[MISC] The 2000 Trannies! (7/11)
Robert Jung
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PART VI: FANDOM
RATTRAP: ...so I ask her, "Automatic or manual transmission?" And
SHE says--
DRONE: *Ahem*
RATTRAP: Oh, er, hi, folks!
DRONE: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Trannies, where
you can learn everything about the mating habits of the
Cybertronian Maximal, whether you want to or not.
RATTRAP: Well, excuse ME for makin' conversation...
DRONE: Some things are better off unmade.
RATTRAP: Yeah, yeah. Anyway, we're here ta hand out the Trannies
for the fan-based awards.
DRONE: Of course. In a way, these awards are the heart and soul
of this program, since here is where we recognize the
best and the brightest the fandom itself has to offer.
RATTRAP: About time this show got some sort'a dignity.
DRONE: Anyway ... to TRULY recognize the fans behind these
awards, we have decided to do something special this year.
The winners of the "TransFan of the Year" award and the
"Lovable Screwball of the Year" will each receive a FREE
T-SHIRT (or other item) of their choice, courtesy of
The Electric Escape's Shirt Shop.
RATTRAP: Located at http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/shirts/, on
Rob's web site, no less. (sarcasm) Whotta coinkidink!
DRONE: I THINK he's trying to be supportive of the fans.
RATTRAP: What *I* think ain't suitable for family television.
DRONE: So what else is new?
*** The TransFan of the Year Award
1 Amanda Wells/Dragonclaw (drago...@westman.wave.ca)
1 Brendan Rielly (bren...@tfarchive.com)
1 Burt Ward/Skyflight (Skyf...@Decepticon-Empire.org)
1 Charlotte Brogden (cbro...@s054.aone.net.au)
1 Dave Porretta/Black Zarak (za...@csolve.net)
1 Daniel Vink/Devvi (dv...@kabelfoon.nl)
1 Delta Star (radico...@my-deja.com)
1 Don/Dprime (dpr...@aol.com)
1 Heather Moulton/Revamp/Vampie (shaded...@hotmail.com)
1 Jax (Jaxi...@telocity.com)
1 Joel Delacruz/Cybertroncity (jo...@cybertroncity.com)
1 John DeLuna/Buzz (jmde...@cst.net)
1 Jon and Karl Hartman (in...@botcon.com)
1 Kate Cristoffel (de...@wizard.net)
1 Marco Van Leeuwen/Overlord
1 Matt Caracappa (owner of X-Entertainment.com;
ma...@x-entertainment.com)
1 Neale Davidson (ne...@protoformproject.com)
1 Ota Taiga/Kaigunsantohei
1 Paul Cannon (ne...@primus.prestel.co.uk)
1 Phil Zeman/SkyJammer (pze...@skyjammer.com)
1 Prof_Smooth (prof_...@yahoo.com)
1 Prowl (perce...@aol.com)
1 Rik Ruff (ruff...@msa.attmil.ne.jp)
1 Rockman666 (Rockm...@tfrid.com)
1 Ryan Yzquierdo (webm...@seibertron.com)
1 Sanrah (san...@robo.cop)
1 Screamer
1 Sharon LaBorde/Tut (dnb...@beta.latech.edu)
1 Swoop/Tim (of Iacon Harbor) (dinobo...@btinternet.com,
sky...@cableone.net)
1 Thylacine 2000 (thytw...@hotmail.com)
1 Tiger Hawk (n_bl...@hotmail.com)
1 Tim Finn (tf...@risd.edu)
1 Troy/ShadowWing (the...@snet.net)
1 UltraMagnus (of bigbot.com)
1 Webratta (t...@coldhardslag.com)
2 Argus en niets dan de Argus/Lord Argus (ar...@casema.net)
2 Best First (red_...@talk21.com)
2 Dave Van Domelen (dva...@eyrie.org)
2 Glen Hallit (in...@botcon.com)
2 Greg Sepelak/M Sipher (msi...@mindspring.com)
2 Hooper_X (emar...@aol.com)
2 Nightwind (night...@worldnet.att.net)
2 Rikard Bakke/Silverbolt
2 Rob Gerbracht/Tengu (te...@mindspring.com)
2 Skywarp (skyw...@aol.com)
2 Tony Bacala (tba...@TFW2005.com)
3 Doug Dlin (ap...@hotmail.com)
5 Brian Kilby (Kilb...@abts.net)
6 Robert Jung (rj...@mac.com)
7 Benson Yee/Wonko the Sane (http://www.bwtf.com/)
7 Frank Gross/WebTV's Frank
(http://community.webtv.net/~frankshome/)
7 Robert Powers (repo...@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu)
8 Raksha (rak...@plumed-serpent.com)
20 Dave Edwards/Zobovor (zob...@aol.com)
Dave 'Zobovor' Edwards. He is always ready to help, enlightens us
with his apparently endless knowledge and the various guides in
progress on his site. He's also quite a gentleman - most of the
time. ;)
--SILVERBOLT - Mr. Vertigo Himself
Robert Powers. He is the very model of a modern major Transfan,
folks. He doesn't flame, he doesn't engage in bitch-fests, and I think
he's gotten pissed off, like, once in the past fifty trillion years.
He writes the best episode synopses ever, he's got a mastery of TF
trivia that (almost) rivals my own, and he is damned funny to boot.
Everyone should aspire to be more like him.
--Zobovor
Thylacine2000. Consistently on-topic, intelligent, original, witty,
and interesting.
--Robert Powers
Can't we just roll Hartman, Hallit and Hartman into a ball of limbs,
and call it '3H'? I can't think of anyone else deserved of this
award.
--Griffin
Raksha -- ever polite and helpful, ever creative and intelligent, ever
patient and willing to listen to both sides of an argument. ... All I
can say is: a.t.t. doesn't know what it's missing.
--Charlotte Brogden
Brian Kilby & Co., for Radio Free Cybertron.
--Gabi "T.M." D'Galvatron
Ota Taiga ("Kaigunsantohei") - this guy's so nice, he makes Ben Yee
look nasty. *grin*
--Goktimus Prime
RATTRAP: Not even CLOSE! Zobovor by a landslide!
DRONE: Our sincere congratulations to Dave Edwards, TransFan of
the year.
RATTRAP: So just outta curiousity, do we know which shirt he
picked fer his freebie?
DRONE: Unfortunately not. That appears to be confidential
information between Zob and Rob.
RATTRAP: *GROAN!*
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DRONE: And now, the second-most prestigious fan award of the
evening...
*** The Lovable Screwball of the Year Award
1 Addl (addl...@gmx.de)
1 Arcee
1 Blue-Jackal (An...@warriorprincess.demon.co.uk)
1 Bob Skir
1 Brian Kilby (Kilb...@abts.net)
1 Combat Hero Optimus Prime
1 Daniel Vink/Devvi (dv...@kabelfoon.nl)
1 Dr. Sigma
1 Dusty (dust...@my-deja.com)
1 Finback (goo...@ses.curtin.edu.au)
1 Flash Convoy
1 Fred/Fred's Workshop (futuri...@yahoo.com)
1 Goktimus Prime (gokt...@lycos.com)
1 Greg Sepelak/M Sipher (msi...@mindspring.com)
1 Hellbat (hel...@innocent.com)
1 James Hooks/HooksX (hoo...@gte.net)
1 Jasper van den Brink (starsc...@hotmail.com)
1 Jazz
1 Jetstorm (jets...@mediaone.net)
1 Leemur (leemur@Xspamthis!mindspring.com)
1 Matthew Rosenthal/Picard42 (mmr...@psu.edu)
1 Rattrap60 (ratt...@aol.com)
1 Richard Mistron/VicegripX (orio...@sprynet.com)
1 Robert Jung (rj...@mac.com)
1 Saysadie (says...@yahoo.com)
1 Screamer
1 Shellspark (samuel....@marquette.edu)
1 Silencer (from The Lost Years MUSH)
1 Spoiler
1 Starfury (from Transformers 2005 MUSH)
1 Turin (morm...@knoledge.org)
2 Deathasaurus/Tigermegatron1 (and others)
(tigerm...@webtv.com)
2 Hooper X (emar...@aol.comsillyhat)
2 Joona Palaste Joona I Palaste (pal...@cc.helsinki.fi)
2 Raksha (rak...@plumed-serpent.com)
2 The Grape (from #Cybertron IRC)
3 Zac Shipley/Bottlerocket/Buildboy (and others)
(plan...@aol.com)
4 Mad-Max-MFP (madm...@my-deja.com)
4 TFG14VR (astyan...@my-deja.com)
6 David Willis/Walky/Walkertron (wii...@hotmail.com)
7 Dave Edwards/Zobovor (zob...@aol.com)
10 Nightwind (night...@worldnet.att.net)
11 Robowang (robo...@aol.com)
15 TrypticonX (bga...@iname.com)
TrypticonX. Gotta love Tryp. He posts such utter nonsense on such a
wide variety of topics, and ironically he still makes more sense than
about 75% of ATT.
