User talk:Chris McFeely/2010

Daniel in Kiss Players

The note at the bottom says exactly where the bit about Daniel being frozen comes from. The timeline. KP presented a massive timeline of the G1 Japanese cartoon continuity that was probably the geekiest thing ever. --ItsWalky 10:15, 30 January 2010 (EST)

I know what the note says, but if you look at the timeline...it's not mentioned anywhere. - Chris McFeely 10:37, 30 January 2010 (EST)

Aaarrgh, don't tell me that! I reference daniel's cryonic suspension in my Collectors' Club article.--Jimsorenson 11:27, 30 January 2010 (EST)

I believe it must be somewhere, because it was Swift who added it, wasn't it? And Swift is like Layla Miller, with all the knowing of stuff. - Chris McFeely 12:13, 30 January 2010 (EST)

Perhaps it was mentioned in passing in one of the radio dramas? If we go that route at least no one could argue that it wasn't since, shit, nobody's listened to those things. --DrSpengler 12:22, 30 January 2010 (EST)

I've got a Japanese site bookmarked that summarizes all of them, and although it is all google-translated, I can't find anything that even resembles a reference to Daniel. - Chris McFeely 12:31, 30 January 2010 (EST)

IIRC, there are actually two different published timelines. One was on the side of Autrooper's packaging, and I think the other was in the KissPlay/Teletraan Go! Go! compilation book... they varied on a few subtle details, IIRC. You may want to ask Swift to be sure. --Monzo 16:48, 2 February 2010 (EST)

Deathy's Resurrection

Wait, why are you counting that as a story page? Wouldn't it just fall under toy bio/toy catalog continuity, like the time BW Megatron got smacked around by BWII Galvatron? (For that manner, since I assume it was internally produced by Takara, I don't know if we can safely say the art is by Ban Magami...) --Monzo 16:48, 2 February 2010 (EST)

Oh, well, I didn't put it on that page, it was there already. Given that it can't really work continuity-wise with the other story pages, it probably should be moved somewhere else, but I'm not sure where. - Chris McFeely 16:51, 2 February 2010 (EST)

Oh, unless you were referring to the header its info has been given on the character pages, in which case - that was Spengs. :) *looks innocent* - Chris McFeely 16:54, 2 February 2010 (EST)

Henkei manga scans?

What would you do if I sent over scans of the remaining Henkei chapters? (Mind, I scanned them pretty high, so they're running 2-3 megs) --Lonegamer78 04:24, 18 February 2010 (EST)

I would smile broadly, then regret that there weren't summaries up yet so I could understand them properly. ;) - Chris McFeely 07:21, 18 February 2010 (EST)

But lest it not be apparent that I desperately desire these things - send away at them to gears_chatroom_god(at)hotmail.com ! - Chris McFeely 14:51, 19 February 2010 (EST)

Fast Action Jackson

Thanks for clarifying that only the first 3 waves of FABs were released in Japan and removing the fiction from the proper characters. But I have to ask, if Frenzy was released in Japan as an FAB, why'd you remove the fiction from his article? Also, should I go ahead and add the FAB/BW crossover fiction to *all* the characters who were released in the Telemocha line? Even...the BWII and Neo characters? Or just the ones on Energoa? --DrSpengler 20:23, 25 February 2010 (EST)

Oh, yeah, Frenzy wasn't either. I missed him and then went back. /:) I'm really not sure what to do about the BW characters, though... after all, the II and Neo characters wouldn't have been on Energoa... - Chris McFeely 20:26, 25 February 2010 (EST)

Ahhh. Gotcha. Thanks. As for the Telemocha dudes, I guess I'll add the info regularly to the Energoa guys, but for the likes of Gimlet, Motorarm and Cohrada, I'll just add something like "They may or may not have been transported back in time to Energoa to fight in the Beast Wars there against invading Autobots and Decepticons from another dimension" or something to that effect. With all the damn Blasty Zone time travel bullshit that goes on in the Japanese timeline, it probably isn't too out of the question that they went there for a second and came back somehow. --DrSpengler 21:08, 25 February 2010 (EST)

Last three Masterforce screencaps

Hey Chris, I believe these are the last three Masterforce screencaps that need descriptions added back in: Image:Parrot_and_armadillo.jpg, Image:Parrot_armadillo_headon.jpg, Image:Wilder_beastmode.jpg

I haven't been able to track down which episodes they're from, but I figured you might know offhand. :) --abates 08:03, 21 April 2010 (EDT)

Dah! Might have to think about one or two of those for a minute... nice work getting the MF ep articles illustrated!! - Chris McFeely 08:26, 21 April 2010 (EDT)

Thanks! Good to have that finished! --abates 15:59, 21 April 2010 (EDT)

Oh, I discovered I'd missed Image:Diver suiton.jpg too, but I haven't had any luck working out which episode it's from. --abates 04:12, 22 April 2010 (EDT)

Subgroup

I was looking at the page, and I'm genuinely shocked at how a fairly important section is abandoned. I'd have a go, but I can't decide on what style to do it in User:Eire Apr 22 15.56 2010

Thanks

Thanks for protecting those pages. It was funny because I was just going to propose them being protected! --NCZ 09:24, 7 July 2010 (EDT)

Clip show

Hey, Chris I have a G1 Headmasters clip show that does not appear anywhere, I tried to add it but you changed all that. What do I need to do to add it? - Crisdecal 09, July 2010.

