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Post by Pinwig on Dec 26, 2016 13:29:10 GMT
Yes, sorry, autocorrect got at that. Twenty sets to be won, which if you think about what videos cost comparatively speaking in those days, was a pretty cool comp. The odd thing is that the comp page does a very poor job of advertising the actual videos - it doesn't say they're on sale, or what they cost.
The actual competition is to place speech bubbles lifted from 1986 stories, but it's too easy because you get given the story and a choice of three characters to pick from. So here are the quotes without the extra info. Name the character and the story:
"Yes - Yes I will. Or I will die in the attempt!"
"Indeed I can, human. And if you would cease your annoying whining for a moment, my mind-reading abilities will reveal exactly what ails him!"
"Calm yourself, Impactor! You know as well as Emirate Xaaron, that if I do not travel to Earth, Volcano would be meaningless!"
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Post by blueshift on Dec 26, 2016 13:31:51 GMT
#2 is Soundwave and #3 is Ultra Magnus but I'm not sure about #1
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 26, 2016 13:35:22 GMT
Hmmm... maybe. But which story?
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2016 16:37:08 GMT
#1 is Optimus Prime from Dinobot Hunt.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2016 16:37:39 GMT
#2 is Soundwave from Demolition Derby.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2016 16:38:00 GMT
#3 is Ultra Magnus from Target:2006.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 26, 2016 17:57:10 GMT
Spot on, well done. You could have won three VHS video tapes!
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2016 17:57:40 GMT
*travels back in time to collect his prize*
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 30, 2016 19:55:51 GMT
Oop, forgot. 30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #94Decepticon Graffiti - Part One, in which Circuit Breaker discovers Transformer brains are no bigger than a thumbnail; Megatron decides to pick a fight with Optimus for no appreciable reason and - even more inexplicably - summons the Battle Chargers from Cybertron to go and call him out. Runabout and Runamuck have other ideas though, and follow the lead of a gap-toothed pre-teen graffiti expert by scrawling Cybertronian messages all over America instead. Y'know, for laughs. Elsewhere, Lee Sullivan makes his Transformers debut on the cover; Transformation gets very excited about the now on sale Movie Poster Special; and evidence of old-school car-boot piracy comes to the fore in Grim Grams as readers respond to TF:TM in letters sent before the cinema release date.  |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 30, 2016 22:50:43 GMT
My copy of the Movie Poster Special disintegrated from use back in the day. Thankfully, I was able to source a replacement though it tends to go for funny money.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 30, 2016 23:05:18 GMT
It's one thing I don't have in my Marvel UK collection. I will own one one day.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 30, 2016 23:09:54 GMT
Prepare to pay over the odds for an unused (ie not stuck on a wall) copy!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 31, 2016 11:45:38 GMT
I have periodically checked ebay, never seen one come up to buy.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 31, 2016 15:38:05 GMT
Supplemental! Advert from this week's issue. I had no idea that Heinz Spaghetti Invaders not only had individual names, but also a club! How many issues did that last? I scanned the page. I was also surprised that there's no pack shot in this. It took me a while to work out what it was actually talking about.  |
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Post by blueshift on Dec 31, 2016 15:41:46 GMT
God, I wish I was in the Heinz Spaghetti Club  |
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 31, 2016 16:06:16 GMT
So do I... so do I.
I want to know what the Confidential Communication of Welcome said.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 31, 2016 22:18:27 GMT
I remember the Spaghetti Club! My parents would not let me join. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 31, 2016 22:18:59 GMT
I have periodically checked ebay, never seen one come up to buy. It tends to pop up in waves or mixed in with random job lots. That's how I found mine. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 3, 2017 20:08:18 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #95Decepticon Graffiti - Part Two, in which Runabout and Runamuck continue to menace America with hilarious graffiti; Circuit Breaker strikes a deal with the captured Autobots to use their bodies as a super suit in return for their freedom, resulting in her getting fired from RAAT for letting them go; and former Robot Master Donny Finkleberg redeems himself by donating the $50,000 he got for betraying Skids to the fund for repairing the Statue of Liberty after the Battle Chargers deface it. Elsewhere, Transformation has 'exciting news' for readers of Secret Wars II, which ceased publication this week after 80 issues; On the letters page, Sean Stafford berates Hasbro for releasing the 'New Leaders' twenty years too early; and Spitfire and the Troubleshooters goes all mature readers as Jenny Swensen ponders her lack of a sex life since donning the MAX suit several months previously. 
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 3, 2017 20:10:27 GMT
The 'exciting news' about Secret Wars II did not please me as there was exciting news for 'Spider-Man and Zoids' (the title it moved to for the last story) not long after!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 3, 2017 20:11:45 GMT
I've never understood how Spiderman and Zoids are related in any way. Was that the result of a merger?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 3, 2017 20:15:46 GMT
It comes from that strange period when Spider-Man wasn't popular enough in the UK to support his own title so Zoids (as a hot new property) was used to boost him! The comic had a third slot which was pretty random and was even used for Star Wars for a while (the ROTJ title having died by this point). Yep, even Star Wars could not support its' own title at that point.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 3, 2017 20:20:13 GMT
Zoids having spun off from Secret Wars where it previously had a 4(?) page strip.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 3, 2017 20:22:07 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 3, 2017 20:54:04 GMT
Spider-Man and Zoids launched quite a while after Transformers. I'm sure his weekly had died a while before.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 3, 2017 20:55:09 GMT
Zoids having spun off from Secret Wars where it previously had a 4(?) page strip. It had a four page slot in the centre. Alternated between 4 pages of strip and 3 pages of strip and a fact file page on the Zoids themselves. -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 3, 2017 21:08:13 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 3, 2017 21:19:07 GMT
Right, so not a merger as such, but an attempt to combine the audiences of two properties that couldn't quite cut it on their own. That explains it.
That's interesting actually, so the Spider-Man stuff must have been all US reprint material to allow the Zoids strip to be UK original content?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 3, 2017 21:28:51 GMT
The third strip was pushed a fair bit too. Star Wars even got a cover!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 10, 2017 20:03:25 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #96Prey - Part One, in which Optimus muses on the ineffectiveness of his troops in recent engagements and decides to recon the Decepticon base alone to work out a way to disable their space bridge; Soundwave ponders how to best play his two masters to his own advantage; Shockwave does a bit of foreshadowing from the, err, shadows; and, not knowing his quarry is coming to him anyway, Megatron summons the deadly Predacons from Cybertron to flush out Prime for the winner-takes-all duel he was after two issues ago. Elsewhere, the return to UK originated content in the main strip means Transformation begins the countdown to the bumper sized issue 100; news is revealed that the UK version of the comic is now on sale in America; and the first advert appears for the definitive movie tie-in product - the Ladybird/Tell-A-Tale adaptation. 
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