I am Superman.

As many of you fellow Transfans may now, Roger Ebert hated Revenge of the Fallen. He has gone back to say how much he hates it not one, not two, but three times. As a matter of fact, in the third go-round, he not only attacked the non-Transfan audience who enjoyed it, calling them "unevolved," but also said that Transformers fans are "nine blooms short of a bouquet." See for yourself.

In response, I'd like to tell you something, Mr. Ebert: Your opinion that our opinion is wrong... Is wrong. An opinion cannot be proven to be right or wrong unless it has some evidence. For instance, your opinion that Revenge of the Fallen was a bad movie is merely that: an opinion. I myself am avoiding this film due to the offensive material found within, which are mostly poor attempts at comedy. Still, you're pretty much stooping to the level of a child who will call another child "stupid" or "dumb" if that other child likes something he dislikes. Sure, we may all act a little crazy and/or stupid at times, some of us more than others, but by no stretch of the imagination are the majority of us idiotic manchildren who do nothing but play with toys. We have lives; we have jobs; we have families, wives, husbands, and childrenwho love us. More to the point, We all come together because we have one thing in common: a love of a franchise that has been as much a part of our lives as movies are a part of yours.

As a matter of fact, Mr. Ebert, by insulting the Transformers fandom, you are insulting yourself. Fellow Transfan Greg Sepelak put it best in his rant, where he stated that ANYONE who likes ANY PART of Transformers is a fan. Since you liked the first movie, that makes you a fan. Heck, there are fans that, just like you, hated Revenge of the Fallen, just as there are many fans who loved Revenge of the Fallen.

To fellow Transformers fans: Stop proving him right about us with your hatemail. Your immature actions are the very reason why he considers us "nine blooms short of a bouquet." If you could all act more mature and intelligently argue your position, then he wouldn't have a real reason to ridicule us. The less like whiny fanboys we act, the better. I know that there is no way we can all get along and, say, agree that Transformers Animated was the best Transformers series ever, or that G1 wasn't that great aside from Furman and Budiansky's comics and the aniamted movie, but we don't need to be so darn HOSTILE about our differences. And those of you who sent death threats to Michael Bay and Bob Skir certainly aren't helping us change our image. And, the constant mocking of other fandoms, such as (don't shoot me) the Twilight fandom for the actions of their more irrational members is just what Mr. Ebert is doing to us. And it hurts. So perhaps we should merely criticize the WORK, and not the fans. Not all Twilight fans are idiotic fangirls who want Edward Cullen's babies. Just as there are hardcore G1 purists and more moderate fans of Transformers, there are irrational estrogen-driven fans of Twilight, and there are more moderate fans who acknowledge it's not a great book, but it's at least entertaining for them, just as Revenge of the Fallen isn't a great movie, but it's at least entertaining for us. (Am I safe from the rabid Twihaters? Good.)

Basically, Mr. Ebert, your opinion on Revenge of the Fallen, and the fans, are both just as wrong as the opinions of the people and fans who liked Revenge of the Fallen. By that, I mean both are equally valid opinions. Opinions, unlike facts, cannot be proven right or wrong. That is what seperates an opinion from a fact. No matter how much you may dislike something or someone, there is always one person who will either like that something or be fans of that someone. And us Transformers fans fondly remember Transformers from our childhoods, whether we grew up with the original Generation One in the 80's, or Beast Wars in the 90's, or even the Unicron Trilogy of the 2000's. So, insulting a whole group of people who have many interests other than Transformers, such as anime, comics, video games or even -gasp- film, INCLUDING -gasp gasp- great films such as WALL-E or 2001: A Space Odyssey is rather demeaning and immature. Most of the more mature members of the fandom certainly don't go around insulting film buffs such as yourself. We often agree with you on films such as The Godfather or Up. We like good films as much as the next person, whether they be a classic such as Citizen Kane or a new masterpiece such as the Dark Knight. However, we may also like films you consider bad. Like Revenge of the Fallen. And that, Mr. Ebert, is our opinion, no matter how "wrong" you may think it is.

Rassa-frassin' KIDS with their rassa-frassin' JET ENGINES!

Yep, the reviews are back! And this time, it's ROTF Ransack!

Holy crap, he's a biplane! Tha's even cooler than the prop plane G2 Ransack was!

But seriously, Hasbro must have said "Hey, antyhing will sell in this line, and the Scout class is gonna be the new Deluxe in this economy, soooo..." Bam. We get a Transformer with an eniterely new altmode.
A front view if the biplaner.

Side view.

To transform this little guy, you need to unpeg his arms frum underneath his lower wings, remove the wingtips of his lower wings and put thim into position on his upper wings. Then...

You twist his tail/back fuselage around and split it intwo. Move the upper leg panels to the side (THis often causes the entire leg to fall off, so BE CAREFUL), and reposition his tailfins as feet. You move his upperwings to his back and fold 'em down...

Then you clip on what's left of his lower wings into the same two struts that kept his upper wings in place during jet mode. You flip down the propellor, and pull out the awesome little head.

He also has an alternate robot mode, where you pill his upper wings back up, and put his propellor back up. This looks so much cooler than his regular robot mode, IMO, that I prefer to keep him that way.

