Friday 21 January 2011

Collectors Club Confusion

Nooo...I'm not confused, but I know it can be confusing to follow the continuity of the collectors club, so here I am to help (supposedly <<)

Okay all the stories released in Botcon are connected in some way (no matter how obscurely)

Okay, Descent into Evil is a post G1, Pre Beast Era story which COULD connect to the Dawn of Future's Past storyline, but apparently isn't (don't ask me why) HOWEVER the toys released that year have mostly reappeared in the Wings of Honour continuity recently, menaing that that boxset is now easily connected to the Elite Guard toys

Dawn of Futures Past is an immediate prequel to Beast Wars, which connects it potentially to G2 Redux since both are supposedly prequels to Beast Wars as well

The Balancing Act and Revelations stories are both set during the "Cybertron Series" and begin the storyline that has been connecting for coming up to 7 years now

Starting from Games of Deception, the Botcon and Bi-Monthly comics stories are connected, connecting the Nexus Prime storyline and continuing stories from each of the new continuities made

Games of Deception - Crossing Over
Transcendent
Shattered Glass - Reunification
Wings of Honour - The Coming Storm - G2 Redux

After Crossing Over, the story splits in 2, one following the (then) group of 3 limbs of Nexus Prime in Axiom Nexus, and one following Classics Cliffjumper in the Shattered Glass Universe, until both storylines connect in Shattered Glass, where the Nexus Team combine, and they leave the SG universe for the Wings of Honour one, After they leave they will never be seen again in the club (Hasbro have STOLEN HIM!)

However it's later shown that Nexus Prime was in fact in the future of the Wings Universe, which also happens to be the G2 Redux universe, menaing that the Wings and G2 universes are both connected, and are also part of an alternate version of the G1 Cartoon series....

I need a breath lol

Friday 7 January 2011

Is it racist to have an accent?

Seriously, why do people consider characters with accents to be racist?

This is mostly because of what was said a while back about the Ferrari in DOTM having an Italian accent. I personally think this fits perfectly, but some people have been saying that it's clearly racist and they hope Bay gets shot or something for it or whatever

what's your point of view on the subject

Sunday 2 January 2011

There's something about Galvie




Galvatron is a very manic little fellow..not just because of the whole insanity thingie but because of how he's been portrayed, so here I am trying to make things a bit clearer for you guys:

In the G1 Cartoon, Galvatron is simply the reformatted Megatron who's turned insane because of plasma baths. He eventually gets killed off my drowning or something in Headmasters (seriously, how did that kill him?!?!?!)

In the comics however, it's more confusing, there are at least THREE Galvatrons running around!!!!

Galvatron 1: The Decepticon who travelled back from the year 2006 and started the whole Time Wars storyline, culminating in his death by being torn apart by a time/space vortex
Galvatron 2: The Decepticon whom Unicron had kidnapped from an alternate future of 2009, where Unicron ate Cybertron and the Autobots are all but dead. He is eventually also frozen or drowned by the end of the comic series
Galvatron 3: The Galvatron who travelled back from some undisclosed date to the present day (well, present form their point of view) and tried to recruit some Autobots into his unknown agenda, but fails, and ends up in a dream like state on the Ark

On top of that, there's ANOTHER Galvatron!!!

Galvatron 4: After Galvatron 2 went to the past, and Cyclonus and Scourge followed, the Autobots followed, however after Galvatron etc are destroyed and the time/space rift is destroyed, the Autobots return home, but they find Galvatron alive again!!
Now this is a time distortion, basically they returned to a slightly alternate version of their home universe, where Galvatron etc never went back in time, however Rodimus and his team DID, meaning Galvatron conquered Cybertron in his absence

AND!

Galvatron 5: In Armada, Unicron sends a very G1-looking Galvatron to the Aurex universe to prepare it for his arrival. This Galvatron is of course killed by the local Megatron (AW)

Technically also, In the Fun Pub series Galvatron has been given his Universe toy as his body, but this is just for Toy-Accuracy

In Beast Wars Galvatron is some different guy who just took Galvatron's name, who is a narcoleptic but he does end up being an avatar for Unicron

In the Unicron Trilogy Galvatron is just an upgraded version of Megatron in each series

IDW have Galvatron appearing nowadays, BUT he isn't an upgraded Megatron, he's a totally separate character, but now he's gained the power of darkness, and will be appearing in the upcoming Infestation storyline (YAY!)

Galvatron is mentioned as being a future version of Megatron in Animated as well, but he hasn't been seen yet

Shattered Glass Galvatron has a Purple Helicopter mode and is a rebuilt form of him created by Primus and Nexus Prime. He seems to be quite a lovely guy though