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New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:34 pm
by Zordon
https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stam ... ansformers

Have yourself a good look at the new Transformers stamps and other G1 inspired collectibles

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 4:04 pm
by Burn
These are bloody awesome.

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Mon Aug 15, 2022 9:19 pm
by Cyber Bishop
Those are sweet!

New Transformers Royal Mail Stamps

PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 10:02 am
by william-james88
Up for preorder now on the UK Royal Mail site is a slew of products linked to the new commemorative Transformers stamps. The stamps themselves are series of 2 stamps showing rivalries in G1 comics style artwork along with a souvenir sheet of the G1 Dinobots.

Here is a description of the main stamps below followed by some images of the stamps. Click the link here to see them all.

A jam-packed collectible showcasing stamps, illustrations and stories of Transformers.

The fact-filled pack is compiled by Transformers comic book writer James Roberts and delves into the background stories and attributes of each featured character.

All eight Special Stamps are included alongside the Miniature Sheet in a separate carrier card with five stamps depicting the Dinobots.

And there’s MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE with this special set of stamps…

Each stamp is printed with a hidden ink which reveals each of the character’s faction logos and names in the Cybertronian alphabet when UV light is shone on it.

Each stamp will also trigger a unique augmented reality animation including a clip from the original Transformers TV series – simply download the Royal Mail App and choose Scan a Stamp to watch it.


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Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 10:50 am
by AllNewSuperRobot
One set being the iconic clash of Arcee and Soundwave... :???:

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Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 6:29 pm
by Sunstar
My sister in law has ordered these for me.

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 8:45 pm
by william-james88
I keep trying to order them but it always says "failure to order"

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 9:23 pm
by RodimusPrimeUkraine1
I beleive theese are based on the marvel comics. Megatron's helmet is black. That's obviously bumblebee from before he died and got rebuilt into goldbug in the G.I. Joe crossover. And where else have we seen grimlock vs shockwave (except maybe foc). But what's with soundwave and arcee?

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:39 pm
by william-james88
RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:I beleive theese are based on the marvel comics. Megatron's helmet is black. That's obviously bumblebee from before he died and got rebuilt into goldbug in the G.I. Joe crossover. And where else have we seen grimlock vs shockwave (except maybe foc). But what's with soundwave and arcee?


They just wanted to have a bunch of main autobots and decepticons and have them fight eachother. It doesn't relate to a scene or a battle or even a rivalry in particular.

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:24 am
by RodimusPrimeUkraine1
william-james88 wrote:
RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:I beleive theese are based on the marvel comics. Megatron's helmet is black. That's obviously bumblebee from before he died and got rebuilt into goldbug in the G.I. Joe crossover. And where else have we seen grimlock vs shockwave (except maybe foc). But what's with soundwave and arcee?


They just wanted to have a bunch of main autobots and decepticons and have them fight eachother. It doesn't relate to a scene or a battle or even a rivalry in particular.


All the other rivalries did happen.

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 11:13 am
by AllNewSuperRobot
The problem is, Arcee never had a rivalry. None of the Fembots did in G1, as far as I can recall?

So to include them in this kind of thing. Basically you can pair her up with anyone, because it doesn't matter.

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 11:15 am
by RodimusPrimeUkraine1
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:The problem is, Arcee never had a rivalry. None of the Fembots did in G1, as far as I can recall?

So to include them in this kind of thing. Basically you can pair her up with anyone, because it doesn't matter.



Blaster is sad

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 11:16 am
by AllNewSuperRobot
RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:The problem is, Arcee never had a rivalry. None of the Fembots did in G1, as far as I can recall?

So to include them in this kind of thing. Basically you can pair her up with anyone, because it doesn't matter.



Blaster is sad



Blaster is always sad. Living in Soundwave's shadow :lol:

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 11:19 am
by RodimusPrimeUkraine1
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:
RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:The problem is, Arcee never had a rivalry. None of the Fembots did in G1, as far as I can recall?

So to include them in this kind of thing. Basically you can pair her up with anyone, because it doesn't matter.



Blaster is sad



Blaster is always sad. Living in Soundwave's shadow :lol:


It kind of makes me mad, he should be a lot more popular, we're all tired of
BUMBLEBEE BUMBLEBEE BUMBLEBEE BUMBLEBEE BUMBLEBEE BUMBLEBEE BUMBLEBUTT!
why?!

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 11:20 am
by RodimusPrimeUkraine1
Burn wrote:These are bloody awesome.


pretty cool, especially that they are based on the marvel comics not the G1 cartoon

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:54 pm
by Cyber Bishop
RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:pretty cool, especially that they are based on the marvel comics not the G1 cartoon

I don't know what is wrong with the G1 toon, if it wasn't for that this website would not exist today as comics alone would not have been enough to sustain this toy line going through the years consistently.

