some of my other blogs to Movable Type 4.1.
Some of them are subdomains of other sites and others have their own domains.
Well it is indeed a pain in the ass to publish outside of one's main domain and yet remember every minute detail of the history of various blogs going back almost 8 years now.
That's what part of my trouble was.
If I had started from a blank slate, with no content, it'd be easy. However, because there's so much historical baggage in content and permissions and restrictions, things are bound to get f'd up.
And that's exactly what's been happening.
Now, with this issue resolved, I can go about redoing Plastic Crack.
It'll take a while for me to reimplement my TF-based theme and I'll have to use a shitty default for a bit but there's a lot to be improved with upgrading.
Livejournal users and Open ID users will automatically authenticate if they so choose. Commenters can actually register interally at the site to comment.
And... the best part... in preparation for the eventual sell off of crack... I can convert the my collection data pages to ones that can be commented on!
So. Things'll be a bit fugly here for a bit.
But the infrastructure benefits? Oh la la!
I really had hoped to have the shit upgraded to Movable Type 4.1 but I pretty much have to face the facts that this new version is absolutely nothing like the old.
Versions previous to 4 were fairly understandable, especially if you had basic html skills.
This new version?
Ugh... you gotta be a programmer or scripter to understand this shit.
The default templates are now files that just pull in modular code here and there.
This is definitely not the simple system it used to be.
If you don't use their templates than there's a massive learning curve.
And me?
I barely have time for any of that anymore.
So after catching a bit of The Grammy's the other night. I realized that Beyoncé actually has some curves.
Now Howard was complaining that she was fat yesterday and I just couldn't disagree more.
I'm really rather sick of girls and women who seem to want to have the physiques of 11-year-old boys.
I'm finding that the "Golden Age of Hollywood" female form, regardless of how fake and propagandist it is, is really what I find attractive on a woman.
Lauren Bacall had it. Rita Hayworth had it. Betty Grable (above) had it. Ann Miller had it.
Many others had it.
There's some T. There's some A. And quite frankly... it is all woman!
Now I'm not implying there's anything wrong with being skinny or even plump if that's where your body tends to be. I mean, I live my life in a constant battle with the size of my gut and ass!
But the pop culture of the late 1960s gave us the almost emaciated girl as the standard and for 30 years girls and women have been way too heavily influenced by it. (Though Audry Hepburn, while skinny, totally had it in a different way!)
I demand curves on my women dammit!
Though I'd like 'em to be as sultry as Grace Kelly in Rear Window too!
Man did she ooze the sult!
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