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Well, updated Ironhide review to add the new Bumblebee mold. Both recommended. And the Bumblebee mold is 100% new, for once.

ETA: Yoda into Republic Assault Shuttle, Captain Rex into Freeco Speeder. Neither is that impressive.

At a talk today, someone used Seuss's "The Zax" as a way to help explain special relativity and scalar invariance under coordinate transformation. While I found the explanation a bit iffy, it did get me thinking about the Zax and the world they exist in.

Story summary: A northbound Zax and a southbound Zax run into one another in the Prairie of Prax. Neither will step aside, and they argue priority and try to convince the other to move, but to no avail. Years pass, and a highway overpass is built over them while they continue to argue.

Now, this short story is really just meant as a warning against taking too stubborn a stand, I doubt Dr. Seuss worried too much about the sociology or biology of the Zax. Similarly, I expect others have worried about both before me, but I never let that sort of thing stop me.
( My speculations under the cut. )

Yes, more four-armed insect girls. :)

( She's a wasp girl, but as the name suggests, not a WASP girl. )

Now to go clean off all the plastic shavings in my hair and clothing.

( ETA: Almost done, but decided I needed to do something about the belly scutes. )

...when you read a review of a local diner that, after mentioning the reviewer has eaten there "about five dozen times" adds the disclaimer, "But I don't know if I'd eat there when sober."

Here's the spoiler-free assessment: I liked it, it was clear enough I don't feel the need to rewatch it just to figure out what happened, but two hours later I'm still mucking about with theories regarding what really happened (which I will put behind the cut). Granted, I have plenty of experience with the sort of parallel storytelling that goes into the second half of the movie, and others might find it harder to follow, but by the standards of "dreamscape stories" it's fairly tightly done.
( And now spoilerly theories and stuff. )