Invasion of the Gobots

I think the Gobots are invading the Transformers universe, here is my reasoning

In Withered Hope, the Gobots are shown to be loosing their universe because of the new Classics Universe the Collector's club produced (besically that universe' creation is encroaching on the Gobot Universe, so they sent 6 Gobots to infiltrate that universe, however they got redirected to the Transtech universe by accident. However, at the end of that story, it's shown that MORE Gobots have been being sent as well

Well the Gobots that have been appearing all over the multiverse might NOT just be visual cameos...here are the sightings:

Dreamwave - A whole crap load of Gobots have been seen like Cy-Kill and Cop-Tur (eg Armada)
Transtech - Small Foot, Treds, Bad Boy, Bug Bite, Path Finder and Road Ranger were sent to infiltrate the classics universe, but got sent to the Transtech one (however by the end they all wind up in the Classics Universe)
Megatron Origin - Cy-Kill and Crasher are seen in the gladiatorial battles
The Ascending - Pincher is seen dead
Shattered Glass - Fitor, Cy-Kill and Leader One are all seen in crowds, also Crasher is seen in stories later (Crasher even reacts weirdly when Cliffjumper says "we just got some of your types in my universe actually" referring to her being female, but she might have thought he meant it was because she was a gobot)
Movies - Fracture, Deadlift, Reverb and Backtrack all look like a gobot (Crasher, Spoons, Dart and Nightranger)
Wings - Cop-Tur has been released a toy from this section, and Rest-Q has been seen

Seriously, the Transtech police should look into this or something!

Transformers Prime Eps 1 and 2

I loved it!!

Okay basic stuff:

Characters

Cliffjumper - He's lovable, but killed in the first few minutes of the show, but is then revived as a Dark Energon zombie by Megatron, and then blown up again (KENNY!)
Bulkhead - Not seen much of him yet, but he seems more serious and violent than the TFA guy
Ratchet - Cantankerous :3
Bumblebee - Silent, but talks in beeps and whirs
Optimus Prime- He's a Truck and a leader
Arcee - My fave so far, she's distraught after Cliff's death and isn't afraid to show it (but not in a sappy crying way)

Megatron - Been gone ins pace for 3 years, has come back with Dark Energon (Unicron's blood) he infects himself with it at the end of episode 2
Starscream - He leads the Decepticons on Earth when Megatron is gone
Soundwave - Very creepy, he doesn't talk, he has a monitor of sorts for a face which he uses to relay recordings to others...he sort of looks like the Grim Reaper
Eradicon Drones - Stormtroopers, they're the crowd fillers for the Decepticons here

Raph - Computer Genius Kid, he can actually understand Bumblebee's noises, and so Bumblebee is his guardian
Miko - She loves machines (and she's japanese...not saying it's a sterotype but....) her guardian is Bulkhead
Jack - The main human I guess, not much is known about him yet, but he seems to live with his mother, June and not his dad, not sure yet though. His guardian is Arcee
Agent Fowler - The Autobots human liason, makes sense really

Good Parts

Cliffjumper dying was a nice shock
Arcee tells Jack to leave his mother a note before he leaves as she worries
We see all the alt modes of the characters shown here, except Shockwave, which is very handy
Frank Welker's voice isn't just a carbon copy of his G1 Megatron voice
Soundwave is cool
Arcee is awesome
The Autobot base is a former missile silo, which the Humans gave them, explaining how they have a base and can keep it secret
The base uses human computers for a currently unknown reason
Episode Two's cliffhanger of the Diagnostic equipment being mutated by the Dark Energon sample and starting to head into the Autobot Base DUN DUN DAH!!!

Bad/Annoying stuff

Starscream and Megs don't know what Dark Energon does...yet they used it in Exodus, which is supposed to be in this continuity
WE DIDN'T SEE SOUNDWAVE'S ALT MODE GRAHHHH!!!!!
Optimus' voice is just the same as in G1 and the Movies..kinda disappointed

Will update as I think of more stuff later

TIME WARP!!!

Okay I am about to be annoyed again, since Scrubs is about to begin again during the day, but straight after the last episode of series 8, which always freaks me out

This means that every development, child born, job gained, experience had is gone and reset. This just depresses me slightly each time, since this happens a lot now, especially since most shows get cancelled or end and so we just get a hundred reruns instead

Just my little rant for the day

Victory

Oh Victory...you made me wet my panties :D

It's so sad that this was the last full instalment of G1 Transformers from Japan anyway...

