01/27/2004 Entry: ""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.

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 01/27/2004 08:44 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 08:50 AM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 01/27/2004 09:23 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!!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Zappadog @ 01/27/2004 09:28 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.

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 01/27/2004 09:29 AM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 09:32 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......

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 01/27/2004 09:38 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...

Chestnuts roasted by indiemaven @ 01/27/2004 09:52 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.

Chestnuts roasted 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!

Chestnuts roasted 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...

Chestnuts roasted by Scourge @ 01/27/2004 11:01 AM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted 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...

Chestnuts roasted 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...

Chestnuts roasted 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?

Chestnuts roasted 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.....

Chestnuts roasted 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.

Chestnuts roasted 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... -_-

Chestnuts roasted 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...

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

To Gabbylicious, who do you love:

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

Chestnuts roasted by TheMatt @ 01/27/2004 01:19 PM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by Kristal @ 01/27/2004 01:33 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.

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

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/27/2004 01:50 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Lone_Psycho @ 01/27/2004 01:57 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright NOah @ 01/27/2004 02:09 PM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by Behonkiss @ 01/27/2004 02:12 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeremiah @ 01/27/2004 02:28 PM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by Lone_Psycho @ 01/27/2004 02:39 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?

Chestnuts roasted by The Blue Meanie @ 01/27/2004 02:40 PM EST

This Friday. I think?

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 02:41 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?

Chestnuts roasted by The Blue Meanie @ 01/27/2004 02:46 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!

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 02:51 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/27/2004 03:12 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...

Chestnuts roasted by LordSorrow @ 01/27/2004 03:43 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!

Chestnuts roasted by Chairman Kaga @ 01/27/2004 04:06 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/27/2004 04:17 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

Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 01/27/2004 04:26 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.

Chestnuts roasted by EdthaCow @ 01/27/2004 04:31 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.

Chestnuts roasted by jokun @ 01/27/2004 04:35 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

Chestnuts roasted by Melissa Y. @ 01/27/2004 04:41 PM EST

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 04:59 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Oreogirl @ 01/27/2004 05:07 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Tonnica @ 01/27/2004 05:18 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*

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/27/2004 05:27 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 01/27/2004 06:04 PM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 01/27/2004 06:13 PM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by Paul @ 01/27/2004 06:28 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Evan @ 01/27/2004 06:28 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Bloodcat @ 01/27/2004 06:54 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.

Chestnuts roasted by jesse @ 01/27/2004 06:56 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Pookie @ 01/27/2004 07:05 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/27/2004 07:13 PM EST

sup

Chestnuts roasted by Kalvano @ 01/27/2004 07:29 PM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by Welsh Rabbit @ 01/27/2004 07:56 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/27/2004 08:08 PM EST

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

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

Chestnuts roasted by NATE!!!!!!!! @ 01/27/2004 08:24 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. ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Wes @ 01/27/2004 08:29 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...

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 01/27/2004 08:29 PM EST

I meant 55,000!

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

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/27/2004 08:30 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Spiffy McKracken @ 01/27/2004 08:39 PM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by JG! @ 01/27/2004 09:01 PM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/27/2004 09:02 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.

Chestnuts roasted by FFN @ 01/27/2004 09:19 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.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 01/27/2004 09:28 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/

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 01/27/2004 09:36 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.

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 01/27/2004 09:39 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...

Chestnuts roasted 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.

Chestnuts roasted 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.

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

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

Chestnuts roasted 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.

Chestnuts roasted 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 01/28/2004 12:12 AM 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.

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

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

Chestnuts roasted by Kate @ 01/28/2004 01:14 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.

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

Chestnuts roasted by Solarmanite @ 01/28/2004 02:38 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Solarmanite @ 01/28/2004 02:39 AM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by Richard @ 01/28/2004 02:55 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...?

Chestnuts roasted by Wes @ 01/28/2004 03:44 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

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 01/28/2004 04:19 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/28/2004 08:21 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?

