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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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You can pass on ideas for the producer of the live-action Transformers movie here:
http://www.donmurphy.net/board/forumdisplay.php?s=20adede1b7e489a8cb1151d7d685daa6&forumid=8

Ghosted by ME @ 01/27/2004 6:13 PM EST

That Lime Diet Coke is…okay. I tried it, and it just seems a bit odd to me. Too limey.

Ghosted by Paul @ 01/27/2004 6:28 PM EST

I’m ashamed to admit that I owned several Go-Bots in my youth. Actually, I had quite a few "Rock Lords" villians, like the dinosaur looking guy and the white mer-man with huge breasts. I never seemed to know what they were, until now. Surprisingly, they’re some of the few toys that survived my childhood.

Ghosted by Evan @ 01/27/2004 6:28 PM EST

Actually, I collect Go Bots along side my Transformers collection.

In many cases, the old Go Bot toys beat the snot out the Transformers, at least in the minicar scale.

See, in Japan Go Bots had a much better show called Machine Robo. It was popular enough that these days they have a sequel to it called Machine Robo Rescue with cel shaded CGI robots and such. (Which is probably why the newest Transformers cartoon, known as Energon in the US, or Super Link in Japan does the same thing, but has a bit more mature of a storyline than Machine Robo Rescue does..)

Don’t hate the Gobots. Hate how Tonka took some kickass robot toys and made them suck via an awful ass cartoon show.

Ghosted by Bloodcat @ 01/27/2004 6:54 PM EST

you think go-bots looks like it was drawn like the toys? Have you seen Transformers Armada? Megatron actually has the little levers that shoot his hands out drawn on him. others too.

Ghosted by jesse @ 01/27/2004 6:56 PM EST

I had the silver rock guy, looked like a turd.

I had a blue dude too who was plastic, I think he was from He-Man though.

Diet Coke with Lime is much better than Lemon, still doesn’t beat regular Diet and Diet with Cherry.

Ghosted by Pookie @ 01/27/2004 7:05 PM EST

Transformers live action movie??? First I find out that Johnny Depp is going to play Wonka, then I find out that there’s going to be a live action Garfield movie, and now this? I’m depressed :(

You know they’re going to ruin it.

Ghosted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/27/2004 7:13 PM EST

sup

Ghosted by Kalvano @ 01/27/2004 7:29 PM EST

Hey now, Depp just got an Oscar nomination. Woohoo!

Ghosted by Welsh Rabbit @ 01/27/2004 7:56 PM EST

I dunno, I’ve never been a Johnny Depp fan. I always thought that the first movie he’d be in with the word "Pirates" in the title would be a little different.

In hindsite, I wish to retract that statement, and I apologize to any Depp fans reading this. I’m sure he’s an excellent actor, I don’t remember what movies of his I’ve seen, although I still don’t think he’ll make a good Wonka, but I think the reason for that is that I’m both a fan of Gene Wilder and Marilyn Manson. So now that I’ve babbled and taken up space on Matt’s blog, I’ve decided that I will at least give Depp as Wonka a chance.

Ghosted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/27/2004 8:08 PM EST

I think that now would be a good time to say that…

I FUCKING HATE GO-BOTS!!!!!!!!!!

Ghosted by NATE!!!!!!!! @ 01/27/2004 8:24 PM EST

Matt — Nice! Got the Narlies in there and everything. I was never a fan of Transformers as a kid, and I don’t think I own any of the official robots (I have a small green robot that turns into a car, but I’m pretty sure it’s not a Transformers brand one), but I’ve got a handful of the Narlies, because blue rhinos with grey fur and yellow horns just can’t be topped. Narlihog’s due to show up in an upcoming piece I’m working on, actually. :)

And you meant 5500 words, right? 55K is like novel length…

Oh, and give the lime Tostitos another try. They’re awesome for dipping. ;)

Ghosted by Wes @ 01/27/2004 8:29 PM EST

TheMatt, I love Molten, who first posted the Jem link ;) But thanks for trying. As for a live action Transformers movie… I have no idea how the hell that will ever work. We will see. As for Johnny, I don’t know how he’ll turn out as Wonka but he was the greatest pirate I’ve ever seen…

Ghosted by Gabbylicious @ 01/27/2004 8:29 PM EST

I meant 55,000!