The episode you were trying to add already has an article. Add the info there. - Chris McFeely 05:50, 9 July 2010 (EDT)

You don't understand. It's a completely different episode. It's not Headmasters episode 43. It's different. The title is even slightly different. I have most recap episodes and trust me, its not any of the ones here. - Crisdecal

That would be Masterforce, I think you mean, rather than Headmasters. Unless that's what's causing your confusion. And I think we would need to see some proof of this, because every episode list for Masterforce, up to an including those published in Japanese guidebooks, only includes 47 episodes. - Chris McFeely 06:27, 9 July 2010 (EDT)

Your right. I meant Masterforce. I've uploaded 2 pics to this site. I'm new to this site so how do I show them to you? -Crisdecal

It's okay, I can see them on the recent changes page. I'm not sure what I'm looking at there with the second image - that's a title card from a VICTORY DVD set. Why is a Masterforce episode on a Victory set? - Chris McFeely 06:34, 9 July 2010 (EDT)

That's how they are on the Pioneer LDC release. I recently came across this site in attempts to collect the recap episodes and in hunting down the recap episodes through the 'net I came across someone that sold me copies of the Pioneer LDC discs. What we both found is that the Masterforce recap episodes 43 & 44 are on the Masterforce disc 8; the Masterforce recap episode 47 and the one I'm telling you about is on the Victory Disc 6; the Headmasters recap episodes 36-38 are on Victory disc 7; and the Victory recap episodes 40-44 are on the Victory disc 8. -Crisdecal

Well, I have to say, that's the first I've heard of anything like that. You're sure these are the genuine articles? Because that seems like an odd sort of mix up. Not to say that I could imagine a new clip show could have been created for a bootleg, or anything, but I'm at a bit of a loss, because... well, there's never been any indicated of another Masterforce clip show, and for it to have basically the same title as another one... I think we need someone more knowledgeable than I, and probably one who speaks Japanese, to clarify this... - Chris McFeely 06:57, 9 July 2010 (EDT)

This is an original copy from the Pioneer LDC disc. I didn't believe it either until I was watching the recaps earlier tonight. I thought that the recap episode in question was also Masterforce episode 43. But you can tell there is a slight difference in the title and even the whole episode is different from all the other recaps. There is a narrator on this one and through out the whole episode each main characters title appears in large bold Japanese characters every time a new character is introduced. -Crisdecal

The central character in this clip show is of course Super Ginari showing him kick Decepticon butt. Let me know what comes about all of this -Crisdecal

Almanac II Annotations for Page 98

Would that text by Yoketron happen to read as "Musabetsu Kakuto Ryuu"? If so, it's a Ranma 1/2 reference- most often translated as "Anything Goes Martial Arts'. - Ayellowbirds 23:47, 15 July 2010 (EDT)

Oh! Oh, very well done, sir! :) - Chris McFeely 04:44, 16 July 2010 (EDT)

Unsolved anagrams

Just got these reponses from Forster, thought you might need them for the annotations:

"I was just looking at the Almanac Annotations, and saw a section labeled "Unsolved Anagrams" with a listing for a "Baron Ye Gult". I was wondering if it was perhaps "Tonya Bulger" Updated Answer: I originally answered the question incorrectly. I thought you asked about 'Friar Ilia Tote'. So if anyone read that and was confused, its because I was asleep at the wheel. 'Baron Ye Gult' is my friend Albert Young. Albert is a big sports fan and goes dancing in clubs, but I am his friend anyway.

Another anagram: Is "Dankly Woolens" supposed to be "Kendall Swoony"? Sorry if these have been solved and just not posted to the annotations. Kelly Woods, my kid sister. I didn't expect people to get all the anagrams. They were mostly just me having fun."

Given the letters used, I'm going to assume that Kelly's middle name is Ann. --Khajidha 11:02, 28 July 2010 (EDT)

D'oh!

I must have been thinking of Return of. Thanks for the correction! --abates 22:01, 13 September 2010 (EDT)

i thought you might find this intresting

hi i am the denim cowboy i saw you at aa 2010 guy in cowboy hat. anyroad i am in beijing at this moment i saw in a basement in shanghai the masterforce and victory dvd boxset with your commentaries and your name on them your voice has gone all the way to china i will get a couple of pics and send them on when i return to shanghai.

i havent found much tf toys most of it revenge of the fallen and the power core combiners not much intresting but i did find in a toy market a TRANSFORMERS Original G1 1986 SHARKTICON GNAW Complete with japanese box

i thought you might want to know these bits of info

the denim cowboy

I decree this to be awesome. :D - Chris McFeely 10:48, 23 September 2010 (EDT)

hi

i got the photos i needed from that dvd shop in shanghai that had the masterforce and victory dvd if you want me to send them on to you i need an e-mail address to send then to.

the denim cowboy

Character box Victory clipshow

For "Echo Across the Galaxy! Bell of Love!!", there's two (2)-entries and two (27)-entries. I've tried finding the episode on youtube, but came out empty-handed. Think you could fix this, and, while you are at it, perhaps add Jean's other classmate to the list if he appears in the clipshow? Geewunling 08:08, 31 October 2010 (EDT)

ohhh

thanks how do i get photoshop?Robo killa 08:49, 4 December 2010 (EST)

You buy it. --Detour 09:42, 4 December 2010 (EST)

i.e: that Archtransit dude

I wouldn't be surprised if he was this dude. ---Blackout- 10:37, 5 December 2010 (EST)

Request

Could you please ban me? I don't plan on contributing here any further. ---Blackout- 11:02, 4 February 2011 (EST)

Vandalism

Hi, we have Kremzeek going on another hissy fit. Since you're the most recently online admin I saw, could you please block him? Thanks. -- SFH 12:24, 5 February 2011 (EST)

I think most of the ongoing waves of vandals are actually Blackout, this edit all but confirms it. --Khajidha 12:57, 7 February 2011 (EST)

Takara G1 Collection DVDs from Shout! Factory

[1] Since you seem to be something of an expert on Headmasters/Masterforce/Victory/Zone, I figured this might interest you. --Sabrblade 14:59, 15 February 2011 (EST)

Ingrid's relationship to Carter Newell in Nefarious

I noticed that you mentioned in the synopsis to Nefarious issue 6 and in Fortress (ROTF)'s fiction writeup that Ingrid is Newell's niece. I haven't been able to find a mention of what their relationship is in the comic, so I was wondering where that's from. --abates 17:09, 20 February 2011 (EST)

Well... um... huh. Looking back over the issues, I can't find it either. Geez. I must have... made it up? Wow, that's weird. Checked the "previously" pages in the individual issues and it's not there either... nothing on Furman's blog... yeah, shit, I guess that was just me. - Chris McFeely 18:57, 20 February 2011 (EST)

My bumper!

