All Hail Megatron Issues 1 to 6 (Vol 1)

[GoktimusPrime]

I wouldn't say I collect them but if one comes out that takes my fancy I'll pick it up.

Not all Transfans collect the toys. Jhiaxus - the Australian Transfan who co-administers the Obscure Transformers Web Site isn't an active toy collector - he's more like you; just occasionally gets toys that he likes. But he's a rabid collector of TF comics though. He has the complete collection of G1 and G2 comics from Marvel (trust me, I've read his collection - at least, issues that I don't have... took me a couple of days ). Charl, another Australian Transfan who runs The Lexicon also doesn't collect toys. A couple of years ago she sold off her entire TF toy collection (except for one toy).

So yeah... don't let anyone tell you that you're less of a fan just because you're not really a toy collector (not that anyone here has suggested that, but you know what I mean ). There's more to being a Transfan than the toys (although admittedly the toys are at the core and heart of the franchise/hobby - without the toys there would be no Transformers).

I liked a lot of the Beast Wars toys (clearly old news now)

Jhiaxus and I first realised that Beast Wars was old at OzFormers 2003 where some people walked by pointing at the Beast Wars toy diorama going, "Aw Beast Wars, I remember that!" - we knew at that moment that when people started talking about Beast Wars with fond nostalgia that it had become old - we'd become old! Gah!

and I like the Masterpiece figures but have yet to buy any actually.

That's rather ironic considering how a lot of the Decepticons in AHM appear to be Masterpieces (especially the Decepticon jets). Did you specifically request that or was that the artist's decision? Also, who decided to give Thundercracker a red nosecone? That looks awful IMO.

I tried to get one of those anniversary Primes with the Matrix etc in the box but I missed out...

Here are my recommendations when it comes to MPs:
+ Optimus Prime = Takara
+ Ultra Magnus = Hasbro or Takara (no difference)
+ Starscream = Hasbro
+ Megatron = Takara (check WA laws regarding replica weapons - in NSW this toy is prohibited and consequently NSW collectors need to register our toys with the NSW Firearms Registry)
+ Skywarp = Takara
+ Thundercracker = Takara (coming soon)

and come to think of it I meant to get Unicron and didn't.

Dude... those things were everywhere! Did you just kept passing them up each time you went shopping until one day they were sold out?

It seems I'm bad at this.

I usually just buy the toy as soon as I see it. Works for me most of the time.

[liegeprime]

on the wittle destruction. guess someone in Hasbro's stood up and said


just my luck... but couldnt there be like in G2 an implied en masse Akira effect type explosions, yah know from afar shots, there wont be flying bodies seen then to traumatize the kid readers ( not that Halo and all that RPG games havent desensitized them anyhow) that way just buildings and bridges dissolving like coffee in water. Anyway I guess that's up to the artist's interpretation.

[GoktimusPrime]

"TETSUOOOOO!"

[STL]

"TETSUOOOOO!"

Now there's one bio-card I never want.

[roller]

took me 10yrs to see Akira the whole way through!

What i dislike about the IDW universe, is that there are so many stories running at the same time, and little snipets of juicy stories being thrown out in certain Spotlights.

I seem to recall that HOund and his crew were scheduled to head for Earth in Devastation or Escalation, was this cancelled when Optimus and others left Earth at the end of devastation?

[FFN]

In Devastation 6, Optimus Prime told Hound to rendezvous at the Garrus-9 penal facility. Hound noted that Sideswipe would not be happy (as he had been bitching about Sunstreaker's dissapearance since Spotlight: Galvatron).

I'm waiting to see how the Hunter-Sunstreaker headmaster storyline plays out in Maximum Dinobots. I find it a strangely fulfilling plot, particularly the fact Sunstreaker was so desperate to escape that he appeared to shunt most of his conciousness into Hunter.

[i_amtrunks]

I'm waiting to see how the Hunter-Sunstreaker headmaster storyline plays out in Maximum Dinobots. I find it a strangely fulfilling plot, particularly the fact Sunstreaker was so desperate to escape that he appeared to shunt most of his conciousness into Hunter.

And he only did that when Hunter refused to kill him. Pretty desperate!

Okay so Ore 13 is what brought Megatron to Earth, but now there is something else that is keeping him there...

I'm going to stick to my theory about Megatron trying to turn Manhattan into some kind of flying fortress!

[roller]

In Devastation 6, Optimus Prime told Hound to rendezvous at the Garrus-9 penal facility. Hound noted that Sideswipe would not be happy (as he had been bitching about Sunstreaker's dissapearance since Spotlight: Galvatron).

I'm waiting to see how the Hunter-Sunstreaker headmaster storyline plays out in Maximum Dinobots. I find it a strangely fulfilling plot, particularly the fact Sunstreaker was so desperate to escape that he appeared to shunt most of his conciousness into Hunter.

ta for the info, so does this mean hound etc already turned up on earth before AHM? Or did they get diverted away from Earth?