|
|
Post by Pinwig on Jul 8, 2018 20:15:06 GMT
That's how it is with these super-cool services hero types. One minute they're here criticising you for not opening your toys and snorting wine through their noses, the next they're off saving lives and flashing gleaming white teeth at old ladies who fall down at bus stops. Mirrored shades, Tom Selleck moustache. He's a heart-breaker that Shockprowl, but he doesn't care it's OUR hearts he's breaking.
|
|
|
|
Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 8, 2018 20:50:55 GMT
Does Shockprowl have an 80s moustache?
|
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on Jul 8, 2018 20:54:11 GMT
Actually, in all the pictures Bogatan has provided for us, it's been more handlebar in style. Shockers likes to twirl.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Jul 8, 2018 21:13:22 GMT
Good to see TIME WARRIOR pulling ahead again!!!
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 9, 2018 9:39:30 GMT
Neck and neck! Don't people understand no matter how much you dash Time Warrior will always be first??
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2018 11:33:32 GMT
This is too tense.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 9, 2018 11:45:46 GMT
Very tense...
|
|
|
|
Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 9, 2018 17:51:55 GMT
 TIME WARRIOR aka THE LAST AUTOBOTAllegiance: Duh First appearance: Transformers #79 "I have seen the future and it is digital."  Profile: As revealed in Transformers #80, Bludgeon knew distorted legends of the Last Autobot, which referred to him as "the Ultimate Warrior". In truth, the letters 'U', 'L', 'A' and 'T' had been added to his name by some prankster between two and three million years ago. His real name, of course... Time Warrior! The Last Autobot is older than any other Autobot, so why isn't he called the First Autobot? The answer is, he's a time-traveller! Time Warrior will be the last Autobot ever created, and with knowledge of how the great war ended he will travel back in time to before any other Autobots existed and plant the seeds of his own prophecy. In 1991, after restoring Cybertron, taking Optimus Prime and the Neo-Knights to Klo and reviving the fallen Autobots, he reconfigured himself as a sophisticated wrist device that may be worn by humans and open up to reveal the time, making people think that he is simply a digital watch. By jumping forward and backward in time, he can be in many places at the same time, worn on the wrist of every member of the Secret Transformer Autobot Rescue Squad (S.T.A.R.S.), a shadowy organisation established by G.B. Blackrock, ready to sound the alert should any rogue remnants of the Decepticon army return to threaten the Earth. Abilities: In Autobrand mode, Time Warrior can stare into your soul and hypnotise you into voting for him in polls. If you dangle him by his strap and swing him from side to side in front of your enemy, you can make them give you all their money. He can split open to reveal the time, and lift off from his wrist strap to fly like a ladybird. In this mode he is armed with very, very small air-to-ground neutron bombs, armour-piercing machine-guns and heat-seeking missiles, which make him lethal to marauding Insecticons. The wrist strap is a Master Bracelet. If you wear one on each wrist and cross them in front of you and shout "MASTAAAH-FORRRCE!" you will bring two versions of the same being into physical contact with each other and open a rift in time and space, which summons all the Time Warriors existing in your timeframe to fly to you and combine into the original Last Autobot, who is the size of Superion and transforms into a space-and-timeship, with you as his Godmaster partner/pilot.  Weaknesses: None. STR: 7 INT: 10 SPD: 7 END: 8 RNK: 8 CRG: 7 FPR: 6 SKL: 10 Martin |
|
|
|
Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 9, 2018 18:37:00 GMT
Truth.
|
|
|
|
Post by Shockprowl on Jul 9, 2018 19:06:34 GMT
Awesome!
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Jul 9, 2018 19:46:50 GMT
Surely no-one can vote against TIME WARRIOR now?
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by legios on Jul 9, 2018 20:20:01 GMT
I had already voted for Time Warrior. Not that Powerdasher's aren't good. But they are somewhat limited as toys...with the application of a little imagination a Time Warrior sees you directly embroiled into the war, an ally of the heroic autobots.
Besides, at this point I already knew that watches were an excellent source of superpowers, and a prime method of transmuting into your costume... *raises watch had across face*
Karl
|
|
The Huff
Thunderjet
Hufferlover
Posts: 4,247
|
Post by The Huff on Jul 11, 2018 21:13:48 GMT
Me still deciding who to vote for this week:  |
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 11, 2018 21:17:14 GMT
Although I'm pleased to see you giving this some thought, I suspect you might ave made your mind up already.....
Did you send away for that one in the 80s?
|
|
|
|
Post by Pinwig on Jul 11, 2018 21:30:24 GMT
Oh Matt, I've had such a terrible day and that picture made me laugh my arse off. Thank you for that.
|
|
The Huff
Thunderjet
Hufferlover
Posts: 4,247
|
Post by The Huff on Jul 11, 2018 22:05:07 GMT
Although I'm pleased to see you giving this some thought, I suspect you might ave made your mind up already..... Did you send away for that one in the 80s? That IS me in the 80's. Such is the power of wearing a Time Warrior! |
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 12, 2018 6:21:14 GMT
This is your 24 hours to go warning Llama God your vote could make all the difference! We have one more week left in the 1985 catalogues..... but another SIX before we reach The New Leaders! |
|
|
|
Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 12, 2018 6:28:48 GMT
This is your 24 hours to go warning Llama GodIf he only had a Time Warrior he could go back in time and vote in all the polls he missed out on... thus changing the course of human history. Time Warrior has even seen a reality in which England won the 2018 World Cup! Martin |
|
|
|
Post by Llama God on Jul 12, 2018 6:36:13 GMT
Now this is an emotionally-charged one for me. I always wanted Time Warrior, but didn't get enough toys to collect enough Robot Points. Until Christmas 1985! (I think it was 1985, anyway.) Santa brought me Megatron, which was nice in itself, and added just enough robot points to get me to the limit. And just before the deadline of the end of the year! Hurrah!
