Transparent leaders!
I’m all about transparency in our leadership!
Unique Megatron and Optimus Prime character biographies from the UK’s 1986 Transformers Annual.
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Transformers #22: Optimus Prime and Megatron sit alone in a room and talk about how they feel about each other.
LOOK OUT, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS YOUR SLASHINESS HAS BEEN USURPED
A sweet .sig I found.
But I bet Optimus Prime believes in evolution and global warming :I
Eh, Optimus Prime doesn’t believe in evolution. In the comics, Optimus Prime has met his supernatural creator, and he carries His lifeforce around in his chest. And in the cartoon, Optimus Prime knows he was built by Quintessons and that you get more Transformers by asking a golden disco ball. There is no breeding or mating on Cybertron, and thus no evolution.
Optimus Prime is pretty aware, however, that a planet’s dominant species can destroy its ecosystem! That’s why he’s on Earth and not home!
Sometimes I think people get Optimus Prime confused with Batman.
PAT LEE’S SECRET TRANSFORMER is a mystery that will remain forever untold. I bet he turns into a Porsche, though!
Note that “Jazz” is consistently drawn with Prowl’s scooped headlights, and that the Optimus Prime bust is directly copied from a Studio OX image in Transformers Generations.
Scans from the retail edition of Dreamwave’s Transformers Preview issue.
How does “Pat’s Top Secret Transformer” not have a wiki page? He should totally get his own page.
Cross-contributed to Disciples of Boltax…
Fresh from 1984 - and imported over the Atlantic, besides - have a trio of promotional mini-posters featuring Soundwave, the Decepticon jets, and Megatron, made using stills from the earliest Transformers comic and toy commercials. These ridiculously high-resolution scans were made, respectively, from Marvel UK’s Transformers #4, #5 and #6.
I actually scanned these some time ago, but at the time wrote them off as being useless because, due to the terrible color reproduction involved, they were incredibly red-tinged. However, I recently learned about Photoshop’s “Variations” tool (which is kind of embarrassing, given how long I’ve had the program), and my new stab at fixing them up produced much better results. Megatron is still terribly yellowish, though.
Fun fact: in these scans, Starscream is the one with the grey chest and white/red wings! These early ads seem to have been the source of his first Marvel Comics color scheme, which appears to have switched the grey to blue because of comics’ limited color palette at the time.
There were also mini-posters featuring Optimus Prime and the Autobot cars, but their animation designs didn’t change as drastically, so I didn’t scan them at the time. Might go back and do them anyway now…
courageous autobot commander optimus prime
i’m not saying this is the best ever optimus prime toy
i just want to have its babies is all
spider-man: is gears dead?
optimus prime: whatevs
Power of the Primes Optimus Prime, augmented with some paint, chrome marker, and some stickers from ToyHax.
unpretty
