crazy customizing and creativity questions and discussion

[138 Scourge]

I dunno, man. I just ignore the convention comics and call it good. Even IDW's comic stories are "official", I suppose, but they could be thrown out at a second's notice, so there's that.

[Gomess]

Hasbro has been trying to clean it up of late.

Come on, you're usually so sensible about capitalism. Do you honestly think Hasbro are ever going to turn TF into a single unified story entity as long as there's money to be made by ignoring story continuity?

Their priority is making money by throwing out several divergent toylines- and thus storylines- at once. This has been the norm since TF's inception (compare the G1 cartoon to the G1 comic, particularly the latter's amusing letters page assertions that it was telling the "real" story), and I'd put money on it never going away.

[BWprowl]

A good example came up in the custom character thread. Shockwave did not know that Takara had made a legitimate black Ironhide figure, let alone that the Fan Club had used the character.

But Dom...that's the thread you're in RIGHT NOW!



"...For the off-topic ramblings of TFViews have gone so far off the rails, that the hopeless members of this forum can no longer recall what thread they begin or end in, forever trapped in their discussion in a mobius strip of a thread with a header labeling it as...The Twilight Zone."
~DOODEEDOODOODOODEEDOODOO...~

It's like that super-annoying situation, you know the one~

I... No, I am relieved to say I don't know it. Where do you find people like that??

I'unno, seems like there's been at least one around on every generation/iteration of these beloved boards of ours. Synjo was the most recent one I can think of, but there were others. I can't believe you've never encountered this before, there's a whole league of people out there who point-blank refuse to acknowledge BM's occurrence. Plenty of other series get this treatment, naturally, but BM is definitely the most prone to it.

[Shockwave]

I knew there was a black Ironhide in the Encore line, but I guess my point was retroactively naming it nearly 30 years after the original nameless toy was released doesn't count (at least not in my book). And, given the fact that it was released with a green Ratchet, one could look at that as a G1 interpretation of Movie Ironhide, not the original Diaclone which was nameless, thus leaving it open to still be named as a seperate character. The Fan Club story doesn't factor into this because they use the Universe Ironhide mold which automatically puts it into another continuity not affecting the G1 continuity in question.

[Shockwave]

Hasbro has been trying to clean it up of late.

Come on, you're usually so sensible about capitalism. Do you honestly think Hasbro are ever going to turn TF into a single unified story entity as long as there's money to be made by ignoring story continuity?

Their priority is making money by throwing out several divergent toylines- and thus storylines- at once. This has been the norm since TF's inception (compare the G1 cartoon to the G1 comic, particularly the latter's amusing letters page assertions that it was telling the "real" story), and I'd put money on it never going away.

Well beleive it or not, they are actually trying. That's the thing we're getting with the novels (Exodus and Exiles), TF Prime, and the video games (War For Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron). And of course, they've already screwed things up.

[Gomess]

I can't believe you've never encountered this before, there's a whole league of people out there who point-blank refuse to acknowledge BM's occurrence.

Wellllll there's only like two people in real life who I can be bothered to hold a real conversation about TF with, and neither of them is nuts, so really it's just you guys. And none of you are that nuts(?).

Honestly, I don't remember anything about Synjo now except how keen he was on Ravage's dick.

*rerail*

[Shockwave]

That and we all seem to like BM here.

If you haven't scoped out the BW Synjo thread you really should, it's quite entertaining.

[BWprowl]

That and we all seem to like BM here.

If you haven't scoped out the BW Synjo thread you really should, it's quite entertaining.

Didn't that get deleted? If it's still around, I'm almost tempted to take an frothingly-angry trip down suppressed-memory lane! ...if I could remember exactly what thread that was...

[Gomess]

Well, feel free to link me to it. I'll need something to read Sunday morning!

[BWprowl]

Well, feel free to link me to it. I'll need something to read Sunday morning!

Well, I can't find the exact thread where he starts freaking out over the idea that Dom DISAGREES WITH HIS THOUGHTS and is therefore unfit to be a moderator (the triumphant Synjo adventure that ended it all), but while I look for it, here's an old favorite of mine: The one where he trips balls over BW's somewhat-famous 'lore'-based approach to G1 continuity/references. SEE his persuasive intermittent use of ALL CAPS! BEHOLD his apparent inability to pay attention to characters and their reactions in 'The Agenda' unless Ravage is on-screen, and to reinterpret said reactions whole-cloth for his own flimsy arguments! BE AMAZED as Sparky and I *actually agree on something* for once! SWOON IN SHOCK as Synjo begins another tome of his tirade by just calling Sparky an idiot!