I don't remember this episode. I was just looking for a pic of Twiki to send to my old lady at work and came up on it. Buck Rogers is on Netflix so I reckon that I'm going to go over there and look for it. It's prolly not as great as the picture suggests. How could it be really.

 It's weird that Gary Coleman is dead. I guess that small folks like him die young and leave a beautiful corpse. That's not to bad, unless you are him in which case you are dead and that's a total bummer. 

Went to the movies yesterday with my old lady. It was fun, we saw that movie with Justin Timberlake. The one about time. We called it The Time Movie when we scored our tickets. Seriously I cannot remember the name of the dumb thing, hold on... In Time. I typed "The Time Movie" into Google and it came up firstly. Not bad Google.

Anyway, it was ok. The premise is that everyone when they turn twenty five is given one year to live but in this world time is the currency so you are free to earn more time by working or whatever to increase the length of your life indefinitely. It doesn't work that way for most people because time is literally the currency. Want a soda? four hours off your life, a sandwich? six hours.It goes quick. 

Most people literally live day to day. It's rough. Anyway, Timberlake plays a dude who after being given a hundred years by a depressed rich fellow bent on suicide decides to bring the system down after spending a few days as a rich chap and being disgusted by the opulence that the other half lives under. 

The division of wealth is supposed to mirror our current 99% situation but it's a little bit worse in Timberlake's world. There the rich are practically immortal while most others croak a little bit after their twenty fifth birthday. 

Amanda Seyfried is also in the joint and she looks super cute with a little dyed red bob haircut. I like Amanda but I think that her eyes are a little too far apart. That's just nit picky though. She's a good looking lady. 

Seyfried plays a rich dude's daughter who kind of Patty Hearst's her way into a life of time robbery after falling for Timberlake's impassioned pleas to fight the power by stealing time from various lending outfits that her father runs. 

The movie is OK. I'd give it a borderline thumbs up. The premise is solid but the execution of the story left me feeling that the tale was a bit thin. I wanted to know like, how is it that people can live forever? and how did the system switch over to this time based economy? Things like that. I still liked it though. If I were you I'd check it out on disc or cable. I don't think that you have to run out to the theater or anything like that. I'd rate it as a good rainy afternoon movie as opposed to a Friday night top flight feature...

Went to TRU looking for the Marvel vs. Capcom Minimates and hit the jackpot and scored up whole four pack set. I'm pretty stoked. I think that I'll open the Iron Man and Arthur pack first and save the other guys for later. Like, open them when I'm bored over the next few days. I do that sometimes, buy Minimates and open them when I need a pick me up or something. It always helps shake off the blues. 

I think right now I have maybe three packs that I'm saving for a rainy day. The MAX Firemen, Some Real Ghostbusters one and a Hawkeye/Vision two pack from S20. 

A long time back a friend of mine asked me who would win a fight between Robocop and The Terminator. I was all like "Terminator stupid. He killed like a whole police station full of cops. It's not like if one of them was a robot that would have made a big difference or anything." 

One area that Terminator has all over Robocop is that he is a killing machine and Robocop's prime directive is to be a policeman, a high powered police but still his programming is for policing. I think that's the main reason that Robocop bites the big one in this battle. Terminator terminates while Robocop protects and serves.

 If this is a one on one battle Terminator tears Robocop a new one no question. It might be different if there are innocent citizens involved though. Robocop might be able to pull out some extra gusto when people's lives at stake. I don't know if the gusto would be enough to put him over a Terminator but it might enable him to do more damage than he would have otherwise but in my head I see him lying down his life to get the innocent to safety before being able to take down a T-800. 

Ok, so in my opinion and this is only my opinion the T-800 takes out Robocop all day everyday. Robocop has got heart though, he'll make a fight of it. Maybe he'll be able to drop The Terminator once or twice before being put away but in a battle between a killing machine and a police robot, I'm going to go with the killing machine everytime..

It's finally here. The big UFC debut on Fox. It seems like I've been hearing about this FOREVER! Like they were in negotiations for this stuff seemingly since the beginning of time. Maybe not that long but at least since Tim Sylvia was champ and that was like 1997 or something.

Anyhow it's finally on. The big fight show that is. Velasquez vs. Dos Santos. Mano y mano, hand to hand in the octagon to determine the world's heavyweight fighting champion. I like this fight a lot. It's sure to deliver some action as both dudes are the not messing around type.

 It comes down to who is going to be able to break the other one's will first. I don't think that Cain is going to have a hard time taking Junior down, I mean it's not going to be easy but he will be able to do it but then the question becomes can Junior get back up and if so how fast and how much energy is he going to burn doing so? 

