Chris McFeely
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Transformers: The Basics on YouTube: https://t.co/nZrqle3GKG || Co-host of @sonicpodcast || Business inquiries: [email protected] || He/him
Northern Ireland
Joined March 2009
Early access is now available to TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on SUNSTREAKER! It's time to get back to basics for 2025 with a long-requested episode about the egotistical Autobot who's responsible for kicking off the whole concept of Robots in Disguise!
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yeah but is a ten year old girl gonna get headshot by the US military.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 writers Pat Casey and Josh Miller promise the third film in the franchise will be a fun, wild time for fans of the films.
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As a fan, my response at the time was "cool, Optimus combining with an Autobot to get a flight mode, it is in the 2000s and I understand this is a thing he does," but I always did wonder what on EARTH a casual viewer was supposed to make of this suddenly happening with no setup.
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Listen I love her but the very idea of completing a Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy without Robotnik and having to change the villain in the third movie because the actor retired is the very epitome of why cartoons and comics and games are better for some things than live-action films.
Rumour: Aubrey Plaza Is Supposedly "Top Choice" For Sonic The Hedgehog 3's Villain (Image: @parksandrec) #Rumour #Sonic #SonictheHedgehog #Movies #Sega
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A substantial percentage of the appeal this movie holds for me is seeing normal people's reactions when the cartoon hedgehog film contains a solemn flashback scene of a 10 year old child being shot through the head by a digitally de-aged Olive Garden Guy.
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Thread about the Bridgerton Ball SCAM in Detroit that I (and hundreds of others) spent $300 on
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An interesting fact about this PSA for my fellow TF dorks is: that's not Adam West playing Batman, but Dick Gautier, the voice of G1 Rodimus Prime.
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@Generic__John Shadow the Hedgehog's origin is that he is an edgy antihero because he watched a ten-year-old girl get headshot by the US military.
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It's easy for TF fans to say "not again" to this, but, like. general audiences haven't actually seen it before. Even in cartoons, it's been confined to abbreviated flashbacks. You'd have to have read the comics or the novels, and only Hardcore Nerds have done that.
The upcoming animated ‘TRANSFORMERS’ movie will tell the origin stories of Optimus Prime and Megatron. “We really are telling the origin story of all Transformers, what they were at the beginning of it, to how they grow, to how they grow apart”. (Source:
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Optimus Prime!.Optimus Primal!.DNA Digivolve tooooo. OPTIMAL OPTIMUS!
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THINKPIECE: Does Beauty and The Beast Even Work Anymore When Millennials All Want to Fuck The Beast Already.
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It doesn't really matter, because he'll misinterpret the basic meaning behind it anyway.
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ScarJo was really the big surprise of the movie for me. Her total absence from all the goofy marketing the other 3 lads did set an expectation that she was, like, checked out, unbothered, but no, she gave a great performance, honestly stood out to me more than Hemsworth!.
I feel like Elita doesn’t get that much praise, Scarlett Johansson did a fantastic job voicing her. This scene was perfect.
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So yeah, seems we're looking at a variation on the standard modern origin; Quintessons rule over an unjust, unequal Cybertron governed by Sentinel Prime.
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Today is Transformers Day, celebrating the day in 2016 that Rescue Bots overtook the G1 cartoon to become the longest-running TF cartoon ever. (whisper). wait what
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Absolutely terrible news today to hear that Derrick J. Wyatt, art designer for TF Animated, has passed away. A man much loved by the fandom, whose talents defined one of the most beloved TF series, to say nothing of other generation-defining shows he worked on. An utter tragedy.
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It's reactions like this that give you that all-important peek into the mind of the general audience and how they percieve this character, vs. jaded grumpy TF fans complaining about cheating death.
I never thought the day would ever come I see people clapping at a Transformers film. Unfortunately I didn't get the reactions of the audience when I went opening weekend. But the fact that I recorded this 3 weeks after Release and people STILL clapping. It says something man.
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In-keeping with the theme of today's tweets, the number of replies and QRTs saying this wasn't controversial is another way for me to know that I am reading the opinion of a child who was not online at the time this came out, because oh my GOD it so absolutely was.
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alright keegan we get it you're a nerd geez.
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We're all having fun with this meme moment, but honestly, I'm legitimately enjoying seeing Bayformers '07 receive this kind of genuine *oh, this slaps actually" love from general audiences.
