Although Megatron himself would not make an appearance in the Japanese exclusive Kiss Players line, he would nonetheless have a small role to play.

In keeping with the sexual nature of Kiss Players, the Legion possessed phallic tongues, which became the subject of much controversy among the Transformers fandom.

* Transformers: Kiss Players ( 2006 – 2007, Japan )

The Transformers: Kiss Players was a Japan-only line of Transformers toys, manga, and audio dramas released in 2006.

The comic that accompanied the Kiss Players was an unashamed reflection of this, with several images which were considered by some to be very sexually themed.

Kiss Players continued the theme of the metaphysical power potential of human beings empowering Transformers.

The Japanese-exclusive Transformers: Kiss Players toy line features the concept of Transformers who attain power-ups through being kissed by young women, in a universe that branches off from the original animated series.

Set in 2006 ( one year after Starscream's death in The Transformers: The Movie, but four years before the third season of the show, which in Japan occurred in 2010 ), the Kiss Players radio drama sees Starscream's ghost possess Earth Defense Command ( EDC ) operative Atari Hitotonari, and forced her to seek out his old ally, Doctor Arkeville.

By this stage calling himself " Primus ", the Oracle attempted to stop the villains and their unwitting pawns, the human Kiss Players, appearing as a giant golden hand to snatch away the fragments of Unicron's lifeforce each time the Kiss Players recovered them.

Unfortunately, this merely led the Kiss Players to pursue him through the timestream and resulted in them crashing into the " Wall of Time " and becoming scattered throughout the multiverse.

Knowing that the Kiss Players were innocent in this whole affair, having been duped by the Sparkbots, the benevolent Primus rescued them from the different regions of time and space they had wound up in, and properly introduced himself, explaining the Sparkbots ' treachery.

With the battle over, Shaoshao asked about the Kiss Players ' future, but Primus did not reply.

After sending the Kiss Players back to their home time, Primus transformed into the golden sphere of Vector Sigma and returned to his world to sleep.

A red version of Mirage's Ford GT mold, identified as Hot Rodimus has been issued in the Kiss Players toyline, with a new head sculpt and a number of additional accessories.

Thankfully for her, Starscream learned about the Kiss Players from 15's databanks and abandoned her body in search of more power.

Along with the Kiss Players cassettes Rosanna, Sundor and Glit, both Teletraan units were unceremoniously dumped from their commander's ship in space near Earth and left to forge their own destinies.

The Kiss Players fiction was told through a series of radio plays in Japan, the recordings of which were included on CDs accompanying the toys.

The Kiss Players saga takes place in a continuity separate from Binaltech, as it depends on the events of the original animated feature, in which Optimus Prime dies, Unicron reformats Megatron into Galvatron, and both are eventually defeated by Rodimus Prime.

But it was found that these cells could also be utilized on humans and the Autorooper squads, to create a more powerful force to fight the Legion-the Kiss Players.

The removal of these cells eliminated the unique powers of the Kiss Players and undid the reformatting undergone by both Optimus Prime and Hot Rod, including undoing Optimus's resurrection.

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The first and most famous of the Jirel of Joiry stories is " Black God ’ s Kiss ", which received the cover illustration ( painted by Margaret Brundage ) in the October 1934 Weird Tales.

" And if profanity is undesirable, a person might simply forgo the offensive word, such as saying, " Kiss my you-know-what!

A prime example is Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ); based on a novel by Mickey Spillane, the best-selling of all the hardboiled authors, here the protagonist is a private eye, Mike Hammer.

Ae Fond Kiss explored an inter-racial love affair, Sweet Sixteen a teenager's relationship with his mother, and My Name is Joe an alcoholic's struggle to stay sober.

The game is also played extensively in the small town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders, mainly in the local primary school playground, where it is favored to more traditional childhood past-times such as ' British bulldogs ' and ' Kiss, Cuddle and Torture '.

When ordered by temperature and when duplicate classes were removed, the spectral types of stars followed, in order of decreasing temperature with colors ranging from blue to red, the sequence O, B, A, F, G, K and M. ( A popular mnemonic for memorizing this sequence of stellar classes is " Oh Be A Fine Girl / Guy, Kiss Me ".

However, a striking example of the line used to divide Dada and Surrealism among art experts is the pairing of 1925's Little Machine Constructed by Minimax Dadamax in Person ( Von minimax dadamax selbst konstruiertes maschinchen ) with The Kiss ( Le Baiser ) from 1927 by Max Ernst.

A useful mnemonic for remembering the spectral type letters is " Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me ".

Ian Pickering is a lyricist / songwriter currently writing and recording with the band Polaroid Kiss with Brandun Reed whose debut album ' Weakness of the Beautiful Souls ' is due for release in 2011.

In Kristoffer Nyrop's book, The Kiss and its History, Nyrop describes the kiss of love as an " exultant message of the longing of love, love eternally young, the burning prayer of hot desire, which is born on the lovers ' lips, and ' rises ,' as Charles Fuster has said, ' up to the blue sky from the green plains ,' like a tender, trembling thank-offering.

French Kiss is a 1995 American romantic comedy film directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline.

The most famous musical adaptation is Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate ( 1948 ).

Kiss Me Deadly is a 1955 film noir drama produced and directed by Robert Aldrich starring Ralph Meeker.

Kiss Me Deadly is often considered a classic of the noir genre.

Kiss the Moon, a 2010 documentary, is set in a rapidly changing Pakistan.

She is the one of the early female porn film directors, making Kiss and Tell in 1980.

German sculptor August Kiss ( 1802 – 1865 ) was born in Paprotzan, Prussia, which is now situated within modern day Tychy.

* In The Naked Kiss ( 1964 ), another film directed by Fuller, and starring Towers, the theater outside the bus station is playing Shock Corridor.

* " El beso de Ariadna " (" Ariadne's Kiss ") is the name of a musical comedy act by Argentinian comedy-musical group Les Luthiers.

The musical Kiss Me, Kate is about the production of a fictitious musical, The Taming of the Shrew, based on the Shakespeare play of the same name, and features several scenes from it.

" Kiss Me " was also played on the WB teen drama Dawson's Creek in episodes No. 2-06 " The Dance " and No. 2-18 " The Perfect Wedding ", and is found on the show's first soundtrack CD, Songs from Dawson's Creek ( Volume 1 ) and also played at the televised wedding of England's Prince Edward.

Terre Haute is also the birthplace of the Kiss Army, a fan club for the rock group Kiss.