You are correct, sir. Have a cookie. --M Sipher 21:29, 14 March 2011 (EDT)

*nom nom nom nom* - Chris McFeely 21:55, 14 March 2011 (EDT)

Now, as for Flashpoint... you're almost there, but there's one more homage-point you've missed! CAN HE FIND IT? (Actually, the Energon Inferno thing is a coincidence, heh, since movie Inferno has the bronze/gold grill too.) --M Sipher 21:56, 23 March 2011 (EDT)

Decoys

Great stuff, McFeely. It's always awesome when we get a ton of information about something I basically don't know anything about. With pictures! -LV 14:45, 31 March 2011 (EDT)

Japanese trading cards

Seen this? --Monzo 12:29, 23 April 2011 (EDT)

Indeed I have! It is not an easy list to interpret, but I'm using it where I can! - Chris McFeely 12:48, 23 April 2011 (EDT)

Ahh, neat.

Also, re: online translators - you may want to cross-check whatever you've been using the Google one for with Babelfish and Infoseek Japan, which both use different translation algorithms from Google Translate. (To translate a webpage with Infoseek rather than a text block, go here, insert URL where appropriate, check the two rightmost radial buttons, and hit the button to the right of the URL input.) Possibly you know about this already too, but eh. --Monzo 17:13, 23 April 2011 (EDT)

Live-action film series Cybertron

I haven't seen either movie, but I get from the articles Cybertron was not shown in them. Could you confirm this and perhaps answer if this piece of concept art was ever used canonically before John Barber wrote it into the Foundation comics? Geewunling 16:08, 26 June 2011 (EDT)

Nah, you see that landscape in a brief holographic vision in the first film. - Chris McFeely 16:40, 26 June 2011 (EDT)

I see. Care to add that info to the page? Geewunling 08:58, 27 June 2011 (EDT)

mirage

could you add [[Image:TF3 Mirage.jpg|100px|this picture]] to the Mirage (Movie) article? I just created a account and it's semi-protected. thanks --Cavaliere 06:51, 7 July 2011 (EDT)

I'm not sure if we have a place for this particular picture on Mirage's article yet, but we can keep it handy until the page is updated fully and see if we can get some use out of it. - Chris McFeely 08:35, 7 July 2011 (EDT)

could you put it near the notes section? --Cavaliere 08:41, 7 July 2011 (EDT)

FLAANG

FLAANG -LV 12:43, 9 July 2011 (EDT)

In less useless news, why do we do that? That seems very strange. Also, that means somebody has to go fix my Ratchet and Space Case issue writeups. Probably me. Dammit. -LV 12:46, 9 July 2011 (EDT)

Writing up the events of a book or film or episode in present-tense is pretty much the literary standard. The foofy answer is that as isolated entities, they are "assumed to exist in an eternal present". - Chris McFeely 12:53, 9 July 2011 (EDT)

Well, live and learn, I guess. Thanks. -LV 12:56, 9 July 2011 (EDT)

It's a debate that was had a bit back in the old days! - Chris McFeely 12:57, 9 July 2011 (EDT)

Super Collection Figure images

You uploaded the SCF image for Ginrai ages ago and noted in the description that it originally came from the My Kool Toyz site. Now there's some other SCF images in Category:Image import error which I presume you also uploaded. Can I safely tag them all as coming from the same site? --abates 23:25, 14 July 2011 (EDT)

Giving it a quick look over, I do believe you may! - Chris McFeely 03:44, 15 July 2011 (EDT)

Awesome, thanks! --abates 04:49, 15 July 2011 (EDT)

Shockwave Image

Hello, this is Jedijam91. I am one of the users from Teletraan 1. I noticed that the image on this wiki for Shockwave is his depiction in DOTM. Because of our image policies at Teletraan 1 I cannot simply post the same picture that you have and I was wondering if you could lend me the image for its use on Teletraan 1. Our image is horribly outdated, its his depiction from the 2007 movie console game. 208.104.218.26 21:28, 30 July 2011 (EDT)

As that's a promotional render of Shockwave and not "ours" per se, you're perfectly okay to use it. :) - Chris McFeely 06:09, 4 August 2011 (EDT)

• Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal#Gif_uploads_blocked.3F? -Derik 17:23, 13 August 2011 (EDT)

Atari fusion image

Could you upload a version of Image:Kissplay1 atari fuses.jpg that contains the prevous panel of Atari and Ne-04 in silouette? A less clear version of the image that does contain the silhouette is currently up for deletion and I'd rather not choose which aspect I find more important. Geewunling 04:13, 12 September 2011 (EDT)

Sorted! - Chris McFeely 14:25, 12 September 2011 (EDT)

Thank you! Geewunling 14:57, 13 September 2011 (EDT)

I thought Barricade did speak!

You can clearly hear him say "You, your time is up. Move it.". The "remember me" line is speculation. As for Bonecrusher, we do hear him say "no" before being beheaded and his voice actor is credited. --68.32.145.39 14:37, 30 September 2011 (EDT)

Yes. Those are the lines that Frank Welker did in his Soundwave voice, which have either through error or just-plain-not-caringness wound up applied to Barricade. - Chris McFeely 16:00, 30 September 2011 (EDT)

Wikipedia

I think I've seen you before on Wikipedia. I'm just curious. I used to edit there myself, and I saw your name there before. Is that you?71.255.162.136 00:36, 15 October 2011 (EDT)

Oh yeah, that would've been me all right. Edited a lot of the Transformers articles there before the habits of certain editors became too much to be bothered with, so when TFWiki started up I hopped on over! - Chris McFeely 04:46, 15 October 2011 (EDT)

I also see your a huge Transformers fan. I'm also a huge fan myself. The same happens to me. When I make an edit, they say it's too in-universe or 100% plot dump, and then they revert it. I think this is the right place for me, so I think I'll also make an account for myself as well.71.255.162.136 12:04, 15 October 2011 (EDT)

Strikas identity issue

hey, do u know which one is Strika in this pic? purple or pink, cuz it'd make more sense if it was the pink one in the pic please inform & by the way how was it confirmed that this was Strika anyway?

