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“Battle of the Rock Lords,” and LIME COKE!

There wasn't a new article to kick off the week yesterday, but I hope the fact that this one is 55,000 words makes up for it. Here's my review of "The Battle of the Rock Lords," a Go-Bots movie that introduces a whole new legion of rocky characters and long-tongued fur-covered dragon cuties. You're probably associating that "Go-Bots" connection with crap, but it really wasn't a bad little flick. I collected the Rock Lords toys, and this was the only way to see 'em animated. Not sure if that was worth the full-blown 90 minute treatment, but whatever, I'm still glad it's out there. Definitely worth picking up. And by the way...


This new Coke WID LIMA shit is fantastic. I got used to the phony lemon flavoring (actually prefer it over the original, non-fruitified version), but the lime is sooo much better. Way more natural. Besides, everyone loves limes. Admit it, you eat limes. Raw. You cut them in half and chomp on the skin, letting the heavenly acids flow forth like a river of sour. Now you can have that wonderful feeling and tack Coca Cola on top. Who could ask for anything more? I doubt it'll be around forever -- regular Coke, lemon Coke, lime Coke -- something's gotta give. Buy it while you can. Drink it while it's lime.

Posted by Matt on 01/27/2004. E-mail me!



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I have heard the exact opposite. One drink and throws the can across the room because of the nastiness. Not my opinion because I wont drink Diet Coke. I’d throw it across the room just for the diet taste.

Chestnuts roasted by allicat @ 01/27/2004 8:13 AM

I guess you have to be a lime loyalist. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 8:15 AM

I like Diet taste. Is this Nectar of the Zods available in Canada? If so, I must head out and buy a bag of Lime Tostitos and a flat of Lime Coke to impress my girlfriend with my insanity, real quick like.

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 01/27/2004 8:16 AM

Not sure where it’s available, but if you get stuck, e-mail me and I’ll send off a six-pack.

Lime Tostitos…well, I sorta drew my lime-line there. I’m not sure why they considered a massive attack of salt and bitters as being "lime flavored," but then again, I only tried ‘em once.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 8:18 AM

They could always combine to make lemon-lime coke! That’s all I got

Chestnuts roasted by Mark @ 01/27/2004 8:36 AM

Yeah, I have to admit, I wasn’t crazy about Lime Tostitos the first time I had them and I didn’t think I’d have ‘em again. I’d heard mixed things about them, and when I had my first one I thought that it was a bizarre mix of salt and sugary key lime. But, since it takes me about a month to get through a bag of chips, I had plenty of time to change my mind. So, I like them, but it’s true that they don’t taste like lime lime. If they have lime Jelly Bellies, those probably taste more like lime lime.

Also, I’m the only one who doesn’t hate GoBots. :( The first time GoBots came up (in the context of that, er, "intimate" scene) it took me a while to remember them (unlike Transformers, which you just don’t forget) but I remember watching GoBots with my neighbour before we’d go to school and actually liking it.

By the way, for any Jem! and the Holograms fans, there’s a claim that Rhino is going to be putting out some DVDs (click my name for the source). Evidently, Rhino held a snail mail write-in to see if there was enough interest, and soon cut off the write-in, because they got quite a few letters.

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 01/27/2004 8:44 AM

Rhino rocks. Didn’t they put the Inhumanoids on DVD, too? More importantly, Chris Elliot’s "Get A Life." They’re not marketing towards the biggest clientele, but they’re certainly working for people like us.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 8:50 AM

limes should be reserved for corona and juggling only. Not for mixing with carbonated non-alcoholic beverages.

Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 01/27/2004 9:23 AM

I can’t beleive you reviewed Rock Lords. In college my friends and I rented that movie, knowing full well that it was going to be bad…boy did we underestimate. I especially love the theme song to the movie. (or maybe it was the toy line, I can’t remember)

Rock lords,
Rocks that come alive
Rock Lords,
Powerful LIVING ROCKS!!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Zappadog @ 01/27/2004 9:28 AM

All i gotta say is "WHO LOVES YA, BABY??" Telly Sevalis R.I.P. So should this movie. I have an extreme bias against Go-Bots and this movie made my hatred grow. On the plus side I’m glad you gave a shout-out to Frank Welker. If I could be HALF as succesful as he was doing animal and just plain fucked up voices I could die a happy man, seriously.
As for lime Diet Coke I heard about it about week or so ago (my bro is a manager at the CVS down the street) and I just KNEW it would land here soon enough. Can’t say I am really tempted by its artificial sweetness. I much prefer my caffeine source being a healthy portion of espresso. (Ah, yes….ANOTHER reason to hate the Go-Bots movie, metal eating coffee beans?) But then again being employed at the local coffee shop and being a coffee fanatic would definitely skew my views a wee bit.

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 01/27/2004 9:29 AM

Zappa: that’s how it went, and if you click the stars in the article logo, you can hear it. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 9:32 AM

Ahhhh yes I almost forgot. Telly Sevalis also ruled because he was the president of The Player’s Club. I know this just involves gamblers but it sounds like something Puff Daddy or Jay-Z would start. Man, I’m so frickin cheesey……

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 01/27/2004 9:38 AM

About 2 weeks ago, I was on a trip to Brazil for a scholars program, and as a Diet Coke addict, I had become really proud of my skill to order "Coca-Cola Lite." However, Guarana is the big drink there, so sometimes there was no CCL to be found. Much more common? Coca-Cola Lite…CON LIMAO. I tried it, I loved it, I wished for it hear in the States. Guess it finally came true. Personally, I think the lemon flavor tasted disturbingly like what I imagine Lemon Pledge tastes like…

Chestnuts roasted by indiemaven @ 01/27/2004 9:52 AM

Matt, I must say you are getting more and more creative with the hiding of easter eggs. Especially the one last week where you clicked the kids glasses and were called a shit head.

