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Recent discussions I've had elsewhere about Aligned made me realize that the whole things seemed to come about not just in response to the runaway commercial success of the 2007 movie, but also from a desire by Hasbro to eat from the same kind of "expanded universe" pie that Star Wars had going...

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Stayin' Alive! Stayin' Alive! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Stayin' AliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIve!

My Wii still works, too.

Sounds like it's time for you to upgrade to a Wii. 😛

It just goes to show how Japan was much more ready and willing to let go of Optimus and move on to other yearly lead heroes (being used to such a trend common to long-running series like Kamen Rider and Super Sentai), while America wasn't. But at the same time, Takara wasn't gonna just not try...

I do! It's actually from an old BWTF interview with Larry DiTillio, circa September 1997: Also, there's no longer any need to search through those Google Groups archives for Bob Forward or Larry DiTillio quotes anymore, since I made this (as well as this for Bob Skir quotes) back in 2024. :geek:

I feel like the most criticism the three JG1 cartoons got was when they were finally fan-subbed by TV-Nihon and later released on DVD in the UK and Australia, at which point English-speaking fans who first got to watch them realized that the writing for The Headmasters was as dull as a doorknob...

Heh, in an ironic twist of fate, one such "Tower of Babel" that AVP itself caused to collapse was how the wiki had previously organized the many characters named "Sideways", but said AVP-induced collapsing turned out to be a blessing in disguise because of how said previous organizing was...

Regarding the Alternators toy:

It's by an artist named Yoshiyuki Takani, who also made these:

I have it on good authority that anything and everything that was ever written as part of Ask Vector Prime is not acknowledged by TakaraTomy as JG1 canon because absolutely none of it ever went through their approval process. Hayato Sakamoto is aware of such JG1 things that Hirofumi Ichikawa...

Talk about fast food.

Almost like Cybertron is jealous of all the time Optimus spends on Earth instead of home.

Though, on second glance, it kind of looks like Cybertron has come to attack the Earth and Optimus is fighting back against it.

A potential movie casting that's more of a rumor rather than confirmed: https://www.instagram.com/p/Db4lOCiDHlH/

This one? Which, if you think about it, may have been the original inspiration for this widely-copied movie poster art, given the positions of Cybertron and Optimus, the latter shooting at the former, and all the in-motion goings-on happening in the background both in the sky and on the ground:

That's a digital touchup of the Japanese movie poster art, which had more washed-out colors: