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I watched my wife get sick, disabled, and then get fired by the same people that made her ill, by refusing to allow her to wear a mask in the care home.
People clapped, though, so... that was nice.
@ElizaEmTM
I had someone I've known for 15 years ask me today about my mask "why the fuck have you got that on your face?", I explained in detail my wife's covid illness and ) he said he's had it a few times and last one was really bad.
He knows my wife is ill, wonder why he can't remember?
Man, this anti-IDW rhetoric needs to die a cold hard death. It's the richest most expansive TF universe in the history of the franchise. With something different for everyone. No one ever said you had to like ALL of it.
A really fun game to play with IDW fans at this point is "Name 5 good IDW 1 Transformers comics"
"Oh that's easy-"
"That isn't Lost Light or a Spotlight"
@HariSel57511397
Perfect satire. It works as an in-universe propaganda film to sucker in new recruits, this is why everyone looks glamorous and shower together, and the aliens look so unrelatable.
Once you've signed up, you're blowing up other poor people on distant planets, for oil, most likely
Transformers Animated transformation schematic for Strika! She's a beast of a machine!
I saved my favourite for last.
If I find any more in my messy files I will share them.
Thanks to the 40 new followers in the last 24 hours, I guess I haven't mentioned my 3P work enough? I try not to go on about it as it's been 5 years now.
Here's another DJW transformation schematic we were going to make for the Techno Toon Titans line: Red Alert. She rocks!
My old Animated BW Megatron custom from 2009 or so, made at least 3 of these but sold them all and never kept one for myself, magnets were used the hand switch.
Ever wondered how TFA Brawn transformed?
One of the characters we planned for the Techno Toon Titans line for Mech iDeas, sadly cancelled.
Eternal thanks to the late, great DJW for the assists.
Prototype Megatron into Galvatron Triple Changer.
I would have adored this as a kid, and tbh, I still would. This would have been a clever way of keeping Megatron on toy shelves 86 onwards. Even eBay would be alright with this!
Prototype triple changer Skywarp / Megatron.
This was likely just Takara engineers playing with ideas, but if this was a concept pre-Transformers, this could be the origin of Skywarp's colours, which were not seen or used in Diaclone.
@TomSawyer667
@NateB_Panic
My Mum is 72 with cancer, yes, I wear a mask around her. Do I think she will live forever? No. Am I willing to participate in her death? Also no.
Yo why the fuck is there ZERO 3rd party Animated toys??? Like...yknow ANIMATED the series that also everyone in this fandom loves and would buy new toys of?? The series with like a bazillion characters and repaint options
Like its insane how so many of these companies hate money
Hasbro: here's a new toy.
Transformers fans: here's fifty ways it could be redecoed!!!
Hasbro: here's 3 repaints with lots of new tooling added.
Transformers fans: why so many repaints?
It's time to start saying goodbye to some (most?) of my toys, I have too many to enjoy and they are starting to have a heavy detrimental impact on my mental health and quality of life.
First up; Haslab Galactus, I hardly knew thee.
Remembering the time someone opened a King of Braves Gaogaigar FuRyu and RaiRyu boxset, only to find they had bought a godamn Lucky Draw boxset by accident.
Today seems a good day to remind people that the perfect Transformers x TMNT collaborative mold already exists.
Custom using Animated Leader Bulkhead by GeoKaiser, I'm sure this is the one that was at Botcon one heat.
If you've ever held a G1 Blaster gun and felt it feels a bit large, or is a weird shape, this is why!
The single airbud pops through the center, the cord wraps neatly around the back of the gun three times, and the jack plugs through. Accessory storage, on a weapon. In 1984.
Here's a favourite that was doing the rounds a few years back...
BRAVE GUNKID as BATTLESTARS SUPER MEGATRON, the figure Gunkid is rumoured to have started life as.
Just for context, the 2018 Encore reissue of God Fire Convoy was similarly priced, and this Haslab is brand new, bigger, and features a smart brand new Deluxe Weaponiser.
Animated Spitter/ Slapper transformation schematic.
I was lucky enough to see most of the S3 designs at the Cartoon Network offices in 2008, mind-blowing just seeing them all on the wall. That was the first time I met DJW.
Wave/phase 2 of planned TTT.
Was hoping to get some better pictures, but sod it..
MP-10V - Outlaw custom, a MASK/Transformers mashup.
Retweets appreciated.
#mask
#kennermask
#transformers
One of my least-liked design elements of suburban design is this inaccessible landing I see in foyers.
Any creative solutions for "staging" it out there?
@sacha_coward
I call this the alchemy of distance. We can't easily believe that someone we know can create things out of thin air. Much easier to believe that creators are special, somehow.
My mother-in-law loved all my books, over her daughter's work (which were all much better)