Fun with CSS3

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I haven't been following CSS3 much, didn't even realize some of the functionality is already implemented in a few of the current browsers. Heck, I have my hands full just trying to figure how to get things working correctly in IE.

Came across the 'Fun with highlights' experiment earlier in the day. Go ahead, try selecting the text up above in FireFox or Safari (blech). Cool huh? Erik used CSS3's ::selection pseudo-element and PHP to get the effect. For more information about CSS3, check this blog out.

Update: Guess Blogger does some weird things with the HTML when I publish. Had to dump the generated code in a separate text file and use a PHP include. Stop stripping the includes damnit! Thundercats GOOOOOOOOO!

Update 2: Took a longer look at the CSS3-Selectors document, check out 6.6.5. Structural pseudo-classes, don't have to alternate the color of the table rows via PHP and CSS anymore, you can do it just within CSS!

Newspapers (Khoi Vinh, Design Director for NYTimes.com, I'm looking at you) are going to go crazy over the ::first-line pseudo-element and the ::first-letter pseudo-element. Rather than having to enclose each first line or letter with the CSS tag, the first line or letter will automatically adopt the styles!

Voltron Found!

A killer find! Earlier in the day, my coworker was looking for a place to safely store some custom frames that were delivered. Since she had no room in her office / guest bedroom, I look a look around my office / guest bedroom and looked underneath my Andover Secretary. I never explored the drawers there and was stunned to find several boxes of Japanese robot toys. Among them, the Golden Idol of 80's mecha, Voltron (or a really good knock off). And this wasn't the lame Vehicle Voltron (of the Near Universe), this was the Lion Voltron (of the Far Universe).

As a kid, I remember frequently sitting in a dingy basement in the outskirts of Chinatown after school. There I would try to entertain myself as my father and his colleagues chain smoked Marlboros and played mahjong after a long hard day of work. My most vivid memory of Voltron was in this basement, using spare mahjong sets to build up green and white environments for my lion to romp around in.

I'm pretty sure I had the entire Voltron set at some point, but it was unwieldy so I would only carry one lion around with me to play with. Most would assume that I favored the main, black lion but I felt that it was bulky and didn't look much like a lion at all. The green and red lions which formed the arms were small with no presence. Kids like big. Remember the Fortress Maximus of the Transformers? Or the Turtle Blimp from TMNT? That left the blue and yellow lions forming the legs. Since the female character, Princess Allura, took over for Sven when he was injured, I wasn't too thrilled to be seen carrying around a female-piloted lion. Perfect proportions, cool looking head (loved the side panels on either side of his head) and the fact that he was piloted by the 'muscle' of the team made the Yellow Lion the default lion-on-the-go.



On a related note, Transformers Animated, the series started airing in case you missed it during the holidays. I wasn't too thrilled when I first saw the character designs and the animated sneak preview, but after watching the first episode / special, I'm impressed. They don't look much like robots (what's with the freaking humanoid mouths) but I love everything else about the series so far. The story line, pacing and even the dialogue doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence. Derrick Wyatt who was also the character designer for Teen Titans, Legion of Super Heroes and one of my current favorites, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is on a roll!

Click on the image above for information on the toys coming out with the series. Pretty cool stuff.

• Cybertronian mode Optimus Prime looks great with a very heroic looking pose. Earth mode, not so much, especially with the blue lips.
• Bumblebee looks cute with that two huge missles hahah.
• Does Bulkhead bring back images of Mega Man for anyone else?
• Grimlock's Tyrannosaurus mode looks great! But why did they get rid of Snarl? I love Stegosaurus'!
• Red, white and black color scheme looks AMAZING on Megatron. Why don't they just give him an H emblem and a Type-R decal and be done with it? Megatron Type-R. He might not have a V-8, but he can rev like no other.
• Soundwave's alternate mode actually sort of works. Actually it's Lazerbeak that totally pulls the package together. My favorite character, too bad the cassette action is gone...
  

And now with all this salivating out of the way, I wonder if I should just drop everything, get a portfolio together and enroll at FIT. They are one of two schools with a Toy Design major. Close to 100% placement and the tuition looks like a drop in the bucket compared to Carnegie Mellon's.

