TCC Magazine Issue #65 Cover and Contents

That's a nice piece of artwork, that. Reminds me how excited I am for Skylynx.

Gorgeous art, and just strengthens my desire to own this guy

I can't help but point out that the Magnawheels-guy leg doesn't bend that way.

A quick bit of trivia about the back page. Josh Perez and I had been brainstorming what kind of comic could go there and since he's a huge fan of both SG and QTF, his SD SG concept came to him pretty naturally.

He wanted to keep the line-up for this first issue to be as close to QTF as possible, so we have Goldbug (instead of Bumblebee), Optimus Prime, and Lockdown. But he was at a bit of a loss as to what a Lockdown from SG would be like. We kicked around a few ideas together, but then since Josh has been working very closely with Derrick Wyatt, he asked for his input as well. The character came together pretty quickly after the three of us brainstormed a bit, and I hope that future installments give Josh a chance to explore him a bit more (even if in a comedy setting). It's a pretty fun take on him that I think fans will enjoy.

Maybe I'm just seeing things, but Skyreign looks to be holding the God Sword thingy that one of the FOrt Max repaints came with, which seems awefully fitting for a bot of Sky Lynx's ego caliber

They are two swords without tips. Where the tip of the sword would be is a 5mm hole so that the handle of the second sword can plug into the first.

The result does kind of look like the Master Sword, but I think it's coincidence.

Still a badass looking combiner and weapon

Has anyone received their issue 64 yet? I was happily looking at this promo piece for #65, but didn't realise I didn't have 64 yet.

Thanks in advance.

Mine finally came and I have finally read it. Multiversal Singularities are NO MORE!

TF_JW wrote:A quick bit of trivia about the back page. Josh Perez and I had been brainstorming what kind of comic could go there and since he's a huge fan of both SG and QTF, his SD SG concept came to him pretty naturally.

He wanted to keep the line-up for this first issue to be as close to QTF as possible, so we have Goldbug (instead of Bumblebee), Optimus Prime, and Lockdown. But he was at a bit of a loss as to what a Lockdown from SG would be like. We kicked around a few ideas together, but then since Josh has been working very closely with Derrick Wyatt, he asked for his input as well. The character came together pretty quickly after the three of us brainstormed a bit, and I hope that future installments give Josh a chance to explore him a bit more (even if in a comedy setting). It's a pretty fun take on him that I think fans will enjoy.

I loved it! The whole QTF homage in this is a great successor to Recordicons and the other previous gag comics we used to get. And SG Lockdown from Trailcutter is a neat idea.

Fantastic piece on the history of the G1 Punch/Counterpunch toy. I enjoyed it.

I'm glad! That was some really great imagery/information and I hope the fandom at large really appreciates it so we can continue the series!!

TF_JW wrote:I'm glad! That was some really great imagery/information and I hope the fandom at large really appreciates it so we can continue the series!!

The magazine articles that look over the history of the brand and reveal some lost/unknown info and imagery (like that prototype Doublespy) tend to be really good.

Phill_D wrote:Has anyone received their issue 64 yet? I was happily looking at this promo piece for #65, but didn't realise I didn't have 64 yet.

Thanks in advance.

I joined at botcon. My Reciept stated that my first mailing would be August/September 2015 and I haven't received it yet. I did get issue #65 last week. I wonder what happened?

Later.

I should have posted again, my #64 turned up the day after I posted my comment. Envelope totally battered and looking like it had been sitting at the bottom of a wet postage bag for weeks.

Luckily the magazine itself was fine.

Well, I see a troop builder opportunity. Can't say I'm happy about the main event in the comic. I think that would have been much more fitting for Cyclonus or anyone else straddling the line of good and evil. The dual homage stuff, in this instance, is completely not needed, my two cents.

Phill_D wrote:I should have posted again, my #64 turned up the day after I posted my comment. Envelope totally battered and looking like it had been sitting at the bottom of a wet postage bag for weeks.

Luckily the magazine itself was fine.