Yeah, it's the pink one. Was confirmed in... "Flames of Yesterday", I think. - Chris McFeely 07:20, 17 October 2011 (EDT)

Quick suggestion...

...could you teach your pet fucktard here that if all he plans to do with his time is do nothing but revert the edits of others more or less because he feels like it, his time might be better spent leaping from the roof of an office building?

Thanks. 70.77.36.81 20:54, 30 October 2011 (EDT)

Thank you...

... for blocking that guy who vandalized the Centurion page. I know him from school. Is it possible that you can block any other IP addresses associated with the university, so that he doesn't keep spreading lies about me? Thanks. 70.27.132.160 15:27, 2 November 2011 (EDT)

Primal Program/Matrix

Hey, Chris. We've found that the "Primal Program" is a term referring to the program in the Creation Matrix. Since the Matrix of Leadership article is your baby, I'm going to defer to you on if this warrants a merge. —Interrobang 02:18, 2 December 2011 (EST)

Hmmmn... I theeeenk... that it probably works better as its own article, if we redo it just a little bit so that the article is actually about the oath, the actual act of swearing by the thing. Then we can link to the Matrix in the opening, and to the swear in the Matrix article. - Chris McFeely 05:14, 2 December 2011 (EST)

Rik Thomas Giant Robot article

Since you were interested in it, I'm letting you know that I typed up the article at Talk:Rik Thomas. —Interrobang 11:25, 7 December 2011 (EST)

Almanac Addendum Annotations note

You mentioned Cheetor's ID card being too small to read all of it. Well, here's the full size version to be read clearly. --Sabrblade 11:31, 14 December 2011 (EST)

Ach, yeah, that reminds me, I saw that a while back and wrote it up but never uploaded the changes! Must do that this evening, ta for the reminder. :) - Chris McFeely 11:47, 14 December 2011 (EST)

While I'm thinking of it, I made a few comments about the AAII annotations a while back, and wasn't sure if you'd seen them or not. --Sabrblade 12:11, 14 December 2011 (EST)

Scrambling Neon

Not that I doubt, but can you source the Scrambling neon Decepticon and his tin-can friend not being a Mallah/Brain thing? I assume someone asked on a forum.

(Not that I was ever saying it was intentional in the first place... authorial intent being ostensibly irrelevant; it's just a noted resemblance. The two were inseparable all issue.) -Derik 17:50, 26 January 2012 (EST)

I asked Griffith on Deviantart. I've seen a few people make the suggestion in a few places, so I was undoing it not to refute the similarity, but to prevent people who are already thinking it from seeing that and believing it deliberate. - Chris McFeely 19:37, 26 January 2012 (EST)

Thank you! (I still think that's Scavenger.) -Derik 19:49, 26 January 2012 (EST)

Trivial Armada-Tron Fiction

The Balance of Power, available at the website of artist Lee Sullivan! --Monzo 20:44, 18 February 2012 (EST)

I thought I was dooooone! - Chris McFeely 14:54, 19 February 2012 (EST)

Man, there's like four Armada chapter books that we barely cover at all. He's bound to be in those, too! (Surprise, our coverage of UT tie-in fiction is sparse.) --Monzo 18:52, 19 February 2012 (EST)

Those were just adaptations of cartoon episodes, though, I think, weren't they? (Also, when you say "UT", really, it's just "Armada", ain't it? I mean, look at Megs's main and toy pages - Armada armada armada armada armada armada armada armada armada virtually nothing for Energon little bump up for Cybertron.") - Chris McFeely 04:47, 20 February 2012 (EST)

Hrm. I have not actually read the chapter books, but I have a memory of someone's summary of the first saying that some details were fleshed out - specifically that Billy and Fred were both newcomers to Science City's high school, and took to bullying because of a sense of being out of place? It's been a while, though. And, yeah, true, there is a dearth of Energon and Cybertron tie-in fiction. I've never actually even been able to find any Superlink-specific guidebooks, for that matter, which, when I asked Fumihiko about it, he attributed to a publisher going bankrupt around that time. Not that that explains the rest of the world...

Also, re: UT Prime and Megs' toy pages - do you think we should format them more like the movie guys? They have a lot of releases, and big toy->little toy->big toy is a little cumbersome, even if it's how the actual releases went... --Monzo 11:45, 27 February 2012 (EST)

I think Megatron can get away with it as is, but I was thinking about that for Prime, all right. - Chris McFeely

Featured!

I'm gonna be busy conventioning on the last day of the month, so if you wanna flip over the Featured Article to whoever, I dub thee Interim Featured Article Chief! (I see you're working on Blaster.) --ItsWalky 20:43, 27 March 2012 (EDT)

Will do, chief! - Chris McFeely 10:44, 28 March 2012 (EDT)

It's up to you again, sir. No power here in Ohio. --ItsWalky 17:43, 30 June 2012 (EDT)

I am guessing you didn't see this. --ItsWalky 09:05, 2 July 2012 (EDT)

More a case of me totally sucking at my duties. >_< - Chris McFeely 17:09, 2 July 2012 (EDT)

And you still haven't updated The Annotated Allspark Almanac Addendum. (184.56.31.203 17:29, 2 July 2012 (EDT))

And you still haven't learned tact! --ItsWalky 19:32, 2 July 2012 (EDT)

Well it's updated now anyway! - Chris McFeely 09:56, 3 July 2012 (EDT)

Script question

Hey, Chris. I was wondering if you could check some G1 scripts to confirm the names for the football coach in "Triple Takeover" and the "alien scientist" voiced by John Stephenson in "Child's Play"? Thanks in advance! —Interrobang 00:15, 18 April 2012 (EDT)

Yup, they're just "coach" and "scientist". - Chris McFeely 16:02, 19 April 2012 (EDT)

Star Seekers faction symbol

Thank you so much for fixing that up! Antimatter 12:15, 3 May 2012 (EDT)

Not perfect, but it'll do a pinch! It's weird how rough-looking and asymmetrical it is - it makes me wonder if that's deliberate, to give it a rough, Jolly-Roger-esque quality, or if it's just been badly drawn by the MMORPG guys. - Chris McFeely 12:38, 3 May 2012 (EDT)

IDW

You do a good job at keeping the site in order. Can I ask politely what did Jazz, Cliffjumper, and Sky Lynx do in the latest comic? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ed (talk • contribs){{#if:| {{{2}}}|}}.