Optimus Prime giving a speech with Linkin Park playing in Transformers (2007) for the ending was one of the greatest creative decisions in cinematic history
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wh-what
[RELEASE] [DATS-Wild Bunch] Digimon Tamers 2021 (from DigiFes 2021) [1080p][8AC9A8FB].mkv
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if there's one thing I hope this movie does, it's explain why shadow is a hedgehog. "Bloo bloo blurgh professor Gerald bloo bloo sonic battle blurgh blurgh angel Island mural". that's you, shut up.
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I knew to expect it, but it's surprising how "Transformers as standard big kids' CG movie with rock song needle drops" feels SO different for the franchise, isn't it?.
Every Transformer has an origin. Watch the new trailer for #TransformersOne - only in theatres September 20.
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Chromia is NOT beating those "intended to be Mirage but they changed the name in recording" allegations.
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I'm sorry, concept art for WHAT by WHO.
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I literally do not care what anyone says, this scene is, was, and remains one of the all-time greatest moments in the entirety of Transformers history.
Anyway, this deserves to be shared. Give it some love if you still remember getting *chills* when you first saw it.
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POV: your three racist uncles have come over for Sunday lunch
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Anyone of my generation who says anything other than this is a LIAR, we got the internet in the 90s and looked up shows we liked and lost our MINDS
do y'all have any actors who played different roles that you actually never knew it was them until years later? cause i'll go first
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Was just talking about this trailer with my bro the other day, and we agreed, there's something it's not saying. And we realised, looking up the cast, it's that the animals are going to flipping talk. And I just think that's a WHOLE different movie than what's being sold here.
First trailer for ‘THE WILD ROBOT’, starring Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor and Stephanie Hsu. In theaters on September 20.
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I love how it starts in the dorkiest way possible, with a montage of TIME MACHINES from TF history. Vector Prime, the Kronosphere from "War Dawn," the Quintesson time window from "Forever Is a Long Time Coming".
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What is the best plot twist in all of Transformers?
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Just remembered IDW's reason for all the Seekers looking the same is because Starscream committed tax fraud and needed body-doubles to confuse the police.
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m-my heart. it's so. f-full.
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Oh, this was one of the sweetest, most heartfelt comments I think I've ever had on a video.
Why is this comment on a Chris McFeely video making me so sad
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Last weekend, @jimsorenson and I unveiled the never-before-seen FIRST DRAFT of "The Transformers: The Movie" at @tfnationltd! If you weren't there, settle in, because tonight, I'm doing it all again, right here on Twitter! (1/22). (Lineart by @EdPirrie, colours by @Drivaaar)
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shitting fucking crikey.
UNITE or FALL. Watch the new trailer for #Transformers: #RiseOfTheBeasts - in theatres June 9. Sign up for EXCLUSIVE content and updates:
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Don't you love the way Prime uses his axe to hook, pin, and throw enemies, rather than as an offensive hacking weapon? Great, great character touch.
Earthspark also happens to have the single greatest action sequence in Transformers history.
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oh so its like DEAD dead.
Want to own some #PowerRangers history? The Lord Zedd suit from Dino/Cosmic Fury and the Mighty Morphin Rangers & Robo-Snizzard from Once & Always are up for auction!.They're currently on display at the @HeritageAuction booth at @nsccshow in Cleveland, OH!
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Consistently weirded out by the number of people who always say some variation of: "why did they get the Rock only to kill him after one episode?" Bro that's WHY they got the Rock!! As a deliberate one-shot celeb guest! Are you dense!.
Transformers may be one of the only times Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has lost a fight in media.
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Are you absolutely kidding me with this shit. You canNOT get away with AI-ing Transformers, we can tell instantly. Look at the fucking state of that shoulder, what the fuck even. @Skybound need to make like DC did and pull this immediately.
The artist of this cover has 100% used ai like they did with their previous DC comics covers and it makes me want to puke
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ROTF throws a LOT of stuff at the screen, like no idea was too much, '07 established the baseline concept and now it was all combiners, twins, this one's a demigod, this one's a satellite that shoots a cat that barfs up balls that turn into bugs that combine into a guy.