And good to see you on here again, Wes…it’s been a while!

Ghosted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 8:30 PM EST

Man so much excitement for me in the Blog. First I could care less about the Peeps maker, I never liked those. But I found out you can buy Gremlins toys. I got to have Brain in my office at work. Then a Transformers live action movie, man the transformers better not look like they’re the power ranger robots. I’d kill someone.

Ghosted by Spiffy McKracken @ 01/27/2004 8:39 PM EST

I thought that the educational robot was called 2-XL (get it? To excel?)

Ghosted by JG! @ 01/27/2004 9:01 PM EST

They shoud make a live action Jem movie. She IS truly outrageous.

Ghosted by Killer Duck @ 01/27/2004 9:02 PM EST

The movie is set in the G1 Era, so obviously the will look more or less the same as the old days, though Megatron will be a problem since they won’t able to make a toy of him if he turns into a gun (US toy laws and all).

Optimus Prime’s movie design will most likely be based off this, Masterpiece Convoy aka 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime:

http://tfkenkon.com/collection/act173/
http://tfkenkon.com/collection/act170/
http://tfkenkon.com/collection/act172/

Transformers beats GoBots to death and leaves their carcasses rusting in a ditch.

Ghosted by FFN @ 01/27/2004 9:19 PM EST

First off, I didn’t recognize it at first, but as I read Matt’s review, I slowly began to realize I’d seen these characters before. I don’t remember having seen the movie, but I know my sisters and I watched "The Go-Bots" on a regular basis. I think we may even have had some of the toys, which were easier to find in southern New Jersey than the far-more-popular (and pricier) Transformers.

There was at least one Go-Bots Happy Meal for McDonald’s in the mid-80s. We had the toys for years. I distinctly recall finding hours (or at least minutes) of enjoyment in transforming and re-forming a small, blue-and-gray jet-plane thing.

I’ve seen the Diet Coke with Lime at the Acme grocery store where I work. I’m not a fan of Diet Coke or Pepsi – both taste like a few bubbles floating around in liquid Sweet n’ Low – so it’s unlikely I’ll be indulging in green citrus Coke unless they come out with a sugared version.

However, I do like lime Tostitos. I’m not a chips fan in general, but I like the heady combination of salt and sour.

Ghosted by starwenn @ 01/27/2004 9:28 PM EST

When it comes to the Transformers movie it has a positive and a negative going for it.

Positive
Tom DeSanto: htp://imdb.com/name/nm0220892/

Negative (When it comes to comic adaptations)
Don Murphy: http://imdb.com/name/nm0006613/

Ghosted by ME @ 01/27/2004 9:36 PM EST

Tom DeSanto is an avid fan and will most likely at least write the story.

Don Murphy made Double Dragon, but is nice enough to listen to what the fans think on his message board I posted above.

Ghosted by ME @ 01/27/2004 9:39 PM EST

Thanks to this review, I now know what those unknown toys in my foot locker are: 1 Rock Lord and 3 Rock Narlies…

Ghosted by Rewolf J @ 01/27/2004 10:05 PM EST

Just to let everybody know,Go-Bots are still around,but as a pre-school Transformers line.

Does anybody remember this Go-Bots magazine they had back in the day,like the G.I. Joe and He-Man ones that had posters,letters from kids and such? I’ll admit I read that,only becuase I had a mild interest in Go-Bots. One thing I remember from that mag was they said Go-Bots don’t die when injured,they self-repair or somesuch,so no going out in a blaze of glory for Leader-1 like Optimus Prime.

