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#DidYouKnow that the Nominus Edict was an attempt to regulate Cybertron’s expansionism? The Edict limited Cybertron’s shipyards, colonization programs, and energon harvesting programs, but this well-meaning legislation indirectly led to the rise of the Decepticons… tfwiki.net/wiki/Nominus...

“My father, why, he was a wheel! The first wheel! And do you know what he transformed into? Nothing! But he did so with honor! Dignity, damn it!” tfwiki.net/wiki/Transfo... #WeekendTFQuote

#BehindTheBots spotlights HERB TRIMPE, who provided interiors for a number of licensed Marvel comics, including “Transformers”, in between his more famous work on Marvel’s “Incredible Hulk”! tfwiki.net/wiki/Herb_Tr...

SNEAKING SUSPICIONS! After the G.I. B.A.T. goes haywire & almost kills Duke, Night Force are forced to bring in the Joes while the Baroness escapes into the night. With mounting suspicion, Zartan must make his play for Energon. G.I. JOE #27 is now annotated on TFWiki! tfwiki.net/wiki/Night_F...

Happy #Obscursday! BLAZEMASTER might not be the most heroic Autobot around, but sometimes you really need a violent lunatic who specializes in terrorizing Decepticons with chemical weapons on the team! tfwiki.net/wiki/Blazema...

WEEKLY WEDNESDAY WIKIPIC! *WICKED!* We're seriously sodden with 90s-tastic grit here, with the wonderfully over-the-top MASTERPIECE LAMBOR G-2 VER, rightfully giving Sideswipe a heaping helping of Yaniguns and Yanimug. Mmm. @tfwiki.net tfwiki.net/wiki/Sideswi... youtube.com/shorts/glK7p...

#DidYouKnow that the Decepticon D-class Worldsweepers were some of the most infamous starships of the Great War? Nicknamed “symbol ships”, these warships were a common sight during the reign of the Decepticon Empire, hanging ominously over the skies of conquered worlds! tfwiki.net/wiki/Worldsw...

“Autobots... roll up... an’... uhn... roll up.” <faints> “...That was Bumblebee’s worst battle cry yet.” tfwiki.net/wiki/Adventu... #WeekendTFQuote

#BehindTheBots spotlights MASAKO KATSUKI; in addition to voicing Sailor Neptune, she played Arcee in the Japanese dub of the original “Transformers” cartoon, and returned to voice her again almost 25 years later for the Japanese release of “Revenge of the Fallen”! tfwiki.net/wiki/Masako_...

Happy #Obscursday! A humanoid extension of Teletraan I, the perpetually-unlucky TELETRAAN 15 embarked on an adventure across time and space to meet the various heroes of the Autobot-Decepticon conflict! tfwiki.net/wiki/Teletra...

WEEKLY WEDNESDAY WIKIPIC! *Two* wieners? The last 1988 Decepticon Targetmaster Nebulans needing wikipics, HAIRSPLITTER and SINGE, enable me to ramble a bit a-bout Targetmasters and bios! New pics at @tfwiki.net! tfwiki.net/wiki/Hairspl... tfwiki.net/wiki/Singe#T... youtube.com/shorts/wFqTF...

A SPARK OF HOPE! With their forces renewed, Elita Prime leads the Autobots on a campaign to retake the Well of Sparks from the Decepticons, while Shockwave begins a nefarious new plan... with a captured Alpha Trion! Transformers #37 is now annotated on TFWiki! tfwiki.net/wiki/Transfo...

#DidYouKnow that the Bird is a mysterious, greatly-sought after relic on the planet Pz-Zazz? One might even say that the bird is the word! tfwiki.net/wiki/Bird

"A mechanical beard... What sort of technology could possibly trim that...?" tfwiki.net/wiki/A_New_F... #WeekendTFQuote

#BehindTheBots spotlights KEVIN MICHAEL RICHARDSON, whose most prominent Transformers roles include Omega Supreme in “Animated” and Bulkhead in “Transformers Prime”; some of his other famous roles include Groot, Captain Gantu, and, of course, the Grimace! Blitznak! tfwiki.net/wiki/Kevin_M...

Happy #Obscursday! One of Cybertron’s lesser-known medical experts, KAPUT specializes in the study of Transformer sparks! tfwiki.net/wiki/Kaput

WEEKLY WEDNESDAY WIKIPIC! Melt! This went up earlier but heat got me loopy. Taking it a little easy with a buncha pics I've uploaded over the past few weeks: Blokees WRECK-GAR, G1 JOYRIDE, Platinum MEGATRON, Combiner Hunter CHROMIA and Legacy WINDSWEEPER! @tfwiki.net youtube.com/shorts/gkHg-...

