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Masters of the Universe Chronicles: SDCC 2011 Reveals Discussion
Welcome back to another packed edition of Masters of the Universe Chronicles. This time there is a lot to talk about since the San Diego Comic Con reveals went down. To help Chris, he had Rob Base talk about a few figures that he took a shine too and also regarding the MOTU comics that are making a welcome return.
Before we get to the next segment you will hear the audio from the Toy Masters documentary trailer. Interesting stuff! Roger Lay Jr will be returning onto Masters of the Universe Chronicles so please send Chris your questions via email or on the facebook page and you can join his facebook page, just type in Toy Masters.
Up next is Dylan Cook and Mike Lacey. They then cover some of the other figures as well as talking about the Masters of the Universe Classics Create a Character. Since this opened to the international fans, this is something that Dylan and Chris go over.
Last but by no means least is Wade Thurman who was at the convention and he goes over the atmosphere, what freebies he got as well! Wade goes over the fan vote that was at the convention and more importantly what colour he voted for on a certain mythical dragon. Wade also sent Chris the audio he recorded from the Mattypalooza panel and it is in the end of the show after you hear “Let the power return” and runs for about 35 mins! just a little bonus for you all!
You can contact the show by emailing vintoman@popculturenetwork.com or if you are on Skype – Vinto316. There is a Facebook page you can join and you can do that by going to http://www.facebook.com/#!/mastersoftheuniversechronicles and Vinto316 on Twitter. Thanks as always for listening!
Skyfire and Jetfire
In the beginning, the war was divided into two sides, the villainous Decepticons and the heroic Autobots.
And what was an understanding was that Decepticons could fly while the Autobots could not and never the two shall meet. That is in the cartoon medium and in the toy form as the Autobots were primarily cars while the Decepticons were mostly planes.
In season 1 of Transformers, we are introduced to Skyfire.
Skyfire was one of Starscream’s closest and dearest friends. They manage to become lost from each other while on prehistoric Earth eons before the arc. Millions of years later, the Decepticons found Skyfire, encased in a block of ice, and revived him. Later on, he ends up siding with the Autobots.
As for the toy, he was named Jetfire and was a repaint of a Macross VF-1S Super Valkyrie plane. This is why the cartoon is different from the toy release. Takara was none too pleased with a cartoon that had 99% of their action figures promoting a non-Takara toy. So the animators changed him up and his name was changed to Skyfire (I am guessing since he no longer looked like Jetfire to just change the name anyway).
Personally, I think Jetfire was a better name and a much cooler looking figure. In addition this marks the start of Hasbro making an aggressive integration of non-Takara Transforming Robotic figures into the realm of the Transformers. We will, in future episodes, go over the others.
Starting with the second wave of G1 figures, there would now be equal opportunity robots in disguise.
That’s it for this week. Hit up the Pop Culture Network forums and thanks for reading.
‘Till all are one!”
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Haunted City #0 Review
What makes a comic book reviewer, twitter-holic, blogger or TV personality choose the comics they read? You can easily say it was an advance from the studio. But even so, would they waste their time reading just any title? I believe what draws people are two factors. And these are exactly what drew me to Haunted City.
First are the covers, even with the old saying that you can’t judge a book by it, in the world of comics, we do just that. This is where Aspen comics, as a company, excels. The Modern Age of comics had its so-called renaissance. It was only good for one thing and that would be covers. This is what Aspen continues to bring, magnificently stylized covers with the use of empty space and placement of characters, which in essence relive the glory days of comics. The two covers of Haunted City have all the makings of a 90s comic: it grabs you and hits you over the head and yet at the same time, it also utilizes the Eisner approach of centering the reader’s eyes to a focal point.
Yet, unlike the drab, story-less comics of the 90s, Haunted City brings depth and an engrossing story that is near and dear to my heart. And that is the second reason we read comics, concept. This book takes place in and around history and leads itself through the glory days of old New York and into the present day. The constructs of the story, without spoiling the idea, brings the realm of all “the boogie men” and religious fears to the forefront from vampires to voodoo to witches, even ghosts.
The look and feel of the book is top notch and can best be reminiscent of Vampirella and Spawn with a hint of Gore* to boot (*1 shiny penny to the reader who know that title).
If there is a negative to the comic it’s in one thing. Famed director, McG, is plastered all over the book since it is in collaboration with his Wonderland Sound and Vision. Now, there is nothing wrong with this. But in recent years, comics with celebrities attached tend to have a short shelf life mostly due to the fact that smarky comic fans just run away from a title if it’s not from a “comic guy,” which is sad.
This title has done everything right and deserves to be on anyone’s “buy pile” every Wednesday.
Overall, I can’t wait to get issue one in my grubby little hands. This book fills the gap of great story and old school comic action which has been sorely missed in recent years.
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Bumblejumper: The myth and magic.
During the Transformers’ hay day, no character was as popular as the best friend of Spike: the little underdog, Bumblebee.
In his toy release, Bumblebee’s figure was one of the highest selling Transformers mainly due to the fact that he was a mini-bot and thus was cheaper than the larger scale toys.
In the same series, we got Cliffjumper.
This was a very similar figure, but was painted red. A lot of kids thought Cliffjumper was Bumblebee and vice versa. This snafu could have been a confusion because of the paint opts. For some unknown reason you would get a red Bumblebee
and a yellow Cliffjumper.
For collectors nowadays, owning both are prized possessions. You tend to pick up both figures for your collection.
One unique figure in the line that came out looked a little (for a lack of a better term) odd! It was this guy..
who was either packaged as Bumblebee and/or Cliffjumper.
Being that he is neither, the Transformers community lovingly refers to this mini-bot as Bumblejumper or Bumper
for his combined look of both Bumblebee and Cliffjumper.
Bumblejumper was part of the Microman Microchange line.
There has never been an official release of Bumblejumper nor has Hasbro ever explained how he ended up on the shelves.
What I believed happened was that Hasbro got so many molds from Takara that this guy was just overlooked or forgotten. When he was produced, he looked so similar to the other two that they didn’t realize he was a different car entirely.
FYI: Bumblejumper is a Mazda Familia 1500 XG.
Sidenote: In South America Bumblejumper or “Robocar” was released in the Transformers line in white. He does not sport any stickers that identify him as an Autobot or a Decepticon.
He has now become part of Transformers lore due to his appearance in Dreamwave and IDW comics continuity.
OK hit up the forums at Pop Culture Network to tell me what you think and thanks for reading.
”Till all are one!”
Thanks to www.tf-1.com,www.toyarchive.com and boltax.blogspot.com for some of the bumbleJumper images.
Not Mint In Box:air assault glider cap
Rob Base kicks off the summer of Captain America with a look at Air Assault Glider Captain America
