This is a band that calls itself Cybertronic Spree. I don't get the name completely. I mean, I know Cybertron:
And I know Sprees:
I was always especially fond of the Chewy Sprees back when I could eat candy without calling it attempted murder.
But I don't know the reference that brings those two words, Cybertronic Spree, together into the name of this band. But that's not really important, I suppose. I mean, why is Def Leppard called Def Leppard, and why spell it so atrociously...on top of that, why did the the word def become a term synonymous with hip-hop when it was first made famous by an '80s hair band?
Anyhow, that Cybertronic Spree performance of "The Immigrant Song" popped up on my feed this week, and I couldn't help but share it. Cybertronic Spree are so great. I've been aware of them for a while, but I've never shared on here about them, and I should have. I have been remiss. Forgive me.
Also, it was a chance to make Rish's head explode. I just hope he was recording one of those ultra-shitty YouTube reaction videos when it did, so there's some sort of documentation. Now, as an olive branch, here's some videos that should cause his head to spontaneously reform and probably make it better than new. Cybertronic Spree started out their careers as a band that played the soundtrack to the 1986 Transformers movie. So, here's a few highlights of their portfolio.
I have to admit that I love these guys. There's a few bands out there where their image and presentation has meant more than their actual music, KISS and GWAR immediately come to mind. But none of them are as rad as these guys. I love the choices they made on who to include in the band. First we've got Hot Rod and Arcee, who are great, but then they have Unicron and a friggin' Quintesson. That guy in the Quintesson costume may be the only guy in history who has ever cosplayed that character.
Sometimes they have Rumble on the drums, and sometimes it's Shockwave. I assume that's the same guy, but in a different outfit...or did they have to replace the drummer? Band members being replaced is a pretty common thing in rock music.
Sometimes I catch glimpses of Bumblebee and Soundwave, but they seem to be something other than a regular band member...like a backup dancer or something.
To top it off, they've got that guy in a yellow hard hat playing Spike Witwicky. It's the easiest costume of the bunch, but for some reason it seems the most brilliant. Why was Spike...and, in the original cartoon before they jumped forward to the far future world of 2005, Spike's dad Sparkplug...always wearing a hard hat? I can understand it when they're on the job at the oil drilling platform, but most of the time they weren't. Is it just like the Man In Black from The Princess Bride who wears his mask not because he was "burned by acid or something like that", but because, "they're terribly comfortable" and he feels that "everyone will be wearing them in the future"?
The one thing Cybertronic Spree needs to do someday is have Unicron dress up as a different character, maybe Galvetron to keep with the theme, and get a gigantic stage set of an animatronic Unicron that they can use like Iron Maiden has been doing for years with their mascot, Eddie.
Check out this video to get a better idea of what I mean (skip to about 3:00 in).
Otherwise, Unicron is pretty out of scale, and no toy collector can be happy with scale problems.
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