The issue of TFWe you’ve been waiting to download is finally here! We’ve just released TFWe issue 05 (Robots in Disguise Anniversary Special) in .PDF format. And the best way to celebrate our favorite Transformers series is to pack it full of bonus content!
As well as our normal extra content (a TON more images to boot), we’ve also included a special Robots in Disguise Art Book – By Fans For Fans at the end of the issue! Our Fan Art regulars may remember our dear friend Joe Moore asking for all of your RiD artwork and customs that you’ve done – well, if you submitted it to him, it’s here in this book! That’s right – it’s our largest issue yet, clocking in at a whopping 35 pages!
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE .PDF
(the link is right under the image of the cover)
A special thanks to all RiD fans for submitting your artwork and customs, and always, big kudos to Joe Moore for another bang-up issue in .PDF format. We hope you enjoy it! Leave some feedback! And stay tuned for Issue 06, when the TFWe staff looks at Transformers and Halloween … (you can almost taste the cosplay article, can’t you?) See you soon!
Roller
Is there any news on whether or not RID will be released on DVD in the USA?
jgoss
awesome job guys!! brings back some good memories i was playing on the floor with my daugther when RID came on. i'm hoping some time soon that it comes out on dvd!!
Trailbreaker77
Looks like I need to sell my Scourge & Sideburn, they are currently in my "Classics" collection due to their molds. I didn't know they were from a different TF line. I wonder what I can get for them?
Joe Moore
Hehehehe. Whoops.
UnicronHound
not trying to sound like the nerd in the corner of a room, but you forgot one difference for the "spot the difference" game, for the solutions there's no mention of Prowl's light bar missing in the second picture.
Gryph
Pretty good issue. I wish I could have contributed some artwork.
Did anyone else get a chuckle out of the picture of Choryujin stuck in the middle of that BW display?
CodeXCDM
Pretty cool! There were quite an interesting variety of toys from RiD. I only have the Walmart Yellow Build Team. The all yellow version may not be show accurate, but it makes for a very cohesive combiner. Extremely bulky legs aside, it's a great combiner figure, and darn shame there is nothing else like him… such clever engineering.
Say are there links to that Scourge Evil Commander Trailer custom on the boards? Trying to search it on Radicons but to little avail… =(
flywheels
I was still drooling over pics of BW Neo online when I first saw the pics of Car Robots. I have to say that I had a hard time containing my excitement. I mean, vehicular Transformers again!
Great issue guys. Thanks for the hard work!
moreprimeland
IMHO, the best issue so far!! Loved the topic of course, RID has become one of my fave series..finally got a chance to watch the entire series this year and loved every moment. I knew all of the Japanese names and I would agree SF, some of them were awesome and some were not. I've managed to collect a few pieces and cherish them but I never get tired of seeing them displayed by those who were luckier to have more of them.
Hopefully I'm not going to spoil the ending by saying I loved that
but just in case it is a spoiler, I'll do the tags.
As for this issue of TFWe…it's the first I've read from "cover to cover"…everyone's contributions were informative as well as entertaining. Keep up the great work guys.
Black Oracle
That would have been a good way to introduce all those other non-show RID releases in fiction! It's sad but not surprising really that IDW would not seriously consider a fan proposal though. They may get a few of those and they may just not want to spend the time to go through each one. And they obviously had their own plans for TFs. The best chance an idea might have of being at least read is through comments and letters really.
Belgrath
Schweet issue. I even have X-Brawn (bought him from a garage sale for 2 bucks in '09) stashed somewhere in my closet.
And the comics are awesome as hell, the Nemesis Prime is pure gold
Anguirus
Nice issue! I was able to see RiD on YouTube and blew through it over a couple weeks (unlike A/E/C which I wasn't bothered with). For a quirky, humorous, repaint-focused line, somehow it really speaks to many of us fans, even those of us who were "lapsed" at the time this was on.
