Personal rant: 8 Things That Are Bad

Like all people, there are certain things and types of people that tend to get me a little irrate.  I am sure each and every reader has some as well (heck, I may appear on some people’s lists even!).  So this particular blog entry is a brief examanition and list of eight things, it is not [...]

Optimus Prime vs. Jesus Christ

Time for a bit of more light-hearted fun.  This time comparing the acts, history and philosophy of Autobot leader Optimus Prime against those of religious icon Jesus Christ.  Each character will be marked in a series of categories, with recorded feats being submitted as evidence.  Some may be offended at the comparison … but, really, [...]

Fantastic video: Transformers Universe

I grew up in the 80’s, the decade of … well, some really embarrassing things.  But one of the great things about the 80’s was, of course, The Transformers.  In 1986 or so, the Transformers Movie came out and included a fantastic fight scene between Optimus Prime and Megatron.  It seems to have been improved [...]

Ultra Magnus: Under-rated Leader

In 1986 a film known as Transformers: The Movie was released world wide. Part of the plot involved the then current Autobot leader, Optimus Prime, dying in combat and passing his job onto another Autobot; Ultra Magnus. Ultra Magnus’ performance as Autobot leader is often mocked and labelled as ineffective and full of mistakes… [...]

Five toughest beings ever.

Well, ‘ever’ is a damn long time so we’ll clarify that by saying The Five Toughest Modern Era Beings. Which persons from the last century or so have the biggest aura of coolness and ass-kicking? Which men (or women) would you want watching your back or simply meet? Let’s count down the [...]

Transformers video

Over on Arune Singh’s blog, he’s posted a youtube video spoof he found of The Return of Optimus Prime. Oh, it’s well worth a look.
I swear if Optimus were real, he’d be made global president within a week.

Optimus Prime lives.

I grew up with the Transformers. I mean the proper Transformers, the ones that turned into big trucks, police cars, dinosaurs - whose action fictions were made of metal and didn’t look like cheap Tonka toys.  Therefore, I’ve been pleased to follow the progress of the upcoming Transformers live action movie.  Of course, who was [...]