Now THIS is funny

Yeah, this is somewhat old news, but the comments below are the main attraction here. Nothing makes me laugh more than upset fanboy/geeks and losers like myself.

Oh man, instant pure plastic love

I just found out, courtesy of shortpacked that not only does the Transformers Animated Soundwave have a guitar as a weapon, but that the guitar turns into frakin’ Laserbeak! Man, these toys can not get here soon enough! I’m in plastic love.

No no no!!

I guess I should have seen it coming, and I really thought this was an editorial joke, but there will not only be a G.I. Joe movie in the works, but Smurfs, Thundercats, etc;.. ughhhh….

All this on a day where I plan on seeing Sunshine tonight.

I got a hold of an Alternator Rodimus…I think

So I get alerted on plastic crack about hasbrotoyshop.com selling the SD Comic Con exclusive this morning and I think “Ok, I MUST BUY!!”
I think the word got out quick in TF geek circles. I deduce this from the slooowwwww time I had ordering it. Eventually the order goes through. I check my e-mail and then I notice it has me down for three! So I e-mail Hasbro to cancel the two extra, as I only want one. And now they are sold out online–so I’m hoping everything isn’t totally screwed. I guess I’ll find out sometime soon. Balls. Maybe I’ll end up eBaying an extra one for some cash.

Where the hell are these things?

To echo the cry of many a transforming robot obsessed loser right now–where the hell are all the Wave 2 Transformer Movie toys?!

So far in the past two weeks I’ve seen a couple of the butt-ugly Dreadwings and one 2008 Bumblebee that I, of course, picked up. But I still haven’t seen the downright beautifully cadaverous Deluxe Movie Arcee.

I’m starting to suspect the bane of all collectors at work-the scalpers. That and the fact that most of my local retailers here are pretty awful about re-stocking products, especially toys. I just might have to do the eBay thing for that Arcee–I just really don’t want to.

Well, it wasn’t Shark Attack 3….

So, as I do about every Saturday night, I watch craptatstic cinema and this last Saturday’s  offering was the Sci Fi Channel awfulness–  Sands of Oblivion.

Not only did it feature two actors from the whole Firefly/Serenity shite, but overall it was just yet another Sci Fi Channel movie featuring Egyptian artifacts in a California desert. The first half I found a lot more entertaining than the second half. Good death scenes and lots of pointless exposition/explanation. The second half however tested my bad movie fortitude. The only redeeming quality was a Larry the Cable Guy-character,  who, of course, had a secret stash of high powered firearms followed by a supply of dune buggies for the subsequent drawn out dune buggy chase.

Definitely a movie where a dune buggy chase seemed very out of place, even for a Sci Fi channel movie.  It was indeed two hours I’m not getting back. Ah well, I guess they can’t all be Shark Attack 3: Meglodon.

A nice find

So this afternoon I go into what just might possibly be the worst Toys R’ Us in my area, and I find a lone Classics Jetfire. Sundays are starting to become my day for good finds. Two weeks ago I landed a $25.88 Movie Leader Optimus Prime at a ghetto Wal-Mart and then a week later, an 08 Camaro Bumblebee at the same Wal-Mart. Then today, crap TRU has a Classics Jetfire. I really should start looking for TFs only on Sundays, I guess.  Lately, every store’s TF selection is looking like Europe after the rain.

The Skids Alternator

Friday my latest aquisition arrived–the Transfromers Alternators Skids. Man, what else can I say other than I really love this figure. I waited until this morning to open him up and he is even cooler than I thought he would be. I don’t even like Scions as a car, either, but he is just a bad ass. Some have said they didn’t like the flames, I don’t mind them at all.

My Saturday comics haul

How can you not like a cover with Paul Hogan, a young Charles Bronson and a kung-fu master?? I love it!

The first Megatron..high hopes for this one.

“Whoever knows fear, burns at the touch of the Man-Thing!”

That’s what she said. 

The new Thor. Already read this and it’s brilliant. Love it! Read this one. 

The Saturday journey of utter lameness

Well, the day got off to a rocky start when about 5 minutes after arriving at the first comic store, my cell rings and my Dad needed help loading a pressure cleaner into his car. So me and my accomplices– the Big Dipper (brother-in-law) and my boy, Matt, haul back to my Pop’s to help him.Balls!

So, anyways, we eventually arrive to the first home of cheap comics, Wilson’s Books.

Dollar back issues there are the main draw and the collective haul for the Big Dipper and I wasn’t too bad. He got a bunch of old X-Men titles and I was looking for some 70s badness.

I ended up with a few Shogun Warriors, an old Eclipse title with the best cover I’ve seen in a while and an issue of the new Iron Man that I was missing.

Next we headed out as Matt, was looking for a military memorabilia store to fulfill his WWII obsession. No luck finding it at all and I think it doesn’t exist any more.

So he’s pissed and we head to yet another den of worthless paper, The Emerald City.  The haul for us was decent, and I landed Man-Thing #1 as well as issue #1 of the new Thor. Overall a good time had by all, I think, and the outing came to a close.