And then there was love

Not that I wasn’t already over the top excited about the new War for Cyberton Transformers game coming out the same week as my first BotCon, but then, THIS.

Let’s just say, my pants fit a little tighter after seeing this. It will be so nice to have awesome new Transformers again that aren’t for the Animated line. I love/loved Animated, but this new/old rendition of toy robots has me willing to compulsively buy them again.

Paul Bunyon Convoy never looked so rad.

A tale of two games

I’ve never been that much of a gamer, despite the fact that I’ve owned many different consoles over the years since the first NES system.  That said, I currently own a Game Cube, and Playstations 1-3.

The  Playstation 3 I’ve only had since last week and have been playing the hell out of it. I also got a hold of Bayonetta, which I’ve never had so much fun killing angels with hair, bullets, a guillotines. However, last night I was in a Playstation 2 kind of mood and decided to play Shadow of the Colossus. A game that I loved the look and feel of, but honestly hadn’t spent much time with it. In fact, I had never even killed the first Colossus. That was, until last night.

What a hell of a fight those big bastards put up! Between the holding onto the fur for dear life whilst the giant shakes you about, beautiful music blaring while you figure out a way to stab him in the head repeatedly, the rush was very palpable.  I died a few times trying to kill him, but I finally did it. Black blood spraying like a geyser, the lifeless mystical corpse of a colossus hit the ground hard. But instead of feeling invigorated or accomplished–I actually felt pretty crappy.

Like I had just slaughtered an innocent creature like a cow or something that was only guilty of being in the way of a larger goal. All this brought to light to me what an amazing game Shadow of the Colossus truly is. Instead of a fantasy game where you go about constantly slaying ravenous beasts/creatures, you instead seek out and destroy huge mystical giants, guilty of little else other than being a part of your quest to bring your girlfriend back to life.  I realize the utter awesomeness of  playing a game that could make me feel somewhat conflicted–a moral dilemma of sorts. I almost don’t even want to play it again because I feel that the Colossi should go about doing their Colossi things. Just because my girlfriend died from some “curse” doesn’t give me the right to go about on a murderous rampage of giant innocents.

Perhaps the game would be far more fun to me if you got to control the Colossus and go on a rampage after the game’s  “hero,” Wander. Now THAT I could enjoy, I think.  For that matter, maybe I’ll eventually go back to it at some point and try not to feel sad when I play it.

Besides, I got a lot more angel killing to do with Bayonetta. Everyone’s favorite stripper witch with hair for clothing and deadly stripper pole dances as she takes out heavenly forms. INFINITE CLIMAX TIME!!!

Farewell MegaCon for now (2010 plans within plans….)

So upon the glorious news that BotCon 2010 will be in Orlando next June, it became clear to me that it is just frankly my own lame destiny to have it so close to home the same summer as Star Wars Celebration V.

However, this BotCon announcement is not without it’s own geeky repercussions to me personally. For the first time since 2005, I think I’m skipping MegaCon, of which I’ve loyally attended in all it’s insanity. With the impending awesomeness and expense of both the toy robots extravaganza and the annual Lucasfilm celebration of arrested youth, I’m afraid MegaCon is simply a con too far, as is JoeCon in Rhode Island. My plastic army men loving peeps will have to wait until another time to meet the infamous Agent Morris (aka Agent of Doom).

The way I see it, the cost of my plane ticket alone could get me my pre-registration for BotCon. That, and I ain’t made of money. Gotta draw the line somewhere.

Star Wars Celebration V is a similar matter. I kinda figured I’d never ever get to go to one without extreme expense, but alas, in my own backyard!

2010 is already shaping up to be one hell of an awesome, shamelessly lame and expensive year for me. But now I’ll have both of those supreme Con experiences under my belt and I barely had to even go across the street to do so!

And let’s face it, it ain’t every day you can get to finally meet the Indiana Jones of toy robot ads, is it?

On a long enough timeline, all blog traffic reaches ZERO -OR- Holy shit I haven’t had a new entry since JUNE!

