Onslaught Six wrote:Finally got my TFCC Speedbreaker/Sideburn/whatever in. He's nifty! Also, the best repaints teach you things about toys you already owned. Did you know Hot Rod's leg wheels can pull out?! I didn't, and I've owned that toy since release. Anyway, just as I suspected, he looks way better when you remove the Hot Rod spoilerwings (and I'm going to remove the center part tonight with a screwdriver) given that Speedbreaker didn't have a spoiler of any kind, and certainly not a big white one. It helps to differentiate them!
I'm gonna try that tonight when I get home, but I do actually like the white spoiler, but I think it would have looked better in a nice silver chrome. Also, you didn't know that about the wheels? How did you get the front leg panels down all the way without moving the wheels?
EDIT: Crap, forgot to mention haul: Picked up Robot Chicken Star Wars III and Beast Wars Season 1 from Shout Factory! Yeah, I have the Rhino ones, but this one is the same series and takes up half the space. So I'm probably gonna sell my Rhino one here soon.
Onslaught Six wrote:Finally got my TFCC Speedbreaker/Sideburn/whatever in. He's nifty! Also, the best repaints teach you things about toys you already owned. Did you know Hot Rod's leg wheels can pull out?! I didn't, and I've owned that toy since release. Anyway, just as I suspected, he looks way better when you remove the Hot Rod spoilerwings (and I'm going to remove the center part tonight with a screwdriver) given that Speedbreaker didn't have a spoiler of any kind, and certainly not a big white one. It helps to differentiate them!
I'm gonna try that tonight when I get home, but I do actually like the white spoiler, but I think it would have looked better in a nice silver chrome. Also, you didn't know that about the wheels? How did you get the front leg panels down all the way without moving the wheels?
I didn't, I guess. I just assumed they didn't go down the whole way. They always looked fine to me.
I think part of the whole reason I dislike the spoiler on him is that I discovered it could be removed on the original, and then noticed how the car could totally be Speedbreaker.
BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.
In that case, I could reasonably see having three of these in my collection, the Henkei on for Hot Rod, the US one for the Rodimus FP Protector armor, and another US Hot Rod without the spoiler to serve as "Powered up Side Burn".
Venture Bros Season 3. Keeps getting better. Now that I've finally got the DVDs of everything I saw on TV, I can at long last move onto the elusive Season 4, which never even aired here. PIP PIP
Also a t-shirt with the Mitchell Brothers from EastEnders on it from my girlfriend's sister. Hilarious. For those of you who don't know who the Mitchell Brothers are, well... to continue a theme, they're the Brock Samsons of British soap opera.
Gomess wrote:Venture Bros Season 3. Keeps getting better. Now that I've finally got the DVDs of everything I saw on TV, I can at long last move onto the elusive Season 4, which never even aired here. PIP PIP
Suck!
Also, I need to get caught up. I never properly finished S2...
BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.
Gomess wrote:Venture Bros Season 3. Keeps getting better. Now that I've finally got the DVDs of everything I saw on TV, I can at long last move onto the elusive Season 4, which never even aired here. PIP PIP
Also a t-shirt with the Mitchell Brothers from EastEnders on it from my girlfriend's sister. Hilarious. For those of you who don't know who the Mitchell Brothers are, well... to continue a theme, they're the Brock Samsons of British soap opera.
It's been a looooooong time since I've seen Eastenders! Loved that show when I was there.
Gomess wrote:Venture Bros Season 3. Keeps getting better. Now that I've finally got the DVDs of everything I saw on TV, I can at long last move onto the elusive Season 4, which never even aired here. PIP PIP
Also a t-shirt with the Mitchell Brothers from EastEnders on it from my girlfriend's sister. Hilarious. For those of you who don't know who the Mitchell Brothers are, well... to continue a theme, they're the Brock Samsons of British soap opera.
It's been a looooooong time since I've seen Eastenders! Loved that show when I was there.
Heh I don't watch soaps at all, but I enjoy the idea of them. So ridiculous to have such a massively open-ended narrative. And some of the characters are just funny. Case in point, the Mitchells.
Picked up "Wolf", an account og German submarine warfare in WWI. A book on terrorism and sociology (forgetting the name) and Grant Morrison's "Super Gods".
Gomess wrote:Venture Bros Season 3. Keeps getting better. Now that I've finally got the DVDs of everything I saw on TV, I can at long last move onto the elusive Season 4, which never even aired here. PIP PIP
Season 4 came out here in two parts. I own the series up to the end of the first part, but I watched the second part when it aired, and I felt it dropped noticeably in quality.