Assuming you went with "standard mail" for the shipments (which they may still list as "third class" on the order form, same thing though), it's actually possible it sat motionless with USPS for weeks. That type of mail is "when we get around to it" delivery. Could have also gotten lost under who knows what, then found later and thrown back in to the delivery cycle.

ScottyP wrote:

Phill_D wrote:I should have posted again, my #64 turned up the day after I posted my comment. Envelope totally battered and looking like it had been sitting at the bottom of a wet postage bag for weeks.

Luckily the magazine itself was fine.

Assuming you went with "standard mail" for the shipments (which they may still list as "third class" on the order form, same thing though), it's actually possible it sat motionless with USPS for weeks. That type of mail is "when we get around to it" delivery. Could have also gotten lost under who knows what, then found later and thrown back in to the delivery cycle.

I'm an international member. We tend to get the magazines 2-4 weeks after the first report of them being out in the USA.

^ ah, explains that then!

Got mine in today, the Punch/Counterpunch page was great. More like that, please. Please please please please and thank you

It also gave me a reason to thumb through my Generations Deluxe book (as if one needs reasons) to find the mentioned concept art for another Doublespy based off the X29. For folks that don't have that book, figured I'd snap a quick pic on my phone and throw it here:



It's now Kick/Counterkick to me unless someone knows the intended name, which could be written there but I don't read a lick of Japanese.

The comic was cool, but man, I'll never stop saying let's just not worry about trying to make all continuities mesh together. Those parts are such a convoluted mess (in my opinion) I just skip right over them. So much stuff it's inaccessible without spending a huge time investment with it that I'm not inclined to do. Of course, maybe the start of this one was a "reset" of sorts on that? Anyway, I just choose to space out when singularities and multiverses come up, and just go on to the meat of things.

Are the reformatted guys at the end a hint of some club toys later, or one of those things where the designs have been tossed around and the comic appearance is a litmus test for interest?

ScottyP wrote:It's now Kick/Counterkick to me unless someone knows the intended name, which could be written there but I don't read a lick of Japanese.

No names given. The part about the two forms just says that the left one is the Destron and the right one is the Cybertron.

ScottyP wrote:The comic was cool, but man, I'll never stop saying let's just not worry about trying to make all continuities mesh together. Those parts are such a convoluted mess (in my opinion) I just skip right over them. So much stuff it's inaccessible without spending a huge time investment with it that I'm not inclined to do. Of course, maybe the start of this one was a "reset" of sorts on that? Anyway, I just choose to space out when singularities and multiverses come up, and just go on to the meat of things.

Yeah, the whole point of that scene was to get rid of the Multiversal Singularity concept for good, meaning that the likes of Unicron, Primus, the Thirteen, etc. are no longer now all the same guy in every universe, thus now allowing for the existence of SG Unicron and SG Primus as seen in this comic.

However, this process also did something else that I and others really don't think was necessary: It put up a blockade on all multiversal travel, meaning that dimension-hopping is no longer as feasible as it once was. But, this is Transformers. Like any other science fiction, there's still going to be some dimension-hopping whenever the next fiction writer wants there to be (be it in IDW, Fun Pub, cartoon, movie, video game, or whatever fiction comes to pass). So that means Fun Pub will have to come up with yet another explanation to allow dimensional travel to be a thing again, which they wouldn't have to do if they hadn't closed off dimensional travel in this comic in the first place.

Even their current TransTech fiction on Facebook is acknowledging how this was a bad idea since the TransTech city of Axiom Nexus is full of Transformers from other worlds and now that the city is taking notice of the other universes going dark, many of the Offworlders are upset that they may not be able to go back to their homes ever again.

So this a fine mess that the Club has gotten itself into and will have to sort out eventually, which, again, they wouldn't have to fix if they hadn't done this. Unless this is part of some bigger plan they have in store for later. But right now, it seems to be doing more harm than good.

ScottyP wrote:Are the reformatted guys at the end a hint of some club toys later, or one of those things where the designs have been tossed around and the comic appearance is a litmus test for interest?

Probably just something done for fun. I wouldn't expect to see toys of SG X-Brawn, SG Checkpoint, or the SG Autotroopers unless there becomes a big enough demand for them.

