I just watched Transformers the movie. Wow, it was weird. The 80s buttrock music was awesome, though. I was surprised to learn that Leonard Nimoy, Orson Welles, and Eric Idle provided their voices for the movie.
There were a dozen Power Rangers knockoffs - normal kids transforming into armored heroes to fight of the rubber-suit monster of the week. One had kids fighting computer viruses, one had something to do with bugmen riding motorcycles, and one had something to do with werewolves and mummies and a blue-faced ghost. I remember that last one because the credits always played a catchy trumpet solo.
The computer viruses one was Superhuman Samurai Sybersquad. I loved that show when I was a kid and have the transforming robots from it. Bad guy was a computer virus + nerd team and the virus was backed up just in case on like 100+ floppies or something.
Big Bad Beetleborgs made me scratch my head, even as a youngster. I just knew that all the bullshit with ghosts and such wasn't in the original.
It was so bad it was hilarious. Seirously. Ghosts? Super powers? The comic book artist providing midseason upgrades for the crew? What? Makes me wonder what the original was about, though.
There were a dozen Power Rangers knockoffs - normal kids transforming into armored heroes to fight of the rubber-suit monster of the week. One had kids fighting computer viruses, one had something to do with bugmen riding motorcycles, and one had something to do with werewolves and mummies and a blue-faced ghost. I remember that last one because the credits always played a catchy trumpet solo.
The computer viruses one was Superhuman Samurai Sybersquad. I loved that show when I was a kid and have the transforming robots from it. Bad guy was a computer virus + nerd team and the virus was backed up just in case on like 100+ floppies or something.
There were a dozen Power Rangers knockoffs - normal kids transforming into armored heroes to fight of the rubber-suit monster of the week. One had kids fighting computer viruses, one had something to do with bugmen riding motorcycles, and one had something to do with werewolves and mummies and a blue-faced ghost. I remember that last one because the credits always played a catchy trumpet solo.
The computer viruses one was Superhuman Samurai Sybersquad. I loved that show when I was a kid and have the transforming robots from it. Bad guy was a computer virus + nerd team and the virus was backed up just in case on like 100+ floppies or something.
I just watched Transformers the movie. Wow, it was weird. The 80s buttrock music was awesome, though. I was surprised to learn that Leonard Nimoy, Orson Welles, and Eric Idle provided their voices for the movie.
It was actually Orson Welles' last movie. He died while making it, and Leonard Nimoy had to complete his remaining lines.
I just watched Transformers the movie. Wow, it was weird. The 80s buttrock music was awesome, though. I was surprised to learn that Leonard Nimoy, Orson Welles, and Eric Idle provided their voices for the movie.
It was actually Orson Welles' last movie. He died while making it, and Leonard Nimoy had to complete his remaining lines.
He also hated the movie. I think he was quoted saying something along the lines of "...oh I'm working on a dreadful movie. Some horrible thing where toys kill each other."
Welles hated working on The Transformers: The Movie (1986), where he voiced Unicron. When asked about the film, he not only couldn't remember the name of his character, but he described the film as being "I play a big toy who attacks a bunch of smaller toys".
Are action figures even popular anymore? I can't imagine kids who grew up with a PS2 or later console having any interest in toys. Although I guess Lego still sells well?
I just watched Transformers the movie. Wow, it was weird. The 80s buttrock music was awesome, though. I was surprised to learn that Leonard Nimoy, Orson Welles, and Eric Idle provided their voices for the movie.
It was actually Orson Welles' last movie. He died while making it, and Leonard Nimoy had to complete his remaining lines.
Don't forget Robert Stack!
Edit: Not that he did any Unicron lines but he did Ultra Magnus. :P
There were a dozen Power Rangers knockoffs - normal kids transforming into armored heroes to fight of the rubber-suit monster of the week. One had kids fighting computer viruses, one had something to do with bugmen riding motorcycles, and one had something to do with werewolves and mummies and a blue-faced ghost. I remember that last one because the credits always played a catchy trumpet solo.
The computer viruses one was Superhuman Samurai Sybersquad. I loved that show when I was a kid and have the transforming robots from it. Bad guy was a computer virus + nerd team and the virus was backed up just in case on like 100+ floppies or something.
