Amid all that has gone on the past few years, there have been a few missed milestones in our fandom. Hasbro has been a bit lax at anniversaries for Beast Wars, for example -- though we did get Kingdom and the Rise of the Beasts movie. RiD's 20th was a victim of pandemics and rights tangles, Armada's 20th came and went.
So I was a little surprised to realize that this January marked a 25th anniversary of sorts.
A fuller account, if desired, can be found on the Fanon Wiki.
Some may have heard in hushed whispers of the Maximal Twotone, and how she was created to fill a gap that a then-famous fan felt that Beasties had in its casting.
Less well known, these days, was the commission made for a Beast Machines take on the character. Noted fan artist Chia-Chi Wang got as far as a sketch, which fell into obscurity after the Fall of Geocities.
In recent times, though, I had returned to that sketch, and I decided to come up with a colour palette for it:
...Chi certainly had a grasp of Mainframe's aesthetic for the series.
Anyway. Not really having many other places in this now-fragmented fandom to show this, and unsure if anyone has time to read blogs anymore (certainly I find little time to write on Dreamwidth!), I though that the Art Institute would be a good place to mark the (to my surprise) 25th anniversary of a derivative work of a derivative work that didn't get the positive attention it could have in the day, but I am glad regardless for the fact that it existed.
It might all be might-have-beens, but if you aren't Jim Sorensen or James Roberts, aren't all fan works?
So I was a little surprised to realize that this January marked a 25th anniversary of sorts.
A fuller account, if desired, can be found on the Fanon Wiki.
Some may have heard in hushed whispers of the Maximal Twotone, and how she was created to fill a gap that a then-famous fan felt that Beasties had in its casting.
Less well known, these days, was the commission made for a Beast Machines take on the character. Noted fan artist Chia-Chi Wang got as far as a sketch, which fell into obscurity after the Fall of Geocities.
In recent times, though, I had returned to that sketch, and I decided to come up with a colour palette for it:
...Chi certainly had a grasp of Mainframe's aesthetic for the series.
Anyway. Not really having many other places in this now-fragmented fandom to show this, and unsure if anyone has time to read blogs anymore (certainly I find little time to write on Dreamwidth!), I though that the Art Institute would be a good place to mark the (to my surprise) 25th anniversary of a derivative work of a derivative work that didn't get the positive attention it could have in the day, but I am glad regardless for the fact that it existed.
It might all be might-have-beens, but if you aren't Jim Sorensen or James Roberts, aren't all fan works?