The battle with Megatron and Prime with the axe and mace did not happen in the US Marvel comics, that happened in the cartoons first 3 part series over hoover dam.
Grimlock vs shockwave could be in the savage land from the Marvel comics issue #8.

The only thing that ties the directly to the comics is it looks like the artwork of Andrew Wildman, Stephen Baskerville and Nel Yomtov.


And before anyone says it,
The fact-filled pack is compiled by Transformers comic book writer James Roberts and delves into the background stories and attributes of each featured character.


This does NOT mean they are directly from comic book stories, he just talks about the background of each character.

https://comics.tfw2005.com/writer/james-roberts
His work is more recent, if anything they should have gotten Simon Furman to write it.

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:05 pm
by AllNewSuperRobot
No one said there was anything wrong with the G1 toon? :-?

To me, the comment read that it was cool that original pieces of "classic" artwork were used. As opposed to mere stills from the show.

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:07 pm
by Cyber Bishop
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:No one said there was anything wrong with the G1 toon? :-?

To me, the comment read that it was cool that original pieces of "classic" artwork were used. As opposed to mere stills from the show.



RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:pretty cool, especially that they are based on the marvel comics not the G1 cartoon


I read it a bit differently.

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:09 pm
by AllNewSuperRobot
Cyber Bishop wrote:
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:No one said there was anything wrong with the G1 toon? :-?

To me, the comment read that it was cool that original pieces of "classic" artwork were used. As opposed to mere stills from the show.



RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:pretty cool, especially that they are based on the marvel comics not the G1 cartoon



Yes..? Did I need to repeat what I said under the quoted text?

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:No one said there was anything wrong with the G1 toon? :-?

To me, the comment read that it was cool that original pieces of "classic" artwork were used. As opposed to mere stills from the show.

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:14 pm
by Cyber Bishop
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Yes..? Did I need to repeat what I said under the quoted text?



Nope I edited my last post to show what I mean in bold.
I read it that as there is something wrong with the G1 show.

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:24 pm
by william-james88
Cyber Bishop wrote:The only thing that ties the directly to the comics is it looks like the artwork of Andrew Wildman, Stephen Baskerville and Nel Yomto.


100%

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:27 pm
by Cyber Bishop
william-james88 wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:The only thing that ties the directly to the comics is it looks like the artwork of Andrew Wildman, Stephen Baskerville and Nel Yomto.


100%


I am glad someone else noticed as that was the first thing that popped in my head when I saw them.

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:28 pm
by AllNewSuperRobot
Cyber Bishop wrote:I read it that as there is something wrong with the G1 show.


That's kind of the point. There was nothing wrong in what was written, but how it was read.

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 4:27 pm
by RodimusPrimeUkraine1
Cyber Bishop wrote:
RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:pretty cool, especially that they are based on the marvel comics not the G1 cartoon

I don't know what is wrong with the G1 toon, if it wasn't for that this website would not exist today as comics alone would not have been enough to sustain this toy line going through the years consistently.

The battle with Megatron and Prime with the axe and mace did not happen in the US Marvel comics, that happened in the cartoons first 3 part series over hoover dam.
Grimlock vs shockwave could be in the savage land from the Marvel comics issue #8.

The only thing that ties the directly to the comics is it looks like the artwork of Andrew Wildman, Stephen Baskerville and Nel Yomtov.


Nothing is wrong with the G1 cartoon, when did I say it was? Wasn't the savage land in the comics? Even if some of these didn't happen in the comic, they are drawn in the old comic style. I believe bumblebee with a million guns pointed at him is also from the comics.

Re: New Transformers Royal Mail stamps

PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 5:36 pm
by Cyber Bishop
RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:Nothing is wrong with the G1 cartoon, when did I say it was? Wasn't the savage land in the comics? Even if some of these didn't happen in the comic, they are drawn in the old comic style. I believe bumblebee with a million guns pointed at him is also from the comics.



Ok and it was the way I read it, so many are down on the toon especially on Reddit. Savage land was from Marvel, that is where Kazar and Devil Dinosaur lived, it is where the Dinobots confronted Shockwave. The other 3 stamps were comic style and the book was Marvel Uk. Maybe they tried a flair from every continuity on the stamps. :-?


AllNewSuperRobot wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:I read it that as there is something wrong with the G1 show.


That's kind of the point. There was nothing wrong in what was written, but how it was read.


Thus is the problem with the internet, you don't hear inflection in voices and tones so things can get read the wrong way.