The First Ever Transformers Review. (Hilarious, but real.)

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Ah Raksha. Amongst her many notable moments, I always loved the fact she manages to smuggle a boxed Fort Max into her house and keep it a secret from those living there for well over a year.

She's out of the fandom now, breeding animals and hiding from pretty much the entire fandom. I believe her love of snakes is still there, but her devotion to Soundwave has probably waned.

I'd more or less drifted away from ATT by the time the .fanfic newsgroup began - there were so many... less desirables... far too much noise. One of the downsides of the birth of AOL - US trailer trash speaking their minds in unmoderated cyberspace.

Sky Shadow, were you around in the days of Nixtr? I suspect only griffin will remember his fall.

[Sky Shadow]

She's out of the fandom now, breeding animals and hiding from pretty much the entire fandom. I believe her love of snakes is still there, but her devotion to Soundwave has probably waned.

It would be hard, as I suspect anything to do with Transformers or Decepticons would remind her of Skyflight's absence.

Sky Shadow, were you around in the days of Nixtr? I suspect only griffin will remember his fall.

Ah. I was there for the fall. It didn't do wonders for stereotyping of toy collectors (and gave the denizens of Wiigii's an entire new genre of inappropriate humour: Nixtr jokes.)

[SilverDragon]

To paraphrase the TF Wiki:

The first ever Transformers review...and it's a complaint. This must surely have been a sign of things to come.

Also, Sky Shadow, your essay was one of the funniest TF-related things I have ever read.

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How exactly did these Jonestown followers arrive at the conclusion that the Decepticon ship was called the "Star drive" ?

[Sky Shadow]

How exactly did these Jonestown followers arrive at the conclusion that the Decepticon ship was called the "Star drive"?

It's because in 'Microbots', when the Decepticons go looking for the ship, Scavenger says "I'm pickin' up traces of cybertroid alloy. The stardrive is nearby!" (presumably meaning part of the ship, like a warp drive.)

Raksha and Skyflight thus (vehemently) believed the whole ship was called the Star Drive, and that - like a cattle drive - the Decepticons were going to reign in the stars. And for them, accepting that the ship was called the Nemesis was impossible, since they would have to acknowledge Beast Wars. As an example:

In a nice touch of respect for Decepticon fans, while the Decepticon ship in the G1 cartoon universe was given a name (the Star Drive), the Autobot ship was not. We're so used to calling it "the Ark," that this is a fact often forgotten. It may well have been called "the Ark" in the cartoon universe as well, but we have no way of knowing this, because the words were never spoken. "Officially," it's strictly a comics-universe term.

[GoktimusPrime]

Ppffttt... it's called the Law of Retroactive Continuity (RetCon). As long as it comes from an official source, then it's legit. I think Raksha's refusal to accept official canonical retcons was just one of many issues she had with the fandom... there's also her rather controversial opinion about the Decepticons. I remember reading her report from attending the first BotCon UK and admitting that she got royally owned by UK fans who knew way more about G1 canon than she did.

I dunno... Raksha does cop a lot of flak from fans but I think Ben Yee put it best once when he said that no matter what you may think of her, there's no denying that she is (was) a highly dedicated Transfan who made noteworthy contributions to our fandom. I can't remember his exact words but it was something to this effect.

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I never had anything but respect for Raksha, personally. So she had an alternative view of the Decepticons? Big Deal. She single-handedly organise the second BotCon and hand painted the exclusives. 'Nuff said.