Dave Edwards

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There he is, my little guy. Isn't he cute?

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]

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