Avatar: The Last Airbender
Wolverine and the X-men
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Great cast guys!
Sean: Thank you for finally explaining to me why I love this movie so much, even as an adult! The whole theme of leadership, while important but not shoved down your throat does it for me.
Also, its cool that your Mom felt that way about the Transformers show. My Mom always said it looked like a half hour comercial for the toys. :rolleyes:
Audra: I have seen Transformers several times, and not once did I think something dirty when they said “The Planet of Junk”.
Don’t know if anyone else here would have been the right age to have watched “Generation 2” of the Transformers cartoon. It was basically a repackaging of the original show, with some really cool (but early) CGI bumpers.
Funny you should mention the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie as a bad one that’s fun to watch. It was on HBO on Monday morning while I was exercising. It’s one cheesy movie that is quite watchable. To be honest though, I had it muted while listening to the radio. Paul Ruebens is great and it is certainly the best of the Luke Perry vehicles.
Um, and I find Kristy Swanson makes a great Buffy… 
Ugh! I HATED the G2 cartoon. Transformers ended in 89 and G2 showed up in 91 or 92, so I would have been just coming out of childhood. I was absolutely thrilled to see Transformers back on their air and irritated as all get out that every 45 seconds they interrupted the animation with those transitions. I think as scene transitions they would have been cool, but they happened ALL THE TIME!
I was a little angry at G2 as well for the toys. The G2 toys showed up and they were neon colors, and all plastic. I think the greatest tragedy of the generation was when Megatron became a lime-green-and-purple tank. My original Megatron was stolen out of my garage by some jerk… I need me a masterpiece edition Megatron.
I cannot find the Transformers 86 movie anywhere. I will not settle for YouTube. Nor will I give up.
Speaking of junk report, here’s a T-shirt idea. I also posted in the T-shirt/merch contest page.
Idea totally stolen from Dr. Horrible merchandise*.
On the back, between the shoulders, a nicely-fonted “Audra’s Junk Report at GWC,” something like that.
Then on the front, an image like the following.
And beneath it, “This is not the junk.”
- a shirt with the Captain Hammer hammer, with the line “This is not the hammer.”
How could I forget Avatar and Teen Titans?
I can not remember if in the cast Sean said that a complete box set of the G1 in coming out soon. I just saw that Best Buy is selling season 1 full frame. Is this a good deal or should i wait?
I would like to thanks Audra For the excellent Meat Report and for my homie Sean, I found you the commercial.
You could have knocked me over with a feather when I saw it was Paris Hilton. 
I think the burger weighs more than she does.
What she needed to do is stop dragging her heels all over that Bentley. Dear god that cars expensive. Also… the burger make me hungry.
Oh, and that 30 sec intro to G2 was the show that we have always wanted but never got… I think one of the Unicron trilogy (Armada, Energon, Cybertron) was all CG, but had really awful lip sync because it was not a US show.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/GrandUnifyingGuesses?from=Main.GrandUnifyingGuesses
Millions of years after the events of Battlestar Galactica, the machines that rose up in Terminator and made mankind extinct have begun to deteriorate, and seeking to fix the problem, Skynet unlocked the secret to creating The Cube, which had unexpected side effects when actually pulled off. What The Cube eventually turned Skynet and its robot soldiers into would become known as the Transformers - Megatron is an eventual side effect of Skynet’s resistance to this transformation. The Earth the Transformers travel to is simply the next one down the line. After all, this has all happened before and will all happen again - if Megatron has anything to say about it.
===========================
50,000 years and change ago, not long before their extinction, Prothean scientists took a few small groups of Homo sapiens from Earth to twelve outlying Prothean colonies, to study their evolution. Unfortunately, said scientists were abruptly drafted and called away when the Reapers attacked, leaving human society to develop on its own, much as it did on Earth. Hence, you have the 12 colonies. The Lords of Kobol are the Protheans, or at least the primitive human interpretation of them. Meanwhile, it’s not too ridiculous to assume that, much like the geth, the Cylons encountered Sovereign at some point—hence, the monotheistic Cylon religion. As for why the Colonies haven’t run into the asari, turians, or even the Alliance…well, perhaps the mass relays for the Colonies were destroyed somehow, and they’ve had to rely on standard FTL to get everywhere. Boy, the Colonial fleet is in for a surprise when they finally get to Earth…
The Colonial Fleet has encountered the other races, but by the time they did, they’d become so adapted to the sterilized atmospheres of their ships that they couldn’t survive in a normal atmosphere without spacesuits. The Alliance would never believe the Quarians were human. It also follows logically that the Geth are just more advanced models of Cylon.
