My childhood
on November 9, 2012 at 12:01 amChapter: Optimus Prime
Location: Danny and Joe's dorm room
I can’t believe it took me this long for Roomies! to talk about Transformers.
Also, Danny, I am pretty sure you should be able to tell from the outset that Optimus Primal doesn’t transform into any sort of truck.
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trukk not munky
Too bad. You get munky.
And he’s an ape, darn you!
It took me years to find that version of Optimus since I didn’t get into Beast Wars until the Transmetals arc.
I didn’t start collecting toys until then, but I was Beast Wars from the start. Still, I had to go to an acquaintance overseas to get my pre-Transmetal Primal. Did have the bat/croc Op/Megs, though.
Adds a whole new meaning to ‘anal discharge’. 😀
In Canada, the show was just called ‘Beasties.’
It sounds much more pornographic up north.
I always thought it sounded like some sort of breakfast cereal.
I KNEW IT!!
I grew up with this version of Transformers (along with Robots in Disguise, and later Armada). Over the years, I read on the Internet about “Beast Wars”, but I could have sworn it was called Beasties.
It gets weirder with War Planets/Shadow Raiders, but I don’t have five years to explain that whole mess.
“Remember those six years when the Transformers were all animals and Optimus Prime transformed into an ape? I have all of them. I enjoyed it. They were awesome. The rest of y’all are just posers.” – David Willis, Roomies! collection one
I know nothing about Transformers but I always love Willis keepin’ it real about fandom.
I remember seeing stuff like Beast Wars and Reboot when I was twelve and thinking “Wow! This computer animation (no one called it CGI back then) is so flipping cool! Cartoons will never look better than this!”
and in a writing standpoint still aint … wait thats vidi games and movies …..but i sean some old stuff resently and they cared back then now they dont … luckily this comic brings back the memorys …
The interesting thing about DC Comics and Reboot is that you can blame Dan Didio for ruining them both. True story.
At what point was ReBoot ruined? The first three seasons were top notch for their era, and season four was also acceptable, if unneeded, despite it’s unresolved cliffhanger.
Wait how did Didio ruin ReBoot?
For the most part the show kept getting better and better as it went on. Season 4 was kind of on the weaker side but it wasn’t bad. Was he even involved with that season? He wrote Firewall, which was an awesome episode, and Mainframe had always wanted the show to be a bit on the darker side but ABC’s standards department wouldn’t let them do anything they wanted until the show was more or less canceled in season 2 so no blaming that on him. I really don’t see how ReBoot was ever ruined anyway unless you personally disliked the darker episodes in later season 2 and season 3, which is of course fine, but most people seem to prefer those episodes to the earlier ones so saying they’re ruined it is kind of going to far.
The interesting thing about Dan Didio is that every time you look at his name it has more Ds in it than it had before.
Loved that show, and just recently bought the box set. Has anyone heard anything about the Reboot, ahem, reboot? I saw the display and attended the panel at last years Calgary comic-con, where they were trying to get it going again, but have heard nothing since.
That sounds uncomfortable.
Tsch-ch-ch-ch ch-chzz.
It’s an ape! He transforms into apes now! Apes are cool!
We now return to your Doctor Who-free comments section.
No it isn’t, he’s right up there.
This is where we discover Joe is Willis of the Past’s real Author Avatar. With Danny’s disinterest in toy’s and not being able to accept change from his childhood and what not.
Joe? Acquires action figures?
Huh, didn’t seem like the type. But I guess all our characters have a little bit of ourselves in them one way or another.
Originally posted:
November 3, 1997
I never got into the Transformers toys that much. I stuck with my fully articulated GI Joe, Mike Powers, and The Intruder action figures, as well as Star Trek, Aquaman, Superman, and Spiderman superhero figures, and Micronauts, Action Jim with bulging biceps and a few others, all of which were decades more advanced technologically than anything that has been made from the late eighties on…