TCC Fiction Names Last Two Rainmakers: Nova and Ion Storm

So are we getting toys or what?

ausbot wrote:So are we getting toys or what?

Here's the only question that matters.

You mean you're not *ecstatic* at this long awaited development, radically shifting the status quo of two staple characters in the core fictional universe of our beloved franchise. I am in shock at the two of you.

They kinda look like the Armada screamer mold.

So is this canon? Also 3 pack FOC seeker mold make it happen!

ausbot wrote:So are we getting toys or what?

Probably not, I can't match their designs with any existing mold.

What, non-toy Club-original designs do exist you know?

I sort of get a Prime Dreadwing feel from the pictures as far as a possible mold goes.

jogunwarrior wrote:I sort of get a Prime Dreadwing feel from the pictures as far as a possible mold goes.

That's exactly what I was thinking....

mooncake623 wrote:So is this canon? Also 3 pack FOC seeker mold make it happen!

Anything the Club makes is canon, unless stated otherwise. With that, we have:

Classic
Starscream
Thundercracker
Skywarp

Coneheads
Thrust
Dirge
Ramjet

Welcoming Committee
Sunstorm
Hotlink
Bitstream
Nacelle

Rainmakers
Acid Storm
Ion Storm
Nova Storm

Female
Slipstream

Am I missing anyone?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Am I missing anyone?

Someone who actually cares..?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:So is this canon? Also 3 pack FOC seeker mold make it happen!

Anything the Club makes is canon, unless stated otherwise. With that, we have:

Classic
Starscream
Thundercracker
Skywarp

Coneheads
Thrust
Dirge
Ramjet

Welcoming Committee
Sunstorm
Hotlink
Bitstream
Nacelle

Rainmakers
Acid Storm
Ion Storm
Nova Storm

Female
Slipstream

Am I missing anyone?

Redwing - sub group unknown

Sandstorm - unmade G2 jet no canon as of yet to my knowledge (could be wrong)

Ion Storm's pic is missing:



Also, the comments provide the credits for the artwork:

Jim Sorenson wrote:I'd like to thanks Brandy Dixon for providing the artwork, and Betsy Blackie and Bill Forster (along with Brandy) for help with names and bios. Dixon is the colorist, with line art by Rui Onishi and Berious.

Sabrblade wrote:Ion Storm's pic is missing:



Also, the comments provide the credits for the artwork:

Jim Sorenson wrote:I'd like to thanks Brandy Dixon for providing the artwork, and Betsy Blackie and Bill Forster (along with Brandy) for help with names and bios. Dixon is the colorist, with line art by Rui Onishi and Berious.

Excellent, thank you - I did credit Dixon, but had little time to check the rest. Updating now.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:So is this canon? Also 3 pack FOC seeker mold make it happen!

Anything the Club makes is canon, unless stated otherwise. With that, we have:

Classic
Starscream
Thundercracker
Skywarp

Coneheads
Thrust
Dirge
Ramjet

Welcoming Committee
Sunstorm
Hotlink
Bitstream
Nacelle

Rainmakers
Acid Storm
Ion Storm
Nova Storm

Female
Slipstream

Am I missing anyone?

Thanks for the list

Va'al wrote:Excellent, thank you - I did credit Dixon, but had little time to check the rest. Updating now.

Also, these designs in the artwork are original designs not based on preexisting ones, made especially for this occasion, and (for those wondering) should not be taken as implying the coming of new toys based on them.

Hello everyone. I have read your questions. In terms of the design, it is a mix of designs (some G1, some movie, and TF: Prime), so it is a new one.

Wait the art is official?




I thought it was really well done fan art.


That's cool the guys have new names now and Ion storm is better and much more thought out then the fan names (Ice Storm, Hydro Storm and the such)



Kind of sucks he has lightning powers considering that's Thundercracker's gig.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:Kind of sucks he has lightning powers considering that's Thundercracker's gig.

No it's not. That's Shrapnel's gig. Thundercracker makes weaponised sonic booms.

Ion Storm's lightning ability is more internal whereas as Shrapnel's is harnessed from them sky. TC never had lightning abilities like Insurgent mentioned.

Insurgent wrote:

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:Kind of sucks he has lightning powers considering that's Thundercracker's gig.

No it's not. That's Shrapnel's gig. Thundercracker makes weaponised sonic booms.

I know he makes sonic booms and I know Shrapnel can use lightning but I'm just saying among the Seekers.



I swear that Thundercracker had some sort of electricity powers though maybe on a box bio but I heard it somewhere before.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:Wait the art is official?




I thought it was really well done fan art.

The art was officially commissioned.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:I swear that Thundercracker had some sort of electricity powers though maybe on a box bio but I heard it somewhere before.

You might have heard it from someone who mistook thunder for lightning/electricity.

Sabrblade wrote:You might have heard it from someone who mistook thunder for lightning/electricity.

Probably the case.

Ion Storm? I'm guessing that one gets a name change if Hasbro ever does make these as toys.

There is no telling what would happen.