LOVE

Cool new robots for me to lust over
Star Saber
Pretender Shells are able to act independently of the robot, like in Marvel
Star Saber
Lots of new concepts are introduced for the first time (Breastforce, Brainmasters)
Star Saber
LOADS OF COMBINERS!!!
STAR SABER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Dinoforce are just great
STAR SABER STAR SABER STAR SABER!!
Old characters reappear (like Minerva, Ginrai, Perceptor and Zombie Wheeljack)
Did I mention Star Saber?
When Ginrai became Victory Leo he takes his time acclimating to the new body, unlike when Bumblebee became Goldbug or Hot Rod into Rodimus etc
Ginrai gets his jst deserts as well, in Masterforce he had 2 power-up partners (his trailer and Godbomber) yet now he becomes a power up for Star Saber
The Breast Force aren't all introduced at once, You get Leozack first, then the 3 land vehicle ones, the Hellbat, then Gaihawk, then a seventh member who dies, and then their combined form...whew
Subspace is used a lot too to explain the weapons appearing from nowhere :D

HATE

Misleading weapons, like showing the characters having swords when they actually have guns in the toys
Galaxy Shuttle...I like the ide aof the characters, he's huge, powerful...but he has THAT voice...WHY DOES HE HAVE A FREAKY HIGH VOICE?????
Also Galaxy Shuttle is just used as a space bus, which is depressing, considering how strong he is...I am glad however that he didn't mass-shift at any time
The Micromaster Bases are used in the series, but their Micromaster partners aren't seen anywhere

Minibot Interlude!!!

I really want more updates of minibots to happen, even if they are just repaints...so what have we got so far:

DONE

Bumblebee - Classics
Cliffjumper - Classics
Windcharger - Generations
Huffer - PCC
Brawn - ROTF
Beachcomber - ROTF
Cosmos - Universe
Powerglide - Universe
Seaspray - HFTD
Outback - ROTF
Wheelie - Universe
Warpath - Universe

STILL NEED

Hubcap - Can be done with a remolded head on Classics Bumblebee
Gears - any idea?
Tailgate - Repaint/Remold Generations Windcharger
Swerve - any idea?
Pipes - Repaint/remold PCC Huffer
Glyph - Repaint Classics Bumblebee
Tap-Out - Repaint Classics Bumblebee
Rook - Repaint Generations Windcharger

Masterforce

Okay, I loved Headmasters, but I ADORE Masterforce (ps I use a more graphic verb for my feelings about Victory). Basically, this is Transformers crossed over with Power Rangers, and thus is pure love, so here's my run down again:

LOVE

There are ZOMBIES in episode 2 and 3!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (Well Destroids technically)
Sixknight is basically Batman here, he appears from nowhere to save the day, and then goes away again...plus he can probably breathe in space <<
There are loads of non-animated-before characters here again, plus a lot of them use their Western counterpart's colours instead of the proper Japanese ones (weird) So we get DoubleDealer instead of Doubleclouder etc
The Humans actually do stuff instead of standing around cheering on the robots
The Pretender Technology makes more sense than in the Marvel comics
Brilliant Music and Animation
The Transtectors are able to drive by themselves as well as being driven (showing that they have some sentience)
The bases for both factions get destroyed quite a lot, requiring the factions to use some base modes instead (ie Overlord's base mode and Ginrai's one)
Master Braces are cool....AND COME IN KINDER EGGS!!!!!
They have very catchy catchphrases (MASTERFORCE!!! PRETENDER!!! SUIT ON!!! HEAD ON!!! GOD ON!!!)
Characters die, and then don't appear again in crowd scenes (here's looking at you Prowl!)
Wilder kills a puppy, just so Minerva will fight...WAHHHHHH (lol the puppy is named "Pis"
There's quite a bit of faction swapping as well, especially after DEvil Z starts showing his desire to kill all humans
Lightfoot is gay for Ginrai :D

HATE

THE DUB!!! MINERVA IS NOT NIGHTBEAT!!!
The action takes place just on Earth and the Moon :(
The humans muse be contortionists to turn into Heads and Engines :(
A MAJOR missed opportunity here, the Decepticon human characters could have stolen the Autobot Transtectors at some point, and posed as them, causing problems etc (ie Giga steals Ginrai and poses as him etc)
Okay I think that's it, I should be talking about Victory tomorrow :D Enjoy!!

