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redalerttheconspiracytheorist asked:
What are some instances of toy bios not matching at all with how a character is really like?
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Shortpacked!: Thunderwing
Ooh oooh also it’s available in 3D. Get out those glasses.
I like recoloring old Marvel lineart.
tfwiki answered:
The most famous incongruous bio in Generation 1 would have to be Shockwave, who was described as someone who sought to take control of the Decepticons from Megatron because he saw it as a logical, while in the cartoon, he was a total Megatron loyalist. Of course, that’s because - for whatever reason - the cartoon was working off of an entirely different bio from the one published with this toy. The Marvel Comic based its Shockwave on the toy’s bio.
Ratchet’s bio talks about how he loves to party, which never translated to any stories. And of course, basically the whole first year of Beast Wars toy bios are totally divorced from the characters’ cartoon portrayals - Tarantulas as a ninja, Rattrap a respected soldier, Cheetor “quiet and efficient.”
Let’s see, who else… oh, how about Energon Rodimus? A wild, rebellious, headstrong youngster and Inferno’s brother, according to his bio - a serious, stern, stony-faced commander in the cartoon.
My favorite example is Thunderwing. His toy profile gives him the motto: “Cover yourself with lies and no one will find you” and goes on to describe him as a “two-faced, lying, cheating, back-stabbing scoundrel.” Essentially, just some lying jerk. But he became popular when he appeared in Marvel comics as a atypically-honorable Decepticon leader who was nonetheless obsessed with the Matrix, leading him to become uncharacteristically callous towards his subordinates.
Seems to be an example of “my story has needs” acting in stark contrast with “these are the toys I’m required to sell.” It happens, even if you’re not required to sell any toys – sometimes the organic pull of the story needs a character to go a direction you weren’t originally expecting.
jrgolden42 asked:
What are your thoughts on Thunderwing being in the Transformers Prime game?
I’ll know after I play it.
“Decepticons… TRANSFORM AND RISE UP!”
The Decepticons who originated in Transformers Animated, having made their way into the larger Transformers Multiverse.
Voyager Blitzwing (Icy face) - Transformers: Generations - Thrilling 30
Voyager Lugnut - Transformers (2010) - Reveal the Shield
Deluxe Lockdown - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Deluxe Slipstream - Transformers Legends
transformers 1: they’re here
transformers 2: they were here before
transformers 3: they were here BEFORE before
transformers 4: they were here before BEFORE before
excuse me but I think you’ll find transformers 3 is “they were here after the time before but before the time they were here the first time.”
Transformers with accents are a dime a dozen. Aside from any number of regional American accents, and plenty of British ‘bots, there are French Transformers, Australian Transformers, Scottish, Russian, and German Transformers, and more! But on St. Patrick’s Day, we lament that there’s never been an IRISH Transformer!
So the best we can offer you today is a collection of green Transformers from across the continuities…. annnnd… ummm… a picture of, uh… Nick Roche, why not.
There are, however, lots of drunk Transformers.
The Rise of the Robots: The History of the Transformers
This is an infographic on Transformers. Robots had never been the same after Transformers was introduced in the early 80s. The Transformers toy line had its beginnings in 1983 when Hasbro representatives attended the Tokyo Toy Fare to find something promising that could be imported to the North American market.
Source : TV Store Online
Blackarachnia’s not the first female Transformers toy. She’s not even the first in America! The first American female Transformers toy was BotCon 1995’s Nightracer and the first ever anywhere was Japan’s Minerva. (Freezon was released earlier, but her gender wasn’t decided upon until decades later.) Blackarachnia is the first American mass-retail female Transformer, but that’s kind of a lot of qualifiers.
Also some of those silhouettes chosen for use in places seem kind of weird. I’m pretty sure those are Classics Mini-Cons (2006) they use to represent Armada (2002). ROTF Devastator and Fall of Cybertron Slug stand in for their 1985 versions. And I don’t want to try to figure out what that Robots in Disguise silhouette is.
*adjusts glasses on nose with finger*
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