So, a few years back, I was involved in a collective effort to buy and digitize Transformers scripts. We managed to get more than 30 of them, including all of Season 1 and a close-to-finalized draft of The Transformers: The Movie. They were published for all to download, using the site Megaupload. That site was later busted for piracy, so Chris McFeely and I took some steps to make sure that they remain accessible. If you're interested, they are all available for download on Google Drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwBhmf92x_UES01QTFNRS1RwSnc
Hope you enjoy! If you have a lead on any more Transformers scripts, drop us a line. I'd love to get all 98 episodes up for perusal.
Musings from Jim Sorenson and a few guest bloggers about Transformers, character models, science-fiction, comic books, and whatever else is on our minds.
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Beast Machines - The Grand Mal
It's been a while since my last post--nearly a year! But I was doing some research on the Grand Mal for Beast Wars: Uprising (the awesome universe I've gotten a chance to develop for the Transformers Collectors' Club, available for download over at the official club website) and came across some cool character models in my archives.
For those of you who don't know, the Grand Mal was the name given to Megatron's Big Floating Head upgrade in Beast Machines. You can be forgiven for not knowing the name; it never showed up in the show. I believe the only place it's appeared officially was the story Singularity Ablyss, part of an anthology of Transformers short fiction. (Speaking of, I'd love to see more of that. Anyone else with me on that?)
In one episode, the Grand Mal briefly transforms into a space cruiser and blows away Botanica's crashed shuttle. It's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but the ship did get a full-on character model in this form too.
Hope you enjoy this seldom-seen gem! I'll try not to be such a stranger but no promises. Busy with deadines and parenting over here.
For those of you who don't know, the Grand Mal was the name given to Megatron's Big Floating Head upgrade in Beast Machines. You can be forgiven for not knowing the name; it never showed up in the show. I believe the only place it's appeared officially was the story Singularity Ablyss, part of an anthology of Transformers short fiction. (Speaking of, I'd love to see more of that. Anyone else with me on that?)
In one episode, the Grand Mal briefly transforms into a space cruiser and blows away Botanica's crashed shuttle. It's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but the ship did get a full-on character model in this form too.
Hope you enjoy this seldom-seen gem! I'll try not to be such a stranger but no promises. Busy with deadines and parenting over here.