Earth was formed from particles gathered by the sun's gravity. So yes, actually, it sort of did.
A trip down memory lane TF websites from the past
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Well, the Earth was co-created from the initial pile of swirling matter.
And yeah, I remember Anton Max. One of the problems with early primitives-based CG like his work and Trent Troop's was that if you wanted articulated fingers you ended up with spindy weirdness.
---Dave
And yeah, I remember Anton Max. One of the problems with early primitives-based CG like his work and Trent Troop's was that if you wanted articulated fingers you ended up with spindy weirdness.
---Dave
Here's another site that's surprisingly still up after all these years: TV Tokyo's original Car Robots website. From 23 years ago!
I... don't recall that. ^^;My gosh... Is that the one that used to load the sound file every time the front page reloaded? I remember it sounded like "This is a Cybertron" and three different Transformers characters would voice the "Cybertron" part in a row?
Orrrr maybe I'm thinking of another site with a similar name.
Here's Fox Kids's old RID2001 website. Lotta Flash content that's either long gone or in need of an emulator to play, some character profiles taken from show's production bible, and a description of the show in the "About" section.
Have you tried Ruffle? It's a Flash-life-support-machine being used to keep the Homestar Runner site in working order. I've used a downloaded program to play a couple of old games I still enjoy.
As I mentioned last spring on this very board, the World's Worst Site is (and has been for almost a year now) in a "pending deletion" queue. I tried to send a missive to PerceptorTFWW (the one with the TFWW), never received a reply. Perhaps he (or both him and Picard42) views it as an Old Shame. Which is sad, because yes, some of the jokes don't really work as they might have once (I rather liked Dick Gautier's response to one running gag), but damn the Beast Machines Episode Generator was funny (because it was true), and the early fics... well, I couldn't help but be reminded of them after the Rise of the Beasts trailer. You know the line I'm talking about.
Not all is lost though, I gave the fiction universe its own stream. Because of course I did.
Not all is lost though, I gave the fiction universe its own stream. Because of course I did.
But for how much longer, it must be asked:
Bumping this to say thanks for finding this. I've been wanting to track down this old site for some time, now.
Unfortunately, many of its links just lead to dead Geocities pages, and need to instead be viewed via Internet Archive's WayBack Machine.
Those fossils had to end up on Cybertron in Beast Machines somehow...
Since this thread is about the early internet fandom, I'm putting out a call for assistance in this thread to anyone here who was around back then and active in the 90s Transformers convention scene. Specifically those who were based on the UK.
From 1999 to 2004, there was a Transformers convention held in the UK called Transforce, which was run by Paul Cannon. Each Transforce had an exclusive magazine featuring content created by Simon Furman. Most notably, the short comic "The Last Days of Optimus Prime" and the two-part novella "Alignment". While both of those are easily available to find online, what isn't online is the rest of each magazine's content. There were even interviews with Furman in which he gave behind-the-scenes info regarding his Transformers works from back then.
If anyone here ever acquired any of those old Transforce magazines and still has any of them, please let me know as their content is very much worth archiving in digital scan form.
From 1999 to 2004, there was a Transformers convention held in the UK called Transforce, which was run by Paul Cannon. Each Transforce had an exclusive magazine featuring content created by Simon Furman. Most notably, the short comic "The Last Days of Optimus Prime" and the two-part novella "Alignment". While both of those are easily available to find online, what isn't online is the rest of each magazine's content. There were even interviews with Furman in which he gave behind-the-scenes info regarding his Transformers works from back then.
If anyone here ever acquired any of those old Transforce magazines and still has any of them, please let me know as their content is very much worth archiving in digital scan form.
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After doing some digging, I have found the old Transforce 2000 exclusives webpage that lists the content of that conventions' magazine:
And I found the webpage for the Transforce 2001 magazine:
Unfortunately, the sites for Transforce 2002 and 2004 aren't archived, so I can't tell if either of them had a magazine or not. Searching through ATT, I can't find any mention of their having had any magazines, so for now, the only ones I can be certain of their existence were the 2000 and 2001 magazines.
And it looks like "Alignment" was printed separately from the magazines, but again, "Alignment" is easy to find in digital form. It's the magazines that need to be found.
And I found the webpage for the Transforce 2001 magazine:
Unfortunately, the sites for Transforce 2002 and 2004 aren't archived, so I can't tell if either of them had a magazine or not. Searching through ATT, I can't find any mention of their having had any magazines, so for now, the only ones I can be certain of their existence were the 2000 and 2001 magazines.
And it looks like "Alignment" was printed separately from the magazines, but again, "Alignment" is easy to find in digital form. It's the magazines that need to be found.
Transmasters UK can be a elusive beast. Always was. Outside of tracking down a physical copy from someone, I don't think you'll have much luck, unfortunately, but I'll add a little to your quest.
This archive of Alt.Toy.Transformers has a little bit of discussion about the interview from Simon Furman from Transforce 2000, mentioning how he saw Beast Wars as part of the comic universe, and didn't consider Beast Machines canon.
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And another interview with one of the guys who ran Transforce and mentions the Transforce 2000 cover. It's apparently a redone version of Marvel's Transformers UK #1, and similar art was used in some old region 1 DVDs, but I can't find ANY images of the actual Transforce 2000 cover in question.
www.transformertoys.co.uk
There's other mentions of Transforce in Transformers At the Moon's archives. You can try your luck there.
EDIT: And I found the cover!
So, at least you should know what you're looking for.
