#Transformers JG1

[bluespider62]

This goes for every other Cybertron, Destronger and Destron

For those who don't get the joke, Robots in Disguise (2001) was originally an anime called Car Robots, which featured a new character named Fire Convoy.

The rank of "Convoy" was an Autobot title made to honor Optimus Prime and held by bots who had an uncanny resemblance to Oppy, such as Lio Convoy, Lio Jr., Big Convoy and Black Convoy.

[hozcar]

"Kiloton. A thoughtful and introspective bot, he was descended from Quintesson models designed for high-level tactics and strategy. As one of Megatron's earliest recruits, he often acted as a sounding board while Megatron was planing his campaigns. A friendship was forged in fire; they became more than close." -Vector Prime

[theneptuneflytrap]

B* said I was ugly, I said, "B* where???"

"Back in the 80's,"

I said, "B* WHERE???"

[The top two are from Transformers Legends and Transformers More Than Meets the Eye (IDW) respectively. Clockwise from the top left are Transformers: The Headmasters (Toei Animation/Takara), The Transformers (Sunbow), The Transformers (Marvel US), and Transformers: The Headmasters (TV Magazine/Takara).]

[vector-prima-vectorum]

Liokaiser but with giant wings formed by Lyzack. Do you see my vision

[karanseraph]

I feel like I shouldn't be the first to notice this, but in The Transformers (circa 2006 in-universe) Dirk Manus is a humanish man who is possibly a love interest for Marissa Faireborn and somewhere down the JG1 timeline is the father of Marissa's daughter, Sue (named after his ship?).

But in other parts of the greater G1 family of continuities, Marissa hangs around with a bot named ThunDERCracker (alive well after 2005) who is pretty bad at coming up with human character names, but one of them is Susan.

Derc/Dirk Manus sounds like a fake name that Thundercracker would use if trying to be a humanish entity. If Thundercracker did research for a script he might even realize the "dirk" spelling indicates a type of dagger, like a long thrusty one.

Is this a thing? Are Dirk and Thundercracker like alternate universe versions of each other?? Or is there some other convoluted thing that happens?

Dirk in many scenes wears a blue jacket open at the front with an amber-ish shirt seen below at the opening and some white (or light gray) pants. Also, one of his fancy outfits is mainly white and blue. Do I have to point Thundercracker shares those colors?

What's up with this?

[sparklingpax]

man hearing recently about people's good experiences with masterforce genuinely makes me so happy.....cause my first exposure to it? was seeing it be pretty much ridiculed 😭 like

Made fun of for being "too weird for a transformers series" and therefore "boring"--skippable, even 🫤

I almost adopted that opinion myself, but ultimately my curiosity about JG1 won out and I bought the DVDs to give the trilogy a watch. And I?? loved it when I saw it, loved the whole trilogy tbh!! Like the masterforce theme played and I didn't think it was out of place or "too chill for a transformers show 🤨", I thought it was?? a nice song???? 😭 And upon further reflection, actually perfect for the vibe of this show, so no, it's not a bad choice at all, it's serving its particular purpose! And serving it well!! 😭❤️🔥 Side note Hawk is BEAUTIFUL in that first intro sequence good LORDD LOOK AT HIMMM 🫣🩷✨

On the topic of music, the insert songs/OST is all really good too 😭💕💖✨🩷🔥 The Pretenders theme is pretty as fuck and noble and lovely! and We Believe Tomorrow lowkey makes me tear up when I listen to it.......🥹😭❤️‍🩹🩵

Anyway, within minutes of the first episode I was just digging the vibe. I finished it in just a couple nights total 🫣....seeing the Pretenders and Godmasters and considering that concept and everything it offers to transformers lore.....just so cool to me‼️💗

as I've said before, masterforce also helped me cope with the recent loss of my cat at the time....

Long-term helped with developing my art and writing skills; I'm embarrassed of a lot of that older art now 😅 but...I realize those were very important stepping stones to get where I am now, and for that, I'm real grateful.

It was and is an odd little source of joy for me tbh!...so it's my mission to give people a different kinda first impression if I can 💗

It's not perfect--it's got its weird beats and things I might not even like and the animation is strange sometimes and etc etc etc. I mean. no series is perfect....but it is better than what I've seen some tf fans give it credit for. And I'll die on that hill tbh....😭💖💕

so yea that's all and thanks for coming to my tedx talk,

[vynxwave]

@vynxbunny \ transformers sideblog Vynx/V, 20, nonbinary, xe/xem/xyrs + they/them

This sideblog may contain discussion, analysis, gushing, screenshots/clips, spoilers, art, and writing of any TF thing I'm interested in (current favorites are Skybound, EarthSpark [all seasons], and Marvel G1).