Are action figures even popular anymore? I can't imagine kids who grew up with a PS2 or later console having any interest in toys. Although I guess Lego still sells well?
they just went to a younger age bracket of kids who's parents decided that they are too young for video games and to old computer people who populate their work area with classic transformers toys that cost an absurd amount for something that people aren't suppose to 'play with'.
I just watched Transformers the movie. Wow, it was weird. The 80s buttrock music was awesome, though. I was surprised to learn that Leonard Nimoy, Orson Welles, and Eric Idle provided their voices for the movie.
It was actually Orson Welles' last movie. He died while making it, and Leonard Nimoy had to complete his remaining lines.
The latter part is bullpucky
He completed his lines, but he died before it was released
Are action figures even popular anymore? I can't imagine kids who grew up with a PS2 or later console having any interest in toys. Although I guess Lego still sells well?
they just went to a younger age bracket of kids who's parents decided that they are too young for video games and to old computer people who populate their work area with classic transformers toys that cost an absurd amount for something that people aren't suppose to 'play with'.
Dude, I just went to the Toys R Us today, and it is loaded with action figures. And what with all the revivals, it's pretty much the same franchises of 20 years ago. Although the variety is much greater. Lots and lots of Lego stuff, yeah, and an entire LARP section. Also a lot more Star Wars toys than back then - partly due to Clone Wars and the like. The rest is walls and walls of GI Joe and Transformers. And the same shitty knockoffs, too. Apparently Roadbots are the next big thing!
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All creature will die and all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai.
Even with video games, I wanted toys of the video game characters growing up. Pity it would be several years before Mega Man ever got any, and many more before Mario or Zelda.
Depending on how the term "play with" is used, I still do with TransFormers. I don't enact some elaborate drama or anything, but I find transforming them to be sort of relaxing...
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There were a dozen Power Rangers knockoffs - normal kids transforming into armored heroes to fight of the rubber-suit monster of the week. One had kids fighting computer viruses, one had something to do with bugmen riding motorcycles, and one had something to do with werewolves and mummies and a blue-faced ghost. I remember that last one because the credits always played a catchy trumpet solo.
The computer viruses one was Superhuman Samurai Sybersquad. I loved that show when I was a kid and have the transforming robots from it. Bad guy was a computer virus + nerd team and the virus was backed up just in case on like 100+ floppies or something.
Are action figures even popular anymore? I can't imagine kids who grew up with a PS2 or later console having any interest in toys. Although I guess Lego still sells well?
they just went to a younger age bracket of kids who's parents decided that they are too young for video games and to old computer people who populate their work area with classic transformers toys that cost an absurd amount for something that people aren't suppose to 'play with'.
@ Orson Welles: Honestly, what did you guys expect?
He went from directing the greatest american movie in history to working on a crappy 80's kids movie. Citizen Kane skyrocketed his ego to astronomical heights.
@ Orson Welles: Honestly, what did you guys expect?
He went from directing the greatest american movie in history to working on a crappy 80's kids movie. Citizen Kane skyrocketed his ego to astronomical heights.
It didn't help that with Kane, he pissed in the Wheaties of a guy who more or less owned the media.
I just watched Transformers the movie. Wow, it was weird. The 80s buttrock music was awesome, though. I was surprised to learn that Leonard Nimoy, Orson Welles, and Eric Idle provided their voices for the movie.
It was actually Orson Welles' last movie. He died while making it, and Leonard Nimoy had to complete his remaining lines.
The latter part is bullpucky
He completed his lines, but he died before it was released
Actually, from what I read a while ago, he did complete reading his lines, but they needed some rereading done (either bad takes, or they changed some of the lines) and he had already passed on, so they needed Leonard Nimoy to fill in.
@ Orson Welles: Honestly, what did you guys expect?
He went from directing the greatest american movie in history to working on a crappy 80's kids movie. Citizen Kane skyrocketed his ego to astronomical heights.
It didn't help that with Kane, he pissed in the Wheaties of a guy who more or less owned the media.
Yeah, that was his entire motive for doing the movie. That picture got banned after a week in some places. I've been meaning to see it for so long.
The point is that Welles always had a rather large ego, both as a result from his superb directing abilities and powerhouse acting. So to him, this kids movie property was probably the ultimate fall from grace.
