A very nice piece of Transformers history is now available online for all old-time fans. The Sunbow Marvel Archive website have uploaded the first supplement for the G1 show bible. Officially titled the Transformers New Products Addendum, this document covers profiles for the 18 new characters who made their debut in season 2
We are sure this material will be a great reading for any fan and collector. You can read it here at the Sunbow Marvel Archive website.
Click on the discussion link below and let us know your impressions on the 2005 Boards!
Greebtron
If people have an appetite for more of this, well this is not the only production material that I've been able to reveal in the last month: Five Faces Of Darkness Outline and Full Scripts Available Online | TFW2005 – The 2005 Boards
G.B. Blackrock
Since the pronunciation doesn't really change, I imagine they'd still be stuck putting "Autobot" (or some other modifier) in front of the name, or else we'd likely have seen "Jazzz" used as a replacement name before now.
cloudballoon
That difference between production and air date I know of. But at least I can match appearances to an episode's name regardless of which chronology it is.
Nevermore
NAME: SHOCKWAVE
FUNCTION: Cybertron Guard
TRANS-FORM: ray gun
ABILITIES: Detachable video scanning for remote planetary coverage. Ability to project up to five holographic self-duplicates to any Cybertron location simultaneously. Disintegrator attachment for
deadly accurate destructive power.
PROFILE: Caretaker of Cybertron…no greater ambitions. No emotions–undeviating in following Megatron's orders. Self-programmed to destroy any unidentified creature who attempts to penetrate boundaries for which he is responsible.
Greebtron
The main show bible is at the Archive too.
BigRed
That alternate Shockwave description is very interesting. Would anyone have a link to that?
Greebtron
Turns out what I've been sent was a page short. I've added it to the file but I'll also post here. Much like the recent Shockwave memo, a stark reminder of the purpose served by this show:View attachment 29468971
Senator Magnificus
Nobody:
Anybody:
Me: where mei Dark Guardian at?
Pteraxadon
Origin of nightbird?
T-Hybrid
My tongue was planted firmly in cheek.
In retrospect, they probably wish they had done that for trademark purposes.
Ikkstakk
There is no one universally approved order for the episodes, so no chronological list of first appearances exists. Both production order and airdate order present continuity errors.
RoadCaesar
Very, VERY interesting to me to see how the writers interpreted and translated the personality descriptions into what we got in the scripts.
I would have had very different takes on how Red Alert and Tracks were interpreted compared to what was written. But that's based in my Gen X life experience compared to their Baby Boomer experiences and references.
As an example, I would have interpreted Red Alert to be almost an edgy, suspicious, and paranoid threat-analyzer who catastrophized the worst possible outcome among scenarios.
Instead, his most memorable feature appearance involved him going crazy as a conspiracy nut.
And I don't see Astrotrain or Blitzwing's bios executed anywhere close to what was written/animated in their appearances.
Nevermore
Blitzwing's animation model isn't really news, though. We've known about it for years.
2D Artwork: – D.M.'s Most Accurately Coloured G1 Animation Models Online!
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"Trans-form" was an early term for "alternate mode" that was in the original show bible, which has been known to some of us for years (I certainly knew about it for at least 16 years), and is periodically rediscovered by the fandom every few years since not everyone is aware of all the minutiae of internal materials from the early years of the brand. This will occasionally even result in the TFW2005 news staff mistaking it for "previously unknown", as was the case last October.
And just in case – here are the "usual suspects" of discoveries from the show bible:
1) Rumble is described as "red robot". Cue 20 pages of FIRRIB vs. FIBRIR debate.
2) Shockwave is given a character description that deviates massively from his toy bio and his extended Marvel Transformers Universe writeup, whereas all the other characters' descriptions are trimmed from the toy bios/TFU writeups.
3) Sunstreaker had the early working name "Spinout" (which later led to Takara giving that name to the Diaclone-inspired red redeco of Masterpiece Sunstreaker, which in turn was reused by Hasbro for the Selects 2-pack with Cordon), and Cliffjumper had the early working name "Blow-Out". I think at least one of those is accidentally left unchanged at one point in the bible. Both names definitely appear in the article from Marvel Age #17, which is the first official announcement of the Transformers brand period.
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4) Jazz had the early working name "Jazzz", with a triple-"z".
5) Swoop had the early working name "Divebomb". Knowledge of this fact later resulted in British Marvel comics writer Simon Furman use it as the basis for a backstory that connected the Dinobot to the Predacon.
dragon
I will check it out later I don’t download crap on phone and tablets something’s tablets and phones can not read if it’s in pdf, any other formats zip file, raw file .,
don’t think I will like it I give it chance
Combaticons
looking forward 2 get this one
JJJ
You can find something like that on TFWiki. There isn't a single page showing when each character first appeared (that I know of…), but each episode of the cartoon has its own page with a list of characters appearing in it. Or you could look up each character individually, and they'll all have listed each cartoon episode they were in.
cloudballoon
Can anyone direct me to a website/page with a chronological order of bot appearances of the TV show if such a page exists? There used to be a Wikipedia page that lists the G1 in-show characters but it's gone (directing to the general TF TV Series page) now… it was not in chronogical order, but it did list all the characters and the episodes they appeared in.
Much appreciations if I can get a response.
Ikkstakk
"Nineteen additional characters are introduced here (fifteen Autobots and five Decepticons)."
Psst, Hasbro… 15 + 5 = 20.
And yes, Skids is missing so it would seem he was the one of the fourteen Autobots who was dropped.
Nevermore
And the mail-away didn't happen until two years in, because he was put in the show anyways and there was a toy they could make available… somehow.
T-Hybrid
Well at least they followed through on the tank dick.