Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Gruesome robot deaths!
And an hour-long ad for
the U.S. Army:

“An Army of One . . .
That Turns Into a Sports Car
and F*&%s-up Egypt.”


Movie Pluses:
• The boombox Transformer Soundwave is re-envisioned as a communications satellite.
• The gigantic Transformer Devastator (composed of seven smaller Transformers).
• An unnamed razor-thin Transformer (camouflage: it can’t be seen head-on).

Movie Minuses:
• The film is 150 minutes long.
• Shia LaBeouf doesn’t die.
• Megan Fox’s bad collagen and tanning salon choices.
• Although I’m a big supporter of robot violence, this isn’t a good film for young children.
• About an hour of the film is dedicated to the American Armed Forces and little else; awkward, bordering on annoying.

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Terminator Salvation

Big explosions and
motorcycle robots!! Sweet!!
One-point-five thumbs up!

Good visuals and
mediocre plot. Nearly
Schwarzenegger free.

Totally Unrelated Note:
Hobo-Fighting Robots

Totally Related Note:
Terminator 2: Judgement Day Sweded edition

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This is a brilliant direction in the world of robotics: robots composed of numerous small cooperative mini-robots. These robots can “transform” themselves.

Check out this video of the MTRAN3 modular robot – the change from 6:30 to 7:30 will make you poop your pants.

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Theo Jansen is one of my personal heroes and perhaps the closest thing to a modern-day Leonardo daVinci. He makes complex robots that are powered by the wind and walk on multiple legs. Theo Jansen’s website

Theo Jansen at the 2007 TED talks:

Preview of a documentary about Theo Jansen:

STRANDBEESTEN_TRAILER from Alexander Schlichter on Vimeo.

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To those of you that haven’t heard, last week John McCain initiated another, somewhat questionable fundraising strategy. McCain sent all of his supporters a $1 bill in the mail along with almost laughable plea for money, asking the people he spams with falsehoods about his rival to “return this dollar with a hundred more of [their] own for a total contribution of $101.”

First of all, Yeah right– I’m keeping that dollar if you send it to me. Secondly, we here at Blogadilla feel that McCain is more deserving of a bill of a different amount:

(image components borrowed from via noveltywholesaler; thewashingtonnote)

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We brought you The Rock-afire Explosion last August, and they’re back, this time doing their rendition of Usher’s “Love in This Club.” Make sure you stick around for rapper T.I.’s appearance as a puppet controlled by a puppet! This, like the Nadal-Federer Wimbledon final yesterday, is what we here at Blogadilla call an Instant Classic.

(via SteveB, via PennyArcade, via BoingBoing)

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Mini Rock’em Sock’em Robots – now in handy finger size.

Bonus Round: Eric Joyner’s cool Rock’em Sock’em Robots art.

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