--DarkClaw
Robowang. Now let's all raise a toast to Ramjet!
--Joe "TV's Grady" Green
TigerM...@webtv.com (aka plenty of other screen names). He kept
pretending to be those other people even though his grammar and
spelling gives him away. :}
--Tony Li, the Prime Saber
Nightwind - how can anyone not like ATT's Denmother?
--ViceGripX
Pick any member of the TFWW team. Just for the record, Picard42,
since he cooked up Poketron, one of several influences for my own
crossover fanfic - okay, cutting back on the selfplug here, please
turn those tasers elsewhere...
--Aaron Hong, Red Dragon AuraThunder Ranger
Dusty. He's sick, but it's 'funny-sick,' not 'sick-sick.'
--Daniel "Suspsy" Suh
Walkerton. His "Dumbass TF of the Month" keeps me laughing for
months! He should continue doing that stuff this year.
--Saudade
RATTRAP: Waitaminutewaitaminutewaitaminute! How can TrypticonX
win this? He's (probably) not even a real person!
DRONE: There were no stipulations in the rules requiring the
voters to choose only real fans.
RATTRAP: Yeah, okay, if ya wanna weasel outta it THAT way...
Seems kind'a weird to give "him" a shirt, though.
DRONE: That is a good point. Judges?
[There is a burst of static from the speakers, then a half-distracted
voice replies, "Ah, heck, let's give shirts to Tryp AND Robowang."]
DRONE: An amiable solution.
RATTRAP: Right from the big guy's big yap.
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*** Trader of the Year Award
1 3H Enterprises (http://www.botcon.com)
1 Action Ace (http://www.actionace.com)
1 Barbara Brewer (heave...@aol.com)
1 Bot Collector (http://www.botcollector.com)
1 CoolSlider (br...@kelcom.igs.net)
1 Dave's Robotbase (http://www.robotbase.net)
1 Der (de...@hotmail.com)
1 Felix Lu/FantAsia Toyz (http://www.fantasiatoyz.com/)
1 Fred/Fred's Workshop (futuri...@yahoo.com)
1 Gerry Bunker/Robozone (http://www.robozone.com)
1 Giang-Sigh Tran
1 James Wilson (wils...@btinternet.com)
1 Jeff Morris (jbmo...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
1 Joebot (joe...@lycos.com)
1 Kaladims (kala...@home.com)
1 Matthew Braun/Meteor (lands...@earthlink.net)
1 Ota Taiga/Kaigunsantohei
1 Patricia Pajunen/Zaanai
1 Quezovercoatl (two...@home.com)
1 Raksha (rak...@plumed-serpent.com)
1 Rockman666 (http://rockman.simplenet.com)
1 Rugby's Starbase (http://hometown.aol.com/rgbystrbse/index.htm)
1 Thylacine 2000 (thytw...@hotmail.com)
1 Whiz Bang Toys (http://www.whizbangtoys.com/index.html)
2 Daniel Vink/Devvi (dv...@kabelfoon.nl)
2 Hellbat (hel...@innocent.com)
2 Particle Man (alpha...@earthlink.net)
2 Richard Mistron/VicegripX (orio...@sprynet.com)
2 SwiftEagle (swift...@my-deja.com)
2 Toddtoo/Snarl (http://www.geocities.com/snarlshomepage/)
2 Wizzywig Collectibles (http://www.wizzywig.com)
3 Philip Ayres (pay...@netcomuk.co.uk)
3 Toys Online Japan (http://www.amenbo.com/toj.html)
4 Digital Toys (http://www.digital-toys.com)
11 Big Bad Toy Store (http://www.bigbadtoystore.com)
Joel of bigbadtoystore.com. Fast service, doesn't rip you off in
shipping and "handling" charges, and always has among the lowest
prices. And when my PVCs were being delayed through no fault of his,
he was quite responsive to my emails.
--Skyflight
The lady at BotCon 2000 who sold me Go-Bots on the cheap. Hooray!
--Hooper_X
Joebot The Ridiculously Generous (joe...@lycos.com). He's slow, but
with the amount of stuff he sends you you don't finish sorting through
it until he's emailed you back. Long live Joebot!
--Particle Man
E-bay
--Jetfire
Whiz Bang Toys, for holding a killer Transformers Rarities auction on
Ebay, which included tons of original character model sheets from the
G1 cartoon.
--Robert Powers
Toys Online Japan. They got me my GFC giftset, they have to be
great. :)
--Avias
[And from the "Yes it's an old joke, that's why we use it" pile:]
Starscream! Oh, you said -trader...-
--Kinzokutaka
Mirage - oops, I thought you said "traitor" ;)
--Rumble
RATTRAP: Awright! That toy store is big AND bad!
DRONE: So how come we're not rewarding a T-shirt for this award?
RATTRAP: Are ya kiddin'? You don't make a trader happy by giving
him a shirt, ya makes him happy by BUYING more stuff from
him! Happy shopping, folks!
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*** Best Transformers Newsgroup or Message Forum
1 Super Robot Life Form Kenkyuushitsu forum
(http://bbs3.otd.co.jp/300700)
2 Axalon Underground forum
(http://forums.axalonunderground.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi)
2 B.A.D./Bay Area Decepticons
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sfbay-decepticons)
2 BWTF forum (http://www.bwtf.com/chat/)
2 Dewtropolis' Transformers discussion
(http://pub42.ezboard.com/fdewtropolisbeastwarsdiscussionboard)
2 Diaclone group/mailing list
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/diaclone)
2 FawnDoo's Cavalcade of whimsy
(http://www.sitepowerup.com/mb/view.asp?boardid=119546)
2 Iacon Harbor (http://pub25.ezboard.com/biaconharbor)
2 Radio Free Cybertron (http://www.tfradio.net or
http://www.abts.net/~kilby316/)
3 Beast Wars Rock Community (???)
3 Transformers-Net
(http://cgi.biwa.ne.jp/~naonori/cgi-bin/minibbs.cgi)
4 The Cybertronian Conference Bulletin Board
(http://flux.snapbag.com/tf/ubb/cgi-bin/
Ultimate.cgi?action=intro)
4 Transmasters group/mailing list
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transmasters)
5 Transformers eXtreme forums
(http://pub29.ezboard.com/btfextreme)
5 Transmasters UK group/mailing list
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tmuk)
6 Bigbot forum (http://bottalk.com)
7 Dutchbot group/mailing list
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dutchbot)
9 Transformers World 2005 forum
(http://www.tfw2005.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi)
10 Seibertron.com's Trans-Forum
(http://www.seibertron.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi)
17 alt.toys.transformers.fanfic
18 The Transformers Archive Discussion Board
(http://tfarchive.com/discussion.html)
21 alt.toys.transformers.marketplace
23 Transfans Discussion Board
(http://transformerhq.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi)
37 The Allspark forum (http://pub13.ezboard.com/btheallspark)
79 rec.toys.transformers.moderated
83 alt.toys.transformers.classic.moderated
239 alt.toys.transformers
Although ATT isn't as fun nor as intelligent nor as on-topic these
days as it used to be, it's still the newsgroup I frequent the most.
Save ATT!
--Daniel "Suspsy" Suh
RTTMod, its ATT without all the crap!
--Anthony "Tonyfitz" Brucale
fan.blot.skoosh.skoosh.skoosh
--Adam Sterling Clark
Bigbot discussion board also has some good posts sometimes.
--Peter J. Strzelecki
Wow. One's almost fatally clogged with off-topic crap and COMPLETE
F*CKING MORONS, one's walking and talking but more or less dead, and
the other I simply can't get behind as I feel it's too divisive to the
fandom over purely arbitrary matters, something I simply cannot
endorse. Pass.