They're each seen in only one panel - Jazz appears in the Autobot base, while Cliffjumper and Sky Lynx are drinking at Maccadams. And I get that you're asking me so you can update their pages accurately, but that is not the way forward. - Chris McFeely 17:50, 30 May 2012 (EDT)

Sherlock

I actually googled it and found a website in Russian(!) talking about it. --abates 16:43, 3 July 2012 (EDT)

Sparkeater

"Not sure why you changed the links on this one. It's "A" sparkeater, named on the cast page as "The Pet"."

Going by the dialog it had looked to me like he was saying it's name was Sparkeater, which'd make sense because he's visibly a turbofox and not a sparkeater ala the one on the lost light. Anyway, I hadn't really checked the cast page. ZeroSD 05:50, 23 August 2012 (EDT)

Yeah, I can see why the dialogue could be read either way, all right. If you've looked at the cast page now, though, you'll see it calls it "The Pet" and identifies it as "a partly domesticated Sparkeater", which is confirmation of something I'd suspected for a while - that a Sparkeater can be anything, and it's something a being turns into it, not something that's created. - Chris McFeely 05:52, 23 August 2012 (EDT)

That makes sense, yea. ZeroSD 06:49, 23 August 2012 (EDT)

Pictures and editing

(sigh) Fine. Yesterday, its my 1st time joining and editing TFwiki. And just as I had awesome ideas of adding additional images to the unknown constructicon shovel page, other users change it back to the way it was! What is going on here?! It said I can feel free to edit pages on my main page the 1st time I joined, but other users change my favorite page back to the way it is now!--Constructifan 18:50, 9 December 2012 (EST)

That number of pictures was completely unnecessary for that page. And as I explained, you can have one unique picture for your user page. That's our policy. -Chris McFeely 20:26, 9 December 2012 (EST)

Hub pages

So, when does your OCD get you to do hub pages for all the Marvel UK issues with more than one story? :p

[Hell, given the introductions, letter pages, reprint editors and so forth that don't get covered in the current setup - and there were discussions about this before that agreed Something Should Be Done but no-one felt like getting round to do... - you could argue virtually every issue should get a page!] - SanityOrMadness 10:55, 8 March 2013 (EST)

But their issue-list boxes are okay! That means my (entirely non-existent and made-up) OCD jimmies remain unrustled. :) - Chris McFeely 11:43, 8 March 2013 (EST)

Comment from an outsider: I've never liked how we have pages for issues at the title of the story and not even redirects from the issue numbers. I would expect that if I had a comic with the title and numbering of "Transformers issue #7" I could type in "Transformers issue #7" and be directed to it or to a list of all "Transformers issue #7"s. --Khajidha 11:58, 8 March 2013 (EST)

I fully agree (well, can't use #s, that's a reserved character used to jump to markers on a page like section headers). I think there were, and someone (Interrobang?) went on a deletion spree... - SanityOrMadness 12:18, 8 March 2013 (EST)

I generally think we should have way more redirects than we do. For example, I think we should have "Hot Shot (Energon)" and "Hot Shot (Cybertron)" (and possibly even "Hot Shot (UT)"). But don't get me started on my problems with the disambiguation scheme .... --Khajidha 12:43, 8 March 2013 (EST)

I'm not too familiar with AWB, but could this process possibly be automated? Like, you have a table of "article name" and the various redirects you want for it, and it goes through and creates them all? I mean, it would still be a hassle to make that table, but...I dunno, throwing out half-formed ideas here.KrytenKoro 14:03, 8 March 2013 (EST)

It could be done, but not with AWB. That doesn't have the mail-merge type capability - it finds, replaces, deletes and inserts, but only on a global level (i.e., you can create a bunch of redirects from a list, but you can only automate insofar as they all redirect to the same page. Creating fifty redirects that all go to different pages wouldn't be any easier than doing it entirely manually).

The admins tend to shoot down any suggestions to systematically add more redirects though (like Khajidha's suggestion to add a redirect for every franchise a character appears in). I don't get why myself - redirects are cheap after all. - SanityOrMadness 14:30, 8 March 2013 (EST)

Metrowars 2

Hey, McFeely, how did you get the images for Metrotitan from Metrowars 1 and 2 from TFPulp? Cause I kinda want to put up a synopsis for Metrowars 2, but I can't remember the details of it. Escargon (talk) 23:09, 9 November 2013 (EST)

I just did a google search for it hoping to find it cached or replicated somewhere else while TFPulp is down. I don't remember where I found it now! - Chris McFeely (talk) 07:35, 10 November 2013 (EST)

Here, I found it on Seibertron: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/japanese-generations-2013-book-metro-wars-2-comic-translated-and-extra-commentary-by-guido-guidi/28418/.

Could you fill out the summary? I wasn't exactly sure what's going on with the story the first time, and I still don't now. EDIT: Thanks!Escargon (talk) 16:44, 10 November 2013 (EST)

Stephen Keener

Yo, Mr. McFeely. I was surfing around the web and found this:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=66374

I suspected it was fake, but after sending a message to the administrator, he told me that Ed Flanders' son Ian had provided the information. He even sent me a link of his user page to prove himself right.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=801912

My brain blew off.

