Showing posts with label Transformers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transformers. Show all posts

Sunday, 24 November 2013

Dear Santa.....TAG!!!

First off, sorry about NEVER posting here, but my life just isn't that interesting! (I do post in my comic and toy blogs quite a bit though, so...GO THERE!)

All right then, it's that time of year again, it's one month until Christmas, and since I've now seen a dozen or so different Christmas adverts on TV, and seen that several Christmas movies are starting to be shown as well (seriously though? IT'S NOVEMBER!!!) I figured I'd do a special sort of blog, which is essentially a Christmas list to Santa, but with a difference!

Basically, this Christmas list is for five things that you really want, but will most likely NOT get this Christmas, either due to availability or price. They have to be real things, and not concepts (so don't ask for a Rapidash, or Peace on Earth) and yeah, basically if you do manage to get one of those items for Christmas (if you buy them before/after yourself, then it doesn't count) then you lose this imaginary game!

Okay, here's my five items (in no particular order really):

#1: Transformers Generations Metroplex
My firsts choice is something I've wanted for a few months now, Metroplex. Basically this is a figure I could easily get by just going down to Toys R Us at any time, but I've always had something stopping me...Money!
Basically, since I came home from Auto Assembly this year, I've had no spare money to afford this guy myself. Luckily however, I should be able to add him to my collection some point in the new year!

#2: Transformers Prime Voyager Skyquake
This guy is a bugger! I have still YET to see him in the wild after a couple of years of being available, and every time I find him on Ebay he's about £40 HIGHER than the RRP...so yeah, this is one is annoying!


#3: Transformers Go! Goradora
This one, is just because I love this set of molds, I already have the regular colour Abominus figures, and the Predacons Rising clear repaints, but I need MOAR!!! This set is mostly difficult to get because it's only available in Japan, and any I've found online are just so expensive that I can't justify it!

#4: Nintendo 3DS XL
This is just a silly reason, but because I don't really live anywhere near another Pokemon player etc, I have no one to really trade Pokemon locally with (such as for temporarily trading exclusive legendaries for the Pokedex ratings etc) But this is one that I should be able to sort out for myself in the near future as well :)

#5: A home of my own!
At the moment I live with my parents, which is just annoying most of the time. So my final dream gift would have to be a place of my own (not a giant house like in the picture, but just a studio/1 bedroom flat or something). But again, this should be something I can sort out for myself within the next couple of years :)

Now, I tag anyone who wishes to do it to make their own lists, if you do, please send me a link to it, whether it be on a blog like this one, a Youtube video response, a DevArt picture version (somehow) so I can enjoy it. Also remember to tag other people with it as you desire!

Have fun! (and see you again when I blog in about a year or two!)

Monday, 12 March 2012

The Rochert Effect

Hey look! I'm posting on this blog again too!

I thought I'd post here about a new(ish) phenomenon I've been noticing over the past couple of years, so please bear with me... 

Okay Everyone knows about the Furman Effect, which is where a relatively unknown character from the Transformers Archives is used by him and instantly becomes popular, his old toys start getting bought up on Ebay, and for much higher prices etc (case in point, Razorclaw) whom was a relatively unknown Transformer until he used him in the IDW Beast Wars stories, suddenly this Basic class figure with a one step transformation sequence is going on ebay for hundreds rather than just a couple of pounds like his wave mates would.


Now as for my actual reason here...the Rochert effect, named for Nick Roche and James Roberts, in which the Furman effect happens again (unknown characters suddenly become firm favourites) but with the added bonus of a new toy being created for this forgotten character as well, or the sudden usage of that character after many years of nothing in other media, when used in media created from either of these two wonderful men.

Some Examples of this:

Ironfist = Botcon 2011 Fisitron figure
Pyro = Botcon 2010 Pyro figure
Overlord = Botcon 2012 Gigatron figure
Guzzle = DOTM Guzzle figure


On top of these figures we also have just had the announcement of a new Swerve figure in Asia, just after he became a main character in MTMTE

Of course some other characters used prominently by this duo have also had new toys in recent years (Rodimus, Perceptor, Kup to name but a few) but since they were already popular characters already they can't really be counted (which is the same reason why the Furman Effect doesn't work toywise either, since characters like Grimlock, Nightbeat, Bludgeon and so on , who have gone to get new modern incarnations in toylines, were always popular anyway)

I'm sure there are many I've forgotten on this list, but if you look through the character lists of their works and then look at any new toy releases, you're bound to find a fair few correlations.

And remember, when you see a Skids, Tailgate or Whirl toy produced in the next year or so, always remember...Aesir told you so!

Sunday, 19 February 2012

Transformers 4ever!

As I'm sure everyone has heard already, Transformers 4 has been confirmed for a release date in 2014, and once again will be directed by Mr Michael Bay.

I'm personally quite happy about this, I'm pretty impressed and happy with the movies thus far (and of course the toylines and comics associated with them as well) but there is one thing that does annoy me about this particular part of the franchise...the fanrage....

The moment this news came up there were angry posts about how Bay has destroyed the fandom and how he's doing it again and whatever. Now I appreciate that these guys are just angry that they didn't make the characters look exactly like their antiquated G1 counterparts or that they actually look life-like etc but that's no reason to besmirch the franchise for a different aesthetic touch to what they were expecting.

Of course I'm also expecting the usual "I CAN'T SEE WOT THEY'RE DOIN!!11!" posts regarding the designs again...which I've never understood...how can anyone get mixed up between the character models on these guys? They all look so different and most have vastly different colour schemes to one another (Bright red Dino vs a Dark Black Dread for example)

What else? Oh yeah all we know about this new film so far is that Optimus and Bumblebee will be returning most likely (:<) and since they're using "4" in this preliminary title it's likely to be in the same continuity (although with a soft reboot most likely as a start of a new trilogy as Sam won't be returning, so they'd have new Human and Transformer characters) again this time.