TF Media I’m into \\

Shows: Earthspark \\ JG1 \\ Cyberverse \\ Prime \\ Animated \\ G1 \\ UT \\ Beast Wars Comics: Skybound \\ IDW1&2 \\ SG \\ DW \\ Marvel UK G1 \\ RG1&’84 Books: Aligned Novels Currently Gobbling Up: Beast Wars II

Main Ships \\ Megatron × Soundwave (manifesto) Starscream × Shockwave

!! I can take a while to respond or post

Featured Posts \\ + EarthSpark Starscream actually begins his plan with the Tunnels in S1 + EarthSpark Shockwave Analysis + EarthSpark Frenzy's line in "Decoy" has no implications about how Soundwave treats the cassette-bots

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[karanseraph]

I have not been assessed for and therefore have not been diagnosed for or with specific neurodivergence.

But let me tell you about my interests and how I do them in streaks.

The Transformers - I have been into these giant alien robots since I was a 12-year-old girl. I'm not that person who can tell you all about JG1, but I know a lot, I collect the toys, I paint some of them, I write fics, I design OCs sometimes, I'm not super good at drawing them, but I try. Violin Ravage, think about it.

Angelology - I got super into this sometime after someone (Neil Gaiman?) recommended the book A Dictionary of Angels. I then acquired a whole shelf full of books about angels with religious and less religious takes and got super into the hierarchy(?) of orders, but got frustrated that there was no consensus on the number and names of these, so I just made my own system

Vampires - sometimes before during and after Anne Rice (RIP) was writing the Vampire Chronicles, like in my teen years and on, I watched so many vampire movies and read so many vampire books. Fiction and lore and even a few true crime type works.

Writing original(?) fiction - After I tried writing some primitive legally-dissimilar robot-like alien stories and got frustrated that they seemed juvenile, (and also after the age I had read The Sandman comics) about the age of attending college (art schools) I started writing fiction that was a mash-up of mythology, vampires, and ancient astronauts set in cities where I attended school (LA and NYC) that had all these androgynous supernatural beings and like gay art student characters. Then I just kept adding on to that series/universe without publishing any of it. Also got to the point of making an AU of my own work and writing that.

I know a lot about Ancient Astronaut and Ancient Alien theories.

Astrotheology - Graham Hancock led to me reading Hamlet's Mill and Hamlet's Mill led me down an astrotheology rabbit hole to the point where I want to (but fear my art skills aren't good enough) and started to develop a Tarot Deck where the poses on the cards are based on constellations, because I'm convinced that is what some of the older decks did - used constellations as the templates for poses. I made some YouTube videos about it but my computer's not really powerful enough for streaming.

I also know a little about Tarot and collect decks

building little things - I also build/decorate dollhouses and dioramas to house various dolls and action figures.

I also know a bit about upholstering human-scale furniture and related DIY crafts and refinishing.

Container trees - I don't always call them Bonsai but I got into gardening with vegetables in containers first, then moved on to in-ground vegetable and wildlife gardening and growing trees both in ground and in containers. My thing that I like to to get native trees for my region and grow those. I'm still trying to figure out how to get them to survive both summers and winters because the pots just don't have the same insulation and available water as the ground.

I play Dungeons & Dragons and also make and paint miniatures for ttrpg scale. I really want to learn how to play Transformers RPG. I started making some maps with cute roadway playtape without even having others to play with me.

honestly so much of the way we conceptualize autistic special interests is predicated on there not being anyone who shares them with us? and like. have you met humans. have you talked to any autistics. because lots of them are pretty interesting actually! and autistic people are often pretty good at infecting you with their interests so that you share them too even if you're not as motivated to fixate happily on them for their own sakes!

huge whorls of autistic-generated human communities exist, and people who aren't used to autistic people never seem to realize that Yes Those Are Also Autistics, often because people are used to autistic special interests occupying some very limited contexts like Computers because Computers were a big new societal innovation and community spinning up right when people also started thinking about autism as a Distinction Among Humans. Also Pokemon. And the Internet. Nineties kids know what I mean, eh?