There WAS a exclusive comic and book at Transforce 1999. But, it looks to be all about TMUK proper. Although it does have a interview with...Bench Press? Who? (More on that later)
Transforce 2002's exclusive seems to be Simon Furman's Alignment. Transforce 2001 only had the first part of Alignment, but this was both parts combined. (Transforce 2001 is ALSO where Eugenesis first released)
And Transforce 2004 DEFINITELY had a collection of sorts. The Last Odyssey. Which was a fanfic collection written by a bunch of TMUK mainstays. (Also...a exclusive video game collection of Transformers themed versions of classic arcade games?)
It's not really of much interest to people who aren't familiar with TMUK, but it was probably the last hurrah for the "golden age" of TMUK. And...from the looks of the website, things went wrong, unfortunately for them.
Also, just as a aside...I had completely forgotten about Bench Press Comics attempt at releasing Transformers and GI Joe comics back in 1999.
www.seibertron.com
www.myuselessknowledge.com
Some of those images even still work, sorta. This might have gotten a story in Wizard back in the day. A memory unlocked.
This archive of Alt.Toy.Transformers has a little bit of discussion about the interview from Simon Furman from Transforce 2000, mentioning how he saw Beast Wars as part of the comic universe, and didn't consider Beast Machines canon.
The last days of Optimus Prime by Simon Furman
groups.google.com
And another interview with one of the guys who ran Transforce and mentions the Transforce 2000 cover. It's apparently a redone version of Marvel's Transformers UK #1, and similar art was used in some old region 1 DVDs, but I can't find ANY images of the actual Transforce 2000 cover in question.
Paul from Transforce in 2003 | Transformers At The Moon - www.transformertoys.co.uk
The article Paul from Transforce in 2003 was published in the category Conventions. TransForce - Paul Cannon Interview, 29th May
There's other mentions of Transforce in Transformers At the Moon's archives. You can try your luck there.
EDIT: And I found the cover!
So, at least you should know what you're looking for.
There WAS a exclusive comic and book at Transforce 1999. But, it looks to be all about TMUK proper. Although it does have a interview with...Bench Press? Who? (More on that later)
Transforce 2002's exclusive seems to be Simon Furman's Alignment. Transforce 2001 only had the first part of Alignment, but this was both parts combined. (Transforce 2001 is ALSO where Eugenesis first released)
Transforce 2002 Convention Updates
Transforce 2002 is coming! Get ready for the UK's foremost Transformers convention. With all the activity around Transformers lately and Rob
tformers.com
And Transforce 2004 DEFINITELY had a collection of sorts. The Last Odyssey. Which was a fanfic collection written by a bunch of TMUK mainstays. (Also...a exclusive video game collection of Transformers themed versions of classic arcade games?)
It's not really of much interest to people who aren't familiar with TMUK, but it was probably the last hurrah for the "golden age" of TMUK. And...from the looks of the website, things went wrong, unfortunately for them.
Also, just as a aside...I had completely forgotten about Bench Press Comics attempt at releasing Transformers and GI Joe comics back in 1999.
Transformers Comic Scheduled to be published summer 1999?!?
Text downloaded from http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/primus/ The following "rumors" have come to light on the topic of the Bench Press Transformers comics. Bench Press has put their comics on hold indefinitely while Hasbro talks to Marvel Comics about
www.seibertron.com
JMM's G.I. Joe Comics Home Page - Bench Press Comics
JMM's G.I. Joe Comics Home Page
www.myuselessknowledge.com
Some of those images even still work, sorta. This might have gotten a story in Wizard back in the day. A memory unlocked.
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A bit late to the party, but my old site still lives thanks to archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20010516235522if_/http://www.templeofunicron.com:80/
I'd love to know what determines if a page gets archived or not. Particularly when there are other instances of it there. Or why they get removed, and sometimes restored.
So, recently, I've been doing some major translation work on the Japanese guidebook Beast Wars Universe, and working on its Beast Wars Fandom section led me to search WayBack for this, Ben Yee's original Beast Wars Homepage from way back before BWTF.com became the all-encompassing Transformers website that it is known as today. The book even features a black-and-white screencap of this very webpage.
What's more, the book specifically led me to search for this old site to look even deeper for one of Ben's old articles titled "In Defense of Beast Wars", written during the infamous era of "Trukk not Munky" debates. I wanted to find this article because the book went as far as to include its own Japanese summary of said article, and I felt said summary should be fact-checked for accuracy (it likely is accurate, but I wanna see how accurate and which parts of the article it specifically covers).
This is the page from the book that contains this old fansite content (as well as some BotCon 1998 coverage):
EDIT: And here's my translation of this summary, to compare it to Ben's original article:
What's more, the book specifically led me to search for this old site to look even deeper for one of Ben's old articles titled "In Defense of Beast Wars", written during the infamous era of "Trukk not Munky" debates. I wanted to find this article because the book went as far as to include its own Japanese summary of said article, and I felt said summary should be fact-checked for accuracy (it likely is accurate, but I wanna see how accurate and which parts of the article it specifically covers).
This is the page from the book that contains this old fansite content (as well as some BotCon 1998 coverage):
EDIT: And here's my translation of this summary, to compare it to Ben's original article:
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I was recently revisiting Dave Edward / Zobovor's site full of OC profiles he made based on miscolouring errors from the Sunbow cartoon, plus a few from the Marvel comic.
Strangely, his third batch of profiles is at a different URL which is broken.
Argh, only just saw this post.
I did go to all but one of the Transforce events, and probably have some of the material from the conventions somewhere, so I'll search when I next have suitable spare time, although I can't promise anything, and I'd have to check several places. But I'll attempt it, definitely.
(Note that the UK fandom generally doesn't really talk about Transforce these days.)