tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-373014592024-03-13T23:13:13.133-07:00ROBOPLASTIC APOCALYPSEIncomprehensible Transmissions from the NostrodomatronEvil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.comBlogger843125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-47939596548875677262019-06-22T08:12:00.000-07:002019-06-22T08:30:53.636-07:00AN INTENSE EXPERIENCE!
The breaking of the 87th seal of the Roboplastic Apocalypse is the voice of the man who made Cybertron! Join the Nostrodomatron as I brave the Bigfoot infested forest of the Pacific Northwest to talk to Jim Shooter at Washington State Summer Con 2019! Yes it's the father of the Transformers mythos and me in Puyallup, Washington talking about toy robot line treatments, Star Comics, and other Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-34588970823733512192019-06-19T09:25:00.001-07:002019-06-19T13:25:02.182-07:00Treat Me Like Your Shooter Cybertrons!
In anticipation of Washington State SummerCon 2019 I cranked out a copy of the original eight page Transformers treatment Jim Shooter wrote for Marvel Comics. Mr. Shooter's work is THE foundational Cybertronian document, essentially ground zero of the Transformers mythos. Those eight pages defined the backstory of the Autobot/Decepticon war, settings like Cybertron and Aunty/the Ark, and major Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-66779048350636213502019-03-15T00:03:00.001-07:002019-03-15T00:03:47.454-07:00PRIME TO GOBACKATAYYYYYYYZE!Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-32239587295170884332019-03-03T20:41:00.002-08:002019-03-03T20:41:10.011-08:00Monochromatic GoBackaTron Reel 02: The First Transformer Newspaper Ad Ever! (so far)Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-82922695885751666442019-02-22T15:43:00.000-08:002019-03-03T20:40:30.239-08:00TIME TO FIRE UP THE GOBACKATRON!Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-63761579737530377732017-05-01T21:39:00.000-07:002017-05-09T22:21:54.352-07:00Where Eagles Zayre
This weekend was a momentous occasion for me: the anniversary of the April 29, 1984 Zayre circular. It happens to be the earliest retail store ad I've ever found with Transformers mentioned in it, so it's a bit of an historic milestone to me. Its significance lies not just in when it appeared chronologically but also in what it shows. Zayre 4/29 (as I call it) packs a ton of great photo and Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-37407008508958895422017-04-08T08:21:00.000-07:002017-05-18T10:14:04.960-07:00Fred's Robot Convention!
I went on an adventure on
April 1st drove to Wisconsin
to go to Fred's Robot Convention
Rolled out to Cow Palace...for DairyCon
There's a robot con in the land of dairy
It's called DairyCon but it's not about cheese
When the Hasbro cons are all wack, these dairy boys go to Fond Du Lac
Let's all go to DairyCon
Cows and GoBots and your
mom wish they were at Dairycon
Its moo than meets the Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-49940315524390299082017-03-23T12:33:00.000-07:002017-03-23T12:33:04.552-07:00A MAN, A PLAN, A PANEL-BOTLANTA!
The breaking of the 85th seal of the Roboplastic Apocalypse is the sound of Larry Hama playing guitar at Toylanta 2017! Yes it's the post TOY/JOE/BOT-lanta episode and it's packed with all sorts of stories about toys, joes, bots, and lantas. Join the Nostrodomatron as he realizes that after this convention, he's a lanta, she's a lanta, and you probably would like to be a lanta, too. How did my Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-53445694109566022772017-03-02T08:17:00.000-08:002017-03-02T09:21:57.289-08:00FAKE IT'S '84 'TILL YOU MAKE IT '84!