I don't know what to think, so I decided to come to you. --Starscreamsfan (talk) 14:19, 17 November 2013 (EST)

Well I wish the actor meant more to me so I could share in the brain-blowing, but it certainly seems above-board... - Chris McFeely (talk) 13:59, 17 November 2013 (EST)

Yeah, it's just that it was really unexpected for me, because to think of Father Dyer being in Transformers is really mind-blowing awesomemess for me. But I also recently saw the Rebirth, and you know, Scorponok's "Autobot! DIEEEEE!" sounds a lot like Mr. Flanders, just more violent and raspy if you come to think of it. --Starscreamsfan (talk) 14:19, 17 November 2013 (EST)

Images

Thank you for reuploading the two MTMTE cover images. There has been two other images that have never worked for me, though. Beast Wars Blackarachnia's main image and Sixbuilder's main image have never worked either. Could you do something about that, please? Escargon (talk) 17:20, 19 November 2013 (EST)

Adding captions

I don't have an issue with the caption you added to the picture on Go (Go!), but don't we have a policy about adding captions if you're not contributing to the page? At what point does it become ok to add captions to pictures that don't have them?--BraveMax (talk) 04:43, 21 November 2013 (EST)

My two cents: McFeely has done so much for the wiki that he pretty much has free license to change whatever the heck he feels like. -- Repowers (talk) 07:06, 21 November 2013 (EST)

I don't like to perpetrate any kind of "us and them" mentality among editors, but generally I've observed our policies on this to apply to newer editors, while the proven "older guard" have a bit more of a free hand. Where the distinction between such groups would fall I couldn't tell you. - Chris McFeely (talk) 10:36, 21 November 2013 (EST)

I don't think the caption policy page is quite as clear as it could be, the policy is that you should be a productive member of the community before you add any captions. Whether you have done work on the page to which you add the caption is not really relevant. --Khajidha (talk) 13:50, 21 November 2013 (EST)

RID boxset bios

Hey, Chris, move this if it doesn't belong here, but do you still remember what you did for the RID boxset bios? I've always wanted to see them, but I've never been able to find them online, and as I live in America, I don't think I'll ever have the actual DVDs. I'd like to see them if I could. Thanks! Escargon (talk) 17:44, 9 December 2013 (EST)

GOT HACKED!!!! :'(

Yo, Chris. I noticed that someone changed my password after my last edit on the Ed Flanders page (Which had only 10 characters at that time, 8 cartoon characters, 1 commercial character and possibly the 1984-1985 commercials "Other Guy"). But when I saw my message wall, I freaked out. This was the work of one of those cyberpunks called "Hackers" (which is why I made my new user).

While this cocky little s**t was editing fake credits (dunno how he got Milt Jamin right), I was visiting LA to meet Stephen Keener and Ian Flanders (and yeah, that user wasn't Ian). I watched various commercials and Season 3 and 4 episodes with them and I got some new info on the subject. Keener played all the commercial characters I listed in his page, but he actually did play a character in the series and that was Blowpipe, he immediately recognized his lines (although I believed he only spoke once, he jumped out of his chair and said "THAT'S ME!!!" when the Dalek line EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! came up). Flanders recognized the characters that were listed and two more (The Quintesson in The Return of Optimus Prime and the Little Junkion carrying the Journal along with various walla characters in The Big Broadcast of 2006).

Although Prima has a Flanders feel to it when I think about it, I definetly have to agree that's Neil Ross (because I can hear a little bit of Springer too). And Prima is Michael Bell.

But even then Corey Burton is listed as Primon while Rege Cordic is listed as Prima in the Dossier at The Cybertron Chronicle.

Sorry for this little inconvinience, and please, keep my old user page blocked. I don't want this hacker harassing me anymore. He has done a lot of harm already while I was gone visiting two great people.

I hope you understand.

P.S.: Keener now works at the immobiliary department, but as with a lot of people, he told me to never give his address or phone number to anyone (Man, I didn't think one fan would scare a guy like that!). But he's still a very cool and friendly guy.

--Don Botleone (talk) 10:21, 23 December 2013 (EST)

cool story bro --ItsWalky (talk) 15:59, 23 December 2013 (EST)

I could do a whole thing here, but... no. It's not happening, Guillermo. Nobody here believes you. TFWiki does not exist in a vaccuum, we've see what you've pretended to do on Anime News Network as well. I accept that you may genuinely believe Ed Flanders did work on Transformers, but you have no proof for that, and you have lied and pretended to be other people to try and convince various websites of that fact - and you continue to fabrication ludicrous situations like the one described above. We are done with you. - Chris McFeely (talk) 16:36, 23 December 2013 (EST)

Beast Wars Universe

Why the revert? - SanityOrMadness (talk) 06:37, 17 January 2014 (EST)

Sorry, sir, I didn't even realise I did that! I must have tapped the screen on my phone by accident. - Chris McFeely (talk) 07:34, 17 January 2014 (EST)

IDWG1interior/cover templates

Spent a while figuring this out a while back so I could reuse. If you want to add more series to these, there's three essential sub-templates to edit (plus the documentation):

1. Template:IDWG1interior/series‎‎: Here, you add where the page for the series is (i.e., stuff like The Transformers (IDW) and The Transformers: Megatron Origin).
2. Template:IDWG1interior/series‎‎name: The subtitle of the series (e.g., All Hail Megatron). This is mostly for autolinking issues without a story title (i.e., pages like All Hail Megatron issue 1).
3. Template:IDWG1interior/category: Where the stuff gets categorised. For the IDWG1 stuff, this is usually the same as /seriesname since all the series are categorised individually, but where there's a clash - e.g., for the "The Transformers" Costa ongoing, IDW gets added at the start.

