since getting into G1 I find myself thinking that Ironhide and Ratchet are basically the biggest obstacle to doing a "one per mold" thing with Diaclone. Smokescreen, Bluestreak, Hoist, Grapple, Red Alert, kind of who cares? Just hone in on those guys from The Ultimate Guide, from TF07...

TYPHON—adventurer of the underseas! 86 years later, he's been dredged up from the benthic depths of public domain comics history, for YOUR reading pleasure. Will he get the girl, or is it so over? wadapan.substack.com/p/typhon-1

New original Cobra character Robert "Forwardjump" Shortjump. His ability is Dynamite, which is his half brother and deadly enemy's single weakness. Due to his trademark "dynastep" technique he has really fucked knees and ankle. He works in volcano. "Dynamite is man's volcano!" -quote

crack team of experts I've assembled to kill the crack team of experts Jo's assembled to kill the entire cast of overwatch

Who's the greatest musician in history? C’mon, I know you’ve already thought of names. Mozart. Freddie Mercury. Taylor Swift. Penelope Telephone. Let’s say you thought of a hundred artists like that. Surely the greatest musician ever is one of them, right? BZZT! Wrong! wadapan.substack.com/p/encore

so should you have sex with the pluribus or not? This is just one of the many fascinating topics discussed in my new article wadapan.substack.com/p/pluribus

an extremely generous individual (you know who you are) has bought a year's subscription to the newsletter, which I guess means I'm contractually obligated to bang out 52 posts for you plebs this year???

Happy new year everyone! Today is the ONLY DAY you can read this post and have the intended experience. wadapan.substack.com/p/fateball

anyone have any idea about alternatives to substack that - offer a newsletter service - have an option for paid subscriptions - have a webapp editor with revision history - support footnotes - are not an SEO black hole - do not require me to pony up cash upfront

remembered I needed to dig out all the batteries from my Unicron Trilogy toys with LIGHTS + SOUNDS. Maybe seven or so had a bit of battery acid in, nothing terrible? Crazy how many Armada and Energon toys they just lumped in three LR44/A76 cells in for a laff. Anyway here's your reminder to check!

A HOT SCOOP from the TFWiki Community blog... the long-lost Cobybot prototype alluded to in the yellow Scrapmetal's online Cyber Key content has suddenly appeared out of nowhere! You can ogle it on your computer now! tfwikicommunity.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/t...

I'm really good at PR

went to a Transformers meetup! If you don't know what to expect from these events, you might be interested to hear how it went down! thewadapan.tumblr.com/post/8030286... (thanks to @primetimetoyz.bsky.social for putting it on! I had a really nice time :) )

My review of Kniv3s Out!!!! Is Out!!!!! Full spoilers, obviously. I'm not going to talk about a murder-mystery without going into full spoilers, that would be silly. letterboxd.com/wadapan/film...

cripes I did not realise that almost the entire writing team for EarthSpark, with exception of showrunner Dale and TF veteran Gavin Hignight (who only did two episodes anyway), was replaced for Season 2, along with the storyboard directors and animation studio?? What HAPPENED back there...

Thinking about Hot House, the fire department A-10 Thunderbolt. The person buying gear for the department read "fire support" on a spec sheet and said "oh perfect, that sounds like something we could use!"

if you've never handled Beast Wars Scavenger before I think the thing that's really insane about him is just the fact that fully 75% of his body mass is just his arms. His entire robot-mode body and head is curled up in his abdomen, which itself is mostly kibble that hangs off his arse

(And this copy in particular now contains a one-of-a-kind sketch!)

“Eyes Wide Shut, Lips Wide Kissable” is officially Larry Hama-approved

honestly like can you imagine. What would he (?) even be doing there. Class of 4 normal preschoolers and 1 deranged killer

....ah-heh, the code is airbrushed out of the other photos. ....which begs the question whether it was airbrushed away because that deco was dropped, or because *that's what toy photographers do all the time actually, but this time it was a false positive*

checked out Absolute Batman today! It was Absolutely unremarkable www.tumblr.com/thewadapan/7...

Was trying to make a point about how much the animation models for all the 1986 Scramble City guys suck, and drew this harrowing look at an alternate reality where the reference material available for drawing Optimus Prime's animation model was just as bad.

