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Cat Chant
16:59 / 07.05.02
Did anyone read the list of stuff banned from aeroplanes in/travelling to the US in the Guardian today? It included "toy Transformer robots". What is this all about? I think we should be told.

Ideally by someone who knows the answer because it was revealed to hir in a dream.
 
 
Trijhaos
17:02 / 07.05.02
Woo-hoo!! I know the answer to this.

Ok, remember the days of yore, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and cartoons were cool.

Think back. Remember what Megatron was? Bingo! He transformed into a gun! Now, while the american version did not do this, the version released in Japan and the reissue version from I believe last year, can shoot little pellets. See the problem yet? It looks like a gun, it shoots projecticles, which means it can be used as a weapon.

Oh, and this was all revealed to me in a dream. Optimus Prime came to me and said I was the "Chosen One" meant to reveal the truth. I am the transformers messiah!
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
17:15 / 07.05.02
OK...the danger here is not so much the Transformers themselves, but the possibility that Transformers from the future might attempt to travel to our time. Now, as anyone who has read Target:2006 knows, this results in the transposition of modern-day Transformers into a dimensional limbo. Unfortunately, this transposition is accompanied by an explosion, and an electromagnetic pulse, the combination of which would almost certainly lead to the destruction of any plane the unfortunate transportee was in.

So, unless the futuristic madness of Galvatron is reined in, I fear transforming toys are a no-no for the foreseeable.
 
 
Molly Shortcake
18:03 / 07.05.02
WELLLLL.....

The plane itself is a giant Transformer and they gotta keep it on tha down low.

OBVIOUSLY.
 
 
Saint Keggers
19:16 / 07.05.02
I think its because the Decepticons often aligned themselves with COBRA which, as we all know, is a ruthless terrorist organization bent on ruling the world. Therefore transformers=posibility of terrorist on airplanes.
 
 
Saint Keggers
19:19 / 07.05.02
I think the real question is Why toy transformer robots? Does that mean only the toys are banned but they believe actual transformers should be allowed on aircrafts? They believe there are actual tranforming robots???
These people are responsible for your aircraft safety and they believe there are actual Robots from the planet Cybertron who can transform and want your energeon(sp?) cubes.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
19:28 / 07.05.02
Bush's government is clearly operating a foolish zero tolerance policy when it comes to Cybertronians - not realising that some of them are heroic Autobots and all that, seeing 'em all as evil marauders - much like Josie Beller. Tsk, tsk.
 
 
Seth
19:48 / 07.05.02
Optimus Prime came to me and said I was the "Chosen One" meant to reveal the truth. I am the transformers messiah!

Of course, the theological flaw in this statement is that Prime Himself was the Messiah (with the Trailer as God the Father and that Little Buggy Thing as the Holy Spirit). As He Himself is the Godhead He would not site good ol' Trijhaos as being the Saviour. Jesus Wept: the reference wasn't even that thinly veiled. Just look at what His name actually means. He even died and rose again.

The Creation Matrix = Shekinoh.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
19:53 / 07.05.02
Little Buggy Thing

Roller. Or, as he was known after Prime's canonisation, Holy Roller.
 
 
_pin
19:54 / 07.05.02
I think it's just that Bush's daddy (or, as we were all saying 18 months ago, Bush) wouldn't let lil' Dubbya have the big Optimus Prime / Yorkie-munching mysogonistic truck fucker toy, and now he doesn't want anyone to.
 
 
Trijhaos
20:05 / 07.05.02
Of course, the theological flaw in this statement is that Prime Himself was the Messiah (with the Trailer as God the Father and that Little Buggy Thing as the Holy Spirit).

The problem I see with this is that there are many versions of Prime. So the whole rising from the dead thing kind of loses any significane that it would have held.

I mean there's Optimus Primal, Big Convoy, Lio Convoy, God Fire Convoy, God Ginrai, and many others.

Of course, even if we are speaking of the original Prime, there is still the problem of Prime rising from the dead more than once. Yes, Prime did rise from the dead in one of the G2 episodes, but he died once again. The original Prime also became a Powermaster. The original prime's resurrection count I believe is around 3 or 4.
 
 
Molly Shortcake
20:17 / 07.05.02
*off topic*

Can any magik types tell us what godhead / archatype Optimus Prime embodies?
 
 
Trijhaos
20:21 / 07.05.02
I suppose you could say Optimus Prime falls into the Fallen Christ archetype. He could also fall into the perfect leader archetype. Optimus Prime is a fairly hard character to categorize.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
07:58 / 08.05.02
As any fule kno, Optimus Primal was not Optimus Prime, but one of his distant descendants (in a nice nod to Virgil and the Book of Genesis, Transformers of the future are much smaller) who subsequently served as a resting-place for OP's "spark".

Flyboy: I think it's short-sighted to blame Bush. With the brilliant strategy of turning up, blowing things up and then saying, very loudly, "Our leader, Optimus Prime, will be delighted at the devastation we have caused. Yes. Optimus Prime," they did set up a cunning web of illusion and deception.
 
 
Margin Walker
05:40 / 11.06.02
Transformers walk amongst us... Want proof? I got your Quicktime proof right here, pally boy.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:24 / 11.06.02
That's quite possibly the coolest thing EVER.
 
 
gridley
12:47 / 11.06.02
wow, I don't want to come off as weird or anything, but watching that quicktime movie made me feel all tingly in my boy parts....
 
 
Trijhaos
12:59 / 11.06.02
Oooooh...it's so pretty.

I want one.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
13:42 / 11.06.02
{fatbeard} Huh, looked like an albino Bumblebee turning into Jazz {/fatbeard}

Nah, that rocked like Blaster.
 
 
Trijhaos
13:49 / 11.06.02
Actually, from what I can tell, the head looks a bit more like Grimlock's head. The blue visor is like Jazz's, yes, but below Jazz's visor he has a normal human type mouth, that robot obviously did not. It'd be easier to tell if the movie was a bit clearer though.
 
  
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