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02:51 pm
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TINY HAMSTER RAGE
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10:59 pm
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El Talko
Shortpacked!: This is why we can't have good things.
 Hey, look! That original art has DIALOG on it! How can this be? The answer, after the break, may surprise you.
Preorder Shortpacked! book 2 now!
Vote for Cobra Commander!
No, seriously, vote for Cobra Commander.
Maggie had the genius idea to print out dialog balloons on our handy new sticker maker. Then we adhere them to the original art, and when people buy original art, they can have the dialog, too! It'd be sweet!
First, though, I gotta test how durable these stickers are. They're printed on high-quality paper, but the adhesive worries me a little. I'm gonna roll this up, simulating me mailing it in a tube to some lucky reader, and in a few days, I'll see how well it holds up. Then I'll auction this bad boy. See you on Monday.
Tags: art, shortpacked
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09:46 pm
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Got lost in his own museum.
 Indiana Jones' horse is awesome.
Yeah, I finally found the deluxe set that has "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Indy and his horse. I found a buttload of them, plus multiples of every other toy. Woo! I only got the horse set, though, despite the way the "grab the idol" mini-playset tugs at me.
The horse is pretty damn articulated. He's got a little bit of motion at the base of the skull and at the bottom of the neck, swivel shoulders and hips, and universal joints at all four elbows elbows and all four... heels? His tail also sways. "Raiders" Indy fits on him pretty well, despite his legs not being splayed very far apart at the hips. His feet fit into the little stirrups, and he's got some reins to hold onto. The only other thing I could ask for is a little lateral head and neck motion, but that woulda been tough.
 I got Sallah the other day, so there he is. He comes with a (very rubbery) shovel and that awesome torch. He, sadly, cannot fit on the horse. His, uh, skirt is rubbery but tough, and though he does appear to have hip joints (no knees), he's unable to move his legs much at all, much less fit each leg on either side of the horse. Oh well. So much for buying another horse set to give Indy a riding pal.
As I expected, "Raiders" Indy and "Crystal Skull" Indy share some parts. The only thing that really differs between them are the thighs, crotch, and head. "Raiders" Indy's hat isn't removeable, his hips are slightly wider, and his "purse" is underneath his coat, rather than over it.
Haha, purse.
Tags: indiana jones
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10:57 pm
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We are wasting valueless time here.
Shortpacked!: Everything old is ... old again!
Ultra Car just had to comment on this eventually.
Preorders for Shortpacked! Book 2 continue!
 Phew! I'm down to the last group o' folks in this year's BotCon set. That's right, these are the Shattered Glass heroic Predacons, represented as Mini-Con redecoes. According to Razorclaw's bio information, he was once a professor at Tyrest University, and when the Autobots blew it up, he and two students retreated into the mountains to have inappropriate relations become ferocious predators.
More college professors should disappear into the mountains to become lion-dogs.
 No explanation is given for their tiny size in the "real" fiction, but I would probably adopt the April Fool's version's "shrink ray" explanation anyway, so the absence of a real story helps soothe that into my personal canon. (Annoyingly, their size in the comic ranges from "same size as everyone else" to "dinky," depending on the panel. Don Figueroa is usually more consistent than that.)
I really wish Divebomb (the bright orange bird-thing) had more paint in robot mode. Other than his head, all his paint is dedicated to his sparsely-detailed wings, which are hidden in robot mode. I think I'd love him a whole lot more if that were the case. I love him anyway, what with my orange fetish. It is, after all, a delicious Sunstorm-like orange.
The other guys are cool, too, though less orange, and are much better in the area of paint layout. They manage to get paint in both modes instead of decoing just one.
Poor heroic Decepticons. These dinky dudes are half of their rebel forces.
Tags: botcon, movies, short circuit, transformers
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09:47 pm
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BotCon 2008: WTF
In yesterday's comic, Daredevil said that Iron Man was the best movie he'd ever seen. That was, of course, a joke. Apparently some people were confused!
(Though I usually question whether Daredevil is really all that blind if he has super-insane echolocation that lets him see the shapes of everything anyway, that probably won't help much at the cinema.)
 Shattered Glass Sideswipe, Whisper (Mini-Con), Blurr, and Divebomb (not pictured) formed the BotCon 2008 souvenir set I like to call the "WTF pack." Very little here makes sense.
First of all, Sideswipe was an abandoned store exclusive of a much more interesting character. He was originally going to be a new Generation 2 Drench. But while BotCon did manage to save the toy from Cancellation Hell, they did it by making him a dude from 1984. Though they did add a buttload of more paint detail, which is appreciated, the "DRENCH" decoration on his doors was removed, which disappoints me greatly. Thank heavens that wasn't replaced with "SIDESWIPE," which means that I can at least pretend he's Drench in the privacy of my own home, albeit a Drench without his name tattooed on his sides, no Drenchy "8" racing number, and a big purple Autobot symbol.
With his dark gray, teal, and yellow, he has one of the most interesting color combinations of all the Shattered Glass toys.
 And Blurr? Oh man, don't get me started. Apparently they wanted to put Blurr in the set. Well, hey, there's this toy that already has Blurr's head. Okay, well, nobody actually likes the body that the head is on, but he has Blurr's head, so you gotta use it if you want Blurr. So guess what? They didn't like the Blurr head, so they paid cash money to give him a totally new and different Blurr head! Which begs the question why they didn't put the head on a better toy. That head coulda been on ANYTHING. This toy should not exist.
(Also, Blurr came misassembled. His crotch is upside-down. You can pop it out and put it back the way it should, but it wouldn't be BotCon without one of the toys arriving put together the wrong way.)
People say Blurr's pretty, but I don't really see it. I do like the lightning deco in car mode, but I don't find his robot mode very compelling at all, other than the new eye-patch. (The eye-patch is great.) Maybe if there were more color contrast in robot mode, instead of being almost entirely black, dark blue, and dark purple.
Bitchity bitch bitch bitch.
I'm hoping future Transformers club fiction makes these guys interesting, or I'll probably ditch them later. Sideswipe was fairly important in the comic, and I do like my army of Heroic Decepticons for some intangible reason, but Blurr did practically nothing and his bio card did him no favors. Additionally, Sideswipe has his hilarious bio card motto keeping him teetering closer to my "keep" pile: "There is only one rule now: revenge!" I'm not sure that makes sense, as I'm certain "revenge" isn't really a rule, per se, but that it doesn't make sense is amusing to me.
Again, the hints of camp save these guys. Well, they save Sideswipe. Blurr's state is pending.
Edit: Hold the presses. I forgot Blurr's quote is "The smarter I am, the faster you die." Now that's quality camp.
Tags: botcon, transformers
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