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01/27/2004: “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.


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Discussion Thread: 190 comments

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.

Ghosted by allicat @ 01/27/2004 8:13 AM EST

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

Ghosted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 8:15 AM EST

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.

Ghosted by Molten @ 01/27/2004 8:16 AM EST

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.

Ghosted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 8:18 AM EST

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

Ghosted by Mark @ 01/27/2004 8:36 AM EST

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.

Ghosted by Molten @ 01/27/2004 8:44 AM EST

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.

Ghosted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 8:50 AM EST

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

Ghosted by chad @ 01/27/2004 9:23 AM EST

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!!!!!!

Ghosted by Zappadog @ 01/27/2004 9:28 AM EST

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.

Ghosted by phunqsauce @ 01/27/2004 9:29 AM EST

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

Ghosted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 9:32 AM EST

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……

Ghosted by phunqsauce @ 01/27/2004 9:38 AM EST

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…

Ghosted by indiemaven @ 01/27/2004 9:52 AM EST

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.

Ghosted by Chad @ 01/27/2004 10:37 AM EST

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!

Ghosted by Eddie Jacobs @ 01/27/2004 10:56 AM EST

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

Ghosted by Scourge @ 01/27/2004 11:01 AM EST

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

Ghosted by Rychiar @ 01/27/2004 11:27 AM EST

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…

Ghosted by Ronald McTurdburgler @ 01/27/2004 11:36 AM EST

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…

Ghosted by Night_Trekker @ 01/27/2004 11:37 AM EST

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?

Ghosted by kingklash @ 01/27/2004 12:04 PM EST

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…..

Ghosted by Mr Mango @ 01/27/2004 12:12 PM EST

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.

Ghosted by Bright Noah @ 01/27/2004 12:13 PM EST

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… -_-

Ghosted by Aconite @ 01/27/2004 12:18 PM EST

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…

Ghosted by Gabbylicious @ 01/27/2004 12:48 PM EST

To Gabbylicious, who do you love:

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

Ghosted by TheMatt @ 01/27/2004 1:19 PM EST

Jem is her name, no one else is the same…jem is her name…JEM!

Ghosted by Kristal @ 01/27/2004 1:33 PM EST

"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."

Ugh. Reading that, my tongue curled up and my mouth filled with spit… just like if I were eating a raw lime. Please don’t use your powers of description for evil anymore.

Ghosted by Franny Glass @ 01/27/2004 1:49 PM EST

Any time Marvel did a ‘girls’ show, i had to check it out because of the little twists they would put in. The wicked-looking centaur with the voice of the narrator from TransFormers in my Little Pony was a great example. So, was Synergy’s programming based on Jem’s mother?

Ghosted by kingklash @ 01/27/2004 1:50 PM EST

I actually prefered Go-Bots over Transformers when I was a kid. It seemed to me that they were made of sturdier materials, and their tranformations seemed more imaginative then Transformers. My Scooter figure was my all-time favorite toy in Kindergarden, but I lost him at some point. Then there was this Renagade figure who transformed into the coolest looking Drill Tank you ever saw. I still have that one, but it’s missing a leg. There was also this cool Train guy. Bet you never saw a train Transfomer! Man, I loved Go-Bots!

And not only that, but of all the Transformers, Bumblebee was actually my favorite. Go figure. Go Bot. Go Bot figure.

Ghosted by Lone_Psycho @ 01/27/2004 1:57 PM EST

Lone-Psycho there was a train transformer, Astro-Train he was a decepticon could change into a train or a shuttle. Also in the more recent Robots in Disguise show the autobots had a bullet train gestalt.

Ghosted by Bright NOah @ 01/27/2004 2:09 PM EST

Matt-you forgot to mention that Magmar’s a Pokémon! Oops.

Ghosted by Behonkiss @ 01/27/2004 2:12 PM EST

Ugh! Even as a kid I knew Go-Bots sucked worse than a $2 tijuana crack whore.

And now I find they made a movie featuring these atrocities. Only in the 80’s.

Ghosted by Jeremiah @ 01/27/2004 2:28 PM EST

No, I mean a REAL train, with freagin’ steam power and everything.

Ghosted by Lone_Psycho @ 01/27/2004 2:39 PM EST

Oh dear… The Go Bots? I dunno… Maybe I’m just one of those guys that stereotypes the Go-bots as a poor man’s Transformers. Out of curiousity, when’s the next part of the GI JOE chia pet thing coming out?

Ghosted by The Blue Meanie @ 01/27/2004 2:40 PM EST

This Friday. I think?

Ghosted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 2:41 PM EST

Awesome. Also,I’m just curious, are you ever planning on reviewing any of the new Masters of the Universe cartoon episodes?..Or have you already and I just missed it?

Ghosted by The Blue Meanie @ 01/27/2004 2:46 PM EST

I’ve actually been considering it more and more, though I don’t think I’d have time to review them in the way I review, well, everything else. Maybe short synopsisisisies or something. If anyone happens to have all the episodes tapes (preferably on video or VCD…hate the comp files), lemme know!

Ghosted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 2:51 PM EST

I didn’t really feel like reading all of the above comments, so I just thought I’d touch on soft drinks and Go-Bots real quick.

The only Coke products I can stand are Cherry Coke and Vanilla Coke. Other than that, it’s Pepsi for me, but maybe I’ll give the lime stuff a try.

