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That's my point. As annoying as AVP was, and as abused as it was by parts of the fanbase and the people running it, it was officially licenced fiction (itself the source of the issue, but I digress). Through AVP and other, more substantial and worthwhile efforts (prose, comics) FP was able to...

And there's the problem. And we never will. Says who? You? I'm not meaning to sound harsh and I don't want you thinking I'm coming after you... I'm just trying to make a point. You're... not anyone speaking in any canonical capacity. Neither am I. I could just as easily say "Maltix" as a nod to...

I'd be all over that

we all are damn you Takara

This. Genuinely interesting stuff comes out now and then when old drafts of scripts are found, or old material some long time Hasbro employee has been storing in their garage comes out or even just someone at Hasbro going through their own archives and going "this is neat." Like... I REALLY...

Like I said all you gotta do to get to "passable" is remould SS 86 Grimlock's head, toss some spinal fins on him, and get a Megs and OP head for each one. Paint one black and one silver and boom. It's a relatively minimal level of remoulding and they weren't even willing to do that much. No...

That's so early Super Sentai it's adorable

Quintus was an Aligned creation, yes? I ask because I've always sort of dismissed a lot of Aligned's "unifying" fiction as Rik Alvarez fanfiction. It just felt like he wanted to take another stab at the concept. And it was... ehhhhhh

It's a good point, and if this show took more of a BTAS approach- a fantasy world that just leans into 30s-40s aesthetics but clearly isn't that era- I'd not be tilting my head at it. My issue comes from being both a progressive person and a history teacher. A lot of the issues faced by both...

It feels like making "Quintus Prime" one of the Thirteen was Hasbro's way of finally trying to reconcile the Sunbow and Marvel origin stories. IDW1 may have actually had another solution. We find out that Rung (Primus) had the serial number of "1" meaning he was the first Cybertronian created...

ofc

Since TF One has everyone in a pre-war mood.... Pax The Robot Show About Nothing

Probably never, since they have a dedicated Lio Convoy/Leo Prime mould in Generations now.

Getting ahead of that Zoids/Transformers/Diaclone crossover...

That's the problem though. They are no different than any two other characters which can balloon the cast. Let's say you have a standard setup of a team of Autobots and Decepticons on Earth. So you have Megs and Optimus, and let's say three underlings each. That's four per side, eight over all...

Quintus is such a weird character and concept. Clearly the people behind Aligned wanted to tie the Quintessons in with Cybertron while also doing their own take on "Primus is the creator god" story, and Quintus being one of the Thirteen did that and made everything seem like it was part of the...

Yeah. Just making the HM/TM the character and the body a mech cuts down on that to very helpful degrees. Hell even doing what the TR toyline did and implying the TMs were Armada Minicon-esque helper dudes helps because it's not like those types of characters are burdened with personality...

And then IDW just went "actually they're just Japanese style small robots with Transtector bodies." Seems no one wants to touch the implication of humans and humanoids bending like that.

It feels like the easy answer here would have been to remould Grimlock so he had a more Godzilla-y head and spinal fins, and then you could paint one black and give him a Megatron head and the other silver and give him an Optimus head and boom. Godzilla/Megs vs Mecha Godzilla/Optimus. Beats...

See I always encountered it in a non-porn context. Mostly in sports talk. I only recently found out it was co-opted by pervs. Bloody pervs. Sadly, I can't. Crosscut himself had red hands, so my actual Crosscut in my collection kept his. I only swapped fists out for Skids when I found a junker...