Makes me wish I’d still been into MotU when the Horde came out. I think I got more into GI Joe around that time…

Picked up episodes of DinoRiders and Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light at Half Price Books last night. I remembered the toys, but forgot the shows.

The lilting gaze of the chick behind the counter let me know that she was impressed with my taste and style.

Chestnuts roasted by Ubu Rex @ 08/12/2003 3:31 PM

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Damn, Spazz…now you’re making me wish I still had the thing.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/12/2003 3:35 PM

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I’m sellin’ a bunch of Evil Horde, M.A.S.K. and other shifoozey on eBay right now – click my name to check it out. Alas, no Monstroid but tomorrow I’m putting up a bunch of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures, including the friggin’ Turtle Van…

Chestnuts roasted by K. Thor Jensen @ 08/12/2003 3:50 PM

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Holy random appearances — are you the same K Thor who was once hooked up with UGO and assorted other sites? If so, everyone go check out his auctions. This guy was very good to X-E in its formulative stages.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=18990&item=3141796366

That one’s tempting. Two Horde Troopers are better than one.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/12/2003 3:54 PM

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What happened to Theodore Long? Didn’t see him on RAW yesterday. Is it true he has hepititis? That would be a damn shame playa! Belee Dat!

Chestnuts roasted by J-Dog @ 08/12/2003 4:00 PM

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Yeah, Rodney Mack coming out without Teddy is kind of like inviting the loser kid over to your house in the hopes that his hot mom’ll pick him up, but lo and behold, his stupid daddy was playing chauffeur. I can’t back the Mack unless that hipster continually tells me to.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/12/2003 4:03 PM

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Remember the commercial for the "Slimer" toy. It had a disclaimer at the bottom not to use it with Moss Man. I swear I remember this, someone please back me up!

Chestnuts roasted by klatubaradanikto @ 08/12/2003 5:48 PM

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Dang, wish you would of written that article a week sooner Matt. I saw Monstroid at a thrift shop and thought he was part of a board game because all he did was shake. His legs were missing too so that threw me off. I guess it’s as much Monstroids fault for decieving me as it is yours for not writing this article sooner. Shame on you both.

I kid of course

Chestnuts roasted by kennef @ 08/12/2003 6:23 PM

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Good MOTU piece, great article on slasher films. Since everyone else is commenting on Monstroid I’ll say something on your cool list.
#11 Really cool that you commented on this flick because I think it’s one of the funniest, at least the sequels, and the sight of the Boss’s sister as a killer made it all the better, she plays a good nut! I can’t remember the name of the woman that played the original Angela, do you know it?
#10 Like how you lumped them together.
#9 Best homocidal toys ever(Chucky’s a doll). These guys also got ripped off by "Demonic Toys" and other Full Moon movies, Blades the coolest.
#8 Actually scary and my got some of my black friends into horror and that’s always cool, and Tony Todd does actually talk like that when I ran into him at a mall, his scariest role though is Fyvish Finkle’s love child on Boston Public.
#7 Never been a big fan but you gotta respect a guy that has tongued Jennifer Aniston and beat the crap out of that guy from "Street Hawk".
#6 My #1 choice but I’m a little partial because I’m from Texas. Probably the scariest movie I’ve ever seen, later learned that the tag line "based on a true story" is a bit misleading, it’s more of a amalgamation. The new one looks like it may not blow. When you comment on "The Return of the Chainsaw Massacre" do you mean part 2? You also comment on his cross dressing but I can’t even remember that before "The Next Generation" and that’s IMO the worst one. Leatherface also has the best mention in the film "Summer School". Which also had that guy from Leprechaun and Street Hawk.
#5 Part two was the best though John Ritter doing a Pinhead impersonation is comedic gold.
#4 Agree that he never got the respect he was due, this film had one of the best scores, which is even scary in that Blockbuster commercial they ran a few years back. Also one of the few series that had some weird installment that had nothing to due with the main character, if you’ve actually seen "Season of the Witch" pat yourself on the back.
# 3 Always killed/transformed people in the sickest ways. Plus he had the coolest sidekicks, Chatterer was my favorite. Has a better story then most.
#2 Crappy stories but cool villain and you’ve got Corey Feldman! Survived longer then any other person in the series. Every single version of Jason was cool, from picked on kid to farmer with a sack on his head to hockey mask to without hockey mask to child again to robot thingy to now. Best in the series IMO is part 7 where the girl has telekinesis, it had the best kill scenes and looked the best plus the ending was cool. "Jason Takes Manhattan" does have the distinction of having Kelly Hu of X2 fame and Julius going toe to toe with Jason, only person that didn’t do the standard hit Jason it has no effect and decide to just stand there until Jason kills him, it should make Theodore proud.
#1 Pretty good, the early ones had really good imagery but the later ones weren’t as scary but just as good. High point is of course killing Depp, lowpoint is having that kid from Mercury Rising as your link to the real world. One thing that I never got was why didn’t anybody ever dream up something better when fighting Freddy, they usually just fought him hand to hand with the exceptions of the guy in the wheel chair who threw lighting bolts and dressed like Dracula and the Comic guy who turned into some cyborg only to have his ass handed to him by Super Freddy? Admittedly I have not seen them in some time so maybethey did but I forgot.
I have to ask if Psycho qualifies as a slasher, it has a main character that is the villain and has also had crappy sequels, other then that potential oversight your best list yet.

Chestnuts roasted by Happnin' Mojo @ 08/12/2003 9:34 PM

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So I was at this comic book convention this past Sat. Lots of MOTU stuff. But give me Thundercats any ol’ day of da week.

PS- I had Arby’s for today. I think they should bottle and sell their sauce. Damn hell its good.

Chestnuts roasted by Yankee Clipper @ 08/12/2003 10:35 PM

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Why am I seeing the logo at the top of the screen as reading "X-ENTERTAMENT"? I don’t ever remember seeing that before… did one of the HTML-linked "buttons" fail to load properly (having all sorts of weird problems with the Internet tonight), or is everyone else seeing it like that?

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 08/12/2003 10:52 PM

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I just wanted to say that your article was a little bit off. You mentioned that there is no clear victor at the end of the commercial, but close inspection of the commercial reveals that he-man actually hits the button, deactivating the crab. Unfortunatley, a huge hand reaches out at the end and turned it back on and I think we all know that mans that he-man died off camera.

Chestnuts roasted by Danny @ 08/12/2003 11:20 PM

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I hate to nitpick a fantastic article…..but looking at the box, isn’t its name really "crabor" and "monstroid" is just his title, like "doctor?"

Anyway Matt, I recently came into posession of a video I might copy and send to you to go with all your other weirdass reader presents. It’s a tamagotchi cartoon video with the voice of S-L-I-M-E-R (same actor doing the same voice) as the main virtualpet. They have to go to earth to find objects for their tamagotchi museum, and after the show is a song and then a whole different thing where a guy and an ugly hand puppet named HANDY WARHOL show you how to draw toast.

Ok, so they really show you how to draw tamagotchi characters, but for the first two they use a slice of toast as a "model" to draw a vaguely squareish blob.

Want it?

Chestnuts roasted by Scythemantis @ 08/12/2003 11:31 PM

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