#transformers victory

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a deep appreciation for bots whose visors are their face as opposed to an accessory

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(guys if the screenshots look cut off is coz im crappy at taking screenshots)

just saw the Studio Trigger Transformers 40th Anniversary tribute movie and I WAS SCREAMING GIGGLING AND JUMPING AROUND THE WHOLE TIME AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY

RAHHHHHHH THE ARMADA AND PRIME KIDS WITH THE PRIME BOTS AND ARMADA MINIBOTS/CONS IM SORRY IM UNCULTURED

HOLI!!!!!!!!!!!! I MISSED YOU!!!!!!!!

HOLY SHIZZLEDAZZLE

oh my cripplingcrappitycrap DEATHSAURUS I MISSED YOU TOO

oh my gigglywiggly three of my favourite megatrons in one place

THE BOYS (i only know blitzwing swindle tankor and i forgot the triceratops name but ik he's the silly one😭)

i love families bro

energon funny

Thundercracker yuey SKY!!!!!!!!!!!

^^^ARMADA S.S. RIGHT THERE PLUS WASPY MY BOY^^^

also the jumpscare of everyone dying

MAN

also unicron jumpscare

THIS IS PT 1 I GUESS SO UHHHH WHEN THIS GETS A REBLOG THATS WHEN IVE GOT MORE WATCHUMACALLITS

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I haven’t drawn in so long I was fighting for my LIFE trying to finish this

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Commission for @yuusha-tori ! Two dadbots having a chat while the kids get to hang out!

[grimlock]

they said I could paint anything at my community art center, so I painted deathsaurus with a rubber chicken (Acrylic on canvas)

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I really wanted to draw them so silly and in love!!🥹🥹🥹🥹🤲🤲

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[hasmadara]

My Deathsaurus design! I wanted him to be a gryphon, and went with a lot more G1 inspiration mixed with MTMTE

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Deszaras and Starsaber bonding (one step away from destruction)

[streakyfreak-me]

"Moan for me, whore."

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Esmeral from Transformers Victory

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i keep rewatching victory just for him

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DINOVEMBER!

Who doesn't love dinos? Liars and mountebanks, that's who. So it's a whole set of dino-formers for this month's @tfwiki Patreon-backed pic set! Let's kick things off with the goodest of dinobois, the lovable JAWBREAKER, in his Deluxe EarthSpark form.

Speaking of adorable, how about TRYPTICON in "MyClone" form? This line of soft-plastic modular super-deformed mini-figs from 2002 Takara included not just TFs, but various other Takara lines, Tsuburaya characters (like Ultraman) and adorable animals.

We're keeping the cute train rolling with a fave of mine, ROARISTA from BotBots. Yes, this is a coffee machine and carafe that turns into a t-rex-bot with a power cord tail. How can you not love it. Wish she'd been in the cartoon.

Okay you knew this was coming. It's Legacy DINOKING, finally fulfilling the role the Legacy Core Dinobot molds were blatantly meant to be all along. You can get a much more natural axe-handling pose by putting the scythe fully trough the fist.

The two standouts of Dinoforce, team leader GORYU and team schmuck KAKURYU. This set come with a ton of all new parts; not just new heads but extra accessories for more anime flavor. Kakuryu got his axe, but no shrimpy revolver, dang.

RIARYU lacks his anime melee weapon, but gains a pair of massive missile pods that emulate the original's, and form footplates for Dinoking. GAIRYU has a whole new larger dino-tail/cannon that makes for a bulkier Dinoking forearm.

DORYU gets a scythe... which he didn't in the anime. That went to YOKURYU, but his new part is a huge "cannon"/blatant chunk of Dinoking forearm. You can swap them around if you like, I can't stop you. I'm not your dad (as far as you know).

"Whycomes no classic Dinobot characters?" you ask. Okay, here's GRIMLOCK... the 2015 Robots in Disguise Grimlock, in Kre-O Kreon form. This "Armor Up" set was a Dollar General exclusive(!), and was supposed to come in three decos... but wave 2 of this series never happened.

No, he's not a dino-bot, but he did accidentally merge with Jawbreaker that one time, and I like this toy a lot so here's EarthSpark Deluxe AFTERMATH as a bonus as I was feelin' punchy. Man I love this design.

If you enjoy these themed monthly meanders down the memories of mechanical merchandise, you can make them even bigger with a lil donation to the Patreon! Want to pick a theme for a month? It's possible! Just check out

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It took like, 2 months. I came back from holiday, started this and couldn't finish until nowadays.

Silly Megatron doodles

And some shattered glass related stuff.

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doodle

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Japanese G1 continuity is absolutely not normal about girls but damned if they don't give us some of the best ones

There was a significant amount of Transformers continuity released between 1987 and around 2007 that was produced in Japanese and is really only known to most English-speaking fans through fansubs, dubs that were only released in Australia, and the like. Shows like Headmasters, Victory, and Zone. Manga like Victory and 15 Go Go Go Teletraan (which was really mostly Kiss Players). Radio shows like Kiss Players.