Quick hits: Wanted, Whale Hunt, Designers Accord

Wanted, read about this movie a few months back in an issue of Wizard. At the time all the hoopla was about the Iron Man movie (aftermath from the fan trailer that was released at the Comic Con). I was amazed that even with a pretty star-studded cast, the Wanted movie still slipped under my radar. It was one of my favorite mini-series during college and as with most popular comics since the 90s, the series took forever to finish. I think the last issue of Wanted came out a full year after issue #5. Though the Fox character was based on Halle Barry (Catwoman), looks like she didn't get the call. Instead Angelina Jolie filled in beautifully, so badass. I was a bit peeved that the story line was modified, but after checking up on the movie's synopsis, looks like most of the original elements are still there, just not in your face. Excellent rework! Check out the trailer. (credit: Mass)

The Whale Hunt, a photography journal by Jonathan Harris. Beautiful photos and several amazing GUIs to view them with. The GUIs are so well thought out, they fade into the background focusing your attention on what Jonathan saw and felt during the nine days he spent with a family of Inupiat Eskimos in Alaska. Every five minutes, one photograph, or sometimes up to 37 were taken depending on Jonathan's heart rate. Incredible story telling... there's more to Alaska than just the stuff we saw in First Descent. Oh, Jonathan did in fact read Moby Dick (check his FAQs section). THIS IS A MUST SEE!

Designers go green... right that's old news. What's new is The Designers Accord. Looks like the designer's version of LEED accreditation but for firms rather than individual projects and without any accreditation. Okay, guess it's not like LEED at all =T.

Melting Pot Post (just catching up)

Catching up on the many 'draft' mode entries I have saved. But before I begin, a notice for all those versed in Photoshop, want to win some sweet Apple products? Enter this free contest (4 different contests requiring you to collage some photographs creatively, or naughtily for the first one round). The Crestock Photoshop Contest 2007, thanks Mike.

NYC Taxi logos, aren't they awful? We didn't need a logo then, we don't need one now. Especially if it's this crap coming from Smart Design. Obviously the city meddled with it too much and the designers at Smart Design succumbed to it. Manage your clients! This is why we need Garden in Transit. All those painted flowers on the hoods you see on cabs everywhere were painted on vinyl by school kids and applied by volunteers. If anyone wants to get a group together I'm down.

Redoing a crappy logo doesn't hurt, just respray/reapply on every single cab in town. No worries. But getting a tattoo you aren't happy about? The recourse isn't very simple, even with laser removal. So to properly assess a tattoo's application to your body why not overlay it onto a 3-D model of yourself and see how it works with the light. No way to see what the aging process does to it right now, maybe Zimmerman will consider it in the future. Check out Needled for more information on Loïc Zimmerman's work. Still think it's easier to just get the design done in henna before you make it permanent.

The Piracy Paradox, an interesting observation on how the fashion industry need copycats to induce obsolescence furthering the industry's growth. Credit goes to Elmo for forwarding that New Yorker article. Additional reading can be found on Christopher Sprigman's blog, one of two law professors who coined the term, Piracy Paradox.

Reebok, are they the vehicle Adidas will be using to out-Puma, Puma? Disregarding Nike's Transformers Air Trainers III and TakaraTomy's Prime and Megatron. Tugging at my nostalgic strings a set of five sneakers customized for each Lion making up Voltron have been designed and released to the public. I think the designs are awful but it's freaking VOLTRON! And it's freaking expensive... I'll be passing on this one.

Inside Adidas Factory: Some photos of an adidas factory, bandwidth exceeded right now for the photos so check back later. Apologize for not posting this when I found it...

What is working though is this quick page of some very cool business card designs. Have a look, it'll only take you a second for you to see where I steal my ideas from.

I love the UPS white board commercials. Do you? Read more about them at Slate. The guy featured in it is actually the creative director of the campaign, Andy Azula, not some actor or famous designer... way to pump up his resume.

The end of advertising as we know it. Yes IBM (IBM Institute for Business Value study), thanks for the notice... haven't read their paper yet but I'm assuming it's worth a read for all of you who are in the field. Going to try to get through their executive summary tonight, assuming its still in one piece, been sitting in my bag for a while.

Pattern Analysis of MegaMillions Lottery Numbers, I drop a buck every so often as long as the jackpot is over $50 million. Anything less is chump change =T. It's funny, in school you never really consider playing the lottery, it's such a waste of money. But the mentality changes once you start working, sure did when I started out as an intern... anyway the study won't really help but make sure you read up on the comments, the discussion had my mind spinning. All you math geeks must be loving this huh? I didn't understand a damn thing.

