This just happened today in SF. Apparently some underground transformers blew up. Nice picture of the carnage, too.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/19/BAexplosion19.DTL

No mention of Homeland Stupidity yet....

Transformers... More than meets the eye... *hums theme tune*

I can't believe I still remember.

You too? Glad I'm not alone there...

Wow, I had no idea that had banks of gigantic 40 foot tall transformers stored in secret rooms underneath the streets of san francisco. That is pretty weird, you know

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?m=/c/pictures/2005/08/20/mn_pgevaultillo.gif&f=/chronicle/archive/2005/08/19/BAsfexplosion19.DTL

So was it an Autobot or a Deceptacon?

Optimus Prime has had a hideous makeover and now looks even more tacky then he did all those years ago. No sign of Galvatron, either, and Soundwave also seems to have been retired...

http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/

("...destrooOOOOOOY the evil forces of the Decepticons!")

They've all had hideous makeovers.

I was trying to figure out how this

http://images.hasbro.com/common/images/products/8092489f6d4_main400.jpg

became this

http://images.hasbro.com/common/images/products/8092418d5d14_b400.jpg

And I realized that his chest is the skylight, not the windshield.

There was a substation that caught fire in downtown Raleigh about 3 years ago -- we could see it from work. The flames from the cooling oil were taller than the 10 story dormitory over at Shaw University. Really impressive, especially watching it from a darkened & silent office building (no power).