Ghosted by Overlord @ 01/27/2004 10:17 PM EST

The new upcoming Transformers: Superlink/Energon show is fairly violent. Autobots die left, right and center.
Some poor guy is blown to bits by Tidal Wave and his severed arm lands in front of Hot Shot. Not sure if they will edit that sort of thing out in the US version.

Excellent animation and story pacing, though.

Watch for Energon on the Cartoon Network on the 31st of January.

Ghosted by FFN @ 01/27/2004 10:37 PM EST

Diet Coke w/ lime is my second fave soda. Can’t beat Diet Dr Pepper

Ghosted by lain @ 01/27/2004 11:38 PM EST

I actually remember a Go-Bot that transformed by behinding him in half – think his name was Tank. That’s it, bend him in half so that it looked like he was blowing himself. Wait a second – that’s the best damned transforming capability out there…

Garfield live-action, Transformers live-action – you gotta love the trend. Jem – probably could do a good porno with this one. What about Inhumanoids? WHAT ABOUT INHUMANOIDS? Holy Mother of Fucker, Jesus and Christ – What about Inhumanoids? Oh man, that’s the codeine talking whilst I wait for an appointment to get a root canal to end the pain…

Anyways, Matt, you have to take a look at Sky Commanders. Okay – decent toy, but what a fucked-up storyline they created just so they could get their half-hour commercial on TV. New continents, Theta-7, gravity-lock and lift-cable technology??? For a piece of string, two eye-hooks and an old Rebel Soldier action figure? Wow…

After thinking about Sky Commanders, I’m glad today’s cartoons like Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh aren’t nearly as commercial.

Ghosted by DragonJay @ 01/27/2004 11:45 PM EST

On the whole Diet Coke with Lime thing…
I would love to try it, I heard it’s good, but I absolutely will not drink diet coke (diet anything, for that matter). No offense to all you diet-beverage-ers out there, but I think it tastes like crap. Unfortunately, it’s the only thing my mother has had to drink for the past eighteen years, unless she’s sick. I don’t get it. Oh well. That’s my 2 cents.

Ghosted by Rainbowfeet @ 01/28/2004 12:12 PM EST

Bite your tongue, a Jem porn…I’d rather jab out my eyes than watch that. I can feel my inner child curling up into a ball at the thought.

Ghosted by Killer Duck @ 01/28/2004 12:13 PM EST

A live action Jem movie would be so fun. There is a Yu-Gi-Oh movie out this summer (not live action, that would suck) and I’m excited, which is sad I know, but hey I own the first Pokemon movie. Oh, and I want a live action Sailor Moon movie. When I am rich I will buy all the Sailor Moon episodes, they are too much otehrwise :(

Ghosted by Gabbylicious @ 01/28/2004 12:37 PM EST

That’s the strangest thing. Yesterday, there just happened to be limes and Pepsi in the same place, so I thought I’d stir up some craziness and squeeze the lime into my drink. The idea had never even entered my head until yesterday, and now, here it is on X-E. I realize that this is Coke and that I’m sort of being ridiculous, but it’s still some sort of small victory in my mind.

Ghosted by Kate @ 01/28/2004 1:14 AM EST

All these live action movies are depressing me. Ever since the live action "How The Grinch Stole Christmas," which was horrible (although, the Cat in the Hat wasn’t all that bad). My best friend and co-owner of stupid5pin.com, turtle, he’s gonna be stoked when he finds out there’s a Yu-Gi-Oh! movie coming out, although I’m sure he already knows. And to Killer Duck, who suggested I make a porn site with the domain name that I have no idea what to do with, I want to let you know that the idea is being tossed about, but we won’t be using toyaction.net if it does come to fruition. See, FRUITion. Limes are fruit. Therefore, I just completely turned this post into something somewhat relevant to the subject of Matt’s blog.

