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Hmm... not sure. I THINK it is. The copy I have was filmed off a reel showing with no patrons present in the theater. (I'm a dirty, stinking, cutthroat, piratey-lookin' downloader of movies.)

Shrek 3. A decent enough episode. Kinda' putters out towards the end... Not enough new characters introduced who were interesting, unlike the 1st and 2nd movies. Still, a decent watch, a decent addition to the series. They just better do a WAY better job if they're thinking of doing a 4th.

Well, these new Doctor Who's are, if anything, a little too heavy on the foreshadowing. The Doctor practically told all the viewers that yes, Rose'll pop up in the series again. Watching the second Dalek evolution episode... is it me or did it suffer from alot of that classic "Let's explain our plans to the good guys instead of just killing them quickly" syndrome? I like how the Daleks bust through into the theater at the end, and for some ungodly reason (plot device... lol) bring along Dalek Sek in chains. Of equally far-fetched plot device is the doctor's DNA somehow conducting through metal to arrive inside the shell bodies. Ok, so the Daleks had to inject their DNA into the bloodstream through tubes... but the doctor does it through wiring. Hoo boy. X D Oh, you silly, silly writers. :-|

A BIG difference. Those were just your regular, run of the mill, Japanese 1/2 hour toy commercial. They're not easy to take seriously or as canon, for their budget and constrictive deadlines don't truly allow for 'greatness'. Ah, but here's the movie to end all movies, with a budget to end all budgets, with advertising to end all advertising. FINALLY< we get to see THE TRANSFORMERS on the big screen, live-action and showing the REST of the world what had us so excited for 25 years. But it didn't happen. It's not happening. And... and this is important in answer to your question... it probably WON'T happen now. Aquiring a budget this large is something you rarely get twice. It's a one-shot, so you better not blow it. It's blown. I agree. Despite my love of the first few episodes, they were still toy commercials, painfully FORCING a bunch of characters and names down our throats. The slimmer cast approach that this movie's taken definitely WAS a smart idea. I dunno'... that new Doctor Who is kickin' megablocks and taking names on the old one. ;-) Sure, I'll love Tom Baker till the end, but Chris Eccleston did one DAMN fine job of making Doctor Who exciting again. Unlike this movie, it's a case of an old franchise using it's modern budget positively and respectfully. Now, on using Doctor Who as an example, you just stumbled on something else very important. There WAS supposed to be a Steven Spielberg movie version of Doctor Who. Take a WILD guess what the CGI Dalek concepts looked like that they got back from ILM? The SAME shard-cluttered messes as these new Transformers. I'm not sure if I still have the 2-second clip on this hard drive, or on my hard drive that got fried, but I'll describe it... The Dalek was a floating probe-looking thing, and it transformed into a spidery thing with many arms... (VERY much like the probe droid sent to scout out Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back). What we're seeing with Transformers is the same thing they were going to do to Doctor Who... shard-bots. (If anyone else remembers / has a link to said clip, please post it.) There's many a transforming toy in my many bins o' toys that have not the same color scheme in robot mode as in their alternate modes. It could be done. It just wasn't.

Volts are the easy part... I'm more concerned with it's current (mA). Then again, I'm no electrical genius... maybe that doesn't even matter with the regulator... assuming the regulator lowers volts instead of mA ....OH, I DON'T KNOW LOL!

Sorry, have to... Hmm... the internet seems to fail badly in the pics department.

Ok, you're going to have to help me out here. Exactly which of those parties you listed would have been alienated if they'd taken the original characters, kept their colors and heads, and updated their alt modes to modern objects? I don't see how making the blocky old guys less blocky would cut off some large part of an audience. There was another movie whose script was filled with cliche's and catchphrases. It also had a "more realistic" redesign of the main character. Thirdly, it also took a "humorous" approach. It was called GODZILLA. You say kids WANT that? That they even LIKE that? Is that why Trendmasters, the company who got the license to produce figures for that movie nearly (or maybe they did) close up shop because NOONE wanted anything to do with that movie? It was embarrassing. From script, from acting, to lame attempt at being "funny", to using only the highest of the high realistic special CGI effects on a character that was redesigned simply for the sake of being redesigned... ...and it was a freaking nightmare. And alot of people lost their jobs / lost their credibility over it. THIS is what I saw when I read the script, and it's certainly what I saw when viewing the new designs. They're going the way of the Godzilla. There's evolution... that's what the fans would have loved. Then there's pure bastardization. That's what's taking place. You cannot tell me that keeping: -most of the character's original colors in robot mode -the robot's head -a more faithful approach to the original story -or the vibrant character expressed, the main attitudes, pecking order & ambitions of the main characters ...would mess up a new film. It just wouldn't. Exactly WHO would not be able to assimilate such a thing? How is having all the robots looking like broken shards of metal supposed to create identification with a new audience? Even more, are you telling me someone using this as a source to begin a non-block version: Is somehow more alienating than using THIS?: Funny story about that too. That was supposed to be Soundwave. When the "Master designers" realized they were failing, they called him "Soundbyte". Then because they were REALLY messing up, they called him "Frenzy"... even though his pile of scissors silliness of a body still isn't anything as neat looking as his namesake. How about this? You're saying using this as a template to begin from towards a non-blocky design: Is somehow more goofy looking to the general public than THIS?: (I like how this promo pic is a side shot, so as to cover the fact he has an ape-like body) I dunno', man. Most of the fans have no problem with Bumblebee and Optimus designs... that was just a first reaction. It's everything else that's... well, ridiculous.

