That even predates me.
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I wasn't but it was part of my reading as I got back into Transformers in the late 90s. I myself got back into it via message board, with this as one of the first ones I joined.
But no, nothing to do with that. I was just (poorly) avoiding commenting on the fans themselves and trying to focus more on the point/claim. Too often these days (and to be clear I'm not necessarily saying Tuxedo Prime is doing this) the discourse around fandom amounts to reading one post and some replies and then saying (reporting, often, as clickbait BS) that "fans say ___" like it were a delegation consensus.
What I can't relate to at all is watching the episode with Halonix Maximus, and the rest of the series, and not taking it as read that this was just a random hologram cobbled together for the sole purpose of bamboozling the Decepticons. The phrasing of how fans "couldn't be sure" of that, when there was absolutely nothing to even raise a question about it, is what seems entirely alien to me. Like, sure, it's not exactly the same as Autobot Spike being obviously reused bits from existing models, and I get that going to the trouble to design a throwaway character invites the question. But even with ATT, the context was one of rewatching a long-completed show, where there was never any followup to that design; there also never needed to be, because even in-story within the episode, the need was for a surprising, unfamiliar-to-the-cons giant Autobot, so that would seem to answer that.
Rather than the fans staring at self-evident evidence and saying "but what does it MEAN?", it just seems far more likely to me that they weren't satisfied with what was in the text (which was even at the time known for animation flubs and delivering things at face value and Not Being That Deep) and wanted there to be more to it, then read something into it and fanon'd up something to fit the gap.
Which is totally common and totally fine (I do this all the time, and one of my favorite places on here is the Personal Canon thread), but by the same token... just say that then.
Nice! I remember growing up and having a few of those penny racers and playing with them and the various bumblebee, Cliffjumper, bumblejumpers that we had.
That somehow got the Transmetals games mixed up. (Actually specifying the PS1 game, when Waspinator and Starscream are only playable in the N64 game. Transmetal Waspinator does appear in cutscenes in the PS1 game, but isn't playable.)
Or is getting stuff wrong part of being an "In Search of..." parody?
They also conflated the video game lore with the IDW Sourcebook lore as if the two were part of the same continuity.
I kinda think the YouTuber just goofed on his research.
I was wondering if that was a genuine parody of an actual TV show...
And I didn't expect the toy review in the middle. I put it on for my wife and I to watch, and, well, I had to finish that part on my own. XP
And I didn't expect the toy review in the middle. I put it on for my wife and I to watch, and, well, I had to finish that part on my own. XP
Galvatron: My work here is done.
Astrotrian: But you didn't do anything!
Galvatron: Didn't I?
Not sure if this link will work but apparently Soundwave sings his dialogue in the Chinese dub of TFTM:
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