Ha! I knew there'd be more uses for the classics mold! Red Wing and these two will happen eventually, trust me

These look awesome, and they sound appropriately epic Would love to see them made into CW limbs (can you just imagine airraid tatted up in lightning bolts )

The art work for the rainmakers was a private commission back in 2012 and we did not know at the time it would make it to being official but we held hope on it. The images of Ion Storm and Acid Storm were the first renderings in the upgraded style i sketched out. Then the current image of Nova storm came later. I colored all three of them and did the original concept for which their final lines are rendered from. i also personally named Nova Storm back in early 2011 and helped come up with the first name Ion Storm had.

This was a project of passion done by fans and because i am also a comic colorist and have done work the last 2 years with fun pub i had made some friends and was approached on their info.

Here is the original image for Nova Storm. i used this back in 2012 at botcon in the digital art contest.

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mooncake623 wrote:So is this canon?

Jim Sorenson has provided an answer, along with more about the art and the artists involved:

And, just to be 100% clear: it was great to work with Brandy and Betsy on this, because they obviously have a ton of enthusiasm for these characters and lots of backstory worked out for them, but as far as FP is concerned, the only thing that we are considering canon is what Vector Prime actually wrote, and even then, it only definitely applies to the Wings universe. Other writers may go in other directions.

-JimS

Love those names. Very fitting!

They should make a combiner wars Seeker mold and just keep repainting it into all different kinds of seekers! Imagine the possibilities..

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:They should make a combiner wars Seeker mold and just keep repainting it into all different kinds of seekers! Imagine the possibilities..

I have (though, with Aerialbot molds) - http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=102338&p=1644586#p1644586

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:They should make a combiner wars Seeker mold and just keep repainting it into all different kinds of seekers! Imagine the possibilities..

I have (though, with Aerialbot molds) - http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=102338&p=1644586#p1644586

Holy bejezus here man! don't know how I missed that, but that's quite the list. Axiom Nexus would have a field day with this

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Love those names. Very fitting!

Thank you.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Love those names. Very fitting!

They should make a combiner wars Seeker mold and just keep repainting it into all different kinds of seekers! Imagine the possibilities..

Thanks

Several days late but good stuff all around on these. Fun to see new takes on Seekers outside of the norm! Any plans to make prints of these available?

Thank you. When we first started working on them, we did not want them to be direct copies of Starscream. However, they can be depending on which continuity people would want to put them in.

I already have prints of these guys ready and will be having some at TFcon Charlotte. I will also be bringing a couple of the custom toys we had done over the last couple years that helped inspire what we created with them

Not particularly newsworthy, but something I think is cool enough to mention here.

Another character who in the past never had any visual representation has now been given one by Ask Vector Prime.

It is none other than Trannis, the Decepticon warlord who rose to power on Cybertron in the Marvel UK G1 comics in the time after Megatron left the planet aboard the Nemesis but before Straxus came to power.

For years, Trannis had no visual design of his own, having only appeared in text-based stories. But now, Vector Prime has officially retconned a nameless Decepticon leader from the G1 cartoon into being Trannis's cartoon counterpart, thereby finally giving Trannis a visual representation (and in turn giving a nameless character a name and identity of his own).

Dear Vector Prime,
I would love to learn more about Trannis.
.
.
Dear Tyrannical Talker,
Oh, would you now? What is it about villains that is so endlessly fascinating to your species?
Again, my vision seems to be narrowing oddly these last few decacycles. Many universes which were previously clear as crystal are now obscured. But some remain sharply vivid. Primax 509.28 Epsilon is one such universe. Here, he was a warlord in the early days of the Decepticon cause, rallying many of the ubiquitous ASD-324-ddd-3e3c1 model military model robots to their banner. The sight of his horned visage coming into battle sent many an Autobot scurrying for cover, as well it might. He wielded a lightning whip and twin red quagma rifles. His reign of terror came to an end at the hands of Sentinel Prime. He reemerged some time later as one of many Decepticon warlords vying for power, but was assassinated by Deathsaurus. Few mourned his passing.
Elsewhere, of course, things would go differently for this amethyst autocrat. In the late, lamented Primax 207.0 Epsilon, for example, he came to power much closer to the "present" as you perceive it, though still caused all manners of mischief.

And in a followup question in the comments we get this:

What type of robot does "ASD-324-ddd-3e3c1 model" refer to? "Ubiquitous" makes me imagine that it might be the Seeker body-type.


Oh, no, this was long before Seekers. Long before the concept of Transformation, even. These were green and grey combat models, one of the most advanced of the Quintesson mass-produced combat designs. The sight of a legion of these horned troopers cresting a hill or storming a building brought terror into the optics of many an Autobot.

Referring to these guys.

Shoot...I was hoping to use Leader Armada Megs as Trannis...

Well, I'm a bit late to the party, but where are we within the discussion. I'm a huge fan of TCC fiction, so glad to see there's a thread dedicated to it!

I can't wait for the third Lio Convoy story installment!

Primal Sabbath wrote:Well, I'm a bit late to the party, but where are we within the discussion. I'm a huge fan of TCC fiction, so glad to see there's a thread dedicated to it!

