Author Topic: Good news/Bad news (Read 1602 times)

PC Gaijin · « **Reply #30 on:** September 16, 2005, 05:54:08 PM »

I lost the game disc to the Sega Gameworks book/GD-ROM combo. Quite annoying that, if I remember right I put the GD-ROM into a jewel case because it kept falling out of the book, then I accidentally threw the jewel case away

I also used to be into LD back in the mid to late 90s. Had a collection of around 400 discs (mostly anime, where's ol' Blasta Masta

). Lot of Japanese releases and box sets, very nice stuff. Sold about 80% of it a few years ago in a fit of "I need to grow out of this shit (i.e. collecting games, anime, and other useless crap)". I regret it sometimes, but that collection was damn hard to move around and LDs in general are rather fragile. I did love collecting those far more than DVDs though. DVDs just feel cheap (hey, they ARE cheap

), I miss the massive jackets on LDs. Gotta say though, Michael you're a bit crazy on the LD vs. DVD. Thought all the diehard LD guys finally accepted that a well mastered DVD beats the best LD hands down long ago, but you're still hanging in there

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Keranu · « **Reply #31 on:** September 16, 2005, 06:18:57 PM »

We miss Blasta Mazta!

esteban · « **Reply #32 on:** September 16, 2005, 06:52:45 PM »

M.A.S.K. -- I remember thinking that the cartoon was average... but the toys were neat (everything that transormed was hot then: Gobots, Transformers, Voltron, M.A.S.K., and later ROCKLORDS!).

I actually had a M.A.S.K. comic book or two and I really liked them. Always wanted to get more of them.

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Here are two that will stump most of you: Does anyone remember Spiral Zone? It was a pretty crappy cartoon that promoted a pretty kool toy line of the same name. The most iconographic image from Spiral Zone is a huge motorbike with one, huge "wheel": the rider sat inside the wheel (where the hub would be). That's just the koolest.

Another short-lived toy line that I really dug was called... "Legions of Power" (or something like that)... it was a concept similar to ROBOTIX (someone mentioned this earlier) and LEGO: you get an assortment of plastic cubes, shields, cockpits, guns, etc. and you build spaceships, motorized tanks with rubber tracks, etc.
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STARBLAZERS is one of my favorite cartoons from childhood, along with Battle of the Planets.

Rocklords were lame, by the way.

lord_cack · « **Reply #33 on:** September 16, 2005, 09:34:31 PM »

Yep...Spiral Zone stumped me...but I remember Legions of Power. Never owned any...I wasn't big into things you had to build...I was sure I would have f&*ked it up and then been out of a toy....Same with ROBOTIX...I liked that show though...Did anyone get into the Thundercats action figures. I thought they were OK...but I think that is one line of action figures that actually never really did the show justice.....maybe thats just me...I had some of them...they just could have been cooler I think....Of course Thundercats was one of my Favorite shows...I thought that the overall story to that show was great.

doomfarer75 · « **Reply #34 on:** September 17, 2005, 12:57:57 AM »

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How about the Inhumanoids....anyone...I had Decompose....I thought they were the shit...short lived but cool

Tendril here:) and like one or 2 of the human characters..I always wanted the tree guys and the rock guys....tey were sweet..

Inhumanoids, the comic was pretty sweet...done by Marvel thru a line called Star Comics...

lord_cack · « **Reply #35 on:** September 17, 2005, 02:32:25 AM »

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How about the Inhumanoids....anyone...I had Decompose....I thought they were the shit...short lived but cool

Tendril here:) and like one or 2 of the human characters..I always wanted the tree guys and the rock guys....tey were sweet..

Inhumanoids, the comic was pretty sweet...done by Marvel thru a line called Star Comics...

They had comics....cool...may have to look them up

Black Tiger · « **Reply #36 on:** September 17, 2005, 09:28:57 AM »

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How about the Inhumanoids....anyone...I had Decompose....I thought they were the shit...short lived but cool...and Transformers...I was into MotU as well. I had a bunch of figures and my unlce ran them over with a lawn mower....same goes for a great deal of my Transformers actually.

