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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

Golly-bob-howdy! Let’s hear it for imaginary pictures! I envision Killer Duck as kind of a riff off of Kingdom Come’s Black Canary III. She will not stop until you are Lego’d.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 01/29/2004 4:21 PM EST

The wait is over, heeloyd. I am going to start working on the second wave real soon too.

Ghosted by Killer Duck @ 01/29/2004 4:23 PM EST

Here is a twisted "Kid Show" for those that remember Letter People/Seame Street. It is a TV pilot made by Vernon Chatman ( http://imdb.com/name/nm0154074/ ) and John Lee for the USA Network, but MTV ordered six episodes of it. Watch at own risk.
http://entensity.net/cgi-bin/anti/download.cgi?kidshow

Ghosted by ME @ 01/29/2004 4:43 PM EST

Sorry, you have to get it from the site. Not safe for work image at top of site.
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:bZw9rcLvh_8J:www.entensity.net/%3Fcontent%3Dmovies+Kidshow+Entensity&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Ghosted by ME @ 01/29/2004 4:47 PM EST

I think MJ was just jealous that Bubbles started shaving before he did. Ok, that was lame. I apologize.

Ghosted by Nachokhaki @ 01/29/2004 4:50 PM EST

Wes, anime Turtles?! Amazing. http://www.scary-crayon.com/spectare/tmntova1/

Ghosted by She-Man @ 01/29/2004 4:53 PM EST

Now, I know it’s pretty anal of me to mention, and you may have been making some joke, but Cornelious wasn’t the one who fell out of the tree. I can’t remember the little idiots name, but he was the son of Roddy McDowells character in the fifth movie.

Ghosted by Saf @ 01/29/2004 5:05 PM EST

XD I’m a ghost!! lol great stuff! cant wait for more!

Ghosted by heeloyd @ 01/29/2004 5:07 PM EST

Vanilla Coke owns all other cokes. Someone should make a cartoon or something about a battle of the cokes. Oh wait, no they shouldn’t, because that would be RETARDED. Cokes don’t do anything….Coke -robots-, on the other hand…

Ghosted by KTK @ 01/29/2004 5:46 PM EST

There is a cheap, but not quite legal way to get sailor moon dvds.

I just got a bootleg Sailor Moon S dvd set from Cookie Jar Video for $24. It’s a rip of the domestic dvds so the subtitles will be of good quality. The other sailor moon dvds they have there are english dub only :( . Cookie jar also has many shows that haven’t made it to the US yet or may never make it over here. I’ve ordered from them many times and can say they are extremely reliable.

Ghosted by Bright Noah @ 01/29/2004 5:47 PM EST

Fans of ninjas (and Chia Horticultury?) will enjoy which characters might be featured in the live-action Joe movie:
http://www.cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Movies&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=270338&obj_id=40706

Ghosted by ME @ 01/29/2004 5:52 PM EST

rats! no info. I access on a iMac, its probably just this gumdrop.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 01/29/2004 6:06 PM EST

The Letter People… man, do I love those guys. Check out http://poprocksandcoke.com/?x=13 for Mike Fireball’s take on it- best I’ve seen. (But don’t all click on it at once, now- his bandwidth is very sensitive… [sorry, Mike!- I had to]) Yeah, the pc Letter People drive me nuts.

Ghosted by Rainbowfeet @ 01/29/2004 6:16 PM EST

Or it could _not_ show up. Sorry.

Ghosted by Rainbowfeet @ 01/29/2004 6:19 PM EST

the Backseat Kiss posted a little article on rocklords a couple months ago… you can check it out at http://backseatkiss.com/rocklords.html

Ghosted by McClain @ 01/29/2004 7:02 PM EST

Who in the hell is Rainbow Feet?

Ghosted by Fireball @ 01/29/2004 9:30 PM EST

Lucky One, I hope piercings and neon-colored hair aren’t an X-E requirment, because my hair is the color nature gave me and I only have two piercings, one in each ear. I can’t stand pain long enough to get them anywhere else. : 0 P

Bright Noah, thanks for the suggestion, but I’d prefer to keep it legal…and I neither have nor want a DVD player. What’s the big deal? So you get a few fancy extras. I want to watch the movie, not 300 shorts about the movie. Many older movies aren’t avalible on DVD yet (and movies like "Battle of the Rock Lords" probably never will be), and they ain’t cheap, especially for recorders. DVDs also break and scratch far easier than videos. I’ll stick to saving for them on my trusty VCR.

Gabby, I love all the Sailor Moon characters (including Raye and her temper : 0 ), but my favorite is Sailor Moon herself. I can be a bit of a crybaby, I wasn’t a big fan of studying (though I got decent grades in high school), and I frankly think many of the characters are awfully hard on Serena. Princess or not, she’s a real sweet kid, and she does frequently try to cope to the best of her ability with the shit she’s been handed…even if she complains to high hell about it.

