October has arrived and in honor of Spooky Season we will spotlight one Monster Transformer per day, each day of the month. To start it off, our first spotlight is upon Monstructor! Monstructor is a combiner made up of the inner robots of the Pretender Monsters Icepick, Wildfly, Bristleback, Scowl, Slog, and Birdbrain. Originally named […]
Pulsecon 2023 is just around the corner, beginning on the 22nd of September, 2023 at 11:00 AM Eastern Time. The brands scheduled for presentation are Transformers, Power Rangers, Star Wars, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Marvel Legends, and G.I. Joe. They will begin at 11:15 AM ET and run until 3:30 PM ET. Below […]
On September 19th, 2005, the third part of what has become known as The Unicron Trilogy, Transformers: Cybertron, premiered on Cartoon Network. It imported the video and music from the Japanese series Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Galaxy Force with translated and localized dialogue and a new theme song created by Paul Oakenfold. Where Transformers: Galaxy […]
24 years ago today the Beast Machines Transformers series premiered on the Fox Kids Saturday morning television block on the FOX network. It was a continuation of the previously syndicated Beast Wars Transformers series, but also a departure. Many of the cast members carried over from Beast Wars Transformers, as did the animation studio, Mainframe, […]
On Monday, September 17th, 1984 a new cartoon hit the airwaves. It was the pilot episode advertising for a new toy line of imported robots who shapeshifted into vehicles and common household objects, like cameras and German pistols used by super-spies: The Transformers. It was a collaboration between Hasbro, Griffin-Bacal Advertising’s Sunbow Animation, Marvel Entertainment […]
In the newest installment of the “More Than Meets These Guys” podcast Ed and Evan dive into the Transformers G1 Season 2 episode, “City of Steel”. We get to see Ed’s first encounter with AKOM animation. Will he survive? What are the guys’ musical guilty pleasures? Is Optimus Prime’s greatest weakness revealed? View it below […]
Evan and Boo once again dive into the Transformers Marvel UK comics as they dive into Transformers UK #5, “Prisoner Of War! – Part One”. This corresponds to the first half of the U.S. Marvel Transformers issue #3. The guy contemplate the Transformers’ fuel needs and how they relate to human technology. Is Sparkplug Witwicky […]
Concept designer Michael Michera, who is credited as an illustrator on Transformers: Rise of the Beasts posted concept art for the characters Cheetor and Nightbird from the pre-production stage on his social media accounts and gave insights into his design decisions on those characters. In his posts Michera had the following to say: “I had […]
Today Evan and Boo continue their trek through the G1 Marvel UK Transformers comics with the second part of Power Play (which was issue #2 in the Marvel US G1 run). Who is who in this issue? It’s hard to tell, because the artists weren’t even sure. What 1960s sitcom tropes make their way into […]
Ed and Evan tackle the second part of Megatron’s most devious plot to turn humanity against the Autobots. The tough questions are asked. “Is Shawn Berger Wearing his old prom tux?”“Why is Soundwave playing elevator music?”“Does rum go with lemonade?”All these and more are answered in the latest edition of “More Than Meets These Guys”. […]