Transformers News Thread 2012 Edition

[the chuck]

[Greg]

New to the forums, so I’m going to catch up on this thread in one big go.

Even though I have enjoyed almost every version of Transformers, I agree with Chuck, G1 all the way baby!

I gave Beast Wars a good effort when it originally aired to try and like it but I couldn’t, and after watching it with my son on Netflix, I still don’t.

The Dinobots are cool. They are not the dumb headed characters that the animated series portrayed them as. I can see people not liking them for that reason. Even though it’s ingrained into the male DNA to like robots and dinosaurs, the combination of both clearly equal awesome.

Transformers Comics – I never kept up with the Marvel run, they were hard to find in the small town I grew up in, that is not stopping me from reading Regeneration One. I did not read any of the Dreamwave stuff and I jumped on board IDW’s run a few issues before Chaos started. I really like both of the ongoing titles. I like More Than Meets the Eye a bit more than Robots in Disguise because it has little drops of all the outer space television shows I used to watch growing up. Both have something unique about it, are well written and each issue leaves me wanting more. I need to delve into IDW’s back log but have no idea where I want to start.

I cannot wait for Fall of Cybertron! Grimlock, Metroplex, Bruticus, Shockwave! As my daughter says, ZOMG!!!

I cannot gush enough about Transformers Prime. The cg is good, I like the characters, the stories are well done and well executed and the soundtrack is awesome. If you have not listened to the soundtrack, you need to. Brian Tyler nailed the music for series and it adds great depth to an already great series.

My favorite combiner is Devastator, followed by Bruticus and Superion.

I had both of those Transformers lunchboxes, the punchout book, the sticker book and I remember having two coloring where the characters were drawn like the toys, and not how the characters looked in the cartoon or comics.

I would love to have a transforming General Lee; I think we could say that about all of the iconic 80’s vehicles. I will add in there that I always wanted a Prowl in the guise of TJ Hooker’s police cruiser.

I got the Constructicons individually and was never able to get Scavenger so I was denied the mighty Devastator. I did have all of the Combaticons and Terrorcons.


Here’s what I had in my collection. I gave it all to my best friend, along with all of my GI Joe stuff when I was a sophomore or junior in high school. Even though I could be sharing those with my son, I don’t regret it.

Bumblebee
Cliffjumper
Huffer
Windcharger
Brawn
Gears
Bluestreak
Hound
Mirage
Prowl
Sideswipe
Optimus Prime
Frenzy
Laserbeak
Rumble
Ravage
Buzzsaw
Soundwave
Thundercraker
Seaspray
Powerglide
Beachcomber
Cosmos
Warpath
Twin Twist
Top Spin
Skids
Tracks
Whirl
Grimlock
Slag
Snarl
Jetfire
Perceptor
Hot Rod
Kup
Blur
Ultra Magnus
Galvatron
Bonecrusher
Hook
Long Haul
Mixmaster
Scrapper
Bombshell
Kickback
Shrapnel
Astrotrain
Blitzwing
Dirge
Ramjet
Thrust
Hubcap
Outback
Pipes
Swerve
Tailgate
Wheelie
Air Raid
Skydive
Slingshot
Sky Lynx
Metroplex
Blades
Streetwise
First Aid
Blast Off
Brawl
Swindle
Vortex
Onslaught
Ratbat
Octane
Goldbug
Blot
Cutthroat
Rippersnapper
Sinnertwin
Hun-Gurr

[starjoesryan]

That is an impressive list. Welcome to the forums. Looking forward to seeing you around even more.

[Greg]

Thank you Ryan. I worked my butt off for those, had a paper route, mowed lawns, did clean-up work for my uncle's dry wall business on and worked for a caterer that was friend with my grandparents.

[the chuck]

[Greg]

[the chuck]

[starjoesryan]

I never had a paper route, but I had several lawns that I cut weekly or biweekly depending on he customer. I was making about $40-$50 a week, which for a 12 year old boy was a fortune.

[Jogunwarrior]

Yeah never had a paper route either. I did stuff around the house for an allowance, and also mowed my grandparents 3 acre farm once a week. Our most bizarred childhood endeavor was when my brother and I would catch snakes around the neighborhood. The neighbors would pay us a buck a snake, and we would then take them out to my grandparents farm and release them. We caught mostly garter snakes, but bull snakes, rat snakes and water snakes as well. While doing this, I would pretend I was a GI Joe catching Cobra's! There were times where we made $50.00 a day.

[starjoesryan]

That would be Chuck's worst nightmare. He hates snakes.

[the chuck]

Time for another did you have this as a kid? Today we look at Dirge, I did not have him but he looks cool.

[Greg]

Yep, I got Dirge from my little brother. he wasn't into Transformers much. Whenever he would get one for his birthday or Christmas he would offer it to me for cash or a trade.

[the chuck]

[Sandman]

No Dirge for me, but the jets were cool toys.

[starjoesryan]

No Dirge for me either. I only had Skywarp as a kid. I think I have Dirge now. I have to check the jets I have bought in the Generations wave. Maybe I didn't get him. I know I got Starscream and Thundercracker (funny that the one new version I don't have is Skywarp who I had as a kid) and I have Ramjet.

[Greg]

IDW November solicits - Transformers Prime: Rage of the Dinobots #1 of 4.

Mike Johnson & Mairghread Scott (w) • Agustin Padilla (a) • Ken Christiansen ©
Bridging the story from the Fall of Cybertron video game to the Prime TV show—the DINOBOTS hold the line as CYBERTRON falls! With OPTIMUS PRIME and the Ark long gone, the rest of the population makes their escape from the dying world—but SHOCKWAVE remains behind, continuing his experiments!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Nick Roche inter-connected variant cover, connecting with the variants for issues # 2 – 4!
Shockwave animated series character cover!
Bringing the fan-favorite DINOBOTS to the mega-popular PRIME world!
A bold new world of Transformers storytelling—in continuity with the hit TV show but blazing an exciting trail you can only see in comics!

[muttlord]

Never had any of the jets myself...were always too expensive. I did have cousin who wasn't as despondent as me, so I made a point to stay over at his house pretty regularly. He had all the original F-15's. Starscream, Skywarp and Thundercracker...those were always my favorites. Them and the Dinobots. I did have Swoop and one of the Insecticons. Loved those.

[Chris Campbell]

Only jets I ever had were Skywarp and Skyfire. Hmmm...

[starjoesryan]

[Greg]

Yep, I've been there with movie/tv/video game tie-ins done in comics. Here we have a tie-in that links a video game to a tv series that to my knowledge had been seperate until now. I would normally pass on something like this and get the trade, but my son's favorite characters are the Dinobots and I'm also interested in seeing how through this series they link Fall of Cybertron to Prime.