Ghosted by starwenn @ 01/29/2004 10:05 PM EST

The big thing about dvds is how much information they can hold. You can fit 6 or 7 episodes on one dvd as opposed to 4 episodes on one tape. Pluss dvd won’t degrade over time like vhs will and has a much higher picture quality than vhs.

Ghosted by Bright Noah @ 01/29/2004 10:09 PM EST

Fireball-
Hi. How do I not sound insanely stupid here… you don’t "know" me, but I’ve emailed you in the past. Wished you a happy birthday. I found your site because I was looking for the Letter People, and I found X-E through your links. I probably should have phrased my previous message a little better, because if I were you, I would find what had been said a little weird. Sorry… I hope you aren’t mad at me. Name’s Kelly, by the way.

Ghosted by Rainbowfeet @ 01/29/2004 10:58 PM EST

hey, i’m just glad somebody acknowledged the letter people……

A B C D

Follow me!!!

Ghosted by phunqsauce @ 01/30/2004 12:13 PM EST

2 points goes to the first person who can remember what akeem "the african dream" was called before he was managed by the master of styles slick rick.

Ghosted by the bob @ 01/30/2004 2:06 AM EST

Um… Fat white inbred piece of shit?

Ghosted by phunqsauce @ 01/30/2004 2:11 AM EST

Okay, I haven’t gone through all of the comments, but it’s late and I’m tired so I’m going to make this quick…

Most of the sculpts for the Rock Lords were pretty true to the characters. BUT YOU MUST CHECK OUT MARBLES! Seriously… it’s hilarious.

I don’t think that I’ll try any more flavored Coke products after Vanilla Coke. Bleah!

Ghosted by KatarHol @ 01/30/2004 4:00 AM EST

starwenn- I’m sure they’re not a requirement. Myself, I’ve only got the now "accepted" male ear piercings (two in the left, one in the right; college swim team thing), and my hair hasn’t been any odd shades since Halloween in 3rd grade. So I’m sure it’s all good. However, you are dreadfully wrong about DVD’s, my friend. You can’t get complete seasons of the Simpsons on VHS, and that’s really all that ever needs to be said on the subject.

Ghosted by The Lucky One @ 01/30/2004 9:30 AM EST

I am way too much of a super chicken to get anything pierced. Although, traditionally, Kiowa and Comanche men have mutiple earrings. Heck, even checking my glucose levels twice a day is a study in overblown whining and crying. I don’t dig pain.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 01/30/2004 11:27 AM EST

saf-
at the risk of being even more anal, i’m pretty sure the name of the chimp that fell out of the tree in the last Planet of the Apes movie was named Cornelius. His chimp daddy(get it?) was named Caeser(played by Roddy McDowell), who was the son of Cornelius from the future(also played by Roddy McDowell)…wait, someone pull this stick out, I want to sit down.

Ghosted by jokun @ 01/30/2004 4:02 PM EST

Put-da-lime-in-de-co-co-nut and drink-it-a-all-u-up, Put-da-lime-in-de-co-co-nut and drink-it-a-all-uuup….I say doc-tooorrrr, can you stop this bel-ly achin’ I say DOOOC-TOOORRRR!!!!…….Hate to go backwards (although I’m not the first), but I remember getting for Christmas (Thanks, mom and dad) a board game called "Shenanigans". One of the first "knockoffs" from a 60’s (70’s?) television game show, starring (God bless his soul! "Hi guy!") Chuck McCann (Great theme song. I’d love to get sound bytes of the "Shenanigans" theme song). One of the stops on the Television show was "Pie-In-The-Eye" (Get it? S.B. "Pie in the Sky") with Whipped (or Shaving)-Cream pies thrown by contestants at a continuously opening and closing eyelid (What a mess!). The board-game simulation of same was a "tiddley-winks" (SP?) game with a piece of green felt and multiple colored plastic discs. If memory serves, object of this one square of board game was to get said winks through a cardboard "bulls-eye" opening (Or a bowl; I forget)to score points. Sometimes the green felt pad hindered the tiddelly, some times it helped. There were many different "skill" challenges with the board game as well as the TV show. Actually I remember this game was a lot of fun to play with someone else, or even alone. You kids don’t know what you’re missing. Memooorrieeeeeeees…..

Ghosted by ibinsomniac @ 01/31/2004 1:19 AM EST

They made a Rock Lords movie? Ugh! My brother & I still have the Nuggit and Granite figures laying around somewhere. Nuggit’s nowhere as gold as he was. Cheapass paint.

