User:G1MarvelBlaster

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G1MarvelBlaster is a human in the Transformers Wiki continuity family
What did you expect?

G1MarvelBlaster has enjoyed the many varied iterations of the Transformers brand since near the beginning. He lived in the United Kingdom from 1981-2003 before moving to the United States of America. He's always been much more about the fiction of Transformers than the toys, though he had a few growing up, and now has a 6-year-old son as a convenient excuse to buy more toys.

He really wants toys for Impactor and Spanner.

He also really sucks at writing captions, so if you do add or change a caption G1MarvelBlaster is responsible for, he won't put the {{captionbastard}} template on your user talk page. Others might though.

Favourite G1 Autobot (comics): Blaster
Favourite G1 Autobot (cartoon): Warpath
Favourite G1 Decepticon (comics): Shockwave
Favourite G1 Decepticon (cartoon): Cyclonus

Fiction

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Generation 1

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Aaah, the era that began it all, and still G1MarvelBlaster's most favourite Transformers Continuity family.

The beginning

Marvel Comics continuity

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Being a young Transformers fan in the UK, his first exposure to the fiction of The Transformers was the Marvel UK comic series, specifically part one of the now-legendary time travel epic that was Target: 2006. With such an auspicious jumping on point, his favourite characters initially were Ultra Magnus and Cyclonus who were such awesome badasses (especially Magnus) that young G1MarvelBlaster was hooked.

Now as an older Transfan, and someone who has the entire UK run by various means and reprints, he has come to appreciate the differences between the US & UK lines and is phenomenally impressed by the job Simon Furman did writing around the various US issues. G1MarvelBlaster's favourite story does come from the US run, and is the double header of The Smelting Pool! and The Bridge to Nowhere!. So awesome was Bob Budiansky's characterization of Blaster that the red radio dude has become, unshakably my favourite G1 Autobot, and indeed my favourite character across all the Transformers factions and franchises.

Another Time and Place

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In his personal canon this is the last Marvel Transformers story and a fitting coda. The various fan club comics and Generation 2 never happened. It's not that they're bad fiction, it's just they don't fit with the mood of the Marvel series to him.

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

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Prime DOES die.

Like most British Transfans, G1MarvelBlaster has a dim memory of the The Transformers, mostly the end credit stock footage of Optimus Prime transforming and rolling out. He was much more familiar with the far-flung future of 2006 as depicted by The Transformers: The Movie, which G1MarvelBlaster watched so much he wore out at least 2 VHS copies. This does mean that his main memories of cartoon Optimus are him transforming into a truck, and also transforming into a grey corpse.

More recently, he has watched all 4 seasons of the original G1 cartoon on DVD, and was surprisingly impressed with how well it stands up. Sure, it's mostly a goofy error-riddled mess, but compared to cartoons of a similar vintage (especially Masters of the Universe) the animation quality is really pretty decent. The characters are very distinctly drawn, though very different from the characterizations he's used to as a comics-first guy. His two favorite G1 characters from the comics, Blaster & Shockwave are basically nothing alike. Shockwave went from a extremely tough, scheming, albeit logical, wannabe Decepticon leader/Decepticon leader/betrayer of Megatron to Megatron's loyal assistant who sat on his duff for 4 million years not noticing resistance.

In general, he's surprised with how much more cohesive season 3 feels. The focus on a smaller group of core characters is a template that's been copied by later shows. He's also more impressed with The Rebirth than he expected to be, given its status as a hastily cut down post-script season that introduces a whole mess of new characters. The miniseries manages to introduce the characters well enough that they don't all blend in to one, the concepts of Headmasters & Targetmasters are introduced in a way that mostly makes sense of the way the toys gimmicks could work in fiction (though G1MarvelBlaster's not a fan of Scorponok being basically an armored suit for Zarak as opposed to a Decepticon with personality.)

He would have liked to see how the cartoon would have handled the concepts of Powermasters, Action Masters and especially Pretenders though...

Japanese cartoon continuity

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Almost all of the non-Western canon is completely alien to G1MarvelBlaster. The exception is the Omni Productions dub of Four Warriors Come out of the Sky which he had to turn off after roughly five minutes because the voice acting was just so terrible.

Oh, a second exception is The Great Cassette Operation, which G1MarvelBlaster watched subbed on YouTube, once again in the process of editing Blaster's article on this very wiki.

IDW Comics continuity

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Beast Wars cartoon

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Beast Machines cartoon

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Robots in Disguise

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Unicron Trilogy

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Armada cartoon

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Live-action film continuity

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Transformers Animated continuity

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Prime continuity

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