If somehow Junior can avoid the takedown he has a really good chance to pop Cain right in the grill and one good shot can turn even the mightiest men into mice, know what I'm saying? If Junior can catch a hold of Cain with a powerful punch in the mug all bets are off. It's not like that is going to be an easy task but Cheik Kongo dropped Cain a couple of times and anything Kongo can do I'd have to say Junior Dos Santos can prolly do better right? 

Still though I'm picking Cain in the fight. I think that he is just going to take Junior down again and again till he eventually wears him down. Dos Santos will get up from the first couple but in doing so he is going to lose a lot of calories against a dude who just doesn't wear down. Eventually when he does tire Cain is going to blast him upside the face until the ref stops the fight. My guess is the third or fourth round. It should be fun though. 

Me and the wife hit up The Dig this morning. We didn't get up on anything great. I scored A couple of Croquet balls and a wooden box that I can use in the garage to hold smallish items. Maritza got a big laundry basket for my closet. Nothing great. 

The place was like Storage Wars today. Everyone was talking about flipping this and selling that on ebay. A bunch of dudes went in together on a two hundred dollar garbage can full of Legos.  I overheard them say that it was worth at least a thousand at the flea market. I really doubt that. A thousand dollars worth of Legos? Maybe if there are a bunch of the Lego men in it. Like the Harry Potter ones or the Batman ones. I saw some of them selling for a grip of loot at this toy show in San Jose. 

So we went over there and then picked up some coffees at 7-11 before heading over to this second hand store in Roseland that we like. The owner's name is Dave and he has an assortment of new things like canned goods and office supplies that look like they fell off the back of a truck into one of his associates arms to older stuff like records and comic books. It's a cool store. I've gotten tons of things there over the years like carded action figures and this really sweet Star Trek cereal bowl breakfast set with a little mug. 

While looking around in a bin full of old Sports Illustrated I came up on those three catalogs up there. I like old catalogs. It's neat to see how the games or toys or whatever were presented back in the day. I'll scan some of the pages in over the next few weeks or so. I  kind of just wanted to get something posted today. Keep the momentum going. Anyway, I found those catalogs and maybe 10 Atari 2600 manuals that I'll get some pics of too. I gots like, Real Sports Baseball and Football, Phoenix, Night Driver, Yar's Revenge and a few others. I'm going to put them into comic book bags and hang them on the wall in the garage. I think so anyway. 

Dude, I just read that Daniel San is 50 years old today. Wild. Today is also my birthday which is wild too ( I guess). I wasn't aware that I shared my special day with The Karate Kid. Puff Daddy too but I didn't know about good old Ralph like I did about Puff. See what I did back there? I said old. Cause you know, Ralph is getting up there..good one Lid, good one...

Hey! Do you like the stupid stuff that you find here and also like Facebook? Well how about liking ISR ON Facebook? I mean, if you have a minute I'd really appreciate it. So will you too. I mean, it's not going to make gigantic changes in your life or anything but it can't hurt huh? That is an awesome example of the kind of stuff that I share with the as of right now very meager FB Group. I think it's an actual link too so just click on the blue part that says I See Robots on the top above "yummy" and you are good to go. 

After we hit up the dig on sunday me and the old lady where on our way back home and saw a free box sitting out in front of someone's yard. As I'm sure you can't, I can't resist looking in a free box. Usually they aren't so great, some household wares, spatulas and like scented candles. That sort of thing. This one on sunday was pretty good though. Seriously good. I got up on this bike mirror up there. It's awesome. 

The mirror was manufactured by Toohan. I am not familiar with them at all and couldn't find any data on the web. I didn't look very hard though. Just like a cursory peek around.  If you know more about the Toohan company hit me up. I'd like to know.

I really dig the mirror. It's pretty stylin'. I don't think that it would go to well with my mountain bike but it might look cool on my wife's cruiser. More then likely I'll hold on to it for the next time we have a garage sale or a flea market table. It's a good quality sell-able item. 

Those two Star Trek dolls are two of my fave things. I picked them up at the flea for 5 bucks. I was fully ready to pay a premium but the dude low balled me and I prolly could have talked him down even more but it felt wrong to take something so awesome for a dollar or two. 

They were produced by Knickerbocker back in 1979. They called them plush poseable figures but the best pose that I can get out of them is leaning against my Star Trek Pez box. You know, I never noticed how dirty they were until I saw that picture. I have to do something about that sometime. 

There aren't a lot of them for sale on the net. The ones that I find go from anywhere from 20-80 bucks. I'd take the 20. It's a better deal. 

