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BotCon 2022 report On the Thursday of August 25 to the Sunday of August 28, the once official Transformers convention BotCon made its long-awaited return, following its end back in 2016. The first BotCon in six years, BotCon 2022 was the first to be run by new convention organizers Agabyss, and...

Making this post because I'm about to post my report, but it needs to be spread across multiple posts, so I don't want to also get spread across multiple pages.

Like I said, Furman had already used the UK comics' letters pages to dismiss the cartoon altogether. Unicron's cartoon origin was therefore "wrong" and "inaccurate" to the "real" account of the Marvel comics. I'm reminded of all the cartoon vs. comics feuds that were said to have happened in...

I've been trying to find this old video for a LONG time:

I guess it simply boils down to the differences between alternate timelines and alternate universes. "Rhythms of Darkness" was an alternate timeline whose Unicron was still some version of the main Marvel G1 Unicron. The Dreamwave Armada comics, however, were a completely alternate universe...

To say nothing of the Takara versions of those toys.

Yeah, I have Titanium Cheetor and he's pretty neat.

TFWiki Community's Japanese media archive has it: https://mega.nz/folder/UlJ03DYI#1xG0phgtAZz3IxBUasSHIw/folder/M8IjSYZD

I feel like I should get that reference... but I just woke up and my brain isn't fully working yet.

It all came from Simon Furman not wanting Armada Unicron to be a separate guy from the G1 Unicron he wrote back in the Marvel Comics. It was his idea for there to be only one Unicron in all realities, which was then extended to Primus and the Thirteen by both him and Forrest Lee.

Not really seeing much G1 in the Prime designs, tbh. Movieverse blended with Animated, on the other hand...

Which they're pretty much already doing with the new Studio Series The Fallen toy having a removable mask over his real face. ;)

Dunno why that toy was give that name, since that title belongs to Unicron proper. The real name of the green one is the "Unicron of Light".

Just to be clear, the robot head on my Override does snap into position when facing forward. I suspect that all copies are supposed to do that. But mine does it while also tilting slightly to the right, a tilt that it cannot stop doing, which strikes me as something it probably shouldn't be doing.

Oh, but he can be stopped by happy thoughts and feelings of teamwork and cooperation. ;)

Yeah, outside of his toy bio and accompanying box art, Beast Wars Double Punch has not visually appeared in any illustrated fiction.

You're joking, right?

A name Hasbro was considering for Arcee's evolved form should she have won the vote was "Arcana Magnus". ...Which sounds less like a name for Arcee and more like just the names of two other dudes mashed together, if I'm being honest.

I feel like if Hasbro had been more upfront back then about what the POTP fan vote was for, fewer fans might have voted for Optimus Primal over the more suitable choices for the gimmick like Thunderwing, Ultra Magnus, and Star Saber (as there were several people back then who were like, "Well...