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One of my favorite transformers molds of all time is Classics Starscream. It's excellent in both robot and vehicle mode (Legacy Seekers have really cumbersome arms, a much more pronounced chest gap, and those terrible break-waiting-to-happen chest hooks... ugh...). But what pushes this mold...

Suppose that you were tasked with doing a rebooted Transforms cartoon largely based on the G1 property. What concepts, characters, and character arcs would you adopt from other iterations of the story and why? For example, here's some things I'd want to fold in from Armada: 1. Demolisher -...

In the G1 movie. Quintessons were weird and goofy with a strange, unknown connection to the Transformers. In G1, S3 it's revealed the Quintessons built the Transformers... although I've been more of a fan of the idea that the Quintessons enslaved the transformers. Either way, they seem to have...

One of the more novel, if under-developed, premises of some recent Transformers shows and comics is the aftermath of The Great War. G1 never really showed us this, but G2 did feature the two factions teaming up against the "G2" Cybertronians with an uneasy truce. Armada ended the war, only for...

From an in-cannon perspective, how would the G1 canon have differed had Unicron not shown up in The Transformers: The Movie (1986)? There are, I think, two big features worth exploring - (1) the change of leadership and (2) the Autobot Moon Bases. Let's start with the latter. We don't know...

What are your thoughts on the idea that (some, obviously) transformers use alt-mode selection as a form of self-expression or self-determination? I can think of 3 notable examples: First, in Beast Wars, it's implied the original crews chose (compatible?) alt local alt modes for their power...