Headmasters

I LOVE the Transformers: The Headmasters series from Japan, when I first saw it I was so happy, it was just after I collected the G1 DVD's from Metrodome, so I was in the mood for more Transformers. I mean despite this series being like 20 years old or something when I saw it, it just always felt new to me

Now My actual thoughts:

LOVE

The Trainbots - Lets face it...Robots that turn into trains are just cool and we didn't get enough over here in the west

The Headmasters - Whilst the Nebulon Headmasters are what I remember most, I actually prefer that the Headmasters in Japan were just purely robotic instead of little aliens in suits

Cybertron exploding - Who couldn't find that incredible

More toys!!! - Not more than we had in the West really, but I mean we see more toys on screen than we did in the West, like the Monsterbots, and most others having a larger role, like Punch or the Clones...and Sixshot of course

Ultra Magnus - I'm not a fan of Ultra Magnus, I admit that, I find him irritating really, but I loved his death scene..yeah..I'm a sadist

Combiners - So many combiners fighting *droooolllll*

A paced out intro for characters - Because Season 4 in the West was so contracted, you had like 50 new characters appear in one episode or something, at least in Headmasters we get episodes specifically for specific characters to be introduced

Targetmasters - I like how they aren't just guns (ie held by a handle), but weapons that actually attach to the larger robots

The bloodbath - These episodes have a lot of death in them, I mean not every episode, but certainly a lot of them

Sixshot - He got shafter in Season 4, now he has his revenge, he's Earth Commander, a super ninja, a mass murderer and later a defector, joining the Autobots as seen in Victory (as Greatshot) plus...you know...SIX ALT MODES!!!

Drunk robots - Hardhead gets drunk and makes Twincast act like a karaoke machine as he sings the closing themetune to the series, and Wheelie gets drunk too (LIGHTWEIGHT!)

HATE

Arcee - "Here's your tea Mr Maximus" is essentially her role in the series

DUB DUB DUB!!!! - I tried watching Headmasters in the dub form first, then I cried, I just couldn't watch it...now I tend to watch foreign films in subtitled form rather than dub, unless they are dubbed by a proper company like 4Kids or something

Daniel - Seriously? How old is he meant to be??

I'll probably update this every so often as stuff come to mind

Obscure Characters

I've been asked a few times why I love obscure characters or using them in stories etc, well simply put they're the easiest and most fun to write for

Basically I have these reasons specifically why:

1) They have little or no character development before that point, so you can give them pretty much anything to do or give them any back story and it'll be valid

2) You can teach other people about a lesser known character, rather than the heavily over-used Optimus Prime or Bumblebee

3) You can kill them off or do horrible things to them without anyone really moaning

4) Eventually if the character gets so popular again, then maybe Hasbro/Takara will make a new version of the character for a toyline lol

A very good example of this is Razorbeast, who was relatively unknown before "The Gathering" but afterwards he became a greatly sought after figure, same with Thunderwing (oh and look, he has a new toy coming out <<), Overlord, Basically all the Rookie Wreckers in LSOTW and many more

So that's why I prefer to use guys like Pyro, Swerve and Siren over Optimus, Bumblebee and Prowl

What does anyone else think?

And your name shall be.....

Okay as I'm sure EVERYBODY has heard about, there is a Transformer planned for the Power Core Combiner line named "Spastic" which of course is offensive in the UK (as highlighted here: http://figuredouthq.blogspot.com/2010/11/hasbro-respond-to-public-concern-over.html )

So what can we do to avert being offended by him...well I have a few easy ways

1) Ignore it!!

2) Do a comic using the character and do a comedy BLEEP whenever someone says the name

3) Rename him

I prefer the third option, so what do we call him? I've heard cases for Spasma, Drag Strip (NO!) or Concave, but here is my OFFICIAL RENAME SUGGESTION...

You may thank me later when you start seeing Frank in comics ;)

Wow

Wow I haven't updated this in months, I know I probably say this whenever I start again, but this time I aim to update it frequently enough...okay here's a random update...um....

I find the later released Mini-bots from G1 fascinating, despite them all being repaints/slight retools, I mean I'm a fan of the Windcharger mold as it is anyway, but Tailgate is just beautiful to me. Same with Swerve, I love the strawberries and cream colour scheme, and pipes with his same mold-different transformation to Huffer, which is just incredible

I promise next time I'll plan a topic rather than just looking for inspiration from my toy shelf lol