anyway here are some heavily autistic communities that allistic people never seem to realize tend to concentrate autistics and be driven by them:

every non-commercial domestic animal fancy ever, including dog, cat, pigeon, chicken, and horse people; also includes a fair chunk of the commercial kinds but there are slightly less of these

fandom of any kind (for some reason--it's misogyny--no one seems to realize that this also applies to female-slanted forms of fandom focused on storytelling and modification as well as male-slanted ones that involve information curation)

religion. especially any kind that involves any kind of organization--less the charismatic ones that involve manipulating other people, more the kind that draw people interested in the way that religion works. less/more is not all/none.

kink and sexuality generally and also gender. we think a lot. it's a problem. and we get snagged on stuff. plus sensory shit ties into everything. just saying. e v e r y t h i n g.

academia. look we get. we get interested in things. if you get interested enough in things people call you an expert and sometimes they give you money. money is nice. it lets you buy more objects of special interest.

acting. we wear masks all the fucking time and we get caught up in it. which makes you think about structure, eh?

comedy. ditto.

building shit. admittedly the allistics have largely noticed that engineers concentrate us by now but it has taken a surprisingly long time to realize that this also applies to other, older crafts.

fibercrafts and textiles. what about "we like textures and also figuring out how things work" is a surprise to you. also math. again the answer to how the allistics keep failing to notice this one is "there's lots of ladies in there."

I bet I'm missing plenty that I'm just not thinking of but my god, man, look at how many of these things touch us! look at how they shape our understanding of one another and ourselves! how cool is that

[iruiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

funny rat comic

[bluespider62]

Transformers and DBZ fans, listen to this…

[eggespinator]

HELLBAT

[allspark]

Official In-Hand Images Takara Tomy Transformers MPG-01 Trainbot Shouki

Official In-Hand Images Takara Tomy Transformers MPG-01 Trainbot Shouki @TF_pr #Transformers #Trains

[heljay]

TRANSFORMERS OC: Omen of Unicron Alt: Unicronian Hearse

A survivor of Unicron's apocalypse in the light of the Matrix of Leadership. She cares for his dead - including Unicron himself, what's left of him.

Bestie and I watched the G1 movie together and we’ve been having fun developing Unicron as an occupied planet with his own people besides Galvatron, Scourge, Cyclonus and their repaints; particularly in the tone/context of JG1, because Unicron would’ve gotten to be sympathetic if Kaneda-sensei had been given Unicron as a character to write for

Omen’s alt is based on a Japanese Buddhist-style hearse, and the gold cracks throughout her chassis is based on the kintsugi method of fixing broken pottery!

Also her shrine spawns and despawns when she transforms like Optimus’ trailer because I’m not figuring out how that shit transforms lmfao

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[robo-mox-motley]

[Video ID: Gorg, a tall blue mech, runs forward brandishing the blunt grip end of his tank gun. He lifts the whole long gun upwards by the barrel before striking down on the top of a tank. The original sound of the tank being hit is replaced with a coconut bonk stock sound. End ID.]

Always Gorgin' time at Mox(ter)'s

Mox(ter) reporting. Firm believer that Pink Lady apples are superior to Honeycrisp. These are some things you might want to know. Or not, your choice ┐⁠(⁠´⁠ー⁠｀⁠)⁠┌

Things that keep me up at night:

The camaraderie of the Autobots in Armada.

This loser

How some versions of Ironfist are supposed to sound Aussie. Try rereading Last Stand of the Wreckers like that.

Tokyo Ska dropping a new song.

Trying to make up transforming figures in my head that don't exist for certain characters and getting annoyed the next morning. Only thing stopping me is lack of access to a resin printer.

I have been a bot nerd since I was an anklebiter chewing on those cheap rubber bracelets. Mostly gung-ho about other stuff like practical effects, costuming, figures/models, 3D modelling, old tech, lizards, and birding. I do art a little too, but I’m not too fond of the idea of putting it out on here quite yet. ←Saying this as I have an art blog with no art on it to speak of.

I’m generally invested into anything related to toy design—mostly TakaraTomy, HasTak, and Sunrise bot stuff is my focus though. I am hooked on the design development surrounding Binaltech and Alternators for better or worse.

And wouldn't you know, a bunch of car robots helped me to realize what I should re-prioritize my career track to be. That's the power of my dumb interests at work ( •̀ .̫ •́ )✧.

Got tired of updating which music artists I like at the moment, but I tend to stick to hip hop, rock, metal, J-punk, ska, funk, and EDM. And pretty much any song from the Guilty Gear series. This is your sign to listen to GG2 Overture's soundtrack 🫵. I don’t mind getting music recs either.