I’d been thinking about this blog recently.

Thinking about how I used to rather infrequently blog about nothing and loserdom. Thinking about all the plethora of abandoned blogs and toy sites I come across in my interwebz travels when not lurking on cosplay sites looking for great renditions of Morrigan. And I’ve thought how I didn’t want to become just another abandoned loser blog. I want to be AN ACTIVE loser’s blog.

How I missed those days of needless typed drivel. And if you’re reading this entry you either:

A) Know exactly what I’m all about and miss the bad old nothing days of DOOMblog.

-OR-

B) Have no idea just what the hell I’m going on about.

I almost rather hope it’s “B”, cuz if it’s “A” you may have gotten tired of coming here and seeing the same damn Hasbro promo shot of Transformers Animated Rodimus for 5 months (that may actually be happening after the smoke clears from the Bayfomer-explode fest.) But I write this entry to say, I’m back from the dead like a toy collecting Jason Voorhees and I’ll keep my mindless spewing for the 5 people who have me bookmarked!

See you in the movies!

In other news…

…Animated Rodimus is a pimp. See seibertron.com for the evidence.

Well, the first stage is denial…

Just what the hell is wrong with me? For a long time now, I’ve been very down on the upcoming Bay-formers movie debacle and the fugly damn toys that accompany it for like, A YEAR NOW! And yet, guess who’s been on a frakin’ Transformer Movie toy spending spree/binge. Damn it!!!

 

I’m a truly sick man, for in the last two weeks I’ve bought:

 

Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe Sideswipe

 

Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe Sideways

 

Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe Breakaway

 

Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe Rampage

 

Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe Desert Brawl (a frakin’ repaint!?)

 

Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe Bumblebee

 

Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe Sideways (darker variant)

 

Revenge of the Fallen Voyager Starscream

 

Revenge of the Fallen Voyager Demolishor

 

Revenge of the Fallen Voyager The Fallen

 

Revenge of the Fallen Leader Megatron

 

Movie 2007 Premium Deluxe Barricade

 

Movie 2007 Premium Deluxe Jazz

 

Movie 2007 Lawson’s Japanese DVD Exclusive Blackout (cost me a damn pretty penny, too)

 

W…T…F!

 

All this from a guy who didn’t want anything to do with the damn things and was all butt-hurt with the shelving of more Animated toys!

 

My robo-plastiholism runs DEEP. I’m so very, VERY DOOMED. My wallet weeps…

 

Drugs aren’t that much more expensive than toy robots, are they? 

 

Pictures of my toy robot crap coming soon…

Meet Edward Scissorhands’ cousin…

…RAZOR FIST!

(featured in Master of Kung-fu #55)

 

Things must get reaaallly difficult when he's done using the crapper!

See all the insanity, HERE. How can you go wrong with a comic when there’s an international drug dealer named Velcro and it’s used in a most non-ironic fashion?

The answer is, you simply can’t.  Looks like there’s another book worth digging out this weekend.

How did I miss this?

As a guy who has, a) not much of a life, b) more comics than I could read in a lifetime, and c) an intense love of all things awesome, I find it astounding that I never knew about THIS until today!

A comic series that features Chuck Norris!!??!! Drawn by Steve Ditko!!?? Holy shit.

 

My life is even more doomed and empty than I previously believed. But all this will change soon. When a book features panels like this:

Consider this SOLD.

The Batman shops at Zayre

 

I actually like this better than the Schumacher films.

And then, there was this.

And it just came out yesterday!  Run–don’t walk to you local video store for this one.  I’m all Netflix ready for it.

 

Let’s see, this movie collectively has:

Lorenzo Lamas–CHECK!

Debbie Gibson–CHECK!

Not just a giant shark, but rather a MEGA-shark–CHECK!

AND a giant octopus–CHECK!

Horrible looking CGI—HELL YES!!

I’m all in. If you see any movie at all this year, this…is… IT!

What could possibly go wrong? Also, I almost neglected to mention that this is the same studio that released both Transmorphers, as well as The Terminators!