Lastly, to Matt, I’m flying out to Chicago this week to be a defendant on "Judge Mathis." I think I should tell you when it’s going to be on so you can do a review of the episode on x-e. That would be cool.

Ghosted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/28/2004 1:55 AM EST

I’ve probably eaten my weight in lime tostitos by now. I’m hooked on them like a Delvorian hocsmard is hooked on paggoldak spore. Don’t worry. In 1000 years you’ll know what I’m talking about. That’s where I’m from, and man, Delvorian hocsmard jokes are all the rage. You’ll see. Just you wait.

Ghosted by Solarmanite @ 01/28/2004 2:38 AM EST

I’ve probably eaten my weight in lime tostitos by now. I’m hooked on them like a Delvorian hocsmard is hooked on paggoldak spore. Don’t worry. In 1000 years you’ll know what I’m talking about. That’s where I’m from, and man, Delvorian hocsmard jokes are all the rage. You’ll see. Just you wait.

Ghosted by Solarmanite @ 01/28/2004 2:39 AM EST

Skitzo, let us all know when you are on the show.

Ghosted by Richard @ 01/28/2004 2:55 AM EST

Matt — Thanks! It’s nice to be noticed. I’m around; just don’t always post. I do e-mail you from time to time, though. :) (Do you get them?)

You know, after referring this article to a friend, I was just informed that Go-Bots and Transformers aren’t the same thing. Looking back over your review that’s kind of implied, but heck I didn’t know…went right over my head. So I guess I still don’t own any Transformers merchandise…and it’s very possible that that mystery transforming robot of mine is, in fact, a Go-Bot. Go figure. It’s okay; I like Narlies better anyway.

And there’s no way this is 55K words. It’s gotta be counting the html…?

Ghosted by Wes @ 01/28/2004 3:44 AM EST

i wonder what fllavor will be next…

Built some more of my lego sets today, still a lot more to go. once im all done i may make a webpage devoted to them :D

Ghosted by heeloyd @ 01/28/2004 4:19 AM EST

I sit here this morning with a bottle of regular Pepsi, because I know that no matter what kind of flavors they put out, it will pale in comparison to the original. I say this from experience: (in the words of bob sagat, "in no particular order") Crystal Pepsi, Pepsi Twist, Pepsi Blue, Vanilla Pepsi, Pepsi One, and I’m sure there’s a lot more I’m forgetting. As for Coke, I’ve never liked original Coke. I do like Vanilla Coke (in small amounts) and Cherry Coke, and I wouldn’t mind trying the lime stuff if they made it in anything other than diet.

I just want to know if I’m insane or if anybody else remembers a kids show in the 80’s called "Bill Cosby’s Picture Page"? I have the logo from the show on my computer, the show was Bill Cosby drawing stuff or doing mazes or something like that. Please tell me I’m not the only one who remembers that.

Ghosted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/28/2004 8:21 AM EST

The Diet Coke with lime sounds good, I like a lime in my rum ‘n Cokes, but sadly I am allergic to artificial sweetners, so I cannot have anything that’s sugar free…

Does anyone know if they make regular Coke with lime since they make regular with lemon?

Ghosted by B-Dawg @ 01/28/2004 8:24 AM EST

Skitzo, I totally remember Bill Cosby’s picture pages! They were on Nickelodeon every day after Pinwheel!

Pinwheel Pinwheel spinning around…look in my window and see what I found…!

Ghosted by B-Dawg @ 01/28/2004 8:25 AM EST

see, I knew I wasn’t crazy! Somebody else remembers it too! And for those of you who have no clue what about Bill Cosby’s Picture Page, I did a quick search on google for it and came up with the following site:

http://rasafrats.tripod.com/ppages.html

I was doing this talk show project for some friends of mine in college a couple years back, and the topic was the 80’s, so we talked about Transformers the Movie and stuff like that, and then I said, "oh yeah, and Picture Page!" and everybody just kinda looked at me funny.