Due to Megatron's death in DOTM (and them already using a "revive him" plot in ROTF) he's likley to stay dead now, but don't worry kiddies! There's plenty of psychotic characters in the Archives of the franchise (Overlord, Deszarus, Bludgeon to name but a few) and this most likely means a goodbye to other popular villains from the previous films like Starscream, Soundwave or Barricade (unless they can make out that they didn't really die in the battle effectively)

Well in summary, despite the film being a good 2 years away still, it's still worth us having these fun speculation sessions and talking rationally about it. So have fun and don't take it too seriously like most fans do.

Sunday, 13 March 2011

Not much going on....

Not really that much to talk about right now, since I have very little money, and nothing too exciting has been happening in the Transformers franchise lately

Although I have started playing the latest Pokemon Game though, Pokemon White

I beat the main part of the game within 3 days (ie when I saw the end credits) and I'm now doing random training around the Eastern Unova Region (which has trainers with Pokemon at level 60-68!)

This leads me to question the game's logic...

The Legendary Dragons Reshiram and Zekrom are both found at Level 50 (The one that N has is at Level 52 by the time you battle him though)

Now...somehow N (the leader of Team Plasma) uses this Reshiram to defeat the Unova Champion, Alder...whose Pokemon are level 75-77. I mean I bet that if I challenged Alder with my Zekrom, whom is only level 51, then even though he's a Legendary Mascot Pokemon I'd be pummelled into the ground!

Also this brings up some other issues I have, now during the story Alder tells you that you (the player) are the only one who can stop N if Alder was to fail...yet it's revealed later in the game that Cynthia (the Sinnoh Champion) is actually in Unova (WHY DOESN'T SHE HELP?!?!) and every character in East Unova is at least 8 levels higher than N's Legendary Dragon, couldn't they have stopped him???

Anyway, N leaves Unova after Team Plasma has been disbanded and is now in a far off place with his Dragon (most likely a plot point to be picked up on in the next games at some point)


Soo, yeah, my main team are all at level 71-72 now, and I'll be training them up until I reach at least a few levels higher, whilst simultaneously training up some of my weaker Pokemon (since the Wild Pokemon aren't really worth it for my main team at the moment, and there's only SO many daily battle trainers for me to train against)

Anyway, hopefully I'll have something more exciting to talk about next time, but no promises

LATERS!

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

Thursday, 23 December 2010

The New King of the Road




I'm sure all of you have heard, but the tanker truck seen on set of Transformers: Dark of the Moon is now confirmed as Megatron due to pictures of his new toy being shown (I won't show images of the toys since they are stolen property and I don't want to get into legal issues for showing images of them on a blog etc)

Now whilst I'm happy to accept this...I just personally don't like it. Maybe it's just the appearance of the Voyager toy, but I don't get a very Megatrony vibe from him.

Don't get me wrong I'll still buy the toys etc, but I'll be calling him something else, like Motormaster or Clench or something. Give me some other ideas if you read this, or argue with me regarding my decision :D

Saturday, 11 December 2010

The Coming Storm



:O

I am literally shocked by the end of this TFCC miniseries, tehre is so much death in the last 2 comics, here's a rundown of what happened:

The Elite Guard is introduced after Botcon 2009's comic, including all the Combaticons
The Combaticons are captured by the Decepticons and they defect to the evil side
They return to the Elite Guard HQ and slaughter the rest of the Elite Guard (in very HORRIFYING WAYS!!!)
The only definate survivors are Kup's team and possibly Dion (co-incidentally the only recent Club Toys in the storyline in the Elite Guard)

I think this shows that the Collector's Club feel about the Japanese Continuity though, since they've killed off a few members of the cast from Masterforce, Victory etc...though I guess that was inevitable since this story continues on from the Western continuity, which is incompatible with the Japanese stuff

My picture up top shows all the members of the Elite Guard, with names

Here's the team breakdown however:

Officers
Sentinel Major
Big Bang

Alpha Team
Thunderclash
Flak
Kup
Landshark

Strike Team
Metalhawk
Ironfist
Dion
Over-Run

Special Ops Team
Onslaught
Blast-Off
Brawl
Swindle
Vortex

Stealth Team
Powerflash
Rumbler
Sprocket
Tap-Out

Artillery Team
Halo
Windsail
Clear Out
Padlock

Fast Attack Team
Ranger
Blacker
Laster
Braver

Recon Team
Crosscut
Delta Seeker
Rest-Q
Road Fire

Thursday, 2 December 2010

Transformers Prime Episode 3

Okay bere's my rundown on things that were interesting in this episode:

RATBAT!!!!
Arcee seems to be higer ranked than Bumblebee and Bulkhead
Energon can hurt humans
Megatron is using Dark Energon but it doesn't turn him insane (that we can see so far)
The Eradicons are actually really strong
Bulkhead didn't want Miko to see him tearing out an Eradicon's spark/CPU/Whatever he has
Bumblebee has a games console in his vehicle mode, which he can control using his steering wheel
The reason Erath has large Energon deposits is because Energon was hidden there in the distant past
There's a large Transformer graveyard on Earth from when a battle took place there in the past over Energon, Megatron of course raises those corpses as zombies!!!!

Monday, 29 November 2010

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!

Saturday, 27 November 2010

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

Monday, 22 November 2010

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

Sunday, 21 November 2010

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!!

Saturday, 20 November 2010

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