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Command Performances! Part 2.
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![]() This week, Devastator does his best tramp impression; Optimus has Grapple's head right up his arse; Megatron makes lemonade and Omega Supreme gets rid of all the Decepticon toys no longer on sale (except for Megatron, Soundwave, Ravage and Laserbeak. Which two of these will still be in the American stories by early 1987 is somewhat surprising). All in: Command Performances! Part 2.
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20/9/2013 10:00:54 am
On the "deaths" of the Decepticons, Starscream's toy was still present in the 1986 UK catalogue and I believe also in the US (hence the two ghost episodes in the third season of the cartoon). And Frenzy was rereleased that year (now with Ratbat rather than Laserbeak) and still available the following year. And didn't the US Robot Points offers bring the chance to obtain older characters no longer on shelves? So the warning signs about potential reuses may have already been there at the time rather than Galvatron - I'm not so sure Budiansky knew his identity at the time he wrote this in early 1986 and he wrote the tech spec entry which was the first to suggest a separate entity.
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Stuart
20/9/2013 10:44:17 am
Good points as always Sir. I hadn't realised Starscream was still out at main retail in the States, though I knew about the UK.
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Ryan F
21/9/2013 02:31:03 am
I always thought this was more of a 'clearing the decks' exercise, rather than anything toy related. With the Insections, Triple Changers, Special Teams etc. joining up with Megatron in upcoming weeks, I think keeping all the 84 characters in there too would just clutter things up. Also, the "cold storage" line, to me, reads as Bob not wanting to contradict the movie. After all, if the 84 Decepticons are alive in 2006, then their permanent deaths here would be problematic in that regard. Not also how he writes an "out" into Prime's and Megatron's upcoming deaths, too.
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snowkatt
3/10/2013 03:33:42 am
actually i always took the recording of the merging in to devastator !!!! ...ahem
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Like Snowkatt above, I got the impression that Bumblebee was doing more than taking video of Devastator combining; he was recording readings of some sort.
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Stuart
23/8/2016 06:38:47 am
That's the Welsh for you!
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Felicity
23/8/2016 07:45:19 am
“It feels like a total put-up job”
Faiz Rehman
23/8/2016 08:09:09 am
Ha ha - this is the Faiz Rehman. I replied to this thread before but it never got published for some reason. Yes, I hail from South Wales, and was a regular Marvel UK letter page contributor back in the day. I got my insights from a Marvel US Transformers comic I picked on on holiday to Orlando and cleverly crafted that letter to see if I could get it published. I won a mini-transformer IIRC :) Hope that helps:)
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Stuart
23/8/2016 08:23:08 am
Awesome, sorry your prior reply got eaten. Its always nice to hear from the people who had their letter's published.
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Faiz Rehman
23/8/2016 09:29:00 am
Cool thing is I still have that little Transformer and my kids play with it whenever we're back in Wales:) The comic was fun - I actually preferred the original Marvel UK strips to the US run, my faves being ones drawn by the dynamic Geoff Senior. Is he still drawing today?
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2/10/2023 06:26:18 pm
Just thought I'd let this group know that as well as having achieved the dizzy heights of the Marvel UK Transformers letters page, I'm also now a comic book artist for Cutaway Comics Doctor Who spin offs:) You'll find my art in the back strips for the Paradise Towers comic, featuring the Happiness Patrol (I drew the strips for #1 and #3). The strips are only 2 pages long each, but I've just drawn an 8 pager that's going to feature in another mag, hopefully in time for the DW 60th anniversary. Thanks for reading this and best wishes!
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