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.

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!

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

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

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