It's overcast and very very still. Since it is still before 9AM that means we will probably get walloped this afternoon. I want to dig out my old Legions of Power sets and build me some space dreadnoughts like I did on rainy afternoons back in the day. Will this be as satisfying an activity as it was when I was ten? Probably not.
Weird Impulses
did you know in Japan
Battle Beasts were part of the Transformers line? It was only in the US that they were marketed separately. Think about it: heat-activated allegiance symbols, big robot animals that turn into bases, etc. There are even Japanese cartoons where the Transformers fight the Battle Beasts. And that's all I'm going to say about that.
anyway, legions of power
Most fascistic toy name ever! Thanks, Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere! Anyway, for those of you unfamiliar with these things they were essentially War Legos (more like War Capsela if you want to get hoity-toity). I got more play mileage out of sets like these and Robotix than I did out of anything else -- the perfect alchemical marriage of hippie creative toy and gun-bristling death machines. I was going to post Legions of Power commecials from YouTube but they look pretty lame so I will not. You will have to trust me that they are cooler in my memories.
Also I remember the Robotix cartoon as being really good -- they used to run it on Wallace & Ladmo -- kind of a darker Transformers with a Mad Max vibe on this desolate planet, the good guys got killed and infested with spies and traitors. It's probably yet another thing that doesn't bear revisiting. It's always sad to realize that your critical faculties as an eight-year-old were not what you thought they were at the time.
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