User:G1MarvelBlaster
| This article is about the TFWiki contributor. For the red Autobot badass, see Blaster (G1). |
- G1MarvelBlaster is a human in the Transformers Wiki continuity family
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 5-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.
Fiction
Generation 1
Aaah, the era that began it all, and still G1MarvelBlaster's most favourite Transformers Continuity family.
Marvel Comics continuity
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
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
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.
Over the years, G1MarvelBlaster has seen many more episodes of the cartoon and while it's enjoyable, such a goofy, error-ridden mess will never transplant the comics as the primary G1 interpretation for him. He has still not seen most of the third season (the exception being Carnage in C-Minor for an edit to Blaster's page here on the wiki) or any of The Rebirth. When money's a little less tight, G1MarvelBlaster may splurge on the new DVD box set of the entire series.
Japanese cartoon continuity
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.
