lovely Ditka pics @Maz, but is it just me or does he have a disproportionately teeny nosecone/cockpit area? - tank mode is all kinds of yummy, but everything else seems... I dunno, off? if/when Takara get round to MP triple changers, I fully expect Blitzwing to be the first they tackle (repaint options), so it'll be interesting to see how they tackle the obvious issues that every 3p offering has had thus far...

 

Hahaha, I watch him precisely because he is a twat!.

But like @Vanessa said (was it Vanessa? Vanessa where are youuuuu?) she met him during work but outside of filming and he was a perfectly amiable man. The twat is his onscreen persona it seems. Him punching a producer on Top Gear was basically down to his wife wanting to divorce him at the time IIRC. (In that episode of The Grand Tour where they blow up his house? It wouldn't surprise me if that really was his house and he blew it up because of the divorce). So if my personal life was falling apart and suddenly some guy whose job it is to feed me after a hard days work basically fucked up I'd probably punch him too.

Not that I'm excusing that kind of behaviour, but y'know. I am also a twat.

 

I am in a very boring meeting, please enjoy my deskbot fire boys.

 

Anybody else really tickled that, despite having 5 other modes that are all probably faster, the TR "Speed" set has slapped Quickswitch's Tank Mode all over it instead of any of 'em?  



Actually, I just had a thought because my eye keeps getting drawn to the blue cockpit, you don't suppose they're going to rebrand it as his "Hovercraft" mode do you?
That'd be almost as funny as Sixshot's "submarine" mode!  

 

I thought you were a prick? Make your mind up will you...

 

Sometimes.. sometimes you've just gotta bask in the lunacy of toy.



And of course they combine. What the fuck is this even supposed to be? Glorious! That is what.

 

Some Grapple!



All the best
Maz

 

Orange Grapple on an orange background? AND it WORKS!?!



I'm calling it now, it's Witchcraft!
Maz is a Witch...er, sorry, I mean a Warlock. Maz is a Warlock!

 

Lovely pics @Maz. Enjoying the orange. The blue works better with Grapple though I think.

Obligatory Titanika photo of the day.

 

Hey folk anyone shipped a couple of figures to the States for someone, any idea of rough costs?

 

Lots.

I'm being serious, a lot of US buyers baulk at UK>US prices and occaisionally believe we are somehow ripping them off for postage because it cost so much more for us to send to them than it is for them to ship domestically or even to us.

@Seeaich, I think it's more hilarious that Hasbro are trying to sell it as '5' figures in the boxset. I can see four figures Quickswitch, G2 Optimus Prime, Nautica and Fastclash (because 'fast' and 'lane' obviously promotes dangerous driving... I wonder what Micromasters Tailspin and Road Hugger will be renamed to...) but I can't for the life of me see Rodimus Prime. He must be really small or something.

@Maz, orange on orange? That really shouldn't work, and yet it does.

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Well, I can be both. It kinda depends on the time of the month...

 

Cheers Vince

 

Warlockdown  

 

Hey all, need a little inspiration for a pet project. Would anyone care to share their favourite sci-fi quotes, slogans or taglines from movies, books or series?

Thanks in advance!

All the best
Maz

 

I think the Royal Mail website would be a good one to look at.

Price Finder | Post Office

They can work out prices for parcel sizes/weight for domestic and automatically switch to Parcelforce for international shipping. It's probably the easiest way to work out how much shipping will be.

The Royal Mail site might also be good to look at.

Send a Parcel - UK and Overseas | Royal Mail Group Ltd

'Billy! Find me a way out of this hole!'
'If it bleeds, we can kill it.'
'Get to da choppa!'

Pretty much any line from Predator. Or Aliens tagline,

'In space nobody can hear you scream'.

Plus y'know. Virtually every line from that too.

'Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen! I found 'em!'
'What the hell are we supposed to use man, harsh language?'

Wait! 'In Space, nobody can hear you scream is Alien, not Aliens. Fail Kobayashi, FAIL.

 

@Maz

"One shall stand, one shall fall" (!)

"I've got a bad feeling about this.."

 

ref international postage ( or even bigger parcels - RM won't take some larger items) - best I found is Parcel2go - pretty much a compare the meerkat thing for postage - very handy when I was shifting tonnes of lego last summer - they also get preferential rates for some carriers...

 

'You once spent an afternoon on the Samaritans switchboard and four people committed suicide. Your middle name is Judas but you tell everyone that it's Jonathan. You sign all your official letters 'Arnold Rimmer BSc' and the BSc stands for 'Bronze Swimming Certificate'. You're a cheating, weasley, lowlife scumbucket with all the charm and social grace of a pubic louse.'

 

Any line from Mal in Firefly/Serenity.
"I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle" "You forgot to say please"
"Leeloo multipass"

 

"Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast"

"Oh boy!" every episode of Quantum Leap