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 01/28/2004 08:24 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...!

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 01/28/2004 08:25 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/28/2004 08:42 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 01/28/2004 09:03 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Aaron @ 01/28/2004 09:23 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Monkey @ 01/28/2004 09:37 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.

Chestnuts roasted 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.

Chestnuts roasted 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)

Chestnuts roasted 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.

Chestnuts roasted 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.

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

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

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/28/2004 01:01 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. :)

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

There is already a Sailormoon live action series in Japan.

And phunqsauce thanks for reminding me about my lament for the lost pudding pop. They just don't make them anymore. I yearn for the pudding pops we got in school lunches.

Chestnuts roasted by allicat @ 01/28/2004 01:30 PM EST

You know what I love about Japan? Everything. Not like I've ever been there, but the land of Engrish is a great place. I mean, they gave us Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, what more could we ask for? Guy LeDouche is my hero.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 01/28/2004 02:07 PM EST

Mortimer the pen rawks! One of my childhood friends said he got it and that it made funny sounds like in the Picture Pages segments. Of course, I shoulda known better. This kid also told me to pack my bags one Friday after school, because I was going with him and his family that weekend to Disney World. My mother still likes to tell about me patiently waiting all evening with my packed bags. Sigh...

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 01/28/2004 02:16 PM EST

Before this article, I could only remember two things about watching the Go(-)Bots as a kid: 1) one of them was named Scooter; 2) he sounded like Urkel with a mouth full of marshmallows only less garbled. Still, I always have mad respect for the man who was the voice of Grimey.

Chestnuts roasted by Hecubus @ 01/28/2004 02:16 PM EST

And don't forget the short-lived GELATIN POPS...But then again I'm sure Matt could dig some of those up at his local deli :)

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 01/28/2004 02:17 PM EST

oh yeah, if you enjoy silly broken english stuff from japan check out www.engrish.com

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 01/28/2004 02:40 PM EST

(1.) I need to show my fiance this thread so I can make her feel dumb for not knowing about picture pages.

(2.) Hell yeah we should throw an X-E convention. I work at a hotel in Niagara Falls, I can probably get a deal on the ballroom or something, or if not, my boss can probably get us something whereever we want to have it.

(3.) Dammit, now I want puddin pops. And the topic wouldn't have come up if I didn't bring up Bill Cosby in the first place. Damn me.

(4.) If there was an X-E convention, we could set up that "Nick Arcade" type game that I babbled about a bit on the board games thread.

(5.) The moral of this thread is that GoBots may not have sucked as much as some of us remember.

Chestnuts roasted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/28/2004 02:52 PM EST

It's all about Mortimer Ichabod Marker.

Chestnuts roasted by JG! @ 01/28/2004 03:09 PM EST

No, they sucked WORSE then i remember......

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 01/28/2004 03:09 PM EST

You know what I found out last year when *I* was craving puddin' pops? They are essentially just...frozen jell-o pudding. Seriously. You make up some of that instant stuff, freeze it in little molds or tupperware or whatever, and there ya go! Then you can make it in whatever flavor you want, or pour a little bit of each flavor into each mold and make it swirled! Mmmmm...

Chestnuts roasted by purplegirl247 @ 01/28/2004 03:16 PM EST

Whats the deal with this Bubba the Love Sponge fella? I just heard he was fined like $750k by the FCC...thats a lot of f-bombs. Since I gave up on radio a long itme ago someone fill me in...What exactly did he do?

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 01/28/2004 03:23 PM EST

Two things:

1) Lime Diet Coke is evil because it's replaced Vanilla DC in the cafeteria at my place of business. Vanilla was the only "diet" soda I'd drink, so now I'm gonna be fat AND IT'S ALL LIME'S FAULT!!!! Okay, not really, but I WILL have to hit the gym just that much more often. Bah. Damn you, lime!

