User talk:Repowers

Commercials

Hey, had a few questions/thoughts regarding the Commercial page and wanted to see what you thought about them.

1. The narrator for most of the RID commercials sounds like Neil Kaplan. Would you agree? I think we could email him about that through his website, but would an unpublished e-mail be good enough for confirmation?

2. Along the same vein, I'm really starting to think Even Keel is none other than David Kaye. Again, do you think it's him? We could probably get someone to ask him at BotCon this year (I'd do it myself but I'm not able to attend).

3. Found some interesting info here: http://www.kwcc.com/house/credits/lead.html But I'm not sure just how to integrate it into the wiki, or if there's enough there to justify it.

4. Thinking about the non-network cartoon promos, what would constitute enough evidence to show it was a nationally used promo. Would clips of the same promo on two different stations be sufficient, or do we need more?

5. Came up with one more, regarding the Energon Optimus/Scorponok commercial. The static, "Each sold separately", shot of the toys doesn't just have the two featured toys. It also has Energon Unicron! I can't find any reference to a longer version of this commercial anywhere online. Is it possible a longer version of such a recent commercial could completely escape the fandom's notice? Or was it left on the cutting room floor and the end shot is all that made it to air?

6. On the subject of movie trailers, I'm not finding any evidence to support what you have listed for #2 and #3. #2 appears to be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbF4mv891Nk which is a fan-made trailer. As for #3, I can't find any example of it. The description seems to be the same as that of "Hidden". What were you basing those entries on? On a related note, the menu on disc 2 of the DVD special edition as well as the file name for the same content on the HD-DVD version refers to the teaser trailer as Teaser Trailer #1. So I think that's why the first full length trailer is listed as #2. What #3 is or was, I've no idea.

--Tigerpaw28 22:19, 4 May 2009 (EDT)

Sorry I haven't addressed any of these... just haven't had time. I don't know much about the post-G1 commercials, only what I've been able to dig up online, and it's been a long time since I put some of this together. I'll try and put in some time on this next week. -- Repowers 12:17, 31 May 2009 (EDT)

Not a problem. I'm sorry about going overkill with my messages. The lack of response for so long gave me the impression you didn't know the list was here. I'll be more patient in the future.

As for the list, take all the time you need. I'd prefer the movie trailer entry to be looked at first, if possible. I have one minor addition in that I found a third Dinobot commercial: http://www.retrostatic.com/videos/p803_sectionid/999999/p803_js_on/1/p803_fileid/483

I'm wondering if this one ever made it to air? Some of the aesthetics are so different from other G1 commercials that it seems like a test version or something. --Tigerpaw28 23:28, 31 May 2009 (EDT)

Looks like you were right about the two 2007 movie "trailers". I think those are all pretty well sorted out now... unless somebody wants to start a list of Japanese ads, which would open a huge can of worms since it would mean going back to G1 as well. (that'd probably need to be a separate page.)

I don't have enough grasp on Neil Kaplan or David Kaye's "natural" voices to figure out if they were narrating those ads, though I'll have a listen when I have time. -- Repowers 11:20, 4 June 2009 (EDT)

Ok, cool. Since you've been going through the 2007 Movie tv spots I thought you might want to see this list: http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2007/STUVWXYZ/Transformers/trailer.php Several of the spots you have listed appear to have actual "names" (not just according to the list but Michael Bay's MySpace account and other seemingly official sources) instead of being the "Nickelodeon spot version A". I believe there's even some that aren't currently listed.

Funny you should mention the Japanese ads, as I had thought about that myself. But given the can of worms as you said, plus the need for translation help, I don't know if I'd try tackling it anytime soon.

On a almost unrelated note, why did you remove the Micromasters commercial entry? I don't think it was redundant and I did find a video of it (Just hadn't gotten around to updating the Wiki): http://www.retrostatic.com/videos/p803_sectionid/13/p803_fileid/675/p803_js_on/1 --Tigerpaw28 22:49, 4 June 2009 (EDT)

That's the same one listed as "Micromaster Patrols", far as I can tell. -- Repowers 00:20, 5 June 2009 (EDT)

Holy crap, that movie spot list is AMAZING. I'm not sure what to do with all those clips... I guess they should go in their own section? Or are they even worth full entries? Dunno. -- Repowers 00:57, 5 June 2009 (EDT)

Ah, you are correct about the Micromaster commercials. Nice catch sir.

I think for the clips we should have a section saying something to the effect of "Preview clips of the movie were released to various TV shows and websites" followed by a list of the clips with brief descriptions. They're really just single scenes shown as is, so the only things to note about them are the when and where of the release and what scene. It probably goes without saying that only clips that were released as part of Paramount's/Hasbro's promotional strategy (or through a rogue Bay) should be included. I don't particularly trust that list in regards to the descriptions of the clips. Looking through the list, I found at least one of those is actually just the final trailer. Could be other issues where the site or TV show they link to isn't where the clip originated. The other sections look like they're accurate, but I would double check the clip descriptions to be safe. --Tigerpaw28 19:05, 7 June 2009 (EDT)

I was going through Commercial again and had two sets of questions. First, I noticed that someone named the narrator for Autobot Cars plus Thrust and Dirge as You're Gonna Get It. That edit was lost to the Bookworm crash, so I'm hoping you might know where that name came from. Related to that, I think that narrator is the same as the one used for Mini-Spies and Omega Supreme. Do you agree?

The second set of questions is about the "Original cartoons on VHS". Is this referring to the promos that were on the tapes themselves or a spot that actually aired on TV? If it's the latter, should we add an entry for the former? --Tigerpaw28 00:14, 17 September 2009 (EDT)

*Nudge* Just wanted to see if you had an answer to the VHS question above. The other is just for personal curiosity so you could forget that altogether. Also want to point out my musings at Talk:Commercial#International Spots --Tigerpaw28 02:23, 22 November 2009 (EST)

IIRC the "cartoons on VHS" was a TV spot I found somewhere at some point. The promos on the tapes themselves is definitely worth a mention.

I didn't add the name for the Autobot Cars spot... no idea where it came from. It's been so long since Iworked on this stuff that I don't remember much of it anymore.

International spots? Go for it! I'd say a whole separate section at the bottom of the commercials page, rather than appending them to each franchise section. -- Repowers 02:39, 22 November 2009 (EST)

<facepalms> I just plugged "Transformers VHS" into YouTube and the VHS TV spot was the second video listed [1]. And I have the RetroJunk link in my list of TF ad links. I have no clue why I didn't write it up when I found it or how I completely forgot I found it. Sorry for bugging you about that. Regarding the international, I'm compiling a simple list of any non-Japanese spots so I can see how much volume there is. The combined total is 29 currently. Enough for an 'international' subpage I would think. --Tigerpaw28 02:41, 23 November 2009 (EST)

Rob's Big To-Do List!

