Transformers questions by newbies, and not-so-newbies

[DELTAprime]

First of all. I really want Tidal Wave. But given I still haven't found a place for The Nemesis I'm not going to get him unless someone invents a shrink ray.

Second. Have there been any announcements or leaks of an SS86 Shockwave? I'd really like the WFC mould in the sometimers more accurate colour (it was G1 after all) of the MP Shockwave mould, rather than the darker purple most of the releases of the WFC mould have been. The comic version would be fine for me, but the shading effects are not want I'm after.

[Skyfire]

I've not heard of SS86 Shockwave at all. The Dramatic Capture set with Megatron and Soundwave is probably the closest animation version. My gut feeling is that they won't make another Shockwave mould and will just repaint the WFC one if they decide to do an 86 version.

[Jaxius._]

First of all. I really want Tidal Wave. But given I still haven't found a place for The Nemesis I'm not going to get him unless someone invents a shrink ray.

Second. Have there been any announcements or leaks of an SS86 Shockwave? I'd really like the WFC mould in the sometimers more accurate colour (it was G1 after all) of the MP Shockwave mould, rather than the darker purple most of the releases of the WFC mould have been. The comic version would be fine for me, but the shading effects are not want I'm after.

I was going to get the comics one and ‘clean’ it, it’s probably the best and most affordable option for now

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Second. Have there been any announcements or leaks of an SS86 Shockwave? I'd really like the WFC mould in the sometimers more accurate colour (it was G1 after all) of the MP Shockwave mould, rather than the darker purple most of the releases of the WFC mould have been. The comic version would be fine for me, but the shading effects are not want I'm after.

I wouldn't be surprised at all to see an SS Shockwave colouration. He was in the movie and is a more significant character than others that have had the SS treatment. Sorry Sludge

[Paulbot]

Random question but does anyone here have a spreadsheet of the G1 tech spec numbers?

I can find several places online that have lists of them with bios, visual recreations, and scans, but not a source that has the info in a format that is in (or would transform into) a spreadsheet format easily.

[DELTAprime]

What do you guys think the chances are for the Japanese Capture Series set of Optimus, Jazz and Mainframe shelf warming are like? I want that G1 accurate Mainframe. But with it being a minimum of $150 for a Deluxe, so shelf warming clearance pricing would be great.

[DarkAxalonSyde]

I guess this is as good a place as any to ask this. Been reading through the Marvel TF comics for the first time in years and I got wondering, did we ever get them in Australia, back in the 80s and if so, did we get the UK comics, or just the US ones?

[DELTAprime]

I guess this is as good a place as any to ask this. Been reading through the Marvel TF comics for the first time in years and I got wondering, did we ever get them in Australia, back in the 80s and if so, did we get the UK comics, or just the US ones?

I do remember picking up a couple. But since I was only born in 1984 my memory of that era is not amazing so I have no idea how common of a sight it was to see a TF comic in the wild in the 80's and early 90's.

[Kranix]

I guess this is as good a place as any to ask this. Been reading through the Marvel TF comics for the first time in years and I got wondering, did we ever get them in Australia, back in the 80s and if so, did we get the UK comics, or just the US ones?

We did. I still have some of them from my childhood. Many more than the US version.

[JJJ]

I guess this is as good a place as any to ask this. Been reading through the Marvel TF comics for the first time in years and I got wondering, did we ever get them in Australia, back in the 80s and if so, did we get the UK comics, or just the US ones?

Oh my, yes we did indeed

I discovered them at issue 84 (right in the middle of Target: 2006). I have good reason to believe that they only hit the Australian shelves somewhere around then.

Why? Because up until that point we (my sister and I) had been spending our pocket money (oh my god the two or three dollars we got each week seems utterly pitiful looking back now ) on Disney comics (and even at that young age - I would have been 9 when I discovered TF comics - I had already done what so many Disney readers over the decades had done - identified Carl Barks' work standing head and shoulders over everybody else's, even with no names ever being attached). Anyway, I was keenly aware of what comics were out there, even if I didn't care for most of them. And then one week I spotted Transformers, which simply had not been there before.

UK issue 84 is dated 25th of October 1986; that's the date on which it was supposed to be removed from the shelf if unsold (I know that my local newsagent didn't work like that, because I managed to hide that issue, plus a few others, behind other comics until I decided with issue 88 to start buying them - even at that age I was suspicious of Marvel-style never-ending run-on stories that you could never just pick up and read without piles of background). Add around 2-ish months for transport by boat from the UK (yes, that long, and it's true even today of something like 2000AD), and this discovery happened somewhere around late December 1986 / early January 1987.

Of course, I could be wrong, and they might just, for some reason, have never been distributed way out there any earlier.

Still have them all, too.