2) I don't know why, but I was confusing in my mind the Rock Lords with those Stone-Dar warriors or whatever from He-Man. Having read that article, though, I can now remember having had both the mohawked bad guy AND Nuggit. Now, aside from my shame at having owned TWO Rock Lords, I now have to devote my life to regaining a Nuggit figure, because that shiny gold is just too alluring for words. Double damn you, Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by The Lucky One @ 01/28/2004 03:31 PM EST

Harvey Wallbangers are my favorite to drink. I suppose that those are not really soda pop, but they sure keep me warm on lonely nights with my room mate, Julia Ormond. I enjoy limes in my beverage from time to time as well.

Chestnuts roasted by Odile Le Clezio @ 01/28/2004 03:39 PM EST

My brother had a subscription to Picture Pages. They'd come in the mail so he could do them with Bill Cosby.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/28/2004 03:49 PM EST

My brother had a subscription to Picture Pages. They'd come in the mail so he could do them with Bill Cosby.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/28/2004 03:49 PM EST

I am writing toy you bacause i was adopted and im trying to contact the golden nugit i am a crash dummy and i'm trying to contact her and also the boulder because he is my father and i would also like to contact him to.

Thank you
from crash dummy

Chestnuts roasted by spinner @ 01/28/2004 04:03 PM EST

CHECK IT OUT www.picturepages.com

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 01/28/2004 04:05 PM EST

phunqsauce, you kick ass. Of course, now I'm going to have the theme from "Picture Page" stuck in my head all day. Matt, you should find some old Picture Page episodes and do a review. Speaking of, you never told me if the s5p team and I could do the review of VCR WrestleMania.

Chestnuts roasted by Skitzo from stupid5pin.com @ 01/28/2004 04:46 PM EST

my cousin had the picture pages stuff too. i would go to his house and watch him do them with cosby. we wanted his pen so bad!

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 01/28/2004 04:50 PM EST

I have a vhs tape of Picture Pages and it comes with the booklet to follow what Bill Cosby does with the whistling pen. I just e-mailed you about it Matt.

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

I liked the way the magic pen sounded. I used to try to get our markers at home to sound like that. Of course, they did not. Especially when writing on the walls.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/28/2004 05:15 PM EST

Ever see the Office Depot ad where the guy giving a presentation is trying to write on a dry erase board with a dried-out marker? There's your squeaky noises.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/28/2004 06:03 PM EST

Lime Coke + Lemon Coke = Coke + Sprite?

Chestnuts roasted by Terd @ 01/28/2004 07:16 PM EST

You know what would also be cool, having a page where X-E'ers could send in pics of themselves. would be cheaper than an airplane ticket, since I"m betting the convention won't be in texas

Chestnuts roasted by Spiffy McKracken @ 01/28/2004 09:07 PM EST

Human evolution has taken the neXt step:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,5-2004040384,00.html

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 01/28/2004 09:26 PM EST

Go-Bots never really became big when I was a kid. The storylines where just silly, and lets face it Transformers was just cooler with Megatron and Soundwave. Tho I alwas had someone that would get me a Go-Bot for xmas. The Rock Lords I remember them showing on Channel 11 or 5. By that time if I recall the 80's toy craze was dieing down and the NES had come out and to us kids the NES was just cooler.

Leader-1 still lives on tho. He's Megatrons Mini-Con on the new Transformers show on Cartoon Network.