How he got to that point in his life is beyond me.
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I just watched Transformers the movie. Wow, it was weird. The 80s buttrock music was awesome, though. I was surprised to learn that Leonard Nimoy, Orson Welles, and Eric Idle provided their voices for the movie.
It was actually Orson Welles' last movie. He died while making it, and Leonard Nimoy had to complete his remaining lines.
The latter part is bullpucky
He completed his lines, but he died before it was released
Actually, from what I read a while ago, he did complete reading his lines, but they needed some rereading done (either bad takes, or they changed some of the lines) and he had already passed on, so they needed Leonard Nimoy to fill in.
trust me on this
I am a walking Transformers database
That was a rumor that has been debunked by Wally Burr, the voice director for the film
@ Orson Welles: Honestly, what did you guys expect?
He went from directing the greatest american movie in history to working on a crappy 80's kids movie. Citizen Kane skyrocketed his ego to astronomical heights.
It didn't help that with Kane, he pissed in the Wheaties of a guy who more or less owned the media.
Yeah, that was his entire motive for doing the movie. That picture got banned after a week in some places. I've been meaning to see it for so long.
The point is that Welles always had a rather large ego, both as a result from his superb directing abilities and powerhouse acting. So to him, this kids movie property was probably the ultimate fall from grace.
How he got to that point in his life is beyond me.
He pissed in the Wheaties of a media mogul powerful enough to start a war. Do I really need to explain further?
@ Orson Welles: Honestly, what did you guys expect?
He went from directing the greatest american movie in history to working on a crappy 80's kids movie. Citizen Kane skyrocketed his ego to astronomical heights.
It didn't help that with Kane, he pissed in the Wheaties of a guy who more or less owned the media.
Yeah, that was his entire motive for doing the movie. That picture got banned after a week in some places. I've been meaning to see it for so long.
The point is that Welles always had a rather large ego, both as a result from his superb directing abilities and powerhouse acting. So to him, this kids movie property was probably the ultimate fall from grace.
How he got to that point in his life is beyond me.
He pissed in the Wheaties of a media mogul powerful enough to start a war. Do I really need to explain further?
@ Orson Welles: Honestly, what did you guys expect?
He went from directing the greatest american movie in history to working on a crappy 80's kids movie. Citizen Kane skyrocketed his ego to astronomical heights.
It didn't help that with Kane, he pissed in the Wheaties of a guy who more or less owned the media.
Yeah, that was his entire motive for doing the movie. That picture got banned after a week in some places. I've been meaning to see it for so long.
The point is that Welles always had a rather large ego, both as a result from his superb directing abilities and powerhouse acting. So to him, this kids movie property was probably the ultimate fall from grace.
How he got to that point in his life is beyond me.
He pissed in the Wheaties of a media mogul powerful enough to start a war. Do I really need to explain further?
I'm quite curious to hear about it myself.
Citizen Kane was 100% totally not about William Randolph Hearst. Yup, absolutely had nothing to do with him.
The first ten minutes of the Transformers movie is one of my favorite openings of any film.
The planet of Robots that gets eaten by Unircon (LOOK! IT'S UNIRCRON!), to the cool creepy synth music, to Iron Hide getting shot. It's just a classic that makes you go, shit, they're not messing around here.
The first ten minutes of the Transformers movie is one of my favorite openings of any film.
The planet of Robots that gets eaten by Unircon (LOOK! IT'S UNIRCRON!), to the cool creepy synth music, to Iron Hide getting shot. It's just a classic that makes you go, shit, they're not messing around here.
Plus the Quintessoons(?) were a really cool race.
Also, is the Anime Transformers any good?
Which one are you referring to?
Transformers Animated? Fantastic, as long as you don't mind the relative newbieness of the protagonists.
The actual anime Transformers series, with the minicons and off-brand symmetrical docking and such? Not so much.
As far as Transformers anime goes? Masterforce, and Victory (Though it's villains are total wimps) are both good. Zone isn't bad, but there's only one episode of it. As far as the Unicron trilogy is concerned, Cybertron is considered the best of the series, and Energon has the very dubious distinction of being considered the single worst Transformers series in history, even surpassing Headmasters, who held the distinction before this.
