GobotFool

BBTS has the 19 back up for pre-order, is this a reissue or just a restock from a warehouse find?

The deep striker has a tendency to sag under its own weight, particularly the back pack. for those brave enough drilling some holes for metal support rods might really help fix that problem. I'm really hoping for a HCM-pro Dendrobium. This line is perfect for some of huge mobile armors.

I heard hasbro and the movie people making the new robot designs are working closer togeather for this movie.

1st my grandma's sewing needles, then my toe clippers, and now this....

I hear ya, the old vanilla style gundam's tend to look like stacked boxes. I myself also prefer the newer, more streamlined look of the katiki styled gundams.

I gotta highly recommend at least prowl. While getting him back into bike mode is a bit of a pain, he looks so slick in bot and bike mode that everything else can be forgiven.

I got my hands on the premium Jazz and IronHide today. Jazz is amazing. The shiny finish really brings him alive in a way that the original's dull plastic could not do. Ironhide is also nice. A very shiny finish, though way to much blue paint was applied to his eyes. If this bothers you, its very easy to go in with a small exacto-knife and scrape off the excess. I then took some black paint to cover up the small flecks of blue left and fill in the eye socket grooves while keeping his pupils that funky blue they used. Now it really looks like his eyes are softly glowing, before it looked like he had applied way to much eyeliner.

those rick hunter costumes are scary.

The dislike for the FIX's is nothing elitist. Other than the fact that they are way over priced for PVC toys, I find PVC tends to lose its shape or sag over time. The fix's are okay, but I honestly prefer the HCM-Pro's. Incredible detail and made out of tough ABS plastic. The small size and fairly affordable price allows me to build a massive mecha army with a great deal of variety.

Boot camp was a fun episode. Tons of homages to G1 as well.

They're more like the kiddie plastic types. Same molding, but from the one I played with it seemed like it was all made out of plastic.

The chest looks to long, IMHO.

Over all it looks very nice, though the chest seems a tad to big, I guess that might be for the accommidation of a figure.

Is there an official scale for these guys?

I really wish they had chromed the faux grill in robot mode.

So far for me the only figure out of the whole animated line I've been disapointed with was Bumblebee. I managed to get the rest early for a non obcene price and can say that they are all truly excellent transformers. Out of the whole lot I recommend grabbing ratchet and prowl.

I've caught the animators making this current incarnation of bumblebee transform very much like the toy in some frames, and have they even bother showing prowl transform, or does he just do that spin thing and suddenly he's a robot or a bike? Oh for anyone interested, RobotKingdom.com is selling the two leader class animated figures early if anyone wants them.

People who find airplane butts sexy?

If someone takes the dive and grabs a jumbo grade zeta please post a full review and tell us how many parts need to be swapped to transform it.

Kind of like how a few of my favorite shows get bumped by american idle I'm interested in seeing what a Moffat directed Dr Who series will look like.

I actually would like to see Indiana loose an eye. *ducks to avoid several heavy objects thrown his way* For me it would clearly mark the point when age along with a permanent injury caught up with him and forced him to hang up his whip and hat. While part of me wants Lucas and Spielberg to stop messing with Indiana Jones. If they must make more I'd like to see two more with Ford as good old Indiana Jones, with the torch being passed in the 3rd installment. And please Mr. Lucas and Mr. Spielberg if you must, no cliffhanger middle movie. Make em all stand alone adventures. While I didn't mind Lebouf as Indy's kid, Mutt, I just can't imagine him as Indiana Jones Jr. He doesn't have any of Ford's ruggedness, no matter how hard they tried to imbue him with it by making him a greaser. On him, the jacket and hat will just look weird to me. Instead of seeing my favorite rugged tomb raider, it'll be more like looking at a Halloween party picture of a thin pasty college student pretending to be Indiana Jones. For me the only question that really remains what can Indiana Jones chase down next. A friend and I listed, Atlantis, or some kind of Egyptian artifact if they wanted to continue with the alien pop-mythology angle. Or if they choose to return to the borrowing from more traditional mythology I think maybe hunting down Noah's Ark or Excalibur might work.

I've been avoiding reading this thread, mostly because fan boy complaining tends to spoil movies for me far more than any flaws a movie might have. But a few days after seeing Indiana Jones, and thinking about it, I have to say it was a very enjoyable movie. Not as good as Crusade and certainly in no way near the greatness of Raiders, but more much more likable than Doom. I do have to throw in my support for those who have no problem with the pseudo-sci-fi element of the story. For me the psychic agents and aliens tapped perfectly into the pop-mythology that developed during that period in history. Incorporating these pseudo-scientific trends of the 1950's placed this Indiana Jones flick firmly in that era, and didn't seem particularly out of place to me. Indiana has always been a homage to the pulp fiction of the era it is set in. In the 1930's we had tons of tomb raiding adventures probably inspired by the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb and the all the stories of curses that surrounded it. With that in mind, it only makes sense that a Jones movie set in the 1950's would draw from the mythology that grew out of the Roswell incident and inspired so many bad UFO pulp novels and movies. I found the dialog to be functional, and certainly a few good one liners were dropped here and there. If I had any particular problem with the dialog it was that the delivery of a few lines struck me as rather flat and awkward, as if Ford's heart just wasn't in when a few scenes were filmed. Awkwardly delivered dialog draws me out of a movie far easily more than obvious CG effects. This movie works as an entertaining denouement to the Indiana Jones franchise, though I have a feeling that at least another movie is probably on its way. I figure once Indiana loses an eye (as old Indy in the young Indy Chronicles, is portrayed as missing one eye) the torch will be passed, along with the hat, whip, jacket and name, to Henry Jones the Third.

wasn't this announced 2 years ago? There are only two things that need to be fixed with the 1st robocop movie, the zip line you can see used to guide ED 209's rockets, and the crappy claymation at the end. Otherwise robocop is a pretty flawless 80's sci-fi classic.

You don't think it could me made so the cowling is jointed to the front chest armor, and the chest armor, instead of being jointed to the front portion of the bike, could be attached farther back on the bike's under carriage? Not that beagle has done this, but it seems that might be a viable solution for perfect mounting transformation. It doesn't matter that much though. Beagle has pretty much given us the closest thing we're probably ever going to get to a PT ride armor and this make me happy.

I like this new scheme for jet fire. Definitly grabbing it. I feel rather eh about ramjet.