All Hail Megatron Issues 1 to 6 (Vol 1)

[i_amtrunks]

So when do we see Ore 13?

Or will it be wiped out in Spotlight Sideswipe/Maximum Dinobots, and thats why we wont see it in AHM?

I'm going to keep on getting the series, now that McCarthy has said that Megatron is building up to something, (floating island of Manhanttan fortress anyone? ) not that I wasn't going to collect it, IDW needs every sale possible so that they keep putting out Transformers Sales!

[GoktimusPrime]

Hey I said about the Wheelie spotlight taking place over a long time. He spent "Meta-cycles" (which I assume is something like decades) on the planet between sending the distress call from Spotlight Optimus and Reflector showing up.

Yeah, I got that when I read Spotlight Wheelie for the first time. Hence the pronounced visible aging on Wheelie etc. and remember when I said that Spotlight Wheelie reminded me of the movie "Enemy Mine" where two enemy starfighter pilots are stranded on an alien world for nearly a lifetime (even raised a child who was born on that world)!

Robot characters slaughtered. I think Shane is saying that he can't have anything too graphic when it comes to human characters (hence the removal of the blood soaked shoes between the preview and issue one)

We never saw anything that graphic in G1 or G2 either (thank you CCA) but there were ways around that (e.g.: annihilation of San Francisco in Generation 2).

Somewhere in that big ball of light millions of people are being slain - but we can't see that so it's okay!
(perhaps the entire population managed to pull a Nakazawa Keiji and live through that!)

[Shane McCarthy]

So when do we see Ore 13?

It won't be seen in AHM.

[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]

It won't be seen in AHM.

But wasn't Ore-13 the only reason Earth became a pivitol flashpoint in the war? At the start of Furman's stories Earth was a backwater planet where Starscream's team was stationed. They prematurely went into Siege Mode because of the discovery of Ore-13, causing Megatron to arrive to put his house in order, and to defend their cache of the valuable resource which both sides predicted could tip the balance of their war in favour of whomever could secure the greatest amount of the resource.

If Ore-13 doesn't exist in your story, does that mean there was another previously unmentioned reason that you have/will introduce specifically for All Hail as to why the Decepticons are on Earth and why they are so heavily invested in this planet when all previous indications suggested that the only remarkable thing about Earth was that it was the only source of Ore-13/Ultra Energon in the galaxy?

Phew, run-on sentence.

[Shane McCarthy]

But wasn't Ore-13 the only reason Earth became a pivitol flashpoint in the war?

Yes. Does that mean it's the only reason they may want to stay there? No.