Chestnuts roasted by Beaker Mike @ 01/28/2004 10:25 PM EST

I vote for an X-E convention! I live two blocks from the Wildwood Convention Center! Matt, remember the place you got the basket of Green Bamboo Peanuts from? It's still there. The Psychic booth is still around. Fat Daddy's on the other end of the Boardwalk, but he's still there. Heck, the lady who he took the picture of giving him the licorace pipe was still working in the same candy store last summer. Dracula's Castle is, sadly, not still there. It burned down two years ago. : 0 (

I remember Picture Pages. My sisters and I spent many a Sunday morning, summer morning, and mornings home sick watching "Pinwheel," with "Picture Pages" during the commerical breaks. It was such a fun concept, and the pen was too cute. I loved when it came to life and solved the puzzle before Bill came back.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 01/28/2004 10:39 PM EST

Oooohhh...also meant to mention I'm a devoted Sailor Moon fan. I don't have nearly the episodes I'd like to have (they're kind of pricy on video), but I do own four fashion-type dolls (Neptune, Uranus, Moon, Chibi/Mini Moon) and one stuffed doll (Moon). Kay Bee's been having big sales on their Sailor Moon toys, God bless them! I may look for the fashion dolls online, too. I think they're too cool. I love how Neptune, Uranus, and Chibi/Mini Moon have such different faces. Chibi/Mini Moon's eyes are more oval and detailed than her "mother"'s. Uranus' eyes are narrower and almond-shaped. Neptune's are somewhat similar, but larger and less narrow.

Has anyone seen the live-action show yet?

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 01/28/2004 10:43 PM EST

Diet coke with lime tastes like Coke and Sprite procreated. Then it got dieted. I have half a bottle sitting here by me because I had to buy it when I saw it.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/28/2004 10:56 PM EST

I'm about to open another can of worms with this one...I'm sure most of you learned your alphebet with those totally "grooooovy" letter people. I did a little research and found out that the letter people still exist today but they changed them!!! They have been raped of their psychadelic dignity. Most of the changes came about because of political correctness bullshit. How could you forget Mr. M with the munchy mouth? Or Mr. T's taaalllll teeeth? What mostly kicked ass were the 70's funky-fresh theme songs for those letter people. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any mp3s out there but they must exist. Then again I'm sure the people who have the vynils don't have the equipment to rip the songs. I don't know if your school did this but at the end of the year we had a letter people parade. Each child dressed as their favorite letter person. Since my name is Kevin i naturally chose Mr. "kickin" K. I could just imagine a school full of kindergarteners dressed like 70's throwback characters.....silliness!!

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 01/28/2004 11:18 PM EST

Starwenn, personally I am a Sailor Mars fan. I like how she is so bitchy, it amuses me. And she has cool hair, I wish mine was that long. I did dye it the same shade of purple though... and it looks cool! Normally I'd be embarrassed to share these things, but I know that half of you watch Pokemon (I know I know, I do too...)

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 01/29/2004 03:46 AM EST

i have come to light crystal light lemonade in the past month. for sugar free its pretty sweet and i prefer it over minute maid which was my old favorite. I also prefer sugar free candy over regular. cant believe how good this stuff really is. they have sugar free hershey's, reeses, russell stover, anything you can imagine has a sugar free version. Even the "Atkin's Endulge" chocolate bars are awesome.

Ive got a wrist brace on for a few days since i got some ulnar tunnel syndrome from going to a lan and using my mouse in a bad position for 3 days straight. (Ulnar tunnel syndrome is like Carpal tunnel syndrome but the pinky and ring finger are affected instead of the thumb and forefinger.) Thank you WebMD.com! XD

Total weight lost on atkins so far: 17lbs in 28 days. ^_^

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 01/29/2004 05:10 AM EST

News on the live-action "G.I Joe" film:
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/476/476064p1.html

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 01/29/2004 07:07 AM EST

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/440/440494p1.html
The screenwriter, Michael Gordon, is 27, so he should know something about the Joe cartoon and toys.

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 01/29/2004 07:15 AM EST

Here are some live action Sailormoon screen shots-

http://www.medaforce.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=178

I know that you can make pudding pops by freezing pudding but its just not the same. We even have the old tupperware molds for making popsicles. I want the school kind with the icy shell to bite through.