--M Sipher
#wiigii!, its better than all the actual posting-forums.
--Trent "Trentulas" Troop
alt.toys.transformers.marketplace. I'm an Evil Dealer (tm). It's
been good to me :)
--Particle Man
DRONE: alt.toys.transformers, even after all these years.
RATTRAP: Kinda appropriate, if ya asks me -- it's just like the
fans to stick with somethin' no matter how much crap they
hafta put up with...
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*** Best nom du net (Nickname/Handle)
1 Aziraphale
1 Black Zarak
1 Darwinian Road Kill
1 Dee-Kaf Lo-Kal (from Transformers 2005 MUSH)
1 Defensis Prime
1 Devvi
1 Dragonclaw
1 FawnDoo
1 Finback
1 FinkMeansGoo
1 FortressX
1 Frost (from The Lost Years MUSH)
1 Giant Bootleg Defensor
1 Goktimus Prime
1 Grady the Big Dummy
1 Mad-Max-MFP
1 Man-E-Pants
1 Megabee
1 Megatron's Rubber Ducky (from The Allspark)
1 Mojo Toastertron
1 Nightbeat_p_i
1 Optimoose
1 Outtsyder
1 Prowl Pants
1 Punicron
1 Rapturus
1 Screamer
1 Scyllia
1 Shadowing
1 Snarl
1 Spamticon, King of the Potato People
1 Starseeker
1 Suspsy
1 TFFan
1 The Crafty Butcher
1 Theorange
1 Tigermegatron
1 Tykus The Gladiator
1 Unmarked White Convoy (from The Allspark)
1 Vampie
1 Vindicator
1 Wheelie's Mom
1 Wonko the Sane
1 -Zak-
2 Chopperface 69 (from The Allspark)
2 Hotdog Divebomb!
2 Prof_Smooth
2 Tengu
3 Hooper_X
4 Robert Powers
4 Robowang
5 M Sipher
5 Raksha
5 Thylacine 2000
6 Liquid Velcro!
26 Zobovor/Zobmondo/variations
Zobovor. What does it mean? I think Zob should be killfiled until he
tells us what that means. Oh, then there's those other aliases (Zob
the alien dog, Zob in the eighth dimension, Zoomanfoo...)
--Ragebot
Tengu. Booo, spooky monster Tengu.
--Mad-Max-MFP
Hooper_X. He deserves at least one vote. And make sure you put an
UNDERSCORE!
--CoolSlider
Thylacine. I finally figured out what heck that was...
--Sharon "Tut" LaBorde
Rob Powers. I know that's his real name, but damn is it cool.
--Picard42
Spamticon King of the Potato People, that always makes me laugh!
--Crosscut
Liquid Velcro! It's a clothing fastener AND a dessert topping!
--Aaron Hong, Red Dragon AuraThunder Ranger
Raksha. Okay it's her real name, but it is quite cool.
--Hex
RATTRAP: I thought real names weren't allowed?
DRONE: Do YOU want to tell Raksha that?
RATTRAP: (shrugs) Why not? So long's I'm not Megabarney the
dinosaur, she's not gonna give two blips about me...
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*** Best .sig
1 Amanda Wells/Dragonclaw ("Be true to yourself and what you love,
no matter the circumstances")
1 Blue-Jackal ("Hi, I'm not a signature virus. Why don't you just
copy me into your signature?")
1 Bobbi Carothers (assorted comments)
1 Charlotte Brogden (fanfic quotes)
1 MegaBee ("All right, clown, we'll tumble... Rumble style!")
1 Daniel Vink/Devvi ("I Transform. Therefore I Am.")
1 Darwinian Road Kill ("Fact: If my sig get over 10 lines, you can
hit me")
1 Gryph ("Gryph with her finally updated website!")
1 Jax ("DARE TO BE STUPID!" - Weird Al)
1 Jedi-Bot ("Please wait for sig")
1 Mad-Max-MFP ("GOD HATES YOU!")
1 Phil Zeman/Skyjammer ("Music groups! Cool stuff! Life's
problems solved! Well, two out of three ain't bad.")
1 Prowl Pants ("No, really, I swear! Arcee's were THIS big!")
1 Prowlus ("Offical Rocket and AI Shipper")
1 Raksha ("ATTCM - the Transformers at their best!")
1 Robert Jung (Frank Zappa quote)
1 Rodimus Prime
1 Saysadie (GALVATRON: "Unicron! Why do you torture me?!"
UNICRON: "It turns me on.")
1 Scott Kampa ("Oedipus, put your mother down. You'll poke your
eyes out.")
1 Shrapnel (comic book close-up)
1 Rob Gerbracht/Tengu (bird beak :<>)
1 The Crafty Butcher ("no animals were harmed in the making of
this post")
1 Troy/ShadowWing (Tech-spec card)
2 Thylacine 2000 (cartoon quotes)
2 ViceGripX ("Keeping his foot off that blasted samophlange.")
3 Dave Edwards/Zobovor (Transformers trivia)
3 Robert Powers (Ever-changing .sig)
3 Scylla (ASCII squid)
4 Hooper_X ("To contact me, take off that silly hat that
you wear.")
6 TrypticonX ("Monkey monkey monkey!")
7 Robowang ("Ramjet Likes Toast!")
9 Greg Sepelak/M Sipher (assorted comments)
M Sipher's magical mutating mystery message/.sig
--Alex "Baron Heinrich Zemo" Amar
TrypticonX. "Ponies! A contempt for prancing ponies!" or something
like that.
--Uberjet
"I have no sig"
--Zepherimus
"I've got better things to do tonight than diet."
--Tyler Ram
Gryph's little ASCII bunny
--Track Attack
ViceGripX--Keeping his foot off that blasted samophlange.
--Zobovor
"Who disrupts my Carlsberg?" "Carlsberg, Starscream? This is beer
comedy." -Angloconvoy
--Dexius_R
DRONE: "This is beer comedy"?
RATTRAP: Eh, it sounds funnier after you've had a few...
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*** Best Discussion of the Year
1 "Advocatus Car Robots" (from Allspark.com)
1 BotCon 2000
1 Fox Kids Premiere Weekend
1 Future Transformers speculation
1 Galvatron fans speak up
1 Hasbro selling early toys on eBay conspiracy theorizing
1 Hooper_X vs. The Dutch
1 Hot Rod vs. Megatron
1 How to make/procure reproduction parts for Brave Maximus
1 Introducing Beast Wars to non-fans
1 Is Rattrap60 a troll?
1 Poetic Justice -- Decepticon Style
1 Super Fire Convoy discussion (at TFextreme.com)
1 The decline of alt.toys.transformers
1 The future of MISB G1 Transformers toys
1 The penis moose! (on Transformers: 2005 MUSH)
1 Toy Fair 2000
1 Transformer theme songs
1 Transformers answering machine messages
1 Transformers fanfic talk
1 What is "canon"?
1 When Octane was in the Decepticon tomb
2 Beast Machines reviews/criticism
2 Blue Huffer
2 Cyclonus is Skwarp/Bombshell
2 Decepticon medics
2 "Naked pictures of my wife!"
2 Neither Taraka or Hasbro or Bandai rule/suck
2 Nightbird's intelligence
2 Transformers: The Movie/Original G1 episodes on DVD
3 Car Robots
4 Rob Powers' Beast Machines round-up
4 "The bad thing about Dan's art..."/Criticizing Dan Khanna's art
4 TransTech speculation
5 "Binary bonding isn't the answer!"/"How tough are Transformers?"
7 Cartoon Viewing Club/Cartoon reviews
All the CVC's on ATTCM were enjoyable. Especially the one on "Dark
Awakening"
--Master Shrink
Rob Powers' recap of Beast Machines. Best discussion of BM I've seen,
and has actually managed to not break out into major flames (yet).
Quite an accomplishment.
--DarkClaw
"The Decepticons have no Medics. PERIOD!" Or something like that.
--David Willis
"Does Nightbird's "intelligence" matter?" At a time when the really
disastrous decline of ATT was beginning, it was great to see that CM
could hold its own with a huge and complicated thread that touched on
not only many aspects of the "Classic" canon, but also a fair amount
of Beast- and beyond stuff.
--Thylacine 2000
Anything related to Beast Machines
--Goktimus Prime
Good discussion? On usenet? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!