Designing FiringSquad’s Reference Home Theaters, sure wish I had this when we were putting our setup together. Boatloads of information in one easy to understand article. So rather than trolling AVS Forum, do yourself and read this as a primer.

Terry thinks Goldman Sachs will eventually take over the world. Not as crazy as it sounds... hell I bet they would do far better in the White House than Bush and Cronies. Look what Bloomberg did for NYC! So now Goldman alumn, John Thain, has taken over at Merrill is it time to buy into Merrill? Here's an old feature written when Thain took the top job at NYSE. What did he say then and what was actually done? Call him Mr. Implementer...

Across the board (well not totally), less is more

A piece by Cai Guo-Qiang, my favorite Chinese artist. Read the last paragraph of this entry for additional information.

Back in middle school I relished the rainy days where I sat by the window and devoured a book before night fall. There was comfort in knowing that everyone else was doing something similar, playing console games or just on the computer and that you weren't missing much.

Nowadays I can't sit still for more than five minutes before wondering what others are up to, if there was a new reply in a forum discussion I was engaged in or if there was a new post on one of the many blogs I peruse.

Design Commentary: So with that in mind, I'm glad something like A Brief Message is around. I find that I actually slow down and pay more attention whenever I read this site because I know that it will not only be short, but that the author has taken care in fleshing out the topic so every single one of the 200 words contributes to the topic at hand. A Brief Message, start your day with it. Accompanying sketch included! If you are in the mood for lengthier and sometimes more dense reading, check out Design Observer.

Haiku: Does your ADD / ADHD prevent you from sitting through 200 words? How about 17 syllables then? Most of you know I enjoy haikus, even whipped up three verses for Mike's wedding this past weekend (though I didn't save them). They are simple to create and make you sound like a genius (sometimes). My all time favorites are the first few concocted when I hit a stumbling block making websites cross-browser compatible. Like A Brief Message, the haikus at Haiku for You each come with a visual partner.

Presentations: Think Steve Jobs' presentations are great? There may be better PowerPoint or Keynote presentations out there. Pecha Kucha is the art of delivering your message within the confines of 20 slides at 20 seconds each. First read about it in Wired two issues ago. Looking back at my time at Carnegie Mellon I approached it all wrong when it came time for the final studio. Sure the idea is important, but how you communicate it may matter more. I was so focused on building the perfect model or drafting the perfect drawing but I didn't think about what those pieces were communicating. I'm not saying a PowerPoint presentation would have helped, but it would have me think about the presentation more, rather than it being an after thought.

Illustration: I've always argued that comic strips can sometimes (or a lot of times) take more insight to produce than a detailed painting. In what other media can you communicate so much with so few lines / panels? The drawings in this Jcb music video may seem rudimentary, but it's really produced well and worth a view. Same goes for this Human Flip Book. And since I brought flip books up, reminds me of the Conan String Dance one, since it appears to be down, you can entertain yourself with this other Conan clip (Conan as a comic book vs. Hulk).

This may be the only time where more is more. I had this Roy Doty Holiday piece pinned up on my cubicle wall for a while. Turns out it was his birthday in September, so a happy belated birthday goes out to one of the most patient illustrators out there. I would go insane drawing a crowd.

Another illustrator worth a mention and someone you probably never heard of before, Vania Zouravliov. With pencils like his who needs color? I especially like this Autumn Rot piece. Discovered him via another illustrator Audrey Kawasaki who also produces some amazing work.

Don't remember how I came across Gaping Void. Hugh MacLeod has successfully done what I've been meaning to do (oh you've heard that before haven't you). His claim to fame are the illustrations he whips up on the back of his business cards. I guess I could do that with my old business cards... just cross out the outdated information and slap on my current info. Or I could order a bunch of new business cards but then I'd have to pay for them and I would be killing trees. Reduce, reuse, recycle right? They would have to be personal cards to since I absolute HATE the business card designs of my current employer. Two posts to read up on, How to be Creative, and his personal favorites.

Went to my old boss' house on a Sunday before my trip down south to borrow his backpack and saw a painting by Fabio Napoleoni sitting on the ground. Loved it, so I went home and found more pieces being sold on eBay by him. I'm glad I didn't jump the gun, though I like his work, I don't think I can leave one of his pieces hanging for long...

