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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

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.

Chestnuts roasted by DragonJay @ 01/27/2004 11:45 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 01/28/2004 12:12 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/28/2004 12:13 PM

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 :(

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 01/28/2004 12:37 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Kate @ 01/28/2004 1:14 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/28/2004 1:55 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Solarmanite @ 01/28/2004 2:38 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Solarmanite @ 01/28/2004 2:39 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Richard @ 01/28/2004 2:55 AM

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…?

Chestnuts roasted by Wes @ 01/28/2004 3:44 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 01/28/2004 4:19 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/28/2004 8:21 AM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 01/28/2004 8:24 AM

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…!

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 01/28/2004 8:25 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/28/2004 8:42 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 01/28/2004 9:03 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Aaron @ 01/28/2004 9:23 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Monkey @ 01/28/2004 9:37 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by brandon @ 01/28/2004 10:01 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Acrobatdog @ 01/28/2004 11:43 AM

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)

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/28/2004 12:05 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 01/28/2004 12:14 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Cassi @ 01/28/2004 1:00 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/28/2004 1:01 PM

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. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/28/2004 1:11 PM

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