Dave Edwards
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Dave Edwards, better known as "Zobovor", is a longtime member of the Transformers fandom, primarily active on alt.toys.transformers. He worked with Rhino Entertainment on their release of the Generation 1 cartoon on DVD in 2002 and is given "special thanks" in the credits.
Edwards was the first fan known to document Gold Plastic Syndrome,[1] though the specific term appears to have been coined by another fan, "Sky Shadow".[2] Edwards' site, started in 1998, includes the first online cataloging of errors and other oddities in the Generation 1 cartoon.[3] He regards the occasional coloring errors in that show as representing new characters and has kitbashed many of them as toys.
As a joke, Edwards created fake "scans" of a catalog showing early Beast Wars toys with Generation 1 character names.[4] These were somehow picked up by Shout! Factory and erroneously used in the extras of their Beast Wars DVD set.[5] Some fans were fooled, and speculation ensued as to whether these were actual pre-production names or merely placeholders,[6] before Edwards noticed them watching the DVD himself and explained their origin.[7]
References
- ↑ Alt.toys.transformers post by Edwards in 2001 describing the Electro toy's spontaneous destruction
- ↑ Alt.toys.transformers post by "Sky Shadow" in 2002 asking which toys suffer from "Gold Plastic Syndrome"
- ↑ Edwards's personal site, "ZMFTS!"
- ↑ Faked Beast Wars catalog
- ↑ Photo of the paused DVD
- ↑ Allspark.com thread speculating about the names
- ↑ Alt.toys.transformers post by Edwards explaining the names
