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Post by The Doctor on Mar 5, 2024 13:42:53 GMT
I shall certainly grab one off you at TFN...no matter the cost!
-Ralph
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Post by chrisl on Mar 6, 2024 15:28:55 GMT
Time for another update! Thanks to Matt sending me a box of zines (that weighed as much as a small hatchback), I've managed to plug nearly all the holes in my (1991 - 1999, printed) TMUK fanzine collection. (I say 'mine' -- Matt's getting all his fanzines back ASAP). Liane Elliott is sending me another box, and between her and Tim "Trans Spoof" Finn (another kind soul who doesn't mind taking a chance on snail mail), a lot of the American fanzines are covered - not just TMUS, but Survivors and the Australian club, plus oddities like Transformers Infinity and The Transfer that weren't affiliated to any club. Gavin - I'll be interviewing you about Tales of Cybertron soon Chris - I've just sent you questions about the Holiday Special series I'd like to speak to Lawrence Evans about his long-running Earthforce fanzine (forgive me if you're here pseudonymously, Lawrence!); and to Darren Grant (? Forgive me - I'm typing this without the zines to hand) about Trans Humans 97 and 98, two really interesting fanzines I'd not come across until yesterday. Can anyone help? For those asking about getting a copy of the book, I intend to launch it at TFN in August, but at this rate it's going to be a very big and heavy hardback, so I don't know how many copies I'll have with me. Maybe 50? After TFN, I will take pre-orders for a one-off, never to be repeated print run, so anyone who wasn't at TFN (or who wants another copy!) will have a chance to get it then. James Hi James, I've drafted my response to your email and I'll send it over this evening along with one of the two scans you're after. I'll sort the other scan out this weekend hopefully as it needs quite a bit of clean up work. Lawrence Evans edited Japan Files, not Continued Earthforce Wars - that was Phil Birkett who I think is in the TMUK facebook group. I have spoken to Lawrence and he has managed to scan the front cover and contents pages for every issue of Japan Files, and I'll send them over this evening. If you want to contact him directly, his email address is killbison27 AT gmail DOT com. If you need CEW stuff, I could possibly look it up from the TMUK 1.5 CD Rom for you. I believe Darren Grant is long gone from the scene, but Matthew Kelly (his co-creator on Transhumans 97 and 98) is on social media still. From what I can remember about the fanzine it was heavily focused on the Neo-Knights and GB Blackrock rather than the Transformers per se. Format wise it was an A4, black and white, single corner staple fanzine. If Matt Dallas doesn't have a copy of the issues Hero (Ken Flatt) might. |
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Post by pulsar on Apr 6, 2024 23:36:53 GMT
It’s been a longer while! Oh for the days when TFs only inspired people to make fanzines. (Now it’s actual robots in disguise, even down to being powered by a mysterious matrix.)
I haven’t really been a fan since about July 4 2007, but I’m quite enthusiastic about this project. I enjoyed reconnecting with James, and I’d love to get back in touch with other people from TMUK, or TM elsewhere. If anyone is trying to contact me, the best way is by email (lastname at gmail) as I’m not really on social media.
I am completely okay with people reproducing my fanfic or other work from the 90s, provided that it doesn’t include anyone’s personal information. The newsletters had quite a bit of this, as their most important function was to foster a sense of community before everyone was online.
The book sounds like a must-read for anyone interested in TF fandom. Though I know that it will be about a *lot* more than just the Transmasters, I think their origin story is worth telling: People spontaneously writing to each other based on letters from the comic that don’t even mention a club, then coalescing into penpal networks with enough connections to support fanzines with hundreds of readers.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 7, 2024 7:22:49 GMT
Hello Andy, welcome to the forum.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 7, 2024 15:36:25 GMT
Hello Andy! Nice to hear you are still out there. 🙂
I must get on with my answers to James' questions for this..
Gavin
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Post by james113 on Apr 8, 2024 7:39:06 GMT
Hello Andy! Nice to hear you are still out there. 🙂 I must get on with my answers to James' questions for this.. Gavin Ha! I just nudged you with an email and then came here and saw this... |
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Post by james113 on Apr 8, 2024 7:50:20 GMT
Thanks to everyone who has spoken to me and/or sent me fanzines. The end is in sight.
Does Kevin Hagan post here? If not, does anyone know how I might contact him? He's the last of the 90s-era TMUK creatives that I need to speak to.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 9, 2024 16:40:33 GMT
Hello Andy! Nice to hear you are still out there. 🙂 I must get on with my answers to James' questions for this.. Gavin Ha! I just nudged you with an email and then came here and saw this... Should be with you now. 🙂👍 |
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