A BOY AND HIS BOB! Miles Mayhem tries to kidnap Matt Trakker's son, Scott. Little does he know that he's now placed V.E.N.O.M. in even greater jeopardy at the hands of... T-Bob?! M.A.S.K. #5 is now annotated on TFWiki! tfwiki.net/wiki/M.A.S.K...

#DidYouKnow that there were more colony planets beyond the four introduced in “Transformers: Cybertron?” A subsequent prose story introduced the planet Combatron, a dead, post-apocalyptic world home to rogue soldiers and a bunker full of doomsday weapons! tfwiki.net/wiki/Combatr...

"They looked at balance and saw only weakness. They looked at us.... and saw nothing at all. The newcomers were undying creatures built from the unyielding shimmer... and they remade our land in their image." tfwiki.net/wiki/Time_Wi... #WeekendTFQuote

#BehindTheBots follows orders with DEE BRADLEY BAKER: in addition to voicing Perry the Platypus, almost every single Clone Trooper, and many other creatures and aliens, he voiced multiple animals on “Rescue Bots” in addition to Bludgeon and Clout on “Robots in Disguise!” tfwiki.net/wiki/Dee_Bra...

This month's featured article spotlights MEGAZARAK, whose evil stretches across multiple universes: various iterations of this cross-dimensional conqueror have caused all sorts of trouble across the vast Transformers multiverse! tfwiki.net/wiki/Megazar...

Happy #Obscursday! An artificial intelligence uploaded into a purpose-built Cybertronian chassis, CATSCAN is quite possibly one of the most unusual Wreckers ever to join the team! tfwiki.net/wiki/CatSCAN

WEEKLY WEDNESDAY WIKIPIC! Whoosh! The BotBots OUTTA CONTROLLER was the last toy to have appeared in the cartoon (watch the cartoon) to need a user-supplied pic for... a while. Now it has one! And I found some neat trivia! Now at @tfwiki.net! tfwiki.net/wiki/Outta_C... youtube.com/shorts/wVqmj...

REMAKING THE ROOTS! At the turn of the century (ugh), Diaclone became the place to snare "new" decos for reissue G1-mold exclusives. And most of these now have modern-toy versions! New pics at @tfwiki.net! DEEP COVER is based on a Powered Convoy multi-pack-exclusive deco of the Countach mold. 🧵

#DidYouKnow that the “Beast Machines” cartoon went through multiple revisions? In one early draft, the show would’ve ended with the reveal that the Transformers were the robotic descendants of humanity! tfwiki.net/wiki/Beast_M...

"You think I'm a joke? Want to know why I talk like I do? Because I like the future. I didn't fight through World War II to let you decide who deserves to be called a person!" tfwiki.net/wiki/Ghost_i... #WeekendTFQuote

#BehindTheBots spotlights JAMES ASMUS, who’s written "X-Men", "My Little Pony", and "Rick and Morty" comics, in addition to the first-ever Transformers OGN! He also co-wrote a “Sesame Street” parody in which the Muppets fight evil libertarians (yes, really!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A...

Happy #Obscursday! Not all Autobots are heroic do-gooders: the Autobot LEATHERHIDE is an unscrupulous mad scientist who’ll gladly throw his lot in with Decepticons, Predacons, and other evildoers to advance his own bizarre experiments! tfwiki.net/wiki/Leather...

WEEKLY WEDNESDAY WIKIPIC! Sizzle! It only took 30 years. It's Power of the Primes NOVASTAR (aka Firestar), who landed during kind of a good time for female TF toys, volume-wise. New pic on @tfwiki.net! tfwiki.net/wiki/Novasta... youtube.com/shorts/GEr8d...

THE HUNT BEGINS! Darak and Solila have made a powerful new ally in Rom the Space Knight. However, their new ally has enemies of his own, as the alien bounty hunter Predacron has been dispatched to bring Rom in - dead or alive! VOID RIVALS #34 is now annotated on TFWiki! tfwiki.net/wiki/Void_Ri...

#DidYouKnow Wheelie, Reduced to a severed head, Only speaks haikus? tfwiki.net/wiki/Wheelie...

“What kind of monster are you?” “A goal-oriented one.” tfwiki.net/wiki/Shining... #WeekendTFQuote

#BehindTheBots turns up the volume with BUSTER JONES, who voiced Blaster in the original “The Transformers” cartoon, Doc in “G.I. Joe”, Winston in “The Real Ghostbusters,” and many other animated characters! tfwiki.net/wiki/Buster_...

