at long last, here's my essay on Transformers One. I've had it written for months, but people being insane online about this movie led me to postpone its release again, and again, and again, because the thing is
the only difference—I mean, the ONLY difference, the mold and purple plastic is identical—is a near-imperceptible variation in the colour of the plastic hinge, which is gang-molded with the comboner on every CW toy afaik. Basically, I'm now at the point where I can tell if a HFG is correct on sight
I'd noticed CW Dead End's HFG on my table and, on sight, was able to recognise that it wasn't CW Dead End's HFG, but in fact Wildrider's. I'd been so busy checking which exhaust pipe went with which that I'd forgotten to double-check the HFG, and had packed the wrong one in the parcel!
god so I just sold my spare Unite Warriors Wildrider that came with the (otherwise Hasbro, inc. Offroad) set of Stunticons I got from TFN last year (for the same price I just sold Wildrider for on his own!) and when I got back from the post office I immediately ran back, "can I have it back one sec"
Scuzi fo' innarupting - but WE'RE BACK with an episode looking at Linkage, oft called the best Armada fiction! Join us to find out how Servo is the PG Tips Monkey, why a van-bot is called "Midship", and what "toyetic diegesis" is. ALSO: Divorce. ourworldspod.podbean.com/e/bonus-epis...
I'm not sure Giant Days is actually a good story, on the macro level, but as a series of vignettes set at a hyperspecific bri'ish university, with fairly entertaining idiosyncratic dialogue, I enjoyed it! The occasional hyper-real or supernatural elements reminded me of Anthology of the Killer
anyway so I have updated the wikipedia page to incorporate this information. God knows if it'll stick, if not I'll try and throw a reading guide on my website en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_D...
- despite the fact that the various holiday specials and short stories are written for specific points in the timeline, there was literally nowhere online like "hey, it's best to read this here". Rare case where publication order actually IS unhelpful
- issue #1 is written to follow directly from the first three pre-BOOM! webcomics. I jumped in and went "hang on, this montage is WAY too specific to NOT be summarising stuff I haven't read". Again, the library editions just sort of throw the webcomics in wherever!
read Giant Days this month and as always, comics drive me up the wall - trade paperbacks collect just 4 issues at a time, despite the whole series clearly being structured around 6-issue semesters - hardcovers named after the semesters... but collect 8 issues each, so it still doesn't correspond!
the best I've got for all three is "Nitro", which evokes both a nitro engine (itself flame-adjacent) and liquid nitrogen, and also sounds like a name Budiansky would use. Also I need to make it clear I did not spend the last two hours on this
well it's sort of a "pick two" situation where you can either focus on the fire-ice stuff, as in something like Flashfreeze, Freezeburn, White-Hot. Or you can do ice-bike, and get Icicle or Ice-Cycle or something like that. Or fire-bike, and get something like Burnout...
I should just get the full set of six Spychangers and be done with it. I feel like a few conventions ago they were everywhere but I'd really just like to get the full set at once with all the guns and it's a bit of a tall order innit
the thing about Nightracer right is that she's so sick. I wish they'd make another one but frankly nothing is ever gonna beat the fact that she's a working Hot Wheels car. Also they can't get the trademark can they
the only reason I don't go crazy on things like this is that it's nearly always more space efficient to put things of the exact same size together. A lot of my transformers are stored by size class, not series. But god knows if space wasn't at a premium for me I'd be getting into some Weird Shelves
I'm still absolutely fuming about how Skybound invented a really cool new riff on the G1 text and then Hasbro made them change it to the 2014 one! Maddening!
the MTMTE logo comes from Star Wars Transformers packaging btw! Dunno if it was ever used anywhere else, just in generic packaging from the time, or what!
