Obviously that site was a huge influence on me, so I'm glad to see this.
A trip down memory lane TF websites from the past
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When I click that link I get a warning about a trojan.So, I just found out that the ancient FortuneCity-based version of Prime Saber's old website... is still up after all these years!
Clicking the left image goes to a dead page, but clicking the right image goes to the still-live website itself.
Does anyone remember KiSS dolls?
The Big KiSS page at Otakuworld is still up despite not having been updated since 2012 (and having its heyday over a decade before that), and they've got three Transformers ones.
RiD Optimus Prime
G1 Soundwave
Soundwave and Blaster
Also of tangential interest, one of Otakuworld's owners' bio page mentions that she worked on Transformers (has to be the Commodore 64 game, though she's not credited on it) while she was at Activision:
The Big KiSS page at Otakuworld is still up despite not having been updated since 2012 (and having its heyday over a decade before that), and they've got three Transformers ones.
RiD Optimus Prime
G1 Soundwave
Soundwave and Blaster
Also of tangential interest, one of Otakuworld's owners' bio page mentions that she worked on Transformers (has to be the Commodore 64 game, though she's not credited on it) while she was at Activision:
Maybe a different browser could work.
I'm not getting any warnings when I click the link. However, if I stay on the home page for a few seconds the page refreshes and I get an expired domain page. I assume that refresh is what Malwarebytes doesn't like.
However, if I click the right image before the page refreshes it does successfully take me to the FortuneCity site.
However, if I click the right image before the page refreshes it does successfully take me to the FortuneCity site.
Oh, wow. It took me clicking it to get past the two or three other things I thought that was referring to and remember what those were.
See in the Machine Wars sub-page, all these blurry, indistinct photos of the toys in packaging? That’s all we had to go on back then for pictures of TF figures. And no web forums, let alone social media, to share our own images. I had only vague ideas of what some of the early Beast Wars figures looked like in 1996 when I was importing them from the States, mostly going on text descriptions which I’d read online.
Yeah, yeah, in the snow, uphill both ways...
I'm glad it's around so that something (other than Wordpress, which is designed for blogs and only secondarily usable for anything else) is carrying on the legacy of just anyone being able to have a website, and there are some good sites on there...if you can sift through all the sites that are little more than a years-old "coming soon" note.
Not Transformers related, but if you really miss how the internet used to be, there's this:
Not Transformers related, but if you really miss how the internet used to be, there's this:
WordPress is a nightmare that haunts my dreams.
A couple of general toy sites that have/had Transformers stuff:
http://www.toyarchive.com/ is still up, but it also still has webrings
(I still check things on this site every once and a while)
http://www.toyarchive.com/ is still up, but it also still has webrings
(I still check things on this site every once and a while)
The Virtual Toy Chest: Rediscover Your Childhood
an archive of toys from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s
web.archive.org
That's another site I definitely remember.
I want to go back so bad. Today's internet is just another sad mall that has a couple big anchor stores and everything else is dead or barely clinging to existence. Though at least the food court is nice.
I want to go back so bad. Today's internet is just another sad mall that has a couple big anchor stores and everything else is dead or barely clinging to existence. Though at least the food court is nice.
The internet's food court is nice but a $10 dollar chicken sandwich ends up costing you $57.64 somehow.