--DreadWing
Nightwinds' TF Answering machine messages :)
--Dinogrrl
RATTRAP: "Nightwind's answering machine messages"? Okay, let's
see a sample!
DRONE: Believe me, you don't want to.
RATTRAP: SURE I DO!
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*** Silliest Discussion of the Year
1 Beast Machines better/worse than Beast Wars?
1 Beast Machines sucks/rules
1 Cheesy G1 episodes
1 Comparing Decepticons to wild animals
1 DA_OJ vs. Prof_Smooth
1 Defensor vs. Drunkenmonkeybot
1 Embarassing Transformers secrets
1 Fans abandon alt.toys.transformers to trolls
1 G1 and sparks
1 Hooper_X's credibility
1 "I am drinking water"
1 Is Rattrap60 a troll?
1 JPTH
1 Miss A.T.T.
1 Multiple screen IDs/handles on message boards
1 Penis moose (on Transformers: 2005 MUSH)
1 Rob Powers' Beast Machines round-up
1 Sanrah leaves alt.toys.transformers
1 Soundwave's badly-dubbed death scene from Headmasters
1 Transformers fanfic discussions
1 Transformers smut
1 Ultra Jetstorm's light-up cockpit
1 What color is Prowl's...?
1 Whellie, the ultimate Autobot
1 Who (or what) is TrypticonX?
2 Bob Skir at BotCon 2000
2 "Do all TF fans...?"
2 Do TransFans have relationships/significant others?
2 Farting Transformers
2 "It's [insert local time]!"
2 Jax's discussions
2 "Naked pictures of my wife!"
2 Off-Topic posts rule/suck
2 "Poetic Justice -- Decepticon Style"
2 Transformers as muffins (and other baked goods)
2 Unicron vs. the Death Star
3 Cyclonus is Skwarp/Bombshell
3 Do Transformers have sex/reproduce?
5 Hooper_X vs. The Dutch
"Hooper_X vs the Dutch". THAT'S what the Dutch are like? Christ, and I
thought making everything legal made for LESS uptight people....
--Mad-Max-MFP
The one where Nightwind got to say BOOBS, of course.
--Joona I Palaste
CQ Essay: Poetic Justice. Not necessarily Raksha's original essay
itself, but the chaotic 400-plus posts that flooded ATT and induced
more flames than BW Inferno's Barbecue Blaster on automatic....
--Outtsyder
The second bump thread from Beast Mayhem at the allspark
--Tim Finn
"Fans of cheesy G1 episodes UNITE!!-I Mean UNITE!!" (Nightwind's
cheesy G1 episodes thread): A fun discussion about fans reavealing
their guilty pleasures to the fandom as a whole.
--Dragonclaw
Cyclonus is Skywarp (We all know he's really Bombshell)
--GB
Is Sleeping With Airazor Like-- *brick*
--Scarab
DRONE: To the gentleman in the blue sweater in the sixteenth row
who threw the brick -- thank you.
-----------------------------
*** Best Transformers Reference/Resource
1 Beast Wars Universe reference book (Japanese), Hirofumi Ichikawa
and Fumihiko Akiyama
1 Comic book scans archive, Brendan Rielly
(http://www.tfarchive.com)
1 Comic book scans, Ryan Kowalchuk/Omega
(http://www.transfans.com)
1 Hex's Transformers Tech Specs Database, David Tashjian/Hex and
C.J. Stankiewicz/Siege (http://iocon.com/cj/tf/stats.htm)
1 Japanese Beast Wars characters tech specs, Benson Yee
(http://www.bwtf.com)
1 Multimedia movie archive, Brendan Rielly
(http://www.tfarchive.com)
1 Quotes lists, Robert Powers
(http://members.tripod.com/~repowers/)
1 Repro Labels, Delta Star (http://www.devvi.com/~deltastar/)
1 Screen captures archive (http://www.seibertron.com)
1 The Trannies, Robert Jung
(http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/tf/Transformers.shtml)
1 The Transformers In Japanese Missions magazine, Fumihiko Akiyama
1 Toy sightings reports, Lukis Bros. (http://www.unicron.com)
1 Transformers Artifacts List, Raksha
(http://www.plumed-serpent.com)
1 Transformers Comics Guide, Robert Jung
(http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/tf/Transformers.shtml)
1 Transformers instructions (http://tfinstructions.cjb.net)
1 Transformers Links Index, Greg Gaub
(http://www.snapbag.com/~flux/tf/links/pages/index.html)
1 Transformers Tech Specs Listings, David Tashjian/Hex
(http://w3.one.net/~hex/tfs-idx.htm)
1 TV Magazine (Japanese manga)
1 UK comic book archive, Transforce
(http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/primus/comics.htm)
2 #Wiigii! topic bar
2 Fred's Transformers Toy Variations Guide, Fred/Fred's Workshop
(http://www.geocities.com/futuristgroup/tfs.html)
2 International Transformers Tech Spec Archive, Jon and Karl
Hartman (http://www.noblecan.org/~jhartman/tf/tsarchive/
tsarchive.html)
2 Japanese Transformers Guides, Prime Saber
(http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/manwood/484/tf/tf.html)
2 Pre-Transformers Page, Jeroen Zuiderwijk
(http://www.crosswinds.net/~frx/)
3 Beast Wars episode guides, Benson Yee/Wonko the Sane
(http://www.bwtf.com)
3 Complete Transformers Listings Pages (http://www.bigbot.com)
3 Japanese Transformers Cartoon Guide, Robert Jung
(http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/tf/Transformers.shtml)
3 Rework's Parts Identification Aid, John Runski
(http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/3392/pia.html)
3 Transformers Television Encyclopedia, Dave Edwards/Zobovor
(http://zobovor.zmfts.com)
3 Unauthorized Transformers Online Encyclopedia, Stanley Lui
(http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/6563/text-index.html)
3 Unspecified assorted archives, Brendan Rielly
(http://www.tfarchive.com)
4 Cartoon bloopers guide, Dave Edwards/Zobovor
(http://zobovor.zmfts.com)
4 Fanfic archive, Charlotte Brogden (http://www.lexicon.tf)
4 Transformers news and sightings, Dave Van Domelen
(http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/BW/)
5 Beast Wars toy news/reviews/references, Benson Yee
(http://www.bwtf.com)
6 Transformers Toy List, Robert Jung
(http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/tf/Transformers.shtml)
13 alt.toys.transformers FAQ, Steve Stonebraker
(http://astro.bu.edu/~srstoneb/tf/index.html)
13 Transformers Universe Archive, Rob Gerbracht/Tengu
(http://www.tfmultiverse.com/tfu/index.html)
Steve-O Stonebraker's "Transformers FAQ." Required reading for any
civilized Transfan. :)
--Nightwind
Tengu's Multiverse... Namely, his TFU archive. Pure heaven. :)
--The Kamikaze Gadfly
No one can compete with your insanely detailed toy list, Rob! An
ongoing battle is waged between that list and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen,
to see which makes me drool more!
--Srini Varanasi
[Please -- even *I'D* pick Tiffani over the toy list. B-]
Delta Star's Repro Labels. His replica Transformers stickers are so
authentic, he had to add a colored backing just so you could tell
them apart from the real thing! At last, I can display some of my
favorite G1 toys proudly. Thanks for everything, Delta!
--Zobovor
Lexicon - best fanfic database out there.
--Dinogrrl
"The Transformers In Japanese Missions" magazine. Big, clear,
full-color pictures of every pre-Beast JTF. Worthwhile in that once
you take a look at some of the most expensive ones, you realize
they're not worth owning. ;)
--Thylacine 2000
Tom Hanks
--Prowl
RATTRAP: Cool, a tie!
DRONE: Shall I presume that you are pleased that these two
beloved resources are equally respected by the fans?
RATTRAP: Nah, I had $10 on the Transformers Universe Archives; a
tie means it goes double-or-nuthin'!
