Cyclonus ranks a bit oddly to me in terms of character importance. He’s got clout for appearing in the ‘86 movie, but at the same time, a lot of casual G1 fans likely haven’t seen 90 percent of the media he’s in. See, technically, Cyclonus is a member of that...
Originally written June 2019. Forgive some of the images, I was in the middle of moving house at the time. TFCon 2019 is almost upon us (2021 note: Missing that these days). While we wait, let’s go through a bit of history and look at one of last year’s hottest...
There’s usually a hierarchy when it comes to updating Transformers characters. Your a-listers and your first-episode-people come first, so when it’s something like Beast Wars, the one or two updates we got before Kingdom went all-in tended to focus on cast members...
Originally written May 2019. Chromia’s sort of an obscure character, but one that fits in with the rest of Transformers: Siege’s “Early 80’s Cartoon character selection.” Chromia, along with a team of other “Female Autobots” (yes, that’s what they called them, gender...
You know who needs to be in more modern Transformers fiction? Jazz. Back in the 80s, he was Optimus Prime’s second in command, and managed to be one of the few 1984 Autobot Cars to actually get a decent level of characterization in both the cartoon and comics. He...