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Somehow, Red Reddington Ultron returned....

So. After unanswered e-mails, fruitless Facebook posts, and the equivalent of an online milk carton photo, I finally got word from Steve-O, keeper of the alt.toys.transformers FAQ (still!) -- via Reddit of all possible channels. I quote him below: I'm guessing that last refers to their...

That was not always the case. in the days when the US fiction was a cartoon relegated to early-Saturday reruns and a monthly comic fighting for rack space, I can distinctly remember that news that there were more full animated series involving the Transformers -- from the same country and...

Well, it wouldn't be the first time that we had dramatic divergences in characters, lore and setting between Hasbro and Takara's directions. Divergences in multiversal theory, that's a bit newer, though not without precursor (see what I did there?) So basically, TakaraTomy is using corporate...

It has, looking back through my posts here, been the better part of a year since I said much at length on the matter. The short version, as I noted above, is "Blame Scorponok!" There is a bit more to it than that, of course, but that -- and the resulting stress on the Timey Wimey Ball, and how...

Does anyone of Armenian descent wish to weigh in on that? (Nota Bene: In the very article linked, it does quote historian Stefan Ihrig as writing in his book that the Nazis took inspiration from Ottoman Turkey's actions. As Bruce Sterling once said, the 20th century was by and large not a good...

Probably a similar process involved how Omega got his name on a couple of Gallifreyan artifacts of yore, when the usual pattern is "________ of Rassilon", over in the Whoniverse. ;) <The Hobus Event has knocked over the chat.> I've been calling Toei-G1 a cognitohazard for some time now, so...

It's often been said that if the terms as used by the UN are consistently applied, that the concept becomes diluted -- if everything is, nothing is, and the like. This essay suggests that such a view may be yet another form of American exceptionalism...

Oh, if anyone has just cause to say that of this particular fandom, it's me. And I have receipts (and scars). But I also have good convention memories, a TM2 Dinobot on card with "Talk For You!" penned by Scott McNeil on the bubble, the wiki pages for the Cybertronic Spree and YTV to my credit...

*sneezes* 🤧 Yes, well.... that's fandom for you, I guess.

Well, the one nation that is consistently seen developing the means to step in is also the one nation that cannot do so....

Assuming that the post wasn't a mission-specific reconfiguration, poor Soundwave was arguably even more badly served by Functionism than most of his Mini-Con Deployers....

Tarn? Is that you? That being said, it would be interesting to review "War Dawn" (well, this would be more akin to "War 6:30 with a stop for McMuffins") through the post-2000s lens of the origins of Megatron and the factions....as well as modern toy altmode issues that Studio Series has...

First, an apology to MEDdMI. This video was generated using synthetic and/or altered content. That being said: It's certainly topical and well-prompted.

There was a fic written by Dave "Zobovor" Edwards that basically tied RiD 2001 to Sunbow continuity by way of Ultra Magnus. And one may well say "wait, what?", but Zob did go through the cartoon history (including "War Dawn"), showing a string of disappointments and...

Oh, what if they're pulling an even more controversial followup than "Dark Awakening" or Transformers: Kiss Players ? If Unicron's destruction can do interesting things with causality (as in Marvel-G1 and Cybertron), then perhaps the site of his destruction in The Animated Movie might have...

Possibly with Gears and Inferno (who were credited in the movie but never showed). Meanwhile, under the shuttle that Megatron boarded and Hot Rod shot up: Razorclaw: "Anyone? A little help?"

I had to go to the wiki to confirm that, but yes, 1987-1988 seemed to be a bit of a two-year cycle for Hasbro's catalogues,* amortizing the more expensive Scorponok toy by keeping it in service for the next year's catalogue. That wouldn't be an option for Takara thanks to how The Headmasters...

Filmation made Tung Lashor part of their iteration of the Horde as well, which was acknowledged in the mini-comics when they assembled the Snake Men faction (with him and Kobra Khan basically being "embedded" in Hordak's and Skeletor's respective services).