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<p>24.150.39.34: revert: opinion presented as fact</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Hotshotjaam.jpg|right|thumb|jAaM jaAm rEvOLutiOn]]<br /> <br /> === MMm jaAm! ===<br /> <br /> [[Hot Shot (UT)|HoT sHot]] liKs '''jAM'''. yuM!<br /> <br /> === Ahem ===<br /> <br /> Just before the [[Armada (toyline)|Armada toyline]]'s imminent release in 2002, scans of the first pack-in [[mini-comic]] were put online both at [http://www.transformers.com Transformers.com] and at [http://www.bwtf.com Ben's World of Transformers], the latter of which received early production samples from Hasbro for review. The original comic was trilingual, forcing the [[Chris Saraccini|writer]] to fit three languages worth of dialogue into tiny word bubbles, resulting in short and often stilted prose. Because of these limitations, many found the mini-comic to be a bit lacking. The British fan Yartek took it upon himself to rewrite the dialogue as nonsense, portraying Hot Shot as a mentally-challenged, tortured freak of nature. (This was, perhaps, Yartek's commentary on the art.)<br /> <br /> The rewritten mini-comic proved to be wildly popular in the fandom and grew to be one of the most persistent memes through the duration of Armada and beyond. When [[Ben Yee]] overhauled his toy review system, he commissioned Hot Shot fan [[User:ItsWalky|David Willis]] to create a series of images based on the mini-comic. Ironically, the Hot Shot toy itself rated poorly on Ben Yee's scale.<br /> <br /> Hot Shot's love of jaAm has not been acknowledged yet by any official material, although the first [[Energon]] mini-comic featured Hot Shot once again dealing with some kind of jam-like liquid. It is possible that somebody at Dreamwave intended this as a reference. That comic quickly recieved the same treatment and was retitled [http://home.mountaincable.net/%7Erandomferret/jam.html Hot Shot Returns in: Mystery of the Desert Jam]<br /> <br /> =External links=<br /> *[http://www.redshirt.co.uk/tales/arm/index.htm Armada - The REAL Story, by Yartek]<br /> *[http://www.bwtf.com/jam.shtml Ben Yee's jaAm Rating System]<br /> <br /> [[Category: Fandom]]<br /> [[Category: Substances]]&lt;div id=&quot;wikia-credits&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</div>

24.150.39.34 https://tfwiki.duckdns.org/index.php?title=JaAm&diff=12422 2006-06-05T15:14:34Z

<p>24.150.39.34: /* Ahem */</p> <hr /> <div>[[Image:Hotshotjaam.jpg|right|thumb|jAaM jaAm rEvOLutiOn]]<br /> <br /> === MMm jaAm! ===<br /> <br /> [[Hot Shot (UT)|HoT sHot]] liKs '''jAM'''. yuM!<br /> <br /> === Ahem ===<br /> <br /> Just before the [[Armada (toyline)|Armada toyline]]'s imminent release in 2002, scans of the first pack-in [[mini-comic]] were put online both at [http://www.transformers.com Transformers.com] and at [http://www.bwtf.com Ben's World of Transformers], the latter of which received early production samples from Hasbro for review. The original comic was trilingual, forcing the [[Chris Saraccini|writer]] to fit three languages worth of dialogue into tiny word bubbles, resulting in short and often stilted prose. Because of these limitations, many found the mini-comic to be a bit lacking. The British fan Yartek took it upon himself to rewrite the dialogue as nonsense, portraying Hot Shot as a mentally-challenged, tortured freak of nature. (This was, perhaps, Yartek's commentary on the art.)<br /> <br /> The rewritten mini-comic proved to be wildly popular in the fandom and grew to be one of the most persistent memes through the duration of Armada and beyond. When [[Ben Yee]] overhauled his toy review system, he commissioned Hot Shot fan [[User:ItsWalky|David Willis]] to create a series of images based on the mini-comic. Ironically, the Hot Shot toy itself rated poorly on Ben Yee's scale.<br /> <br /> Hot Shot's love of jaAm has not been acknowledged yet by any official material, although the first [[Energon]] mini-comic featured Hot Shot once again dealing with some kind of jam-like liquid. It is possible that somebody at Dreamwave intended this as a reference. That comic quickly recieved the same treament and was retitled [http://home.mountaincable.net/%7Erandomferret/jam.html Hot Shot Returns in: Mystery of the Desert Jam], meant as a sequal to the original.<br /> <br /> =External links=<br /> *[http://www.redshirt.co.uk/tales/arm/index.htm Armada - The REAL Story, by Yartek]<br /> *[http://www.bwtf.com/jam.shtml Ben Yee's jaAm Rating System]<br /> <br /> [[Category: Fandom]]<br /> [[Category: Substances]]&lt;div id=&quot;wikia-credits&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</div>

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