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Post by Kingoji on Sept 20, 2009 17:20:24 GMT
All good points. I think an anthology book would sit best together if the stories told meshed thematically. ie; Gen 1/Beast Wars/Beast Machines, Armada/Energon/Cybertron, Gen 1/Gen 2/ Beyond?, or the like. Or unless there was a kind of Vector Prime opening where he watches some anomalous event which has a minor effect on all realities simultaniously, and then follow on with short strips on what that event was and how it affected everything.
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Post by Gav on Sept 20, 2009 17:28:30 GMT
Yeah I'm thinking that if it were to be cross-universal/generational - all the stories would follow a specific theme. No idea what that would be just yet. LOVE?  |
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 20, 2009 18:21:15 GMT
Transformers and humans? You can get some variety in that - ROTF has NEST, Animated has the whacky villains, BW has the protohumans*, RID has Kelly, G1 can be either Budiansky style or Masterforce...
* What do the Transformer battles and Waspinator look like through their eyes???
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Post by blueshift on Sept 20, 2009 18:25:42 GMT
Transformers and Christmas? :V
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Post by Hero on Sept 20, 2009 18:33:00 GMT
I'm definitley down for Christmas stuff!  Christmas RULES. ===KEN |
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 20, 2009 18:45:54 GMT
A Christmas movie story could be great.
Death and destruction, little dogs in santa claus costumes. Sams parents getting drunk. Mikeala explaining christmas to Mudflap and Skids. Mudflap and Skids going christmas shopping. Bumblebee miraculously getting his voice back in time to say "god bless everyone" at the end.
But, really I think there could be a fun christmas story in there somewhere.
A big single story covering all generations would be great if it could be done really well. As in the exact opposite of TFCC's Balancing Act. Otherwise a Christmas theme would be for me. Best of all options, combine the two.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 20, 2009 18:56:44 GMT
A big single story covering all generations would be great if it could be done really well. As in the exact opposite of TFCC's Balancing Act. Otherwise a Christmas theme would be for me. Best of all options, combine the two. I don't know how we'd do a big Christmas story covering all the generations, but I want us to find a way. (Especially if Graham lets us use his "Waspinator is Father Christmas" idea...) |
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Post by blueshift on Sept 20, 2009 19:03:09 GMT
The evil The Fallen has decided to destroy Christmas by capturing Santa Claus. This means there is no santa to deliver the presents in ANY universe, since like Primus and Unicron, Santa is a universal constant, and a singular multiversal entity.
Vector Prime has to get all the Transformers ever to deliver the presents in time and SAVE christmas in an epic tale told in text form, comic strip, puzzles, wordsearches and spot-the-differences
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 20, 2009 19:23:01 GMT
I hate to put one more spoke in the wheel, but this annual isn't really an annual, you know. An annual is a book published regularly every year. What this thread is proposing is a one-off special.  Martin |
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Post by Hero on Sept 20, 2009 19:26:09 GMT
Point taken bud.
This one off could kick off a series of annual specials and I hope it does.
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Post by Gav on Sept 20, 2009 19:35:18 GMT
I hate to put one more spoke in the wheel, but this annual isn't really an annual, you know. An annual is a book published regularly every year. What this thread is proposing is a one-off special. Martin Well what if we proposed to do one every year? Would it make it an annual then? All annuals start somewhere, right? Or... What it we....lied?! Gasp! |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 20, 2009 19:36:49 GMT
I suppose you could call the fanzines that have been produced for the last few Auto-Assemblies annuals, since they've been one a year. Likewise that series of four ScotCon mags.
Martin
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Post by grahamthomson on Sept 20, 2009 19:44:15 GMT
(Especially if Graham lets us use his "Waspinator is Father Christmas" idea...) Heh! You're more than welcome to expand upon that idea! [EDIT: My Christmas story for 2009 is already complete, by the way. Look out for "The Christmas Siren"... around, you know, the end of December.] |
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 20, 2009 19:46:27 GMT
The evil The Fallen has decided to destroy Christmas by capturing Santa Claus. This means there is no santa to deliver the presents in ANY universe, since like Primus and Unicron, Santa is a universal constant, and a singular multiversal entity. Vector Prime has to get all the Transformers ever to deliver the presents in time and SAVE christmas in an epic tale told in text form, comic strip, puzzles, wordsearches and spot-the-differences Lets avoid Vector Prime doing anything for fear of straying to close to Balancing act. Perhaps the trick is santa's sack. It access' interdimensional space in order to store all the toys and if he's a universal constant so it access' all TF universes allowing for some dimension hopping. Andy |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 20, 2009 19:52:31 GMT
Who or what is Vector Prime? I've never heard of it before.