An ever-changing list of stuff that needs taking care of. I'll get to it eventually, but if anyone else wants to pitch in, go for it!

Ongoing projects

• S3 cartoon errors
• Marvel US Notes sections
  • 1 Synopsis
  • 2 Featured characters
  • 3 Quotes
  • 4 Notes
  • 4.1 Continuity notes
  • 4.3 Real-life references
  • 4.4 Errors
  • 4.6 Other trivia
  • 4.8 Covers (3)
  • 4.9 Advertisements
  • 5 External links
• Movie character pages - better images, vehicle mode shots (Op in DOTM, Sentinel, Dino, Dreads (group shot too)

Wreckers, assault ships, dusintegrator Rays

Additions

• Production info for Armada, Energon, Cybertron, Robots in Disguise.
• Packaging needs a ton of work and lots of images. Keep an eye out for MISB toy photos.
• Toyline pages: Most are just lists of toys. They need overview writeups: what common elements did the toys have, standard gimmicks, packaging notes, sub-lines, items of special note, reception by fans and general public, images of some sample toys.

Questions to ask of official-type people

• Furman:
  • Was "Tales of Earth" designed to work around Yanniger's slow production pace?
  • What was the Transformer life sign "in two parts" in US #74?
• Budiansky: was the US #5-12 written with the possibility of the series ending at #12 in mind?
• Hasbro team: can you talk a bit about "play patterns" and how they affect toy design? (word this so it doesn't sound so dumb)
• G1 crew: Were there any intentional efforts to reduce the use of certain toys in one particular media if they were heavily used in other media? Skids, for example, hardly shows up in the cartoon at all, but gets heavy promotion in the Marvel Comics. Shockwave also plays a much diminished role in the cartoon compared to his comics role.

Comic series organization project

MARVEL GENERATION ONE Marvel Comics - publisher page. Short overview of the series, and links to:

The Transformers (Marvel comic) - Series overview page. Covers the US series and the UK series. Needs more images -- UK comic covers in particular. Generation 2 (Marvel comic) - Series overview page. G.I. Joe and the Transformers Headmasters (comic) Transformers Universe (Marvel comic)

Marvel_Comics_continuity - page about the continuity. Still need to link more stuff back to this page. http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Marvel_US_issues - not so critical now that everything's got nav boxes.

DREAMWAVE GENERATION ONE Dreamwave - publisher. Lists issues but is mostly about the company. Dreamwave timeline Dreamwave continuity

IDW GENERATION ONE IDW Publishing - publisher page. Intro to rebooted continuity and list of issues ordered by date of publication. IDW timeline IDW continuity

DEVIL'S DUE Devil's Due - publisher page. Short history, list of miniseries. Devil's Due timeline - No timeline page at present. G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity - Continuity overview page. Also lists the four miniseries. They should all link back to it.

G1 CARTOON Generation 1 (cartoon) Generation 1 cartoon timeline Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan) Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)/src No continuity page at present.

BEAST ERA CARTOONS Beast Era - short overview page, links to main franchise pages. Beast Wars (cartoon) Beast Machines (cartoon) Beast Era timeline - page doesn't exist yet. No continuity page at present.

Something to help your Energon recaps

I recommend referring to NTFA for the japanese episode names and airdates of both series:

• Superlink names and airdates
• Energon names and airdates

I've added the info into the pages you've already done, so to simply follow what's already been written I recommend placing the Japanese SL airdate before the US Energon airdate in the Stats section, given that SL aired first and Energon suffered horrible gaps in episodes aired ;) --FFN 15:54, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Very late, but I just wanted to say how useful this info has been. -- Repowers 05:07, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Were you looking for this the other day?

http://www.emopanda.com/tmp/Energon%20-%2017%20-%20Return%20of%20Demolisher.avi

Yeah, somebody found it for me, somewhere or other. I haven't gotten around to it yet; I've had to slow down on the Energon in general to preserve my brain cells. Thanks! -- Repowers 21:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I think that was me, and I linked you to the wrong episode marked as Return of Demolisher on Veoh. -Derik 22:04, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry for overreacting. Thanks for fixing my userpage, much appreciated.--Detour 05:02, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Avast all-powerful Admin!

Go port the contents of the MediaWiki:Recentchangestext talk page over to the page itself. I wants me logs back! -Derik 06:18, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure how to do this thing you speak of. You want me to move this page to this page? -- Repowers 06:27, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

So is it easier for an admin to clear out the contents of a category than to just go item-by-item? (I'm a bit unclear on how this works.) -Derik 08:10, 22 September 2008 (EDT)

If there's a way to delete multiple items, it's not showing up on my screen, and I did just spend a few minutes looking around for it. I'm just going one-by-one down the list. -- Repowers 08:11, 22 September 2008 (EDT)

The category list, or the file list? (I'm trying to figure out if there's any point to me flagging these images with a speedy deletion 'cat.) -Derik 08:19, 22 September 2008 (EDT)

Category list. I didn't know there was a file list. Maybe I need to look harder. (I have a bad habit of never going to the Special Pages list.) -- Repowers 08:22, 22 September 2008 (EDT)

Interrobang pointed it out, except you can't just delete blind, because a certain part of the way down it switches into real files. Is it any more convenient to have 'em in a category than this? -Derik 08:34, 22 September 2008 (EDT)

Arg, no, there's no mass-delete function there either. I dunno if Suki or Walky might have such an option, but I do not. Unfortunate, 'cause there's a ton of these things, and the click-click-click-back button method of deleting them is slow and painful. -- Repowers 08:38, 22 September 2008 (EDT)

Given my choices I'd just have Deceptitran do it direct-- (he's already got all the problem files scaped to his database) but he doesn't have deletion privileges.  :p -Derik 08:52, 22 September 2008 (EDT)

Sorry for that..

Was not looking at where I was posting. Sorry again. --KyleMD03 19:01, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the Transmutate finishing summary

Thanks for finishing Transmutate. But now I'm curious...not all the episode headers are standardized or link to the next/previous ones. Should we fix that? Speedball 01:23, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

Yeah, i don't know what's up with that. Some kind of new template that they were fooling around with. -- Repowers 01:40, 25 September 2008 (EDT)

That Nightbeat GO! box

Those white edges are pretty raw and ugly there. I put up a PSD template [1] here for all to use, much cleaner. Give it a retry. --M Sipher 10:13, 26 September 2008 (EDT)

Micromaster base articles, especially the Gas station

You are the wind beneath my wings. --FFN 13:24, 26 September 2008 (EDT)

You have any idea how goddamn freezin' cold it is here in your shadow?! -- Repowers 14:49, 26 September 2008 (EDT)

Too bad. Take it up with Bette Midler. --FFN 16:10, 26 September 2008 (EDT)

Golden One's pupil

Identified in the dialogue script as "Old Man"; the Red Wizard in his form, meanwhile, is identified as "Monk". Kinda funny when you consider they identify the Red Wizard's PET with a name... --Monzo 13:46, 29 September 2008 (EDT)

Does the script actually call the winged thing "sweet pet", like a name and not just an abstract term of 'affection'? -- Repowers 14:34, 29 September 2008 (EDT)

Can I get you anything?