That's not my pic but I wanted to give you an idea of what they would have looked like in the package.  It's not really that exciting to tell you the truth. It doesn't look like something that I would have bought at the time but I'm totally glad that someone else did. 

If I recall correctly I also got a Miracle Man graphic novel that'd been out of print for days. Miracle Man stuff is pretty decently valued. The comic at the time was written by Alan Moore who is the dude behind The Watchmen. The Miracle Man character is tied up in some kind of legal something or other and they can't produce the books until that all gets figured out. Because it's some of Alan Moore's early work it's pretty desirable...

Hey ya'll, here is something that I haven't done in awhile. Some Official ISR UFC picks..! The card of course got less awesome when GSP took a sick day and opted out of fighting Carlos Condit. That's fine. It's not like I was looking forward to that fight or anything. I am not the biggest GSP fan around. That title goes to my buddy Cory. He rides GSP's sack like no one's business. He also LOVES him some Rashad Evans so you know, his character is a bit in doubt. 

That's a pretty neat Time Machine. I've always been a sucker for things that are part clear and part whole. They call this guy here the "phasing time machine" and it's only available from your local comic shop or some other type of specialty dealer. 

My local shop NEVER gets Minimates or toys of any sort. They mostly specialize in like, Magic cards and things of that sort. I guess that's what it takes to keep the lights on, collectible trading card games.....

I have one Delorean already and I passed on the other hovering one, the one at TRU. I might look for this one though. I dig the phasing. I might not too. I guess it depends how much it's going to set me back on EBAY....

I was poking around the net looking for costume ideas when i was all like "hey, what if I went as a Minimate!" so I Googled it and came across this. I don't know what con this came from or who the designer of the outfits is but dude, that is awesome! Kudos to like the millionth power. I can't give enough props. 

Wonder what they are made out of? Must be cardboard. The paint jobs are rad. Loki's horns are great. 

I am jealous that I don't knowthe person that made these so that I could get the chance to dress up as a Minimate. It's not like that is like something that hardly ever happens. I can't even remember the last time someone asked me to dress up like one. 

Here is a somewhat better pic of the Light Cycle I got yesterday. I'm pretty jazzed. I wanted one of these soooo bad when I was a kid. I thought I could mix it in with my Star Wars dudes and it'd be so rad. 

The back tire is rubber and heavy. That's neat and it makes it roll a ton better then having two plastic wheels would. I have three of the Tron figures. Tron, the red guard guy and Flynn. I think that I am going to put Flynn up in the cycle for uhm, display purposes. 

 I call him Norm Ya know/ He can cut a record from side to side

This past Sunday me and the wife hit up the small flea market at the Vet's building. It was ok. Maybe 40 or so tables. We bumped into our friend Ezra and managed to get rid of this baby carriage he's been storing in our garage since like Neveruary (that's a month that happens every once in awhile. We haven't had one in years though).

Most of the stuff wasn't that great but there was one table toward the end that I really came up on. The vendor was kind of a funky-hippy type lady with pigtails who seemed really anxious. Anxious to dump her stuff at really low prices. I got all of that stuff up there for 4 dollars and the Joker figure accounted for 3 of them.

That's an original Tron Light Speeder. I've wanted one of them FOREVER! I also got two Mcdonald Land pull back cars, a Duke's Of Hazard wind up police cruiser, Two Gi Joes, Crystal Ball and Mutt. A Donkey Kong Junior Game and Watch handheld that Zelly told me is going for like 40 clams on Ebay, A Battletech Toad armored suit and a Mega Man fig that I gave to her.

It was a pretty good day and it goes to show you is that all it takes is one decent table to turn your whole day around...

Ya, that's WWE Chiz-amp John Cena on a horse dressed up like a cowboy. I guess it's for his new flick which I can't remember what it's called or be bothered to look up. It'd be so easy though but I don't want to do it. It would actually be easier then actually typing this.. Oh, I found out by mistake. I looked down and saw the name of the jpeg. It's The Reunion. I guess. I don't know, I'm being prejudiced. Maybe it's good. Maybe it's hella good. Who knows? I don't think it is though.

 I wonder if it took him awhile to learn how to ride or if they were like "we don't have time for this crap. Just get him a slow ass horse"? Do you think that he feels weird being in a duster? Prolly. 

 I love that SHIELD agent and the J Jonah Jamison is straight awesome but seriously who in the heck needs another Spiderman of any sort? Daredevil too. I must have half a zillion of both lying around The ISR Situation Room. 

Ok, let's take a look at what we have, from left to right. The Foolkiller, Spiderman, J Jonah Jamison, A SHIELD Trooper, Jean Dewolff, Aunt May (actually pretty cool) and Daredevil. I suppose that they actually aren't that bad really. Foolkiller looks neat and like I said in the line above this one, Aunt May is pretty cool. 