Martin
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Post by blueshift on Sept 20, 2009 19:54:05 GMT
This guy: tfwiki.net/wiki/Vector_PrimeVERY nice figure, though if you do get him, get the Japanese version. The US release replaces all the transparent plastic with transparent rubbery plastic, so his wings and sword are floppy. |
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 20, 2009 20:45:55 GMT
Lets avoid Vector Prime doing anything for fear of straying to close to Balancing act. We could take the piss a bit, have a different member of the Original Universal-Constant Thirteen do it and make that member the silliest choice for the Thirteen possible. Wheelie, or a Happy Meal toy, I dunno. |
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Post by Bogatan on Sept 20, 2009 20:53:42 GMT
Jetfires Grandad, the wheel?
Whats this talk of Waspinator being Father Christmas? Sounds amazing.
Andy
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Sept 20, 2009 20:57:26 GMT
Jetfires Grandad, the wheel? Sold! Graham wrote a fic where Waspinator is Father Christmas, and time-travels to Earth to deliver presents. And gets slagged EVERY TIME. |
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Post by grahamthomson on Sept 21, 2009 7:13:10 GMT
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Post by Gav on Sept 21, 2009 8:08:07 GMT
I first read that as 'Casual-Loop Christmas' - which conjured up a different story in my head.
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Post by chrisl on Sept 21, 2009 9:30:53 GMT
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Post by karla on Sept 21, 2009 11:39:23 GMT
Yeah I'm thinking that if it were to be cross-universal/generational - all the stories would follow a specific theme. No idea what that would be just yet. LOVE? *high five* Love would be an awesome theme! |
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Post by Kingoji on Sept 21, 2009 15:09:40 GMT
Only if we can please avoid the homosexual incestuous relationships that the deviantArt fangirls so obsess over...
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Post by Gav on Sept 21, 2009 15:30:45 GMT
Only if we can please avoid the homosexual incestuous relationships that the deviantArt fangirls so obsess over... Bah! *erases a weeks work* |
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Post by grahamthomson on Sept 21, 2009 16:53:13 GMT
Well there's plenty of love in the Transformers universe... Crossblades's love for his weapons, Sunstreaker's love for himself, Shockwave's love of monocles...
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Post by Gav on Sept 21, 2009 17:34:02 GMT
Haha, we should totally stick with the 'love' theme.
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Post by KoshNaranek on Sept 26, 2009 1:42:21 GMT
I've been really busy lately and haven't been drawing much, but things should be less hectic soon so I'd love to chip in for this.
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Post by Rich on Sept 26, 2009 11:57:02 GMT
Going back a bit, I have to agree that trying to cover 'all' of TF isn't something I'd be particularly interested in, either as a reader or writer (but it's so long since I wrote anything I'm not sure I can put my name anywhere near that word). The number of variations of TF seems to be making for increasingly shallow storytelling, which retreads old ground again and again. A Christmas themed book might be fun, but personally I think what TMUK could do with right now is something that does something new with the TMUK universe.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 26, 2009 14:14:06 GMT
The number of variations of TF seems to be making for increasingly shallow storytelling, which retreads old ground again and again. Yes indeed. Well, the TMUK universe has done the big events to death - we've done gods and aliens and empires and origins and deaths and resurrections and new generations and worlds ending and what-not. What I think TMUK hasn't done enough of (and I am as guilty of this as anyone) is good solid robots-in-disguise-amongst-us stories. The very first TF annual had a good story of this type, called 'Missing in Action', in which an injured Tracks was commandeered as a getaway car by some bank robbers. You can read it here. Budiansky did quite a bit of this stuff in his run. But TMUK, generally speaking, has ignored the core concept. It would be a nice change of pace from all the galaxy-spanning stuff if TMUK did a fan special consisting of a mixture of standalone text and strip stories (in the Marvel continuity, but without strong ties to the larger story arcs) all set on Earth and featuring only Transformers with Earth disguises, using their disguise modes to the full to fight their secret war in our midst. I'm not saying it would all have to be 1984-5-based - the stories could be set in any time period in the Marvel TF universe and feature any TFs with Earth disguises (Constructicons, Stunticons, Throttlebots, Micromasters, down-sized Pretenders and Pretender Beasts, whoever). Thoughts? Martin |
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