Cold flannel? Chicken soup? Stomach pump? You must be a physical and mental wreck after that horrifying effort. Summarizing the whole of Energon should be the dictionary definition of taking one (or fifty-one) for the team. - Chris McFeely 21:09, 1 November 2008 (EDT)

You can find someone to take on Armada in its entirety, thereby ensuring that any lingering notions I might have of taking it on myself are well and truly squashed. Oy! -- Repowers 21:20, 1 November 2008 (EDT)

A heads up

Particularly unobservant people on TFW2005.com are discussing creating articles on TFW Funnies or whatever the hell they are on this wiki. So yeah, just a heads up in case anybody decides it would be a good idea to create articles on TF webcomics and fan fiction. --FFN 13:57, 17 December 2008 (EST)

Flyer scans

Hey Rob, I've added some flyer pages and brought a bunch of others up to speed, so I hope your friggin' happy. One that I don't have, though, is "The battle is far from over!", and I was wondering if you can make more scans of it. I'd like to see... well, basically all of it, but I'm thinking the front, folded up (to match the others) and the S.T.A.R.S. recruitment blurb in particular. Basically, whatever content is different from Reinforcements from Cybertron!, since I think this would be the very first mention of S.T.A.R.S., and I'd like to know exactly how it was initially presented. Thanks! - Jackpot 22:47, 28 December 2008 (EST)

Well it's about damn time!!  :P I'll try and scan that one this evening and post it up somewhere. -- Repowers 14:28, 29 December 2008 (EST)

• Outside fold
• Inside fold

Go nuts! -- Repowers 00:13, 30 December 2008 (EST)

Nuts gone! Thank you muchly, sir. - Jackpot 04:27, 30 December 2008 (EST)

US/UK navboxes

From this earlier revision of your talk page: "Looks like the proper way to do it, but seeing Headmasters chopped up like that hurts my head."

Yeah, the slicing and dicing of headmasters was kind of a headache for me too, but looking through the issues and usch, it seems that this crazy wrongheaded order is the best way to do it. I'll stop futzing with the nav link chains on my UK re-formatting efforts. -- G1MarvelBlaster 08:58, 30 December 2008 (EST)

It's definitely screwy, but then, so was the original publication format. I console myself by remembering that if someone wants to thumb through the full sequence of Headmasters issues, there's the US nav links right above the UK ones. -- Repowers 14:25, 30 December 2008 (EST)

Heaven forfend we should have an alternate set "reading order" links when publication order doesn't measure up. No, that would be just silly. What kind of drunken fool would propose such a thing when the navbox template was being developed? "If we have a reading order function it'll save a lot of angst and headaches over peopel who want the forward-and-back publication order links to represent a reading order." Utter poppycock! -Derik 18:16, 6 January 2009 (EST)

• wonders if this is a good time to mention that, while going through and reformatting lots and lots of comic pages, she has thought about how awesome it would be to set up reading order lists for the various series and have the infoboxes automatically call them somehow instead of futzing with manual prev/next links*

I even know a way to possibly auto-prev and next comic series that are "Name issue #" thanks to something I had to cook up for my own personal wiki... --Jeysie 18:47, 6 January 2009 (EST)

CamelCase variants

The search function doesn't care how many capital letters you put in your search term, it'll take you to "BotCon", even if the "Botcon" page does not exist. —Interrobang 18:09, 6 January 2009 (EST)

Fer real? I've had lots of case-based search problems in the past, thought that was with multiple search terms. -- Repowers 18:12, 6 January 2009 (EST)

Yeah. "CRACK", "crack", "CrAcK", and "cRaCk" all take you to "Crack" if you enter them into the search box. —Interrobang 18:21, 6 January 2009 (EST)

...And it turns out this doesn't work on articles with CamelCase titles. Urgh. —Interrobang 18:24, 6 January 2009 (EST)

Er...?

Not that I think they're needed, but is there a reason you're deleting all the redirects Siph and Monzo created over the past few days? It's just kind of weird seeing their creation clogging up the recent changes, and now they're all deleted again.--RosicrucianTalk 16:42, 17 January 2009 (EST)

cur) (last) 18:22, 2 July 2006 M Sipher (Talk | block) (24 bytes) (Shortround (UT) moved to Shortround) 2006 is "the last couple of days"? -- Repowers 16:48, 17 January 2009 (EST)

Maybe I'm misjudging. Was all the recent activity on those marking them for deletion, then?--RosicrucianTalk 16:51, 17 January 2009 (EST)

Yeah. We stopped using (UT) ages ago (almost none of them are linked from anything -- I've been checking and fixing as needed.) I'm kinda shocked that there are this many still hanging around. -- Repowers 16:52, 17 January 2009 (EST)

I could also be going crazy, because I can't find the edits in question. Of course, that's likely because you've just deleted them :P--RosicrucianTalk 17:01, 17 January 2009 (EST)

I think you're confusing Monzo and Sipher labelling them for deletion as them creating the redirects. Since they put the delete template below the redirect code, the edit summaries automatically come up as "Redirected to X". —Interrobang 17:04, 17 January 2009 (EST)

Ah, so THAT is why some of them automatically redirected and others didn't. Innnnnteresting. And yeah, last night in IRC Siph is all "Monz why don't you just nuke that (UT) junk" and Monz is all like "OMG DUDE LOL I'm totally not an admin." -- Repowers 17:07, 17 January 2009 (EST)

Quote purging?

