Transformers Thread

TakaraTomy marketing director Masahiko Yamazaki stated that Bulkhead actually was Movie Ironhide, as Animated was supposed to be reworked in order to take place within Movie continuity, and Bulkhead would have his “world view” modified appropriately. The actual dub of the series contradicted Yamazaki’s statements, as Bulkhead remained a big dumb lug as opposed to a psychotic gun enthusiast. In fact, he was played off as even dumber than in the English version, being prone to screaming things such as “Mommy!” when frightened. The only documented change to Bulkhead to make him more similar to Movie Ironhide was a brief statement in his TakaraTomy online bio, which said that he was “something of a weapons specialist”.

As First Strike comes to a close after six issues, let’s give it a round of applause for shipping every issue on time, on a tight bi-weekly schedule, with no delays—something most of IDW’s monthly ongoing titles haven’t managed in a long time!

|| Oh dang! It’s the big one! The dark lord! The chaos-bringer! Unicron himself finally makes his on- debut in IDW continuity after twelve years, to set the stage for the as-yet-unnamed “Unicron crossover event” that has already been d as coming in 2018. There have been multiple allusions to Unicron’s existence in IDW history, typically in the form of oblique references to “Primus’s opposite”—something that began in The Death of Optimus Prime, and was most recently reiterated in Optimus Prime #10. Additionally, five years prior, lots of visuals associated with Unicron were used to depict the destruction of the planet LV-117 in Robots in Disguise #10. ||