what if optimus prime was named jimbo instead
answer me punks.
answer me punks.
What if? Change something of TF history and speclate what could happen or have a few laughs at possible changes
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First place I saw the name Primelock:
https://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/BW/Fanfic/Sunset
(Hope that link works right, things go weird with my phone sometimes.) And - reading through this thread resulted in a deep dive looking for Tobots that didn't cost an arm and a leg.
https://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/BW/Fanfic/Sunset
(Hope that link works right, things go weird with my phone sometimes.) And - reading through this thread resulted in a deep dive looking for Tobots that didn't cost an arm and a leg.
Only in a StarTV dub.
What if Shockwave was a very popular cosplay and a lot of people work very hard on their con costumes, but as usual the only one who gets any attention is some girl who bearly understood the idea?
What if Skylynx had both a very elevated opinion of himself and a contract to repaint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
What if the G1 Theme Song was replaced with banjo music?
What if Skylynx had both a very elevated opinion of himself and a contract to repaint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
What if the G1 Theme Song was replaced with banjo music?
What is Hasbro figured out the strength of their characters before the '86 movie was made, so instead of killing off the cast for a new lineup of toys, they all got upgrades instead and the new toys were just new versions of the same core set of characters, with maybe one or two new ones, reimagined with whatever gimmick de jour is popular that year.
So it's the 84/85 cast that gets turned into headmasters/targetmasters, who get pretender shells, and even who get micromaster versions.
Would this have carried through to G2 and Beast Wars, or would them going so hard on it in G1 turn them off from it going into later series, until the nostalgia train picks up?
So it's the 84/85 cast that gets turned into headmasters/targetmasters, who get pretender shells, and even who get micromaster versions.
Would this have carried through to G2 and Beast Wars, or would them going so hard on it in G1 turn them off from it going into later series, until the nostalgia train picks up?
It's weird how many of my worst ideas seem made for this thread.
Wow, I had to look that one up! So the answer is 'hang out with anime girls', got it!
Yeah, I consider myself fairly well versed in Transformers, but one thing I love about this hobby is that there's constantly some obscure thing I've never heard of before.
Just looking at that imagine, only one thing comes to mind:
"You got the touch, you got the power!!"
What if Optimus Prime, during his short Season 3 retirement, went on Safari?
What if the majority of the Autobot cars were based on civilian vehicles instead of all sports cars? I really feel like there's a severe shortage of characters with regular car alt modes (there were a few in Micromasters I think, and well Skids, some minicars and maybe Ironhide?). How much did sports car idolatry play in the brand's popularity in 1984 I wonder?
That's an interesting thought. I wouldn't be surprised if that did have something to do with it, and maybe why poor Skids got so horribly downplayed.
On the other hand, Ironhide and Bumblebee (both prominent in the first two Sunbow seasons, as well as Dreamwave and IDW G1) weren't given sports or racing car altmodes either....
It's hard to tell from deep within the fandom (especially with Movie, Aligned, Cyberverse and Animated Bumblebee trying to "correct" things), but iconic character status amongst the general populace may not in fact be tied to the altmode as much as we might think....
Y'know, I don't think I've ever seen a gender swap Transformers universe. Has there been one glimpsed in official fiction or media?
We've already got Acid Storm and Skywarp getting genderflipped in Cyberverse and Earthspark.
Has there been an... Optimus Prima? Megatroness? Bumblebelle? Starscream? (Ok, most names don't even need to change at all)
We've already got Acid Storm and Skywarp getting genderflipped in Cyberverse and Earthspark.
Has there been an... Optimus Prima? Megatroness? Bumblebelle? Starscream? (Ok, most names don't even need to change at all)
I don't think it's a full universe, but there is precedent for a female Optimus Prime:
tfwiki.net
Optimus Prime (Universe) - Transformers Wiki
What if, when Optimus Prime died in the '86 movie, he was reformatted into Ultra Magnus by the Junkions?
The yellow Fire Convoy recolor was female?!?? I didn't know that!!I don't think it's a full universe, but there is precedent for a female Optimus Prime:
Optimus Prime (Universe) - Transformers Wiki