my god i stared at this thing for like ten seconds trying to figure out if it was loss.jpg, thanks internet
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.
Haha! Yes, this is how Optimus died in the Marvel comic. It’s not exactly The Transformers: The Movie, is it? It wasn’t an inherently bad idea - Prime and the Protectobots were defending a laboratory against an attack by Megatron and the Combaticons, and rather than risk wrecking the joint and the precious device Megatron had come to steal in the process, Prime - and human lab tech Ethan Zachary - were able to convince Megs to face Prime on a digital batlefield in the lab’s advanced computers instead, with the pretty-standard-for-this-sort-of-thing condition of “die in the game, die in real life.”
I mean, that works. But he thing about the story that made it an object of ridicule was the fact that it wasn’t that dying in the game caused the loser to die in real life. Rather, the loser of the game had to have a button manually pressed by Zachary that would destroy them. AND, despite Megatron using a literal cheat code, Optimus Prime still actually won - only to overturn the decision himself because he decided he had compromised his morals in a way he never would in the real world (by sacrificing some of the video game NPCs to defeat Megs). So the end result is this scene where Optimus literally has to stand there and demand Zachary kill him while Megatron watches.
look don’t stop there
and then ethan zachary spends years loading up a copy of optimus prime’s mind on his computer and using him to beat video games
as you do
monzo12782 asked:
To get back to Transformers Latin a minute: there is a dude in the 1986 Transformers cartoon movie named Hot Rod. He is a "turbo-revvin' young punk" who gets a mystical doohickey that robo-evolves him into the new Autobot leader. Since the last Autobot leader was Optimus Prime, Hot Rod becomes... "Rodimus Prime". Does that mean anything in Latin? Like, anything at all? I have always been kind of embarrassed by its existence.
benito-cereno answered:
Rodimus does actually mean something, but only by sheer coincidence. They obviously just did a half-assed portmanteau of Rod and Optimus to make the name, regardless of whatever it might mean (“Optimus” as I believe we discussed before, means “best”).
Rodimus is actually a form of the verb rodere, which is the source of the English word rodent. It means “to gnaw.” Specifically, the form “rodimus” means “we are gnawing.” Maybe not the best name for a cool robot car.
“Failed experiment” HA! The shittiest episode of beast wars shit on the best of G1 not to mention the toy line was fucking awesome.
Beast Wars saved Transformers. You know what Transformers was before Beast Wars? It was literally reused early G1 stuff. Sideswipe, the Dinobots, Optimus Prime, Superion, Bruticus, all of that amazing G1 shit that OP jackass loves so fucking much. The original cartoon was even on television again. And it all failed.
And so Hasbro freaked the hell out, shunted Transformers to Kenner, which they’d just absorbed, and told them, “okay, you guys do something crazy with this, we don’t care,” and then Kenner made beasts and Transformers was revitalized. If Beast Wars was a failure, Transformers would be dead. It’d still be dead. G1 had already failed twice, and Beast Wars was its last chance to redeem itself.
anyway that guy’s a moron
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…
i’m not saying this is the best ever optimus prime toy
i just want to have its babies is all
rosalarian