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ShellformerV1

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About ShellformerV1

  • Birthday 11/09/1974

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Californ-ee-eye-a
  • Interests
    Drawing (comics and paleo-art); playing with my toys; watching T.V., writing; playing EWR; watching old Office and MST3K episodes on Youtube; gummy bears; McDonald's Chicken Selects and being with my special lady.

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  • Country
    United States
  • About You...
    I believe that the Hagakure is a good tool to use when trying to live your life. One cannot go far wrong with the Hagakure in mind. I believe in growth of some sort, no matter how small or how often one must fall to get there.
  • Favorite Music
    Rock...Anything by Tool. Led Zeppelin; The Deftones; the whole grunge scene of the early-mid 90's; P.J. Harvey; Tori Amos; A Tribe Called Quest; EPMD; De La Soul; 80's music in general, with 70's tunes also rounding out my playlist
  • Favorite Movies
    Jaws/The Exorcist/Once Upon a Time in The West
  • Favorite TV Shows
    Corner Gas; Prime Suspect; The Amazing World of Gumball; The Rifleman; The Looney Tunes Show and--sadly enough--Storage Wars. MST3K is the greatest show of all time. Also: Transformers: Animated and Transformers: Prime
  • Favorite Books
    The Hydra of Carnage: Craig B. Hulet; Anything by Gregory S. Paul or Hank Searls (Jaws II is badass as all get out)
  • Most Prized Transformer
    Fortress Maximus
  • Personal Quotes
    My love for the Conehead Seekers is legendary and knows no bounds.

