The Random Transformers Image Thread

[Sabrblade]

I did a mash-up of Action Comics #1 x Transformers:

Would have been funnier if it had still been Superman holding up Bumblebee like that.

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

Or Robot Master.

 

[Fullstrength Motleypuss]

Or The Mechanic.

 

[Andrusi]

Or Gandalf the Gray, or Gandalf the White.

 

[Donocropolis]

Maybe make it one of those things like you see at fairs with a hole where the head should be and then anyone can stick their face through it.

 

[Sabrblade]

Or Gandalf the Gray, or Gandalf the White.

And Monty Python and the Holy Grail's Black Knight and Benito Mussolini and the Blue Meanie and Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie, RoboCop, the Terminator, Captain Kirk and Darth Vader, Lo Pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger, Bill S. Preston, Theodore Logan, Spock, The Rock, Doc Ock, and Hulk Hogan.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

This is the most ambitious slash fic I've ever heard of.

 

[LordGigaIce]

 

[Haywire]

NBE-1 must be stopped, no matter the cost!

 

[LordGigaIce]

What if Michael Bay was a G1er this whole time?

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

<decides not to kill the joke>

 

[LordGigaIce]

<decides not to kill the joke>

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

Okay, fine.

I don't think Michael Bay was the one who designed them.

 

[lastmaximal]

 

[lastmaximal]

I recently saw a sales post on a local group page that jogged my memory about having encountered the Action Cards... before I encountered the Action Cards. See, in the mid-to late-80s, Transformers (and really kid-marketed anything) was big enough locally that various food brands, even smaller ones, would leverage those things as freebie pack-ins, way more than they do today. I note the difference because one such pack-in was from some random company (that I'm pleasantly surprised to see is seemingly still around), selling individually-packed pieces of otherwise-unremarkable fruit candy. Imagine the little ramune disc in a Kabaya/SMP kit except with different fruit flavors... and packed in with smaller versions of the MB Action Cards!

I remember being brought along as a kid on the typical interminable relative visit -- to a relative who had a little general store with these -- and having to pay up after basically eating my weight in candy to get to these things (which, upon review, I now realize are also mentioned on the wiki). I did feel guilty enough, despite the bill being settled, to not take the cards home. This might be why I'd largely buried the memory, heh, and part of why it was so exciting to get those full-sized Action Cards.

What a cool thing to get as a pack-in with a random piece of candy, especially when it would have been simpler and cheaper to just print a one-sided card with the artwork and character's name somewhere. Whether in their full size or as these 2"-at-best mini cards, these were a simple but effective way to get a dose of the brand and its lore. An excellent profile, paired with the striking packaging artwork of the character. And all for the price of a piece of candy, which was perfect for a kid whose parents couldn't really afford to indulge him his every ridiculous toy whim. (And I don't blame them at all; decades later I can't afford my whims either.)

Update:

Memory is a weird thing, since apparently we just remember the memory of a memory. Maybe I'm misremembering that detail. Whatever. Sometimes things get lost in translation, or conflated, or mislabeled.

I recently came across another sale post with these, which were basically the Action Cards BUT with a white border on the front of the card and black ink on the back (no affiliate company name, BUT Hasbro trademarking), and definitely in the very small 2" ish printing format (Defender version Sunstreaker for size comparison) called 'teks' here -- its own genre of card game involving flipping the cards like coins or something; I never had friends so I never played or grew to understand it. The sales post had bio cards AND scene cards from the Action Card series, in the same printing format.

And where I didn't really recall the blue ink text on the back, the white borders did jog a memory more, and the confirmation of the definitive small size -- these were packed in with a single tablet or lozenge of candy about the size of the ramune in a Kabaya or Shokugan Modeling Project kit -- suggest these are the cards I was remembering. Although I don't think I ever confirmed the size of the blue-text cards, so it COULD still be them? (If nothing else, they seem more readable. I still have no earthly idea how my astigmatic childhood eyes read any of this tiiiiiny print, but I was motivated.) I guess it's not that important. I'm more thrown that probably not one, but TWO local companies saw fit to spend on this.

They were a little under a dollar each, and most of the notable names were gone, but I did get these.

 

[DefaultOption]

 

[unluckiness]

No. They don’t actually have the parts needed to run as a car would. their anatomy just replicates the outward appearance and function of a car.

 

[Stepwise]

"asking for a friend" would've been funny, too.

 

[Haywire]

No. They don’t actually have the parts needed to run as a car would. their anatomy just replicates the outward appearance and function of a car.

A regular Transformer, yeah, but what about a Transtector? Like, if Chromedome in Headmasters died, wouldn't his transtector body still function in car mode?

 

[Sabrblade]

A regular Transformer, yeah, but what about a Transtector? Like, if Chromedome in Headmasters died, wouldn't his transtector body still function in car mode?

Yeah, Ginrai and Lightfoot could drive their respective Transtectors like a normal truck and car, respectively, even before becoming bonded to the Transtectors via their Master-Braces. Ginrai's Transtector was even driven by other truck drivers (to disastrous results, but I digress) before he himself first got ahold of it.