Comments are broke for some reason.

Gotta love when simple upgrades fuck shit up.

Didn't Bay say he loved spreading misinformation out there because it gets the fan boys' panties all in a knot?

I've heard people say that recent super irrelevant minor Dreamwave character The Fallen is the main bad guy because the title is "Revenge of the Fallen". Um. No. I don't think that'd happen. Funny. But no.

Then again, I think it is just fun to occasionally watch one robogeek's comment or post get people all worked up.

I mean, I know for a fact from my friends at ILM that they've been asked to create a CGI Jesus to put in the movie as Primus' human form and you don't see me bragging about all this info.

Or the fact Shia LeBeuf (or whatever his name is) has a cast on his wrist because he's got a full blown porno jack-off problem in this film as his mother so graciously alluded to in the first film.

I don't share those tidbits with anyone.

The only things that I could say are likely are based off the various leaked photos.

Paramount is not going to waste their initial investment in the Autobot's earth modes so those are the same (so far) for those characters. And obviously, there's a few new vehicle-based characters too.

What I find funny though is how Hasbro might deal with that toy-wise. If the main characters don't get new forms, they can't just re-release the same toys. They already did so many repaints in the first movie line from the same molds!

I'm interested in seeing how they work out the logistics of the business end of shooting this sequel and having to deal with the studio likely calling more of the shots that would affect the toy business.

Then again, I hated that first film so why am I bother even wasting this post on the second one's rumors?

I'll leave the old MT archives active for 5 months or so. Maybe I can learn a few htaccess regular expression tricks to make those automatically redirect to the new archives. Who knows.

Suffice to say, a lot of internal entry-to-entry links will end up broken. But what can ya do? It isn't like this is a corporate site.

In other news, Giga and I have the next Cowtown Toy Show this Sunday.

I'll be spending Saturday going through boxes in the basement to see if there's anything easily prepped to put out... and that pretty much amounts to items that have never been opened.

If I can get rid of a few bins it'd be great.

However, that is most unlikely since these toy shows are so un-Transformers friendly.

I'm not much into following the customizers other than creaming every now and then over something Jin Saotome has produced but FrenzyRumble's stuff is really nice.

His Devestator is wonderful and I'd love to have a Sunstorm for Classics like he did. (Hmm... would that be an Unclassics Sunstorm?)

I'm still pissed I didn't try to go after one of Jin's Shockwave customs.

And the one thing I found that shocked me was the fact that Marvel actually was going to try and relaunch the comic in the 90s with writer Shon C Bury.

This interview makes me both extremely happy and also extremely angry because it never came to pass.

Man. So much amazing art too. Minor redesigns but that's ok... it was still going to be Micronauts and not that thing that

And I'd poop my pants if I ever could get a commission out of Michael Golden like this!

And that Rags Morales drawing of Bug is mighty fanballstastic!

Ah. Force Commander.

Much like Baron Karza, his toy is pretty mediocre but oh, what a great tragic character Prince Argon was, as depicted in The Micronauts comic.

Thankfully, this toy is complete even including the styrofoam insert.

And he's white. He hasn't yellowed much which is a major plus.

The Baron is missing his back rockets, but that's ok for me.

It has been 30 years since the NalaMatka threw away my Baron Karza, along with with all my other Micronauts.

A day that I have never ever forgotten.

Ever.

To some degree... that trauma is probably why I buy whatever the hell I want to whenever I want to now as an adult. (Though of course, because of the wonders of the internets, you all can share in my adult pointless toy spending guilt trips!)

Yeah. I finally opened the old $80 bugger today.

I won't lie. Out of all of the movie figures... this damn protoform figures have actually proven to be the ones I like best of all... with the black Incinerator thrown in there too.

He's just not... Starscream.

I've used Movable Type since version 1 way back...I think... in 1999 or so. Maybe it was 2000.

Anyway, Plasticcrack split out of my personal blog and so kept what I suppose you could say is "baggage" from the architecture choices I made back a billion years ago... namely in how my archives are named and organized.

Google has always been a friend to the 'crack and loved the structure and no doubt that's how many of you readers ended up here over the years.

Well... there's a lot of investment in those archive files since those are the pages that are hit the most according to my logs.

Of course, WordPress out-of-the-box cannot duplicate my structure without some major tweaking, pluginage, and it looks like sql query tweaking or some shit.

What to do...

Perhaps I should just commit to WordPress' methodology and rebuild the archives from scratch with the new naming and hope that Google reindexes everything quickly. I could always keep the old archives up too... though there may be conflict.

