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Post by Pinwig on Aug 3, 2021 16:57:27 GMT
Good cover this, but a bit iffy because Prime looks like he's being suffocated by his own face plate.
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Post by Benn on Aug 3, 2021 17:25:47 GMT
At least!
(This is in response to the last post on the prior page because I didn't clock that there was another sneaky page started)
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 3, 2021 17:37:10 GMT
Interesting though that Hasbro UK were set on going to at least 1995 without support from Hasbro US. That's either a bold gamble on their part, or that toy sales were still pretty healthy over here.
Gosh. Imagine a Hasbro UK these days that worked out how to do its own toy ranges...
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 3, 2021 17:44:48 GMT
GO GREEN!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 3, 2021 17:46:04 GMT
Gosh. Imagine a Hasbro UK these days that worked out how to do its own toy ranges... Or had good distribution and didn't skip big chunks of their own toy lines. -Ralph |
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Post by The Huff on Aug 3, 2021 21:21:55 GMT
Wonderful cover.
Just a shame the barcode is an eyesore.
It also gives away the story a bit too.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 3, 2021 21:25:31 GMT
I was a big fan of Havoc and Meltdown though sadly both titles were very short lived! -Ralph Havoc was always doomed to die - it was the tester for Overkill. Meltdown I'm not so sure, Strip had been and gone by this point hadn't it? |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 3, 2021 21:27:53 GMT
Yes, Strip was 30 years ago last year. Still got all mine, loved that one.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 3, 2021 22:44:12 GMT
Wonderful cover. Just a shame the barcode is an eyesore. To this day I am still annoyed about barcodes on comic covers. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 17, 2021 9:25:05 GMT
30 Years Ago This Fortnight: Issue #322On The Edge of Extinction - Part 4: As the evil within the Matrix battles Unicron, Prime recognises he must try to destroy them both. Unicron releases a furious blast of energy that destroys Thunderwing and sends shock waves across Cybertron. Prime sees the Matrix and tries to reach for it, first releasing Hi-Q so he can find safety. Unicron transforms to planet mode and begins to devour Cybertron. Blackrock provokes Circuit Breaker into almost killing herself by releasing all her energy into a blast directed at Unicron. Just as she does this, Prime flies into the planet's maw and manages to release the goodness left in the Matrix. Unicron explodes, showering the remaining onlookers in debris. Sometime later, Battletrap and Runabout discuss their need to get back to causing trouble. Runabout investigates a crack in the ground and is dragged into the dark by a clawed hand. Hidden, Hi-Q sees this happen. Machine Man 2020 - Rime of the Ancient Wrecker - Part 1: Previously printed in #35. Elsewhere, Transformation gives over the sidebar to announcing the imminent return of Death's Head; Kup's entry in the A-Z claims he's the Falstaff to Hot Rod's Prince Hal; Combat Kate arrives in time to save Colin by revealing the Gigglies are actually robots; there's the last part of the enormous three part poster; and on the letters' page, Colin Walsh of Dublin suggests more voice talent for the next Transformers movie, including Leonard Nimoy for Spockwave. 
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Post by Benn on Aug 17, 2021 9:27:45 GMT
I wonder if he ever realised how close he got with that voice casting...
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 17, 2021 10:25:47 GMT
How exciting to hear of the return of Death's Head.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Aug 17, 2021 16:58:24 GMT
Edge of Extinction sends shivers down my spine!
Transformers comics AT THEIR BEST.
All those years... I didn't know about it.... didn't know..... until you guys.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 18, 2021 9:33:47 GMT
How exciting to hear of the return of Death's Head. -Ralph As an aside the appearance of DHII in Overkill along with the reversal of the absolutely moronic decision to excise the parts with the Marvel US guest stars saved that title. I was toying with binning it at the time, as Gary Erskine had left Warheads by that point and the Geoff art on Hell's Angel and Digitek were the only things keeping me going - jeebus Pendragon 2 was absolute shite. What a conclusion, and excising that last page and you have an ending to the TF mythos, very similar in tone to what we would get a couple of years later with G2 and squarely in the camp of the ending of TF:TM as well. Geoff did leave the Marvel TF books on a high. Imagine though, if he'd been able to do this issue painted a la DH: The Body in Question... |
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Post by The Huff on Aug 24, 2021 7:42:00 GMT
Yes!
I'd have much preferred the comic to finish here too (minus the last page). I'd never say no to more TF comics (especially in those hard times) but Edge Of Extinction would have made a much more satisfying close than issue 80, which felt like an episide of the cartoon where the Autobots had just sent the baddies running after thwarting their latest evil scheme.
Would have been nice to see them finish as one and at peace. It even closes with'the blurb.'
