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News Credits: 1235 · Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:03 pm

Site sponsor Big Bad Toy Store has a preorder for a 16 month calender featuring IDW art. The cover features Optimus Prime with an American flag in one hand and Megatron's fusion cannon in the other. Now you can have different IDW Transformers art every month for 16 months. It's priced at $11.99 and you can preorder the calander here.

Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:57 pm

oh thats pretty awesome. just preordered. lol

News Credits: 187 · Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:25 pm

That pic of Prime is freakin SWEET! I always kinda thought of Prime as the Real American Hero! Even though he was kinda from Japan :lol:

News Credits: 26 · Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:50 pm

Damn ..At least next year there will be a cool calender out instead of those hideous movie versions

Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:27 am

I dont think Ive ever seen a better looking image for Optimus. How heroic this portrays Optimus, with the American flag waving in the background. Very patriotic. I always thought Optimus was designed in an American patriotic deco with his red, white, and blue color scheme. Kind of like Captain America or so.

Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:25 am

I feel that the American flag doesn't belong there, yes his colors are red/white/blue but USA isn't the only country with it, Iceland, Norway, UK and Russia and so on have it also. He is a cybertronian so an cybertronian banner or an autobot banner would been looking better.

News Credits: 187 · Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:36 pm

Gripen1974 wrote:I feel that the American flag doesn't belong there, yes his colors are red/white/blue but USA isn't the only country with it, Iceland, Norway, UK and Russia and so on have it also. He is a cybertronian so an cybertronian banner or an autobot banner would been looking better.

Well, I guess I see your point. But I don't believe those other countries celebrate our Independence Day, Thanksgiving or President's day. This Calender is almost certainly intended for American's. Although there is no proof that these Holidays are marked in the calender, I'm willing to wager that they are. Plus, outside of MAYBE Japan, Transformers are not near as popular as they are in the States. But, in the G1 cartoon and in the new movies, the Autobots land in America and works with the American people and government. So.....seems appropriate to me.

Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:15 pm

looking at the price and shape, this looks to be those cheap calendars you can find anywhere (often in music stores) so i'll just wait til its in stores. i have another from a few years ago with IDW or maybe dreamwave art but yeah...should be fun.

as for the flag issues...its an american product so whats the surprise or big deal? plus it would look lame with any other flag there anyway. and as someone else said, the show and comics and movies all take place in america so.