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If you look closely at the toy inside the packaging, all of the grey parts are now molded in yellow, so he has yellow arms, yellow shoulders, a yellow jetpack-trailer and likely yellow insides of his feet.

Ahhh, ok. I was looking at the picture of the figure on the back of the packaging which clearly doesn't.

So this is kind of a hybrid between classics and henkei then.

The wierd animal theme though... blegh, that just smacks of ewoks.

Was South Park ahead of the curve again?

Episode 609 Free Hat

Later at the premiere, as the movie begins, Stan tells his friends (all of whom are tied to poles) to look away from the screen, warning them that the film will be terrible. They do, while the rest of the audience continues watching the film. At first, they're awed by the film, but upon seeing the Hovitos who chase Indiana Jones were digitally changed to Ewoks, they react negatively. They then realize the new version is awful.

I think David and the other established that the Japanese MP SS wasn't gunship grey, but a weird green.

Gunship grey is what we all expected of a MP SS. Seaweed green is what we got. I know some people like it, but I still think it looks awful.

Well, count me as another of your two dozen. Not only did I watch the show, I had both the jets you could shoot at the TV with.

Ok, Captain Power sounded vaguely familiar, but when you said the above, oh yeah, I definitely remember that. What I remember most is that it was supposed to be a weekly show, but it was rarely if ever on around here. I was glad I *didn't* have the jet shooters. Heh glancing at the wiki here, looks like I wasn't imagining that either:

"Poor timeslot choices also contributed to the show's undoing -- it was sold to syndication as opposed to a regular network timeslot, which resulted in some television stations airing it in the 5-6am timeslot on Sunday mornings. The subsequent poor ratings hastened the show's demise."

That Bee 3 pack is a pretty smart way to continue pimping BumbleBee molds. I think that classics mold looks more like the classics than the henkei because the insides of the legs are gray as are the arms and the seats are silver. Henkei Bee has *less* color variation. Personally, I prefer the original classics deco. Oddly it's the only U.S. deco I like over the slavish G1 Henkei ones, mostly because he looks almost like a mini-Alternator. In bot mode he really does fit in surprisingly well when displayed with other BinAlts.

Why, it rocks already??

Taksraven

Maybe to put actual actors in it this time?

I was by Target and they had each of the Indy movies on dvd for 10 bucks a piece. Seem like new pressings too because there was an ad for Indy 4 on the Raiders disc I bought.

Looks pretty good upscaled on my ps3, except for any scenes that involve any fog or mist like in the beginning gold idol temple scenes in Raiders.

Am I the only one who thinks the head (especially the face) looks a bit weird? I've thought that from the very first pics.

That's actually what I like about it. It kind of resembles a skull.

My friend, who is a director for a film festival, said that apparantly lucas apparantly wanted indy to have some serious screen time with the aliens.

Even though that's unsubstantiated hearsay and rumor, it's unfortunately still quite believable.

Megatron!

This is probably one of the two animated figures I'll pick up. What I like best is that it doesn't look completely "animated".

They should remake Megaforce. I'm surry Barry Bostwick wouldn't mind the work. He always reminded us that the good guys always win......even in the 80's.

And Japan hates women. Especially when they're lead characters.

Despite that......she still wasn't really all that likeable.

BBTS just notified me that they filled my order for my Regult x4 and my Max VF-1J x2. I am pretty psyched to be getting these.

Got my notice too. I'm starting to wonder if I should have ordered two instead of one.

What's the scale on the Regult anyway? 1/100 or smaller?

the previous update included that feature

I've been bypassing the update. Guess I'll go and do it now.

So, did anyone here watch Prince Caspian?

Saw it, liked it, but it's nowhere near as good or as cohesive as the first one.

The pacing's off. They battle here, they battle there, but you're never quite sure exactly why. Some new characters are introduced, but before you get a chance to know them, they move on to something else. Caspian himself is a very dull boy. As a viewer, you're *supposed* to get behind him and root for him, but he's just so uncharismatic and quite frankly stupid that you're left asking yourself why the Narnians are trusting him at all, and when he finally does confront his corrupt uncle, you just don't care. The only thing Caspian does in the movie is blow the horn and look sexy for Susan. That's it. Nothing else.

I've never read the book, but I have seen the BBC Caspian, and despite the total lack of budget, they at least had a charismatic Caspain, who was also half the age of this Caspian. When the BBC Caspian gave a speech to the Narnians, you could see why they'd get behind him.

Summary, wait for video. I'm hoping there'll be an extended dvd that'll help explain why the Telmarines hated and wiped out the Narnians because this is really glossed over in the movie and really makes most of the battles feel pretty pointless.

I do all my dvd viewing with my ps3 and have been pretty impressed with the upscaling.