These guys are supposed to represent the Death Of Jean Dewolff Storyline which I am totally unfamiliar with (sorry, I've just never been a big Spidey reader. It's my fault, I know.) I included a link to Wikipedia's entry on it if you really NEED to know. I'm nice like that.  Look for the mates January of 2012.

I don't know what this is all about but I am a huge Galactus nerd and dude, this looks awesome. I like how big he looks compared to the two people on the edge of the crater. Makes him seem like someone who could eat the planet if he wanted to. 

He's big but not big enough to eat it like Pac Man does a power pellet though. It'd take him awhile to get through the whole thing. Maybe like a worm eating a pumpkin or something.

Knowing that it's going  to be Fantastic Four number 600 I expect that this is like a super big event type deal where the world's destruction is threatened and that the Four somehow defeat Galactus again. He's like the Trix Rabbit in that sense. He can never earn a win. Not that I want him to or anything but it'd be nice to see him get a big bite of the Earth sometime. I'd like to see Galactus with a big old smile across his face. 

As a kid I was always in to Fisher Price Adventure People. I didn't have any but when I saw them in the Sears Christmas catalog or at the store they seemed really neat. What I liked about them was that they were people who did somewhat normal things as opposed to some of the super kooked out things that where happening in Star Wars or whatever.

Fisher Price did have some kooked out space adventures don't get me wrong but they mostly focused on outdoorsy activities and real life professions. Cool professions like race car drivers and news casters but still they had things that you could maybe aspire to be. 

Fisher Price produced the line from 1974 to 1985 and pooped out 35 sets. That's not too bad really. I'd have to call them a success. The sets usually included a vehicle and a couple of people but you could also buy some of the people individually carded. I don't remember seeing them that way but that doesn't mean that I didn't. I was prolly just to caught up looking at GI-Joes or DC Super Powers Figures. 

The pic up there is my meager collection of Adventure People. I also have a few vehicles but they aren't in the best shape and when I went to look for them to take a picture of I found a couple of them in the bathtub. I guess my daughter still digs them and that's a testament to the durability of the line.  

What I liked the most about Warlords is that you can play with up to four players at the same time. This was the first time that I can recall seeing this feature. It's really what makes the game fun. You get the chance to defeat your buddies and laugh at them while doing so. 

So, we had the Atari set up in the shack and over time picked up a whole bunch of games and the only one that we played more than a couple of times was Warlords. It's not that it's an awesome game but the competition keeps you coming back. 

I understand that Warlords started off as an arcade game but I've never had the pleasure of playing it in that format. I'd like to though. It came as a stand up cabinet as well as a cocktail table. The stand up cabinet only allowed for two players at a time but the sit down version let you and three buddies go at it simultaneously. 

Warlords was created by Carla Meninsky who was one of two female designers working for Atari (the other being Carol Shaw). Meninsky also created Dodge 'Em which was a car race-maze type deal. According to an interview she gave years back when she started work on Warlords it was a 2600 game before being converted to an arcade game

             

               

Overall I'd have to say that Warlords is one of the more memorable Atari cartridges, as a matter of fact it was voted the 25th best game of all time by Game Informer Magazine in a 2001 poll. It's astounding that a 2600 game could crack that list but it was ten years ago and video games have come a really long way in that time. I wonder if Warlords would make a list like that the poll were taken today? Probably not but that doesn't make it any less fun to play.

The little yellow dude is my absolute fave action figure but I have no idea where he came from. I'd like to know but don't really want to go out and ruin the mystery. If you want to hit me up and let me know I'd read it but if you don't want to that's cool too.  

Just to the right of these dudes is a bunch of Weebles that I've picked up over the years. I don't know why I didn't include them in the snapshot. Maybe next time. I really like the Lizard Woman from the Flash Gordon set. The ridge across the top of her head is super dope.

The Battlestar Galactic Ovian Alien is neat too. I found him in a dollar box at the Vet's Building 40/8 Flea Market. I got a Freddy Krueger doll that sticks to your window with a suction cup.

Combat came included with the 2600 system and that makes it one of the most ubiquitous cartridges that you run into on the secondary market. Combat is a perfect example of an early Atari 2600 game. Basically you are a square of sorts and you shoot smaller squares at other squares.