(There are similar meta-templates for IDW live-action film stuff, but there's an additional one for "franchise". Aligned just has /series and /seriesname. - SanityOrMadness (talk) 18:42, 24 April 2014 (EDT)

An Inhumanoids query

Hey, I hate bugging people, but I've googled and come up empty and I recall you being pretty handy with Inhumanoids. I'm going through an Inhumanoids kick, watching it for the first time. In "The Evil That Lies Within, Part 5" there's a character identified only as General who is taken hostage by Backthorne Shore (when he pulls the gun on Sen. Masterson). Thing is, he's a 100% dead ringer for Colonel Sharp from the G.I. Joe cartoon. Like, identical character model. With Hector Ramirez and Ace/Sabre Jet being in the show, I was thinking maybe in a script he was identified as General Sharp (like he got a promotion)? I know the R2 DVDs came with PDFs of the scripts, so if you own those, any chance you could check for me? Kind of a longshot, but it seemed like esoteric knowledge worth archiving/confirming. Take it easy, man. --DrSpengler (talk) 17:42, 19 December 2014 (EST)

Brilliant, enjoy the show! Knowing your love of horror I think you'll definitely get a kick out of it. I checked the script, and the General DOES get a name - but he's not Sharp, he's "General Crag". - Chris McFeely (talk) 18:35, 19 December 2014 (EST)

Curses! Thanks for checking it out for me, though; I appreciate it. And I just finished the opening 5-parter and it's one of those "where have you been all my life" moments. So many wasted years... --DrSpengler (talk) 12:30, 20 December 2014 (EST)

Digimon-related request

Regarding this thread, would you happen to have any recollection of an official dub name for Lucemon: Satan Mode from Digimon Frontier? We're trying to avoid renaming the page "Lucemon Wild 2nd Mode" without revising our site policies.KrytenKoro (talk) 12:17, 22 January 2015 (EST)

Woo, Digimon! Sabrblade asked me about this on the AllSpark the other day. It's been like fifteen years so I don't remember so good, but when the show was on the air, I was in weekly contact with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, who helped my site by providing voice actor credits and the proper spelling of some of the dub names (I can specifically remember Koichi's Digimon forms being a point of contention she clarified). I don't, unfortunately, remember if she was the one who provided me with the "Wild Mode" name for Satan Mode that I apparently used in my encyclopedia, but I figure she must have done as I don't think I would have made it up. - Chris McFeely (talk) 12:27, 22 January 2015 (EST)

Secrets of the Allspark Almanac II

Hey, dunno if you saw this, but Jim's put up pretty much all of what's left that you haven't found up on his blog: [2]. Escargon (talk) 14:47, 7 February 2015 (EST)

I did, thanks! Now I have to remember the password to my webspace... - Chris McFeely (talk) 15:15, 7 February 2015 (EST)

Cloud?

I saw that you had done summaries for the first couple of stories, and I was wondering if you had gotten them online somewhere. Is there a place that's actually translating them (finally)? Escargon (talk) 19:20, 20 March 2015 (EDT)

Sorry if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure you noticed this the first time I asked this. Escargon (talk) 20:56, 28 March 2015 (EDT)

Oh, you know, I didn't! There's a user on Tumblr who's been translating a few of them intermittently. I think I'm one or two behind in getting them written up. - Chris McFeely (talk) 21:09, 28 March 2015 (EDT)

Thanks Chris! Looking under his tag, yeah, it looks like he has Resolve and Leap up in addition to the ones you've written up. Escargon (talk) 21:13, 28 March 2015 (EDT)

Ask Vector Prime

Should Ask Vector Prime automatically be the subject header if that's the only fiction? It makes sense for cases where he's talking about wholly new universes we've never seen before. But when he's flitting in and out of existing universes I think that might make it confusing. For almost all Transformers fiction, the heading gives a good indication of the universe. For the few where it doesn't, like TImelines, we don't use Timelines. We use the series the Timelines book is dipping into. See Dead End (Animated). On the other hand, you've been here forever and work on Vector Prime, so maybe there's an angle I'm not considering. --Giggidy (talk) 10:30, 22 September 2015 (EDT)

I'd say it's a case-by-case basis. Animated is a regular example where we did fold the explicitly-part-of-the-cartoon-continuity stuff into the main write-up, but that's because it was contemporaneously produced stuff, which began with the IDW comic, which was written by the show's writer, and specifically designed to slot in and around the episodes of the show. Not presenting information like that together is a disservice to what's being done. Conversely, at no point in the G1 cartoon did the Protectobots come from a colony planet - that's a thirty-year-after-the-fact add-in fix-fic by a separate writer in a different medium that I feel is categorically wrong to list under "The Transformers cartoon" as a header. - Chris McFeely (talk) 12:14, 22 September 2015 (EDT)

I'm probably over-thinking it. Thanks for answering. --Giggidy (talk) 15:56, 22 September 2015 (EDT)

Cybertron Optimus/Magnus

Dunno what exactly you meant by that edit summary, but Optimus's bio does say "Teamed up with his brother Ultra Magnus for a desperate mission to the most remote areas of Earth, Optimus Prime will once again use the Spark of Combination granted him on Cybertron at the beginning of the Powerlinx Battles." The sentence you deleted wasn't needed, but the bio makes it clear it's UT Optimus. Saix (talk) 14:03, 23 September 2015 (EDT)

Huh, I must have looked up the wrong bio. Sorry about that. - Chris McFeely (talk) 17:18, 23 September 2015 (EDT)

TF fisguers

what transformers figures do you own sorry if this a dumb question Asda (talk) 13:41, 26 September 2015 (EDT)

question

how good is masterpiece sunstorm?Asda (talk) 14:24, 15 May 2015 (EDT)

dose it brake easy?Asda (talk) 14:24, 15 May 2015 (EDT)

Wouldn't know, I'm afraid, I don't own it! - Chris McFeely (talk) 18:16, 15 May 2015 (EDT)

Bee's Backtalk

Hey, Chris, you seem to have a much better ear for voices than I have. Can I ask you to check over my work on the transcripts for the audio and make corrections where they need be? Still working on a bit of it. Escargon (talk) 20:08, 12 October 2015 (EDT)