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It's almost CUTE how much they thought this idea was a huge MCU-level media-blitzing spoiler that had to be kept secret at all costs, when to pretty much the entire world outside America, it's just a different name for the army men that are always running around in these films.
Big things are in the works for Transformers and G.I. Joe. 'Rise of the Beasts' director Steven Caple Jr. and producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura unveil their top-secret plans.
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I go on a bit, but honestly TF fandom as a whole has one of the healthier relationships with "canon" because mostly they understand it's not real and never has been, there are just lots of stories and some are related and some aren't.
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Trailer for EarthSpark "season 3"! Gives us looks at Prowl and the Hate Plague. Drops next Fri (Oct 25); confirmed to be 8 episodes. Prowl's being voiced by Eric Bauza (RID15 Drift), plus Betsy Sodaro is also announced as the voice of a Quintesson judge.
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@Fred_Delicious While working at a call center, my brother once spoke to a "Charity Hamjack.".
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It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that when the theme song starts playing *during* the cartoon, shit is about to get HYPE.
Almost 24 years later this scene from the Digimon Movie still gives me a chills, its completely PEAK. 5 year old me was SHITTING
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what happened to scaling back.
First trailer for Marvel Studios’ TV slate:. • What If? S3 - Dec. 22.• Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man - Jan. 25.• Daredevil Born Again - Mar. 4.• Ironheart - June 24.• Eyes of Wakanda - Aug. 6.• Marvel Zombies - Oct ‘25.• Wonder Man - Dec ‘25
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ALL HANDS, RED ALERT: LITTLE NEPHEW ASKED FOR TRANSFORMERS FOR CHRISTMAS FOR THE FIRST TIME, TIME TO BE A COOL UNCLE.
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Biblically accurate Optimus Prime.
the combined form of two Powerlinx Energon Optimus Primes. (2004)
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TF fans know.
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I know he's the live-action Optimus, but did he have to murder me so completely?.
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We only gone an' bloomin' done it, 'int we?! Thanks to every subscriber, every supporter, every friend who got me to this milestone! 💖
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Awful news today that Peter Spellos, the voice of RID Sky-Byte, has passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Not just a TF celeb but a real part of our family like no other - a kind and brilliant guy who we're all better for having had the chance to know.
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I regret I have to be the one to tell you this, but on the way to the store, your dad was offlined by a cosmically-powered Starscream.
I'd like to add another obscure character for obscure characters month:.My dad.No one knows what he looks like, only that he went to the store for milk. If anyone can shine a light on this subject, it's you Chris.
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Following the release of @KeyanCarlile's detailed video, and the emergence of the original planning document courtesy of @Tubesmith, I thought I'd better redo the @tfwiki Animated season 4 article!. GO▶️
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The thing about this panel for me was the way it proved DWJ isn't here to mindlessly regurgitate. You might think the use of the G1 character models is thoughtless nostalgia - but he's drawing VEHICLES here, not just recreating the toys or the cartoon approximations of them.
NEW SOURCE COUNTDOWN! Today, we're appreciating the *gorgeous* artwork of the new Skybound #Transformers #1 by highlighting some favourite panels! Go have another look at these stunning robot renderings - link below ⬇️
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All that Commander Class engineering, and still, after 20 years, they can't figure out how to just make the grill be the grill.
Hasbro Transformers Studio Series Commander Class Optimus Prime official product photography. Pretty sure the preorder goes up this week.
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Spider-Verse has done a lot for animated cinema. Also holy shit, Turtles with voices that make them sound like the actual kids they're meant to be but have never once been performed as!.
The first trailer for ‘TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM’ has been released. The film releases on August 4 in theaters.
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oh my god that's fucking starscream.
FOUND MEDIA: Even more footage from the lost "King Koopa's Kool Kartoons" was found by BetaGems! For a long time, there was a rumor that Koopa threatened a kid by claiming to know where he lived; turns out Koopa DID say something highly similar in this new clip.
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you know you try to take complaints in stride but some do just make you stare off into the infinite darkness for a minute and consider packing it all in
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Look, we all love the Cybertron scene, but I stand by the fact that this version of the film would've had much better emotional throughline of an amnesiac Bumblebee regaining a lost faith in humanity.
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I've struggled recently to imagine what's next for the Titan class - like, who's really left? - but I had a sudden realisation today: TITAN HIGH TIDE. Keep that nautical theme going after Tidal Wave!