And that Diet Coke w/Lime. That shit is HORRIBLE! I thought Diet Coke tasted bad to begin with…then they put that lime in it. I bought a bottle of that stuff one day because I was feeling masochistic. I should have known something when the cashier actually tried to talk me out of buying it. Really, though, that just made me want to try it more.

Ghosted by Stezton @ 01/31/2004 9:32 AM EST

kj

Ghosted by k @ 01/31/2004 11:02 AM EST

I’ve never been one who cared what others thought. If I was, I wouldn’t be a 30-year-old man spending money on Transformers and Spider-Man figures while the "dominant media culture" and others who buy into their crap were telling me to spend it on booze and hookers. (Some of us are a little more careful what goes into us. And vice versa.:)

So I have no problem saying that, while the Transformers show was better, I liked–and still do–Challenge of the GoBots. I wish I could see the GoBot/Rock Lord movie, as I have never had the chance. The toys were in my opinion just as good as the Transformers. Bumblebee and Scooter were my favorites for their individual factions. (Scooter had that cool hologram projector.) And I won’t change those opinions for anyone, reguardless of how popular they may or may not be.

Ghosted by ShadowWing The Technorganic GoBot @ 02/01/2004 9:40 PM EST

I can’t comment on the lime Coke, because I haven’t tried it. However Go-Bots I know, or used to know, a bit about. I was a fan of Transformers, He-Man, and to a lesser extent Go-Bots. (Star Wars always being my first, and lasting love BTW.) I was never as big a fan of Go-Bots but I remember having a few lying around. Cy-Kil was my favorite, never cared for much of the good guys. The good guys didn’t seem as cool as the Transformer’s Autobots.. The Go-Bot ‘heros’ seemed to be a bit wussy-fied, even when I was 5 or 6 I had this impression of them. There’s a fine line heros have to walk in order not to go over the edge of being a total wuss. Han Solo pre-Greedo shoots first, and pre-carbonite is a good example of a cool hero that had an edge to him.

Ghosted by Guitarmageddon @ 02/02/2004 1:33 AM EST

yeah i had the rock lord, with the green skin, and i remember dismantling him as a child, if i remember correctly, when i took all the screws out, an episode of george forman’s sit com was on, the one where his kids want to eat standing up, so they tell their parents it helps digestion.

Ghosted by Sweet_Henrietta @ 02/02/2004 8:49 PM EST

I remember having some of the Super Go-Bots lying around. Some orange truck or something, I was never a big fan of the Go-Bots so I don’t remember any of their names except for CyKil. I remember a helicopter guy, and I do remember Crusher and Turbo but until I read that article I had long since forgotten about em. Transformer’s were by far superior, and today we have Transformer Go-Bots… heh, times are a changin.

Ghosted by Justus Cade @ 02/03/2004 10:43 PM EST

Lime Coke where the hell did that come from? I’ve been out in the desert too long. I chose Transformers over Gobots but I liked Rock Lords I think I may have a few of them lying around at my parents house.

Ghosted by K-Dawg @ 03/10/2004 8:38 PM EST

While your "GoBots" artical was fun, your kinda off on Frank Welker’s voice acting resume. While it’s true that Welker did the voice of Orbity, that character was introduced in the 1980’s episodes of "The Jetsons". Frank Welker’s first voice acting job was for the original "Scooby-Doo Where Are You" series as Freddy (Jones).

Ghosted by Marc Baker @ 03/11/2004 6:20 AM EST

Holy shit.I am glad i did not see this movie.Transformers are awesome but this is a discrace.Why the hell would anybody make a movie about GO-BOTS(shitty toys for little kids that dont no how to transform the real hot shit)wich would be unicron.But it might be alright.Im not exactly a GO-BOTS fan.But the name THE ROCK LORDS i almost shat myself because i thought the real transformers introduced those P.O.S.s but i might watch if i like it i will reply, but i dont think i will

Ghosted by Matt D Master @ 04/10/2004 9:58 PM EDT

Holy shit.I am glad i did not see this movie.Transformers are awesome but this is a discrace.Why the hell would anybody make a movie about GO-BOTS(shitty toys for little kids that dont no how to transform the real hot shit)wich would be unicron.But it might be alright.Im not exactly a GO-BOTS fan.But the name THE ROCK LORDS i almost shat myself because i thought the real transformers introduced those P.O.S.s but i might watch if i like it i will reply, but i dont think i will

Ghosted by Matt D Master @ 04/10/2004 9:58 PM EDT

Best pop I have ever drank period.

Ghosted by Dragin'Don @ 05/02/2004 7:38 PM EDT

The lemon coke tasted like dishwashing liquid, but this crap actually tastes pretty good.

Ghosted by E @ 07/19/2004 5:02 PM EDT

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