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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 2, 2018 20:10:42 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 4, 2018 19:17:18 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #182 Space Pirates - Part 1: Lord Kledji leads a desperate plan to escape the dying planet Quintesson. Scout ships have been sent to find suitable metallic worlds on which to resettle the population, but the canister containing the information beamed back is lost on Junkion. Wreck-Gar's unwillingness to help locate it leads him to be threatened with the Sharkticon pit, and he manages to temporarily escape before ending up in its deadly waters. Running out of time to save his people, Kledji orders his troops to attack their primary target choice - Autobot City, Earth. Elsewhere, change is in the air as Combat Colin fills the vacated back up strip with a one-off six-page reprint from Action Force called Kung Fu Penguins; Grimlock seems somewhat relieved to announce the last ever Grim Grams page; Tony the Tiger drops by with a 'design a futuristic Frosties bike' competition; and not mentioned anywhere but also on sale as of this week - the 1989 Transformers annual.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 4, 2018 20:17:27 GMT
The cover for #182 confused me as a child as I thought it meant the Sharkticons had claimed Tony the Tiger.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 4, 2018 20:38:19 GMT
There's a question to ponder. What would the Sharkticons want with Tony the Tiger? They can't be breakfast cereal fans surely. Does he have the secret to conquering Cybertron?
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 4, 2018 20:39:23 GMT
I think he does, especially when he is on his bike.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 4, 2018 20:41:25 GMT
Those Sharkticons are quite big. Perhaps they think Cybertron *is* a breakfast cereal.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 4, 2018 20:43:31 GMT
I demand a Cybertron cereal bowl! In a set with a Unicron salad bowl.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 4, 2018 20:49:59 GMT
Oh good idea. Unicron comes with his own salad tongs.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 4, 2018 21:01:12 GMT
Those are Quintessons not Sharkticons.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 4, 2018 21:06:44 GMT
One's an Allicon.
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Post by blueshift on Sept 4, 2018 21:16:02 GMT
I think he does, especially when he is on his bike. -Ralph His Bulletbike?
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 5, 2018 8:28:06 GMT
This comic was published several years before Bulletbike existed!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Sept 5, 2018 8:52:14 GMT
No excuse!!!
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 5, 2018 9:26:01 GMT
Foreshadowing!
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 11, 2018 19:12:10 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #183Space Pirates - Part 2: Arcee is bored guarding the sleepy Autobot City and goes for a drive to wake up, leaving the base open to attack from the approaching Quintessons. Led by Blaster, the Autobots inside resist in vain. Arcee returns to witness the devastation, only to be gunned down by General Ghyrik. On Quintesson, Wreck-Gar unleashes a dazzling electrical attack on the Sharkticons and is rescued by Wheelie. Elsewhere, it's new look issue time with a redesigned Transformation page and a special full page Robo Capers written by Simon Furman to hand the letters' page over from Grimlock to Dreadwind; Visonaries joins in the back up slot, starting with the fifth of its six US issues and a 'Story So Far' text article; but most significantly of all, Andy Wildman makes his TFUK debut with a cover featuring the badly wounded Arcee.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 11, 2018 19:22:07 GMT
I am still angry 30 years later about the redesign of the Transformation page.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 11, 2018 19:36:43 GMT
It certainly made the comic look cheaper. Thundercats got the same deal. Both those comics got relaunches at this point with the mergers of the failed titles. At least Thundercats had original UK content from Galaxy Rangers until they ran out.
Actually, the Thundercats redesign came when the Rangers strips finished in a month's time. At which point it lost 4 pages and went fortnightly.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 11, 2018 19:42:47 GMT
I'd also question the merit of Dreadwind being the letter answerer. I mean, who was he in the grand scheme of things compared to Soundwave and Grimlock?
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 11, 2018 19:43:18 GMT
On the plus side though, hey, thirty years of Andy Wildman!
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Post by The Huff on Sept 11, 2018 21:24:03 GMT
Dreadwind was a strange choice for the letters page. I mean, he was one half of a duo and just hadn't done much in the stories at all at this point. If it had to be a 1988 Decepticon, I'd have gone for Snap Trap or Skullgrin. Not that they I did much either, but at least they stood out on their own.
And I didn't like the new Transformation page either and the 'Next Issue' page was even worse!
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Post by blueshift on Sept 11, 2018 21:38:55 GMT
I liked the to-and-fro between Dreadwind and Hi-Test, apart from when it was in black and white, when it was impossible to read!
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 11, 2018 21:51:02 GMT
I suppose the plan was to pick a relatively big toy that would be around for a while, but one that wouldn't feature heavily in stories to avoid the problems Grimlock had constantly answering questions about leaving blaster alone and being stuck on the moon.
I'd have gone with Doubledealer for the potential of the dual personality. I've just noticed that Doubledealer is on the 88 toy catalogue in our thread on the subject purported to be the UK one. I didn't think Doubledealer came out over here.
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Post by blueshift on Sept 11, 2018 21:51:47 GMT
I think he did, he was on the catalogues I had, and I never had any US imported toys
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 11, 2018 22:10:57 GMT
Interesting. He's not in the Powermaster ads in the comic and wasn't in the list of toys transformation gave.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 11, 2018 22:19:51 GMT
I suppose the plan was to pick a relatively big toy that would be around for a while, but one that wouldn't feature heavily in stories to avoid the problems Grimlock had constantly answering questions about leaving blaster alone and being stuck on the moon. I'd have gone with Doubledealer for the potential of the dual personality. I've just noticed that Doubledealer is on the 88 toy catalogue in our thread on the subject purported to be the UK one. I didn't think Doubledealer came out over here. I think he did, he was on the catalogues I had, and I never had any US imported toys He did, I saw plenty of them.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 11, 2018 22:22:24 GMT
I never did!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 11, 2018 22:24:01 GMT
Redesign: poor and not needed. The road to the end starts here!
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 11, 2018 22:56:03 GMT
It's also unlikely he would have got that Marvel UK story if he wasn't toy of the week to hawk in the UK.
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Post by inflatabledalek on Sept 12, 2018 6:31:42 GMT
30 years since my first issue! And also 30 years since my mother completely ripped the writing of Arcee apart, inspiring me to very quickly learn to read it myself...
Though I agree with her these days.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Sept 12, 2018 7:16:47 GMT
I just never understood how the fate of Autobot City depended on one guard. You'd think they might have learnt after Ultra Magnus let in Shockwave's assault group during its construction!
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