I'm gonna be super up front. Japanese G1 is not normal about femmes in any way, shape or form. At the same time, it gave us some of the BEST and most underused female characters in the Transformers universe.

Headmasters, which came out right after the US G1 show ended, is particularly egregious. In Headmasters, Arcee has been reduced to Fort Max's administrative assistant, uses ridiculously polite and subservient language, and is also the only medic. And being a medic would be kind of badass if they let her be as badass as Ratchet, you know? But they absolutely do not.

Also, in Headmasters, Carly (now married to Spike) allows her son--a freaking child, not even a teenager--to go on missions when Spike can't and a human is needed, because uh, for some reason it's better for a 12 year old boy to go, not an adult woman?

But most of the good femmes don't come from Headmasters. And some of the best femmes we have are from Japanese G1.

Super-God Masterforce made it up to us by giving gave us Minerva, a human girl who is a Headmaster with a robot body (transtector) making her basically a bad ass mecha pilot, and who actively does fight.

The Victory manga gives us Esmeral, Deathsaurus' incredibly classy wife, and Lyzack, Leozack's twin sister, who is in charge of defending the homefront but really does want to go out and fight. Illumina appears in both the Victory manga and the anime. She's a little human girl who has a crush on Jan Minakaze and is always trying to get people to choose nonviolence.

(Lyzack later appears in an English-language comic - the Wings Universe--wherein she's basically Deathsaurus' servant and Starscream hits on her. I don't like that.)

There are a number of great femmes who were only ever toys. The Cobalt Sentries set gave us Howlback, leader of the Decepticon military police (called the Cobalt Sentries). She is basically Ravage's twin sister but instead of being super stealthy she can turn your attacks right back on you.

(Later she appears in several English language comics and in at least one she is canonically trans. I'm not a fan of her depiction in the SG Recordicons Batman tribute arc, though.)

The Unite Warriors toyline - Takara's response to Combiner Wars, basically - gave us the combiner Megatronia, made up of Megaempress, and her four guards, Lunaclub (sometimes called Luna Clover or Luna Trefle), Flowspade, Moonheart, and Trickdiamond. They are incredibly awesome.

(IDW 2019 used Trickdiamond, but none of the others. Tricky was one of Swindle's contacts.)

Then there's the elephant in the room that everyone pretends isn't there...Kiss Players.

So, okay. There is nothing normal about Kiss Players whatsoever. On the other hand, I'd rather listen to KP than watch RID2015 which is just blatant copaganda from hell.

Kiss Players had an interesting plot involving little bits of Galvatron and Unicron getting into humans and creating the Kiss Players--humans who could give TFs a powerup by kissing them and then merging with their internals somehow. Then there are the Legions, the dick-tongued monsters that everyone who hasn't actually listend to the show or read the manga thinks are Megatron.

The dick-tongued monsters are gross. It is also gross that some of the Kiss Players are barely teenagers and definitely not adults and are constantly ending up in Situations.

But the plot centres around the apparent rise of Convoy, or Optimus, from the dead, and his transformation into a weird groomery dude, which many people don't understand there was an actual reason for, because it's not Optimus, it's someone else riding around in his body.

Melissa Faireborn is like if you chopped Marissa Faireborn's IQ in half, dyed her hair blond and threw out any pants or skirts that covered her knees. She is nothing like Marissa and I treat them as cousins, but Xiaoxiao Li is amazing and her real lover.

Anyhow, this female scientist (Dr Amaou) lost her mind over the loss of her daughter during the events of the 1986 movie et sequelae, and she's got to be stopped from turning Atari and her Autorooper robot pal into a permanent fusion to reincarnate her daughter Shizuku (whom for some reason I always want to call Setsuna instead).

It's a little confusing because most of the really good parts of the plot got jammed into a few episodes near the end of the season, although once you know what it is, it's clear that it's being set up. That artist just likes borderline lolicon way too much.

The second season of KP is very squeaky clean and sends the girls out to collect what they think are Allspark fragments, and they are very annoyed because Ravage, whom they call "black panther man" keeps getting in their way and fucking with them, only to later find out that the bots who gave them this task are Unicronian heralds and Ravage is trying to stop them from helping Unicron do what Unicron does.

Rosanna, everyone's favourite robot pop idol, comes from the second season of KP, although you don't see very much of her or her companions Glit and Sundor.

Incidentally KP sets up the Unicron Trilogy and some of its characters end up in the UT--which did come to the US, and gave us Alexis Thi Dang.

(This post is brought to you because I just wrote an Esmeral thing and someone was musing separately about Megaempress as a parent and I almost ended up writing this post while reblogging them, because I'm a nerd with a hyperfixation).