Oh this is crazy, I think my DWJ bibliography has been de-indexed by Google? I got it by googling when I went to update it the other day, and just now I tried again—even searching "wadapan"—and it had vanished. Bizarre to think that it was flagged automatically? wadapan.wordpress.com/daniel-warre...

dammit now I'm wondering what the list looks like. Like Arcee has got the most misogynist momence just by sheer volume, but she's born with goodness in her heart. Need me a Thunderblast type stereotype. A real The Razor's Edge OC esque misstep. Do the ROTF bikes count as one slot or three

thinking about her. How many of her exist in the whole world do you think. A single digit number? A two-digit number? Just one? How does that graph look, over time?

publishers should be made to do one of those mandatory health & safety quizzes but it's a Baby's First "how to spot AI art" test. "Ooh, bad luck! Pay close attention to the left and right sides of Optimus Prime's body." seriously just click back and forth on the art and the supposed "pencils" ahaha

I've received a boon! The best Armada character is in my house!? www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmaE...

god so I just sold my spare Unite Warriors Wildrider that came with the (otherwise Hasbro, inc. Offroad) set of Stunticons I got from TFN last year (for the same price I just sold Wildrider for on his own!) and when I got back from the post office I immediately ran back, "can I have it back one sec"

ichikawa voice: to make this a full supplement to the english version of armada it is paramount that at least one character has a dogshit accent

COMING MONDAY AFTER ALMOST A YEAR THE GRAND RETURN OF OUR WORLDS ARE IN DANGER for one episode about some pack in manga

read Giant Days this month and as always, comics drive me up the wall - trade paperbacks collect just 4 issues at a time, despite the whole series clearly being structured around 6-issue semesters - hardcovers named after the semesters... but collect 8 issues each, so it still doesn't correspond!

the thing about Nightracer right is that she's so sick. I wish they'd make another one but frankly nothing is ever gonna beat the fact that she's a working Hot Wheels car. Also they can't get the trademark can they

Thrilled to have End of the Earth and All Will Be One from @wadapan.bsky.social along with this lovely mosaic from @jalaguy.bsky.social!

imagine if they'd used these logos in 2012. That would've been so swag

sometimes I think the Bionicle fandom doesn't know how good they've got it. Like it's dead isn't it! It's not bothering you. All fanworks all the time babey

whenever I see a sales post that's like "legacy bludgeon never transformed" I fully just assume they're lying. I cannot imagine not transforming the transformer. get out of here with these baby shoes ass listings

reread Murder Falcon on the train today and fully just wept through it

My TFN video is now out there, sorry that the moment's passed! youtu.be/hPycNyKG6r4?...

It's weird, because you'd think that comprehensive knowledge would imply expertise but apart from a few videos (like BDG or Rogers) it's more a performance of *anti-expertise* - that a Lay Man has been exposed to this critical mass of Information and Experience they can't comprehend, only ever relay

with big projects, I have what I call the "rainforest cafe guy" litmus test, which means I ask myself: am I eating at every Rainforest Cafe in the Country or do I have an actual point to make

been working on a post that's going to set off a truly Ungodly number of Google Alerts or whatever and I genuinely have no idea what to expect. Will they come for me with sticks?

rewatched a couple of entries in the rich canon of "cool white guy travels the world shooting people" movies! First up, it's Skyfall, which I watched in a grim crumbling empty property in the Scottish Highlands! letterboxd.com/wadapan/film...

done my civic duty by filling out the TFN feedback survey. Used the "panels" question to talk about the cosplay contest being a bit rushed, the quiz being a bit rubbish, and script readings in general. Used the "merch" question to pitch 'em on ideas for TFN-exclusive fiction, which I'd love to see!

thread of Cyberverse concept art and the exact google images they were based on Sharkticon - preliminary character model Perceptor - fan-coloring of Guido Guidi's IDW character model, by VaderPrime1 www.deviantart.com/vaderprime1/...

took a while, but here's my con report from this year's TFN! Sorry for any egregious omissions, by the time I started writing it things had become a bit of blur. Thank you all for making it such a wonderful weekend! thewadapan.tumblr.com/post/7923305...

said it before but there is such a gap in the Reprolabel market for someone to make a sticker sheet to cover an entire toyline in one go, purely to address "missing" paint applications that are obviously intended on the sculpts. Headlights, yellow license plates, deco on unpaintable plastic

oooh, just found out some information about the transforming egg-dinos I gave to @toyfu332.bsky.social at the convention—they're knockoffs of Bandai''s Tamagoras ("Egg Monsters"), a line which also included lots of Godzilla kaiju, (unlicensed) Universal Monsters and insects