New GoBots franchise article

By the way, feel free to edit the Sandbox if you think of stuff. I trust ya. --M Sipher (talk) 18:28, 28 October 2015 (EDT)

The Coming Storm part 3 Seeker

If I may ask, do you happen to have a scannable copy of "The Coming Storm: Part 3"? In the grand scheme of things it's not that major, but I'm a fan of Seekers and it bugs me that Seeker (body-type) doesn't have a visual under Wings Universe for Shadowcaster and his not-Thrust subordinate. S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47 (talk) 20:43, 29 October 2015 (EDT)

Taken care of! - Chris McFeely (talk) 21:35, 29 October 2015 (EDT)

Gobots, again. Sorry

On the community portal, Thylacine 2000 is disputing my vote count. My interpretation of what you wrote was that you were in favor of having one new Challenge screen capture per GoBot, calling my proposal a workable solution. Later on, you expressed discomfort in having the screen captures commented upon by Cy-Kill included in the wiki. Thylacine 2000 takes this as evidence that you've changed your position. I thought you were specifically commenting on how the wiki is interpreting that data and kept your vote in the Pro New Screencaptures column. If I am wrong, could you please fix or let me know here and I'll fix? I think there should be screen captures but I don't want to do so by misrepresenting people's views. --Giggidy (talk) 09:30, 3 November 2015 (EST)

Yeah, shift me over to a "no". It was only an idle thought when I said I didn't object to it at the time, and I'd rather vote "no" than tolerate the active gaming of the system by Facebook users. - Chris McFeely (talk) 15:10, 3 November 2015 (EST)

The English Voice Actors pages

Sorry about cutting so many roles. I'll ty to dial back a bit . -Foffy the Sheep (talk) 08:14, 15 December 2015 (EST)

Tf Vs Gi Joe

Would you mind explaining what about my edit was done right and wrong,please? I suspected I was getting a bit too reverent and thus it's why I asked for a second opinion by a more experience editor to polish away they bits that made it sound more ad-copy like. This isn't me asking for a reversion, just asking specifically what I did wrong so I can do better in the future, especially because I am thinking of focusing most of my edits on this series in the future. Thanks boss. :) Lush City (talk) 16:05, 7 January 2016 (EST)

It was just a bit rambly and over-worded. "Glorious amalgam." "Horned Yemic demiurge." I kept the facts you added - cause they were good facts - I just made it read like something a person might say. - Chris McFeely (talk) 16:19, 7 January 2016 (EST)

Thanks! I'll try not to take that "something a person might say" comment personally. :P Really though I do tend to talk like that (just ask my Morrison annotations) and I was both caught up and trying to embody the thematic style of the series. May have gone a bit overboard if it made it hard to parse, but I felt given the work we could be a bit more...flowery. Anyway thanks for the kudos I'm proud to serve. Lush City (talk) 16:43, 7 January 2016 (EST)

Unknown Filipino Generation 1 animation studio

I have to say, nice work on all that stuff. Far be it from me to tell you what to do, but do you think perhaps the image you posted on the talk page not too long ago (see right) might be worth putting on the page proper, with an appropiately informative caption? -Foffy the Sheep (talk) 19:25, 9 February 2016 (EST)

Nah, not this one, there are better comparison images that can be made with the discoveries we've made since. - Chris McFeely (talk) 19:32, 9 February 2016 (EST)

Fair enough. -Foffy the Sheep (talk) 19:36, 9 February 2016 (EST)

Question about Digimon Hurricane Touchdown

I'm trying to hunt down a source on whether DHT is considered officially in-canon or not. Obviously it has a ton of plot holes that make it massively difficult to place in continuity from a fan perspective, but I'm trying to find if there is an official statement -- after all, we had the incident with Battle of Adventurers, which was originally assumed to be out of continuity but then proven to be in it by the time Tamers ended.

Shining Celebi on withthewill has mentioned that he remembers some statement to the effect that DHT was non-canon, but cannot remember any actual details about what was said or who said it. He did say, however, that it was a source that would have been familiar to him and you. Would you happen to remember it?KrytenKoro (talk) 23:55, 1 March 2016 (EST)

Naw, I have no recollection that, I'm afraid. It always seemed preeeetty safe to call that one out of continuity. - Chris McFeely (talk) 05:14, 2 March 2016 (EST)

Can I get a little access?

Sorry Chris, dunno if you're the person to ask. But for whatever reason, I can't make edits to the RID cartoon page anymore. I want to keep the Japanese Release section up to date and they've announced some new info. Can you add me to whatever list is allowed to edit that page? Thanks! --DrSpengler (talk) 12:44, 4 April 2016 (EDT)

Sipher locked that to anyone but admins to stop the cast-list fiddling just a day or two ago, it's probably best to leave it for a little bit. You want to throw it up here, and I'll add it in? - Chris McFeely (talk) 14:50, 4 April 2016 (EDT)

Ah. Well, it was only a little thing, but if you don't mind...

"Season 2 will begin airing in 2016 under the title Transformers: Adventure -Micron Chapter- (トランスフォーマー アドベンチャー -マイクロンの章-, Transformers: Adventure -Micron no Jō-)."

Thanks! --DrSpengler (talk) 14:58, 4 April 2016 (EDT)

The main perpetrator has managed to get themselves a permaban (sockpuppeting), so I'll go and unprotect it. --M Sipher (talk) 04:10, 5 April 2016 (EDT)

Well those are the worst kind of puppets. Thanks! --DrSpengler (talk) 08:34, 5 April 2016 (EDT)

(We're doin' that one already!)

But mine was in the minor key! The repetition with an alteration was the joke! --ItsWalky (talk) 15:50, 23 September 2016 (EDT)

Then I'm afraid it went over my head because I don't understand music! :\ - Chris McFeely (talk) 15:51, 23 September 2016 (EDT)