Chestnuts roasted by allicat @ 01/29/2004 08:05 AM EST

I've seen the first six of the live action Sailor Moon eps (look around the net; they're not too hard to find) but had to stop getting them as eventually I just COULDN'T BLOODY TAKE IT ANYMORE. I used to like the dub, but man... the live action eps are the worst. That said, I'm probably going to review one of them on SC at some point... if I can sit through it again.

This comments section has really picked up in 2004, Matt! (Hasn't it?) Ever think of going back to a full-blown forum?

Chestnuts roasted by Wes @ 01/29/2004 08:59 AM EST

Damn Wes!!! I didn't know about the TMNT anime!! Those super turtles look freaky. Leave it to an anime to have them fuse into the saint turtle. Just when I think I've seen it all there's always something there to sneak up and bite me in the ass...What's next? Captain N the anime? Could you imagine Super King Hippo vs. Mega Simon Belmont? The fusions would be a site to see. Just think about it....Mother Brain, Eggplant Wizard, and King Hippo in one conglomoration? ewwwwwww.....

Chestnuts roasted by phunsauce @ 01/29/2004 09:20 AM EST

I actually wrote a review of this horrid GoBot movie last year. Check it out here:
http://www.fortheretarded.com/rocklords.html

Chestnuts roasted by Noel @ 01/29/2004 10:17 AM EST

X-E convention? I dunno... I mean, I'm down with it and all (s'long as it's located in the tri-state area), but what would really happen when you gather together than many loners, freaks, geeks, and iconoclasts? Would we be able to actually get along, or are we united solely by our love for Megatron and Jem and the Holograms? Questions for the ages...

Still, a photo page would be cool. As long as I don't get made fun of for having only 3 piercings and normal-colored hair...

Chestnuts roasted by The Lucky One @ 01/29/2004 10:38 AM EST

piercings? we need piercings???
oh, crap

Chestnuts roasted by jokun @ 01/29/2004 11:16 AM EST

First, because, why not? Get my wishes in before it totally slips my old brain. Happy Birthday, Duck! Redeem this comment at a future time for a synchronistic event of your choice. Or a medium value meal at your neighborhood Burger Brawl. (value meal offer not valid on dimensional planes that have Zsa Zsa Gabor) I like the picture idea, make them into paper dolls, then Matt could have the X-E convention in his living room. He could lord over all the tiny poster children like a huge and slightly drunk god. And I wouldn't have to worry about saying something stoopid and getting stomped flat by Duck.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/29/2004 11:56 AM EST

Live-action Sailor Moon info is at http://www.genvid.com including screen shots.

Chestnuts roasted by JG! @ 01/29/2004 12:14 PM EST

Hahahaha King that is great. Matt having paper dolls of all of us. Oh the highjinks...

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 01/29/2004 12:43 PM EST

The paper dolls idea is great. Anybody see the episode of Kids in the Hall where the two latent homosexual highschool kids (Scott Thompson and Mark McKinney) who are way into Hollywood threw their own Hollywood bash? They took face shots of the stars, pasted them onto the bowls of spoons, and put the spoon handles inside empty beer bottles - creating pseudo-bobbleheads...and made them have conversations with each other. Even feigned Liza Minelli throwing up by tipping the remaining contents of the bottle onto the floor. Classic stuff.

Speaking of, whatever happened to M. Jackson's chimp, Bubbles? Bubbles, we hardly knew thee.

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 01/29/2004 02:17 PM EST

lemon coke has been out in england for about a year. but we dont have lime yet. i think its funy that jon travolta has a vanilla coke in pulp fiction but the drink dsidnt arrive n uk until last year again. but i think vanilla coke tastes like old goat ass

Chestnuts roasted by jim'll the 'tin man @ 01/29/2004 02:53 PM EST

Phunq, what memories...my aunt was a kindergarten teacher so I learned the letter people early. She'd play the records for us all the time :) My favorite was always Mr. S because, well, who wouldn't want to have super socks? Have you checked eBay for the records?