(We have ATAP as the real ending anyway)
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 1, 2021 21:05:01 GMT
30 Years Ago This Fortnight: Issue #323Still Life - Part 1: Cybertron lays in ruins. Some of the survivors surround the remains of Optimus Prime, kept alive by the Matrix. As he dies, he tries to give Prowl a message for Grimlock, which Prowl interprets as Prime passing the mantle of leadership to the Dinobot leader. Elsewhere, Hi-Q makes a startling realisation as he tries to escape the beast he saw destroy Runabout. Prowl talks to Grimlock, who is more concerned with his own goals than leading the Autobots. Krok and Bludgeon quietly consider their options. Grimlock explains to the Dinobots that Primus was wrong and there must always be a balance of good and evil, but then suddenly locks up and can't move. Hi-Q appears in front of him, shouting for help... Machine Man 2020 - Rime of the Ancient Wrecker - Part 2: Previously printed in #36. Elsewhere, Transformation gets very excited that next issue the results of the 'Draw a Transformers' competition will be announced; Grotusque features in the A-Z; Colin triumphs by overcoming the Amazing Dave with a smelly sock; and on the letters' page, Arfon J Rees of Swansea points out the images of the Ark and Autobot shuttle are mixed up on page 26 of this year's annual, while Blaster thinks that neither are actually the Ark and both are shuttles. 
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 1, 2021 21:11:18 GMT
Was Blaster wrong? I forget.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 1, 2021 21:23:51 GMT
I haven't got the annual out to check, but I think we talked about this in the best ships thread. I think one is a version of the Ark but doesn't look like the conventional appearance.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 2, 2021 5:50:18 GMT
The one labelled the Ark was the shuttle from the Movie.
The one labelled a shuttle was the Ark from the cartoon, but a shuttle in the comic (Space Pirates, Time Wars).
So Blaster was right in comic terms, Mr Rees was right in cartoon terms, and the feature in the annual was just wrong. As were a couple of comic stories and covers that mis-drew the Ark as a Movie shuttle.
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 9, 2021 17:44:33 GMT
Yes, Andy Wildman in his B&W stuff did the movie shuttle a couple of times iirc.
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Post by Benn on Sept 9, 2021 18:27:44 GMT
There was an "Assault on the Ark!" cover too, that had the movie shuttle.
I wonder what happened to the Ark in UK future continuity. It was still crashed in "Ark Duty", but that was the last time we saw it, right?
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 14, 2021 17:52:44 GMT
30 Years Ago This Fortnight: Issue #324Still Life - Part 2: The Dinobots battle the monsters chasing Hi-Q to protect Grimlock. Meanwhile, Shockwave and Starscream attempt to repair the Ark because Shockwave thinks it's still the best ship on Cybertron. A shadowy figure watches them in the darkness. As the battle with the monsters continues, Hi-Q sees Grimlock go into a chrysalis form. He sees a huge amount of energy surround the Dinobot leader and uses his Powermaster abilities to push him through the transformation. Grimlock emerges from his cocoon renewed and resplendent, but unable to transform. Hi-Q then claims the process has caused him to become Optimus Prime. Machine Man 2020 - Rime of the Ancient Wrecker - Part 3: Previously printed in #37. Elsewhere, Transformation reads the tea leaves and announces there will be a competition in November to win one of five Overlord toys along with the latest video release from Abbey Entertainments; Horri-Bull features in the A-Z; Colin discovers that Mutant Master is actually him; one Martin McV of Bristol wins a runner up prize in the Design-a-Transformer competition; and on the letters' page, a printing error means Andrew Hayden's picture of Blaster is coloured like Twincast and the dreaded number 332 appears for the first time with the warning that whatever happens after that point, there will be no new Transformers stories... 
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 14, 2021 21:00:24 GMT
The competition announcement is a bit of a mess really. It announces Peter Campbell as the winner, then congratulates Paul in the text instead on winning a set of triple changers, but doesn't say what the runner up prizes are.
So what did Martin of Bristol win? and more importantly, what was his design?
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 14, 2021 21:45:16 GMT
"the dreaded number 332 appears for the first time"
-I don't understand. Did they announce the fact the comic would finish at issue 332?
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 14, 2021 22:13:04 GMT
MARTIN.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 15, 2021 4:40:54 GMT
I have memory of winning a Classic Hero, either Wheeljack or Sunstreaker, I'm not sure, around this time, but I didn't design a Transformer, I sent in a picture of Unicron attacking Cybertron, as I'd read US #75 a few months before it was printed in the UK comic, so I was showing off my advance knowledge of what was going to happen.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 15, 2021 7:39:51 GMT
ILLEGAL WIN!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 15, 2021 9:10:55 GMT
He gets everywhere! Is that the first time your name was in the comic Martin? |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 15, 2021 16:56:09 GMT
Is that the first time your name was in the comic Martin? Yep, and just in time too! There wouldn't be any more chances to do so. Martin |
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 15, 2021 18:38:05 GMT
No it wasn't! We've already discussed Martin's inability to remember his appearance in Stock Exchange a while ago. 30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #307In the National Interest - Part 4: Reprinted from #78 (all eleven pages) Eye of the Storm - Part 2: While Optimus listens to Nightbeat's theories, Unicron draws Galvatron back into his grasp. However, Galvatron believes he can serve his own needs. On the Ark, Kup tries to stop Grimlock taking the bodies of the Dinobots but is knocked out for his trouble. Grimlock takes his deactivated friends. Elsewhere, Transformation promises glossy covers, free gifts and a higher page count coming with issue #309; Colin falls out of a tenth floor window; Blaster promises a GI Joe Special in the summer to wrap up the unfinished Cobra civil war storyline; and in Comic Exchange, one Martin McV of Bristol would like some comics in exchange for some other comics. |
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