#Transformers Missing Link

[pocoslip]

I'm More Impressed with SS86 Bumblebee and Earthrise Cliffjumper being Completely Different Figures than with The Missing Link Bee and Cliff

(I'm NOT saying Missing Link Bumblebee and Cliffjumper are BAD Figures just because they Share some Parts BUT their G1 Toys DO NOT share the Same Mold either, Despite looking Very Similar)

[shmeeph]

going to start a collection of every majorly different soundwave design. i've allready got rp-01, going to get prime and animated soundwave soon, then i'll just wait till missing link soundwave comes out

[pluralsword]

so very happy to find out about this wow, I really hope they do end up doing prototype deco decades ago proposed G1 Arcee, after all these years. Arcee having orange on her deco is rare, this has only happened since then with Binaltech Arcee and IDW1 Arcee between 2012 - 2015...🧡🤍💜

how to sell to lesbians looking for a toy that was canceled whose deco would later pair with the modern lesbian community flag and multiple iterations of the character the toy pertained to have been depicted as at the very least an equivalent of sapphic

[adam16bit]

FOTD #2700! It's a new toy that's effectively a really good remastering of an old toy. I hope you got one!

[aeonmagnus]

Takara Tomy Missing Link G1 Arcee & Sunstreaker Revealed

A few Missing Link reveals are coming to us tonight from Takara Tomy’s TF40 Expo (via @fuji_seitaiblog / @BWREX / @634the3rd on X/Twitter), and one is very surprising indeed!

First up, we have G1 Arcee! This is based on the original G1 toy that was never actually produced, and it is very cool to see here. A translation says while the prototype on display is a mock-up and does not yet have a functional transformation, it is something they will be working on.

There’s also a G1 Sunstreaker prototype as well that is displayed in his robot and car modes.

[ganondoodle]

Regarding Demise: He is an interesting concept, as is the whole eternal cycle, but for that to actually become something worthwhile the games/stories would have to actually DO something with it. So far they are introduced in Skyward Sword and thats it! No other game even references them. And, yes, that cheapens EVERY other game because there is this implication that its all out of the control of the actual characters in the story because of this one asshole that we only ever saw once! Why not have Ganondorf realize that he is possessed/manipulated by this weird old Demon God? How would he react, would he embrace it, would he rebel, would he be broken by the realization that none of his actions were ever *his*? I dont even care which of these options they pick, as long as they pick any of it and do just ANYTHING with the concept.

Or maybe Link or Zelda figures out the Cycle and starts looking into breaking it because endlessly repeating Demon Attacks kinda suck and you dont want that for your descendants.

Or have a game focus on them remembering bits from past lives and having to piece it all together or, again, just ANYTHING!

The closest they ever came to was with BOTW Zelda praying to Hylia, aka HERSELF, to unlock her powers, which is some brutal narrative irony, but not much more.

And regarding the whole Zelda is Hylia thing, I've seen some headcanons about how Skyward Sword Zelda is terrified of herself after learning that, because she now has to assume that everything she did was planned by a version of her that she no longer is. Is Link her friend or is he the useful pawn that Hylia needs to turn into the Hero? Does she even deserve his affection when she probably manipulated him into becoming her champion and fighting, possibly dying for her all her life?

Thats juicy, thats something you can do something with but Nintendo really does like to plan those stories game per game without any care for the larger story.

Which I guess is the Irony of it all. They tried the whole larger connected story/universe thing once: With Skyward Sword. After all that was also the time we got the first Hyrule Historia & "official timeline" as well as "How it all began" in the game itself.

It felt like the start of a new era for Zelda games and stories and then it just... wasn't.

And while I get that they want to focus on gameplay over story, I will never stop mourning the stories we could get/have gotten, if they put a bit more thought into things.

I actually feel like its harder to make the 'cycle' into an interesting plot point when its a .. divine thing that happens, and not perpetuated by the people (though not impossible, given how the series is build up it would need alot of work to not make it worse still..)-

i actually cannot stand the idea that ganondorf is possessed or manipulated, made eviler by demise somehow (demise is dead, leave him beeeeee hes not some evil master mind behind anything aaaaah) bc it STILL takes away ganondorfs agency and character and gives right into the whole hes basically born evil and just pushes the fault tm onto someone else it in turn legitimizes that the kingdom of hyrule and its high rule (heehoo) is right and if only gan wasnt manipulated hed be good tm, aka allied with the goodest guys, hed gladly accept their invitation and join their holy empire of goodness tm if wasnt for da demon

(and i love to say, who decides what is good tm and evil tm? bc hyrules monarchs making every other tribe their subordinate and persecuting shiekah for example isnt what id call good but its fine bc the good holy guys did it in the name of "peace" -what is their idea of peace? everyones under their rule and must worship their god? uh oh- and resistance to it is gonna get you labelled as evil!! (unless you join their holy kingdom and become their vassal of GOOD) what good and evil boils down to in zelda is .. being allied/ruled by the kingdom of hyrule and being opposed to them, even if its only not wanting to be subjugated by them)

i can see the appeal to some degree, but i dont like the idea of ganondorf even being able to be manipulated or possessed, what makes his character, before it got flattened into well he just be demon in the eyes of the average fandom, interesting is his unbreakable will, that drive to keep on living and resisting those that want him dead, its poetic and sad, to the point that (until totk ...) it was really just ONE ganondorf that refused to die and came back over and over (also something i found a compelling thought for botw, that after all this time theres nothing left BUT his will to resist, its a tragic idea that rly spoke to me)

my personal idea of the cycle is that its only a cycle bc they, the kingdom of hyrule and their belief system, keep it going, its not a divine thing that needs to be broken (though the divine surely messes with it, just for the bit i guess) but something that keeps repeating bc hyrule is so soaked into the idea that their princess once was a god and hers is the right to rule it all in light- so anyone who doesnt agree must be of the demons from the darkness seeking to destroy the world, and what means the 'world' could just mean the kingdom of hyrule- in botw even with the calamity people went on and lived, same in windwaker, they dont need the holy kingdom to live- (who is to say the 'monsters' are bad for the land, to me they mostly looked like well adapted territorial beasts, and the bokblins etc clearly arent mindless monsters either, why do they need to be eradicated? they attack you? ok dont go into their territory, or defend yourself, you dont need to exterminate something just bc it could be a threat at some point)