Then again, the Beast Wars: Uprising designs seen in the "Alone Together" prologue and the various text stories garnered fan appeal but haven't been made either.

Happy Thanksgiving to those fans in the US, and Happy Regular Thursday to everyone else!

For those that missed it, a text-based teaser as well as the cover for the next issue of the TCC Magazine went online on the Club Site yesterday:

http://transformersclub.com/

The Classicverse Autobots and the Shattered Glass Decepticons unite in a battle against Rodimus Prime and his new planet sized ally... Primus! After eons of slumber he is back and the only Transformers he plans on sparing are those Autobots loyal to him and the "true" Autobot cause. Get ready for an epic 11 page conclusion to this years Club Comic with a final battle you won't be expecting!

It was a real treat writing this story this year and drawing together a bunch of the loose strings that had been left dangling over the years. I hope everyone enjoys reading it!

ELEVEN-page conclusion?!!!

This is gonna be HUGE!

And to break down the factions, we got...

• Heroic Classicsverse Autobots and Autobots-turned-Maximals, led by Ultra Mammoth
• Heroic Shatteredverse Decepticons, led by Galvatron
• Heroic Shatteredverse Knights of Unicron Autobots, led by Nova Prime (a reformatted/purified Optimus Prime)
• Evil Shatteredverse Autobots, led by Rodimus and Primus

Issue #66 is starting to hit mailboxes!

The issue features an interview with Kristy Wu - voice of RiD Windblade, a second installment of Another Time and Place which touches on the early days of design for the Headmasters and Targetmasters toys, Another Light part 6 - an 11-page finale to the comic story arc, a bio/history for Shattered Glass Optimus Prime and Megatron detailing how they became Nova Prime and Galvatron, and the Back Page has SDSG part two with Shattered Glass Strongarm and Windblade.

Speaking of, Josh Perez has tweeted out a preview of SG Strongarm:
https://twitter.com/dyemooch/status/674248586620739584

Anyone else get their Issue #66 magazine? OH MAN, that comic conclusion was epic!

Sabrblade wrote:Anyone else get their Issue #66 magazine? OH MAN, that comic conclusion was epic!

Yeah dude, I got mine yesterday. That was freaking incredible. I now have a totally different outlook onBeast Wars II's Planet Gaea lol
That was an awesome twist. A nice little cliffhanger with a silhouette of our Mayhem Attack Squad at the end there, too! Can't wait until the next issue!

It was fun, but now it made me want another thing I'll almost definitely never have: Primus in that super cool SG deco from this book.

Would ya'll believe that Gaea isn't actually a "brand new" character? She actually first appeared years ago on both a shirt and an art print that were available way back at the unofficial 2004 BotCon convention. Though, the comic modified her chest to make it smoother and less booby.

Since this pic has been on the Internet for years, I feel safe posting it without fear of spoilers:

Sabrblade wrote:Would ya'll believe that Gaea isn't actually a "brand new" character? She actually first appeared years ago on both a shirt and an art print that were available way back at the unofficial 2004 BotCon convention. Though, the comic modified her chest to make it smoother and less booby.

Since this pic has been on the Internet for years, I feel safe posting it without fear of spoilers:

Yeah dude, that was a total trip. Honestly, I was kind of hoping to see Rodimus get the "Prime" upgrade... Perhaps using the Generations Springer mold, much like what Cloud did.

I'm very curious for next year's story, while I'm not really a die-hard G1 kind of fan, it's gonna be very interesting to see where they go, and how FSS4.0 may or may not tie into it.

Anybody know what's up with this: Transormers Club now says that all subscriptions will be terminated in December 2016?

Found here

Hellscream9999 wrote:Anybody know what's up with this: Transormers Club now says that all subscriptions will be terminated in December 2016?

Found here

It's news to everyone, and the few who actually know are probably barred from saying anything for the moment.

But it doesn't look good for the club continuing past that date.

G.B. Blackrock wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Anybody know what's up with this: Transormers Club now says that all subscriptions will be terminated in December 2016?