There was also a mode where you got to play as a plane. That was a little more fun. My favorite of the plane games was the one where you could fly as a squad of three little planes against a much larger "bomber" that fired one really large square at a time. The flying games had some pretty cool clouds too. Two big fat ones right in the middle of the screen. I guess they were there to provide some kind of cover but it wasn't like you could put your plane in park and hide behind them for awhile and even if you could your foe would know where to look because there were only two places to hide. If you weren't in cloud one you must be in cloud two. Know what I mean?

I seem to remember reading somewhere that Combat was actually the first game made for the 2600. That must be why it was so boring. It's like, no one had any idea how to make an awesome game yet. That skill wouldn't come along until much later. 

For a first try though Combat wasn't too bad. I enjoyed it and still remember it today. It had a variety of modes, was for two players, let you shoot your friends, had tanks AND planes that's decent for a first ever game. Combat set Atari off on a good foot. It wasn't Mario Brothers and the NES but considering that they don't even give games away with the system all the time anymore I'm still at least fairly stoked on Combat.

I picked this up at a flea market here in town. It's a good one. The local veteran's group puts them on 4 times during the summer. They attract a pretty decent level of dealer but recently a different outfit has moved in and started running every weekend and it's diluted the quality of merchandise and word it that the bigger dealers are going to stop rolling through but that's all just scuttlebutt.

I've wanted the Mego Enterprise for awhile now and was more than happy to pay what I paid for it (not that much). It included Kirk, Ohura, The Klingon, Bones, Scotty  and Spock plus all their weapons. The deal also included the bridge chair and the consoles and the stools that came with them. I'm pretty stoked. 

Megos are awesome. They kind of cross over into being dolls but that's ok. I'm not going to kid myself into thinking that toy collecting is a thugged out hobby so who cares if you want to call them dolls? I aint mad. 

I Took my nine year old daughter and her buddy to a movie yesterday. A little robot boxing movie by the name of Real Steel. Ya, it was a little selfish of me to take them to a sci-fi future sports feature but seeing as how it opened at number one this week I think a lot of fools did the same thing or something similar.

As the majordomo of I See Robots I felt that it was probably up to me to go and see the robot boxing movie and tell everyone what it was like. It's not like it was punishment because I am a pretty big fan of fight sports and robots and if there was a robot boxing league I'd probably be one of the bigger followers. Plus I enjoy tales of future sports like Rollerball and Future Sport with Dean Caine and Wesley Snipes.

 I read on Grantland.com that the flick was basically Over The Top with robot boxing instead of arm wrestling and that pretty much was what it was. Naturally Over The Top was one of my younger self's top ten joints, so going in I was a little bit stoked on the premise. Real Steel isn't a great movie but it's fun and there are a lot of cool robots and some pretty decent robo hand to hand combat to boot.

 

The main robot fights his way up through all kinds of weird back yard style robot leagues before getting to the bigs. I always enjoy scenes of the weird leagues that dudes have to beat on the way to the top. The scrapped out piecemeal machines he runs up against include a dude with a sledge hammer hand and a body that looks like car parts and robot with a ten gallon hat and spurs.

Oh ya, dude has his robot fight against a bull at one point and the moment where the robot's fist makes impact with the cows face is priceless. I don't know if I'd support a robot vs. Animal fight. it's inhumane. Worse than bullfighting if you think about it because in bull fighting AT LEAST the bull has a small chance to gore the matador. Robots aren't even alive. Sure they cost a grip but it's not like your ass is on the line or anything. 

Kate from Lost plays the female lead. Thought that it was cool to see her. It seems like it's been awhile. I guess it has. Lost has been off the air for years. Evangeline Lilly is a decent actress and she's super pretty so you know, that's a plus. 

     

If you think you'd like to see a robot boxing movie then this is prolly the movie for you. Serious, I think that's all I have to say. If you like robots and boxing and maybe want to take your family out to something that isn't animated and doesn't have dolphins in it than go see Real Steel or as it will always be to me, The Robot Boxing Movie.

At last nights UFC Chael Sonnen beat the crud out of a game Brian Stann but more importantly cut the best money promo in years. For reals. With a few flaps of his gums Chael earned at least a million more dollars in PPV revenue. 

The question is, Would Chael actually leave the UFC if he lost? My guess is that he wouldn't. I don't know how he'd get out of the stip but he'd find a way. Maybe he could return under a mask like how Dusty Rhodes used to do back in the day.

Every now and then Dusty would lose a Loser Leaves Town match and oddly enough every time that happened a portly masked grappler named The Midnight Rider would pop up and blast Dusty's foes with bionic elbows. 

Anyhow, if you click on the player button up there you can hear a little mix I put up there. I tightened up some of the dialogue and sweetened up the crowd noise a bit. It's fun, take a listen. It's only like forty five seconds long. How painful could it be?