on the other hand i am having a great time browsing the 3rd party figures on tfsource, featuring beloved classic characters such as *clears throat* Warbotron* Invisible Hurricane Rear-End Runman Gundog Hegemon Green Giant (not to mention its components, Neck Breaker, Heavy Labour, Structor, Exgraver, Madblender, and Dr. Crank) Sunsurge Cynicus Mania King Engineer Huff Jaguar Soundmixer Titanium Saint and, my personal favourite, Heavy Noisy. and these are just the ones i could recognize at a glance. i love copyright dodging edit: oh shit how could i forget Evillord and City Commander, my two favourite big blue guys! edit 2: and Iron Giant's Maiden!!! edit the third for the curious: Spoiler: actual names Shockwave Mirage Cyclonus Tailgate Blurr (fuckign runman) Hound Megatron (with a morningstar, for extra intimidation) Devastator, obviously Sunstreaker Vos Galvatron Huffer Ravage Blaster Alpha Trion aaand i actually have no idea who good ol' Heavy Noisy is supposed to be, but i could not exclude him, for reasons that should be obvious and then Overlord and Magnus obvs and then Windblade *apparently X-ray, not Warbotron, which is a god damn shame
Spoiler: mtmte 29 Swerve's little spiel of "PREVIOUSLY ON THE NERD CRUISER" is adorable chromedome thinks WHAT NOW? tailgate how are you so adorable and how are you and cy not officially dating. unless you maybe... are? pls? ahh he was still in the medibay, i remember. "But he was wearing one of THESE!" "Yes and it doesn't suit either of you" still bitter huh cy :'D I literally just took a moment to lie down and just stare at the ceiling while coveirng my mouth from how cute Cy kneeling down to reassuringly pat Tailgate's shoulder is. and how he reassures him that yes, everyone missed him a lot. NOT THOSE FUCKERS AGAAAAAAAAAIN oh my god okay i love rodimus so much just. He's so good. He is too good. The world doesn't deserve him. SWERVE THAT'S NOT A GOOD DOORMAN tbh that doesn't look like megatron attacking ultra magnus it looks like him laughing about magnus throwing a tantrum which is sort of hilarious tbh god dammit trailcutter you are SUPER drunk FUCK YOU starscream i want to shove that pointy crown up your ass so badly you terrible douche. this smells like shenanigans starscream why are you speakign in defense of megs *narrows eyes* i can't tell if he just took this as a chance to drag the hell out of megatron or if he's actually trying to help him. And if it's the latter whether it's gonna work... o_o Holy fuck Chromedome. darling i think you might benefit from paying a visit or two to rung :( UM i'm laughing so hard trailcutter is totally gonna get in trouble, Skids and Riptide are ridiculous and Nautica is done with this shit i love this crew. ... huh. Tailgate is tiny how did he slam so hard into skids there? o_o panic bubble. okay. Huh. So he was being a cruel motherfucker on purpose. You are a special brand of terrible Starscream. And you didn't make your equations with the fact that the lost light crew will take Megs on board :P rewind... a data ghost... this is the worst way to learn about ghosts in transformers my heart is already broken "I've just engaged your F.I.M. chip. Permanently." "WITH YOUR HAND?!" "Four million years of practice." ilu megs honestly i think megatron has a pretty good approach to leadership and I fully accept him as the new dad onboard. um. that sure is a corpse. oh boy. WHAT. MEGATRON WHAT THE HELL? ... and of course he's looking at it after all. Rodimus why are you doing that?
ohhhhh my god I am so excite to see how this will continue. If i actually liked eating popcorn i'd be sitting here with an industrial sized bucket of it.