Giga mentioned that a lot of may previous/next links have been broken since I moved to MT 4 way back when. I never noticed since I rarely go into my past here except to occasionally comment on Sunshyne's commenting on ancient posts.

So many decisions to make.

What would Jesus do?

I've always been a fan of little Robots In Disguise Skid-Z, even with the lame Hasbroey name to keep it like Skids.

He's a repaint of Machine Wars Mirage that Takara redid and included in Car Robots as Indy Heat. He even made it into the Car Robots anime with a whole episode devoted to him.

I started thinking about what toys (not necessarily characters) have become my favorites and must be displayed on the shelves no matter what I decide to display.

So...

11. Sam's Club Universe Optimus Prime

This mold appears twice on the list and I think with good reason.

Sure he's kibbly and almost G1 in the parts department but when I was a kid, I was fascinated with a picture book I had that showed yellow firetrucks. We only had traditional red ones in Glass City.

The Yellow + Fire Convoy = one of my faves.

Plus... I snagged this open one from the great Zeta Convoy back in 2006 and I will be forever grateful.

10. Robot Masters Star Saber and Victory Leo

Far more fun than the originals in terms of posing and anime appearance.

9. Botcon 2005 Ratchet

The first (and in my opinion only) Ratchet figure that somewhat captures Ratchet the character.

8. Takara G1 Victory Leo

The only real legit G1 figure on the list (discounting the 2 PVCs and Micromaster reissues). I love him more than Star Saber even though he's a total brick.

7. Takara Micromasters "Berserker" Six-Wing (White Chase version)

There's something about this chase set that works for me. Yeah, the Japanese Micromaster gestalts are pretty simple and all, but the cohesive white and silver is really fantastic here.

6. Classics Ultra Magnus

I love him more than I love Optimus... that much is certain.

I've got the armor/trailer on order for him too.

5. Hasbro God Ginrai PVC

Yes. I refuse to call him Powermaster Optimus Prime with Apex Armor. He's so not that!

Quite frankly, he's the only anime accurate toy (of some kind) of God Ginrai period. The actual mainline figures are just bricks.

Wow! Imagine if Hasbro/TakTomy redesigned him as a Classics/Henkei Leader class figure!

Let's face it... Galaxy Force Convoy owes a lot to him appearance-wise but he's just not the same.

Demand a God Ginrai Henkei figure at your local toy store today!

4. Takara Rodimus Prime with Matrix (Lava Chase) PVC

Perhaps my favoritest PVC.

You wouldn't believe the number of requests I've gotten to buy it off me!

3. Robots In Disguise Wedge

Wedge is love.

He's phenomenal in alt mode. He's also beautiful in bot mode and poseable as all hell. And he's got a simple and effective color scheme.

2. Botcon 2006 Unit 2 (Tigatron)

Yes. A retool and repaint of Cybertron Clocker comes in #2.

He hits every Nala-specific love.

• Simple color scheme with predominantly 2 colors + a detail color!


• A little translucent love there on his wheels!


• He totally evokes his previous form too which really gets bonus points in my lovefest for him.

1. Lucky Draw Blackfire Convoy

Well duh! The holiest of holy grails will likely always be my #1 Transformers toy.

He's simply perfection in my eyes.

Indirectly, the Fire Convoy mold will always have a special place in my heart since it was with the reuse in Robots In Disguise that got me back into this sick and disgusting habit.

The point-and-shoot just captures crisper details.

No matter if I take shots with the XSi on auto-focus or manual focus... the A620 is just nicer.. especially close in.

A cheap generic macro lense will run me around $200. I wonder if it would make much difference though.

I really thought there's be a general quality improvement between cameras but quite frankly, the prosumer camera, with the an incredible range of options and better lenses, really doesn't seem to offer me much more.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know you've read my meandering rants about such things before.

However, with the considerations I'm giving to an architecture change, the inventiable being laid up from doing manual house remodeling for a few weeks, and my general love-hate relationship with toy collecting, I was thinking of perhaps rebuilding the site with a slightly different focus.

My blog and documentation for personal reasons will still be my core, but I'm thinking of opening up different areas of the site as features that would be written by guests. Or some such shit.

I don't know what I want to do really.

It'd allow the non-bloggers to be able to have a weekly place to post some shit and highlight other areas of plastic crackdom that I'm not really a part of such as Evebird's Transformers cel collecting, or what have you.

I want to do something more... not really for myself... but for some of the long term visitors who I've enjoyed conversing with over the past 6 or so years.