Happy #Obscursday! A master of psychological warfare, TWITCHER F451 uses his unusual skillset to get under the skins of both his Autobot enemies and his Decepticon comrades! tfwiki.net/wiki/Twitche...

WEEKLY WEDNESDAY WIKIPIC! Insert Disk 4 of 12! This week it's how to sell me on a triple-digit-price-tag purchase, with the DRAMATIC CAPTURE SERIES version of MAINFRAME and his pack-in pals. New pic on @tfwiki.net! tfwiki.net/wiki/Mainfra... ...*dammit*, bluesky. youtube.com/shorts/UWqWW...

NIGHT FALLS! To preserve his guise as Colonel Hawk, Zartan has sent his secret black ops team Night Force after the Baroness, but Duke and the Joes refuse to give her up that easily. G.I. JOE #26 is now annotated on TFWiki! tfwiki.net/wiki/Night_F...

#DidYouKnow that the Maximal Military Academy is one of Cybertron’s premier postwar educational institutions? Notable attendees include Razor Claw, Polar Claw, and Optimus Primal, who graduated near the top of his class! tfwiki.net/wiki/Maximal...

"Tell me what's on your mind, or I'll splatter it on the wall and see for myself!" tfwiki.net/wiki/Triple_... #WeekendTFQuote

#BehindTheBots invites you to bite JOHN DIMAGGIO’S shiny metal ass: he's no stranger to portraying misanthropic robots, and he’s voiced more than a few morally dubious Autobots and Decepticons in multiple cartoons and movies! tfwiki.net/wiki/John_Di...

Happy #Obscursday! Denizens of the “Shattered Glass” mirror universe without any “official” heroic counterparts, DUAL-GAUGE and NIGHTSTALKER are evil versions of Dan Khanna’s fan characters! tfwiki.net/wiki/Dual-ga... tfwiki.net/wiki/Nightst...

WEEKLY WEDNESDAY WIKIPIC! Revenge! Okay I admit, this look at LEGACY UNITED ARMADA UNIVERSE WHEELJACK is mostly a springboard to talk about how you can save yourself some dosh this holiday (and all year). New pic up at @tfwiki.net! tfwiki.net/wiki/Wheelja... youtube.com/shorts/C61V0...

COBRA-LALALALALALA! Thundercracker and the Aerialbots briefly ally with Skywarp to face off against the hordes of Cobra-La, while elsewhere Doctor Arkeville schemes, Beachcomber begins a journey… and Megatron’s cocoon opens! TRANSFORMERS #36 is now annotated on TFWiki! tfwiki.net/wiki/Transfo...

#DidYouKnow the story behind the long-delayed China-exclusive Nezha: Transformers toyline and cartoon? No you didn’t. Frankly, we’re largely in the dark too. It’s weird. We’ve pieced together what we could about this series that was in limbo for 5 years, though! tfwiki.net/wiki/Nezha:_...

“You know what? I think I know what our problem is.” “Is it that we’re all wearing underpants?” tfwiki.net/wiki/Bot_Swa... #WeekendTFQuote

#BehindTheBots does the time warp with TIM CURRY: while he voiced plenty of campy villains over the course of his career, Transformers fans might know him as the first voice of Doctor Morocco on “Rescue Bots”! Smashing! tfwiki.net/wiki/Tim_Curry

Happy #Obscursday! Starscream’s mentor CRYAK tried to inspire her ward with the same love of Cybertron and its landscapes that she carried within her… but unfortunately, recent events have turned her a little…odd… tfwiki.net/wiki/Cryak

WEEKLY WEDNESDAY WIKIPICS! Kablam! This week's pics complete TWO themes! It's the final pieces to the Walmart exclusive urban camo RUINATION set: the combiner mode, and components MEGA-OCTANE and MOVOR! Dammit, bluesky! How do you keep thumbnailing the 2-second gag? youtube.com/shorts/VFiK4...

I HARDLY KNOW HER! Matt Trakker heads down to New Orleans when his old friend Dusty Hayes discovers that his prototype "Penetrator" Mask is going haywire! But why would Miles Mayhem unleash this chaos on the city seemingly at random? M.A.S.K. #4 is now annotated on TFWiki! tfwiki.net/wiki/M.A.S.K...

BRICK TO SCHOOL! August's Patreon-backed @tfwiki.net update was... a LOT. As in, I finished off the entire Kre-O San Diego Comic-Con 2015 exclusive KREON CLASS OF '85 set, most of which had NO images on the wiki at all. 25 pictures. Some characters whose only Kre-O rep was this set. Let's go. 1/