-----------------------------
*** Best Transformers Web Site
1 Axalon Underground (http://www.axalonunderground.com)
1 Big Bad Toy Store (http://www.bigbadtoystore.com)
1 Frank's Botcon Site
(http://community-2.webtv.net/frankshome/FRANKSBOTCONSITE/
index.html)
1 Frank's Home (http://community-2.webtv.net/frankshome/)
1 Fred's Workshop
(http://www.geocities.com/futuristgroup/tfs.html)
1 Hot Rod's Homepage (http://www.geocities.com/winterblast_99/)
1 It's Walky! (http://www.itswalky.com)
1 Lukis' Brothers Transformers Collector Page
(http://www.unicron.com)
1 Pre-Transformers Page (http://www.crosswinds.net/~frx/)
1 Rik Ruff'S Car Robots Site
(http://members.nbci.com/_xmcm/kool_toyz/tf2000.html)
1 Seibertron.com (http://www.seibertron.com)
1 TF Mausoleum (http://www.geocities.com/tfmausoleum)
1 The Teletran Cybersite (defunct?)
(http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~cjs69930/tf/tf.htm)
1 Transformers eXtreme (http://www.tfextreme.com)
1 Transmasters Fan Club (http://go.to/transmasters)
1 Vampie's Hand-Drawn Haven (http://wingsplatinum.tripod.com)
1 Vindicator's Keep (http://home.att.net/~vindicator.decepticon/)
2 The Nordic TransFans Association (http://members.nbci.com/ntfa/)
2 The Serpent's Lair (http://www.plumed-serpent.com)
2 Transforce UK (http://www.transforce.co.uk)
2 Transformers: World'S Worst (http://www.fandome.com/tfww)
3 Bigbot (http://www.bigbot.com)
3 BotCon Beyond (http://www.botconbeyond.com)
3 Cold Hard Slag Productions (http://www.coldhardslag.com/)
3 The Transformers Archive (http://www.tfarchive.com)
4 Lexicon (http://www.lexicon.tf)
4 Nightwind's Transfan Asylum (http://home.att.net/~nightwind69/)
4 Transformer World 2005 (http://www.tfw2005.com)
4 Transformers Multiverse (http://www.tfmultiverse.com)
5 TransFans - A Transformers Web Site (http://www.transfans.com)
5 Zobovor's Multi-Faceted Transformers Site
(http://zobovor.zmfts.com)
6 Radio Free Cybertron (http://www.tfradio.net or
http://www.abts.net/~kilby316/)
6 The Cybertron Chronicle
(http://members.nbci.com/cybertronchronicle/)
7 Rob's Transformers Page
(http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/tf/Transformers.shtml)
10 Dave's Transformers Page (http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/BW/)
30 BWTF (http://www.bwtf.com)
www.bwtf.com - Benson Yee has the inside connections at Hasbro, and
shares with us the most up-to-date, *reliable* information in the TF
community.
--John DeLuna
Lexicon (http://www.lexicon.tf). All hail Charlotte Brogden and her
tireless efforts on the behalf of TF fan fiction lovers everywhere!
--Therese Svedin
www.Deja.com <---- Does this count?
--Allan [Weapon X] Liangco
[Not after they got bought by Google, alas...]
members.nbci.com/cybertronchronicle (even though it's hosted by NBCi)
--Vicken
Dave Van Domelon's site is a keeper, it's one of those sites that you
*can* check everyday and you'll usually find some new nugget of info.
--Yakko Tank
www.coldhardslag.com (gotta give it to them for the Welker interview,
along with the rest of the content.)
--Echo
Can't...pick...just...one...head...about...to...*POP*
--ViceGripX
RATTRAP: That wasn't half as messy as I thought it'd be.
DRONE: Being filled with helium helped.
-----------------------------
*** Best Transformers IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Channel
1 #tfu
1 #wiigii!spoilers
2 #beastwars (on Espernet)
2 #cybertron (on au.austnet.org)
2 #transfiction
2 #unicron
3 #cybcon
3 Ironhide
3 Jetstorm's Chat Room
3 #metroplex
3 Screamer's Chat
3 #studentsbar (on Undernet)
3 #transformers (on au.austnet.org)
4 #decepticon
5 #transformers
6 Teletran2000
9 #cybertron (on Dalnet)
12 #ntfa
36 #cybertron
104 #wiigii!
#wiigii! Oh, like there's any other choice.
--Recharge
Long live #WiiGii!
--William "Echowarrior" Rendfeld
I'm sorry, but it's #WiiGii! or the highway.
--Mad-Max-MFP
Home of TRUKK NOT MONKY!!
--Hooks
#Transformers - Can't question my loyalty there.
--DreadWing
#tfu. The the new version lasted but a short time and had little
traffic, for a brief shining moment, it was a place where those of all
channels could gather... and did.
--Ryan "Darwinian Road Kill" Hawe
#Cybertron; There is more than one?
--Prowl
#unicron, for fun.
--Ryan "Darwinian Road Kill" Hawe
DRONE: All this excitement for an IRC channel named after David
Wills mistyped "Woohoo!" on his keyboard.
RATTRAP: Hey, whatever works...
-----------------------------
*** Best Transformers IRC Participant
1 Alan
1 Best First
1 |Chief| (on Undernet)
1 Cosmo the Great
1 Dielle (#cybertron)
1 Flux
1 James Hooks/HooksX
1 Lars Eriksson
1 M Sipher
1 Marty Good/Finback
1 Megatron33
1 Moose_Magic
1 Optimoose
1 Optimus Gold
1 Rikard Bakke/Motormaster
1 Tranzmetal (#transformers, au.austnet.org)
2 Doug Kern/Monocle
2 Hooper_X
2 LiquidVelcro!
2 Mad-Max-MFP
2 Teletran 3
2 The_Critic (#cybertron)
2 TrypticonX
2 Walkerton
3 Thylacine 2000
4 Swift_Eagle
SwiftEagle. Always fair, level-headed, and magniminious.
--Robert Powers
Doug "Monocle" Kern (or Dougmon) Hides his nice ways behind being
completely unable to type properly. <g> And I want ops. ;)
--Cecilia "Windchaser" Matz
Mad-Max-MFP. Although he's not exactly the friendliest person, he's
damned funny.
--CoolSlider
TrypticonX in #cybertron and #wiigii! "That would will Max with G1
era super Sailor Moon, yet I doubt respect will entail Car Robots and
repaints."
--Particle Man
Teletran 3. He's the bot with the lot!
--SpeedBreaker
LiquidVelcro, brains and humour all wrapped up in five skinny sticks!
--Anthony "Tonyfitz" Brucale
RATTRAP: "Five skinny sticks"?
DRONE: Perhaps it is a reference to "The Blair Witch Project"?
RATTRAP: Nah, mebbe it's "Brazil".
DRONE: No, I believe it is "Chocolat".
RATTRAP: "Chocolat"?
DRONE: It was HBO's Featured Movie of the Week(tm)...
-----------------------------
*** Best Transformers MUSH/MUCK
1 Beast Wars: Shadow World
1 Transformers Continuum
2 Alternate Universe
2 Beast Wars Second
2 Transformers Legends
2 Transformers: Exodus (no longer operating)
3 #beastwars (on Espernet)
3 Beast Wars: Transmetals
3 Masterforce
4 Beast Wars Transformers (no longer operating)
5 Beast Wars Complete
6 Transformers: Victory Second
11 Transformers Universe
17 Transformers: 2005
18 Decepticon Dominion
27 Transformers: The Lost Years
All things considered, Lost Years is still the best MUSH out there,
Transformers or otherwise.
--Therese Svedin
*snif* Masterforce is closing. I shall miss it dearly. :(
--Midnightline
Haven't been there, haven't done that.
--Saudade
Decepticon Dominion - a truly international MUSH and it is only MUSH
where the timezone monster can't get me -- the active times correspond
to my Sunday mornings while most MUSHes are active during the middle
of my weekdays. Plus they made me admin and any MUSH silly enough to
do that deserves a vote! ;-) Oh yes, and there are no Autobots at all
-- and it rocks! :-)
--Charlotte Brogden
TF: 2005 Six years and still going strong!
--Sharon "Tut" LaBorde
Let's see. Best Transformers shmuck... oh, wait, that's not what it
said. :)
--SILVERBOLT - Mr. Vertigo Himself
RATTRAP: Yeah, THAT award goes ta Dino-butt!
