Titans Return Kroc! From Action Master to Head Master. His hips are a little loose but that's fixable. He's going into the End of Road collection. #Transformers#LooseHipsSinkShips
#Deskbot today is Beast Machines Cheetor, hailing from the most recent wave of deep breath Generations Legacy United!
Yes, I broke out of Transformers retirement to not only buy this little fella but also do a Deskbot post because, well, BM Cheetor holds a special place in my Transformers Appreciation. His design is art.
It shouldn't work. Those gangly, too-long hind legs, the proportionately tiny torso, the weird giant shoulder 'blades' (not his weapons, the actual shoulder plates almost like pauldrons)...and yet you put them all together and you've got my all-time favourite Transformer body. What a surprise finding this came out AT ALL never mind at the tiny Core size class! At the cheap end of the design budget this toy, like the Beast Wars entries before it, somehow manages the feat of representing this very awkward design almost dead on.
...in robot mode. Beast mode is severely compromised, resembling a cricket more than the cheetah he's meant to be but we've talked about how difficult it is nailing those extremely toy-unfriendly Beast Machines designs before so at this price point I can forgive it. Thankfully, Robot Mode is FIRE.
Going to the Transformers 40th theater event tonight! The original “More Than Meets the Eye” multi-parter is a big comfort-watch episode for me, so I’m really looking forward to this! Not sure if they’re going to have the special cup and bucket at my theater, but if they do and it’s $20 like I’ve heard, I might have to indulge. #Transformers#Transformers40#RetroCartoons
I should be working more on the next part of this fanfic, but instead I've posted the second part (not really a clear Part 2, because I veer off into a flashback that serves as a really good standalone story) on my Neocities site! I still need to make an actual index page for these...
Aw yeah I am a very cool person who coded an index page for my new fanfic section on my Neocities from scratch. Now I need to write the next two parts...
I'm gonna finish this reread of IDW's Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye/Lost Light and folks I am going to write SUCH an essay about queerness, not just in the context of same-gender romance but in the fundamental idea of a power structure built on forcing people into roles based on biology and the injustice of that.
A WILD SIDESWIPE APPEARS! Mischevious Cyclone Mini-Con Bounce is on the loose in Griffin Rock, and he’s writing rude Cybertronian graffiti all over the place! Can Sideswipe actually be a team player for once and help the Rescue Bots catch him? Can Blurr convince Sideswipe to get him on the Bee Team? And how well would Strongarm get along with Chase? Join us this week for “The Need For Speed”! #transformers#podcast#RescueBots#StasisPod
I don't know what the heck is going on, #transformers fans, but I was at Target in Ohio and they had all these guys marked down to $35, BUT when we scanned they they were coming up at only $27. The big ones and the medium ones.
Credit cards going to be hurting for a little while, but damn it if this isn't worth it. If you have a Target near you, it might not be a bad idea to go check it.