Chestnuts roasted by Chad @ 01/27/2004 10:37 AM

lime rules
last year runts did a dick move repackaged teh shit, and took out lime to replaced it with watermelon and added on blue berry
and both arent that great, i know this one dollor tree that still sells the classic 5 runts (Orange, Strawberry, Banana, Cherry, Lime)
while the first 4 flavors are stull there, with a six piece that means less strawberry and banana pieces!

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Jacobs @ 01/27/2004 10:56 AM

i did not know there was a go-bots movie…..this alternate earth truly is a strange place…

Chestnuts roasted by Scourge @ 01/27/2004 11:01 AM

wow that review brought back alot of memories and toys i barely remember, lol

Chestnuts roasted by Rychiar @ 01/27/2004 11:27 AM

Go bots, mighty robots, mighty vehicles, GO BOTS!

Theme to the commercial or something, not sure how it got ingrained into my pathetic brain but it did. Even if your movie sucked, I will never forget you GO BOTS! Too bad all the ones I have are decaying in my basement somewhere. Funny how the main good guy is called Leader-1, and now in the new transformers there’s a mini-con with that name….Ponder that…

Chestnuts roasted by Ronald McTurdburgler @ 01/27/2004 11:36 AM

I checked on the site just to see if there was new stuff up, and I thought, "Oh dear God, GO-BOTS?! I wouldn’t have been caught dead with one of those second-rate, bastardized Transformers." But I read the review anyway because I knew Matt would rip it apart.

Then I saw a picture of Cy-Kill, and I am ashamed to say that I MAY have owned the respective action figure. I might have owned Crasher, too. Or maybe the truth is less hidious- maybe I just saw the movie and I can’t remember.

But that Tim Curry-Rocky Horror Picture Show-transvestive face is alarmingly familiar…

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 01/27/2004 11:37 AM

Kenner, Hasbro, and Tonka consumed each other and now TransFormers owns GoBots. When the writers wanted female GoBots, they just gave them feminine faces and girl voices. I have only one Rock Lord, and it be Nugget. I still want the Jewel Lord Solitaire. She was the only toy out of that line that had a female build. And waht was the deal with Turbo peppering his dialog with "Wuuhh" every third line? GoBoTron?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/27/2004 12:04 PM

STOP EFFECTING MY REALITY MATT!

I swear Matt is warping my universe and implanting little things from his articles into my house. I will explane-
I was looking in my garrage through some stuff I packed away years ago a few days after Matt’s worst boardgames ever post and lo and behold I found a crappy game. It would end at a stange ka-wink-i-dink if the subject of this game did not just HAPPEN to be mentioned in the very next article.

Yes Folks. I have a near mint condition….(Drum roll)…Kojak game. Sitting here as I post this is Mr Savalis’s shining dome is smiling back at me warping my mind with his sweet "Who loves ya baby."

Now what gets even stanger is the fact that I have never seen a single Kojak episode, nor do I have any otherworld intrest in all thing Savalis. I have never shoped at a flee market nor have I ordered anything other then Dnd stuff off of E-bay. I have never recived a non-electronic boardgame from a relitive other then Risk.

So the only logical reason for it to be there is that Matt drove five hours one way to my house, got past my three dogs, opened my garage without tripping the alarm, planted the game just in the palce I would look and drove home in time to write a article that somehow inculded a Savalis referance all just-

TO WARP MY MIND!!!

/gets taken away by nice strong men in clean white coats…..

Chestnuts roasted by Mr Mango @ 01/27/2004 12:12 PM

I actually liked gobots when i was a kid. Nowhere near as much as i liked transformers though. But matt is right crasher was the best gobot of them all.

On another note many of the gobot toys were from a japanese line of toys based on the anime Machine Robo. It was basically about this planet of sentient robots. some were just robots that turned into vehciles, but otheres looked like humans who would turn into robot like power rangers.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 01/27/2004 12:13 PM

Crasher reminded me of that one Scooby doo villain, the Diabolical Disc Demon for some reason.
http://www.execulink.com/~joelb/scooby/episodes/picswher/tddd.htm
Even the same electronic garbled voice stylings.

IIRC it seems she/he had the only weapon the Go-bots feared. That stomp which sent energy along the ground after them. Though I though they could all fly… making that attack moot.

Bumblebee would kick the hell out of Scooter, who kicked the hell out of that other robot scooter thing, T-Bob from M.A.S.K.
Viscious cycle… -_-

Chestnuts roasted by Aconite @ 01/27/2004 12:18 PM

If Jem comes out on video it will be the greatest day ever for me, since the day I got my dirty little hands on Buffy season 5 anyway…

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 01/27/2004 12:48 PM

To Gabbylicious, who do you love:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=983

Chestnuts roasted by TheMatt @ 01/27/2004 1:19 PM

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