-----------------------------
*** Best Role-Playing of a Pre-Existing Character on a MUSH/MUCK
1 Afterburner (current), Transformers: 2005
1 Deszaras (played by Raksha), Transformers: Victory Second
1 Gaihawk, Transformers: Victory Second
1 Galvatron, Transformers: 2005
1 Megatron, Beast Wars Second
1 Onslaught (played by Brett Smith, bail...@shreve.net)
1 Optimus Prime, Transformers Legends
1 Prowl (played by Sarah Taunnenbaum), Masterforce
1 Rampage, Beast Wars: Transmetals
1 Rumble (played by Tempest), Decepticon Dominion
1 Snake-Eyes, Transformers Universe
1 Snapper, Beast Wars
1 Soundwave, Decepticon Dominion
1 Swindle, Transformers Universe
2 Thunderwing (played by Therese Svedin), Decepticon Dominion
Thunderwing, Decepticon Dominion (Therese Svedin). Every utterance of
Therese's Thunderwing is an exquisite combination of Old World
nobility and feral menace -- but she's very nice to her
underlings! :-)
--Charlotte Brogden
Megatron@BW2. He's just so good at it.
--OptimalOptimus
Rumble on Decepticon Dominion, by Tempest. It's far too easy for a
Rumble player to make him a clueless punk and miss entirely the
elements of the character that are often overlooked, namely that for
all his street-punk demeanor, he's got a definite empathy for his
fellow Decepticons. Tempest picked up those aspects of him
beautifully, and brought him to life, balancing the adolescent kid
with the son of Soundwave. And this was a brand-new Musher, no
less....
--Raksha
Two Way Tie: Lifeline and Snake-Eyes at Transformers Universe for
proving that human characters can be just as much fun to play as the
Robots ... Snake-Eyes, for playing the twinkies of the Joes with a
cold
--Kathy Pulver
RATTRAP: (counting) One, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one,
one, one, one, one, one, two.
DRONE: It IS a win, regardless.
RATTRAP: Yeah, but it doesn't do much fer the ratings.
-----------------------------
*** Best Role-Playing of an Original Character on a MUSH/MUCK
1 Ayane (played by Jeremy Kaufmann)
1 Draconia, Decepticon Dominion
1 Dredclaw (played by Trey Sutton), Transformers: 2005
1 Frost, Transformers: The Lost Years
1 FX, Transformers: 2005
1 J-Turn (Thought-Out), Transformers: 2005
1 Laser, Beast Wars Second
1 Optimus Gold, #Beastwars (from Espernet)
1 Otterax, Beast Wars Transmetals (also Beast Wars Transformers)
1 Raksha (played by Raksha), Decepticon Dominion
1 Razelore, Transformers: The Lost Years
1 Revamp (played by Heather Moulton), Transformers: The Lost Years
1 Silver, Transformers: The Lost Years
1 Snowdrift, Beast Wars: Transmetals
1 Techno, Decepticon Dominion
1 Vindica, Beast Wars Complete
1 Whiplash (played by Raksha), Transformers: The Lost Years
2 Ultra-Mecha-Zilla-Gon, Transformers Universe
7 Hardcore (played by Hooper_X), Transformers: The Lost Years
Hooper X doing Hardcore, cause he told me to vote for him here.
--Recharge
Vindica@BWC. She's just got this ability to channel her hate through
her really damn hateful character.
--OptimalOptimus
Raksha as Whiplash on TLY. Something of a signature character for the
MUSH, I think. The Plumed Serpent wielding tentacles and lots of
attitude. Autobots beware!
--Therese Svedin
Going to go with Sliver from Lost Years this time. Keep running the
Trannies, and everyone will get a vote from me in turn. :)
--Raksha
RATTRAP: So how long's it gonna take fer Raksha to go through the
rest of her list?
DRONE: And can she finish it before Robert gets tired of doing
these shows?
-----------------------------
*** Best Fan Artist (handdrawn art/rendered image/general 2D art)
1 Cecilia Matz/Windchaser (http://members.nbci.com/TFWindchaser/)
1 Dave Reynolds/Deux Ex Machina (http://www.genomestudios.com)
1 Defiant
1 Dr. Sigma
1 Felica Tabby (f_t...@hotmail.com)
1 Marg Davis
1 Mark Wong
1 Optanium Convoy
(http://www.geocities.com/xwz_5000/buzzsaw2.html)
1 Will Mangin/Beamer
(http://homepages.go.com/~wamaclosefriendofbob/
transformers.html)
1 Xiphos (http://www.rahul.net/xiphos/)
1 Zinou (http://come.to/Zinou/)
2 Artemis Prime
2 Garry Bodsworth (of "Prime Sacrifice";
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/primus/tmukfanzines.htm)
2 Jason Moser/Legacy (http://www.genomestudios.com)
2 Julie Wondra
2 Katherine Brown (http://www.geocities.com/kynight01)
2 Matt Nelson (http://www.superdeformers.com/)
2 Michael Kenney/Dak Roland
(http://www.madbbs.com/users/dakroland)
2 Paul Lawrence (of Transmasters UK;
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/primus/tmukfanzines.htm)
3 Adrian Oak
3 Amy Cryway
(http://www.geocities.com/caligo_designs/transformers/)
3 Brian Burke (Drake Fenwick)
3 Crill D
3 Frank Gross
3 Gigaleo
3 Hawkstone
3 Hirofumi Ichiwaka (Transformers Chronicles)
3 James Brookes (of "Pioneer";
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/primus/tmukfanzines.htm)
3 Lori McGowen
3 Lt. Tarantulas (http://members.tripod.com/lt_tarantulas/)
3 Ota Taiga/Kaigunsantohei
(http://members.nbci.com/goktimus/Fanfic.html)
3 Sarah Taunnenbaum
3 Starfury (of Transformers: 2005 MUSH)
3 Winged Siamese
(http://www.geocities.com/wingedsiamese/index.html)
4 Butto (http://www.vega.or.jp/~butto/tfindex.html)
4 H. M. Bundrant/HMB3 (http://flux.snapbag.com/tf/fanart.html)
4 Ken Flatt/Jaguar (http://www.melted.com/tlc/)
4 Matt Dallas (of "Transformers: Continued Generation 2";
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/primus/tmukfanzines.htm)
5 Lillith Skye Rael/Lithrael/Razormoon
(http://www.afn.org/~afn20039/cobra/)
6 Eva Gillmann/Magic
6 Harry Beejan
(http://monde.intellia.com/harry/cybertron/index.htm)
6 Heather Feldman/Illmatar
(http://home.earthlink.net/~illmatar/Maelstrom.index.html)
6 John Bilodeau
(http://communities.msn.ca/tfdrawings&naventryid=103)
6 Lex/Leximillian (http://eagle.ca/~cadams/lex.htm)
6 Ron D. Smith (http://www.geocities.com/trentulas/index.html)
6 Zenith (http://www.caliburn.co.uk/)
7 Heather Moulton/Vampie/Revamp (http://wingsplatinum.tripod.com)
8 Dusty
12 S. Trent Troop/Trentulas
(http://www.geocities.com/trentulas/index.html)
13 Weewoo (http://www.tfw2005.com/3dtf/)
16 Dave Edwards/Zobovor (http://zobovor.zmfts.com)
17 Mad-Max-MFP
18 Guido Guidi (http://www.transformers.3000.it)
21 Don/Dprime2 (http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/macromasters/)
21 Greg Sepelak/M Sipher
(http://tatooine.fortunecity.com/simak/109/)
24 David Willis/Walky
(http://www.itswalky.com/transformers/fanart/)
34 Chia-Chi Wang/Chi (http://www.bigbot.com/chi)
34 Makoto Ono/Makotron (http://flux.snapbag.com/tf/fanart/mo.html
and http://www.tfw2005.com/makotron/)
157 Dan Khanna/Dan the Art Guy
(http://bubblegum.parsons.edu/%7Eartguy/index.html)
Dan Khanna. And he's kinda cute, too!
--Bobbi Carothers
I vote for Lexy's well-done and funny Ratchet drawing done in esponse
to Nightwind's "Death's Lessons" fanfic.
--Lara "Blacklight" Smith
CHI gets a vote from me just for his pic of Thundercracker. :)
--Nightwind
Hirofumi Ichiwaka. Oh, man, let me count the ways. TF CHRONICLES is
simply the pinnacle of TF art. First of all, it's all based on the
TOYS, which is the true core of this little line. The man has an eye
for detail that's unbelievable... Smokescreen had window rollers and
locks on the backs of his door/wings! He made toy-Ironhide look like
a TOUGH mofo, an "older generation" robot built for heavy labor. AND
HE HAD BIG DADDY!!!
