
Yes, this week it's the last time we see the Witwicky's, the first time we see Snarler and the only time we meet Cliff. Don't go off the slopes in my look at:
The Man in the Machine! Part 1.
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![]() And Uncle Bob is still here. So he writes a story about a guy desperate to get away from Transformers. What can it mean? Yes, this week it's the last time we see the Witwicky's, the first time we see Snarler and the only time we meet Cliff. Don't go off the slopes in my look at: The Man in the Machine! Part 1.
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Nathan
27/5/2016 04:15:40 pm
I feel foolish for never noticing that Catilla was a Autobot in toy format. I own the toy but he doesn't have any stickers on so couldn't tell but I just assumed he was a deception.
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Stuart
27/5/2016 04:17:31 pm
I never saw the toy, so was equally fooled for many years (which is odd as it must have come up on the letters page at some point).
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Ralph Burns
27/5/2016 06:58:21 pm
I suspect the 'new look to Transformers' in two weeks time will go down just fine with me as it did in 1989. Until the black and white strips appear. AND INNOCENCE DIES.
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Simon Hall
27/5/2016 07:42:46 pm
Blimey. Marvel UK really got their money's worth out of Visionaries. Although with it being released many times over, why would anyone buy the special...? Especially as the toyline hardly set the world on fire over here (no one at my school had them, we were far too impressed with Centurions).
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tigerbread
27/5/2016 09:54:51 pm
I actually owned almost all of the original wave of Visionaries, including the Dagger Assault, which was a beast of a machine(!)
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Stuart
28/5/2016 01:01:23 am
I had the Visionaries vehicles one Christmas, I made my poor mother spend the whole day clicking them together...
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Dave
28/5/2016 08:43:56 am
I remember being really excited by the change in format, and getting more Transformers. Although it's a really obvious cost-cutting measure now, it really felt to me like 2xTransformers stories was better value than one.
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28/5/2016 09:31:31 am
From recollection, the Visionaries special is actually one of the later issues being reprinted, rather than a fourth printing of the origin.
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Nathan webb
29/5/2016 09:53:51 am
I can see why visionaries failed despite being a decent cartoon/toy line and comic. The market was swamped at that time and many of the brands had loyalty that still resonates today, transformers was huge, action force/gi joe had been going steady for years, thunder cats had just got started but was very popular. There was mask, dungeons and dragons possibly more all competing for the same shelf space aimed at the same demographic. I remember toy shopping and having to choose between a visionary figure or a sparkler mini bot. Transformers toys were a bit tired by then and I was really torn but I still went for the transformer. My poor mum was tired of waiting for me I took so long to choose. In the end my decision was based on if I bought the transformer it would play with my other transformer, if I bought the visionary it was on its own.
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There were SO many toys in the 80's.
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Tim Roll-Pickering
13/8/2020 01:18:29 pm
IIUC there had been a deregulation in the US that made it much easier to do the franchise model of toy, cartoon, comic, books, merchandise etc... that supported and sustained a toyline. Combined with the way Star Wars toys had been such a big thing and so suddenly there was an explosion in the toy industry as everyone started looking for the next big thing.
As a nice bit of symmetry, an early Budiansky issue took place on the ski slopes when Ratchet fought Megatron, and we return to the ski slopes for this issue in Budiansky’s last lap. Maybe it’s even the same ski slope!
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Snowkatt
13/8/2020 11:43:06 am
Honestly I wouldn't call Spike a flake.
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