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Thats just wrong......
apparently not everyone agrees with me on this point, though
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
The computer viruses one was Superhuman Samurai Sybersquad. I loved that show when I was a kid and have the transforming robots from it. Bad guy was a computer virus + nerd team and the virus was backed up just in case on like 100+ floppies or something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhuman_Samurai_Syber-Squad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N34MmqmxqD0
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It was so bad it was hilarious. Seirously. Ghosts? Super powers? The comic book artist providing midseason upgrades for the crew? What? Makes me wonder what the original was about, though.
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I have the toy of the main dude there.
Somewhere deep in storage.
You have a Matthew Lawrence action figure?
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It's more of an inflatable bed buddy.
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I think I have the action figure, the main robot, and the robot dragon.
http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/9436/dsc03756yv4.jpg
It was actually Orson Welles' last movie. He died while making it, and Leonard Nimoy had to complete his remaining lines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbqFGapihP0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e5q6ubDlZE&feature=related
EDIT: no fucking way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjhJSD8RU4k
He also hated the movie. I think he was quoted saying something along the lines of "...oh I'm working on a dreadful movie. Some horrible thing where toys kill each other."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyttr8wI3lE
I wonder why he did it, then? Did he just need money that badly or something?
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
Yes.
I have a vague inkling that near the end of his life he was dirt poor due to his own fuckups, and did a ton of rubbish like that and the soup adverts.
And also a bit of an arsehole.
confirm/deny guys?
Don't forget Robert Stack!
Edit: Not that he did any Unicron lines but he did Ultra Magnus. :P
Out IT guy is using a Sybersquad mouse pad. I have no idea where it came from and it looks like it was made before mice were invented.
they just went to a younger age bracket of kids who's parents decided that they are too young for video games and to old computer people who populate their work area with classic transformers toys that cost an absurd amount for something that people aren't suppose to 'play with'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzbeKtaLi5M
confirmed
The latter part is bullpucky
He completed his lines, but he died before it was released
Dude, I just went to the Toys R Us today, and it is loaded with action figures. And what with all the revivals, it's pretty much the same franchises of 20 years ago. Although the variety is much greater. Lots and lots of Lego stuff, yeah, and an entire LARP section. Also a lot more Star Wars toys than back then - partly due to Clone Wars and the like. The rest is walls and walls of GI Joe and Transformers. And the same shitty knockoffs, too. Apparently Roadbots are the next big thing!
Depending on how the term "play with" is used, I still do with TransFormers. I don't enact some elaborate drama or anything, but I find transforming them to be sort of relaxing...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1PJTY9AVA
He went from directing the greatest american movie in history to working on a crappy 80's kids movie. Citizen Kane skyrocketed his ego to astronomical heights.
It didn't help that with Kane, he pissed in the Wheaties of a guy who more or less owned the media.
I just didn't realize that he apparently needed money badly enough late in his life to do stuff he hated
ed: oh my god that wine ad
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
Actually, from what I read a while ago, he did complete reading his lines, but they needed some rereading done (either bad takes, or they changed some of the lines) and he had already passed on, so they needed Leonard Nimoy to fill in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za3EuqU385k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9d0xoCRL90
Yeah, that was his entire motive for doing the movie. That picture got banned after a week in some places. I've been meaning to see it for so long.
The point is that Welles always had a rather large ego, both as a result from his superb directing abilities and powerhouse acting. So to him, this kids movie property was probably the ultimate fall from grace.
How he got to that point in his life is beyond me.
I am a walking Transformers database
That was a rumor that has been debunked by Wally Burr, the voice director for the film
He pissed in the Wheaties of a media mogul powerful enough to start a war. Do I really need to explain further?
I'm quite curious to hear about it myself.
The planet of Robots that gets eaten by Unircon (LOOK! IT'S UNIRCRON!), to the cool creepy synth music, to Iron Hide getting shot. It's just a classic that makes you go, shit, they're not messing around here.
Plus the Quintessoons(?) were a really cool race.
Also, is the Anime Transformers any good?
Which one are you referring to?
Transformers Animated? Fantastic, as long as you don't mind the relative newbieness of the protagonists.
The actual anime Transformers series, with the minicons and off-brand symmetrical docking and such? Not so much.