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Jet Transformers are my favorites, who wouldn't want to fly? No wonder the Decepticons got so many recruits, even their tape decks could swoosh into the air . . .
BW Megatron is the number one Megatron, yessss . . . BTW his voice actor is great and he does convention circuits a lot, even small ones. (So does Optimus Primal's voice actor.) Like they were both at Washington State Toy Fair which had admission of $7. If you see them and you're a fan of Beast Wars or other stuff they were in (pretty sure BW Megatron's VA was also Professor X in "X-Men Evolution") definitely say hi, they are so funny and nice.
Also great picks! (I have loads of OCs too, ha ha!)
One time I bought an 80s toy trade magazine off eBay and it had this in it:
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Transformers, starring Jazz as THE HOT ROBOT.
I actually agree with ActionHank that there needs to be space for non-kid-safe places on the internet. In "the real world" we let people congregate in bars and get drunk, we let them go to movies with the f-bomb and graphic violence in them, etc. I don't care if people are weirdly horny about something as long as they tag it / keep it where its wanted. You should see the first piece of creative writing I ever stumbled across on the internet. It wasn't even fanfiction, just fiction, and it was W I L D. But it was an important lesson for fourteen year old me: okay, there's stuff on here I don't want to see, and in the future I'm going to be more careful what I click on.
The shrinking of the internet down to a couple mega-sites (Facebook, Youtube, Twitter (well until it crashed and burned), Instagram, etc) has really been to the detriment of any niche interest, whether that interest was inappropriate for kids or just a little weird. Like, if someone was rating the hotness of skeletons or feet or whatever on their Geocities site (RIP Geocities) and that wasn't your thing, it was easy to avoid . . . just don't go to that site. Whereas Youtube etc have algorithms shoving content in your face, and there's this attitude of "the more people see and engage with your interest, the more legitimate it is." Man, I miss the Geocities era. I would take the worst-designed pages, complete with eye-searing text and midis that you can't turn off, over today's truncated internet.
(Also when the algorithms go wrong they will spew offensive content right in your face, like with Twitter's recent overhaul they had an incident where it started putting videos of real animal abuse on people's feeds. Not that I liked Twitter to begin with, but it is a garbage fire now. In general I think letting computers dictate / recommend content is a terrible idea. Get behind me, HAL 9000.)
OH, I have to give a special shoutout to videographers on TikTok and Youtubers who say "unalive" instead of "dead" etc for fear of being demonetized. It sounds so stupid and they should take the L on the money instead of their dignity. "He unalived himself
". STOP, FREAKIN STOP.