TFWe Issue 06 - October 2011 - Happy Halloween Hangover!

Played the hell out of that Armada game, the bosses were a mfer in that game.
Took me forever to kill Cyclonus.

It was awesome running around inside Tidal Wave. Will never forget strafing in the woods, and trying to get out of those damn riverbeds. Hangliding was a blast. Minicons were done well in that game.

Fun issue...I wish that in a future issue you could do a transformers the movie(1986) legends and realities article. Like things that were planned like Dirge getting piledrived to things that were always false like someone else doing a few of Unicron's lines. I am always interested in new facts and oddities to that great film. I would also like to say rest in peace Gary, you will be missed. EDIT: I actually missed issue 4, which actually has TFTM content like I was looking for. Hey, great minds think alike! HA HA.

Now i think about it, the whole Tidal Wave Level on the Armada game was perhaps one of my favourite gaming moments,

I think the last toy we know for sure to get GPS signs is movie preview Starscream, time will tell for Universe 2.0 Vector Prime and Tredbolt and perhaps even Henkei Dinobot should luck hate us.)

Also, was Guzzle a micromaster? I thought he was about minibot sized with a fire gimmick.

I just want to thank all of you guys for taking your time to put these issues together. They are well thought out, very informative, and are from real transfans that have been with the fan community for years. Thanks again for your contributions to the fandom.

Awesome issue. When will there be a downloadable version of this?

Best thing ever: Beef stew. Yup, it's busted alright. I'm gonna go place. - Strong Bad

Probably next week. Have a lot of stuff on my plate at the moment and need to get through that before getting to the PDF.

Yeah, he was a Sparkabot. The Micromaster Shin's referring to was Flak, who is a part of Legion series 3.

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Originally Posted by Lance Halberd Sol Fury can be likened to a German clock. A very exact, complex, and tightly-wound precision instrument that occasionally goes cuckoo.

Indeed. Legends have been getting better and better, and so has their reception. Probably their sales as well, which inspired this move.

What's the difference between a Legend and a Legion? Nothing, except Legions are better. Crowbar, Soundwave, and Roadbuster are tiny gods.

Commanders gave us Guzzle (still looking!) and Powerglide, not to mention the best take on Blackout yet. BLACKOUT. And people just love the Optimus as well.

Sure, in the Mad Max petroleum-less future that confronts us, we may only have the Cyberverse or something like it someday. But I still go into aisles and see three Deluxes for every Legion, so it ain't gonna be soon.

The one disappointment about the Cyberverse to me is that the playsets are basically totally made up (i.e. not based on fiction) and/or kind of flimsy and silly-seeming. I just have Starscream's, and aside from being vaguely film-accurate in one mode, the best part is the 5 mm gun.

Wanted to touch on this note, as our opinions after this quote were entirely the same.

While I do agree that it is hard to separate "Transformers" and "Transformers I like", I don't think I equated the two together, or at least not as much as you implyed.

I really feel that Hasbro is beginning to cheapen the Transformers line as a whole. What is their big, new marketing push? Cyberverse. Cyberverse, Cyberverse. And while that's cool for a lot of people who enjoy them, it's making me feel like we're beginning to harken back to the days of Micromasters and Micromasters playsets ... while these are larger than them, it's still the entirely same concept.

My fear is that in time, the entire Transformers toyline is going to be down to Legends/Cyberverse/Deluxe/Voyager ... and that's it. Cost cutting measures to keep the company profitable, or as most companies see it, MORE profitable ("if we eliminate three size classes, and increase the quantity in the on-going size classes that already sell well, we can make up the lost profit from eliminating the larger sizes easily!").

Leaving 3rd Party Companies to create what looks like and feels like a Transformer from the last 30 years as opposed to the new direction the franchise is headed (movie-esque designs, smaller, etc).

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