JINZONINGEN73

I'm not unsympathetic to the seeming fact global warming is happening, but I also believe that man's involvement is exaggerated. Volcanoes go off and spew more carbon dioxide than was projected for man to do, and little changes... although doomsday theorists state that far less of the emission from man should've sunk New York. Fear and blame are both "businesses". I'm not worried about us running out of gas and oil. By the time we do, we'll be way more into new technologies. Still though, it's like Steven Hawking has said (and this is from memory), "We NEEDS ta' get our assez inta SPACE!" Space is the place. Well, and nano technology...

Some kid in this town zips around on a bike with a teeny gas-powered motor. Another kid has one with an electric motor. I R JEALOUS. :-(

While the squid faces are a bit goofy and juvenile, I know I'd want that sword if still a kid. It's got a good look to it. And I imagine it's a whole lot less bruise / bloody welt-inducing than the branches from the forsythia bush that me and my older brother used to whip each other's flesh to ribbons with. Ah, those were the days... *wub* Spilled plasma and yellow flowers, everywhere...

They look more Kubrick (all the rage in Japan), but still a bit off. I'm suprised Capcom got away with THEIR minifig-like Servbot characters from one of the Rockman games:

Nice collection you've acquired on maj there lol.

Yeah, I was kind of suprised by his actions. The Eccleston Doctor would've been that cold, but it seemed a bit out of character for this one. Actually, it was a bit colder than Eccleston Doctor, as he'd just have let their lives expire normally. He won't shoot a gun, but he'll imprison an entity for an eternity of torment? Interesting developement in his character.

::hugs his Sirius Satellite Radio with lifetime membership:: (And hey, you can listen to all 100+ stations online!) *wub*

Wow. As with most movies that have a big publicity campaign, Transformers has already been spotted for sale on the streets of Singapore a month before release. They have that usual "Property of Paramount. Do not remove frrom studio." warning as early bootlegs often do. A guy on seibertron.com made a post about it, but after a few minutes the mods deleted the topic, so as to not harm any exclusives they might get from being cozy with Paramount. But hey, too late. It's out there already. (Probably be watching it by tonight lol).

Yah, anyone who says "we're doing good ENOUGH" needs to be landed outside their place of work, straight on their butt. I'd have gotten into Bionicle anyway, what with the fact the newer parts allowed one to make their own action figures, bringing Lego out of their bricky mecha dark ages... but the non-toy content of the MNOLG was quite awesome, though the budget was less and the art not as polished as newer incarnations. It was when Lego started REALLY spending money on the non-toy content that things started to get boring for this 27-33 year old. I'll take a short black and white manga from Japan written and created by one artist over a 900 page, full color, American superhero graphic novel resulting from a giant creative team and months of planning any day. Same with a simplistic yet well done online flash movie, as opposed to a big-budget pile of CGI poo movie with annoying characters and voices. Quality =/= spending loads of money and time. It comes down to talent.

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On top of all that, one of the new Movie Bumblebee figures has 2 different versions, as one has a tab that's shaped wrong, resulting in it literally having his front section frozen, breaking or unscrewing the toy being the only results. AND even more... http://seibertron.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6729&sid=

I remember an oooold Lego book my brother had back in the late 70's or early 80's. It was neat... it told a silent story of a town going about it's daily activities from morning to night. But it was at the "night" part I got interested. The minifigs went to sleep in their home, and turned on lights inside. SO... am I alone? Do you think electrical lighting inside your town (and presumably bleeding over into other themes) would be cool or feasible to have? I sure do, even to the extent that some of the bulb-bricks be some of those micro, ultraviolet lamps as found in spy pen toys. (Makes a few of the trans colors glow like freaking crazy).

This is something that's BUGGED me about Lego since I was 5 years old. It's probably a large reason I hadn't bought Lego between the ages of 6-26. Still, a 6-wide looks DAMN fine for just one figure. 4-wides look just plain toddler in construction and design.

True, but one can still appeal to kids AND appease the intellectual sanity of adult fans as well. It's rarely done, however, but it's FAR from impossible. One need only give a damn and give another the time and budget to execute it properly. BUT since that's not happening any time soon... rubber slugs, cheesy gimmicks, bad storylines, INFERIOR set construction, and impotent promotional stunts AHOY!

If there's one thing that makes me ditch/despise the people running a website, it's when posts and topics are just made to "vanish" by mods who are a little too trigger-happy. I think in this occasion though, where this forum that's supposed to be for all the non-System sets is glutted up with no less than 9 "what-if" topics about 2 Bionicle characters each... it's time to start the deletin'. They COULD just be closed, but then the forum is loaded up with a ton of unsightly, dead topics and red boxes. Not trying to be rude or go on a power trip here, it's just a bit much, even more so evident in that 7 of said polls had zero posts. Now, 1 topic in which all these imaginary tier fights are contemplated... THAT'S feasible. So yah, the forum isn't glitching out or anything. It was me who removed all the other topics. And in the future, if you mess up on a topic and need a mod to jump in and edit/delete it, use the Report Post feature as opposed to just asking inside an edited post. Just so you know. Closing.

