For Shatterdragon, CapnG and other fans of transforming mecha, I present a .

The Auld Grump, back online after moving (again).

Ah yes, the Citroen. A little skinny for my tastes but obviously the animators needed to have a more human proportioned model to match the motion captured dancer better.

Hand animated robots are much better looking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSuA3lfGyOE

This has got to be one of the most unfunctional tools I've ever seen .

Lol, Grump I've seen, and even think I posted that youtube car transformer, with the other one that's kicking around, back when I kinda went on a "check out all the cool robotic things in the world" posting hehe, but at ten pages of links I don't think anybody minded seeing it posted again, lol. Btw, thanx for the lyrics to the "Carol of the Old Ones", I was wondering about those too, heh, all my gamers loved that, and the "What your miniatures think of you" one you posted too, that had us laughing pretty good.

Yeah. They wanted a Swiss Army Knife with one of every single tool they had ever included in another knife. Totally impractical, to be sure, but a hell of a collector's item.

Is it me, or does the guy in blue here look an awful lot like Denny?

Wow. I haven't seen anything in a while that simply screamed 70's.

No snow in this neck of the woods, at least not yet.

It is however a good time to reflect on . (From a newspaper comic that I still mis, even after all these years, dang it!)

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must have taken a lot of work, but why? Other than it's pretty cool.

CCotD'

Just a - I found it while looking up the lyrics to Secret Agent Man. (After telling myself that I was never going to run a straight up Espionage game for Spycraft I had my mind changed when I saw Casino Royale...)

The Auld Grump - There's a man who leads a life of danger.
To everyone he meets he stays a stranger
With every move he makes,
Another chance he takes.
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow.

Secret Agent Man.
Secret Agent Man.
They've given you a number.
And taken away your name.

Beware of pretty faces that you find.
A pretty face may hide an evil mind.
Ooh be careful what you say.
Or you give yourself away.
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow.

Secret Agent Man.
Secret Agent Man.
They've given you a number.
And taken away your name.

Swinging on the Riviera one day
Layin' in a Bombay alley next day.
Oh don't let the wrong word slip.
While kissin' persuasive lips.
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow.

Secret Agent Man.
Secret Agent Man.
They've given you a number.
And taken away your name.

P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri

I'm very partial to the Devo version of Secret Agent Man, myself.

Competition for World Works?

Errr.... no, I don't

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And for those looking for

The Auld Grump, found it recommended on a Spycraft forum as an example of what combat should be like....

For those who thought that Tom Cruise was too wooden -
from Toyman Studios.

And is Pt 2.)

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Now is some paper folding! Origami competition, with two dragons among the winners.

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That's mighty impressive. Number 1 in particular.