Anger, resentment, and jealousy: a Microman fan’s tale.
“I see the fans in their anguish, complaining about Bay ‘destroying their childhood’ and even accusing him of horrible ‘revisionist history’ and at that point I do feel pain, but not I regret of sympathy so much as that of vengeful spite.”
Guild Wars sit-down protest.
Organised by German players who would like to see alternative payment methods for the online store.
An interview with George Dunsay.
Read about the birth of Transformers.
An interview with Bryce Malek.
Malek was one of the story editors for the original Transformers cartoon. Read part II and part III of the interview.
Lightbox on a budget.
I’ve got to try this.
Heh, I’m a mean, bitter old man. :)
Thanks for that link to the Dunsany interview, that really sheds a whole new light on the “transition period” that interests me in particular. Although the Japanese books I have credit a different person, Ohno Koujin, I think, as the true “inventor” of Transformers, being the person who came up with the first “CarRobots” in Diaclone, rather than the other Japanese designer that is listed at the very end of the article.
Ohno is credited as the primary creative force for Car Robot but that doesn’t necessarily mean he was the lead designer at Takara who oversaw the birth of Transformers.
The complete omission of Ohno’s name in the Dunsay interview is puzzling but perhaps that’s because the interviewer wasn’t familiar with his role. Ultimately, though, it was a team effort so I don’t think it would be right to highlight Ohno over, say, Okude or Yoke.