Ghosted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/28/2004 8:42 AM EST

I remember Picture Page too. Wasn’t his marker accompanied by a Sideshow Bobesque slide whistle or some other musical sound whenever he would draw a line? I wonder how much the Cos got for this gig…

Also, there was a live-action stage production of Jem in some Canadian cities almost a year ago, and, though I didn’t get a chance to see it, my friend mailed me some reviews which said it was mostly so-so. Personally, I was just surprised that there was a Jem revue and it wasn’t put on by drag queens. Not that I wouldn’t love to see a drag queen revue of Jem: that’s probably what was missing the first time.

Ghosted by Molten @ 01/28/2004 9:03 AM EST

Heh. Go-Bots. Brings back memories. Transformers were so expensive that I went for Gobots instead. I had almost all of them… (never could find Cy-Kill or Leader-1). They were pretty cool. How many playsets, after all, include a vaporization chamber? Or an obnoxious alarm?

And for the record, those Go-Bot "happy meals" were from Wendy’s. I know since I got the space shuttle one on a zoo trip, where there was a Wendy’s at the center.

Ghosted by Aaron @ 01/28/2004 9:23 AM EST

Go-Bots weren’t bad toys, they just lacked the storyline that Transformers had. Plus, when I was little, my parents would rather spend a dollar or two on a Go-Bot than five or ten bucks on a Transformer.

Rock Lords are insanely collectible because there’s a lot of rare pieces out there. The coolest by far is this combiner piece that merges into a dinosaur! Check it out:

http://www.toyarchive.com/RocklordsFossil.html

Freakin’ awesome! It’s only come up on eBay a couple of times and it always goes for a couple hundred dollars.

Ghosted by Darth Monkey @ 01/28/2004 9:37 AM EST

holy shit, I had nugget, I had completely forgotten about him, he kicked the living crap out of my lego’s that he always fought.

Ghosted by brandon @ 01/28/2004 10:01 AM EST

This is the Best film. It’s like trying to be good like Transformers The Movie.

Ghosted by Acrobatdog @ 01/28/2004 11:43 AM EST

Did You Know…… Right now in Japan, there is a live action Sailor Moon TV series in the works? I would like to see a epsiode or two of the japanese Spiderman show, with the prince the planet Spider and all. Any reviews of that I could peruse? Picture Pages first began on Captain Kangaroo. (we miss you Bob)

Ghosted by kingklash @ 01/28/2004 12:05 PM EST

Picture pages,
Picture pages,
Time to grab your PENS and you’re PENCILS!!!!

Indeed I remember Bill "PUDDIN POPS!!!" Cosby and his funky pen. I always wanted the pen for the pure fact that it made silly noises when he drew with it. Since I was a young child then I didn’t realize the sound was just edited in there, damn i was stupid. "little kids are dumb" a quote lifted from matt from the board game blog thread.
Yesterday when I was frothing up a cappucino at work I pondered the idea of having and x-entertainment "family reunion" or or an X-entertainment convention. Just think of the possibilities!! Maybe this would be our chance to lure the infamous Nathan Bitner into our lives? I think it be cool to see who exactly looks at this site and find out how many weirdos there are out there. I don’t know it’s just an idea.

Ghosted by phunqsauce @ 01/28/2004 12:14 PM EST

hey, i dont know if you will read this, but i got an email with one of the "viruses" from this web address, so someone might have it that has an x-entertainment email addy. just to give ya’ll a heads up.

Ghosted by Cassi @ 01/28/2004 1:00 PM EST

And as special guest, some dude dressed as Photog! Or -shudder- invite Mare to the festivities.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 01/28/2004 1:01 PM EST

Cassi: the virus worms spider e-mails addresses across the web, so that doesn’t really mean anything. In other words, they’re not really coming from where they say they are…I think. :)

Ghosted by Matt @ 01/28/2004 1:11 PM EST

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