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  1. Granted. However, Predaking is the one Decepticon combiner that is capable of truly utilizing the full potential of a combiner in an assault context. Omega Supreme is not invulnerable. He is slow of foot and slow to utilize his considerable weapons. He is also not particularly bright or imaginative. If there were one Decepticon that could defeat Omega Supreme in battle (and there are a handful that could, BTW), Predaking would be at the top of the list.
  2. Now who's being cold, dude? You think the Combaticons have any power bottoms on their roster? Is Vortex an otter? BTW: The Stunticons and Menasor always did it for me. This is a case where the individual bots where just as cool-if not cooler-than their gestalt form. The Stunticons were, bot for bot, pretty hard to beat.
  3. Excellent. I will need a replacement for my old one, so this is great news. Wished Crosshairs and Lockdown had one coming as well, but what the hey.
  4. Amen to that. I had a little bit of hope after DOTM, but this...this is no good. AoE ran in the same putrid race as ROTF. Terrible. I watched the movie with a 12 year old who just picked the movie apart scene by scene (reminded me of myself)...and unlike me he actually WANTED TO SEE THE MOVIE.
  5. Galvs and Megs are one and the same being. It was only his exposure to the plasma bath on Thrull that hopelessly damaged his mind and produced the insane, unstable being that Galvatron was portrayed as in the G1 cartoon series. If the Decepticons treated the two as if they were different, it was most likely because they were not truly loyal to him to begin with. Galvs carries a particle accelerator on hi right arm, and it was portrayed as being much more powerful than Megs fusion cannon, capable of destroying worlds if the script called for it. I prefer to think that Megs was simply elevated, not that he ceased to exist in the reformatting process.
  6. Omega Supreme is extremely beatable in that he was resoundingly defeated* by Buzzsaw in the original comic series. (*by defeated, I mean written out of the series...via cannon-blasts to the clavicle and chin.) Omega might have the gimmicks, but Predaking has a cooler name, eagle wings on his back, a particle beam cannon the size of a tractor trailer on his right arm and the heads of a rhino and a cape buffalo on his kneecaps. He also has a couple of cool toys that were released by TF Prime not so very long ago. Predaking wins.
  7. I'd need a guy who was cool under pressure, would not panic, and not shoot me in the back by accident. I would also need a bot who did not talk like Scatman Crothers or who was noticeably foppish, or at least not so pathologically insane that my own life would be in danger...and last but not least: I would prefer that that bot not have been cannon-blasted into oblivion by Buzzsaw at some point. That shortens the list quite a bit, and that leaves me with...G1 Brawn or Springer. Macho wins. You couldn't go wrong with either one of those guys.
  8. I took a hiatus from all things transformers for nearly two years, but I recently re-connected with all my Animated toys and DVDs and both volumes of The AllSpark Almanac, so I am in full reminisce mode. Thank you for this post. I agree with most of what you stated, and what I did not necessarily agree with...well, I can't argue against it. RIP, Animated.
  9. I can't speak for Rumble, but I did pick up Kup on a lark and your assessment of the figure is spot on. I am going to immediately do an Ironhide repaint stat. Finally got my MP Sideswipe just yesterday and...oh my. Oh my. Oh. My. Removing him from the box to behold him in all his Countach glory may very well be the equivalent of having Jessica Biel forcibly require your manhood.
  10. Managed to find a RiD Starscream voyager. Initally wasn't going to get him, but I'm VERY happy that I eventually picked him up.
  11. Just got TFP RiD Knock Out today. Pretty good figure overall, just loose in the upper body (the tabs for the front headlights don't tab in well in base mode); the head is a little restricted articulation-wise, even though its on a ball joint, and to get the arms to not look quite so funky, you have to completely disregard the instructions--but doing so compromises a little articulation at the elbow joint. With that said, Knock Out looks good, almost really good--not great, and he's got a wiked looking staff/spear weapon. I'd give it a 7.5 overall, making it probably the weakest TFP RiD figure thus far released. I'm pretty damn happy with the toy, though.
  12. Just got the TFPRime FE Starscream DLX. And I have to say: what the TFPrime Decepticon toys lack in volume, they make up for in substance. The Megatron Powerizer is one of the best voyagers I've ever seen (in bot mode, anyway); PRid Soundwave is absolutely glorious...and Screamer takes the cake. The whole cake. One of the best DLX figures in recent memory.
  13. Target in Lancaster had 1 PRid Arcee and 1 PRid Ratchet.
  14. I most recently came into PRID Soundwave, Wheeljack, Cliffjumper and the Powerizers Optimus Prime and Megatron. I'd have to say that I am excessively impressed by all these toys...the only disappointments are Megatrons's half-assed alternate mode (not so bad when viewed from above, but viewed from the bottom and sides...this is a complete disaster) and Cliffs unworkable arms. The Optimus Powerizer is so perfect that I completely ignore his back kibble and his gun, which might actually look decent when I paint it and glue it into place. The only thing about the Powerizer voyagers is the complete lack of paint detail. I had Megatron for a day and a half before I had to repaint him completely; Optimus didn't make it 24 hours before I had to start on him. So, I like the Powerizers...but at that price point and being so lacking in painted detail,I don't know if I could fully recommend them. This must be said, however: I am fascinated and amazed by Optimus' transformation; both how well-engineered it is and how well everything fits together. The PRid deluxes (Revealers?) are another story altogether. Soundwave is utterly perfect in all ways, in all things, and his transformation is so simple and yet deceptively complex and completely intuitive. It's a work of art. Wheeljack isn't far behind--I just wish the toy had a bit more arm articulation (to be fair, the toys is only missing a swivel joint in the bicep, but that joint would work wonders and would have made this toy perfect IMO). The transformation is just as amazing and intuitive as that of Soundwave and as clever as Optimus.' Cliff would be perfect if not for his ridiculous arms, but the rest of the toy is so cool that I try my best to ignore it...especially since I have no plans to overspend to acquire the FE figure. That is reserved for Starscream. Cliffs' alternate mode is the toy equivalent of "When the Levee Breaks," or the whole Houses of the Holy album. I couldn't find fault with it if I tried, or someone paid me a lot of money to do so.
  15. The KMart in Tehachapi has (HAD) 1 HA Roadbuster, 5 DLX Laserbeaks, an endcap full of the Fireburst Prime voyager redeco and Voyager Sentinel Prime, and 4 LC Ironhides.
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