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Post by The Doctor on Jun 11, 2016 21:42:48 GMT
Not the 'best' issue but easily one of the reads (of any kind) that had the most impact on young Ralph.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 11, 2016 22:08:03 GMT
It's interesting reading that one now with hindsight. I remember at the time wondering why when there were so many new toys around that the comic needed to make more up. In that regard it's quite an interesting move to bring in characters just to kill them for effect. That's a much more Furman than Budiansky vibe. But that's why we remember this story.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 12, 2016 8:09:53 GMT
I have a special arm! An arm like no other!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 12, 2016 8:23:47 GMT
Sign of the times that Scrounge's special fingers were attached to him by extending cables... it'd be all wireless these days. Or drones. But then they'd buzz, and we don't want to go there.
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 19, 2016 21:22:16 GMT
Seems odd to already be hearing those names. Special Teams was a big moment for the line, but it didn't last anywhere near as long as Combiner Wars. March-ish until the summer? No wonder I only managed to get one of them. Following on from this, TF:UK 30 years ago this week featured the first advert for movie figures (Cyclonus/Scourge/Hot Rod/Kup/Blurr). The Special Teams mini comic came with issue 54, which was out on the last week of March. So it was a three month promotional window for Special Teams before the beginning of the march toward the movie. |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 7, 2016 16:36:50 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #74The second new look relaunch for the comic! Which basically means getting shot of Matt and the Cat, moving Robo Capers into the half page slot instead, and giving Grimlock control of the letters page in a special full page Robo Capers to launch Grim Grams! In the National Interest begins too, starting a run of UK originated stories that will run for fifteen issues right through to the end of Target 2006. The dawn of a golden era for the UK comic! 
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 7, 2016 17:09:55 GMT
Not the longest continuous run of UK stories though. I think that is from #213-289? Is this the second longest unbroken run of UK stories?
It boggles my mind that #74 was out 30 years ago this week. I have very strong memories of getting this particular issue and of being sad that Matt and the Cat was gone.
I think when we get to 30 years since Target: 2006 began that I shall have to jump in the sea. Egads! I also just realised that The Future now happened 10 years ago!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!111
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 7, 2016 17:54:35 GMT
Ooooo, good squishy!
Love this period of the comic. Dad brought me home a solid run of 3 issues starting with this one, which was the most I had consecutively. I missed the final part!
For that reason alone I have a HUGE soft spot for In The National Interest!
I wonder if it's worth sticking the covers up for the next 3-4 months worth every week since this is such a significant time for the comic?
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 7, 2016 18:37:16 GMT
Happy to do that with a quick precis. This is the most significant moment I can think of in the comic's history. Well, for me personally.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 7, 2016 20:37:33 GMT
It's probably the time i was reading the comic that the seven days between issues became unbearable. It's a masterclass in serial storytelling from Furman et. al.
When we get to T:2006 shall we try and do a weekly read along, but force ourselves to just read one part a week?
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 7, 2016 21:06:52 GMT
I'm already doing that  I've been reading an issue a week from my pile since the thirtieth birthday of issue one. I'm really enjoying reliving the way the story develops and remembering my feelings and involvement with it. Right now 30 years ago I was in the summer holiday between my middle and secondary schools. Target 2006 ran through my first term at big school, by which time it was becoming increasingly hard to find anyone else interested in it. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 13, 2016 20:12:03 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 18, 2016 8:23:57 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #74The second new look relaunch for the comic! Which basically means getting shot of Matt and the Cat, moving Robo Capers into the half page slot instead, and giving Grimlock control of the letters page in a special full page Robo Capers to launch Grim Grams! In the National Interest begins too, starting a run of UK originated stories that will run for fifteen issues right through to the end of Target 2006. The dawn of a golden era for the UK comic! Mr Pinwig owes us a picture of 75! |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 18, 2016 8:25:33 GMT
What I hadn't said before is "isn't 74's cover great?"
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 18, 2016 9:55:59 GMT
Mr Pinwig owes us a picture of 75! Oh sorry! I thought the weekly bit was just for Target: 2006. Hold on! |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 18, 2016 10:06:46 GMT
30 Years Ago Just About This Week: Issue #75In The National Interest Part 2: Sludge is in lurve, Swoop's plan to get Joy a TV interview goes wrong and Megatron comes face to face with Professor Morris in the guise of Centurion! Elsewhere, Grimlock answers his first letters beneath an unnecessarily large letter head, the second Transformers annual gets its first advert and the back cover advertises all six triple changers in a new advert that first appeared last week. 
