OptimalRodimal

@optimalrodimal.bsky.social

transformers characters/toys I REALLY want new generations updates of. Not because I'll buy them but because it'll flood the market with the old ones: - Unicron (Platinum Edition) - Metroplex (T30) - Lockdown (ROTF) - Thunderwing (Generations)

In the afterglow of TFNation's celebration of creativity and artistry, lemme show you a fan-project I've been failing to get anywhere with for a couple of years: a year-by-year, month-by-month guide to Transformers history. I had the idea a few years ago in the run-up to the 40th anniversary--

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Happy 40th to TFTM! I really can’t say anything that hasn’t been said before, and as stereotypical it is to say, it will forever be my #1 movie. It’s far from the greatest thing ever, but it’s too important not to love. Happy birthday to the film that Dared it all.

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my favourite part is where Bisk casually drops the lore of the Grand Mal, the incident which the whole BWU universe is predicated on (Autobots and Decepticons uniting against a common enemy). Of all the places to put that information! Fantastic stuff

gotta say that part towards the end of Not All Megatrons, an otherwise fairly level-headed multi-POV story, where it switches into Bisk's gamer POV and stays there for like three sections straight basically to the end of the story, is pure literature

My thoughts exactly, nearly word for word! I’ve been really enjoying NL so far, but man this issue kinda dropped the ball on what I really enjoy about the series. Honestly really wish that Star OP ended up being Prime from Hasbro’s ‘toon continuity!

Chris McFeely@chrismcfeely.bsky.social · 2w ago

It only makes sense if all of history before and after the branch changes too, and if so, okay, but then why not just keep it separate like the UT was? Sakamoto never met a easter egg he didn't want to make textual!

It only makes sense if all of history before and after the branch changes too, and if so, okay, but then why not just keep it separate like the UT was? Sakamoto never met a easter egg he didn't want to make textual!

Oh sure, said the same. But *a* G1. Something LIKE it - vague like BW, vaguer even, more for scene-setting and marketing than precise in-world story. But this specifically positions it as a branching timeline. Per the ES story it literally can't be, it's full of stuff that doesn't exist in G1!

I must know @danieladkins.bsky.social if you have any more copies of your zine! I was sadly today years old when I found out you made a SL styled Blackrock story. Would love to pick one up, I need it!

@wadapan.bsky.social · 2w ago

in my post-TFN hibernation as always but wanted to snap a quick haul pic before tidying my room! Zines by @optimalrodimal.bsky.social, @danieladkins.bsky.social, @waspshot23.bsky.social, plus tech spec card from Cosmic Conker and a mixtape from my pal Liam!

The only 'bot I came away from TFN with was an AOTP Powerglide; otherwise it's all zines and stickers, many of them gifts! Look at all this! I felt pretty fulfilled this year for having managed to assemble my BW panel, but this doubles my old resolve to make something tangible for next year.

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