Sunday, May 27, 2001
Ravestrike Has 6 New Sticker Kits!
Ravestrike, the guy known for his work in providing sticker restoration kits for TFs, has finally updated, his first update since November. He's currently offering a Hound kit, a kit to redo RiD Prowl/CR Mach Alert to look like original Prowl, Jetfire Kit Ver.2, Evil Jetfire Kit Ver.2, and a Jetfire to Macross VF1S Super Valkyrie/Strike Valkyrie Conversion Kit. If you haven't heard of him before, check out the site; he's got a ton of different restoration sticker kits for your old, worn G1 TFs.
-Dru

Sunday, May 27, 2001
Toyfare stars Optimus Prime
From Seibertron.com - "The cover of the latest issue, Toyfare #47, sports Medicom's Metalforce OPTIMUS PRIME, one of the coolest Transformers collectibles of all time. In addition to that, TOYFARE talks about the SCF (Super Collection Figures) Transformers from Takara as well as Robots In Disguise"
And I might add, it's nice to finally have time to post a piece of news again.
-Dru

Sunday, May 27, 2001
Joe Mad's Optimus
A few weeks ago, a vote was cast on comic artist Joe Madureira's site. This vote was for fans to request Joe to draw a character, and Prime beat stiff competition like Spiderman and Batman.
Now see the pencil of the famous Autobot leader!
Visit Je Mad's site here.
-Zac

Sunday, May 27, 2001
Takara cracks down on Bootleg PVCs
Thanks to Doug Dlin and Doc Evil for bringing this news to my attention.
Takara is doing its best to get rid of the bootleg PVC figures recently on eBay and seen in various shops. Good to see a company stand up for their intellectual properties!
-Zac

Saturday, May 26, 2001
The Wreckers want YOU!
Botcon Beyond has updated a again with more artwork.
This is a screep cap from Beast Machines combined with the art from the Botcon ad in Toyfare to make a kind of old fashioned US Army recruitment poster.
Thanks to Mopedicon for noticing this update.
-Zac

Friday, May 25, 2001
Generations End online
Machina's newest creation, a new post BM comic.
The art style and designs may take some getting used to, but this will definitely be an interesting story to watch play out.
-Zac

Friday, May 25, 2001
Big Megatron?
ToyBox DX seems to be readying a massive model of Megatron to be produced in limited numbers. Thanks to Deszaras for the link
-Zac

Friday, May 25, 2001
Andrew Wildman's cover art for
Garry has given us another scoop on the new Titan books Transformers comic re-issue. Here is the brand new cover for the book with art by Andrew Wildman.
From left to right, the characters shown are Unicron (planet mode) Megatron/Ratchet, Powermaster Optimus Prime, Starscream, Shockwave, Unicron (head), Bludgeon, Prowl, Galvatron, and Grimlock. Cybertron appears in the far right corner. Suspiciously missing is Scorponk who was a major character and led the Decepticons during this period. However, I'm willing to overlook that problem in light of how great the picture is.
-Zac

Friday, May 25, 2001
PVC pictures on Takara's website
Garry sends us news that a heap of high quality images of Takara's PVC line have been added. The pictures are great, and you can even take a peak at ACT-3 before they hit import shops.
But beware the language barrier! Takara's japanese is fine, but the English is a little..."unrefined"
-Zac

Thursday, May 24, 2001
Apelinq's Journal continues
The latest entry barely expands on what has been stated before, and seems to come from an unknown time. It would appear Apelinq's tale still has many surprises left...
-Zac

Monday, May 21, 2001
Beast Machines: Lost Episodes live!
After over 6 months without an update, Traegorn RavenHawk has delivered the much anticipated episode 15. Episode 16 will be ready to go next week.
For those who don't know, it is suggested you read the archives first. These stories are satires of Beast Machines and scif-fi in general that incoropate such odd elements as Nick from the Backstreet Boys, an ill tempered Mole drone general, and even the mysterious Phil Bond...
I heartily reccomend them, and in no way ever threatened the authors or their friends to force them to write more.
-Zac