Spoiler: 51 I laughed so hard I almost spit coffee all over my computer http://piipaw.tumblr.com/post/142195244054/this-is-all-i-can-think-of-when-i-see-new-ratchet
Spoiler Warbotron is actually the name of the company! EDIT: And also the combiner Not-Bruticus. Their Not-Shockwave is called X-ray. Heavy Noisy is Not-Brawl.
oh my god i JUST saw this post like thirty seconds ago it's GLORIOUS EDIT Spoiler: 51 actually everything is glorious in the wake of 51 because all the TF blogs i frequent are just like. The Dratchet Show. the old robot husbands power hour. all gay grandpas, all the time and i love it
Random question: I've cleared Dark Cybertron now, and I'm wondering, does the exRiD focus go back to my horrible, handsome husband Starscream at any point before the series gets to the Combiner Wars point? Because I'm just... not very invested in Earth and wars and junk, I'm much more interested in rebuilding society and/or ridiculous space quests. I'm not terribly interested in Optimus, and Prowl just makes me too sad to function, so will there be any Cybertron in the mix, or will things be staying almost exclusively on Earth?
You want to stick with the two windblade series then start up with Til All are One, which starts in June.
Oh, I know that has starscream! I've read all the combiner wars and windblade stuff already, I was just trying to figure out if there would be any bright spots in the exRiD stuff without accidentally spoiling plot points for myself on the wiki
On the subject of Transformers merch - there's a random display full of metal toy cars and trucks and emergency vehicles at the grocery store I go to most often. They don't transform or anything. They're just toys with wheels that barely work ...I've still been tempted
Hm, I'm not sure. A lot of it mostly focuses on Optimus I think with Bee a Spoiler: spoiler ghost or something else.
I think there is some Star stuff in All Hail Megatron. But as for current ex/Rid I'm not sure. The tfwiki might know.
Spoiler: mtmte 30 "You know your problem? You've become desensitized" BELIEVE ME SWERVE I HAVEN'T I'M ABOUT AS EMOTIONALLY COMPROMISE BY RECENT EVENTS AS YOU CAN GET oh well played, Megs. Well played. whirl's avatar is the cutest ever and i love him "I'm protesting my innocence by braiding my hair and watching off-world cinema" a dumb question: how does a bot, no less an empurata victim, know how to braid hair? Swerve i think you've got megs pegged wrong, but i can understand the problem here. oh MY GOD THIS ISHOW MEGS GOT TO BE PART OF THE LOST LIGHT QUEST? shit man that is brilliant AND ridiculous aww first aid bby that must be stressful. That must be VERY stressful. oh my god rodimus is that a POUT? ARE YOU POUTING AT MEGATRON? you humongous man-child. look darling. He's not... you're still both captains of the ship. I assume. I know you take it badly that OP is disappointed. And you probably don't take well to how much OP and Megs flaunt their mutual crush around either. But this is ridiculous. hey now megs. Rod hasn't failed yet! He had a few derailments! no need for uncalled harshness. "I'm calling team rodimus" you mean you are calling the nerd squad. "The genius*" "* Citation needed" pfffff at least chromedome is back to doing things. I love how touche-y-feel-y nautica is with everyone. There is a lot of casual contact she initiates and people are cool with. it feels very warm and nice. Like the ship is one big happy family :D "No this is good news, all i have to do is not get killed" that's the optimism i expect from you... but why do you look so sad? well that's pretty fucking freaky okay I love getaway but this is uncomfortable and i'm kind of hissing protectively over tailgate. he's... comig on very strongly. (I'm spoilered for how this part goes though so i already know there is schemes afoot here. But i think even if that wasn't it i'd be a bit uncomfy?) that was a lowblow OP and you know it. YESSSSS A NEW RODPOD oh god my poor boy looks like he's about to throw up pffff "Shut up and follow me. Oh and for future reference? Only bad guys say "Unhand me"."oh rodimus <3 okay boys now is not the time to fight. Wow that'll be a bit hard to uh... undo.
I'M!!! SO EXCITED!!!!! (i'm so so glad you're liveblogging all the issues btw like. it's so so fun for me to read these<3)
@spockandawe I might try to scan through the TF wiki for you in a bit to ID which issues have Starscream/Cybertron focus - I know 33 at least has stuff that's relevant to those interests, but I forget the other exact issues. (But if you skip out on exRID's earth stuff, you miss out on Spoiler: Assorted post DC exRID ISSUES Thundercracker and his puppy and Soundwave's weird commune and Cosmos!
