current selection | stan bush – the touch
feelin’ | nipply
we’re taking today to pay homage to one of the great 80’s icons, the transformers. we’re talking generation one here…not the new shit with monkeys turning into robots or robots who stick smaller robots up their ass so guns pop out of their elbows. everyone who was anyone had transformers. and the culmination of this 80’s culture was the cinematic apogee…transformers: the movie. this was before the popularization of anime in the states, so people were probably thinking…dude, kids stuff. theyre of course wrong. the movie starts with dozens of robots getting their asses capped left and right, main characters getting their heads and stomachs blown off, and theres the infamous moment when spike (realizing he’s about to get eaten by a planet-sized robot) goes, “oh shit!” gosh…memories.
the movie (surprisingly) had a pretty spankin’ cast of actors, which included judd nelson, leonard nimoy, robert stack, john (micro-machines dude) moschitta jr, scatman, casey kasem, and eric idle…not to mention the venerable orson welles as the voice of the all almighty nut-kicker unicron. orson welles was unicron! the mind boggles. so after unicron went around stomping everybody and eating their planets, everyone wanted a unicron toy. but for years the prospects of a unicron toy didnt look so hot…til now. introducing…the unicron toy! toy…toy…toy…echo… the size of a small toddler and able to kung-fu grip a shitty little pikachu, this thing rocks…even if it is for the aforementioned new series where they use little mini-robots like hallucinogenic shrooms. while not as awe-inspiring as the original prototype i scoped years ago, its still pretty sweet. now…to decide whether i should get it. get out of debt….buy unicron…get out of debt…buy unicron. damnit.
