Mystery Hot Wheels

I almost wonder if Hot Wheels is Jumping the Shark with this line of 'Mystery Cars.' I want to open it soo bad, but if I do the mystery will be replaced with, I spent a dollar on that piece of crap?!!

I should have a contest in which every one guess's a color, car type, and a special feature. Who ever comes closest wins the car, and I will send it too them via wonderful UPS. If I get over ten responces to this, I will highly consider that deal.

Hey-Hey its Serpentor!

Hey-Hey its Serpentor! Is that lyrics to a song? I kind of like the new version, Very warrior like. As long as Serpentor doesn't take too much of Cobra Commander's spot light, I don't mind having him around.


Without his helmet, he seems sad though. Its either the eyebrows or the sad frown. Maybe its his missing hair?


Luckily, I have just the right group of toys to help cheer him up.

Brawl pegs from above

I took an Exact-o blade to the little pegs that don't fit into his shoulders. Just lightly trimmed the sides. The pegs fit now, they just wont stay. Then I noticed that when you keep the tourret side flaps down over the attachment, it pressure holds it in place. Yeah, now I can play with Brawl with less of a chip on his shoulder!

Ah, the mighty Brawlistator!

Pretty cool huh? Yeah, but if I don't hold him like this, his arm shoulder joints pop out, his main back assembly flips back, and he falls on his backside. For goodness sakes Hasbro, a simple peg fix and he'd be the coolest toy of the year. Well maybe not the year, but probably for the day. I can't decide if I should get the Leader class version yet, I know my GI Joes would love to get a chance fighting that guy. For now, I need to figure out those pegs...

Cobra Commander and Destro, fists in the air!

Could they at least had their fists alternated so they didn't look like they were mocking each other when standing next to one another?

Transformers Score release...

In about a week the Transformers score will finally be released. This has been a real slow year for good movie scores. Usaully by this time I have at least five or six from the current year. So far this year, its a big fat zero. Maybe I have heard it all, and am tired of what is released, maybe too many movies skip the background music for artistic comps, maybe composers use too much of their same stuff over and over again and it sounds the same, maybe John Williams has been on too long of a vacation, maybe A list composers are being dropped for cheap do what I tell you composers that the directors and editiors can walk all over, maybe its just a dry spell.

I saw Transformers three times in the theatre, and its score sounded fairly decent. It will be interesting to hear if it translates by itself or not. I have heard lots of talk of how great the Autobots coming to Earth theme was, however I thought it sounded kind of bland. Same with Primes theme, needed more punch. I mainly like the repetitive sound of the Decepticon's are coming theme with the low chanting chorus. Most likely as always the stuff I like will be about one to two minutes in length while tracks of horribleness like "Sam at the lake" will be fifteen minutes long (and that I remembered was awful awful music.

Anyhow, here are my top ten favorite soundtracks of all time...

1. Tomorrow Never Dies (David Arnold) Most listened to score ever.
2. Batman (Danny Elfman) Best Super Hero score ever.
3. The Rocketeer (James Horner) Where Horner steals his Titanic Music from himself.
4. The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams) Battle of Hoth, too cool.
5. Indiana Jones Last Crusade (John WIlliams) Belly of the Steel Beast...Wow!
6. Jurassic Park: the Lost World (John Williams) All about the Bongos.
7. Gladiator (Hans Zimmer)Loud, Harsh, Mars-ish, Fantastic.
8. Chicken Run (Powel and Gregson Williams) Chickens and Kazoos, oh yeah!
9. Cutthroat Island (John Debney) Ye-Arrg Matey Swashbuckle this!
10. Goldzilla (David Arnold) Sooo much action music my ears!

Sinestro Visits the Green Lanterns

First off, addressing the rumors that I have Soo many toys that I seem to have misplaced my entire Justice League is just that, Rumors!


I keep finding cool toys in unexpected places. Like today, the plan was to go to Toys R Us after some clothes shopping at the mall. Instead we found Sinestro, Kyle Raynor, and Vixen all sitting on a rack full of Justice League toys at Mervins. What the heck? Mervins, a mall store, had a better toy selection then Toys R Us, Target (which owns Mervins I think?) and Walmart. What is the world coming to? As soon as I introduced Sinestro into the collection the Lanterns attacked. They really don't like him.


I don't like him either. I wish they had gone with the Bulbous head approach which was more familiar to the Super Friends days. Oh well.

Now back to Benji in the Wild on TV tonight! There's a five star adventure!