"Rassa frassin' arm always fallin' off! If I had a stick, I'd beat ya with it!"

If my camera didn't suck, you could clearly see he was supporting his back with his hand. He's s'posed to be an old worn-out former flying ace from when flight was developed on Cybertron.

He is also a tiny god.

Cool news!

Me and a few other Allsparkers are working on a fancomic to continue TFA! You'll get to see characters like Team Thrull make there appearance, because I'm going to be one of the writers. I'll probably write up a few "episode" outlines, for the action, as I'm not very good at writing stories outside of script form.

*Cue the Imperial March*

It's been a while since I posted, eh? Anyway, these are five of the (now seven) members of Team Thrull (not counting Tidal Wave):

Scourge

Bludgeon

Bonecrusher(He hates everything)

Slugslinger

Scalp- I mean Chop Shop

There's two more to come: Sideways (Speedy Motorcycle with a switchblade. Think of him as a greaser) and Barricade(Decepticon Secret Police commander/cop car). All of them were drawn by Gunrage of the Allspark forums, and all but Slugslinger were created by me. However, he lets me use Slugslinger, and I came up with the idea of Slugslinger having a Two-Face look like Energon Slugslinger. Or Jonah Hex. Whatever.

Pics of some of Team Thrull!

As some of you know, I write up little bios for TFA versions of characters from previous franchises on occasion. Well, I found someone who will put those characters into illustration for me! His name is Gunrage, and he's a fellow user on the Allspark forums. He provided all these awesome pics of some of my Decepticon Animated adaptations: Team Thrull!

Tidal Wave

"Tidal Wave, Tidal Wave, Tidal Wave..."

The largest DECEPTICON ever constructed, TIDAL WAVE is a behemoth with deadly firepower. Captain by TEAM THRULL, TIDAL WAVE was created after SHOCKWAVE used his LONGARM PRIME disguise to look at the specs for the AUTOBOT superweapon OMEGA SUPREME. The DECEPTICON scientist SCALPEL decided to use this, and created a monster five times the size of the fable AUTOBOT. Now, TIDAL WAVE slumbers under the waters of the Atlantic Ocean near Miami, soaking up geothermal power to recharge...

Bonecrusher
"I slaggin' hate everything."
If there is one word that can decribe BONECRUSHER, it would be hate. BONECRUSHER hates other DECEPTICONS, even his commander, SCOURGE, but he would hate getting slagged, so he keeps it quiet. What BONECRUSHER really hates, though, are those pesky AUTOBOTS. They're always trying to fight him, but, fortunately for BONECRUSHER, he can extend his arms out to grab his opponents and rip them in half with his strength. He kinda likes that.



Scourge
"The fear you feel is my strength."
Next to MEGATRON, no DECEPTICON is as feared in the AUTOBOT ranks as SCOURGE. Long ago, he was the one who trained Megatron to assassinate the former leader of the DECEPTICONS and take over. Now assigned as one of MEGATRON'S GENERALS OF DESTRUCTION and leading the deadly TEAM THRULL, which consists of other Decepticons he has trained in the art of war, he and his team have become the stuff of nightmares for younger Autobots. Woe betide any who cross him, as he will find them... and execute them in the most brutal manner possible.

Wazzzpinator hazzz planzzz!

Yep, this here's my first review... And it's a doozy. Say hi to Waspinator!

"Wazzzzpinator hazzzz planzzz!"

Waspinator has definitely been hit with the creepy stick. He's got two little vestigial arms (Something Derrick Wyatt originally intended for use with Lockdown, details can be seen here), a very insectlike head, and lots of little details. He has little static lines in both hos robot-mode and wasp-mode optics.

"Oh, goody!"

"Wazzzpinator especially sick of being blown to SCRAP ALL THE TIME!"

He becomes even scarier (To me, at least. I'm afraid of bees and wasps) in his beast mode. This is one bad bug, with his robot mode arms splitting in two to become his front legs, and a really nasty stinger. Oh, and there's a little lever on his back that allows him to flap his wings in both modes. However, it lacks posability, being an insect mode with the usual limitations.

Also, you can give him arms like Movie Frenzy that split at the elbow. This is awesome.

"Ssssh! Wazzzpinator is hunting Bumblebotzzz!"

Another new TFA fanbio

Yeah, I know not many people are reading this, but hey. I just wanna have a place to put by bios. And, of course, let's start wiiiiiiith... A herring! Or, to be more accurate. A great white shark. Say hello to Animated Sky-Byte!

Name: Sky-Byte
Faction: Decepticon
Function: Bombardier
Motto: "Who’s the baddest ‘Con around? Who’s the smartest ‘Con in town? Sky-Byte, that’s me! Who beats Scourge into the ground and never lets old Megatron down? Sky-Byte, that’s me!”
SKY-BYTE was always hopeful that he would become one of Megatron's Generals of Destruction, but after an unfortunate incident where his crack team of three failed to defeat even a single Autobot trainee, he was demoted to a soldier and his minions simply became janitors. Ever since then, he vents his frustration by writing haiku. He really hates Scourge, but he also fears him enough to wait until the right time for betrayal. In his futuristic stealth blimp mode, he flies high and can bomb his opponents from the sky.