Earlier today, it was revealed that there would be some new female Transformers debuting in Transformers: More than Meets the Eye #41, which many fans were excited to see. Since then, series artist Alex Milne has graciously updated his Tumblr with their designs and names. These include:
• Firestar• Javelin
• Proxima
• Roadmaster
• Velocity
In addition, Alex also posted the design of Thunderclash’s ship, the Vis Vitalis, up on his Twitter as well as the design for Countdown – both of which were also featured in the issue preview.
Lastly though certainly not least, Mr. Milne also provided a writeup containing even more details and tidbits about the fembots, which you can check out after the break. “So here are some of the characters I’ve been working on lately which have shown up on the cover to MTMTE 41 🙂 Yes, They are all female transformers and out of these designs 3 of them I also choose the names for.
It was fun to help create these characters. I know I’ve wanted more female characters in transformers for a while now. I’ve always placed one or more in the background of various TF projects I’ve worked on. Now we have the opportunity to have more of them and I’m very happy about that.
When the story came up for having new female characters I knew that I would like to have some of the characters that haven’t been used yet. I know I really wanted Firestar and James was able to get her for MTMTE. Then we were talking and he asked me to come up with a crew of new characters, both male and female and I was pretty excited about that. He didn’t have any names in mind at the time, so I wrote down a bunch of names and looked up on the wiki and tfu.info if they had been used. A lot of them hadn’t to my surprise so I showed them to James and he liked them. I then came up with a head sketch of them, and mentioned which ones were female and which ones were male, and he liked them. then I set out to design them.
These are the design I came up with. I wanted there to be a lot of different looking bots. First I started with Firestar. She is the more traditional look for a female TF, but where her main difference is her height. She is a very tall bot. She towers over most of the others. Not as tall as Megatron or Ultra Magnus, but she’s taller then Rodimus and most of the other Lost Light crew. I also had the idea to give her fire hair since in alt mode her head is the where the exhaust of the car. It also help add a little more emotion to the character since I can have the fire doing different things when she’s feeling different emotions. I thought it was different and something interesting to play with. With her torso design I decided to give her the same style of split canopy that Nautica has since it solved a design issue I was having at the time. Also I like the idea of some of the characters sharing similar design features 🙂
Next is Javelin. She was fin to draw since I wanted something very different looking. I enjoy the look of the head where is a single eye. i thought can we have a character with a single eye and not be a victim of empurata? why not?.
Next we have Proxima. When I described her to James I said she would be the equal of better of Perceptor. She would be a extreme multitasker. With her e4 head design she has main visor style eye, but 3 other eyes where 2 can move around her head.
Roadmaster was fun to design. I wanted a big characters that looked like she would bend and break you if you looked at her the wrong way. She is the biggest of the characters I’ve designed so far, matching Ultra Magnus in height (well to his head, not shoulders) When I was working on this character I thought an interesting variant would be to make a strika out of her, but then I would want strika to be a bit bigger then her. But the idea is in the back of my mind so maybe I’ll work something out of it?|
Last character who isn’t on the cover, but I saw that she was partially shown on a post on the credit’s page is Velocity. Another fun design where I got to play around with features that I don’t normally see with many TF’s 🙂
Thats it for now
Enjoy :)”
Zenstrive
So totally can work ! Do want!
Glass_of_water
i like javelin and velocity but they do kinda just look like a female shockwave and blurr, though i reckon velocity would kick blurrs ass. i think javelin shouldn't have had any visible eyes at all.
BScorpinok75
The BH Magnus looks like it might work good for that model…
Knightsword
They couldn't get it in 2005 for Botcon (Chromia was suppose to be Moonracer), but that was 10 years ago, so they might be able to now.
siegfried07
WilyMech
I just like the name.
FanimusMaximus
Fembots are something I never get tired of.
WilyMech
I would buy Moonracer if she re-introduced.
Autovolt 127
You forgot about Elita-1 dude….she's the one out of all of them that needs a new appearance.
also does Hasbro even have Moonracer's name?
Crystal Convoy
Toys please.
jamarmiller
Hope you are right !
Aernaroth
I'm down. Some more fine design work from Milne.
swarlock
It's already said they don't form Victorion.
Roadbuster25
Omg, you are so right.
Thanks guys for explaining
Russian fan
Although I'm not a fan of MTME comics but interested in everything as a small-site admin Firestar and Velocity are interesting but very gundam-ish looking
Mako Crab
Velocity was one of my favorite superheroines in CyberForce, so I've always been partial to the name myself.
ABH1979
I think they all look great. I love how different each one is.
Mako Crab
Love these designs. They look great. And people were worried that introducing new femmes was just going to be a robo-Barbie, robo-boob fest. I hope these new designs put their fears to rest.
Hate-triot
I figured that was just the current standard for comic art. 90s was full of pouches and metal plates and the 10s is full of random LEDs, TRON lines, and greebles.
THE-TRANSFORMER
When is Milne going to realise that sometimes less is more?
His designs are always so busy. He's a talented artist to be sure, however I don't think he should be the one designing new transformers.