Delighted owner to my little shit of a gecko. A lot of what I reblog is aesthetic posts, robotic nonsense, and other things. If you want to go ahead and block some of my tags, I’ve got a list of them linked in my pinned post. I try to put alt text in the majority of images I upload. May need a poke on that once in a while because I can’t remember everything.

Sometimes there's 18+ content though that's once in a blue moon and it gets tagged. Block the tag if you need to. Also be normal about bi and pan people, or I'm conking you on the head.

Please do not ask me my pronouns. Like sorry, but I don’t know you. Just use my name and no they/them-ing me if we aren't all too familiar. That's all I ask.

Don’t be stupidly obnoxious around here. Shit-stirrers get Gorg'd:

Things I like or have watched/read. Not exhaustive. Strong favorites are bolded.

Games

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

Destiny (Well, it was good up until every update following Witch Queen)

Fallout 1, NV, 4

Guilty Gear ΛC+, Strive

Halo

Lethal League Blaze

Mass Effect

Rhythm Heaven

Subnautica

Titanfall

Comic Stuff

Astro Boy

Atomic Robo

Dai Dark

Dorohedoro

Hellboy/BPRD

IDW Transformers

Kaiju No. 8

Shimanami Tasogare

Shows

Brave series: Might Gaine, J-Decker

Farscape

FMA 2003

Iron Leaguer

Giant Gorg

Lupin the III

Kamen Rider: Ichigo, Gaim, Zero-One

Stargate Atlantis

Transformers: G1, JG1, BW, JBW, RID01, Unicron Trilogy, Prime, RID15, Cyberverse, Earthspark

Blocked and still rooting through here?

I applaud your tenacity, but I don't get it. Have a little cheer in your life and go watch Iron Leaguer or Kamen Rider or Beast Wars or something.

Signing out.

[sparklingpax]

as a lifelong transformers fan I was unaware that Masterforce was even a thing and now I was able to find the full series on YouTube and I’m an so damn excited to watch it XD

AYYYYYYY epic!!! ✨✨ Greetings, fellow lifelong TF fan 😌🤝✨

Also yea!!!! \(⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)/ I think it's So awesome someone uploaded it 😭🙏 makes it more accessible to people......cause idk if I just never looked for it at the time or what, but when I wanted to watch JG1 the first time, I ended up having to buy all three series on DVD and went from there 😳...on the flip side, I am a DVD/CD collector so I'm glad to have those in my collection 🫡🔥......buuuut it's also nice that now, any time I wanna reference a scene or just watch an episode again, I can simply open youtube~ 😌

And so you're planning to start Masterforce!!! Niceee 😎 I'll forever stand by my opinion that it is--conceptually and narratively--one of the most interesting (and creative!) directions for a transformers series to have taken, and I wish more people at least knew about it aaaaa 😭😭‼️ (I will therefore continue to persevere in my efforts to spread the word...heheh 🤭✨)

So yea! Thanks for telling me that!! And I hope you enjoy your experience w Masterforce :] ✨

-kuni ☁️

[bwprowl]

Hasbro may have rebooted Transformers Generations into this War For Cybertron Siege thing we’re in right now (and which has, to be fair, turned out a lot better than I initially expected), but TakaraTomy’s determined to mine as much mileage out of the old stuff as they can. Indeed, Legends never die (they may get renamed into ‘Selects’, however) and one such last gasp is a big one. A Big *Powered* one, even. Yes, the Legends EX Big Powered set is here. There’s been some trepidation from some who got it in-hand since this thing was released, so let’s see how I’ll like it!

(Just off the start, love that box)

So what we have here is the latest-of-late-G1 Cybertron Commander Dai Atlas and his two retainers, just in time to interact with all those Micromasters Siege is giving us. I’ll start with the smaller, less important dudes: Roadfire was the one I was actually kinda looking forward to the most. The original Roady’s a bit of a general grail, being a late, hard-to-find Japanese-exclusive toy (and pretty much nonexistent, personality-wise). He’s retooled off of TR Twin Twist, which is pretty much a perfect fit, turning the boxy drill-tank into Roadfire’s comparatively-distinctive boxy regular-tank. A large part of this design is now based in the giant removable cannon section (which even includes the Titan Master cockpit now!) but that’s how the original toy worked too, so it’s kinda fair. This mold still rocks anyway, with it’s nifty-as-hell transformation tricks like the arms or the spinning torso-front. Some of the plastic tolerances on my copy of this version do seem unfortunately loosey-goosey, particularly the waist connection and the hand-holes where the gun pegs in. It’s nothing that’s a real deal-breaker, but it does undermine a toy I otherwise really want to like, alongside the whole super-premium exclusive deal this set is embodying.

