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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!



Discussion Thread: 190 comments

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

Chestnuts roasted by Kristal @ 01/27/2004 1:33 PM

"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.

Chestnuts roasted by Franny Glass @ 01/27/2004 1:49 PM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/27/2004 1:50 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Lone_Psycho @ 01/27/2004 1:57 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright NOah @ 01/27/2004 2:09 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Behonkiss @ 01/27/2004 2:12 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeremiah @ 01/27/2004 2:28 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Lone_Psycho @ 01/27/2004 2:39 PM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by The Blue Meanie @ 01/27/2004 2:40 PM

This Friday. I think?

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 2:41 PM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by The Blue Meanie @ 01/27/2004 2:46 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 2:51 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/27/2004 3:12 PM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by LordSorrow @ 01/27/2004 3:43 PM

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!

Chestnuts roasted by Chairman Kaga @ 01/27/2004 4:06 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/27/2004 4:17 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 01/27/2004 4:26 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by EdthaCow @ 01/27/2004 4:31 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by jokun @ 01/27/2004 4:35 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Melissa Y. @ 01/27/2004 4:41 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/27/2004 4:59 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Oreogirl @ 01/27/2004 5:07 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Tonnica @ 01/27/2004 5:18 PM

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*

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/27/2004 5:27 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 01/27/2004 6:04 PM

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