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I just don't know how to properly react to this, so I'll leave it to all of you guys instead:

http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/01-daddy-issues/motormaster/

I don't condone jabs like this, especially around a subject this touchy (in this case BotCon Animated Stunticons), but I'm not against them either as long as its done in good fun. What do you guys think? And please no flames, this thread isn't fire-retardant yet.

I had a comment. It would have been fricking hilarious. But as a mod, I must bow out.

I saw the strip, but I didn't realize it was a shot at Seibertron. Can anyone show me where the basis for this came from? One of the comments mentioned the news being biased, but a search only netted me one relevant news post, and it wasn't biased at all.

Well, time for me to go and curse people out again.

Shadowman wrote:I saw the strip, but I didn't realize it was a shot at Seibertron. Can anyone show me where the basis for this came from? One of the comments mentioned the news being biased, but a search only netted me one relevant news post, and it wasn't biased at all.

In the last panel, there is a banner being held up between the racks of bikes. It's the Banner Ryan had on the home page for a little while, comparing Botcon Motormaster with the shooped Wreck-Gar Motormaster.

TheMuffin wrote:I had a comment. It would have been fricking hilarious. But as a mod, I must bow out.

Pft, you don't have to bow out.

Walky, who for years, has been one of the most vocal people in the fandom is taking offense at this?

What's funny, is that even he isn't happy with how Motormaster turned out. Whether you wanted Prime or Wreck-gar, no one thought it was going to be another black Prime mold to represent Motormaster. The point of his comic is that despite his feelings and despite that perhaps FP should be called out on this choice, he is going to argue for it for the sake of being contrarian.

Also, he takes potshots at all the other TF websites, well, ok...Seibs, TFW, and sometimes TFormers. (never AllSpark since that's his home) Last year it was TFW that he took a little shot at. Never will he deal with things in the fandom directly, it will always be like this, a little potshot via his own website, where his own supporters will be there to reinforce how great the idea was. Just to be fair on the matter in regards to my comments here...if you've read this and take offense to it, whomever you are...PM me or send me some email at iLoveCounterpunch @ seibertron.com and we'll chat it right up.

Anyway...

So, it's obvious that BotCon isn't going to wither and die like it was perhaps going to 5 years ago. At what point can the choices made in regards to the convention be opened up for a harsher public scrutiny? The golden egg isn't going to shatter any more. Is the only means of providing feedback on the toys to attend the convention and fill out the paperwork there?

Punch-Er-Counterpunch wrote:...no one thought it was going to be another black Prime mold to represent Motormaster.

I did! I just didn't post it.

Anyway, I don't see how this is a shot directed at us (Which is another point in my life where I am agreeing with Counterpunch.), he is just taking a shot at the negative fandom. Which means everybody. I can see how it came across that way, using Seibertron's banner and all, but I think it's just directed to all negative fandom.

Counterpunch wrote:

TheMuffin wrote:I had a comment. It would have been fricking hilarious. But as a mod, I must bow out.

Pft, you don't have to bow out.

I spose not. But I feel kind of bad picking on someone you could put in your pocket...

SlyTF1 wrote:Well, time for me to go and curse people out again.

Just don't mention this site.

And this is one of the many reasons I can't stand him. Still, he's funnier than Lil' Formers.

Meh, if Willis decided to walk away one day, I won't shed a tear. I might party, but that's about it.