I have a motor, tracks, the regulator, the track cables... but no powerpack. >__< However, I do have an adjustable one with different volts and polarity and such, but not from Lego. So, what's the official powerpack say it's output is? (Should be on the block connecting into the wall). This question is for USA current (NTSC?), as I live in North America. ...don't wanna' go burnin' out my stuff...

Well, it didn't SEEM like Beast Wars was based inside the G1 universe, but, sure enough, by the series end all those original G1 heroes were found in it. It's not being babies really, it's just kind of depressing. It seems like noone in charge has taken it seriously. Like, you have characters who still have faithful representations made of them in Japan and America to this day... but noone's going to give a crap about these piles of metal-sharded CGI gobbledygook guys 25 years from now. It wouldn't have been a crime to take the first G1 story, tweak it for present-day updates, then recreate the same characters in not a quite so messed up looking manner. It could've happened, alot of us waited 25 years for it to happen, but this movie's not it. :-/ FANS have had little problem taking the screwy looking movie designs and turning them into non-blocky versions of the classic characters. It's not a black and white issue of them being "CGI goobledygook" or "blocky"... the fans know what the in-between hybrid of the two are. It's a lack of care and a lack of skill that have made these new movie ...things... How are the characters "great" in that trailer? Not one robot spoke. And if you've read the script that's been out on the internet for 2 years, you'd see it's written pretty badly, in an Independence Day or (American) Godzilla kind of way. In other words, non-seriously. Just a bunch of cliche's and catch phrases.

::looks at the Dalek/human hybrid:: Oh, now that's just silly-lookin'! Lol, still, it does have a nice "oldschool" scifi monster appeal, like that from the 1950's. :-D I dunno'... the regular Daleks still seem scarier.

^^^ Yup, like I said. A HACK. A most clueless, annoying one. And arrogant. Anything he doesn't do completely by himself he always calls junk, no matter how good it was. Yeah, so people loved the first 2 movies, put up with the 3rd, then vomited on the last 3 for being too corny. So his answer? Turning the serious and violent Clone Wars cartoon over into a smartassed comedy? The HELL? The man's senile. Ah, didn't think of it like that. You're right. Still... there's a high chance it would've partially emulated the last 3 movies... perhaps it's just not meant to be yet. Or at all.

Just watched first 3 episodes. They were good, which thankfully means the rest likely will be. The one with the hospital was decent, the rhino aliens were done "good enough". :-D The Doctor seemed to be pouring things on a bit thick with Miss Jones. The witches one was ok. Normally I HATE "Oh, look... we're visiting some old famous writer" type stories, but Shakespeare was an interesting enough character to not be just some overly confused oldfart like how things usually go in scifi lol. The New New York one redeemed itself partway through the episode. Like, I'm sitting there thinking how ludicrous it is to expect the viewers to swallow that people are living their lives on an underground freeway while cars are flying all around on the upper city.... but then it makes perfect sense by the end. Most unexpected. For a while, I thought it'd be a plot about POOR people being treated like dogs by the RICH people... but yeah, the ending made me happy. Hmm... I wonder if The Master is going to pop up again. I kinda' hope not, as they've revived too much of his old enemies as is. One thing bugs me about Doctor Who AND Star Trek AND most far-flung "future" scifi... their technology sucks. Here we are in 2007... -we have on the near horizon the eradication of lightbulbs... light soon to be coming from tiny LEDs making up paint you'd apply to a wall. -in 20 years, it should be entirely possible to download all your thoughts, character and dreams to an external source. -cleaner energy is already here, merely heavily suppressed by the people in the world with money. -nanytes, though SCARY as hell, are going to change the face of our world, our bodies, our minds and who knows what else... SOON. So many scifi franchises lack serious foresight on actual science. -Robots... seriously. Everybody and their brother is going to have companion robots following behind them a few footsteps. So it's a bit... corny... to see in Doctor Who these cars from centuries later which are pootin' out smog exhaust, or people still even DYING from old age. Old age is going to be eradicated within this century, yet show me a "future" scifi that understands that. Anyway, off that stuff... the kitten saying "Mama" was pure hilarity! I love how they made it even more funny by not even bothering to toss in some crappy puppetry or CGI... they just tossed a buncha' kittens in a basket! X D Great stuff.

