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

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