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I don't see any evidence of sagging, either.

I do believe the one Austin location's using subtitles, or so the Austin Chronicle reported.

Thanks. Nice lookin' Tread.

Thank you sir, may I have another?

I still hold out a glimmer of hope for a YF-19 Fast Pack, at some distant point of the future. Other than that, Valks. I really don't care about accessories.

Hey man, I'm getting a 404 not found error.

Well, Shockblast got common in Austin all of a sudden.. TRU has about five of him, six of Windcharger, and, I think, three Battle Ravages. If anyone's wanting a Shockblast, PM me.

Oh, come on. The old Beta had... charm... kind of like the Chevy Astro, or Scion xB, or Element.. or.. YEa, it needed updating.

You know, that first bloody paycheck cannot arrive soon enough. About the only complaint I hate: The "No Step" stickers on the wing... Honestly, it's not Toynami's fault (Result of having pre-cut stickers,) but man, it just looks weird. If I feel so apt, I might pick up a set of water slide decals, if someone makes a set for the Shadow. That'll look nice.

Er.... some Shadow Force nonsense?

SPOILER WARNING From seeing it tonight, I'm 99% sure Ducard was Ras.. ...he gave some rant about being "hidden from sight," if I remember correctly.

Heh. Reminds me of the YF-21 FP Pilot...

That's really good news. God willing, I'll have my new job tomorrow, and I'll pick up this one, a Monster, and a Wheeljack alternator off Ebay (can't find the damn thing here, or back in Gainesville.) I'm tempted to pick up Rook's Alpha. How's quality on that one?

I think he's an old Honda Hatchback. The old G1 toy was one of my favorites. He had one the best robot modes, imo.

those things make my skin crawl. I think thats too easy for an alt considering the boxy shape, I guess Kup would be good for that car also,,,Iron hide I thinks would look good as a Jeep Grand Cherokee (2005) I think most of us were trying to avoid comments on the xB... mainly because it's darn ugly!! I think that even an Honda Element would be better for ironhide... and i hate that car too! Some sort of van should have been the pick. I looked at the pics for the BT xB and it looks pretty ridiculous with a huge chest and skinny legs... ~Tico Well, yea, I got chewed out slightly for commenting on it, earlier. How common is Wheeljack around North America? I've recently found Shockblast, but not sign of the second Mustang.

Thanks to my friend's Beagle, my "011" wing from a 1/48 1A Hikaru was snapped in half. I cannot, for the life of me, find the instruction manual or I'd post the part number. If someone can look it up for me, I'd appreciate it. Anyhow, if someone has a part valk, PM me.

Parody of this old... stupid song, Convoy

I.. just had to post this. I found it on Seibertron.com. h, Breaker One-Nine, this here's Prime You got a copy on me, Prowl? C'mon Uh, yeah 10-4 Prowl, fer sure, fer sure By golly it's clean clear to Iacon, c'mon Uh, yeah, that's a big 10-4 Prowl, Yeah, we definately got us the front door good buddy, Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us an Autobot convoy Was the dark of a moon, in the Earth month of June In a Freighter, pullin' container Police car Prowl with his flashers on And Magnus haulin' mini-cars We 'as headin' fer Decepticons in Border Regions 'Bout 10 miles outta Iacon I sez Prowl, this here's Prime An' I'm about to put the hammer down Cause we gotta little ol' convoy, rockin through the night Yeah we gotta little ol' convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight? Come on and join our convoy, ain't nothin gonna git in our way We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross Cybertron Convoy... Autobot Convoy... Uh, breaker Prowl, this here's Prime Uh, you wanna back off them 'cons 10-4, 'bout five miles or so, 10-roger Them 'cons is gittin in-tense up here By the time we got into Uraya We had eighty-five 'bots in all But they's a road block up on the clover leaf An' them 'cons was wall to wall Yeah them 'cons was htick as bugs on a bumper They even had Vortex-in-the-air I sez callin' all 'bots, this here's Prime We about to go a huntin' 'con Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin through the night Yeah, we gotta great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight? Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin gonna git in our way We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy across Cybertron Convoy... Autobot Convoy... Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Prowl? Uh, negatory Prowl, yer still too close Yeah, them 'cons is still closin' up my optics Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten Well we rolled up on the Sonic Canyons Like Ironhide on rails We tore up all the Decepticons And left 'em settin' on the roads By the time we hit that Kalis Them 'cons was a gittin' smart They'd brought up some reinforcements From the Kaon Imperial Guard There 'as 'con cars, and tanks, and jeeps An' rigs of every size Yeah them city walls 'as full a 'cons An' seekers filled the skies Well we shot the line, an' we went for broke With a thousand screamin' 'bots And eleven long-haired friends of Primus In a chartreusse mini-con Hey, Hound, listen You wanna put that mini-con in behind Magnus? Yeah, he's haulin' mini-bots He needs all the help he can git Well we laid a strip fer the Kaon border An' prepared to cross the line I could see the border 'as lined with 'cons But I didn't have my doggone gun I sez Prowl, this here's Prime We just ain't a gonna fail this run So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight I sez, let them Autobots roll, 10-4 Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin' through the night Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight? Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy across Cybertron Convoy... Autobot Convoy... Uh, 10-4 Prowl, what's your 20? Tyrest?! Well they outta know what to do with them 'cons out there fer sure Well mercy sakes alive good buddy We gonna back on outta here So keep the bugs off yer glass An' the 'cons off yer... tail We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop This here's Optimus Prime on the side We gone Bye, Bye...

Yea, exactly. Hell, even if it's not precisely accurate to have markings on a stealth, well, we are dealing with transforming robots. Aesthetics are really about all that matters considering realism was long ago out the window.

Some of the pictures of the drone show "REF" Markings on the legs, as well as other small details. Of course, said pictures are from the RPG (and I cannot locate any TV-series sourced images of the Shadow.) These, of course, are in the same light grey as its shoulders and whatnot.

I guess.. in the toy's defense.. Its torso hasn't been extended, and stickers REALLY spiced up my blue and green Alphas.

We give them.... mechs..? And here, I thought the idea was to find ways to keep them from taking over the Earth....

Alternators are not G1. I know people can't get over this but it's about what car company gives has/tak the license and what the toy company can do with that. (Iron hide was a fricken min-van for god sakes!) Quit getting caught up on names and enjoy the toys people. I'll admit, choice of car's what got me. The xB just makes me skin crawl. Didn't tak grab a license from Dodge? We've got the Ram. Perhaps a truck would be too large for the price bracket?

Wow. Yuck. ...of all the boxy cars currently in production, poor Ironhide gets suck as one of those horrible things? Size aside, Ironhide's supposed to be a low tech brute of a bot, not some... trendy little box...

Just to note: The Bismarck wasn't sunk by aricraft. It was sunk by naval gunfire. The aircraft only disabled its steering (which is obviously important, but not quite the same as sinking it). And those aircraft weren't WWI, they were interwar designed Swordfishes. Just because it is a biplane doesn't mean it is WWI. The Swordfish is much better than any WWI bomber. Oh yeah. my bad. The rudder was stuck because of the torpedo. I thought the swordfishes was used in WW1... hmmm maybe a WW1 design then. I thought it was torpedos off destroyers that sunk her finaly. Actually, what took the ship out is really left to debate. The Germans claimed they scuttled her, though, really, at that point, the effect of opening her hull up at that point may have been a little redundant. Edit: IIRC, The Yamato exploded quite magnificently, if I'm recalling my history properly... hence, the obscene damage. It really is a pity, though, she was a fine looking ship (though, the Iowas were my favorite of the period.)