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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 24, 2014 7:42:12 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 24, 2014 8:52:10 GMT
Oooh. I hope it has the additional material that appeared in the Collector's Club magazine.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 23, 2015 20:18:45 GMT
It does. There's an interview with Jim Sorenson on RFC #400 and the answer to the question, what's the difference between this and the original two volumes? is that: it isn't the two books back to back, they've been integrated and reorganised; errors and typos from the original books have been fixed; the 22 additional pages produced for Botcon & the club magazine are included; there are an additional six new pages on top of that, taking the page count to something like 472 pages overall.
Although he was a bit shady on what the six new pages are. At one point it sounded like new extra stuff from season four, at another it sounded like he was saying they're heavily revised/improved/expanded pages from the first prints.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 30, 2015 23:26:31 GMT
Still will pick this up, although I will double dip if they do digital as well.
Very handy having handbooks in digital form.
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 8, 2015 19:36:30 GMT
In comic shops now, preorder from well known tax dodging online emporium not yet dispatched.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 8, 2015 21:14:40 GMT
I noticed this too. Said emporium are saying week after next for their release date. Don't think I'll bother changing the preorder though, it'll be closer to payday that way.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 8, 2015 21:34:12 GMT
In comic shops now, preorder from well known tax dodging online emporium not yet dispatched. Andy I had a look in a certain comic shop and they had nowt. Grrr. -Ralph |
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Post by Toph on Mar 13, 2015 14:36:53 GMT
I got my copy yesterday, and it is quite wonderful.
ALL the club stuff has been added, all the supplemental stuff Wyatt has done has been added, it goes into more details about things not mentioned or barely touched in the first and second volumes. New concept art I don't recall being in the first volume.
New content has been generated, combined with Sorenson's artwork in wyatt's style has dramatically improved. (Recall the abysmal Cheetor and Skybyte headshots that cameoed in volume two, verses the new wyatt designs that were generated since).
On the downside, stuff was removed. Almost all references to franchises outside of TF have been removed. No Doctor Who references at all. The Star Trek references have been mildly altered. The gobot (though cykill does cameo), thundercats, and heman references were removed.
A Babylon 5 reference remains (possibly because it's so obsure no one policing it caught it), in the form of Z'ha'dum appearing in the star map. As do Melmac and Ork.
And apparently Maccadam's serves Mudder's Milk.
I haven't read the book back and fourth, but I've not been able to find the sections talking about the multiverse, beyond a section on Animated Shattered Glass. I've also not seen any references to the movieverse, like There were in volume 2.
Added are a ton of references to IDW, as Rung and Swerve cameo, and there are several references to someone called pharma. Actually, almost all new content that's generated specifically for the book are IDW call outs.
Prime Knockout, and NuRid Strongarm make cameos.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 19, 2015 20:13:11 GMT
Dispatch note from Amazon. Hurrah!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 19, 2015 20:33:36 GMT
Dispatch note from Amazon. Hurrah! Arrived today! Andy |
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