T-Shirts: My black adidas hoodie isn't exactly a t-shirt but earlier in the year I was carrying some groceries from the car to the condo. Naturally I tried to do everything in one shot which resulted in me dropping a bottle of liquid bleach. The cap busted but I wasn't paying attention so I just placed it under my armpit. By the time I got upstairs parts of my hoodie turned orange. It looked great and people think it's part of the design. I actually thought about grabbing a brush and applying some more bleach spots to make it more interesting. Leave it to Stencil Revolution to show you how it's really done when it comes to bleach on fabric! Never thought about using a sharpie to color in the black back in!

Tomo hooked me up with the following links to two Transformers t-shirts. Not too fond of Prime, but Soundwave I'm digging (why isn't there an insignia on the sleeve?)! I have too many t-shirts though... must resist!

Architecture: While searching for this Calatrava film in the torrentverse I came across a 23 (or 24) episode series on architecture titled Baukunst. If anyone is interested all the torrents are listed here along with a discussion (registration required). If you don't want to register, here's the first episode torrent off of a public tracker and just for kicks, the 9th episode covering Calatrava. You can find the rest of the episodes by conducting a search or registering at the MVGroup forum.

Periodicals: There are a few magazines produced to match my attention span and interests that I subscribe to. Wired, Fast Company, Business 2.0 and some sports magazines. Terry also got me a subscription to Metropolis which I love, I usually avoid subscribing to design magazines because 1) expensive as hell, 2) I'm tempted to rip them apart to build idea boards. Unfortunately Business 2.0 is being shuttered and though many of the writers are jumping over to Fortune I'm not sure how much content will come through unfiltered by the editors there. Good going Time Inc. RIP. As a consolation they are issuing subscriptions to Money magazine. What?

China: This is a great article on China's Creative Class from an old issue of Fast Company. Though it mentions a sour topic, the environmental disaster that is the Three Gorges Dam, there's plenty to look forward to coming from the Mother Land. Makes me almost want to live there (if my social circle included everyone mentioned in the article). If you made it all the way down here, I know you are tired, but the article is worth a read, file it away to read later if you must! Cai Guo-Qiang is mentioned, didn't know he was on Beijing's Olympic Committee! Some more information on his work and process can be found here.

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Gene Yang, Larry Hama and Jae Lee!

I enjoy attending lectures, panel discussions and presentations; unfortunately they are hit or miss, with the majority of them being duds. We all suffered through it in high school and in college, fulfilling our academic requirements. Why subject ourselves to it now when it isn't necessary? Because you never know. It's hard to find people that can engage and have substance behind what they say. But when you do find yourself in the presence of these type of speakers, everyone around you transcends into the 'zone' collectively hanging onto the panelists' every word.

Saturday night was one of those rare moments where I had a great time sitting in the audience for a panel discussion, Thinking Inside the Box: Asian Americans in the Comic Book and Graphic Novel World. Elmo forwarded information about the panel earlier in the week and I immediately registered not because of the topic but because of the people on the panel. Three stood out immediately, Gene Yang, artist and writer of American Born Chinese, Larry Hama, the man behind G.I. Joe, and Jae Lee, the master of shadows and artist of Transformers / G.I. Joe (one of my favorite renditions of the mighty robots) and creator of Hellshock.

The panel was held at the MoCA, not the Museum of Contemprorary Art, but the Museum of Chinese in the Americas. Located on the corner of Bayard and Mulberry Street, I've walked by the building thousands of times on my way to the Canal Street station but have only step foot in it a handful of times. Walking up the old decrepit stairs guided by the dim lights overhead I wondered how the panelists felt on those very same stairs earlier that night. A far cry from the glitzy convention centers or hotels most comic artists are used to when attending various comic cons or shows.

Compared to a panel I attended earlier in the year at the Asia Society, this panel was much more intimate. Constrained by the small spaces regularly found in Chinatown, the rows of metal folding chairs were lined right up to the front where the panelists sat. They could not hide behind a table nor did they have the luxury of sipping on beverages provided by the host. I wish I had known about the conditions they were to have the discussion in, I would have picked up a few bottles of Gatorade on the way there. Anyway, as with most Asian-related events, a panelist was late to the discussion so it didn't start on time. Twenty minutes past seven it began with the panel host, Vertigo editor Pornsak Pichetshote, introducing himself followed by introductions from the others. While there were six panelists, I was only familiar with three of them.

