The Random Transformers Image Thread
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Those window shoulders are giving me agida.
(Soundwave, jam along with that transmission!)
And good, because the recent memery about it notwithstanding, I've never had a problem with that song. (I get the reaction to things being overplayed, but I'm also aware that a huge chunk of this stuff tends to just be joining a crowd chant because it's a crowd chanting.) Maybe it's because I'm from a culture where the Christmas season basically starts in... September (we live lives so grinding that we need the joy early), and there are a number of overplayed things here associated with that that aren't Mariah Carey.
But then, I feel the same about Never Gonna Give You Up, so idk.
And good, because the recent memery about it notwithstanding, I've never had a problem with that song. (I get the reaction to things being overplayed, but I'm also aware that a huge chunk of this stuff tends to just be joining a crowd chant because it's a crowd chanting.) Maybe it's because I'm from a culture where the Christmas season basically starts in... September (we live lives so grinding that we need the joy early), and there are a number of overplayed things here associated with that that aren't Mariah Carey.
But then, I feel the same about Never Gonna Give You Up, so idk.
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I can typically trace my early interest in Transformers back to the cartoon -- thanks to an uncle who was close enough to my/our age to share some interests -- and of course the excellent packaging and presentation that included the iconic Budiansky-written character bios and tech specs. One thing my uncle also had at one point was borrowed copies of the Transformers Universe profile books, which were for a time largely forgotten and left hazy, dreamlike recollections of vertically-oriented pages with artwork and profiles. I'd later get to confirm that those really existed when I met people who owned a Marvel comics-magazine digest or two (which also reprinted TF Universe profiles). Thanks to the internet, I eventually realized there were standalone issues of just those profiles, and much later on managed to get copies of those in the old Marvel floppy and the IDW compilation reprint formats.
In between encountering bios via the packaging and Transformers Universe, I met an older cousin on the other side of the family who'd bequeath (it's been too long now to verify whether this was of his own free will or under pressure from either or both of our parents
) a big but incomplete set of the MB Action Cards, which for a while I remembered as my first encounter with the bios in that format. Even at the time, though, they did seem oddly familiar, but at the time I was too psyched to dig too deep into that.
I recently saw a sales post on a local group page that jogged my memory about having encountered the Action Cards... before I encountered the Action Cards. See, in the mid-to late-80s, Transformers (and really kid-marketed anything) was big enough locally that various food brands, even smaller ones, would leverage those things as freebie pack-ins, way more than they do today. I note the difference because one such pack-in was from some random company (that I'm pleasantly surprised to see is seemingly still around), selling individually-packed pieces of otherwise-unremarkable fruit candy. Imagine the little ramune disc in a Kabaya/SMP kit except with different fruit flavors... and packed in with smaller versions of the MB Action Cards!
I remember being brought along as a kid on the typical interminable relative visit -- to a relative who had a little general store with these -- and having to pay up after basically eating my weight in candy to get to these things (which, upon review, I now realize are also mentioned on the wiki). I did feel guilty enough, despite the bill being settled, to not take the cards home. This might be why I'd largely buried the memory, heh, and part of why it was so exciting to get those full-sized Action Cards.
What a cool thing to get as a pack-in with a random piece of candy, especially when it would have been simpler and cheaper to just print a one-sided card with the artwork and character's name somewhere. Whether in their full size or as these 2"-at-best mini cards, these were a simple but effective way to get a dose of the brand and its lore. An excellent profile, paired with the striking packaging artwork of the character. And all for the price of a piece of candy, which was perfect for a kid whose parents couldn't really afford to indulge him his every ridiculous toy whim. (And I don't blame them at all; decades later I can't afford my whims either.)
Photos from the persons' sale post (I didn't buy these, to be clear, but it was nice to see them again):
In between encountering bios via the packaging and Transformers Universe, I met an older cousin on the other side of the family who'd bequeath (it's been too long now to verify whether this was of his own free will or under pressure from either or both of our parents
) a big but incomplete set of the MB Action Cards, which for a while I remembered as my first encounter with the bios in that format. Even at the time, though, they did seem oddly familiar, but at the time I was too psyched to dig too deep into that.I recently saw a sales post on a local group page that jogged my memory about having encountered the Action Cards... before I encountered the Action Cards. See, in the mid-to late-80s, Transformers (and really kid-marketed anything) was big enough locally that various food brands, even smaller ones, would leverage those things as freebie pack-ins, way more than they do today. I note the difference because one such pack-in was from some random company (that I'm pleasantly surprised to see is seemingly still around), selling individually-packed pieces of otherwise-unremarkable fruit candy. Imagine the little ramune disc in a Kabaya/SMP kit except with different fruit flavors... and packed in with smaller versions of the MB Action Cards!
I remember being brought along as a kid on the typical interminable relative visit -- to a relative who had a little general store with these -- and having to pay up after basically eating my weight in candy to get to these things (which, upon review, I now realize are also mentioned on the wiki). I did feel guilty enough, despite the bill being settled, to not take the cards home. This might be why I'd largely buried the memory, heh, and part of why it was so exciting to get those full-sized Action Cards.
What a cool thing to get as a pack-in with a random piece of candy, especially when it would have been simpler and cheaper to just print a one-sided card with the artwork and character's name somewhere. Whether in their full size or as these 2"-at-best mini cards, these were a simple but effective way to get a dose of the brand and its lore. An excellent profile, paired with the striking packaging artwork of the character. And all for the price of a piece of candy, which was perfect for a kid whose parents couldn't really afford to indulge him his every ridiculous toy whim. (And I don't blame them at all; decades later I can't afford my whims either.)
Photos from the persons' sale post (I didn't buy these, to be clear, but it was nice to see them again):
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Came across this today. I know, the homage is already laid on pretty thick, we have plenty of G1 Hot Rod takes in toy form now, and I like Excellion as his own underused self. But this was kinda fun and I may try it out. (And wow, so many of the headsculpts in Titans Return were excellent.)
The Excellion - Hot Rod Headmaster is cool. I've seen a similar headswap, but not that one. It'd be a lot more stable than my really wobbly TR version.
And the cards are cool, too. You said you didn't buy them, but it's fun to see them - that's part of the fun of "window-shopping" at eBay(etc.) for me.
And the cards are cool, too. You said you didn't buy them, but it's fun to see them - that's part of the fun of "window-shopping" at eBay(etc.) for me.
Maybe. I have complained about opening it to change the thermal paper, and there's been times I couldn't deal with something in the moment, so maybe I just need to find the true bearer of the tester?
You'll be able to get away with "Open, damnit, open!"