Just out of curiousity, what's with all the quote deletions on the Animated episode pages? I don't really see any reason to delete them. It seems to be a shame, really. --Nightshade83 15:41, 28 January 2009 (EST)

It's come up many times that these sections are longer than they need to be. Most of the ones I'm cutting aren't particularly noteworthy or interesting or good or even comprehensible out of context. If anything, I'm being extremely lenient in what I cut. -- Repowers 15:44, 28 January 2009 (EST)

The quote sections are growing out-of-control . . . pruning them is a valuable service, IMO. --Jimsorenson 15:45, 28 January 2009 (EST)

Ah okay. I was just wondering, that's all. --Nightshade83 15:49, 28 January 2009 (EST)

Also -- a lot of these aren't really even quotes in a functional sense. They're transcriptions of entire scenes (which, like the first quote on Megatron Rising I, may be fun or memorable scenes, but not feature especially noteworthy dialog), or descriptions of action which happen to have some words in the middle of them, or attempts to transcribe a moment of particularly memorable voice acting, or totally mundane quotes that are only there because someone thought of a cute commentary to put after it (or worse still, a really-stretching OMG G1 cross-reference.) But that's not what a quote is really supposed to be. A quote should be memorable or clever or character-defining even out of context, even without scene descriptions, even if a person's never seen the episode. It should be relatively short and succinct, require minimal description, and not rely on prior knowledge to make sense. -- Repowers 16:01, 28 January 2009 (EST)

Categories in Preview mode

They're still there. You just have to scroll waaaaay down to see 'em.--RosicrucianTalk 20:03, 3 February 2009 (EST) ==Other Books

• Bunch here

• More here

I'd never even heard of some these before, like the Decepticon Camp one. --Monzo 00:35, 12 February 2009 (EST)

EDIT: Actually, this looks like this is the full gallery for that first page. Oops. --Monzo 00:38, 12 February 2009 (EST)

Aw man, just when I thought I was starting to get a grip on all this stuff. I both love and hate you for this. :D -- Repowers 00:39, 12 February 2009 (EST)

Rob's Big To-Do List!

An ever-changing list of stuff that needs taking care of. I'll get to it eventually, but if anyone else wants to pitch in, go for it!

General cleanup:

• Production info for Armada, Energon, Cybertron, Robots in Disguise.
• Pack-in flyer - cleanup? Split? additions?
• Find a better front image for toy.
• Transformers: Universe (comic) issues are still a mess. They should all look like this page when all's said and done.
  • Overview page looks awful.
  • Most issue pages look awful.
  • The caption "The universe is very large place." has not been used. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE.
• UK Annual text stories -- which ones fit with the mainline comic?
  • Trigger-Happy! - has Megatron and Scoop on Earth, so, no.
  • The Quest! - one of those recap-the-storyline ones.
  • The Return of the Transformers
  • To a Power Unknown!
  • Headmasters retelling trio
  • Plague of the Insecticons!
  • Hunted!
  • Missing in Action
  • The Mission

• UK Future Autobot stories -- cross-link somehow?
  • Ark Duty
  • Prime's Rib!
  • Ark Duty
  • Target: 2006
  • Death's Head / Legacy of Unicron / Space Pirates
  • Time Wars
  • Dystopic future saga
  • Aspects of Evil!
  • Peace

Toyline pages: Most of these are just straight lists of toys. They need overview writeups: what common elements did the toys have, standard gimmicks, packaging notes, sub-lines, items of special note, reception by fans and general public, images of some sample toys.

• Generation 1 (toyline) -- Just about perfect.
• Generation 2 (toyline) -- needs re-writing, and images.
• Movie (toyline) -- main line has writeup & images. Many sublines have nothing. Add cross-sells.
• Beast Machines (toyline) - needs images/cross-sells.
• Robots in Disguise (toyline) - needs images/cross-sells.
• Cybertron (toyline) - cleanup, images.
• Beast Wars (toyline) - cleanup.
• Machine Wars - needs a few images.
• Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline) - Needs more write-up, and images. Purple Silverbolt would be ideal. Or catalog.

Standard format:

• Armada (Panini comic)

Comic series organization project

MARVEL GENERATION ONE
Marvel Comics - publisher page. Short overview of the series, and links to:

The Transformers (Marvel comic) - Series overview page. Covers the US series and the UK series. Needs more images -- UK comic covers in particular.

Generation 2 (Marvel comic) - Series overview page.

G.I. Joe and the Transformers

Headmasters (comic)

Transformers Universe (Marvel comic)

Marvel_Comics_continuity - page about the continuity. Still need to link more stuff back to this page.
http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Marvel_US_issues - not so critical now that everything's got nav boxes.

DREAMWAVE GENERATION ONE
Dreamwave - publisher. Lists issues but is mostly about the company.
Dreamwave timeline
Dreamwave Generation One continuity

IDW GENERATION ONE
IDW Publishing - publisher page. Intro to rebooted continuity and list of issues ordered by date of publication.
IDW timeline
IDW continuity

DEVIL'S DUE
Devil's Due Press - publisher page. Short history, list of miniseries.
Devil's Due timeline - No timeline page at present.
G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers continuity - Continuity overview page. Also lists the four miniseries. They should all link back to it.

G1 CARTOON
Generation 1 (cartoon)
Generation 1 cartoon timeline
Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)
Generation 1 cartoon timeline (Japan)
No continuity page at present.

BEAST ERA CARTOONS
Beast Era - short overview page, links to main franchise pages.
Beast Wars (cartoon)
Beast Machines (cartoon)
Beast Wars timeline - page doesn't exist yet.
No continuity page at present.

Testing Comics nav template for mini-series

The Transformers: Infiltration is the first in a line of miniseries by IDW Publishing set in a "re-boot" of the Generation 1 continuity, bringing the presence on Earth of the Autobots and Decepticons into the present day and placing the "robots in disguise" concept firmly in the forefront of its narrative. Infiltration is set in the same time period as The Transformers: Stormbringer and both are followed by The Transformers: Escalation.

...man, that doesn't really work, does it. What comes next -- Stormbringer? Escalation? One of the Spotlights?

IDW's timeline is epochal, with each successive era marked by it's G1 miniseries. There may be other events that take place between the minis-- even (in the case of Stormbringer) major events but the G1 minis are the 'core' of the brand. We need a markup that recognizes this. -Derik 11:08, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that makes sense... so long as they all also link back to a continuity page so the complete picture is available as well. -- Repowers 15:01, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

I know I'm really late, but the IDW TPBs are numbered. Volume 1 is Infiltration, 2 is Stormbringer, and 3 is Escalation. --ItsWalky 18:47, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah, handy! Will adjust accordingly. I kinda gave up on the mini-series nav box idea anyway -- it seems a bit like overkill. -- Repowers 19:12, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Images

Hi, as the self-appointed pics guy (as I probably upload the most pics here), I'd suggest that you use Photoshop to edit out the backgrounds of the MTMTE scans you upload, so we're left with a nice, white background that matches the default colour of the wiki.

I'd also advise you to use copyright tags when uploading images such as:

{{hastak}} for Hasbro/Takara-owned images such as stock toy photos or screencaps.

{{comicinterior}} for comic page scans (which apply for the MTMTE series).

{{comiccover}} for comic covers.

{{fairuse}} for general pictures relating to Transformers but not exactly owned by Hasbro, or its a legal grey area. This can be used when you upload toy photos that you didn't take yourself.

A tip for recognising artists - Don Figueroa is VERY prolific in the MTMTE series, and you can tell which works are his by by their big hands with vents on the back of them, which are his trademark. Another trademark of his is cyclindrical piping on the edges of limbs, particularly the thighs. Also, most artists tended to be assigned all the art for a particular subgroup or team.

