My halo's got a hole in it so it don't keep me dry

[venta]

There are a few things I want to know. So here they are, all collected into a big, fat poll whose questions bear little relation to each other.


[Poll #350986]


Irrelevant comment: LJ should make the 'current music' field bigger, for those of us who listen to albums with long titles.

Comments

[blackmetalbaz.livejournal.com]

Superb :-). I'm also a big Bludgeon fan. And Bugly, Mindwipe, Banzai-Tron etc. Shockwave is also truly great, but surely none can rival Ratbat as supreme Decepticon commander?

Er, I may have been joking about the last one...

[panzerpenguin.livejournal.com]

I do also have a kitbashed Mindwipe to complete the trio. :)

Banzai-Tron will be a future project - I aim to build a transforming version of the character whose alt mode is a motorbike (with Razor-Sharp becoming the sidecar).

I am genuinely an admirer of Ratbat myself. His rise to such eminence from his (presumed) prior position as Lord Straxus' accountant is an impressive achievement, and his leadership devious and intelligent.

[blackmetalbaz.livejournal.com]

You see, I really liked Straxus. Subtle - no. Inspired - yes. I was also a big fan of some of the other genuinely deranged Decepticon leaders - Galvatron (obviously), Thunderwing, Jhiaxus. There a fantastic artist (I forget his name but will look it up... calls himself fourth_heir I think. Steve someone or other) who's been doing computer-generated images of various classic characters with alt modes - Impactor, Xaaron, Rack 'N' Ruin. Good stuff.

[panzerpenguin.livejournal.com]

I've not seen these! :)

I like Straxus too, though he is scarcely a great leader. I think Ratbat must have thought up the smelting pools - they fulfil a vital economic function in recycling superfluous bots, whilst gratifying his leader's sadism into the bargain...

I wouldn't call Straxus deranged. Extremely brutal and unsophisticated certainly, but quite sane.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Go on, I'll ask: Decepticon ? My brain has the word filed with 'transformer', but I'm not sure that's correct.

I'll also be humming Deceptacon by le Tigre for the rest of the day, and it's your fault.

[blackmetalbaz.livejournal.com]

Yes, the 'evil' and therefore superior faction in Transformers.

[blackmetalbaz.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know. I suppose there is a fine line between madness and stupidity, but repeatedly instructing his troops to commit suicide by walking onto an unstable space bridge is one or the other, and I personally wouldn't like to call it :-). The plan to take over Megatron's body was however inspired although it went wrong. On the other hand, if he had already made a facsimile Megatron body, I must have forgotten the logic behind try to take over the original instead. Hmm.

I'm afraid I struggle to take Ratbat seriously, although the 'War Within' version, in which he has a sensible anthropoid body is pretty cool.

[panzerpenguin.livejournal.com]

That's extreme pig-headedness on Straxus' part. He refuses to admit he might be wrong in front of his underlings, and poor Crosscut dies horribly as a result.

The key to taking Ratbat seriously is to remember that he has Trypticon 'on call' via space bridge...