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Post by Pinwig on Apr 11, 2017 21:28:25 GMT
TFWiki's image for this cover is a bit poor. I will scan mine tomorrow.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 11, 2017 21:36:53 GMT
The Mechanic is a great rubbish villain.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 11, 2017 22:38:16 GMT
He certainly has the vibe of a second rate comic villain from at least a decade earlier.
It's weird how this story uses the Autobots overlooking Ratchet working to reintroduce them all. They all get name checked like that double page spread in the first issue.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 12, 2017 21:26:38 GMT
Let us not forget...Juan!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 13, 2017 10:10:48 GMT
Coffee time conundrum!
On my 30th anniversary run through I'm trying to fill the very few gaps I have in the Marvel UK publications (although that last G1 annual is going to be a pain) and have just received nice untarnished examples of the Complete Works books from the bay of e:  These annoyed me instantly because the spines don't match. I mean, come ON. But at least I now have that last page with the different ending. Anyway, this is not exciting in itself - but - tucked in the back of the first one I found this small cardboard standee. What the blinking flip is it from?! Note that this Ultra Magnus sports a Decepticon logo so I have detailed Twinferno to watch him (and provide scale).  The reverse seems to suggest he is from some kind of game:  But what?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 13, 2017 10:36:54 GMT
I have called on the Twitter
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 13, 2017 10:50:37 GMT
Twitter Answers
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 13, 2017 11:00:58 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 13, 2017 11:01:07 GMT
Lummy, that sounds like an exciting tome indeed. tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Pop-Up_BookI may now have to seek this book out. Thanks, Phil. I'd never have worked that out. I've never heard of that book! |
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Post by blueshift on Apr 13, 2017 11:10:54 GMT
I brought mine along to Auto Assembly and we had a little presentation and reading!! You have been missing out, Pinwig!
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 13, 2017 11:22:05 GMT
Story of my life  |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 13, 2017 19:56:06 GMT
Such a great book.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2017 8:34:22 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #110Funeral for a Friend! - Part Two. In which Ratchet flees to the Ark for cover after the evil Mechanic turns his own medical tools against him. Meanwhile, the Autobots bid a tearful farewell to Optimus and return home to find Omega Supreme's new defences under the control of the Mechanic, who has followed Ratchet and discovered a power lifting device which allows him to pick up Transformer sized items. Prowl, only just repaired, saves the day when his newly restored sirens scare the Mechanic away - the boiler-suited buffoon appearing to be far more frightened of a lone police car than he is a thirty foot alien robot. Elsewhere, Transformation reveals that issues 113-120 will feature the next big British originated epic, Wanted: Galvatron - Dead or Alive, featuring events set after the movie and a new character called Death's Head; Inhumanoids reaches the end of its second US issue with a handy origin story for the three big bad guys; and in Grim Grams, Paul Seales from Benfleet asks whether fifteen is too old to be a Transformers fan... 
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2017 8:37:14 GMT
30 years since the first mention of Death's Head!
I wonder if Paul Seales is still a fan and still wondering if he's too old.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2017 9:35:26 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 18, 2017 12:00:16 GMT
Ooooo! Slightly more muddy ground than ever before!
-Ralph
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Post by primenova on Apr 18, 2017 16:13:46 GMT
This was when #109 & 110 where out the same day.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 18, 2017 16:29:03 GMT
Eh?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2017 19:01:05 GMT
Mine can't have been. They both have my address written on by the newsagent; if they delivered two of anything on the same day he used to put them in bags. The cover dates are a week apart, was it just that #109 was delayed in some places?
Oh wait a minute, Easter Sunday in 1987 was this weekend, so #110 would have been due in shops between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Perhaps it came out early because of that.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 18, 2017 20:51:20 GMT
I don't recall an issue ever coming out early.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 18, 2017 21:38:29 GMT
Mine were usually in the newsagents on a Friday, so picked up either Friday after school or Saturday morning.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 18, 2017 21:39:26 GMT
Yep. Friday or Saturday depending on local deliveries but never earlier.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2017 22:19:55 GMT
Indeed, but a double bank holiday weekend could affect the routine. Like my 2000AD arrived today instead of Saturday. Might have meant there were two issues on the shelves for a couple of days.
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Post by primenova on Apr 19, 2017 6:51:05 GMT
I got it ordered from #107 & it was the saturday in for #109 that #110 was in the same day. I always remember that - then everything was week ahead like it is now of the cover date so the newsagents takes the comic off the shelf by the cover date (then why isn't that with newspapers?).
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 19, 2017 7:39:24 GMT
The two weekly issues sent out at once is ringing a bell for other titles from my days in a Newsagent, especially around Christmas. Christmas 87 fell on a Friday, meaning there were no mag deliveries to Newsagents Friday or Saturday, so that would certainly have been early. This was the only year of the comic's publication which would have been affected at Christmas 25 December 1984 Tuesday
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 19, 2017 10:45:06 GMT
NNNNNGGGHHH.
-Ralph
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Post by primenova on Apr 19, 2017 18:18:32 GMT
Unless my newsagent had been getting it a week later every issue. But 2 issue they never got in even though was ordered where #155,194
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 19, 2017 18:34:38 GMT
That happened frequently when the supplier, usually WHS Wholesale for mags, f***ed something up.
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 25, 2017 19:32:12 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #111King of the Hill! - Part One. In which fuel auditor Ratbat decides Shockwave's plans on Earth are no longer economically viable, leading a curiously subservient one-eyed Decepticon leader to beg for a last ditch super-sized attack on the Autobots to finish them for good; Perceptor leads a discussion among the great and the good to decide who should replace Optimus as leader, just as Grimlock turns up and forcibly stakes his claim; and Professor Paaswell's paleonology trip in the Oregon Cascades ends in terror when he and his two university student assistants discover TRYPTICON yomping through the hills. Elsewhere, Transformation explains the Autobots electing a new leader is far more important than the actual upcoming general election in June. It also takes the opportunity to further ignore Transformers toy releases and promote other ranges instead by explaining Zartan is now available and will feature in issue nine of the Action (please buy it) Force comic this week. Meanwhile, Grimlock helps out Anglo-American relations by magnanimously offering to ship freebie copies of the Target: 2006 issues to new reader Caleb Jones of West Linn, USA, cos, y'know, that US cover price is just for show. 
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 25, 2017 19:37:28 GMT
It hadn't occurred to me that 30 years ago we were heading for Thatcher's third term re-election until this issue pointed it out. It'll be almost 30 years to the day when we're voting in June. Spooky.
Also, worth noting, the issue of Thundercats that came out 30 years ago this week had the print advert for Rodimus & Wreck-Gar, which hadn't actually been in the Transformers comic at that point (although the editorial mentioned them a few weeks ago, ridiculously late considering they were out at Christmas). This made me realise we're almost into May and off the back of the film's Christmas release only those two new toys have been advertised since then. Was it really that dead new toy wise in the UK? the comic is still plugging Special Teams.
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