Gene Yang, most of you probably never heard of him. His graphic novel, American Born Chinese was a 2006 finalist for the National Book Award. Heard of the book when it was first released, think once again, Elmo was the one who tipped me off to it. He works at a high school as a database administrator and computer science teacher during the day, breaking out the pencils and pens in the evenings. If you haven't check out his book, buy a copy! I thoroughly enjoyed it and if you don't want to plunk down the cash, feel free to borrow my signed hard copy (but don't mess it up). Guess I look like someone on the West Coast because when I went up to him to get his autograph he asked me if we had met before in the Bay area.

Larry Hama was the most experienced individual on the panel. Remember when you bought all those G.I. Joe toys and read their background story on the back of the box? That was all him, he basically created the GI Joe universe! His GI Joe series believe it or not had a high female readership because it depicted strong female characters along side the 'Joes'. Had no idea! I could have picked up the girls with my G.I. Joe comics.

He also had a great story about working at Continuity Studios with the legendary Neal Adams. Neal, as with many perfectionists out there could not tolerate those who did not give their best. Many people can see a great image in their mind but are never able to commit it to paper because they 'settle'. Naturally the table across from his drafting table remained empty for a long time until Larry got there. Though he didn't escape Neal's wrath, he did learn a lot from him (all you had to do was ask apparently, and Neal would spend the time to teach you). During one encounter, Neal stood behind Larry munching on a donut for a good ten minutes watching him draw. Finally he said something along the lines of, "I guess you don't know about the 36 planes that make up a person's nose."

Amateurs would bring their portfolios to Neal for critiques constantly and Neal would reduce them to a pool of tears. However one individual kept coming back, and he did this for a good two years until eventually, one day after looking over this individual's work, Neal called an editor at Marvel and told him he would be an idiot not to give the guy a gig. That person was Frank Miller who coincidentally had as much of an impact on Batman as Neal Adams.

An interesting note on how Larry works, he doesn't fully script out his stories beforehand. He just writes or draws and lets the story develop on its own. Interesting approach and given his track record, I'm not complaining. I loved the comics when I was younger, especially the whole interplay between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow.

Jae Lee was the main reason I attended the panel but unfortunately he didn't get as much speaking time as the others. If you haven't checked out his Transformers / G.I. Joe series please do! I've been looking at some of his original work for sale, though most of the good pieces have already been sold, I might pick up this Grimlock page. Only thing holding me back is the fact that all my comic book related items are still in storage. Unsure of putting them up... Anyway, after high school, he spent two months studying commercial design before quitting. He showed his work at some conventions and immediately got hired by Marvel.

Anyway, I really loved the panel, you could hear the passion in their voices when they talked about the industry and their work. It's really hard to communicate it here but after walking out of there I wanted to get to my drafting desk ASAP and finish up Elmo's comic right away. Of course that feeling has subsided, guess my condo isn't really a creative environment. I need a studio to work in, with inspirational people working alongside me.

On another note, I sat in on some Columbia MBA classes, Michael Dell's brother, Adam teaches there and he was also a passionate speaker. Made me want to become a VC after walking out of his class, Business Technology and Innovation. Maria Shim, head of investor relations at Google was a guest speaker and she too was a passionate speaker. Guess it's not too hard to drink the Kool-Aid from a company like Google.

Movies to look forward to...

Transformers came and went. I was satisfied at the time, now comes a slew of nostalgic movies to look forward to (or not). I covered the Thundercats animated movie previously, the movies to be covered today are all live-action or CGI.

The first one up already sounds like a disaster (keep reading, I'm saving the best movies for last) as the Transformers counterpart in the mid-80s, G.I. Joe is bastardized by the accountants to appeal to a global audience. If the executives truly believe a G.I. Joe film produced as we know it won't appeal to a wide enough audience to warrant the investment, why bother making the movie? There's talk of this 'Action Man' character I know nothing about or have interest in, let's just call the movie Action Man and be done with it. The script isn't finalized yet, let's hope they either kill it or stay true.

Another Rambo movie, wasn't much of a fan as a kid, loved the Rocky series more and thought Stallone's Rocky Balboa movie was passable. Probably my third favorite movie in the series. Anyway, Stallone's at it again with John Rambo. The story ties in Myanmar which sparked my interest. Don't know anything about the politics there now but a quick search on Google News makes it seem much more tamed than it was in the past. Anyway, I'm unqualified to write about the politics and I don't know how much research Stallone did for the movie. The premise seems decent, but it's bloody as hell. Trailer included in the link above.

