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HOW TO TRANS YOUR FORMERS - MATT MESSENGER

3/2/2015

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1. How did you get to Transformers and how long have you being here?
Twas 2001 and my university house mate brought home Dreamwave's Transformers #0. We read that thing to death before he admitted to owning the Animated Movie on DVD and we sat and watched that. From there, it was a gradual snowball effect, starting with buying the blindpack SCFs and WSTs before buying my first 'real' Transformer since I was a kid, Alternators Smokescreen in Argos for the princely sum of £5. That must have been around 2003? I also picked up and watched the G1 releases from Metrodome as they happened. From then I was gifted Masterpiece Optimus Prime as well as slowly picking up the Alternators and eventually Binaltech line. I started reading the comics around 2007, starting with Megatron Origins, Stormbringer and Beast Wars: The Gathering. Then later that year I made the mistake of buying Classics Bumblebee and things really spiraled out of control from there.
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I'M AN ENABLER!

2. When did you realize you weren't leaving?
I don't think I've ever had the mentality of never leaving, I honestly think I could easily drop everything and disappear from the interwebs if I wanted to and it's got to that point a few times; the more active you are in the fandom, the harder it is to actually enjoy it and the more open your are to abuse and people looking to take advantage. Not saying it's all bad! I've met some great friends through this hobby and wouldn't change the experience for the world. As it is now, I've taken a dramatic step back from a lot of what I did before and I'm certainly enjoying being a more silent consumer at this point in life.
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It's certainly a origin....

3. What series / comic / toyline would you say is a good starting point?
Tough one, kind of depends what you are looking to get out of the franchise. If you've seen toys you like, buy them, doesn't matter what line they are from if they look cool! If you enjoy them and want to find out a bit more, go and watch the associated media, whether it be cartoon, movie or comics. From there you'll start to get an idea of the various different areas of the franchise and what might appeal to you. You'll probably end up seeing the majority of the tv shows and movies because they are the easiest to access with very little financial out lay. You've got to be pretty hardcore to shell out on the likes of Beast Wars Neo! To be honest, if you like a toy, or a movie, or cartoon, or a comic, don't feel obliged to try something else just because it's transformers, you can like that thing just because it's awesome! For me I would say steer clear of Generation One and Beast Wars cartoons, comics and toys unless you have the rose tinted specs of nostalgia firmly on. If you want to try one thing as a newcomer I'd go with Transformers Animated for cartoons, the current comic title from IDW which was Robots in Disguise until a couple of months ago and is now just 'Transformers' and have a play with the Alternators toy line; hugely detailed, massively fiddly but ultimately rewarding transformatons, 1:24 scale official car alt modes and because of their low cost on the secondary market, they represent great value for money, especially when compared to current toy lines!
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I am ridiculously cheap on Ebay

4) What advice would you give to get someone into the transformers universe?
Start slow or you'll find yourself lost and retracing your steps a lot. That's especially true of the comics. Spend the time working out reading and viewing orders, I found getting stuff out of sync early on really put a dampener on my enjoyment. Also, don't be afraid to use things like the TFWiki for guidance or contacting some of the more friendly members of the community on Twitter for advice. Most people are happy to talk about thing hobby for hours and are more than willing to pass some of the years of built up knowledge on.
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He's quite, quite mad

5) Name your highlights of the franchise and fandom
Franchise highlight for me will always be Animated. It was the cartoon that got it tonally right for me with a good dose of humour setting off the hugely violent and depressing themes of Transformers in general. Plus the toys were filled with character and pose-ability. Fandom wise would be Auto Assembly 2009 and 2010. Formative years of the show and the years where the friends that make a lot of what goes on in the UK fandom really got to know each other and create bigger and better things. Oddly, it's probably Skype that's the most important thing in the fandom; without it most people would only see/talk to each other once a year, podcasts wouldn't exist and the international community wouldn't feel anywhere near as close. The internet normally brings the worst out of people so I wouldn't highlight forums or YouTube as a good place to go to get your TF fix but Skype really has made a lot of this happen.
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Animated STILL get requests for more episodes?
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Matt "King Grimmy" Messenger has hosted the Underbase podcast for five years, and can be seen every Auto Assembly at the Kapow Toys store, selling you eveything. He is also obsessed with Kreons, an can raise ou up. And break you. 
He alo may have a G.I.Joe figure that looks too close for comfort like him...
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How To Trans Your 'Formers - paulĀ 

2/19/2015

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1. How did you get to Transformers and how long have you being here?

As a child gravitating to another toyline / cartoon (like we all did) it was somewhere during season 3/4. I'll never forget getting a bunch of Headmasters and Targetmasters one Christmas. As an adult (and therefore a fan / eventual collector) it was somewhere during 2006, I was doing random word searches into Youtube and came across Dyansis' videos. Here was a guy who knew the character and bio backgrounds extensively, I was hooked and couldn't soak in the information quick enough.
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Quickmix will save you with guns and chemicals!
2. When did you realize you weren't leaving?
Pretty quickly. But what really cemented it was when my wife bought me the Legends Optimus and Megatron from the first movie because she knew I'd liked them as a kid. As much as they weren't the greatest piece of engineering a spark (no pun intended) was lit inside me and I decided I had to have more. Alternators Ravage and a reissue of G1 Soundwave quickly followed, old toys were rescued from my parent's loft and the size of the collection snowballed.
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BLLRRAAARRRAAAGGHHHHHHHHH AM MEGATRON!!!
3. What series / comic / toyline would you say is a good starting point?
If you''re getting back into the franchise from childhood then check online for toys of characters you were a fan of. In terms of series I'd say go for the most recent. Chances are the toys will still be out there or at least easy to come across online. For comics being a continuity nut I always think returning to the beginning of IDW (the ations) is the way to go. That said I'm aware that's a lot of content to get from so I'd advise going back to the last jumping on point which in this case is the amazing MTMTE and RID (now simply named Transformers). Both are so well created that you can't go wrong with them. But for a much greater understanding of the world do go back and check out the older stories.
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nightmares! just for you!






4. What advice would you give to someone to get them into Transformers?

Exercise caution. It's a great hobby to get into but don't insane thinking you have to own everything right now. The last thing you want is getting into serious debt because you couldn't choose which of the 3 uber rare bots to buy this month. Because that was a bit of a downer piece of advice I'll give another. Join a forum or group online and make some friends within the community. From a personal standpoint I don't think you can go wrong with the TFYCC on Facebook. Introduce yourself, have some good banter and if you have the funds go along to a meet-up or convention. 5. Name your highlights of the franchise and fandom.  Making and meeting amazing friends. Having this hobby is fun but it wouldn't be half as enjoyable without people to share it with. Talking online with and meeting them at things like Auto Assembly has been one of the happiest things to happen in my adult life.
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Yes. This is a thing.
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Paul Wardman is a lifelong Discworld fan, and can be found beating Victorian orphans under the name Pred on forums around the Transformers Fandoms.
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How To Trans Your 'formers - stonecold skywarp

2/17/2015

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1) How did you get to transformers, and how long have you been here?

It was the year 2005...no wait, that's not right at all. My earliest transformers memory is playing with a Bombshell toy which was a hand-me-down from my brother, must be about 1985. From there that was all I cared about for a good few Christmases and birthdays. I still distinctly remember one year getting Jazz, Ironhide and Inferno. It was around 1998 that I searched for Transformers on the World Wide Web and stumbled upon TFArchive.com

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