I also liked GI Joe and Mask, I always wanted the big 4X4 one...looked like Van hell I don't remember exactly. How about Robo-tix...the action figures, you assembled them and they were mechanical...but they had a short lived Cartoon show....Dungeons and Dragons had a line of action figures too, I only had one....memeories....

But currently, on the action figure front, I like the new MotU figures...and some of the new Transformers "Alernators" Figures especially the 2005 Mustang...Grimlock.

If you haven't seen these yet check them out here:
http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/default.cfm?page=browse&catalog=1&subbrand_id=167

I also (being a huge Kevin Smith movie fan) collect his line of Inaction Figures....so...I like action figures.

I've got 2 Magmars and an Inhumanoids video.

I also have the entire Robotix series on VHS(90 minutes), which I turned into DVD & VCD.

nodtveidt · « **Reply #37 on:** September 17, 2005, 01:57:59 PM »

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We miss Blasta Mazta!

We do???

lord_cack · « **Reply #38 on:** September 17, 2005, 02:35:15 PM »

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Quote from: "Keranu"
We miss Blasta Mazta!

We do???

I guess....you know the funny has just been gone recently and maybe if we had someone who would just absolutely blow up and go off every-now-and-then it would be OK.....you know kind of like a mass tension breaker....

lord_cack · « **Reply #39 on:** September 17, 2005, 02:36:41 PM »

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I also have the entire Robotix series on VHS(90 minutes), which I turned into DVD & VCD.

I knew that the series was short lived but...damn.

PC Gaijin · « **Reply #40 on:** September 17, 2005, 04:59:52 PM »

Does anyone remember Starriors? They were robots that all had some sort of windup action (like a spinning drill in the chest or something). I used to have a bunch of those when I was a kid. There was also a comic book series from Marvel that I liked quite a bit, but as far as I know that was about all the marketing the Starriors got (I don't remember any cartoons).

Keranu · « **Reply #41 on:** September 17, 2005, 06:03:01 PM »

Quote from: "nodtveidt"

Quote from: "Keranu"
We miss Blasta Mazta!

We do???

Of course we do; he was are main source of humor here.

Black Tiger · « **Reply #42 on:** September 18, 2005, 06:32:18 AM »

Quote from: "PC Gaijin"

Does anyone remember Starriors? They were robots that all had some sort of windup action (like a spinning drill in the chest or something). I used to have a bunch of those when I was a kid. There was also a comic book series from Marvel that I liked quite a bit, but as far as I know that was about all the marketing the Starriors got (I don't remember any cartoons).

I love Starriors and have looked for them online off and on for a while, but could never find them because the closest I came to remembering the name was Starrios.

I used to take them apart completely to see how they worked and them back together gear by gear.

I used the little silver "men" as the humans in Transformer and sat them in Optimus Primes chest or Starscream's cockpit as drivers.

Thanks for finally solving this for me.

GUTS · « **Reply #43 on:** September 18, 2005, 07:37:46 AM »

^^ I was pissed when I found out years later that the early Japanese versions of the Transformers (whatever they were called before they were called transformers, Micro something?) had little guys with them, and the springs even worked on the guns! I used to have an awesome Japanese version of a transforming gun that was part of the Megatron line (there was Megatron, a revolver, and the guy I had in the series) before there was Megatron, it was so kickass.

lord_cack · « **Reply #44 on:** September 18, 2005, 08:40:47 AM »

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^^ I was pissed when I found out years later that the early Japanese versions of the Transformers (whatever they were called before they were called transformers, Micro something?) had little guys with them, and the springs even worked on the guns! I used to have an awesome Japanese version of a transforming gun that was part of the Megatron line (there was Megatron, a revolver, and the guy I had in the series) before there was Megatron, it was so kickass.

Not only that but there were versions of the japanese Optimus Prime that came with the Matrix of Leadership as well...they get all the wonderful toys....