This magazine prompted me to unbox my Korean Black Convoy…er, Scourge…from the box he was packed in during my move. Now, to grab my JRX…rather, Rail Racer, and stage some battle.
Superquad7
I've so much good readin' to catch up on here
f-primusunicron
i will never accept tfclub sideburn as rid sideburn
cybertron crosswise would have been a better choice, hence the desing similarities
the classic rodimus mold just doesnt fit, less articulated than the rid one, blockier, i just dont like him as sideburn
Kickback
From what I can recall from our pitch…
It was a one-shot (or a mini-series, whatever they felt would be better), that featured the R.I.D. cartoon universe and it took place a few years later, and Cryotek breaks Galvatron, Scourge, Slapper, Gas Skunk, Darkscream, and Ruination out of their intergalatic prison. They combine forces with Cryotek's army (Obsidian, Dreadwind, Smokejumper, Bruticus, Jetfire, Windsheer, Axer) and launch an attack on the Autobot headquarters on Cybertron. Ultra Magnus does his best to fend them off with the Cybertron Autobots (Mirage GT, Scavenger, Nightcruz, Daytonus, Sideswipe, Sideways) but calls Optimus Prime for help.
Omega Prime is formed and eventually saves the day. Left it open at the end as Cryotek escapes with Ruination. Foreshadowed Megatron Megabolt as well as a way to "take over" Fortress Maximus.
IDW said no, they'd rather tell the story from the beginning (or a story that takes place outside of continuity). Later heard from someone that pitched a G2 story that they were given the literal copy/paste response we received. Was very, very disheartening to find out you thought they were receptive, but in the end, they really didn't care.
Black Oracle
"Marionette" is re-playing in my head. Wonderful RID commemoration issue guys! The God Fire Convoy cover art is beautiful to behold! Makes me sad we never got to see that one-issue RID comic proposal. I'd still love to see a RID comic!
You mean there was going to be over 50 eps. originally before they cut it down to 39? Imagine where the show would have gone had it continued…
I want that RtS G2 Prime black repaint so bad! And they can call him 'Scourge', but to me, he'll always be Black Convoy-sama!
avc-prime
I like this series mostly because of the toys. man I how I loved optimus prime and I was like wtf are they doing with the transformers now ( I thought it was a continuation of Beast Wars, and they were bringing optimus prime back to life).
I don't know what happened to the Armada toys it was mostly shell transformers.
Methusalen
I recall watching the RID series when it came out and picked up many of the Autobot figures. Sadly, I gave most of my figures away to a friend's son after the line had ended, focusing my newly-started collection on the toys that I clearly recalled from my youth… the (at the time) new Commemorative Series of G1 reissues… But it really *was* RID that got me back into the hobby!
I've regretted parting with those figures now, as I gave him all 3 Autobot car brothers, Prime & Ultra Magnus, and many others…
I *DID* manage to keep 2 figures… The first is my Scourge figure, who still graces the shelves with his presence… He really *is* a great figure, and I'm happy to own him. The second figure being the combined Ruination figure. I loved how it was a repaint of the Combaticons, but with the added benefit of combining all his accessory weapons together to create a couple of HUGE weapons for him!
I've since repurchased Optimus Prime, as well as picking up Bludgeon, and a few Spychangers (Including the RID Prime, Scourge, Ultra Magnus).
I still intend to pick up Ultra Magnus to go along with Prime, as well as the Destructicon Scourge ('Hero' Prime repaint)… Really seems to me that the repaints of the line are the real prizes!
03Mach1
Very enjoyable read. Thanks guys!
HighPrime
Great magazine outing!
I was completely 'out' of Transformers before RiD had arrived on the scene. I caught the occasional Beast Wars/Machines episode, but that was it (I can appreciate the series much more now, though).
Then one day when cutting through a toy aisle in Wal-mart… "What the… Optimus Prime??" and the rest is history.