Just as well Lucas ditched the live action series running long. He's the same fruitcake who popped out the 3 last awful movies AND has said that he thinks "Empire Strikes Back" was the worst one. The man is freaking BONKERS... a hack who got extremely lucky on an innovative franchise.

People are going gaga all over that trailer. Me? Not really. Not one Transformer spoke. Too many people spoke, and their acting sucked. The robots all look like classic videogame bosses, a head with disconnected balls. I'm just so not feeling this, even if that makes me the minority.

Ugh. Back during what I call my "****ing STUPID" days, I hoarded toys like crazy. Spawn, Transformers, Star Wars, underground comic characters, japanese diecast robots... Know where alot of them wound up? A big freaking DUMPSTER. All it took was my elderly landlord's niece doing one call to the fire department. (She even managed to have my landlady declared "senile", though she was sharp as an arrow... gold-digging witch...) But you know what? I'm glad I don't buy junk like that anymore. If it's not coming out of the package to be played with, I'm not buyin' it. So yeah, the question is... why do you have that many duplicates again?

Nah, this was issued long before DVD players were in stores. We're talkin' the 80's. It was done by ONE of those common Halloween mask companies... maybe Don Post. And there was only one, apparently just part of a varied assortment of other junky masks. Likewise, it's not a terribly scary film... but I was young and sheltered lol.

9V, hands down. The R/C stuff looks cheap and the engines are weaker. That too. Express your demand for this superior item.

I notice that a BUNCH of 1x1 flat bricks (glow in the dark, with the fang/tooth modification) that I stuck together and NEVER used... are cracked. Literally, never used on mocs, straight from the package then stuck together in a row, non-abused bricks... with cracks. It's like they shrunk. What. The. Hell.

Hmm. I haven't been online, so I've been unable to see any of season 3 yet. But I don't like what I'm hearing from this thread. -They're STILL doing that BadWolf/Torchwood silliness? It was cute and made sense... in the first season. -They took that cheap-assed route EVERY scifi thing that goes on too long eventually takes? Half human/ half (INSERT ALIEN RACE HERE) crap? GOD that's a stale concept. It used to be done so the cost of special effects could be cut. NOW shows and movies use it because they're severely uncreative. I did see the previews of season 3 that came on after 'The Runaway Bride', and thought the zoo animal aliens looked cheesy, as well as the HORRIBLE "old-guy" makeup on the dude from the Lazarus one ...my expectations aren't too high this time around. Perhaps I should shut up though until I download them on DSL next week. :-D

I TOTALLY remember that movie. I liked it, though I was little and it scared the hell outta' me. The ending was pretty unexpected, what with the gargoyles switching from being bloodthirsty monsters to humanized & caring for their young. One thing that pissed me off, around 1987 I found a Halloween mask at Woolworth's... licensed from the movie. It was skin tight and looked like the head creature, only I couldn't afford it. I went back week after week, but it was sold before I could snag it. >__< Anyway, yeah. CLASSIC horror movie. It'd probably suck if they tried to update it.

I don't know... Wow, this next one was drawn so poorly lol... ...I'm just not feelin' the forehead in this sculpt. EDIT: AH! Yeah, looking at these pics, the new sculpt's face is WAY too wide as well. There's not much customization one had to do with the Optimus Masterpiece... but I definitely see myself breaking out the X-Acto knife if I could afford this new Megs.

The boyhood Solo and wacky Yoda scenes were in the initial script that got leaked to the internet weeks before the movie came out. The Mon Calamari scene had super up-close images of their females, as seen in (again) leaked images from the movie prior to it's release. I think there were a few other odd (and stupid) things, but it was so long ago...

Nicely said. Hell, my dad was born in the 30's. He brought guns into school for show and tell. He bought .22 caliber teargas pens (that could also fire a .22 cal bullet) from a Johnson Smith catalog. Noone died. The world is an anal, cry-for-me pile of wussbags these days. Sad stuff. And annoying.

It'd be awesome if this was 2002 and that was a Toa Nuva. But it's not. It's 2007 and we've already all been well drowned in piles of crappy silver sword pieces for a few years. :-| Oh well... maybe it's a good introductory piece for a kid who never touched a Bionicle set before.

For what they had to pull off, they did a pretty freaking amazing job on the MP Megatron... but anyone else feel the head sculpting could've been better? And the helmet brow higher up to give him more forehead? Or am I just being anal?