--M Sipher
MSipher has that kind of Anime-influence to his work which I really
like. If I could afford it I'd ask him to draw something for me
(Starscream maybe? :)
--Cecilia "Windchaser" Matz
WeeWoo. Man, that guy can create some cool images!
--Daniel "Devvi" Vink
Makoto Ono. Three words: Oh. My. God.
--Track Attack
RATTRAP: Good night, kids, Dan "Da Man" Khanna just blew it outta
the ballpark!
DRONE: If it's any consolation, at least Chi managed to TIE with
Makoto Ono.
RATTRAP: Second place only counts in grenades, ball-boy...
-----------------------------
*** Best Fan Artist (kitbashing/model-building/general 3D art)
1 Prowl Pants
1 Rhinox Trion
1 Sharon LaBorde/Tut
2 Burt Ward/Skyflight
2 DaClique (http://community.webtv.net/DaClique/TheBeastWARzone)
2 Fred/Fred's Workshop
(http://www.geocities.com/futuristgroup/tfs.html)
2 Lawrence Evans
2 Matt Dallas
2 Michael Fromel
2 Robowang
2 Tony Tuski
3 Dave Willis/Walky (http://www.itswalky.com/transformers/fanart/)
3 Hellbat (hel...@innocent.com)
3 Hirofumi Omichi
3 Kidkorrupt
3 Makoto Ono/Makotron (http://flux.snapbag.com/tf/fanart/mo.html
and http://www.tfw2005.com/makotron/)
3 Michelle and Brian Burke/Drake Fenwick
3 Promethius X (http://members.nbci.com/PrometheusX.1/)
3 Pyre [Rock]
(http://home.rica.net/dcarson/therock/tf/customs/index.htm)
3 Robert Jung (http://www.digiserve.com/eescape/)
3 The Weeter
3 Trixter (http://members.nbci.com/Trixter_/)
4 Heather Moulton/Vampie/Revamp (http://wingsplatinum.tripod.com)
4 Larry Trout/Jarrod
(http://www.geocities.com/shinji1066/index.html)
5 Frank Gross
5 Ken Carlson
(http://members.tripod.com/~triad3587/transmythics2.htm)
5 Hirosuke Kobayashi (Botcon Japan '97 Arcee)
(http://www.ipc-tokai.or.jp/~snakas/botcon98/botcon_arcee.htm)
6 Robert Yee (creator of the BotCon 2000 "Rodimus Primal" display)
6 S. Trent Troop/Trentulas
(http://www.geocities.com/trentulas/index.html)
8 Barbara Brewer (Yarnmasters)
22 Swift Eagle
26 Jason and Kevin Lukis (http://www.unicron.com)
32 Don/Dprime2 (http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/macromasters/)
48 Dave Edwards/Zobovor (http://zobovor.zmfts.com)
89 Dave Van Domelen
(http://protoformproject.com/dvd/kitbash/repaints.html)
Dave Van Domelen's macabre artwork. :) Just teasing.
--Earlwin Famor
SwiftEagle, for his Echowarrior kitbash and his eagerly awaited
Echocia kitbash. And that one will be original.
--William "Echowarrior" Rendfeld
Lawrence Evans (for his excellent Death Cobra kitbash)
--Miss George 'Kim Kaze' Morgan
Walky. Now give me my check, you.
--Hooks
The Lukis Bros for all the great stuff they've accomplished over the
years with paint, glue and other stuff. SwiftEagle gets a mention for
his cool Echowarrior kitbash, which ended up on third place in the
BotCon 2000 Art Contest! Yay!
--Cecilia "Windchaser" Matz
Dprime2, who does those great "Macromaster" kitbashes.
--Joe "TV's Grady" Green
Frank Gross, for his Cybertronian Wrestling Federation kitbashes.
--Mad-Max-MFP
DRONE: "Cybertronian Wrestling Federation"?
RATTRAP: Bob Budiansky returns! Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
-----------------------------
*** Best Transformers Fan Club
1 Beast Wars Rocks
1 Cybertronian Conference, Greg Gaub
(http://flux.snapbag.com/tf/maillist.html)
1 Dairyland Transfans Association, Fred/Fred's Workshop
(http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/7730/tfs1.html)
1 Minnesota Transfans, Lorax
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mntransfans)
1 Prowl's Harem (http://www.geocities.com/prowlsharem)
1 The Alliance Transformers Fan Club
1 The Decepticon Empire, Burt Ward/Skyflight
(http://www.decepticon-empire.org/)
1 The Survivors
1 The Transformers Elite
1 Ultra Magnus Fan Club, Amanda Wells/Dragonclaw
(http://users3.50megs.com/dclaw/magclub.htm)
2 Radio Free Cybertron, Brian Kilby (http://www.tfradio.net or
http://www.abts.net/~kilby316/)
2 TransFans, Ryan Kowalchuk/Omega (http://www.transfans.com)
2 #wiigii! (IRC channel)
4 Dutchbot (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dutchbot)
4 Nordic TransFan Association/NTFA, Lars Eriksson/Groundsplitter
(http://members.nbci.com/ntfa)
5 TransMasters UK/TMUK, Matt Dallas, Paul Cannon, Martin Mcvay and
others (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tmuk)
7 Ozformers, Griffin
(http://www.powerup.com.au/~griffin/ozformers.htm)
7 TransMasters, Tony Buchanan, Andy Dornan, Tony Klepack and
others (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transmasters)
Ozformers, since I'm in it.
--Dirge
TransMasters. This club actually started in 1985 as I understand it,
and has contacts from here to the Middle East--literally...
--Sharon "Tut" LaBorde
The Official Ultra Magnus Fan Club. Yes he CAN deal with that now!
--Bluestreak7
The Dutchbotters. Yeah, that's right, I'm voting for the
Dutchbotters. Consider it an olive branch.
--Hooper_X
Now best clique, that's #wiigii!
--Trent "Trentulas" Troop
Cybertronian Conference; mailing list that's fun to be on; and now we
have our own pizza gatherings at Botcon. For BC '01, we're having
Cybcon3.
--Mardhen "Dai Atlas" Bravo
Prowl's Harem (it's the only fan club I've been in. ;)
--Midnightline
RATTRAP: HEY! What's he got that I ain't got?
DRONE: A friendlier personality, for starters.
RATTRAP: Shaddap, you!
-----------------------------
*** Best Transformers Fanzine or Newsletter
1 Maelstrom, Heather Feldman
(http://home.earthlink.net/~illmatar/Maelstrom.index.html)
1 The Cybertron Chronicles
1 Transformers Chronicles, Hirofumi Ichiwaka
1 Transmasters (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transmasters)
1 Transmasters Universe
(http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/primus/tmukfanzines.htm)
2 Dutchbot (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dutchbot)
2 The Matrix (http://www.tfmatrix.com)
2 Transformers: Continued Generation 2, Matt Dallas
(http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/primus/tmukfanzines.htm)
2 Transformers: The Lost Chronociles, Ken Flatt
(http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/primus/tmukfanzines.htm)
2 Transmasters UK (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tmuk)
2 Trans-Spoof, Tim Finn and Nick Nadel
3 Auto-Update, Tony Buchanan
3 Voices of Cybertron, Sharon LaBorde and Daryn Brossard
(dnb...@beta.latech.edu)
4 Radio Free Cybertron, Brian Kilby (http://www.tfradio.net or
http://www.abts.net/~kilby316/)
6 Altered States, Phil Zeman/Skyjammer
(http://www.skyjammer.com/asm/)
6 Ozformers, Griffin
(http://www.powerup.com.au/~griffin/ozformers.htm)
10 Con-Quest, Raksha (http://www.plumed-serpent.com)
Raksha's ConQuest. Easily the best. :)
--Nightwind
Tony Buchanan's "Auto-Update", I admire how he devotes so much of his
time and resources to making this.:)
--Mardhen "Dai Atlas" Bravo
Voices of Cybertron, since my brother got those and they're the only
ones I've ever seen
--Cyclonus1
Probably all the Transmasters UK stuff, although the Essays in
Con-Quest are very interesting (though ONE SIDED!)
--Peter J. Strzelecki
[If they weren't, it wouldn't be called CON-Quest, would it? B-]
Hm.... Do Joel of bigbadtoystore's news posts and mails count?
