ultimately, the fact that indie animated projects need to develop a self sustaining invested fandom for years before the thing even exists in order to break even on merch sales might have some adverse effects.
I do feel a little bit sad about AOTP Wreck-Gar.
You can see how the original Trashmaster mold was designed with it becoming animated Wreck-Gar eventually in mind, but the budget needed to fully remold it was likely sacrificed to make Liege Maximo as fully featured as he is.
#transformers
See now we're fucking talking
One of the only weapons we wield in this fight is our money and attendance, and if everyone involved with an event says "I'm not going unless you stop using AI" there's only two outcomes:
*No AI or No Convention*
Conventions are made by and for the community
Raverobber 🚧🎊
Despite numerous warnings from her much chiller older sister, the devious kleptomaniac Raverobber can't help but steal from unsuspecting bots who dance the night away.
Like Ravedigger before her, I thank @sam-makes-toys.bsky.social for helping with this troublemaker!
The big secret is out! 🗣️🗣️🗣️
I’m super excited and honored to be working with these talented people in bringing a childhood favorite to life! I am currently pencilling pages and doing designs for the issues as we speak!
Now you know why I haven’t been uploading as much. 😂
I’m not reposting it, but the website TF-Direct has put up a photo of Studio Series Optimus Prime posed into the shape of a swastika
Absolutely disgusting
There’s no ambiguity or nuance to stuff like this - it’s just awful, and it has zero place in the Transformers fandom
There is a real phenomenon of writers with good intentions including minority characters in their stories, but writing them poorly due to a lack of skill or lack of expierence
It just needs a term other than "forced diversity"
alright my health and finances are both totally fucked I don't really have much choice but to grovel and plead for more financial support, I'm sorry
please support me if you can, and share it around if you know anyone who likes my stuff or would like to commission something. I'm trying my best
er.... my backup-backup plan for moving abroad went out the window now that I'm the only person in my family making money. I'm under tons of financial stress every day and it's getting harder for me to relax
comms are still open, please support me if you can. I also have my ko-fi below. thank you
I don't know if this rose-tinted glasses for something that was bad actually, but I do miss when we would get Cliffjumper and Ultra Magnus repaints from every random Bumblebee and Optimus Prime they did
Even if it didn't make sense to turn into Cliff or Magnus specifically
I think that was fun
Back when I was on twitter and here on BlueSky I shared/share silly little robot pictures. I do this for you and also myself because I can’t keep reading about the sorry state of the world and still be ok. Im unable to fight so I post these as a pallet cleaner and hope I lift your spirits
I've seen people confused as to why Chun-li's costume looks the way it does in the movie
But considering that the movie is kinda melding SF1/SF2/Alpha series into one new origin story, have we considered that Movie Chun is going for a combination tof the Alpha and SF2 designs?
#streetfighter
I feel like I've seen a fanbase understand the whole "sell a ton of merch of popular shitfuck character to make profit and justify making merch of the obscure scrimblo bimblo" only once,
and that was the #transformers fandom around 2014-2016
This is the first time I've seen anyone express this feeling that I've felt for so long.
Because, so many of us did want this!
I remember back in 2015, people being frustrated with the Optimus made out of Motormaster. All of us just wanting a cartoon accurate G1 Optimus
I wanted deluxe Insecticons for ages but they're so rounded off and sanded down where's the bite.
Lots of stuff I bought cos it seemed like what we all wanted at the time, is what I'm saying I guess.
Now cut forward to 2026 and we have like 5 of those
Absolutely wild to look at Earthrise Prime and feel like he's more of an outdated relic than the '06 classic Optimus
Personally I'm still sitting on Siege Optimus because the upgrade race just seems miserable and he does the job.
As much as non-transforming Transformer toys are divisive, Im surprised that Yolopark or Blokees never got around to doing the full Elita-One Squad.
These are infamously difficult designs to turn into transforming toys, and while they're sorta outdated the franchise still clings to cartoon accuracy
And I know the dream with stuff like TF R.E.D. was always "Oh! Let's use this as an opportunity to make non-transforming characters, like Transmutate" and that was never gonna happen, but surely these gals are popular enough to justify the toys