My most treasured possessionWhat's your most treasured possession? What would you rescue from a fire (be it for sentimental or purely financial reasons)?
My Great-Uncle left me his visitors book which along with boring people like the Queen and Harold Wilson has Spike Milligan's signature in it. It's all loopy.
Either that or my Grandfather's swords.
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chthonic, Thu 8 May 2008, 12:38)
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Hmm.There's this weird little sort of transformer thing that was given to me by my grandfather about 17 years ago - it doesn't have a name.
Basically it looks like a little grey rock, until you unfold this, and unsnap that, and behold! It's a tiny little angry green-eyed robot-thing with ludicrously large shoulders and feet.
I never really thought that I had any kind of attatchment to it, but fiddling with it earlier I realised that it was first childhood toy I have memories of and it's held up to the years suprisingly well; the thought of losing it isn't an appealing one.
So in the event of a fire i'd snatch that and leg it.
Oh, and my external hard drive. Nothing on there's irreplacable, but it'd be a royal pain to have to download 750-odd-Gb of stuff again.
(, Fri 9 May 2008, 22:58, 4 replies)
By God!That sounds like "Meteor-Man"!
When I was a lad my best mate had one, which we dubbed Meteor-Man and used him as the bad guy for our Spider-Man/Batman toys.
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It's a Rock LordThey were like Transformers, but went from rock to robot. I never saw the point, but had one anyway. He was called Magmar.
Apparently a spinoff from Gobots, the poor man's Transformers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Lords
(, Sun 11 May 2008, 11:27, closed)
A Rock LordSo it is. Poor man's Transformers, that's about keeping with the family financial situation at the time. :P
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As b3ta's resident TransfanI feel compelled to point out that some Go-Bots were actually superior to their Transformers counterparts in terms of materials, transformation and playability...although most of them were, admittedly, cack.
For extra nostalgia value though, check out Rock Lords: The Movie (available on VHS at car boot sales everywhere) which retains entertainment value if only because it presents the next stage of Go-Bot evolution as "they used to turn into cars and planes, but now they turn into...rocks!"
Sheer genius. Oh, and it's got Telly Savalas in it.
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 12 May 2008, 11:20,
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