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 18, 2016 11:12:43 GMT
Another top issue!
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Post by primenova on Aug 18, 2016 11:30:36 GMT
I know we haven't got to 30yrs point yet - but can give people time to find out why - Why did #319 come out on a wednesday? I'm waiting for us to get to #102 so can start remembering picking up the issues the week they came out.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 18, 2016 18:17:14 GMT
It will be several years before this thread gets to #319!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 19, 2016 7:48:37 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #76In The National Interest - Part 3. In which Swoop is laughed at for getting stuck in mid-transformation. The cause, Triple I's tracer, leads Megatron to the Dinobots - eliciting a rather splendid "Ooh 'Eck!" from Slag when he realises what's coming next week. Elsewhere, Hercules cops off with the woman he's supposed to be saving, causing Recorder to get arrested for spying on the action through a window; one full page is given over to the history of the Dinobots; and another presents a preview of the upcoming annual. Even though Hot Rod first appeared in adverts back in June, Transmissions gives him the side bar this week to note that a six foot, six inch tall REAL Hot Rod will be doing the rounds at selected toyshops during the summer - something I believe Phil found a picture of recently. 
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Post by chrisl on Aug 23, 2016 8:12:46 GMT
I always forget how good these comic covers were, and how comparable in quality TMUK art was in comparison in the 90s.
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 27, 2016 19:26:22 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #77In The National Interest reaches its dramatic conclusion courtesy of some fine Will Simpson art, in which Megatron and the Constructicons go all out against the Dinobots while Professor Morris struggles with moral issues. Elsewhere, Grimlock is still answering Soundwave's letters and Galvatron and Ultra Magnus get their first ever toy adverts on the back page. 
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 27, 2016 19:33:07 GMT
The issue I missed at the time and didn't get to read till the trade 15+ years later
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 27, 2016 20:15:58 GMT
It really does have it all!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 3, 2016 8:59:54 GMT
The dates for this have been bugging me: TF UK followed the UK convention of the issue having the date of the last day it's on sale on it. The date on 77, the last part of In The National Interest is 6th September 1986 So the first part of Target 2006 goes on sale 7th September 1986. (you can verify this by looking at the cover of 93 tfwiki.net/wiki/File:MarvelUK-093.jpg) So the 30th anniversary will be 7th September 2016, and that's when I think we should start talking about it. The publication dates for the Target 2006 issues are: 78: 07/09/1986 79: 14/09/1986 80: 21/09/1986 81: 28/09/1986 82: 05/10/1986 83: 12/10/1986 84: 19/10/1986 85: 26/10/1986 86: 02/11/1986 87: 09/11/1986 88: 16/11/1986 |
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Post by blueshift on Sept 3, 2016 9:03:10 GMT
Can we ban anyone who tries to talk about it on a different day???
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 3, 2016 9:04:17 GMT
It depends who they are!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 3, 2016 9:20:02 GMT
Actually I've just had a bit of a crisis about the dates above.
Excel tells me that all those dates were Sundays. Which means the dates are wrong, no magazines are ever published Sunday
So were Marvel UK putting the publication date of the next issue on the front?
Which would make the publication date a Saturday.
My head hurts.
Further research is needed. Bear With.....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 3, 2016 9:43:57 GMT
I went to the experts
So the dates are:
78: 06/09/1986
79: 13/09/1986
80: 20/09/1986
81: 27/09/1986
82: 04/10/1986
83: 11/10/1986
84: 18/10/1986
85: 25/10/1986
86: 01/11/1986
87: 08/11/1986
88: 15/11/1986
Which WERE Saturdays but WILL BE Tuesdays for us.
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 3, 2016 10:01:15 GMT
I was just posting on the Saturday of the right week because that was the day most people got the issue, which is why I was calling it '30 Years Ago This Week', not 'today'. If you want to be laser guided accurate, the issues were on sale on the Friday because that's when mine arrived from the newsagent; we established that at the start of the thread. So issue 78 was actually on sale from Sept 5th. But no one associates Monday with being 'Transformers' day.
But I can post on Tuesdays if you want!
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I've been reading an issue a week from my pile since the thirtieth birthday of issue one. I'm really enjoying reliving the way the story develops and remembering my feelings and involvement with it. Right now 30 years ago I was in the summer holiday between my middle and secondary schools. Target 2006 ran through my first term at big school, by which time it was becoming increasingly hard to find anyone else interested in it.
