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Day 30 - Post your collection

Pffft, what collection? XD The only Transformers stuff I own are the Mighty Muggs Optimus I posted the other day and the TFA DVDs. (Well. The ones that actually came out. YES HASBRO I'M STILL BITTER.)

But! My brother still keeps his Beast Wars toys! And he lets me keep Airazor in my room!

So I guess this counts:

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Day 28 - Favorite intro

First, let me admit something I think I've only told drachenaugen about: the G1 intros and music give me tons of second hand embarrassment. |D Which is kind of ridiculous because I'm watching G1 already but... yeeeeah. Same with TFA. The Beast Wars intro was AMAZINGLY COOL back in its day but now I look at it and I'm like "whoa, NINETIES" XD

So yeah. TF Prime wins. I'll probably look back at it in a few years and feel like I do now for BW, though XD But I still love TFP's music a lot.

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Day 26 - Favorite seeker

Sooo to make this fair I'm going to take this as "other than Starscream", and that's... G1!Skywarp. Yes, the cartoon version, no comics or anything. =D

HE'S THE HAPPIEST TROLL EVER. And kind of adorable for an evil giant robot. He's all "yeaaaah let's go shoot some stuff I LOVE MY JOB!". And he gets into fights with cassetticons and loses. Gotta love the guy.

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But first, happy birthday to pellimusprime! =D Hope you have a great day.


As for the meme:

Day 24 - Favorite subgroup

... you know, I really want to cheat with this one.

I mean, I get that we're talking about actual canon subgroups. And the answer is easy: you've all probably noticed that I kind of really love the Dinobots. ♥

Buuut I still want to cheat and say that, you know what should be considered a subgroup? NEEEEEEEERDS. Because they're one of the things about Transformers I love the most. =D They're everywhere! In most continuities! And you have professional nerds like the scientists and engineers, but also people who just happen to be nerdy and curious even if it's not their job, like Hound or TFA!Prowl.

Seriously, guys, we've got LOTS OF NERDS ALL OVER THE PLACE and they have actual personalities and they get to be really cool and they're not all similar to each other. And this makes me ridiculously happy. ILU GIANT ROBOT NERDS ♥

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Day 22 - Favorite triple-changer

TFA!Blitzwing, no contest. He's just hilarious! =D And a great source of nightmare fuel when you stop to think about him for five minutes, heh. But that's part of the, uh, "charm".

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Also, Thundercats! =DDD

I love that show more and more with every episode. ♥ Yes, it's very much a kids show, but it's a good kids show. And it helps that it's full of stuff I love. So it's not just nostalgia factor, you know? (Even though every single time Lion-O does the Sword of Omens speeches I feel like a six year old.) It's got great characters and odd friendships and adventures and teamwork and a lovely fantasy world! I'm so so so glad we're getting this show.

Day 20 - Least favorite human character

I don't have the dubious pleasure of knowing the kids from Energon that the fandom almost universally hates, so I was going to say Daniel from post-movie G1. And then I realized I had forgotten about Bayverse.

Now, I don't mind most of the Bayverse humans. Honest. But... ugh, Leo. WHY DO YOU EXIST. WHY.

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Day 18 - Favorite comic book author

... yeah, what the subject says. I haven't read enough, I don't know who wrote what (even from what I've actually read), and I have no idea of how much of what I like/dislike has to do with specific writers and how much has to do with the editors.

So yeah, skipping this one.

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Day 16 - Favorite voice actor

This is really hard! Transformers has always been full of talented actors doing a million voices each. I'm tempted to leave it at "I can't choose", but in the spirit of not cheating... yeah, I'm going to say Scott McNeil. They guy did, like, half of Beast Wars on his own.


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Day 14 - Best character design



ROBOT DINOSAURS GUUUUYS. They make me feel like I'm eight years old. ♥ But not everything is nostalgia factor, so I'll admit that they're a lot prettier in TFA than in G1.

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Day 12 - Favorite comic series

I'll admit it right now, I haven't read a lot of the comics. Dreamwave's series, the TFA tie-ins, Megatron: Origins, and All Hail Megatron. Oh, and that one Marvel comic where Starscream saves Christmas. But from the ones I've read... my favorite is Dreamwave's Generation One. Because of course I had to like the one that will never ever get finished. XD

Anyway, I really enjoyed it. I'm still surprised at how much I liked the Sunstorm arc; I'm even more surprised because from everything I'd heard about it, no one ever mentioned that OH BY THE WAY BUMBLEBEE IS PRETTY AWESOME.

... and that pretty much sums up why I like Dreamwave a lot more than IDW, I guess. I can deal with darker and edgier - but I have to still be able to like the characters. Dreamwave is more complex than the cartoon and the good guys aren't squeaky clean and they have conflict among themselves, but they try to be good, you know? They stand up for what they think is right. (Insert love letter to DW!Grimlock here.) On the other hand, by the time I finished All Hail Megatron I was like... yeeeeah, I don't recognize any of you guys anymore.

(Which isn't a judgement on IDW's objective quality or anything. It's just not my cup of tea.)

Anyway. My point is, oh Dreamwave I love you why did you have to go. ;_;

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