The breaking of the 84th seal of the Roboplastic Apocalypse is the sound of the clock tick, tick, ticking down the seconds until JOELANTA 2017! Listen 'n fun as the Nostrodomatron rushes to get a bunch of broken toys in beat up boxes all dressed up like it's 1985 again! Thrill 'n anxiety as I prepare for my Joelanta panel that's more than meets the price in hopefully enough time to more than Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-40028927678505917182017-01-25T08:34:00.000-08:002017-01-25T08:35:28.263-08:00Rainchecks from CybertronTarget 11 Nov 1984
TARGETS CAN FEAR ROBOTS UNREACHABLE TO RAINCHECKS
One thing I love about old newspaper ads is how they can tell stories if put in context over periods of time. One such story involves a series of Target ads run in late 1984 that illustrate how tough it was to get deluxe Autobot cars that holiday season. The first was run on November 11th and featured a pretty neat setup Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-55656539892337240592017-01-23T10:21:00.002-08:002017-01-23T10:38:45.814-08:00AUTOBOX HOSPITAL: Aww, that Jazz
I wrote once about how in 1986 my mom bought a Matchbox Lion Voltron and hid it in my sister's closet, only to tell me after I found it that my cousin would be getting it instead because I did not deserve it. What I don't think I ever revealed was that along with Voltron she'd also bought a Jazz. A pristine 1984 era possibly pre-rub Jazz. Ever since then Jazz and Voltron have been the Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-11003161637018972612017-01-16T12:50:00.000-08:002017-01-17T05:52:36.239-08:00Macrocranios Jones and the Kingdom of the Brutal Dark Microfilms
I think so far my attempts at colorizing old Transformers newspaper ads have come out pretty decent. They're kind of tricky to execute but the latest ones I wanted to do were supposed to be a piece of oil cake. Whereas the Devastator giftset and early Zayre ads required actual toys and photo manipulations, my latest targets should have been straightforward because those ads used existing Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-24314645094012198552017-01-12T01:21:00.000-08:002017-01-12T20:36:21.973-08:00Fantastic TransFormers ads and Zayre to find them
The breaking of the 83rd seal of the Roboplastic Apocalypse is the sound of a time machine set for a collision course over Zayre! Yes about the worst, most wonderful terrible thing that can happen to a Monochromatic AdstroNaut like myself is to find the long buried mircofilm remains of now extinct retail store chains I never got to visit when I was a kid. And it is doubly fantastic awful when Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-46306372357246799982017-01-05T09:41:00.000-08:002017-01-12T20:35:57.393-08:00Monochromatic Ad ReCreateAtron: Devastator!
For as long as paleontologists have been unearthing fossils from deep beneath the ground people have wondered, 'What did that Tyrannosaurus skeleton REALLY look like when it was alive?' And for as long as I have been digging up old toy robots ads from black and white reels of microfilm I have wondered, 'What did this Devastator giftset ad from 1985 REALLY look like when it was in color?' I knowEvil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-48953023117666411802016-03-16T09:57:00.000-07:002016-03-16T12:40:49.479-07:00WHEN TITANS RETURNS TO JOELANTA!
Your friend and mine Brian Kilby (of the Happy Day in Wilkes County podcast) along with fellow titans of Transformer talking RoboRob Springer and Dusty Griffin held their annual Transformers panel at JoeLanta this past weekend! And to make things worse, they asked me to join in! Yup I was on a panel about Transformers and this time there were actually people in the audience! UNLIKE THAT Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-30501768305380494232016-03-12T10:08:00.000-08:002016-03-16T13:51:29.313-07:00MY NEXT GREAT TERRIBLE IDEA!
With the Roboplastic Podcastalypse in its current state of unfinished undeaded podfadery, I decided to start another project! It's the same old robotarded ridiculousness but this time in video form with a fresh sounding name unlike anything I have created before-The Roboplastic Videocalypse!
THE ROBOPLASTIC VIDEOCALYPSE EPISODE 1 IS ABOUT:
TOO MUCH MODELS
AND
NOT FINISHING THE Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-45034563732176323322015-10-30T13:22:00.000-07:002015-12-02T14:29:59.182-08:00WHAT THE FACTORY!
So I got lucky and scored a Robotech Factory at an antique store here in the middle of nowhere for dirt cheap. And like the first time I saw Minmay's butt in the fourth episode of the original Macross cartoon, my life has been constant anxiety and excitement ever since. It's like getting kissed or married or having a kid or all those other crazy life changing things that define new eras of yourEvil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-84925319081037939512015-10-28T14:22:00.000-07:002016-01-24T14:27:50.595-08:00SD-Effin' Insane!
