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.

Created pages

• This one (duh)
• The pages of various uploaded images
• Cyberworld Soundwave

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.
• Add stuff related to my collection to this page.
• Add Transformers Beyond Reality's release to the Transformers Timeline.
• Add Blokees to G1 Laserbeak's merchandise section.
• Add details to the Blokees Yearly Versions of Soundwave, Megatron and Bumblebee.
• Add an image of CV Clobber as an Autobot to her page.
• Add an image to the 2026 section on the TTC page.
• Add missing toy images to the Junkion (species) page.
• Add S4 events to ES Starscream's page.
• Add details of Authentics Optimus and Bee's battle effects.
• Add Child's Play events to the Toy page's fiction section.
• Add the 2026 TTC multipack to the relevant characters' pages.
• Update the Brick (term) page to make it less dated.