I never watched Go-Bots, although I’m sure I probably had some of the action figures, I was all about things that transform into other things when I was a kid, just because I was into Voltron and Transformers. I even had some of those McDonalds things. I probably still have them in my Grandma’s attic.

Hey, speaking of my Grandma’s attic, Matt, I know you hate having anybody else do any work on your site, but I’d be honored if you let me and the S5P crew do a review of the VCR WrestleMania game for you. It’ll give me and the guys something to do other than bitch about the fact that nobody’s doing anything stupid enough to get on the idiocy timeline lately (Although I’m sure I can include Howard Dean). Let me know, man, my e-mail is skitzo@stupid5pin.com (imagine that), and my AIM is LarsKillsNapster.

Ghosted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/27/2004 3:12 PM EST

I still have one of the boulder people kicking around some wheres….hes like all green…i dont know any green rocks at least the green the toy is, but it was a kinda cool toy…

Ghosted by LordSorrow @ 01/27/2004 3:43 PM EST

Oh my God, Nuggit! I bought one of those at a local comic shop a few months ago without having any idea who or what he was–I bought him solely because of his shininess. Now that I know his origins, and that he was voiced by Cornelius, that adds a whole new dimension to the little gold guy who has become my car’s mascot. Thanks Matt!

Ghosted by Chairman Kaga @ 01/27/2004 4:06 PM EST

I love articles that thrust me back into my youth. I think back to the days when my brother and I would walk up to the drug store up the street to check on the newest little Transformers and GI Joes. The store was called Drug Fair amusingly enough. They overcharged for everything but it was the only place besides the supermarket and the convenience store that we were allowed to walk to. That place sucked and yet it also was the best place in the known universe. It has been gone for many years which is sad because I still have nightmares I am trapped there and can’t find the sodas.

Ghosted by Killer Duck @ 01/27/2004 4:17 PM EST

In December Matt had X-mas peeps. Now you can make your own. This thing is begging for an XE review:

http://www.toymania.com/news/messages/4568.shtml

Ghosted by Kennef @ 01/27/2004 4:26 PM EST

Dear god what how great is it you can make your own peeps, now when I try to eat 50 of them I won’t have to buy them on my own.

Ghosted by EdthaCow @ 01/27/2004 4:31 PM EST

man, i don’t know if my parents just didn’t like me or what, but go bots were probably the toys i had the most of growing up. i had that nugget/nuggit(sp?) guy, which was the envy of street. we all liked the shiny things. I had boulder, he looked like a bar of irish spring all smushed into a ball. then that granite guy, who came in the oh-so-rocklike shape of square. that’s all, just wanted to post my $.02.
-btw, we may have liked scooter when we were kids, but scooter’s gay. just ask leader-1, he’s no stranger to that lifestyle.

Ghosted by jokun @ 01/27/2004 4:35 PM EST

Matt,
You did it again!! Narlies! MY GOD! Me and my best friend as a kid both had them and yes we’re both girls. :) We LOVED those little things and actually played Narlie family making the Narlies have sex and everything (yes were sick disturbed children). She had a cool aqua blue one with pink fur/hair and I had the ugly one that’s seen in the picture in your review with the elephant snout and grey fur. In fact it’s amazing I did love something that looked that ugly..oddly enough I was never into Go Bots though. I was a Transformers gal. Oh well enough prancing down memory lane, it’ll be covered with snow soon.
Melissa Y.
-Loyal reader and resident Tim Curry fan

Ghosted by Melissa Y. @ 01/27/2004 4:41 PM EST

Ever see Peeps in a vacuum jar? Lotsa fun to let the air back in and watch them shrivel up.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 01/27/2004 4:59 PM EST

This as nothing to do with Go-Bots but just robots in general. I am looking for the name for of the Robot with the ad were he tells you "Peanut is not a pea or a nut." I hated that robot with a passion but I wanted one. I can’t think of the name of it.

Ghosted by Oreogirl @ 01/27/2004 5:07 PM EST

Oddly enough, I’m pretty sure Nugget was the one and only member of the Go-Bot series me and my brother owned. I loved to use Nugget to bowl over the other robots and little plastic army men (despite how incredibly inaccurate he was at rolling). And of course Nugget’s shininess was like a boon granted from heaven itself.

I even remember seeing the Go-Bots movies a bit. However it was so unspectacular at the time the memory is long drowned out by better movie experiences. Like how I laughed my head off at the severed arm scene in Jurassic Park when my class went to see it at the end of grade 9. I still find that bit funny to this day.

Plus, I really wish they made non-diet lime Coke. Coca-Cola is my favourite type of pop, but I can’t stand diet. Not even to humour it like I do with Pepsi.

Ghosted by Tonnica @ 01/27/2004 5:18 PM EST

As much as I like robots, I don’t really care for some of those educational toys that only look like robots, but are tiny midget teachers that try to sound friendly. I can’t recall the name of the one Oreogirl’s talking about, but ain’t it the one where the kid is annoying everyone around with those statements? There must be some subliminal programmimg that robots’ putting into his head. *blip* tell your parent or guardian all that I’m teaching you. or your dog will die. *blip*

Ghosted by kingklash @ 01/27/2004 5:27 PM EST

If you are thinking of the old robot from the 80’s then it was probably Alphie. There’s a new robot out now with commercials similar to that called Kasey the Kinderbot.

Ghosted by Bright Noah @ 01/27/2004 6:04 PM EST

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