Funny thing is, there actually IS a "blocko" company (and a Lego ripoff, too!) http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=154688 And here's their parent site: http://www.blocko.com/ I'm not sure, but I think they've removed alot of their classic Lego and Bionicle stuff in place of looking high-tech with robot sets.

I'm shocked if they were ever a success. I remember seeing ads on the back of comic books in the early, early 80's showing a construction vehicle Technic set. And it looked ridiculous. It KIND of had the shape, but it was still a pile of beams with holes. Seriously, was I going to bug my parents for a Star Wars figure, a Micronaut, a few packs of Wacky Packages... or a thing I actually had to set aside my impatience for and build, only to have the final product look incomplete anyway?!? Right, the Micronaut. :-D Going to the toy stores today, not much has changed, if not worse looking. Ugly stuff, though there are some out there who confound me by speaking fondly of past Technic years. Anyway, more the subject at hand, yes... there are way too many things for a person to buy this year. It can't lead to too bad a result though. They might be competing with themselves, but they're also sucking new consumers into the Lego vortex who will be there years from now, thanks to all the diverse, unique lines. The bad side I see is when they finally do downscale their amount of unique offerings, people will complain that they're "out of touch" for not paying attention to whatever type of line got them hooked.

Most helpful. Luckily, I have transformers all over, one being 7V, 300mA. What did you mean by using only a "variable DC power supply"? Like, batteries and not to an AC socket?

Yeeush, yeah, I believe that was it, though it was an extremely short CGI clip & it looked super-fake, like most CGI things do.

Ooooh yeah, I forgot about the old version cyber-head in the glass case! So even if these ones are wiped out, the old ones could still pop up. Having such a similar appearance to the classic version, it could probably be assumed that guy in the alternate universe had reverse-engineered some fallen artifacts. You're forgetting the last episode he was in, "Coffeebreak of the Daleks", where he placed mind-controlling mutagen into London's coffee supply, creating zombies who spat into a cup (thus delivering to him their changing DNA), finally allowing him to regrow his polio-stunted limbs. (Davros, moments after swallowing the life-giving gob):

Spiderman 3. I HATE Marvel, but I thought this was decent. They had ALOT of stuff to cover, as well as adding in the junk to get the "chick flick" portion of the audience interested. I think they accomplished it, and that anyone but Sam Raimi doing it would've blown it royally. I didn't mind the airtime of Venom, but I did mind that: -His voice was mostly the wimpy fruitcake inside the symbiote. --Too much of his airtime was done in that same wimpy "unmasked human mode". It REALLY felt like he was rushed, with them saving production time and cost by reducing scenes with the full symbiote dealie goin' on. Still, a pretty good movie... and further proof that George Lucas is an arrogant old jerk. (He called the movie "Silly", saying it had nothing beyond the CGI). Yeah, ok you elitist bully. And he thinks "Empire Strikes Back was the worst in the series", too. Fruitcake.

Yah, that was pretty confounding stuff. I remember seeing the cops who were trying to take Poison Ivy in acting all dopey and wacky like it was the 1960's show. I was like, "Isn't it a little too late to try and inject super-corniness into something that became successful by making the series more dark?" I can't believe some people still manage to get job after job in Hollywood after messing up so bad.

Ooooooh yeah... I forgot that junk, when touched, assimilates the DNA from the touch. (D-Duh!) When? Martha says something along the lines of, "Do you think you'll ever see her again?", to which he said something like, "Absolutely!". (Lazarus episode, I think). I'm not up on my trivia. 1. How did Davros finally die? 2. Were the "old" Cybermen supposedly man-made like the alt-Earth ones?

I know, I know. But man... Spiderman and Batman (at first) kicked so much megablocks once they got money & used it right at the theaters. Slight cosmetic changes, slight mythos changes, but still undeniably who they always were. That's what us diehard fans were waiting for with this. It would've been a cinch. And think too, when did Batman start to SUCK at the theaters? When some crazy fruitloop called Joel Schumacher came in and went bonkers with changing things... adding campy humor, terrible script, bad lines, etc... Because they were just slapped in there. Yet more cluelessness in regards to what made the series memorable in the first place. Imagine if you saw a movie with Jean Claude Van Damme wearing a scarf, followed by stepping into a blue hotrod, that then makes a TARDIS sound as the engine starts, followed by him saying, "Good dog, K-9", all wrapped together with a CGI shard-bot of a realistic doberman running alongside the car. That wouldn't be "fan service"... it'd be freaking offensively disgusting. :-D

Nothin' really to write home about. It's always good having parts in different colors anyway.