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Just the Autobot targetmasters - I remember the rest (Brainstorm, Highbrow, Hardhead and Chromedome).
Fuck: who were the Powermasters again? Slapdash, Getaway (or is that a Protectobot?)...
Oh, don't bother - found a website "encyclopedia".
Jesus, Trypticon and Metroplex - haven't heard those names in a long time (OK, I heard "Jesus" a bit over the Easter )
------------------ At that point, McDonald fired his gun three times in the air to emphasize his point. The crowd, estimated at 350,000, loudly cheered the new candidate.
"Let me make this clear: I am the law! I am your ruler! And you will have fries with that, motherf*cker!"
Hot Rod w/ Firebolt (called something else in the Headmasters comic. Silly monkeys) Kup w/ Recoil Blurr w/ Haywire Crosshairs w/ Pinpointer Pointblank w/ Peacemaker Sureshot w/ Spoilsport
The Powermaster idea is that the little Nebulan men turned into engines, rather than heads or guns. This would allowe the TF to transform. And, in comic terms, it would make it faster and other blah.
1988 Powermasters (ooh, chanelling Darkstar for a minute there)
This would be the most familiar version of Optimus Prime to Marvel comics readers. He was Powermaster for the majority of the time (when he wasn't dead, anyway). He had shit-loads of guns on him. Peace my arse.
Decepticons:
Darkwing w/ Throttle Dreadwind w/ Hi-Test
They combined into a big jet called Dreadwing. Dreadwind also ran the letters page of the UK comic for ages. And he was really good at it too, giving nicely sarcastic replies to all the kids who wrote in claiming they were Unicron. "Hmm, so the Demi-God Unicron, the Chaos Bringer, lives in Leeds? Can't see it myself." He also carries on the fine tradition, started with Windbreaker, or Transformers having very funny names.
------------------ You know, when Comedy Central asked us to do a Thanksgiving episode, the first thought that went through my mind was, "Boy, I'd like to have sex with Jennifer Aniston." -Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
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If I were only rich, so I could track down and buy all of those old Transformers... I like them ever so much more than the ones they have now.
Fortress Maximus sells on Ebay for like 500 dollars. Damn.
------------------ The government that seems the most unwise, oft goodness to the people best supplies. That which is meddling, touching everything, will work but ill, and disappointment bring. - The Tao Te Ching
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While I'm not keen on Beast Machines, Beast Wars toys were good. Some were excellent (The Transmetal I's, Dragon Megatron).
And the Japanese Car Robot line is great. And it's getting released in the US this year. One of the line-up is a repainted Fortress Maximus, called Brave Maximus. Don't know if it will come over, but if you're keen, many internet shops sell Brave Maximus for prices far less than what Fortress Maximus now goes for. And the toy will be new, too.
------------------ You know, when Comedy Central asked us to do a Thanksgiving episode, the first thought that went through my mind was, "Boy, I'd like to have sex with Jennifer Aniston." -Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
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Jesus was a Transformer? Hm... Well, that explains a few things, anyway...
------------------ "Although, from what I understand, having travelled around the Mid-west quite a bit, apparently Jesus is coming, so I guess the choice now is we should decide whether we should spit or swallow." -Maynard James Keenan
"Jesus was a black man Jesus was Batman No no no That was Bruce Wayne."
I rarely got Transformers comics (bit dear back then), and when I did it was more for the Action Force haolf of it. But I remember well one of hte very few I got that explained how the Powermasters came into being - very cool.
Wonder will I finish that story?
------------------ At that point, McDonald fired his gun three times in the air to emphasize his point. The crowd, estimated at 350,000, loudly cheered the new candidate.
"Let me make this clear: I am the law! I am your ruler! And you will have fries with that, motherf*cker!"
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