Like most people, I have a little experience with SuperDimensional Fortresses made out of paper. There is of course the one in my collection I call Fort Cardboardimus Maximus-the super big five foot long cardboard toybox from Play Make that is long out of print. But that one is hardly a true hardcore Japanese papercraft experience. However, if you do a search on eBay right now for 'SDF-1 Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-87230612841974257452015-09-16T07:57:00.000-07:002015-10-30T08:04:05.158-07:00Roboplastic Factory! PART ONE: Fairy Metal Godmother
Do you believe in the Robotech Fairy? After something pretty Robotechtastical happened to me at the antique store yesterday I'm believing pretty hard. The only explanation I can come up with is that there is a kind, magical metal elf with a pointy fairy hat, colorful fairy wings, a silver fairy wand and giant tank treads for legs who spreads happiness and joy. Usually when I'm Goodwill hunting Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-30622106945752244982015-09-08T11:26:00.000-07:002015-11-01T11:32:11.053-08:00The Last Transformers I Will Ever Buy-Masterpiece Bluestreak and Takara Legends LG-10 ArceeI've had a great run collecting Transformers but it's time to move on. After much contemplation, I've decided I want to finish off my collection with two pieces so memorable, so truly special that they will be worthy of the honor of being my very last Transformers. They will be figures that when I look at them on the shelf I will cry because they embody the emotional significance of the end of myEvil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-38268291586747716412015-08-28T12:05:00.000-07:002015-11-04T12:07:00.491-08:00HELLO MY FELLOW TRANSMISSONIANS
It's the 85th episode of the Roboplastic Podcastalypse! Well, no, it's actually episode 123 of TransMissions Podcast but I'm all over it and it's pretty much the same thing!
BONUS! Also check out the 22 minute video segment recorded during this episode featuring me NOT wearing a cardboard robot costume (for once).
Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-39920357492055661152015-08-13T18:38:00.000-07:002015-11-09T10:51:27.936-08:00Brite My Litest Hour II: Electric Boogatrons
eBay auction pic
Last time on Brite My Litest Hour part I, I wrote about how I found an old Lite Brite at the thrift store and it inspired me to break out my old Transformers Lite Brite sheets. I then gained a new appreciation for both the work that the original Lite Brite designers put into making the patterns and the free child labor provided by my son who plugged all the pegs into the Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-18785540589341720682015-07-21T12:21:00.000-07:002015-11-12T15:57:24.437-08:00'85 Tokyo Toy Show Guide PART 1: GodJesus versus DevilRobot
I have long maintained that while I hold a bachelor's degree in Fundamentals of American Roboplasticological Toynology, my knowledge of actual Japanese toy robots is sorely lacking. So I was overjoyed to score the '85 TOKYO TOY SHOW Guide To The Leading Toy '85~'86 even though I have no idea what it is and I can't even read Japanese. But this being the 30th anniversary of 1985 I thought a lookEvil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-18036611454474490302015-07-15T11:36:00.000-07:002015-11-06T12:03:24.530-08:00Fine Scale Combaticonner-The Destrong Issue
I remember being in a total state of paralyzing culture shock when I first arrived in South Korea in 1998. Everything was so different from any place I had ever been to before. The language was different, the alphabet was different, the 31 flavors of ice cream at their Baskin Robins were different, and they even got different toys in their Burger King Kid Meals. But then the most shocking Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37301459.post-31948789858807497162015-07-01T08:47:00.000-07:002015-11-09T10:52:44.849-08:00Brite My Litest Hour! PART I:Electric Light OrchesTronians
'Logo'
The other day I found a beat up old Lite Brite at the thrift shop for two bucks. It was one of those old school ones with a wide aspect ratio and not the square sided Lite Brite cube they sell nowadays. It reminded me that I had a pack of Lite Brite Transformer patterns from 1985 buried in the garage somewhere. So I bought it and I grabbed my patterns and then I sat down and Evil King Macrocranioshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01693211146604544544noreply@blogger.com0