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The figure was released as part of the Fuzors subline which featured Transformers with bizarre and unlikely fusions of animals for their beast modes.
Part eagle and part wolf, Silverbolt is one of two successes of this experiment in style. Quickstrike, the other Fuzor to appear on the show, is the other.
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– Sunday, December 3, 2006
Space: 1999 deluxe Eagle gift set.
Beautiful Guild Wars scenes.
Enhanced screenshots along with instructions.
Out of Africa. [via]
“… a new chapter in a massively multiplayer online game called ‘Guild Wars: Nightfall’ stands out in its depiction of characters of colors: the entire module is set in a virtual online world inspired by North Africa.”
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– Wednesday, November 29, 2006
A photo of Beast Wars Silverbolt, one of my favourite Transformers characters.
A chivalric if naive knight, Silverbolt was one of the main reasons I rate the second season of Beast Wars so highly. His interactions with Blackarachnia were thoroughly entertaining and resulted in many a fine quote.
The toy is a bit of a letdown. The figure should have been painted in chrome silver, the wings could have used additional joints to allow them to be folded in robot mode and the feather-on-a-stick weapons would be more intimidating with additional sculpting and paint.
The figure is by no means bad but being a fan of the character, I wish the toy was great rather than merely okay.
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– Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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– Tuesday, November 28, 2006
I literally dusted off my Wacom Graphire yesterday and practised a little for the first time in months.
I have had no complaints about my Graphire4 tablet in the 12 months I’ve owned it but I wish Wacom would provide better documentation for its driver updates.
The latest driver for the Graphire4 caused some strange problems that baffled me until I removed all user preference files (using the new Tablet Preference File Utility) and set my preferences again.
I’m also left wondering what the new driver is supposed to fix or improve. There’s a Read Me file included with each update but there’s scarcely any information in it.
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– Monday, November 27, 2006
