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

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

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

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!!!!

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