Is there a way to have your ps3 pick up where it left off if you turn it off during the middle of a dvd? That's the only thing I don't like about it as a player, and was something the 360 was pretty smart about.

Y'know...the difference between Japanese and American packaging is stunning...it's been more than twenty years since I saw the Japanese hoverbike model, but I'm sure the box had a nicely painted picture and said something like "SCMXHB 111-54-9C BIKE-HOVERAN" or something absurdly technical like that...whereas the American one just says, "DANA'S HOVERCYCLE"...clear and simple for stupid, lazy little children.

You know, a quick glance at that and it looks like a Barbie riding vacuum cleaner.

I dunno if I'm keen on the idea of a live action VB, but the concept doesn't totally mouth frothing enrage me. A lot of it would come down to casting. Patrick Warburton (the voice of Brock) could actually be Brock... but I think the live action-ness would have a weird vibe to it. For me personally the VB's animation style does as much for the comedy as the script.

You ever see the "Live Action Movie Preview" extra on the first dvd set? Kind of inadvertantly highlights why it would and wouldn't work.

Season 2 blew chunks. Hopefully Season 3 can recapture some of Season 1....

Sylar should have died, though, as should Peter. Grumble, grumble.

I have the rest of season 2 just waiting for me to watch it. Problem is, I can't bring myself to. After the first two episodes you find out that *EVERYONE* survived the massive conclusion of season 1. It really killed the punch season 1 had, and really cheapened it. I mean, if you want to have these guys survive, ok, but don't reintroduce them all within two stinking episodes(Sylar was in the previews indicating that he too survived at this point).

And then they went and killed Sulu. Meh. At one point I'll pick back up on it, I'm sure.

Edit: I should probably also say that I'm not expecting this movie to be the second coming of Raiders. I just want to see some whip cracking, some Nazi... I mean commie... punching, some corny dialog and some crazy fantastical mythical thing happen. I guess unlike other movie franchises I'm more enamored with the character of Indy than his actual adventure, and I am really interested in seeing an older Indy.

That's pretty much what I'm hoping for. When you hear the theme, that's all you really want to see. I just hope the "alien" stuff isn't over explained to the point of removing the mythical aspects.

GL is a douchebag and he knows it.

He is, but he has too many yes-men around him to know it.

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/2008051...1095996000.html

Money quote:

"In its earliest incarnation, Lucas proposed an all-out alien flick called "Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men From Mars." Spielberg and Ford didn't like that idea, and it took more than a decade of wrangling to come up with a story all three could live with."

Good episode, lots of tension.

Anyone else notice that the only person not concerned about Gaeta is the one who recklessly caused the situation that got him shot? I'm really disliking Starbuck. Even Baltar showed concern for Gaeta. I'm a little dissappointed there wasn't any accountability for the breakdown of discipline on the Demetrius. I know, I know, they have much more to deal with having a rebel cylon baseship in the fleet, but Starbuck really needs some comeuppance.

Haven't seen next week's preview yet, but it's pretty clear in the end of this episode that Natalie's not dead. She doesn't do that cliche "open eyed stare final exhale".

The first twenty minutes of Shadow Chronicles is more or less a re-cap of the end of New Generation.

I only ever owned the Protoculture Edition of Robotech, and I really enjoyed the set. It had all the extras I would have been interested in. I found it for $90 used at a SunCoast a few years back, and that's what pretty much brought me back into Macross. The set still tends to be pretty expensive for some reason.

Tformers.com has pics of BinAlt Arcee and others up. Arcee's looking better. (s)he's pink and white, definitely an improvement over previous pics. I think I may buy one in hopes that one of these fan companies will make a proper head remold, or maybe there was a close enough scale Arcee released in the past that I can scavenge one from. Going to have to research that.

Saw the last two episodes of Animated. Pretty good, if a bit silly at times(especially the Wreck-Gar episode), but the characterization is still excellent and the story does go to serious at the proper times. However, Starscream getting the heave-ho over and over again was just too funny. The G1 references were aplenty in the Wreck-Gar episode(Spike and Carly!) And again, I demand a Captain Fanzone action figure. Still not interested in the toys, but am really enjoying the show.

Speedy!

Also I have Stealth bumblebee and I lost one of his shoulder guards. Those guards are a PITA!

Tell me about it. The one on my Screen Battles Bee barely holds at all and will fall off if you look at it wrong.

It is, oh goodness it is. You should have seen my disgust when I saw the hip/groin plates bent forward due to the stress. The gold trimmed thigh/hip joints should not be facing forward in jet mode.

I didn't know exactly what you were talking about when I first read this. Sigh, but now I do. Thankfully I did catch it early before repeated transforms turned it into something nasty.

It stays in place due to the gear mechanism. I honestly think the spring was a mistake in the factory, it really should be on the right arm. Switching the spring improves both arms, not just one.

I'm going to have to try this.