Beowulf. Haven't heard that name since high school! This movie wasn't on my radar but because it has Neil Gaiman's name attached to the screenplay, I'll be on the lookout later this fall.

Avatar. Apparently there are two movies duking it out for that title, a Shyamalan live-action adaptation of my beloved Nickelodeon series and something James Cameron has been cooking up for a while.

To be honest Robotech wasn't at the top of my list when I was a kid. I was exposed to the series in very much the same way as I was exposed to Saint Seiya. I don't remember it much as a weekly syndicated series, instead most of my exposure to it was through rented tapes at various shops in Chinatown. Anyone up for a Robotech marathon? I'm sure I can borrow the series from someone. Anyway, a movie is in the works starring Tobey Maguire, he is also looking to serve as a producer so it looks like he has a personal interest in the film's success. Things are looking bright for now, we just need to see what changes will be made for the adaptation to live-action / CGI.

I know nothing about GOLION, but the Americanized version, Voltron, is a childhood favorite. The episodes were very formulaic but the entire sequence of them jumping into their pods to enter the Lions hidden in various environments really made my imagination run wild. Anytime I'm day dreaming about sitting inside and controlling a robot, it's not a result of Mech Warrior but Voltron and Gundam. In short, someone has gotten their hands on the script and it's not corny. It's dark and I can't freaking wait!

Rewinding a bit, I'm sure many of you read Where the Wild Things Are as a kid. I purchased the book recently with the Scholastic credit I received (due to the muck-up with the Harry Potter book from DeepDiscountDVD) and as with many things from our childhood it wasn't as good as we recalled. I do appreciate how much the book leaves up to the imagination and I guess that's the entire point of it. Interested to see the director's take, how do you flesh out such a short book into a full length movie? The lone screen shot released gives us a lot of hope for the movie.



Get Smart, who's a fellow fan? It was a little bit before my time, but I used to watch it as a kid back to back with the Dick Van Dyke show on Nick at Nite. Great series and this looks like an all star cast, Steve Carrell, Anne Hathaway, The Rock. Austin Powers is the current king of spy comedies, wonder if Get Smart will reclaim the crown. The trailer brought back vivid memories from the show, click on the link to check it out.

Iron Man! Elmo notified me of the new trailer and it is AMAZING! Go on take a look here! If you don't think it rocks I'll give you $5. I was blown away...

The Dark Knight, I loved the first movie and was initially disappointed that they casted Heath Ledger as Joker in the sequel. But after hearing his Joker laugh I was won over. Now here come the photos from the movie (isn't everything a bit bright?) and... well I still like Jack Nicholson's version more.

If you didn't notice, I linked a lot to a blog called First Showing in this post. They have some good SEO because every search I did, their blog post was near the top. From the blog, they are making another Street Fighter movie... and it's going to suck as much as the first one heh.

Thundercats and C'était un rendez vous

While this blog was on hiatus, word on the street was that a Thundercats movie was in the works for 2010. It's in fact an animated feature and not a live action movie (the Esquire article was a hoax). While Transformers and GI Joe are probably the best known cartoons from the 80s, Thundercats is no pushover. Don't remember much of the storyline but I think it wasn't as formulaic as Voltron which is a good thing. Not sure how many out there remember the Thundercats' sibling, the Silverhawks but this series was the space-bound equivalent to the Thundercats (according to Wikipedia).

Anyway, the thing that ticked me off about the show was their base. It was designed to look like a panther or some other feline... yet it couldn't move. I remember an episode where the villains built a mecha that was just as big and could move. So naturally it tore apart their base ripping off its head. At least their vehicle, the ThunderTank was badass, made a great toy too! Anyone have favorites? Panthro was totally badass.

Since the Transformers countdown has come and gone, we now have a new date to look forward to, sometime in 2010. Some Youtube videos to whet your appetite.

Thundercats (Show intro)


Thundercats (Lost intro)


Thundercats (Live-action amateur movie)


And for good measure, the Silverhawks intro:


While we are on Youtube videos, here's a famous cult film, C'était un rendez vous. More information on this film can be found on Wikipedia. Think I caught wind of this video on the Final Gear forums... only another month or so before Top Gear is back on the air...