If in doubt, use {{artist?}} and it will be added to the category of art by undetermined artists.

Finally, I would advise caution in using so many pictures from a single source, as it would be hard to argue fair use. -FFN 19:12, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips. I may not have time to follow up on 'em all today but I will soon. Ish.

The toy photos, FYI, are all my own. Isn't there some "I hereby release into public domain blah blah blah" template for that sort of thing? -- Repowers 19:29, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't believe we do, at least to my knowledge. You can just say something like 'Photos by User:Repowers, released to the public domain.'

I've started adding tags to the pictures you've uploaded, but I'll leave the toy pics alone now. --FFN 19:39, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Slog

Can you scan a picture of Slog's MTMTE robot mode? I prefer to use some kind of uncluttered 'profile' pic if possible for the main article picture, and comic panels for the fiction section (since there isn't anything there in the Marvel section anyway). Assumign the scan of is good quality, I suggest using the magic wand tool in photoshop to cut out the background, leaving a nice, white crisp background behind the character.

I'm going to request the deletion of the beast mode picture because we can't fit it anywhere in the article, and we should only have one picture up at the start.

Formatting tip - when you don't want images to jut into other article sections or mess up the formatting, use {{-}} instead of a bunch of return key strokes :D --FFN 04:53, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

US/UK Navboxes

Following is the sequence that should be used for the remaining UK stories as their pages are created. See also: older list rationalizing the order of pages already created.

232-235: King Con, Small War, Prime's Rib, Deathbringer

236-239 Wrestling, Way/Savage/Survival

240-242 Back from Dead, Out to Lunch, RAge, Assault

243-245 Resurrection Gambit, Mind Games, Two MEgs, Underworld

246-248 All the Familiar, Demons, Dawn of Darkness, Fallen Star

249-251 Skin Deep, Whose LIfeforce, Greatest Gift, The Void.

252-255 Yesterday's Heroes, Edge of Impact, Shadow of Evil, White Fire

256-261 Perchance, Primal Scream, Starting Over

262-264 Bird of Prey, Two STeps BAck, Break away, Desert Island risks

282-285 Kings of the Wild Frontier, Shut Up, Maneuvers, Assassins, External Forces

286-289 Deadly Obsession ,Lesser Evil, Frontline, INside Story, End of the Road

Older Discussion

I'm bringing this up to you since you seem to be the main person integrating them. It seems unelegant, but at the same time the simplest solution. Could their simply be two navboxes on each (relevant) issue page? One for the US comic, and one for the UK?

It looks like the shared stories are summarized under their US issue numbers, using Deadly Obsession as a single example. It wouldn't be much to edit these pages to make their UK numberings a bit more prominent; a navbox would actually take care of that fine.

It would also require some minor edits to link seperate second-story-only pages to the stories which they share books with. Just something like "UK issue #254 also contained White Fire." I think that could be fit into the UK navbox, or worked in with the initial information block containing the reprint notice is.--Sntint 02:36, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

If possible, putting it in a single navbox would be best allowing for as many listings as needed for the various reprints, as well as a "printed with" below the next and previous links. I don't think anything has been reprinted more than three times in a comic series. --FortMax 02:57, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh lordy lordy, the whole thing's such a headache I don't wanna think about it just now. But you're right, we do need to address it sooner or later, somehow. Someone who knows something about setting up nav boxes should probably decide how it's best done, though.

There aren't any UK issues with *two* original stories in them, right? -- Repowers 06:16, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I dunno about the Titan comics, but there was only one Marvel UK comic with more than two TF stories period (issue 232, which had a US story, the end of a UK reprint and the start of a new UK story. I've thought it over, and figured it would be best for one navbox per series instead od one with every comic series the story was printed in. That way, there would only be at most two sets of "next" and "previous" links, which could be done by adding some optional parameters to the current template.

The one problem is how to deal with stories printed in the same issue. Few of the B&W UK strips are multi parters, so some US reprints have three or four UK backup strips. Not to mention the Transformers Magazine of the current Titan comics. --FortMax 17:06, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Got it made up. The real beauty is no change need to be made for issues not reprinted in the same series.

--FortMax 18:24, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Hrm. I'm not sure why we even need to worry about the reprinted stories -- they're just straight reprints of previous stories, right? The chain of links should just run straight through the set of stories once, in the order it was published. Why not just skip the reprints? If we want to record the info, it should just go as a note as on the story's page. -- Repowers 21:03, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking the same thing. The main Marvel Comic page lists everything as issue numbers, but the actual individual pages are made for stories, not issues. So we take Story X. In the UK, Story X is followed by Story Y. In the US, Story Y wasn't printed and story X is followed by Story W. A UK Navbox would, from X's page, link "Y" as "Next->", and the US would link W as "Next->".

Now, I'm not very familiar with the original printing format, so this may be all hypothetical. Given what I just pointed out about the organization of the pages... standalone backup strips can either be "pooled", set aside, and then inserted into the "navbox stream" after the main story they backed up. Or, they can (more simply) share story pages with their appropriate main story. My first solution would allow for shorter, more concise story pages, the second would better preserve the issue sequence of the "<-prev/next->" links.

I feel like I might not be communicating my ideas properly, so please tell me if I need to clarify! --Sntint 21:39, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

I think I gotcha. It looks like we've already got a precedent, with (for example) "Perchance to Dream" having its own page. I don't know what else was in those 6 issues, but presumably it was something that's already covered in the US issues.

I suppose someone could come into the list link for, say, UK #259, looking for "Perchance to Dream", only to find "Primal Scream". ("Perchance" ran #255-260; on our list, it's linked from #255-258.) But anyone with that specific a knowledge of the UK stories will probably be able to figure it out... especially if there's a handy nav box to lead them to the previous and next story.

The contents of each UK issue could maybe be summarized along with the "also printed in..." note for the UK, though that's maybe getting a bit unwieldy. Not having a big list of what's in which issue hurts. Does such a thing exist on the net anywhere? -- Repowers 21:58, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

If one isn't found by late tonight I'll take a stab at compiling one. I didn't find much on a (very brief) Google search for "transformers uk issue list". The best possible chance I can think of for finding one would... be on Iggy's old links page, and I wasn't able to pull that up on Internet Archive immediately. Like I said, though I'll have more time later tonight. --Sntint 22:19, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Heck, come to think of it? We should just have that list as a wiki page. Then the story pages can just be story pages, instead of trying to describe what parts of what are in which issue (ie, Perchance is spread across 6 issues. Are we gonna have 6 notes on the Perchance page? "#255 had Part 1 of Perchance and the second part of blah blah whichever story". Sounds messy and to be avoided.) Not sure how the issues would link back to it... maybe from the Marvel G1 page. -- Repowers 22:47, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Got your list here --FortMax 00:05, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

To-do-list

Oh, I thought the to-do list was for yourself. You know, like a list of New Years Resolutions. ...you're not one of THOSE people, are you? --ItsWalky 02:56, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

It is, mostly, yeah. But if anybody wants to pitch in, that'd be nice too. -- Repowers 03:41, 20 November 2007 (UTC), one of THOSE people.

