User:StrawDeath
Hello person looking at my profile, I'm StrawDeath! And this is the page where I tell you a little bit about myself!
About Me
How I became a Transformers fan
As a kid, I had access to a wide range of my parent's DVDs and VHS tapes, and watched many different shows and movies with them. Among my personal favourites, however, were a few in particular - The Prism Leisure release of G1 Season 2 Part 2, their re-release of the 1986 movie, and Maximum Entertainment's initial 2-disc set containing Volume 1 of RID 2001. I was obsessed with them, watching them over and over again, while not knowing there were any toys associated with them. Eventually, however, those DVDs got put away somewhere never to be found again (except the movie, which has since been found), and so as I grew up I gradually forgot about them as they faded into the back of my mind.
For a huge amount of time after that, Transformers simply didn't catch my attention as much as it once did. Although I watched most new cartoons as they aired, it wasn't because I favoured them in particular, but because they were simply some of many available to me at the time. A similar case applied to the movies, too. And although I occasionally received and highly enjoyed Transformers figures from various toylines, it wouldn't blossom into a full-on collection until much later.
Cut to June 2023. I was in a Smyths, I don't recall why, when something caught my eye. It was a Legacy: Evolution Beachcomber & Paradise Parakeet. Despite how long it had been since I'd watched those DVDs, I immediately recognised it from The Golden Lagoon, which as the first episode on its disc would've been the one I watched most. So I bought it. Then when I got home and experienced my first Transformers figure in a long time, something clicked. I loved it. And as to be expected from Google, this soon led to the official uploads of the G1 cartoon appearing before me in my YouTube recommendations. This was the beginning of my true journey as a Transformers fan, as from there I would go on to buy more figures and experience more media, as well as immerse myself in the community.
Likes & Dislikes
Likes:
- Transformers (obviously)
- Taking photos of bugs and other bug-like creatures
- A wide range of video games, most notably Pokémon
- Rainy days and sunny days
- Well-explained edits
- Money :)
- Discovering things not already documented on TFWiki
Dislikes
- When video games waste my time
- Grey days with no rain nor shine
- Major edits that don't explain what was changed
- Being guilty of that myself
- Inaccurate figures that turn out heavily flawed anyway
- Forgetting to do stuff
- That weird yellow highlighting effect I don't know how to remove
On TFWiki.net
General summary
StrawDeath is an account that was originally created at some point in 2024 for the purpose of adding easily-overlooked packaging art errors to the Direct-Hit and Power Punch pages under their Siege/Earthrise figures. However, it has since been used to make numerous other edits and additions.
Notable contributions
Created pages:
- This one (duh)
Major edits:
- Added details of multiple previously-unknown errors in Siege/Earthrise Direct-Hit and Power Punch's packaging artwork.
- Added New Legends Lio Convoy to the glow-in-the-dark page.
- Corrected some misinformation on which Series Cyberverse Shockwave's Tiny Turbo Changers were released in.
- Added the 2025/2026 Authentics Prime Changers to the Blast Effects page.
- Added the year of 2026 to the Transformers timeline, as well as multiple major events that occurred in both 2025 and 2026.
To-do list
- Create pages for HTI Group and Sambro International.
- Add missing glow-in-the-dark merchandise to the glow-in-the-dark page.
- Add the Sambro glow-in-the-dark wall puzzle to the TLK toyline page, as well as to the pages of any characters featured in it.
- Create page for Smyths.
- Create pages for YouTube and the channels that officially host Transformers content (e.g. Transformers Official).
- Add an image to this page with a caption.
- Re-add the package art error to Direct-Hit's page.
- Add stuff related to my collection to this page.
