Robot toy geek alert: holy crap this Takara resculpt of Transformer Starscream showed up in the mail yesterday as a Christmas present from my lifelong pal Nick and wow. 2 years ago we got the amazing Optimus Prime. This one is just as amazing; though it doesn't have any diecast. I'm blogging it because I didn't know this thing existed - this is strictly a Japanese import for now.



Speaking of which, I somehow on a late sleepless night found myself reading the script to Michael Bay's Transformers movie. It sucks ass. Product placement is written into the thing left right and center. Bumblebee talks by playing relevant top 40 pop songs out of his stereo. I'm sure there's going to be some great giant robot visuals but the look they've opted for is this really ugly overly busy organic aesthetic for all the robots. It isn't what you grew up with. And the script, really, truly is godawful. Despite protestions by its producer, everything I saw in the trailer is in the script. It just isn't fun or reminscient enough.