Thread of Thoughts, Questions (and Maybe Even Answers) That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread

[lastmaximal]

Oh man, there some absolutely great ones in there! Big fan of your work.

Oh wow. Some of my favorite stuff from that era is on that page.

Yeah, what a hell of a resume. That was a very interesting time and so many of these were eye-catching and/or memorable decos. I've always loved the life that offscreen/subline imprint redecos and retools would give a toyline and miss those a lot. And some of the "side" lines were the best parts of that time.

And oh, I would've loved that Downshift. I'm glad the Frumble mold saw a few rounds of release, but this was a real shame to not get.

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

Wow.. looked at the Wiki entry, and I've got a whole bunch of those figures!

The appeal of a G1 breakfast cereal would have had very little to do with the product's quality

I mean, not necessarily?

You've got the licensed cereals that you eat once because you're a fan.

You've got the ones you eat more often because you're a fan and they keep making offers that you can't resist (Nintendo Cereal System).

You've got the ones that you eat a lot because you're a fan and it tasted good (Pac-Man).

You've got the ones that you eat a lot because you're a fan and it tasted good and maybe had lots of neat offers -- looking at you, TMNT).

And then you've got the ones that taste good, and you would eat it whether it had a license or offers or not (Pebbles, Ghostbusters).

see, my theory is that Thundercracker WAS Matrix compatible before he got turned into Scourge.
and the Matrix was trying to purge the Angolmois from Scourge and turn him into Thundercrackermus Prime. but the Unicron mojo was making the removal process as painful and horrifying as possible. but if Scourge had managed to hold onto the Matrix longer, the purge would have been completed.

I'd have gone with "Thunderous Prime," myself.