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I realize that I haven't been around much lately. Here's the Cliff Notes of the Cliff Notes of the past couple of weeks:
Crawlspace heater died. Rigged up strange Goldbergian solution to get by until husband gets home. Weather got -30. Water froze up. Husband came home. Water thawed out. Sister came to visit. Husband got heater working again. Woke up this morning to find heater doesn't work again, boiler doesn't want to go, weather is -20, crawlspace is frigid and now I have to go to work. Sigh.
My sister brought with her the first season of Beast Wars. Like just about every child who grew up during the 80s, I had my Transformers fixation, so we watched about half of the first season last night. In spite of the overwhelming cheesiness, it was a lot more fun than I thought it would be ... not only is it nice to look at and genuinely funny in a lot of places, but it's actually surprisingly dark. I kept thinking, This was on kids' TV? One of the good guys shot out Megatron's KNEECAPS in one episode, f'r cryin out loud...
Crawlspace heater died. Rigged up strange Goldbergian solution to get by until husband gets home. Weather got -30. Water froze up. Husband came home. Water thawed out. Sister came to visit. Husband got heater working again. Woke up this morning to find heater doesn't work again, boiler doesn't want to go, weather is -20, crawlspace is frigid and now I have to go to work. Sigh.
My sister brought with her the first season of Beast Wars. Like just about every child who grew up during the 80s, I had my Transformers fixation, so we watched about half of the first season last night. In spite of the overwhelming cheesiness, it was a lot more fun than I thought it would be ... not only is it nice to look at and genuinely funny in a lot of places, but it's actually surprisingly dark. I kept thinking, This was on kids' TV? One of the good guys shot out Megatron's KNEECAPS in one episode, f'r cryin out loud...
Retiring from the rant
If you get a chance, look at some of the older toys- some of them have cockpits that open, and even wierder there are compartments on the original Dinobots for that purpose as well! I always wondered why Grimlock had a chair-looking compartment swing out of his head...
But really, on the reverse, seeing names used in odd, nonsensical manners, like the upcoming Alternator Grimlock as a Mazda car is just crazy.
Grimlock, while a nonsensical name (I've looked it up for some deeper-seated symbology, nothing), doesn't fit with a car.
It goes with a 50 foot mechanical dinosaur though. And there are a hell of a lot of other Autobots they can pick. What I wouldn't give to see an Alternator Mustang Windcharger...
Okay, I'll shut up now. I'm turning this lovely post about heat issues into my own little soapbox on the evils of misnomering android toys.
Optimus Prime is not an ape.