Hammock Saturdays

I Hate the Joker and here is 101 reasons why

I hate the Joker. Mainly because he is way over used as a Batman villain. Again with the Joker and his 'Ha-Ha!' and his gas, and his silly schemes. I wish Batman would just bat up and kill him right off the bat. I only had to purchase this one just for the stupid fact that when I eventually get more 3 3/4" villains, I will have to have him in the line up, but he's standing in the back row I tells ya. So you think I am being to harsh? Let me show you some other reasons why I hate him...

#54- He ties my shoes together all the time! I hate it when I fall down.


#17- He interrupts the freezing process of my precious summer popsicles!


#82- He screws with my over the air digital transmissions, Pixelating reruns of Batman!


#5- He scalds me when I am washing my hands.


I warn you to stay away from this toy!

RotF Skids Transformation

Awe Skids. I got him transformed to robot fairly easy. Robot back to car not so good. It took one episode of Seinfeld (the belt-less trench coat episode) and 20 minutes of the New 90210 to get him back. Paneling nightmare mainly his roof, along with getting his knees bent right were what killed me. Now that I have figured him out, I think I can do it in ten, and then maybe down to five. The problem is, he will soon end up on a shelf, or storage bin, or Devastators stomach, and when I find him in five years, I won't remember a darn thing on how he works. Check out his guts! Good grief thats a lot of pivots.


Looks like Rampage wants more camera time.


Uh-oh.


Skids gots some guts.


Me likes the punching fist effect. Nice to have something different than the boring missile shot.

RotF Rampage Transformation

I got the courage to transform Rampage today, here is how it unfolded...


I wish Hasbro's instructions were by photo instead of line drawing. Step one okay, flip the cab around, pull out the shovel sides. Kind of sticky.


Okay, loosen up the treads. Pretty easy, scared to try and rewind that step. Also worried about that tread plastic, I bet it will start melting in ten years or so. Or at least get really sticky.


Rampage doing Yoga.


I had a tough time with this step. Mainly because the shovel kept snapping off at a hinge. When it snapped off the first time and fell to the floor, it took me a while to remember which direction it reattached. Then I missed the step where you where supposed to fold the shovel into itself.


So far this is way easier than thought, but I know getting it back to Vehicle will be trickier.


Rampage's front legs are really stuck together with a robust peg! I had to really yank, wedge, and scream (that didn't sound right). And there is no way I am getting him into Jackhammer mode. (I don't see how it works without breaking some pegs)


Holy Crap! I did it!


By far he is the best looking Deluxe class out of wave one. I really dig the four legged action. Overall pretty solid too. His back legs like to unpeg from the back, and slide back, but I can live with that.

Now to get the courage to Transform him back.

RotF Rampage and Skids Transformers

No wonder GM failed, their 'small fuel efficient' car is the size of a bulldozer! Or wait, maybe Caterpillar failed, their bulldozer is the size of a small fuel efficient car. All jokes aside America is still an F-150 nation, and human caused global warming is a made up issue by political statists that want to run ever little detail of our lives (geez Dan, lay of the Talk radio while on part time), but its true. We all know what Transformer I will be looking for next.

I don't even want to begin to learn to transform these too. It looks next to impossible just holding them. I hear Skids is a nightmare of panel flapping. Rampage's treads scare me more than the Thundertanks. Maybe in a few months I can show off their robot forms. I like how Hasbro is continuing to make action figures of these robots too, admitting that yes, they are a pain in the ass to transform. Oh-well, there are still way more fun to play with than electrical sockets.

Ransack Attack!

When new Transformers movie toys are discussed often the comment is; "I will pass on most of the movie line, as it is not my favorite Transformer style, but that Biplane I will definitely pick up." He is finally now showing up at stores and doing well on the toy blog circuit. I hope he sells well, and maybe more Industrial Revolution Transformers will show up some day. We had perfect cloud weather this week in Boise, so I took advantage and shot Ransack outside where he belongs. I just hope he comes back, once I cut his string he didn't look back.












I wondered why that last photo didn't focus right! Watch out Ransack!!!

Fantastic Four Mega Bloks

What Bart really wanted me to do was take out my Fantastic Four Mega Bloks when he was in the closet the other day. Not a bad set for Mega Bloks. The figures are a little strange, but they come complete. The tin container really sales the whole set. I won't be mixing these up with anything.


Lots of fun things to do at the Lab, like trying to confine Dr. Doom.


Smashing through brick walls with the Thing.


Then doing concussion testing on the Thing.


yeah, this set is a keeper for rainy days.