Good job

Hey nice edits man. You fix grammar too. Also I like the way you always edit things because what you did was impressive.(76.195.186.73 00:12, 4 December 2007 (UTC))

You're doing a heckuva job, Powersy. --ItsWalky 20:33, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I just went to fix the 1992 Annual entry after realising my mistake, and you've already done it! Quick work. --Specimen-17 20:18, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Carnivac

The deletion of your paragraph wasn't intentional. This is the third time this has happened to me, twice today alone. I initiate an edit, go through all the text carefully to check for spelling, punctuation, etc., and by the time I'm done, someone else has already made another edit. However, when I submit my edit, I get no "out of date version" warning; it's simply processed as normal. As noted on my Talk page in a discussion with Sipher, the wiki response was very sluggish for me this afternoon, which may or may not have had anything to do with it.--Apcog 00:20, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Ah, okay, fair enough. Sorry if I seemed like I was jumping down your throat. :] -- Repowers 03:11, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

No need to apologize; you weren't harsh at all. I'm annoyed with the situation, not the people bringing it to my attention.--Apcog 06:33, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Package art

This'll help with the back-of-package art info! - Chris McFeely 20:53, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Template names

Hey, Rob -- you might be done creating nav templates now anyway, but just in case you are planning to do more: I recommend using all lowercase letters in the name of any template you create. It looks like there was already a mixture of cases in the nav templates when you started making yours, but, if template names are always all-lowercase, that just makes it easier to remember. Like all wiki pages with initial capital letters, something like Template:Nav-armada can be called with {{nav-armada}}, ignoring the initial capital. But if there's a capital letter in the middle somewhere, you have to match it or the link doesn't work. I'll put it on my todo list to go through all the templates and remove extraneous capital letters... But for future reference, please stick to lowercase.  :) --Steve-o 05:19, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

If it comes up again, I'll stick to lower case. I was just following what seemed to be the precedent, but what you say about linking makes a lot of sense. -- Repowers 06:43, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Screencaps

You've got some fantastic screencaps from the G1 cartoon on your blog. Any chance we could use some for episode/character pages? -- Repowers 19:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Why, thanks. The site is a little obsession of mine. I'd post more pictures on this wiki, but I haven't had the time. Do have some specific ones in mind you want? --Suzyprime 19:37, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

None in particular at the moment -- I was just skimming. Some of the group shots would be good for the main G1 cartoon page. Other than that, every episode page ought to have a couple of screencaps; likewise for character pages. -- Repowers 19:54, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Protoform Toys

Awww...after all I went through to be sure the parallel versions were all accurate, too. Oh well, at least one of my captions survived, and the individual toy pages are fixed.--Apcog 15:47, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

My sole purpose in life is to torment you thus! BWAAHAHAHA.

Seriously... I almost purged the whole section before realizing it is a good idea to at least have some mention of toy incarnations. But IMO it's asking for trouble to have the same info repeated in two places like that. They'll inevitably drift apart. Anyways, what with this whole "World Wide Web" thing, we can just link from one location to the other and save ourselves the trouble! -- Repowers 16:03, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Ehn, I wasn't objecting to the deletion on principle or anything, just expressing disappointment that I'd expended some effort for nothing. As noted, the fixes still exist on Prime and Starscream's toy pages, so it's not like all the work was for naught.

I kinda miss my revised Starscream caption, but I'll live.--Apcog 16:34, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Show bible

... came "much, much later"? What, exactly, the hell? --M Sipher 19:32, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Who on ATT in 1994 had read the show bible? NOBODY, that's who! It was not a consideration until years later. -- Repowers 19:37, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

"error" in Prime spotlight

Bristleback asks a question ("Which is?"), and Birdbrain starts to answer it ("SMASH our way in..."). However, in the following panel, Bristleback is shown finishing Birdbrain's sentence ("...and kill WHOEVER and WHATEVER we find inside!")

Not an error, here's why... In the panel before, one of them (not pictured) says "It it him?" [referring to Omega]. Then someone says "Only one way to find out." Then, as above, Bristleback says "Which is?" [referring to how they would find out]. Birdbrain says "Smash our way in" and Bristleback finishes the sentence, "...and kill WHOEVER and WHATEVER we find inside!" In other words, Birdbrain started to answer the question and Bristleback decided to add his 2 cents in.

I really don't think it's an error, it makes sense to me. --MistaTee 17:49, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

So Bristleback doesn't know what they're going to do, and asks, and after three words from Birdbrain he suddenly answers his own question? Given IDW's propensity for screwing up their speech balloons, combined with the obscurity of the individual Pretender Monsters, I think it's an honest error. -- Repowers 18:13, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

No biggie. However, they didn't correct it in the TPB. --MistaTee 22:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Y'know, I was thinking that'd be a good litmus test, actually. In light of that, I'm gonna re-write the note in a more neutral tone. I still think it could be an error, again owing to the obscurity of the characters, but the lack of a correction makes it a less solid case than I thought it was. -- Repowers 01:40, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

seems fair. cheers! --MistaTee 04:37, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Boxart copyright

If the boxart belongs to either Hasbro or Takara (as boxart generally does), then we normally use the {{hastak}} tag, since it mentions the fair use provision of United States copyright law. But I guess the fair use tag is fine, too :) --FFN 02:53, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for the heads-up. I wasn't aware of the difference. Will adjust accordingly! -- Repowers 02:57, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Something to help your Energon recaps

I recommend referring to NTFA for the japanese episode names and airdates of both series:

• Superlink names and airdates
• Energon names and airdates

I've added the info into the pages you've already done, so to simply follow what's already been written I recommend placing the Japanese SL airdate before the US Energon airdate in the Stats section, given that SL aired first and Energon suffered horrible gaps in episodes aired ;) --FFN 15:54, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Very late, but I just wanted to say how useful this info has been. -- Repowers 05:07, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

How does a plot NOT conclude successfully?

I of course feel that the platonic ideal of a plot not concluding successfully in any meaningful fashion whatsoever, a comic that just leaves you scratching your head and wondering why they even roused Rob Ruffolo out of whatever alcoholic haze he was in prior to drawing it, would have to be Dreamwave Micromasters.--Rosicrucian^Talk 23:17, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Hahahahaha. I was thinking nearly the same thing even as I wrote it. XD -- Repowers 23:19, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

"Worthless piece of stupid trivia?"