Found here

It's news to everyone, and the few who actually know are probably barred from saying anything for the moment.

But it doesn't look good for the club continuing past that date.

Huh, guess it must be a thing then, doesn't seem good...

Fello Seibertronian Hellscream6666 has reported a finding on the Transformers Club Store. Pay attention to the last line of the membership listing:

Transformers Club First Class (Domestic Mail) Membership! Join today and get all of the great benefits! You get (6) Bi-Monthly Colored Magazines (Feb April June August October December) and your FREE transformers figure ships in the spring of each year. All memberships will terminate with the December 2016 issue.

This is new and different from the regular subscription renewal and end dates (which are based on the time individuals begin a subscription).

Let us know what you make of this in the discussion.

Good, it was high time somebody shut down this club of inept amateurs. Looks like Hasbro finally got wise to these clowns. I was an overpaying international member for exactly one year, but man, never again!!! Still waiting on an apology for the credit card theft, guys!!! A whole year of anxiously checking out my credit card statements to see if Funpub hadn't again decided to hand out all my CC details.
Such good riddance to bad rubbish.

i hope this means the club is being shut down, such a ripoff and was run by morons. Hopefully hasbro will move it to a company that knows whats its doing and will make an actual magazine thats actually worth it and not a 5 page pamphlet, and do a better job of getting the figure into the hands of the subscribers since thats the main reason why people join.

If Hasbro gives the convention license to someone who makes the exclusive figures cheaper, then that's fine with me.

I didn't read this as the Club ending post-2016. Not necessarily. I could see them moving to a defined subscription period, kind of like how the Subscription Service is setup: "Want to be a Club member? Well you have to join within this window. Otherwise, no dice." Or, maybe it's something else.

Jesus guys this doesn't mean the club is ending. It's means subscriptions will go from January to December.

Terminate is probably not the best word usage but I certainly didn't take this as TFCC is ending by 2016. it means your subscriptions will end in December now

Hopefully we'll get an official statement regarding this soon. It's certainly worrying wording.

It's just circumstantial at present, but all,signs are that this it for FunPub, not just a move to defined annual subscriptions or anything similar. That said, I wouldn't assume the club is going to anyone else. It could easily be that there will BE no club after 2016.

The Transformers Collectors' Club Magazine is and always has been a 16-page edition with a 6-page comic in each. If you are a full-year's member, that's a total of 96 pages filled with interviews and information that you won't find anywhere else, as well as product debuts when available.

If you're a fan of obscure Generation 1 toy trivia, concept art, and unreleased product ideas, the article series "Another Time and Place" will continue into next year. The "Rubber Souls" article will have a very interesting follow up as well, which fans of PVC figures will certainly want to check out!

Lastly, the 6-page comic installments will tell an interesting story also, with a slightly different approach to the universe of Transformers.

durroth wrote:Hopefully we'll get an official statement regarding this soon. It's certainly worrying wording.

People have reached out to them and this is as good as we have gotten for official statements:

Hello!

In regard to TCC memberships, the only information we have at this time is what is posted online.
Thanks and have a Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!

Source: http://www.allspark.com/2015/12/botcon- ... d-of-2016/

I can't stand Funpubs price gouging anyway. So if they are closing up shop it wont hurt my feelings, plus it all makes sense with news of Hasbro trademarking “Cybertron Con” a little over a month ago.

So keep it "in house", make the rates cheaper, more accessible for all collectors and it keeps out 3rd party.

Bout d@mn time Hasbro, just don't disappoint and alienate TF collectors and fans like Botcon did.

YoungPrime wrote:I can't stand Funpubs price gouging anyway. So if they are closing up shop it wont hurt my feelings, plus it all makes sense with news of Hasbro trademarking “Cybertron Con” a little over a month ago.

So keep it "in house", make the rates cheaper, more accessible for all collectors and it keeps out 3rd party.

Bout d@mn time Hasbro, just don't disappoint and alienate TF collectors and fans like Botcon did.

