A look at Transformers, old and new

I started writing these little rambles on the TFW2005 forums as a way to entertain myself. I'd started taking a few photos the modern Titans Return Titan Master toys alongside the old G1 figures they were based on. It kind of snowballed from there and suddenly I was writing a 700-1000 word comparison review to…

Ruckus

I almost groaned when I realised I'd have to write about Ruckus. 'Ugh', I thought. 'This will just be the same background nobody spiel as Windsweeper'. Well, almost but not quite. I read through the spread of UK and US issues where Ruckus appeared (there weren't that many of them really), from 'The Fall and…

Straxus

At last! Finally! Lord Straxus in plastic form. You can't imagine what this means for an old comics head like myself! Wait, what? Oh yeah. I forgot about 'Darkmount'. Good point. But can you blame me? He's probably the oldest Generations figure still on my shelf (until now). I've talked about that two part 'Return…

Windsweeper

So, Windsweeper. He's a guy, isn't he? Like, a big guy. Kind if a big deal. No? Ok, fine. I'm circling the drain. The tone of these rambles is becoming increasingly moribund. It's hardly surprising when there's so few gaps left for me to fill. Having seen some leaks for for 2025's 'Age of the…

Beast Wars Silverbolt

What's better than one beast? Two! But they're the same beast. Stay with me on this. We're talking about Fuzors. Having had two successful years of doing the basic Beast Wars formula, 1998 gave us the equivalent of G1's Headmaster and Targetmaster era, where the basic gimmick of the line just wasn't enough anymore, and…

Gears

Gears is grumpy. Grumpy is Gears. But he's a good lad, or at least a better than lad than Huffer. Like that colleague at work who moans incessantly but always actually gets the job done. Gears definitely, 100%, absolutely, for sure first appeared in issue 2 of the UK Transformers 'Collected Comics' series, where he…

TFA Bumblebee

I've talked a lot about my love for the characters of Transformers: Animated. Great news for anyone tired of that, because here comes the hate. TFA Bumblebee is annoying. I understand I'm meant to feel that way, after all Prowl did say that his obnoxiousness is his greatest weapon. In that respect, the writers did…

TFA Optimus Prime

The slow drip feed of Transformers Animated Generations updates continues and we get a might significant one; Optimus Prime himself. It's not news that I utterly adore TFA and I thought it was wonderfully innovative. Some of those were grand and utterly fresh innovations and others clever twists on what had gone before. Optimus was…

TFA Prowl

Oh, Prowl. You and Ratchet were, without a shadow of a doubt, my favourite TFA characters. I still can't watch 'Endgame Part II' without feeling a little over come with emotion. But man, they had to work to make me love him. In his first appearances Prowl was set up as a totally arrogant bellend.…

Tarn

Man, I miss More Than Meets the Eye. You know, I even miss Lost Light. Even at their worst, I was excited enough by those James Roberts comics to go download them off Comixology or whatever as soon as they were up and available. I couldn't summon up the enthusiasm go read a Brian Ruckley…

Goldbug

Ok, this might be a short one. Goldbug is Bumblebee. But with a pullback motor. Catch you later! 46 years after their release, and I'm still wondering what was up with the Throttlebots. 49 years after their release, and I'm still wondering how anyone could look at the Battlechargers and think 'there's more to explore…