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/29/2004 03:20 PM EST

Jim'll, vanilla coke has actually been around for a long time. Thing is it used to be made at soda fountains by the soda jerks (just love them soda jerks). Since the scene in Pulp Fiction was set in an old fashioned-nostalgia-type soda shop it makes sense that they'd serve old school drinks including vanilla and cherry coks made the old fashioned way.

king-thanks for the Happys...you're 8 days late but I promise not to stomp you.

Speaking of people's pictures, I have round one ready to put on my home site of "my imaginary photo album". I actually started it yesterday but it was sometrhing I had wanted to do for a while. So far I have Gabby, heeloyd, king, and Trajeal. More coming soon and I'll post the link as soon as I can keep the computer from crashing long enough to get them up there.

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/29/2004 03:28 PM EST

Bubbles is gone. Sometimes when chimps reach adulthood they get cranky and violent and can't remain domesticated. They had to send him to a preserve.
The virus that's going around completely wiped me out, so I'm limited on internet access. Know that I am here is spirit!
ps i <3 raw limes

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 01/29/2004 03:35 PM EST

I'll never forget that Michael Jackson interview when he explains what Squee just mentioned about Bubbles. I won't bother trying to explain -- just use your imagination and envision Michael Jackson telling the story of a chimp who hit puberty and turned on him.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 01/29/2004 03:37 PM EST

cant wait to see my imaginary pic! XD

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 01/29/2004 03:49 PM EST

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.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/29/2004 04:21 PM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by Killer Duck @ 01/29/2004 04:23 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

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 01/29/2004 04:43 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

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 01/29/2004 04:47 PM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 01/29/2004 04:50 PM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by She-Man @ 01/29/2004 04:53 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Saf @ 01/29/2004 05:05 PM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 01/29/2004 05:07 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...

Chestnuts roasted by KTK @ 01/29/2004 05:46 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Bright Noah @ 01/29/2004 05:47 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

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 01/29/2004 05:52 PM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 01/29/2004 06:06 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 01/29/2004 06:16 PM EST

Or it could _not_ show up. Sorry.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 01/29/2004 06:19 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

Chestnuts roasted by McClain @ 01/29/2004 07:02 PM EST

Who in the hell is Rainbow Feet?

Chestnuts roasted by Fireball @ 01/29/2004 09:30 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.

Chestnuts roasted 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.

Chestnuts roasted 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.

Chestnuts roasted 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!!!

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 01/30/2004 12:13 AM 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.

Chestnuts roasted by the bob @ 01/30/2004 02:06 AM EST

Um... Fat white inbred piece of shit?

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 01/30/2004 02:11 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!

Chestnuts roasted by KatarHol @ 01/30/2004 04:00 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.

Chestnuts roasted by The Lucky One @ 01/30/2004 09:30 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.

Chestnuts roasted 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.

Chestnuts roasted by jokun @ 01/30/2004 04:02 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.....

Chestnuts roasted by ibinsomniac @ 01/31/2004 01:19 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Stezton @ 01/31/2004 09:32 AM EST

kj

Chestnuts roasted 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.

Chestnuts roasted by ShadowWing The Technorganic GoBot @ 02/01/2004 09:40 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Guitarmageddon @ 02/02/2004 01:33 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.

Chestnuts roasted by Sweet_Henrietta @ 02/02/2004 08:49 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.

Chestnuts roasted 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.

Chestnuts roasted by K-Dawg @ 03/10/2004 08:38 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).

Chestnuts roasted by Marc Baker @ 03/11/2004 06:20 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

Chestnuts roasted by Matt D Master @ 04/10/2004 09:58 PM 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

Chestnuts roasted by Matt D Master @ 04/10/2004 09:58 PM EST

Best pop I have ever drank period.

Chestnuts roasted by Dragin'Don @ 05/02/2004 07:38 PM EST

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

Chestnuts roasted by E @ 07/19/2004 05:02 PM EST

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