Next there’s my eternal nemesis, Sonic Bomber. Look, I’ll just be endlessly amazed that a dude who barely has fifteen minutes of canon to his name could irritate me so much. Maybe this is why JG1 Autobots generally *don’t* have much in the way of personality, because they end up being Sonic Bomber instead. Similarly irritatingly, I actually quite like his toy! It’s based on the Triggerhappy mold, which got retooled within an inch of its life each time it got used in Titans Return, and is similarly completely redone here. In fact, if you hadn’t been told what it was based on or could recognize the few base structural parts it has left, you’d be forgiven for thinking this was an all-new toy! He even does something new with the leg transformation, a first for this mold, and ends up giving him some decent ankle tilts. His alt-mode is the same sort of impractical flying dagger it was before (and also gives me BWII Starscrem vibes). I like his rifle, but not so much his solid black cockpit- Half the appeal of the TR gimmick is being able to see the little dudes piloting them! Another thing you’re terrible at, Sonic Bomber!

And of course, there’s the big map himself, Dai Atlas! He’s retooled from Overlord in ways that work out…interestingly. Okay, so the big thing is that Dai Atlas’s vehicle mode is supposed to be this giant weird combined tank/jet thing (that also has a drill for some reason), which should work right well based off Overlord’s own ability to be a stacked-together tank and jet. But they decided to make the vehicle mode more ‘proper’ here by removing the ability for the tank and jet components to actually separate, and their solution was…to just chain them together at the midsection with this simple, swively, plastic-joint piece. It just feels incredibly perfunctory, and everything about this design decision results in the most hindering compromises of the rest of the toy. The turret section of the tank is gone, so the rotating panels that make up his robot legs look oddly hollow from some angles (thankfully it’s not nearly as bad as it looked in some pics). The loose chain bit replaces Overlord’s old connection point, so his waist feels annoyingly wobbly when you’re handling him. It just feels like the sort of design choice that was made with as little effort as possible, and the whole toy comes off less cool for it.

Not to dump on King Atlas too hard, because he’s not *bad*, just not as cool as he could have been. His modes still look cool as they are, in fact I need to highlight just generally terrific the sculpting, colors, and paint on all these toys is. They really sell that blocky, chonky, late-G1 Japanese super robot charm, with lots of poppin’ whites and reds picking out their own base color schemes. Dai Atlas in particular does do a good job of looking even larger than he actually is, and the dude’s always had a wonderfully distinctive design by the standards of a ‘good guy leader’ TF. My only other major complain is that he doesn’t come with his signature giant ‘Z’ sword- The best you can do is sort of approximate it by popping off and combining his wings, and even then it can only peg onto his arms.

Each one of these guys has a ‘base’ mode tacked on, in the spirit of the tacked-on base modes the originals had (okay, Dai Atlas’s mold had a base mode to begin with, and it’s even still got bits to combine with the other TR bases if you’ve got them around). They’ve also all got connection points to stick together into the titular Big Powered combination, and it’s actually way cooler than I expected. The sheer size of this thing is impressive as-is, buncha big toys like this stuck together. And the spacey nature of the altmodes means it actually works as a big silly spaceship rather than looking too disconnected for what it is. If you’ve got the space for it, it actually makes a pretty cool display on its own. They also all retain the Titan Master functionality of their original toys, and you’ll have to pry out of my cold, dead mind the headcanon that two of them are Cain and Akira, the cutest couple in TF history. No idea who the third one would be though. Rabbicrater?

So the Big Powered set isn’t perfect, and in fact is in an odd place where the ‘centerpiece’ of it, Dai Atlas, is actually the most flawed of the bunch. Roadfire and Sonic Bomber are actually both excellent little retooled deluxes, while Dai Atlas has…issues, but isn’t outright bad or anything. As a big exclusive Japanese toy set, this bunch are actually pretty modestly-priced, and are absolutely your surest bet as far toys of them are concerned. Zone’s a real cool little OVA, so if you’ve got love for it and want some of those dudes, this is worthwhile as an esoteric collection.

Woo, big block of text for a big toy set! Thanks for indulging me on that one, everyone. You deserve to take it easy for the rest of the night, and I’ll see you here next time!