Dear Doug,
It was nice to have you crash at our place the other night. Staying up late watching Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, The Legend of Neil, and Father Ted.
But I want you to know, Bacon saw the note you left in the bathroom.
Later I found Bacon lying on the bed, begging me to eat it.
You really hurt it, Doug. But you’ve made your choice.
(Unless Cheese is French and into threesomes, cause Bacon might be into that.)
~Matt Booker
Step 5 – Ball Joint Head
Ironhide deserves more than just a swivel joint for neck articulation. He’s a bot you can look up to, but that doesn’t mean he should be always looking down.
But do you have the balls to joint his head?
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Step 4- Proper Posture
Even with all the backpack fixes, Ironhide’s head is still looking down. No amount of internal carving is going to fix that.
But there are solutions. And I’ll even show you mine!
(And it still involves no cutting on the crotch\middle piece.)
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Step 3 – Second Backpack Fix
The second backpack mod is the natural conclusion to the first. Now that the wheels can even attempt fitting into the backpack, we need to make them fit.
Shocking, I know.
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Step 2 – First Backpack Fix
This first backpack fix is the most necessary out of all the mods to be found in this guide. The other mods don’t even matter unless you do this one. It’s also the most obvious of the bunch, and most people probably stopped here and figured ‘good enough.’
Not so fast, dear reader. That line of thinking is a slippery slope. Once you stop demanding the best of yourself, bit by bit it builds up until you are made of fail. Once that happens, it’s only a matter of time before you think The Tim and Eric Awful Awesome show is funny, and we all know what happens after that…
The moar you know!
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Step 1 – Cut a hole in the box crotch.
It is said that one should always look before a leap. The same is true for modding, and not just because of sharpened objects in close proximity to fleshy bits. In fact, I usually take a day or so just thinking of how to fix the toy before I actually do the fix.
Such was not the case this time.
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Does your Universe Ironhide have problems?
Blue face? Droopy, depressed, or just plain Cullen sullen expression?
Can he even see up to aim at those pesky deceptijet seekers?
“Hey! Now hold on, yer makin mah circuits sizzle!”
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Please skip this post. Just go buy an X-acto knife, a box cutter, or something with a handle. I’m not responsible for any digital dissections caused by my example.
Still there?
Okay, so here’s the AWESOME way to cut plastic.
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Okay, so here’s a place I didn’t expect to be. A blog.
Blog… The word conjurs up first images of uppity, self important crum bumbs, throwing around buzz words and popular internet jive while they listen to political hip hop and cnn reports of celebrity scandals. Quickly veered away from those horrors, less image and more feel is found in shivers of sheeple, jumping on the bandwagon of popular prevelance and happily adding to the heaps of quickly abandoned flotsam and… erm, netsam?
No, it’s cool that people blog. Celebrity obsession or not, it’s something they like. Can’t fault em too much for that, especially when part of this blog’s about toy robot obsession. More like, I hate the feeling of being so late to the scene (or even saying ’scene’ in a social context) that it seems I’m just doing it because it’s popular.
Let it be known, this is not me hopping on a bandwagon.
So what is it, then?
Fine, fine. I’ll get to the point. I’m interested in a bunch of different things, and I don’t want to end up a jack of all trades and master of none. So for one, this blog is to help me focus. Gathering together what’s here and there should keep them from attempting to pull me in different directions. Next, I want a place to present some of the things I write. That’s everything from possibly an ‘at least one entry a week’ story, to poetry, photo comics, and transformers customization guides. I like to cook, and I’ll have recipes on here. Expect rants on movies I watch, and maybe even tv shows, comics, and books. I’m also an amatuer magician, so you might see something about that.
And also, this is to be a journal of my journey as I take the road less traveled. Of not just what I write, but how, and maybe even why.
I’m currently thinking about theme and presentation. Gotta make it look more respectable. I don’t want to go with a pre-made theme, but we’ll see. Thanks to Joey Calvey for the help and the hosting.
And Next week: Ironhide.
~Matt Booker
