These are my top seventeen Transformers figures of 2017! These are my favorite figures that were added to my collection this past year, even if they were released in prior years. Without further ado, let’s get to the list!
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Tag: Rodimus
Platinum Edition Planet of Junk Clash Video Review
This Planet of Junk Clash Platinum Edition set is a great way to add figures to your Junkion Army and a way to get a really nice looking Hot Rod figure for your Generations collection.
Hoist’s Top Ten Transformers – TF: Animated
Welcome to Hoist’s Top Ten Transformers series! In these articles, I will be showing off the top ten transformers figures from my collection. The top ten from each toy line will be chosen and the series will culminate in an overall top ten.
Transformers: Animated (TFA) was chosen by fans of my Facebook page to be the first list presented. TFA was a cartoon series and toyline that was active from 2008 – 2010 and featured a very unique animation and toy design style. This was one of the first toylines to be very faithful to the animation of the cartoon.
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Whirl Joins The Crew
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30 Day MTMTE Challenge – Day 27
A Song You Associate With The Series
I had to put a lot of thought into this one because I never really had any songs associated with MTMTE. I decided to go with Dare by Stan Bush from Transformers: The Movie. Once I did, I found a lyric video on YouTube and when I read the lyrics, I could not believe how perfect a song that it is. Go ahead and watch the video, I’ll wait.
Awesome, right? This is exactly what Rodimus and the crew of the Lost Light are doing. Their dreams of a renewed and reborn Cybertron were shattered after the events of Chaos. Instead of a new Golden Age, Cybertron was a ruined, primordial shell of what the bots once knew. Nothing, save for a lone city, remained intact.
They chose to ignore Prowl and Bumblebee who would try to keep their spirits down and chose to leave their past behind and set out to find that place where dreams survive.
Rodimus literally held the future (the Matrix) in his hand as they set off. Now, largely through their efforts, Cybertron will be coming out of the darkness (Dark Cybertron), stumbling into the light.
Thanks to those who dared, Cybertron appears to be headed for a bright new future. One in which Autobots, Decepticons and those that remain unaffiliated can share in the majesty of a new Golden Age.
30 Day MTMTE Challenge – Day 19
An Opinion That’s Changed Since You Started Reading
It took me a while to figure this one out since I pretty much go with the flow. As it is, this isn’t so much a change of opinion as it is a new concept that I have grown to like: Conjunx Endura or relationships in general.
In the vast history of Transformers, interpersonal relationships between bots is usually of a professional nature in that we generally only see them as part of a military-type unit. Sure, it got touched on in G1 in those couple of episodes when we met Elita-One, Chromia, Firestar and Moonracer and it was hinted at in pretty much any scene Acree was in with Springer or Hot Rod in the movie or Season 3, and got played up WAY too much in Beast Wars with the whole Silverbolt and Blackarachnia courtship. Still, the relationships didn’t get as much attention as it has in MTMTE. I think that has to do with the fact that a lot of people tend to think of these bots as male and these relationships are shown between two bots that are identified as male and that brings up connotations of homosexuality. Primus, I can’t believe I’m writing about this, but I already started so I guess i have to finish. Anyway, while humans identify bots as having a gender, they technically do not and since there is no gender and thus no sexual relations, there are neither homosexual nor heterosexual relationships between Cybertronians. These conjunx endura relationships are more like a best friend relationship.
Obviously the most popular of these relationships (and the one that I think sparked the most controversy) is between Chromedome and Rewind.
While it may have been controversial at one point, I think everyone came to accept it and it was their relationship that made Rewind’s death so tragic. We’ve seen countless bots die over the course of the many series but there haven’t been many that have had the effect that Rewind’s did on the fandom.
Other relationships that have driven great stories include the evolution of Cyclonus and Tailgate:
Another relationship on the Lost Light that never had much of the spotlight in the comic was between Rodimus and Drift:
Rodimus even explained their relationship in the most recent issue, Issue #26 (Dark Cybertron #8) when we was explaining to Orion Pax how he felt guilty for letting Drift take the blame for Overlord. He simply mentioned that he let his best friend take the blame. Of course we all know that was Drift.
I think this is what makes this particular comic great and really stand out above almost any other Transformers fiction. Sure, we all love the giant alien transforming robot battles and we always will, but there’s only so many ways to depict warring factions battling each other. Once these additional layers are added to the characters, the possibilities become endless and it keeps the fandom ravenously waiting for the next issue (and toy).
30 Day MTMTE Challenge – Day 15
A Character You Want To See More Of
Obviously, there should be more Hoist. I mean he’s barely been in the comic. At least he got his own Spotlight comic. That’s more than some other ‘bots can say!
Skids got the shoulder gun idea from me.
But I’m really missing Drift. Unlike so many others, he didn’t get killed off; he just got banished. That means that it won’t take too much of a leap to bring him back to the crew. Here’s an idea:
In the prose story at the end of issue 21 – the one where the stop Tyrest and his Killswitch – Drift to Rodimus that he needed to take the blame for Overlord because Rodimus is too important. Drift mentioned his vision that something is coming and it won’t be able to be stopped unless they find the Knights of Cybertron. Enter the Dark Cybertron story. While everyone else is busy with the Necrotitan, Metroplex or in the Dead Universe, Drift keeps searching for the Knights. When all seems lost, he shows up, Great Sword in hand and the Knights of Cybertron in tow and unties with everyone else to stop Shockwave, Nova Prime and their crew.
I doubt that would happen because then what would the Lost Light do afterward with the Knight Quest over?
Sports cars don’t have snow tires.
30 Day MTMTE Challenge – Day 11
One of your favorite pieces of dialogue.
Whirl always provides great dialog. This is a great example of his enthusiasm for fighting. Even though he wouldn’t be in the fight, he apparently likes to watch fighting just as much. The only time he’s been more excited was right before the crew dropped down to Temptoria to go battle some ‘Cons.
Fight? Pretty please?
30 Day MTMTE Challenge – Day 8
A Badass Scene
How do you choose just one? How about pick the scenes that the other bots in the story thought were badass?
When Orion Pax said he’d “drop by”, this is not what I expected.
Swerve and Tailgate are certainly fans of this one; Whirl, not so much. But then again it’s Whirl – he’s pretty badass himself. He’s just hard to impress.
“But wait,” you say, “that’s in a story being told by Chromedome! That doesn’t count!” Well I say it does! But to play by another set of rules in which flashbacks don’t count, try this on for size:
Sparkeater onboard? Cool.
Drift and Skids are clearly Rodimus fanbots on this one, though Rung seems unimpressed. Actually, I think he’s just in shock after having just been used for bait. You just can’t please everyone, even if you’re Rodimus.