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Simon K Jones's avatar

Presumably around 1988 I won a couple of Pretenders in a competition (probably run by Woolworths or similar). Try as I might they always seemed a bit....off.

That said (and as usual), the comic did all sorts of interesting things with them. Thunderwing in particular was turned into a very compelling character - although, notably, I don't think I ever realised he was a Pretender? He was just a cool jet who got obsessed with the Matrix.

(the bit where Thunderwing attempts to defeat Unicron in the final issues, and Unicron points out that he's corrupted the Matrix to the point of it being useless....so good)

Definitely a case of an interesting idea, but with badly fumbled execution.

One bit I never could understand, even as a kid and even taking into consideration the many mysterious scale issues around Transformers, was whether the human-like Pretender shells were supposed to be human-sized, or Transformer sized.

Apparently I'm still thinking about this age 44, which is alarming.

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Paul's avatar

When you pleasure yourself with Vroom do you attach the sidecar or not?

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