When Austin St. John, Thuy Trang, and Walter Jones left Power Rangers, the cover-up editing to try to make them appear as if they were still on the show the last few episodes is just hilarious.

The guy trying to impersonate Austin's voice is so horribly bad, and the woman doing Thuy's voice is way too high pitched.

I have two cases coming. Experience tells me that that will not provide two complete CUR sets -- it's still likely to be short a couple to a few Rares and maybe even an Uncommon. Also, I hold onto all extras of generics. So... I wouldn't be the place to go for a CUR set.

On the other hand, I'm trying to finally take a longer road view with respect to some of these sets, and so held my order for Superman to a single case - my interest in both the main theme and almost all of the sub-themes is low, but experience has shown me that if I'm going to buy into a set at all a case is the best, low-end option.* Anyway, luck of the draw being what it is I may very well find myself in September looking for a few Superman pieces, depending on my pulls, and probably still having some Cap extras around.


* Not only does that minimize my unit price, but I'm anticipating there being SR and above items in the set I won't want, so I'll be able to sell those off to recoup some of my outlay.

Were those the bullys?

Actually looking it up those were the Red, Black, and the Yellow Ranger

Holy. Living. Crow.

I have said and posted exactly this:

You gotta watch More than Meets the Eye, and skip everything else to watch Transformers: The Movie (86).

And I've done it more times than I can count.

Who would have thought you and I were so sympatico.

All you need to do is start ripping into Peter Jackson and we can start our own Clone Army!

You haven't listened to enough BNL or you have no soul.

I disagree about skipping the original series. There's a lot of it that's really bad. Actually there's a lot of More Than Meets The Eye that's pretty bad. I have always considered the movie to like Crisis in the T-forms universe. It seems to retro-fix all the stuff that came prior without thowing ALL of it out the window.

Agreed wholeheartedly on the Post-Unicron episodes. I couldn't have said it better.

If I remember correctly, . . .

*rubs white beard with hand*

the rule of three was basically a direct reaction to the Power-Prostitute teams.

So, I'm pretty darn sure that the Con Artist was around and usable before the rule of three.

Heheh. Well, yeah, I knew THAT.

I just couldn't remember how long it was -- well, well after Xplosion, IIRC -- that the Rule of Three was brought in.

The big and easy ones -- Flyers can's carry flyers and No Action After Taxi -- are solidly locked in as things done for the Indy starter and that set. Things like the Rule of Three, though, I can't remember which starter's set of rules brought that one in.

Well, I asked, so someone will likely step forward with which rulebook brought this in soon enough.

Yeah. I'm not recommending skipping them per se.

I am saying, however, that if you watch MTMTE (the pilot), skip all other episodes and go straight to the movie, it seems almost like a complete story.

You can go back and watch everything in between after.

Rule of Three came in with Universe, so it was a year after Indy. It makes sense, since Universe reprinted part of Xplosion, including the Con Artists, so it was an appropriate time to apply something to minimize the pit crew effect a little.

Anyway, when it comes to Transformers I'll keep the recommendations in mind if I ever decide to look into it.

Watching a pilot and then the '86 movie seems like a modest and reasonable investment even if just to make an attempt to connect with something that quite a few people I know have old connections to.

Thanks.

Miraclo, I think you're right on that link.
Gunna have to save it as, an put it in an album.

Does the Thor Fast Forces set come out this week?