Buddy, I've seen a lot of "worthless pieces of stupid trivia" on here, of the irrelevant, personal canon, and/or just plain inaccurate kind. A while back, I had a huge debate with some editors on here over a trivia post I made on Blackarachnia's article stating how her telekinesis may have originated from her mind link with Tarantulas, with them saying that was wrong and had no basis in fact when it was "obvious" that she got it from the Transmetal driver, an opinion that was just as much speculation as they claimed the mind-link thing was. The editors here are mostly idiotic hypocrites that like to toss out anything that doesn't fit into their own "personal canon" as invalid for this wiki. I know for a fact that quite a few RiD fans joke about Scourge having Kelly's DNA in him makes him a transgender (as I said in Scourge's article's discussion, Ben Yee's TF forum made quite a few cracks about that), so it's valid. 64.13.101.210 00:28, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

It is valid to discuss Scourge having Kelly as part of his biosignature, since he actually does according to the show. Notice the great contrast between that and, say, Blackarachnia's telekinesis being caused by Tarantulas, which is something you just made up. --Thylacine 2000 00:52, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

You're not listening to me. Go do something useful. This isn't it. -- Repowers 02:16, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Hosehead

Your caption fu is mighty. JW 19:49, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Selling toys Sandbox

Good work. A few comments/suggestions, mainly on bits imported:

The Hasbro-induced need to show all the toys can also cause stories to suddenly focus on a new character, sometimes dropping ongoing plot threads about older ones. Examples include:

• The comic issue Pretender to the Throne!

This isn't clear for anyone unfamiliar with the comic and even if one is it's not really clear how this one jars too much, particularly as it does pick up on Goldbug and Fort Max getting new bodies and leads into the next battle with Ratbat's Decepticons. I'd say the disjointed narrative problems the comic story had in 1988 are more down to having two Autobot factions and two Decepticon factions all running around on or in orbit around Earth, requiring each to take a back seat from time to time (and the UK comic makes it worse by throwing in a third earthbound Decepticon faction, the Autobots on Cybertron, the Transformers in the future and various mavericks) and the need to tie up loose ends (and cartoon adaptations) than the requirement to sell toys.

• Mainframe planned to use Wolfang in Beast Wars, but Tigatron appeared instead because he had an upcoming toy (and to save money as his cgi model was only a slight tweak of Cheetor's).

That didn't really involve dumping any old characters. Scorponok taking a backseat to Inferno might be a better example but it's been a while since I've seen the first season of Beast Wars to be sure if that was the case.

• In the Marvel comics, the simultaneous introduction of the Aerialbots and Stunticons, and the introduction of the Pretenders, saw a lot of rigamarole involved in explaining why both the Autobots and the Decepticons had new members with identical gimmicks at the same time.

True in the UK comic but I can't recall any talk at all in the US one about Megatron explicitly copying the Aerialbots' combining ability for the Stunticons. The Head, Target and Power masters may be better examples.

Power levels

If you need a comic example, Omega Supreme annihilates six Decepticons in his first appearance over just a few pages (and would have got two more if they hadn't flown away). But in a later issue he's shown losing the return battle with just Buzz Saw!

• Megatron is turned into Galvatron three times - at the end of each series, he's turned back into Megatron but with a different body. This is due to Hasbro wanting to keep the trademarks "Megatron" and "Galvatron" as well as to sell more toys.

Which era does this refer to?

• Numerous characters are killed in the Marvel UK comics saga Time Wars. The Grim Reaper seemed to spare either popular characters (Megatron and Shockwave) or newer characters (Carnivac, Catilla, Scorponok, and the Terrorcons, for example.)

Erm the Terrorcons in Time Wars were from the future and there were enough problems with future characters dying in the present day already. And their contemporary versions were killed off in the Underbase Saga.

Otherwise the piece looks a good rewrite/slim down so far.

Timrollpickering 19:36, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. Some of that's just stuff that I didn't quite finish writing out as well, or didn't give additional context after pulling it from its original fiction section. Ironically, I think the page is actually a little bit longer than the pre-revision version. -- Repowers 23:41, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Were you looking for this the other day?

http://www.emopanda.com/tmp/Energon%20-%2017%20-%20Return%20of%20Demolisher.avi

Yeah, somebody found it for me, somewhere or other. I haven't gotten around to it yet; I've had to slow down on the Energon in general to preserve my brain cells. Thanks! -- Repowers 21:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I think that was me, and I linked you to the wrong episode marked as Return of Demolisher on Veoh. -Derik 22:04, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

MediaWiki Stuff That Exists and How to Find It

Special:AllMessages

...not the most user-friendly organized list out there, to be sure, but it is a full list. --Jeysie 15:03, 7 May 2009 (EDT)

Magazine

According to my issue, the 3H club magazine was called "The Official Transformers Collectors' Club Magazine". The "the" is on the front outside cover but is not capitalized in the notes on the inside cover. --Bluestreak7 14:05, 24 May 2009 (EDT)

Micromaster catalogues?

Hey Rob, seeing as wot you're uploading pics of the two teams that this question relates to - do you happen to have the instructions/catalogs for the MC reissues of the Train Team and the Turbo Team? Cause those are the only two that we need a picture from to complete the Micromaster Collection page's story section, all illustrated-like. - Chris McFeely 10:59, 30 May 2009 (EDT)

See if any of these are what you need: Core dump of my MM reissue scans -- Repowers 13:16, 30 May 2009 (EDT)

Amory's Page

Mrr. Sorry about that, I usually am instead writing out issue/episode synopses that use the present tense, and didn't even realize this time that I'd goofed.
On that note, the likely reason it read similarly to the Cheap Shots synopsis is because I wrote that too, and you picked up on my writing style. --Jeysie 13:25, 15 June 2009 (EDT)

Ah, gotcha. No problem - stuff happens! -- Repowers 13:26, 15 June 2009 (EDT)

It should be noted that...

... Rob hates it when others tell him to take note things. Seriously. He will kill you. Probably to death. --FFN 02:26, 16 June 2009 (EDT)

Micromaster Squad prices

For what it's worth, there's a list of G1 prices here: [2] I can't really speak to the validity of the list, however.--Tigerpaw28 10:51, 24 June 2009 (EDT)

Interesting... I'm little leery of it, though. I remember the Battle Patrol costing me $5 at ToysRUs, and subsequently thinking to myself, wow, each of these little guys is only $1.25! It seems unlikely that the Patrol price jumped to $7 in just one year. I wonder where they got those numbers? -- Repowers 11:08, 24 June 2009 (EDT)

Heh, you'd probably be less confused had I linked you to the main page for that list like I'd intended. Sorry about that. On the main page it mentions that the prices were verified from catalogs and price tags. Catalog pricing could explain the why it seems high. --Tigerpaw28 02:09, 25 June 2009 (EDT)

Jazz vs Frenzy

Optimus instructed Jazz to take on Frenzy two times in Ghosts of Yesterday, leading Jazz to complain that he always fights the little ones. He only fought him once, though, but knocked him out cold in a matter of minutes. So they have encountered each other, just outside of the films and comics. -- SFH 17:02, 14 July 2009 (EDT)

Bad version purging

By going to Special:Undelete/Nemesis_(SG), you could have selectively restored the history (i.e., including Blackout & McFeely, but not you-know-who). Just FTR - SanityOrMadness 16:18, 25 August 2009 (EDT)

You, sir, are a god.

