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^^Maybe they can sober up Jan-Michael Vincent enough to make a cameo, or cast him as the new Archangel.

Thanks, eugi! Next photo: <In an awful, fake French accent>: "Love, 'ate [hate]............Ehh. It is all PASSION!!!"

Roy: CHICKEN-HANDS MAX!!!! Or "Hey Hik'! Lend me your gunpod for a minute. I've gotta 'dance' with a Meltrandi-frakking ace."

Guld: GET THE F*#K OUT OF THE WAY, ISAMU!!!!!

Hmm. . .good questions DH. A) Probably Low-Light - The Joes could always use another sniper. B) Another vote for Covergirl - As classic as her original get-up was, I wouldn't mind a Devil's Due version (just so we can get a new mold and an untucked shirt version). I know some folks have already made custom versions of these two, but I wouldn't mind Hasbro mixing a couple new parts to make these figures look a little bit more unique. Of course if Hasbro gets lazy and gives us something akin to the 7-pack Wet-Suit, then I'll have to find a way to make my own customs of these folks.

Thanks, m0n5t3r!! I was kinda hoping there wasn't THAT much parts swapping. But from your many pics, I can tell the articulation is off-the-charts good. Kinda bummed too that they didn't put little Eureka and Renton figures in those "clear" cockpits.

Yup, the original Motor-Viper color scheme was hella tight. The light-blue/dark-blue scheme and the whole look of uniform just meshes well together. Personally, I think I'm gonna go into hibernation until the original 25th/Modern era line comes back to the forefront. . .Someone wake me when Hasbro makes a Covergirl in her original outfit or her Devil's Due get-up.

Futile?!! DOUBLE-DEUCE AIN'T GOT NOTHING ON ME!!!

Just out of curiousity, but were Charles and Ray Beams in this movie in some sort of fashion? P.S.--Hey m0n5t3r, how's the transformation process on that Nirvash figure? Does it require parts swapping, or is the transformation fairly self-contained?

I'm surprised no one's suggested an Exploding-Ball-of-Fire Kakizaki Valk variant for summertime!

Is it even possible for the backpack sliders to be tighter than they already were on the YF-21?!

Fixed it for you. Would that necessarily be a bad thing? Regarding the bots' designs, I think part of the problem is that so many of them are grey, silver, or black, making hard to figure out who's who. Also, the absolute lack of personalities with the secondary bots kinda makes it hard to care whether they live or die.

1) Wide-angle action shots where I can clearly see who's fighting who! 2) One signature sequence of a Transformer going back and forth between modes multiple times, kicking ass, and dodging enemy fire (like say Sideswipe or Arcee driving headlong into a row of Decepticons, transforming into bot mode to destroy one Decepticon, going back into alt mode to dodge the attack of another Decepticon, using this alt mode to get behind this opponent, and then transforming back to bot mode to attack this opponent from behind). Just something jaw-droppingly crazy and imaginative as hell. They're robots that can change into cars/planes. Do something creative with that feature!

Damn, Kicker!! Ya' got any more cool customs hiding out in that massive air wing of yours?

Thanks, DH!! That link absolutely had me rolling.

Just got back from watching it. And honestly, I really wanted to like the movie. But the movie left me too disappointed. The human actors and the dialogue were either cringe-worthy or inappropriately laughable (though the military folk were for the most part solid). I don't know if it's due to the design of the bots or not, but there were times where I lost track of what exactly was happening during some of the fights. I don't know if it's due to all the shiney silver kibble or not being able to always tell who's firing at who (a nice energy trail for the Transformers' projectiles/bullets might've helped a bit), but it's kinda hard to follow exactly and precisely what's going on in a lot of the fight scenes. And I've got a nice little message to Michael Bay: PULL THE FRAKKEN CAMERA BACK!!!!!!! A few more mid-fight, wide-angle shots that last longer than a few seconds would have really helped to clear up the confusion that can happen during these scenes. Also, I'm really not a fan of watching these Transformer fights from the far-too-low perspective of humans. We get it: they're big-ass robots that tower over us. Now can you pull the camera back, or give us a nice clear action shot from above so we can take in the full grandeur of the fights? Man, I remember all the memorable action sequences from Dark Knight and that legendary opening scene of Nightcrawler absolutely cutting loose in X2, and I think to myself, "Why can't Transformers have a scene like that? Full of energy, gusto, and where you can clearly follow the logic of the action on-screen."

Just did some quick checking up in the MW Gallery. There's a few more Minmay Guard sets than the ones I'm gonna re-post here. But I figure most folks can check it out for themselves. Links to the ones created by the Three 1/48 Custom Masters: * Jung's MG * Anasazi's MG * Kurt's Moon Act MG Someone even made a 1/55 Minmay Guard! Sadly, no one has tried to make a Joke Machine Minmay Guard just yet.

^^Sorry, but that picture on the box doesn't remind me of the confident, "always keeping a positive outlook on life" Rand I remember. Dude looks like he just realized that he sat on some crap.

Honestly, I'm a bigger fan of his Jackson 5 and late 70's/early 80's (pre-Thriller) stuff. Hearing THOSE songs again on the radio today reminded me what made him so damn good. I mean I never hear "Got To Be There" EVER on the radio, and I heard it probably two or three times just this evening alone. It's just too bad most folks tend to forget those R&B parts of his catalogue and focus more on the later, more pop stuff. Is he a weirdo? Yes. But dammit, the music he and his brothers made before all the zany-ness and the nosejobs was pretty tight.

What's even scarier is that the general premise reminded me of this crappy sci-fi flick called Alien Intruder. Regarding the actual show, I guess this is what would happen if some idiot decided to slap a reality show vibe onto humanity's first interstellar journey. Given Ron Moore's rep, this might be worth a view.

^^So what name should they call Charlie Murphy's character? Jack (the Ass)? Darkness? Leroy Smith? Love the first film, thought the second one was okay (got a kick out of Fiona busting out the Shoryuken), and never bothered to watch the third one.