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    AI don't trust techbros

    I have a feeling that [someone] would like to know your location....
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    Star Trek General Discussion

    Strange New Worlds blamed a group of Romulans for changes made to the early 21st century, apparently they were more involved in the Temporal Cold War than the Berman era let on....
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    No, SG Drift's own article suggests the same thing, though it's unclear if that trend was intentional or coincidental. Earlier iterations of TFWiki certainly felt that "outlandish samurai stereotype as portrayed by a stereotypical weaboo" matched how G1 Drift was originally written by Shane...
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    Well, that's a tricky thing to play with....
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    Oddly enough, as I quoted from TFWiki above, as far as Hasbro is concerned Optimus Prime is Optimus Prime, even when he's Ginrai (who is, of course, Optimus Prime and Japanese ;)). A general information source such as Wikipedia might well feel similar, obviously TFWiki can't and shouldn't have...
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    Well, you've certainly replicated the feel of the AVP columns! :LOL: Hm. I wonder if the "Vitalix" cluster (as I'm styling it) would be The One Where The Thirteen Posed As The Olympic Pantheon? Considering that in other Transformers universes you can't launch a dead turbofox from Cybertron but...
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    For my part, I'd like to know if Hyperdrive was always meant to be his own character, or (as one fan theory has it) was an early design for what would become Thunderclash that got scaled down and renamed as Toei-G1 entered its Dying Days and Hasbro's European divisions were unwilling to commit...
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    There's certainly a lot to consider here.... enough to invoke the multi-quote function! First, a confession: As the fan who came up with the add-ons to make a designation like "Quadwal [1.38e10.0] Theta" to refer to our own universe (not to be confused with TFWiki's Quadwal -3975.925 Theta...
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    "Welcome to the Literature Club! 💓"

    Another back to school post for our club members, courtesy of the r/DDLC subreddit:
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    Star Wars fandom had a similar thing, which is (thanks to a helpful talk show host) how we got "Conan Antonio Motti" as the full name of the Rear Admiral choked by Vader in A New Hope. He was one of the few remaining prominent Imperials to not have a full name, Conan O'Brien asked about him...
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    I mean, the current Neo-G1 and Legacy pushes are sort of keeping it going, but then you have something like BotBots.... My initial concern, back in '22, was more that TFWiki and related not-official-but-with-clout groups were treating the system as an Old Shame, and I couldn't fathom why. But...
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    They can.... but as you point out, that isn't a universally applicable rule. (So to speak.) Going back to my Star Wars example, Lukas 577.25 Delta (feature films), Lukas 197.31 Delta (Special Edition re-releases), and Lukas 904.21 Delta (DVD re-releases) could be considered virtually identical...
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    I am just so happy that I could kickstart a topical conversation here. 😁 Anyway, had to add a bit regarding the structure we currently have, if a bit neglected. I don't claim to be among the smartest of the fandom -- if I was, I'd have known better about whom to trust 26 years ago, for example...
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    Reasons why Grandus should be the next titan

    "Arcee, what do you hear?" "Nothing but the rain...."
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    The Cheesecake Bakery

    Sadly, RotB Airazor was never in robot mode in the film itself. Still, we organics are still able to appreciate the voice. And the woman behind the voice, well. I do still remember that back in the Beast Era, my girlfriend and I went to see Tomorrow Never Dies, and she covered my eyes when...
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    A Long Time Ago In a Galaxy Far, Far Away.... - Star Wars General Discussion

    The Black Spire Outpost being tied to an unfolding new saga rather than peddling in nostalgia bait was a bold gamble -- not one I agreed with, but she was trying to bring in and build new generations of fans, so there is a logic. And for all that her detractors like to make her up as Gethzerion...
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    Transformers: One - New Animated Prequel coming September 20th, 2024 - New Toy Official Images!

    Madness, and this time (unlike some of the previous bouts thereof) we haven't got a map outline as we did before. This sounds like it could provide more material for this discussion thread own our very own board....
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    Mayhem Transformers Discussion: Reheated Leftover POTPie

    I'm guessing it's so he can do the whole "Like a vast, predatory..." bit from Furman's "-ations" run of IDW-2005-G1. In which case, he'd be cosplaying as Mesothulas.... or rather Mesothulas would be cosplaying as him, I guess.
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    The Cheesecake Bakery

    In which Miley reveals (some of) her origin story:
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    The Cheesecake Bakery

    How have things been? We tried keeping the bakery running while you were away....


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