Come on man, dont give in to the false assumptions. Cybertron Con is for a Hong Kong convention that has been going on for years. Its no relatated. Just google Hong Kong Cybertron Con and you will see its been going on for a while (the prime shockwave lab exclusive was sold there). That was just license renewal to ensure protect that convention in Hong Kong and ensure they can keep using that name, sicne its a very popular convention there.

I would be super interested in seeing more exclusives come out - at much lower price points... These last sets have been as expensive as 3p combiners - and I know which one would give me a better deal for my money... it isn't fp

I hope this isn't true. I understand all the hate around FunPub, but you really think the next group is going to be any better? I at least know Pete has a wall of transformers and a love for the franchise. That exhibit in Vegas is not something I'm interested in and I don't think the company behind it is going to be a better alternative to FunPub. Also don't see them making any exclusives at all

As for prices for the club and Botcon, I don't think anyone is getting rich off us at FunPub, it looks more like they just make ends meet.

the membership is such a rippoff. I didnt get octobers magazine and the december one is only 12 pages long. im glad fun pup is dead, hopefully somebody else with integrity and ability will take over. ive had 3 magazines this year and as a Canadian I pay a higher price for my membership and keep getting screwed, I'm glad they are done.

I will say that I hope someone takes over the duties for the magazine ASAP other than those who are currently in charge. They already lost Recordicons by David Willis, and it got replaced by some dumb super deformed comic that has no humor in it whatsoever.

The most recent issue, #66, was basically just one long comic. Of the 16 pages (which includes the cover and backcover), 11 were devoted to the shattered glass comic. So, after the comic, cover, and backcover are subtracted, that left just 3 pages of info related pages. Of those 3, we got a credits page which had no real information, and a Teletron profile (again, related to their Shattered Glass comic). The only info page was page 3 that had a half page interview with the voice of Windblade and a half a page look at the creation of the vehicle modes of the headmaster era.

1 page of info total for the whole magazine. Uggh.

Time to turn out the lights on this one, methinks.

william-james88 wrote:

YoungPrime wrote:I can't stand Funpubs price gouging anyway. So if they are closing up shop it wont hurt my feelings, plus it all makes sense with news of Hasbro trademarking “Cybertron Con” a little over a month ago.

So keep it "in house", make the rates cheaper, more accessible for all collectors and it keeps out 3rd party.

Bout d@mn time Hasbro, just don't disappoint and alienate TF collectors and fans like Botcon did.

Come on man, dont give in to the false assumptions. Cybertron Con is for a Hong Kong convention that has been going on for years. Its no relatated. Just google Hong Kong Cybertron Con and you will see its been going on for a while (the prime shockwave lab exclusive was sold there). That was just license renewal to ensure protect that convention in Hong Kong and ensure they can keep using that name, sicne its a very popular convention there.

I'm not giving into anything. I'm simply hoping for a plausible solution to an ongoing issue with certain crappy convention. No one knows what the full extent of Hasbro's plans are for that trademark so until I hear differently, it's still a possibility and it makes sense if only to save Hasbro the embarrassment of getting owned by 3rd Party companies at their own event.

Plus if it was just misplaced speculation then Funpub should've nipped this in the bud hours ago....

People are complaining about $40 dollars when you get a Limited Edition Exclusive figure and 6 issues of a semi decent fan club newsletter. Counting postage for everything you are getting a pretty darn good value. Expecting more from a small time outfit like Pete and friends is a little much. Not a FUNPUB fanboy or anything just looking at it from a business point of view. TFCC was a good thing for the most part. I don't like overpaying for their convention / store exclusives though. Those could be a little more reasonable.

Primeultimus wrote:People are complaining about $40 dollars when you get a Limited Edition Exclusive figure and 6 issues of a semi decent fan club newsletter. Counting postage for everything you are getting a pretty darn good value. Expecting more from a small time outfit like Pete and friends is a little much. Not a FUNPUB fanboy or anything just looking at it from a business point of view. TFCC was a good thing for the most part. I don't like overpaying for their convention / store exclusives though. Those could be a little more reasonable.

No we're not. It's being forced to pay $300-$400 for 6 figures of which maybe 2 are even desired during botcom. Quit trying to dismiss the real issues here.