I've read your near-total revision of the Death page, and it is GLORIOUS, sir. I'm deeply regretful that you don't receive some kinda recognition or payment for all the work you've done -- you've made a list of horrible slaughter and toy-based genocide fun and interesting to read, for which: KUDOS.

So, um, I can only hope that one day they name a toy after you. You deserve it.

That's me!

Excuse me for the beginning on the very top, but your page is so great… Well, I'll try to consider your advices in my mind. Thank you. But tell me why there were no signs to illustrations in "Armada" almost at all till I began to add them? And now everybody tries to take part in name-giving… Excuse my poor English.--He-l-en1959 11:01, 29 November 2009 (EST)

• Thank you VERY MUCH!!!--He-l-en1959 12:26, 29 November 2009 (EST)

And who's the god that Beohort calls upon?

Tyrwas! --abates 01:25, 22 December 2009 (EST)

Alex Karras prime time spot

It seems the owner of Scratchbomb has seen fit to bestow upon Transfans a holiday gift. In his latest batch of commercials uploaded to YouTube, he has included the Alex Karras prime time spot. I was mucho excited as I had figured we'd probably never find a recording of it. I'm posting it on your talk page first, in case you'd like to be the one to write it up proper. --Tigerpaw28 23:47, 23 December 2009 (EST)

Last call on writing this spot up. I'll do it next week unless you call dibs. --Tigerpaw28 23:34, 15 June 2010 (EDT)

Heh, naw, go ahead. If it's a privilege, you've totally earned it by this point. Most of my energies are directed toward cartoon bloopers these days, anyway. -- Repowers 23:41, 15 June 2010 (EDT)

Ok, cool. I wasn't thinking privilege so much as I was thinking you might want to finish what you started. On a related note, I found the audio for the Pretenders comic commercial on Bigbot. I wish Renaud would've credited the provider so I knew who to ask about possibly getting the video. --Tigerpaw28 23:58, 15 June 2010 (EDT)

Thanx for blocking the account

Thanks. If that "Fuck DEtour" account worked, it was clearly a personal attack at DETOUR. 86.147.177.207 07:56, 19 December 2010 (EST)

Flagging

Good to know! :P Might Gaine 19:16, 16 January 2011 (EST)

Blaster Blues

From "Animation or technical glitches": Red Alert's "horns" flash orange. Last time, they flashed blue.
From the "Gadgets and Powers" section of "Continuity notes": Red Alert's "horns" flash to indicate Decepticon activity, just like in "Auto Berserk". This time they're orange, though.
I don't know which place is the best for it, but both is overkill. I simply removed the less detailed write up. --Khajidha 11:00, 17 June 2011 (EDT)

It's not overkill. One is noting an ability. The other is noting a technical glitch/inconsistency within the animation. -- Repowers 22:05, 17 June 2011 (EDT)

Question

Noticed you pretty much created the whole page of the OTFCC Live-Action Drama. You wouldn't happen to have a copy of the performance's script, would you? --Sabrblade 14:35, 16 April 2012 (EDT)

To do list Pt 2

Sherma Bridge - retconned by Monstrosity as not Prime & Megs' first open fight? Add Circle of Light to timeline Add Sherma Bridge battle name to timeline

Minimus Ambus edit clash

Sorry, looks like we both went for it at the same time...I've left it as a hybrid of both versions if that's okay with you --Emvee 06:04, 28 September 2013 (EDT)

No problem - looks really good. The template's a nice touch. -- Repowers 09:01, 28 September 2013 (EDT)

Thumb|upright=*

It means people's profile thumbnail setting doesn't get crapped over, so if you like really big (or small) thumbnails you can have that. Upright=1.1 is 1.1x your profile thumbnail size rounded to the nearest 10px, and so on . - SanityOrMadness (talk) 01:54, 8 December 2014 (EST)

Notes for 1st Marvel Comic.

I agree that the IDW notes format would be a much better format for the Marvel Comics format. Hell, I think probably every comic article should use it. Escargon (talk) 18:40, 18 December 2014 (EST)

"Advertisements" not showing up

It's cause you have AdBlock on! :) - Chris McFeely (talk) 18:37, 19 December 2014 (EST)

Well ain't that just a thing. Short of turning off Adblock (hahahahaha not gonna happen) is there anything I can do about it? -- Repowers (talk) 19:05, 19 December 2014 (EST)

Adblock allows you to whitelist individual sites. It's what I do for this, webcomics, and video people's sites. --M Sipher (talk) 07:20, 20 December 2014 (EST)

Predacons

Not saying you're wrong to remove it, 'cos it doesn't belong in the cartoon write-up itself, but I dunno if you know that in Japanese continuity, story pages did establish that the Quintessons built the Predacons. - Chris McFeely (talk) 19:16, 6 March 2015 (EST)

Innnnnerestin'! Did not know that. Looks like it's on the Predaking and Predacon pages, but not the individuals' pages. -- Repowers (talk) 09:18, 7 March 2015 (EST)

Recent edits

I know, I had a little too much fun with the edits on the Energon pages, thanks for telling me to stop. Personally, the formal style of wiki editing is my strong suit but it's nice to get a laugh sometimes. For now, I'll stick to continuity and errors sections and edit sparingly. --Wxy (talk) 14:24, 12 September 2015 (EDT)

Gobots Vote

I was about 90% sure you were in the no screen capture camp so put you down to that vote. That's the only thing really still on the table, everything else has been hashed out. If I misunderstood your position it's more subtle then please change appropriately. I didn't want to understate support for the opposition. --Giggidy (talk) 09:06, 3 November 2015 (EST)

Hey, this title still works. Seriously, I know that you think there's "wiki gaming" going on, but have you actually checked out Renegade Rhetoric? You seem open minded. Renegade Rhetoric on Facebook There are some really great stories being told here that have nothing to do with gaming the wiki and everything to do with entertaining. Please at least take a read of one of the posts before you vote. Some people are really passionate about this material. --Giggidy (talk) 23:45, 6 January 2016 (EST)

Fat ballerina

Where was the other instance of the fat ballerina quote? Were you referring to the quotes on the movie page? -Chopperface (talk)

Correct. -- 00:01, 6 October 2017 (EDT)