Wow, Guys, this arc has brought back memories!
I worked at KB Toy and Hobby at Parkway Plaza, San Diego, the holiday season of 1984. It was my first experience with Parental Frenzy Syndrome. It was terrifying to witness, but taught me a valuable lesson I carried into my own parental experience. If you can get it sanely, do so. Do not claw, scratch, and bite at hapless, minimum wage employees, or ruin the holiday spirit of shopping by maiming fellow shoppers! lol!
I remember ‘breaking’ massively heavy boxes of Transformer toys an price-gunning them the moment they hit the stockroom, fresh off the truck. Then, assembly line fashion, mix-stacking them in heft-able towers to take to the floor. We could hear the clamor outside the door to the floor! Deep breath, grab a stack and head out the door to set them on the floor and let the parents go at it! Mix-stacking was supposed to keep just one person from being mobbed. mostly. All I know, is, my hands were empty before they could complete their journey to the floor! <shudders>
We learned our lesson, there. With the Cabbage Patch dolls, our manager had us keep a request list under the counter. We’d tell parents we were out of stock (and we often were), but they could put their names on the list with a phone number and we would call in the order of the list when a new shipment would come in. If you were nice, you got called sooner. Nasty- well, DUH! Oh, and hot moms were handled personally by management and shown to the stockroom so they could pick the doll they wanted! lol!
That list saved a lot of stress, and encouraged parents to be nicer and much more sane!
According to hints given in ROTF, the time period for the birth of the Transformer race is well under 100,000 years ago. Who’s to say they’re not descendants of the Cylon Centurions? Maybe the Allspark created life on Cybertron, but their arrival to the planet could have given them the evolutionary leap they needed.
Works for me.
Hey, wait a sec!! Is that the flag of Switzerland I see on Galvatron’s belt buckle?
Well, that explains a lot. Fraking Swiss, I knew we couldn’t trust 'em.
So I lost my Transformers virginity last night. Watched this movie for the first time, and it’s also the first Transformers I’ve ever seen.
I was pleasantly surprised how the movie kept me engaged right through.
And, thanks, to Sean’s Primer I knew who all the characters were (mostly), and that sure helped.
Okay Folks,
I’ve been rolling this around in my head for a couple of days, and I think I’m willing to risk it:
If you can’t find a copy of the 86 movie anywhere and you’d like to watch it, I’m willing to lend it to you. Here are the caveats:
- You have to pay postage, to you, and back to me.
- You have to have at least 100 posts here (I think if you’ve posted that much, you’re attached to the group and you probably value your reputation among friends more than a $20 DVD)
- Continental US and Canada only (for the moment… I don’t think you’d be able to watch it anywhere else anyway).
- You can’t keep it (duh)
Anyway, if you’d like to borrow it, send me a PM, and we’ll work something out.
Flapjack
Spectacular Spiderman
Clone Wars has very impressive computer animation.
Batman Brave and the Bold is just a whole lot of fun.
Avatar will be looked back on as a classic story. Watch all of it ,preferably in order.
Also FUTURAMA is Coming BACK!
I worked in a daycare for about 5 years, and a few I liked were:
Danny Phantom
Fairly Oddparents (especially the episode where you find out Vicky is so icky because she has a bug up her bum snort)
Rugrats/All Grown Up
My Life as a Teenage Robot
Ones I HATED:
Jojo’s Circus
Max and Ruby
Spongebob Squarepants
I LOVED the Rugrats - my friend and I watched them when I was in college (he was college age). I have watched Fairly Odd Parents on occasion
We had a routine:
Northern Exposure
Rugrats
something else (I can’t remember) and then
Jeopardy
Not a fan of Spongebob either. Are you sure we weren’t separated at birth or something? 
I was also a Gargoyles fan
AHHHHH! Gargoyles!!! Now THERE was a show. I loved Gargoyles. Broadway and Bronx were my favs. I think most of the TNG crew was on the show at one time or another.
Puck was also awesome… “I out vougled Vougle.”