That time Street Fighter 2 devs just straight up traced the main villain from Riki-Oh's manga to make M. Bison's (Vega in Japan) character portrait. As Street Fighter got more popular, they changed the portrait with each version to make it less obvious. Always found that funny.
Unicron's transformation in
#Transformers
The Movie 1986 will always be iconic, but let's talk about another one that hits almost as grand and epic......
@kittynouveau
@dyemooch
Maybe they are mad geniuses beyond belief or it's just the motor head in me, but I love the fake out by the angles making you think he has a HOT RIDE in a Mustang Cobra with blue and white stripes but the EPIC REVEAL..... a Mini Cooper.
Sometimes you see something that your whole life you didn't know you needed....... and yet here it is.
(Transformers G1 1984 Megatron Custom by Simon Smith)
"The Transformers Earthspark Taticons convert when you put your finger in the back of t----- and we knew this was going to happen....."
- Hasbro Employee Sydney Oz Comic Con
In 2006 we as a fandom fought for Peter Cullen to be Optimus Prime in the 2007 Transformers Movie and I think it's time to now push for
@Dkayevo
for Beast Wars Megatron.
Much like Peter with Optimus Prime, how can it really be anyone else BUT David with BW Megatron.
#YESSSS
RIP Brian, you brought back the Japanese edge to the Transformers brand that Transformers needed after he came to Hasbro from Bandai in 2000.
Rest well 🪦
(April 21, 1963-October 12, 2021)
According to Evan Brooks of
@HasbroPulse
, Deathsaurus at one point was going to be an extensive partial retool of Transformers Studio Series 86 Leader Class Grimlock 🦖
Here is a concept from
@AustinTBi
"I’ve included a photo of the back of the figure because I have a feeling folks are probably curious if he has the giant Autobot emblem engraved on his back. I’m sorry to say that he doesn’t… This is because of how the vehicle mode parts are stored" - Evan / TF Designer
#Damn
The man shaved his beard for the
#Transformers
fanstream
@Hasbro
give Mark a damn raise just for his dedication to the brand!
This and more from the Transformers Slag Podcast later today, stay tuned.
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The year was 1986, and Hot Rod was getting all the ladies
(8 foot Hot Rod cosplay with voice modulator and his own set of flashing lights)
#VintageCosplay
Watch
@dkayevo
's return as the voice of Beast Wars Megatron in the latest Robot Chicken skit.
(Might be region blocked on the Adult Swim website/YT Channel so I posted it here)
Transformers War For Cybertron Kingdom Deluxe Fossilizer Ractonite has a whole story to tell 📕
From healthy sparked Predacon/Destron, to DEAD MODE to what we have today 💀
Japan is starting to rock 100% closed packaging for their Studio Series stuff. Could be a sign of things to come for us.
They have been doing it since G1 1985 on and off so it's no surprise.
Unicron did have a 2nd voice actor for Transformers The Movie but it was not Leonard Nimoy
Marvel / Sunbow took Bob Holt's Incredible Hulk (1982) transformation roars and used it for Unicron.
Bob would pass away before TFTM would debut in theaters.
A cursed role perhaps....
So far the closest we got to G1 on the set of Transformers Rise of the Beasts in Montreal today
(Toyota Celica Supra 1984 better known to Transformers fans as Autobot Omnibot Downshift)
"We had 12 days to make MP Megatron! It was a short deadline & we didn't even know what size they wanted it to be! When we figured out a way to get the trigger to go from his crotch into the leg, we went out drinking that night to celebrate!" - Hisashi Yuki (Hyper Hobby 2006)
There is just something romantic about having the original designer of Diaclone Car Robot No. 9 Honda City Turbo (G1 1985 Skids) in Kojin Ono / 大野 光仁 from back in 1982 also work on and design the new Transformers MP-53 Skids
Photos like this from the old Botcon days are always wild to see today
"We have a suplus of
#Transformers
Animated Ultra Magnus, $35 a pop!"
(Botcon 2010)
The problem with enjoying Transformers Cyberverse is like living in a world where the Transformers 2007 Movie comes out and all you have are Fast Action Battlers and THAT'S IT.
If Transformers Legacy Cosmos is not going to be a Buzzworthy Origins Bumblebee retool than maybe we can get this out of the mold
(Transformers G1 Season 3 EDC Marissa Faireborn vehicle)
Found the cherry! 🍒
"I imagined a Season 4 episode where the Autobots get flung in time to a bad future where a bored Galvatron has taken over Cybertron and defeated Rodimus Magnus. The Autobots trying to fix things and get back home to their time" - Derrick Wyatt
When My Little Pony kept the trademark fires burning for some 1985 G1 Transformers characters
(Imagine a blue pony Beachcomber walking around in the Axiom Nexus)
All of this stuff I have not touched in what feels like a decade, so much dust on them.
Some early Transformers sketches from Derrick's low print art book WHAT circa 2008
Or as he called it "Clinical Studies In Nonsense and Inanity by Derrick Wyatt"