Currently, we are... wherever.

The last thing this thread really talked about was the Ask Vector Prime post that gave names to the last two Rainmakers besides Acid Storm (the yellow one being Nova Storm and the blue one being Ion Storm).

Presently, the four Facebook pages are still making posts, with Ask Vector Prime being the most prominent with its round-the-clock updates, while Rook and Andromeda have slowed a lot of their posts to now being once in a blue moon. And the Axiom Nexus News Editor hasn't really made any posts of his own in a long time, but we can consider that a good thing since his posts mostly serve to either correct errors made by Rook/Andromeda/Vector Prime or to step in and settle in-fiction conflicts that either Rook or Andromeda might potentially stir up in their journalistic eccentricities. In other words, no posts from the Editor means that there haven't been any errors made and/or Rook and Andromeda haven't stirred up enough trouble for the Editor to intervene.

There's also the newest issue of the TCC magazine that is starting to make its way into some of the members' hands. It's predominately a "BotCon recap" issue but does contain the next chapter of the "Another Light" comic story. I myself haven't gotten my issue yet so I know not what this chapter of the comic entails.

Meanwhile, I still need to update the OP to include all the newest fiction from this year.

Oh okay cool. I haven't checked the Rook & Andromeda pages since the Sideways thing went down. I'll have to check them out. There's still a lot of prose fiction I never got the chance to read before the members only site went down. But so far, Wreckers finale is definitely my favorite, coupled with the Lio Convoy story. I really dig where this year's comic is going too. Hopefully I'll have a surprise in my mailbox later today.

I noticed the Botcon archives fiction section was missing a good portion of the 3H comics, including Primeval Dawn part 2, Wreckers 3, Primeval Dawn part 3, and the Universe comics. I've scanned all of mine, but I'm unsure whether or not it's a no-no to post them somewhere for folks to read. I wish we could get some more (closely) connecting stories like that. Although Beast Wars Uprising is definitely doing a good job of scratching that itch, I think.

Primal Sabbath wrote:There's still a lot of prose fiction I never got the chance to read before the members only site went down.

I... might be able to help ya with that.

Primal Sabbath wrote:I noticed the Botcon archives fiction section was missing a good portion of the 3H comics, including Primeval Dawn part 2, Wreckers 3, Primeval Dawn part 3, and the Universe comics.

Yeah, those missing 3H comics didn't come out until the weird years when BotCon was OTFCC instead, and then 3H lost the Transformers licence to Fun Pub so the last few 3H stories never got to be put online officially.

Primal Sabbath wrote:I've scanned all of mine, but I'm unsure whether or not it's a no-no to post them somewhere for folks to read.

Definitely a no-no, yes.

Primal Sabbath wrote:I wish we could get some more (closely) connecting stories like that. Although Beast Wars Uprising is definitely doing a good job of scratching that itch, I think.

And this year's magazine story has finally returned to getting things back on track with furthering the Nexus Prime story that spanned the first five years of Fun Pub fiction.

That'd be awesome, if you don't mind. Thanks! Unfortunate that they can't post them officially. It's all great story, honestly. And yeah, i'm pretty happy to expect the return of Nexus Prime. I picked up the first five collected volumes of the club magazine as they were released and managed to get my hands on the 2010 & 2011 issues as well. I joined the club back in December of '11, so somewhat shortly thereafter, well... The rest we all know lol

I'd like to see the club expand on some of their older fiction. It's kind of a bummer going to Tornado's Facebook page and seeing nothing new (I still check that one too lol). All good stuff that could still be touched on every now and again, IMO.

I noticed that in the "Botcon with the Family" article Jim states that all three Lio Convoy stories are up. However it seems bad timing has showed its less than popular face lol.
I'm ready for my 3rd installment!

I guess this is where this goes... The third installment of the Beast Wars: Uprising prose stories is now on the Club site! Lots of new characters in this one as it explores a couple members of the Maximal Command Security Force and their role in the conflict between the rebels and the Builders.




Written by Jim Sorenson and David Bishop. Illustrations by Josh Burcham.

View the PDF on the Club homepage:
http://transformersclub.com/

Fans of the Transformers Collectors' Club fiction will be happy to know that the third installment of the Beast Wars: Uprising prose story is now available free to read on the Club site. The story is written by Jim Sorenson and David Biship with illustrations by Josh Burcham.

TF_JW wrote:Lots of new characters in this one as it explores a couple members of the Maximal Command Security Force and their role in the conflict between the rebels and the Builders.

And of course, because WHY NOT, Windblade.

I honestly hope to God that's just a cover cameo.

If you read it, you will discover that it is not windblade....
Theres also a picture of a character within that looks like the Beast Hunters Bulkhead mold, but isn't Bulkhead.

Beardy wrote:If you read it, you will discover that it is not windblade....
Theres also a picture of a character within that looks like the Beast Hunters Bulkhead mold, but isn't Bulkhead.

So in other words, it's following the Beast Wars: Uprising tradition of giving new body designs to preexisting characters based on preexisting toy designs that originally belonged to the toys of other characters.