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Re: Robots in Disguise... a good day for mecha
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Sat, 21 Jul 2001 04:32:54 GMT
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Jay Jacinto <manjingo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> <GASP!> I love the toys, and Beast Wars had some great stories.  I
> especially liked it when Ravage came back!  There was one line that made
> me crack up.  Two bots were talking to each other after they had
> discovered the Ark. They were attempting to break in to it because they're
> enemies had just gotten in. They found it exceedingly difficult to break
> in, and one bot remarked
> 
> "That thing is die-cast!"
> 
> To which the other replied
> 
> "They don't make 'em like they used to!"
> 
> An inside joke referring to the way the old tranformer toys were made.

The exact dialogue, from the Beast Wars episode "The Agenda, (Part III)"
is :

[Referring to the Autobot ship, "The Ark"]

Rattrap: "Oh man, that ship wasn't built, it was poured!"

Optimus Primal: "Die-cast construction." [facing the camera] "It's a
lost art."

Erik
(Who attended BotCon 2001 (the 8th annual TransFormers convention) in
Durham, NC this past weekend.
--
Erik L. Knopp
Lugnet Member #61
eknopp@isd.net



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(...) Awwwww! How was it? Thanks Jay (25 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) Ultra Magnus made his first appearance in TFTM and appeared in the subsequent cartoons afterward, I think. (...) <GASP!> I love the toys, and Beast Wars had some great stories. I especially liked it when Ravage came back! There was one line (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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