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i will bang them together and make kissing noises.
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If you're at TFNation and you've lost one of your Commander Armada Optimus arm-guns in the bar, come see me!
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The importance of font choice and kerning in comic book lettering, courtesy of the TFCC.
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@Duffism1981 He said last year that Sonic 2 would be his last film that he was retiring, yes! Now, whether he follows through, we'll see.
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@Kanatsuki03 The catastrophic missed opportunity of not simply getting Jim Carrey to wear old-man makeup.
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D'you ever think about how, somewhere around 2018, they just. GAVE UP on a design rationale for Soundwave & his minions? Now he just has a chest door rectangles come out of for no thematic reason. Mindless preservation of brand iconography over critical thinking and innovation.
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And as bad as things got after this movie, they did kinda wind it back a bit from that particular sort of excess. You got the occasional "Sam's scorpion watch" or "Watch that killed Hitler" as a treat but I don't feel like they went quite as buckwild-diverse in one film again.
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People are SO desperate to incorrectly "well ackshually" the "first TFs born on Earth" concept, and it is truly going to be my Joker moment.
Transformers: EarthSpark is DECADES in the making 🚘 our new show premieres Nov 11 on @paramountplus!
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@fearghal_youell Oh, I consider it a win-win scenario, because if they DO adapt it it'll be very, very funny, and if they DON'T adapt it, Sonic fans will be mad, and that will be very, very funny.
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Lovely to do a video where the comments are nothing but positivity. Everyone loves Soundwave.
TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on SOUNDWAVE has been updated for 2023 and is now live! Revised, rewritten and expanded, it's a whole new look at the history of Megatron's loyal, sound-manipulating spymaster! . OPERATION: INFORMATION ▶️
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*SPLUTTER* WH WH WHAA.
@danielwarrenart @SpicerColor CLIFFJUMPER. ROLL OUT!. #energonuniverse. @danielwarrenart .@SpicerColor
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I'll be back from break with new Basics episodes soon! As revealed on today's livestream, here's what I'll be covering in the new batch of vids taking us up to #200! . Late Jan: 198 - THE SEEKERS.Early Feb: 199 - DEATH'S HEAD, yes?.Late Feb: 200 - The long-overdue HOT SHOT!
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um, okay. had to check and make sure this wasn't that fake account tbh.
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We're not taking enough about the recent descendent of this phenomenon, where marketing doesn't the characters be called "Transformers," they have to be "Transformers robots." That is to say, instead of "robots who transform," they are "robots from the franchise Transformers.".
in order to protect the strength of the "Transformers" trademark, the word "transform" cannot be used anywhere in Transformers, including marketing, packaging and even in fiction. This has lead to some awkward phrasing. (2010- )
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@SixoTF You joke an' all, but I remember how genuinely surprised I was to watch the DVD special features and learn they really did blow an actual bus in half for that scene!.
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Speaking of Fandom, I heard this trick recently and have been using it non-stop; maybe y'all know it already, but - if you need to use a Fandom wiki, go to the address bar & change the URL to "antifandom." Strips out all the ads and videos, makes it actually readable on mobile!.
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God, the last 24 hours have absolutely sucked. James Earl Jones, John Cassaday, and now the voice of the original Splinter - and of course, Transformers' own Grapple.
Peter Renaday, the original voice of Master Splinter, has passed away at the age of 89
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It was less because of the content/competency of the show, and more because it was simply the first new Batman cartoon after 10+ years of the DCAU. I always say, it had to die on the cross so we as a society could move past BTAS and get things like Brave and the Bold.
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Note, this doesn't refer to the original show, but to a live script-reading from a Japanese convention a day or two ago, linked in the quote tweet. I've not watched it yet to see what's up.
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holy shit, a modern Optimus Prime toy where the grill becomes the grill.
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Nothing but respect for MY self-transforming Optimus Prime.
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I tell you the think about TFWiki; gets accused of being elitist or cliquey sometimes, but the truth is, it just holds itself to a standard.
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TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on MIRAGE is now available early to Patreon supporters! #RiseOfTheBeasts is hitting cinemas now, so at long last, it's finally time to look at the history of the classic Autobot illusion-caster who stars as its leading bot!. LINK▶️
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