--Trent "Trentulas" Troop
Radio Free Cybertron could count as one, I guess.
--CoolSlider
Altered States Magazine. Where the name Donahoe isn't a euphimism for
molesting an Arcee toy.
--Anthony "Tonyfitz" Brucale
RATTRAP: Er ... ummm...
DRONE: No. Don't even try.
RATTRAP: Can we, uhm, cut to a commercial, er, NOW?
DRONE: Yes, I believe we can.
[Cut to commercials]
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--R.J.
B-)
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"I write because I am personally amused by what I do, and if other people
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M Sipher
news:B6E7F32B.4D59%rjun...@mac.com...
> ======================================================================
> PART VI: FANDOM
>
> Can't we just roll Hartman, Hallit and Hartman into a ball of limbs,
> and call it '3H'? I can't think of anyone else deserved of this
> award.
> --Griffin
There's one helluva mental image.
> *** The Lovable Screwball of the Year Award
>
> 15 TrypticonX (bga...@iname.com)
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Every post from Tryp is a ray of sunshine!
> *** Best Transformers Newsgroup or Message Forum
>
> 2 Radio Free Cybertron (http://www.tfradio.net or
> http://www.abts.net/~kilby316/)
... Well, I guess there is a message board there, isn't there?
> Tengu. Booo, spooky monster Tengu.
> --Mad-Max-MFP
Or some clown in a bird-mask with a needle-nose. Take your pick. Heh.
> *** Best .sig
>
> 9 Greg Sepelak/M Sipher (assorted comments)
Huh?
> TrypticonX. "Ponies! A contempt for prancing ponies!" or something
> like that.
> --Uberjet
PONY PONY PONY!
> *** Best Transformers Reference/Resource
>
> 1 The Transformers In Japanese Missions magazine, Fumihiko Akiyama
Oh yeah. I got my copy right here. Like much. Very glad I got it.
> "The Transformers In Japanese Missions" magazine. Big, clear,
> full-color pictures of every pre-Beast JTF. Worthwhile in that once
> you take a look at some of the most expensive ones, you realize
> they're not worth owning. ;)
> --Thylacine 2000
HAH!
> *** Best Transformers Web Site
>
> 30 BWTF (http://www.bwtf.com)
>
> www.bwtf.com - Benson Yee has the inside connections at Hasbro, and
> shares with us the most up-to-date, *reliable* information in the TF
> community.
> --John DeLuna
ALL HAIL!
> *** Best Transformers IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Channel
>
> 36 #cybertron
> 104 #wiigii!
Oh, the kicking!
>
> #wiigii! Oh, like there's any other choice.
> --Recharge
> Long live #WiiGii!
> --William "Echowarrior" Rendfeld
> I'm sorry, but it's #WiiGii! or the highway.
> --Mad-Max-MFP
Shouldn't that be "#WiiGii! or the hiiwii"?
> *** Best Fan Artist (handdrawn art/rendered image/general 2D art)
>
> 3 Hirofumi Ichiwaka (Transformers Chronicles)
Lord, this man kicks my butt. He kicks EVERYONE'S butt.
> 21 Greg Sepelak/M Sipher
> (http://tatooine.fortunecity.com/simak/109/)
> 24 David Willis/Walky
> (http://www.itswalky.com/transformers/fanart/)
Whoah.
> MSipher has that kind of Anime-influence to his work which I really
> like. If I could afford it I'd ask him to draw something for me
> (Starscream maybe? :)
> --Cecilia "Windchaser" Matz
Hey, I'm reasonable. Watcha after?
> *** Best Transformers Fan Club
>
> 2 #wiigii! (IRC channel)
Hee hee.
> *** Best Transformers Fanzine or Newsletter
>
> Altered States Magazine. Where the name Donahoe isn't a euphimism for
> molesting an Arcee toy.
> --Anthony "Tonyfitz" Brucale
(sprays Dr Pepper on the monitor)
M "Damn. Through The NOSE" Sipher
--
King Weasel Productions - home of the productions of King Weasel!
Transformers, RockMan, original art, the solutions to all life's problems
and other crap!
http://members.fortunecity.com/msipher
Home of the giant MegaMan/RockMan Toy & Merchandise Archive!
Brian Kilby
news:B6E7F32B.4D59%rjun...@mac.com...
> *** The TransFan of the Year Award
> 5 Brian Kilby (Kilb...@abts.net)
Woo!
> 7 Frank Gross/WebTV's Frank
Frank rules.
> Brian Kilby & Co., for Radio Free Cybertron.
> --Gabi "T.M." D'Galvatron
Aw, thanks. :)
> *** The Lovable Screwball of the Year Award
> 1 Bob Skir
....hehehehehehe!
> 1 Brian Kilby (Kilb...@abts.net)
But...I'm a jerk. Ask anyone on ATT.
> 15 TrypticonX (bga...@iname.com)
No offense to anyone else, but REALLY, it shouldn't have been that close.
Tryp was by FAR the funniest guy on ATT last year. There was no contest
here. None. You rule, Tryp. I love you.
> *** Best Transformers Newsgroup or Message Forum
> 2 Radio Free Cybertron (http://www.tfradio.net or
> http://www.abts.net/~kilby316/)
Uhm...we have a guestbook. /:)
> 239 alt.toys.transformers
Ugh...
>
> *** Best Discussion of the Year
> 1 Is Rattrap60 a troll?
WHO voted for this? RatTrap60 himself? To quote Hooks. "Eeeeuggh.
Eeeeeeeeuuuuggggggghhhhhh."
> 1 The penis moose! (on Transformers: 2005 MUSH)
I...I don't even want to know.
> 1 Transformers fanfic talk
Where was that? On the moon? I mean, there's like NO fanfic talk anywhere.
ATTF is just a place for spam and episode requests. So sad...
> 5 "Binary bonding isn't the answer!"/"How tough are Transformers?"
My favorite. 'cause, you know, if push came to shove, we humans would
DESTROY the Transformers! :D
> *** Silliest Discussion of the Year
> 1 "I am drinking water"
Dear GOD...
> 1 Is Rattrap60 a troll?
Dear GOD...
> 1 Sanrah leaves alt.toys.transformers
YES! :D
> 2 Jax's discussions
Aw. I feel sorry about that now... :(
> 2 Off-Topic posts rule/suck
Suck.
> 2 #Wiigii! topic bar
By FAR the best. Transfandom is in such bad shape...
> Tom Hanks
> --Prowl
....
> *** Best Transformers Web Site
> 1 Frank's Botcon Site
> (http://community-2.webtv.net/frankshome/FRANKSBOTCONSITE/
> index.html)
> 1 Frank's Home (http://community-2.webtv.net/frankshome/)
FRANK! :D
> 6 Radio Free Cybertron (http://www.tfradio.net or
> http://www.abts.net/~kilby316/)
....WOW. How did we do that well...oh. Most everyone else was voting for
BWTF. /:)
> www.coldhardslag.com (gotta give it to them for the Welker interview,
> along with the rest of the content.)
> --Echo
ColdHardSlag rules.
> *** Best Transformers IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Channel
> 104 #wiigii!
Heh. Probably some people who've never even BEEN to #wiigii! voted for it.
We rule THAT much.
> *** Best Fan Artist (handdrawn art/rendered image/general 2D art)
> 17 Mad-Max-MFP
THAT rules. Wow.
> Frank Gross, for his Cybertronian Wrestling Federation kitbashes.
> --Mad-Max-MFP
Frank rules.
> *** Best Transformers Fan Club
> 2 Radio Free Cybertron, Brian Kilby (http://www.tfradio.net or
> http://www.abts.net/~kilby316/)
....we're a fan club?
> 2 #wiigii! (IRC channel)
....we're a fan club? Oh well, I can see THAT.
> *** Best Transformers Fanzine or Newsletter
> 4 Radio Free Cybertron, Brian Kilby (http://www.tfradio.net or
> http://www.abts.net/~kilby316/)
Keen.
> 6 Altered States, Phil Zeman/Skyjammer
> (http://www.skyjammer.com/asm/)
ASM rules.
> Radio Free Cybertron could count as one, I guess.
> --CoolSlider
Heh.
--
Brian Kilby
Kilb...@abts.net
Radio Free Cybertron. www.tfradio.net
Listen now! http://www.tfradio.net/RFC/listen.ram