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Transformation: Ultra Magnus is up the Amazon without a paddle.

20/8/2015

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It's the last entry before Auto Assembly 2015! And like Auto Assembly, the games involve organics who like to see the Transformers' war as entertainment gather in great numbers. With this being the last Auto Assembly, expect it to be closed by Ultra Magnus telling us what bad people we are before everyone leaves talking about TFNation instead.

All in my look at Deadly Games! Part 2!

Also, as you may have gathered from the subtle name of this post: Transformation the book can now be bought on Amazon (just about all of them) and Barnes and Noble! See HERE, and expect this minor information to be repeated in the piece.


13 Comments
Ralph Burns
20/8/2015 01:12:24 pm

Fun fact: Quick Kick is Andy 'Designer of THE BOOK' Turnbull's favourite Action Force/GI Joe character.


SPECIAL TEAMS!

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Andrew Turnbull link
30/8/2015 12:43:56 pm

I F***ING HATE QUICK KICK.

You have a ninja, that chump adds nowt to the team.

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Stuart
30/8/2015 12:49:10 pm

Every other character is a ninja by the time Hama was done with the book.

Stuart
20/8/2015 01:22:16 pm

He must cry when he reads this issue.

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Simon Hall
20/8/2015 01:33:25 pm

Ralph Burns, you constant sign off of 'SPECIAL TEAMS!' never fails to make me smile.

Um, this issue is alright? That's the inside of Magnus left leg, He's standing with it turned outward - perhaps to support the weight of the defeated Zabra.

I love the Return Of Optimus Prime. Only TF VHS I owned as a child and I watched it to death (I'm dead now) and can probably recite the whole thing off by heart.

"So, you want the metal? Very well - but be warned all, this is not an easy trek!"

(always thought that would sound ace on the opener to any heavy metal album)

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Auntie Slag
20/8/2015 02:47:43 pm

Yep, I could not resist that absolutely kick-ass TroOP video cover. Quite disappointed to never see his powermaster armour schtick in that video, but I felt more ripped off at the cheaper than average animation and repeat use of Stan Bush’s The Touch and lighting of the darkest hour balls.

I imagine they figured if the rebels could blow up the Death Star twice in two movies, then the TF’s could more or less get away with the same.

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LiamKav
30/9/2020 11:33:24 pm

"I felt more ripped off at the cheaper than average animation"

This is a UK problem causes by the fact that 80% of our exposure to animated Transformers was the movie, and 10% was "Call of the Primitives"... It gave us unrealistic expectations of "average" animation. ROOP is definitely above average, especially the drawings themselves. Everyone is on-model and dynamic looking, there's lots of shading... Just compare ROOP part 2 to The Rebirth part 1 immediately following it if you want to see the animation quality take a nose dive.

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Benway
21/8/2015 03:19:07 am

Looking at the video cover... How the hell did that video get away with a 'U' certificate with Prime's codpiece?

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Stuart
21/8/2015 03:33:38 am

That scene where Ultra Magnus screams that he "WANTS" Rodimus Prime had that effect on him.

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Cradok
25/8/2015 08:47:03 am

Oh dear, I've caught up.It's going to be hard going from a half dozen of these a day to one a week.

Strip-wise, I hadn't started reading at this point - although I had been reading ThunderCats from the start - and it wasn't one that I caught until the internet and college broadband filled me in on everything I'd missed, so I've no childhood memories attached to it. In retrospect, though, it's a miserable sendoff for Magnus.

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Stuart
25/8/2015 08:52:55 am

Welcome to the present!

I've not replied to most of the comments you've made as you've caught up (they've mostly not needed it), but I've read them all and they're appreciated.

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Cradok
26/8/2015 05:16:38 am

That's alright, I've had to restrain myself from commenting more often anyway!

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Felicity link
9/11/2019 06:56:47 pm

Slaughterhouse looks like Thunderwing in that last panel.

AFAIK Skullgrin wasn’t even in “The Return of Optimus Prime”! But that’s the way it goes…IIRC the VHS cover to “Five Faces of Darkness” had Powermaster Optimus Prime on it, along with some blue-and-red guy I don’t even recognise.

Is it “wrecking havoc”? All these years I’ve been saying “wreaking havoc.” Maybe the story title is a play on the latter.

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