Are there any TF themes you think should be capitalized on?

[Almighty Unicron]

Transformers is thirty years old. A lot has happened in those thirty years. We got robot samurai, robot dragons, robot pirates, robot rapists, robot rock... it's a pretty diverse franchise all things considered. Still, there are some themes and ideas I've always wanted for characters.


O6 may know what I'm talking about, but I've been hip-deep in a kind of retro 80s synth music revival and there's even a pretty popular song called "Transformers" out there. And Transformers, along with things like pogs and side-ponytails are often used as references to quintessential 80s-ness (for me, this is really important because as many of you know, I was born in 1992 and my knowledge of the 80s is limited almost entirely to pop culture). And it hit me like a sack of bricks.

There's no TF character that I know of that embraces the franchise's legacy as an icon of the 80s. While there are a few TFs that turn into classic "80s" cars like a Ferrari Testarossa or a DeLorean DMC-12, as far as I'm aware, they were made during G1 back when such things were thought of as just "cool cars", not "80s cars." I think this needs to be rectified. We have plenty of TFs who show a fascination with different aspects of Earth culture... but why not one who's fascinated with the specific expression of earth culture in the 80s?

Bonus points if in-universe this character is a fan of transforming robot toys like Go-Bots or Machine Robo.





I also still want a transformer that turns into the Popemobile.

[JediTricks]

Dang, and you guys thought the brand was backwards-gazing before! That's a funny idea, and tragically we don't have a Testarossa or Delorean DMC-12 bot, but we do have bots watching Back to the Future 2 (1989) in MTMTE. I can't picture a toy line based on this though.


Transformers hasn't done a good job focusing on the theme of "spying" lately, and I just realized that sentence fragment could suggest both more everyday items AND just pure James Bond-vehicle transformers, so I'll leave it there.

[Dominic]

Jazz and Blaster were pop-culture junkies. Not sure that rooting to the 80s would be a good long term plan though.

[Almighty Unicron]

Jazz and Blaster were pop-culture junkies. Not sure that rooting to the 80s would be a good long term plan though.

The 80's are timeless! They're the new 50s!

[JediTricks]

Jazz and Blaster were pop-culture junkies. Not sure that rooting to the 80s would be a good long term plan though.

The 80's are timeless! They're the new 50s!

Which are now essentially dead, I might point out.

[Almighty Unicron]

Jazz and Blaster were pop-culture junkies. Not sure that rooting to the 80s would be a good long term plan though.

The 80's are timeless! They're the new 50s!

Which are now essentially dead, I might point out.

You've never played fallout or dated a girl with a Bettie Page tattoo, have you?

[Dominic]

I would like to see a return to stealth and deception. But, enhancing that with the grey-ish morals of the IDW book.

Aw heck, since we are talking wholly hypothetical stuff that will never happen, use the adaptation angle to play off the idea of different species adapting to each other (various -master groups and Pretenders).

[JediTricks]

You've never played fallout or dated a girl with a Bettie Page tattoo, have you?

All outliers, especially today. When i was a kid in the '80s, the nostalgia for the '50s was at a fever pitch, and now that shit is gonnnnnnne as a fuck but the '80s nostalgia is going on. Times are cyclical like that.