Until... Until my brothers and I had some sort of argument (which I'm sure was their fault) and my dad confiscated some of our newer toys as a punishment, to be held until we returned to school. Which included my Megatron. And his box.
Time Warrior, alas, was never mine.
Okay, I'm sure that if I'd sent them in and they'd arrived a couple of days late I would've been sent one anyway. But seven year-old me believed that everyone had to adhere strictly to the rules...
As a consequence, and because of the drama behind it, I must therefore cause an upset, and vote...
Time Warrior!
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Jul 12, 2018 6:56:34 GMT
This is your 24 hours to go warning Llama God your vote could make all the difference! We have one more week left in the 1985 catalogues..... but another SIX before we reach The New Leaders! How predictable. Once again Phil 'suddenly reminds' people the vote the day before a poll is not going his way! -Ralph |
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 12, 2018 6:59:36 GMT
The vote is close, so I feel it's important we get the full view of the electorate.
I am merely reminding people to vote with no indication either way as to which way they should.
Or do you lack confidence in your preferred candidate's ability to carry the day?
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Jul 12, 2018 7:02:47 GMT
Phil only does this when the vote is not going the way he wants! Not at other times!
"your vote could make all the difference".
GUILTY!!!
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 12, 2018 7:06:30 GMT
You are unable to see most of the reminders I regularly send out using the twitter.
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 12, 2018 7:07:10 GMT
Anyway, does Ralph like Matt D's photo of a grown man wearing Time Warrior?
|
|
|
|
Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 12, 2018 9:14:11 GMT
I am worried that Matt's wrists are still of child-like proportions!
But he has voted correctly.
|
|
The Huff
Thunderjet
Hufferlover
Posts: 4,247
|
Post by The Huff on Jul 12, 2018 9:30:57 GMT
I am worried that Matt's wrists are still of child-like proportions! But he has voted correctly. Unfortunately, it is not only my wrists that are still of childlike proportions... And I've not voted yet - the Powerdashers possessing arms, legs & wheels is still making me undecided. |
|
|
|
Post by blueshift on Jul 12, 2018 10:04:49 GMT
I am worried that Matt's wrists are still of child-like proportions! But he has voted correctly. I don't know about Matt D, but I bet I could wear a time warrior now. Will there be one at TFN? |
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Jul 12, 2018 11:23:21 GMT
I am worried that Matt's wrists are still of child-like proportions! But he has voted correctly. Unfortunately, it is not only my wrists that are still of childlike proportions... And I've not voted yet - the Powerdashers possessing arms, legs & wheels is still making me undecided. But they can't give you mastery over Time. -Ralph |
|
|
|
Post by Toph on Jul 12, 2018 12:40:55 GMT
Shenanigans! Shenanigans!
Real actual transforming robot toys with actual characters lose out to a non-transforming "non sentient" fashion accessory?!?
Shenanigans! Shenanigans!
|
|
|
|
Post by blueshift on Jul 12, 2018 13:31:24 GMT
Shenanigans! Shenanigans! Real actual transforming robot toys with actual characters lose out to a non-transforming "non sentient" fashion accessory?!? Shenanigans! Shenanigans! Name one interesting in-universe fact about the Omnibots without looking it up. You can't as they are awful. Here is my Omnibot story: Way way back, I used to play on the Transformers MUSH. MUSHes were exciting text-based RPGs that were on telnet (remember telnet??) and were pretty big back in the day. The MUSH took a very firm grip on what characters were available to be applied for (you could either play a 'feature character' (ie canon) or an original character). Some of the old guard were also super super conservative when it came to their tastes in transforming robots, and despite being a post-movie game, they were all obsessed with the pre-movie cast so anything after 1986 was verboten. Me and my friends really liked Headmasters so we were pushing really really hard to introduce Headmasters, but there was a lot of resistance. A lot of players really wanted the Headmasters. The guy in charge of characters eventually came back with the explanation that he'd love to introduce the Headmasters but couldn't as he was about to introduce the Omnibots and that would be too many characters at once. We challenged him to name all the Omnibots and he couldn't. No-one wanted to play the Omnibots. He decided that the Omnibots should follow the Japanese Manga continuity (which no-one ever has read) and so had them coded up with weapons that could one-shot a combiner. Combiners were a big deal at the time as to use the combine code, you had to have all team members having active players and in the same room at the same time which never ever happened. This did not go down well with anyone in a combiner team. So we couldn't have Headmasters as we had to have the Omnibots instead, but no-one wanted the Omnibots and everyone hated them. There was then a passive-aggressive period where the (unplayed, so fair-game) Omnibots were casually killed in any scene which required someone in the background to bite it. (We did eventually take over and get Headmasters and they were super popular. We actually got Pretenders before Headmasters but we did cheat with that) |
|