(i do agree that conflict with zelda being interesting but uuuh .. well they never did anythign with that huh)

in the end, demise was just a throw away villain, and if i may get my tin foil hat back here, i feel like the whole creation myth skyward sword does was really just a way for them to get out of the predicament of having to consider a villain to be treated like a person to save themselves from having to think about what they imply and can just go, well this is the evil demons, this is the good gods- ironically enough the attempt to get out of having to consider complicated writing it ends up reversing straight back into the WORST of kinds of implications .. that arent even subtext anymore, if totk is anythign to go by, the most 'simple' or 'easy' narrative to go for might not be actually simple, just a so often retold one that it appears simple if not made aware of its dark maw, the status quo repeated ad nauseam

(and if i may, the whole gameplay over story thing is bs in my eyes, that sounds like the typical attempt of dismissing any critique, just like the stupid, and frankly, offensive "its just for kids" argument, story and gameplay are inherently intertwined, the story influences the gameplay, the gameplay influences the story, especially in a series like zelda that is a futile thing to go for and a reason why the stories themselves lack depth, how are you gonna have an epic adventure that drives you to get through any amount of puzzles and battles if there is no story to motivate you, at this point it feels like the series has set itself up for catastrophic failure bc i imagine, people might just keep buying and playing the games bc its attached to the series, bc they hope to see characters they loved return, new ones that will grab their attention, perhaps be taken away by a world that meant alot to them once before, hope that there will be something exciting-

i am not saying the series has no value or doesnt do anything well (hello who am i) but how many times can you repeat 'this guy good he fight evil guy he get the pretty princess as reward' without any interesting twists or narrative, even the most beloved characters can only keep it passable for so long, even the best gameplay loses its potential if its surrounded by cardboard characters and a story so "simple" as offensive it fits into a single page, i often wonder how a game would be seen if it wasnt titled -the legend of zelda- ..

it hurts especially when looking at its long history, how much estblished thigns it could exploit and expand, the potential the series has is still immense, it hurts to see it be wasted over and over :(

[simeonscott]

It's finally my turn to nit pick a toy based on something from when I was a kid.

Spetember 1982 - Saturday Morning Panels #3

@thevacuuminator & @snowburke discuss the Transformers 40th Anniversary figure, another Classic issue of RAH & some recent pick ups!

[o-mellowy]

Lotty! <3

I have such a crush on her oh my god

[digibash]

YOU KNOW THE SONG(S)

ft.

Missing Link Bass Convoy

Missing Link SonicBlue Bumblebee

Masterpiece Convoy (Playing iPod Speaker)

Masterpiece J. Balvintron

Masterpiece Linkin Park Soundwave

Masterpiece Sonic White Soundwave

[plasticsparkphotos]

I'm a little late to the party but Missing Link Convoy is super cool! It checks all the boxes and with the exception up/down neck movement it's got all the articulation you could ask for!

📸Transformers: Missing Link - C01 Convoy / Optimus Prime #transformers #optimusprime

[aubrietarose]

"Heck with this." -devolves- Honestly, it's a mood some days. Aubie's TFTober Letter T: Tiktaalik

[pocoslip]

I Love the New Transformers Missing Link Arcee Toy and I Hope they do Thundercracker and Sixshot too someday

(I'm still Not Impressed with Missing Link Bumblebee and Cliffjumper)

[ask-the-toy-box]

[pluralsword]

glad missing link sentinel prime was budgeted because also a perfect yellow splendid convoy / tf universe repurpose where really all we'd have to repaint if we wanted is the face, hands, and ankles

[transingthoseformers]

I like to think that whatever site Tarn posts his fanfiction on has an intricate tagging system like AO3, but he just... Does not tag his fics nearly enough. They're like one of those surprise grab bags.

Is it going to be an energon cafe au? Is it going to be Tarn getting railed by Megatron? Is it going to have unexpected oviposition? Is it going to be a trinefic because I feel like those are still super common in the tfp au even though Starscream lost her trinemates ages ago? Is it going to be ocs that oh totally aren't Tarn's "discreet" self insert and a stand in for Pharma nope no sirree he swears? Are there going to be kinks that are directly stolen from other races? Is it gonna be sfw fluff for once? Is it gonna be the most gruesome hurt/no comfort revenge fantasy? Is it going to be a thinly vieled "I walked into the djd having an orgy" fic because I know he's certainly considered writing that? Is it going to have surprise untagged mpreg? (which I've seen so many people on TikTok complain about untagged slash "oh fuck I missed a tag" mpreg or watersports) Is it going to be an omegaverse fic where I stg Tarn you stole that from the human internet?

You'll never know until you click!

[aeonmagnus]

Transformers: Missing Link C-01 Convoy.