While I can hardly fault anyone for forgetting minor bits of my story, or not reading my mind for details that were never filled in, there is a not-really-major conflict in the listings of firsts - well, if you're counting Wave Convoy as an AI actor, anyway. To quote the relevant last couple of paragraphs from Surfing With the Alien 3: Magic Bus to Surf City:
Wave Convoy appeared as himself (well, mostly) in a minor but recurring role, a human truck driver who came into contact with the results of a (tt)Destron (tooltip
ecepticon, in the English language version of the mythology) attempt to duplicate the Matrix with energy (tt)stolen from Primus (tooltip:by Master Megatron on Gigalonia in TF:Galaxy Force to fuel his rebirth as Master Galvatron) and was fused with his rig as a Transformer. Pursued by the Destrons who want to take advantage of the effect to increase their numbers or at least reclaim the power of Primus, he gets involved in the storyline similarly to Live Convoy and Autospark, the Earth native Transformers in (tt)TF:Galaxy Force (tooltip:AKA the Cybertron series in the US, though I don't know their specific dubbed names), and even gets a mid-season power-up in the form of the Full Wave Booster trailer, to take part in the finale by occupying Dark Nebula Starscream (Former herald of Unicron in place of G1 Galvatron; thought destroyed in TF: Galaxy Defenders with his master) while Galaxy Force Defender Convoy deals with Emperor Galvatron.
Renewed anti-'wave fervor after the Grover's Corners launch ended that otherwise promising continuity, leading to the animated reboot now in progress IRL. Incidentally, a Wave Convoy-esque color swap on that version of Optimus Prime is almost exactly the way my preliminary sketches for Shortwave, WC's human size telepresence drone, turned out a year or so ago when I was working on them - though given how much influence the Star Convoy design has shown in the post-Beastie franchise, I suppose that should be less surprising than I found it.
The physical Full Wave Booster is built starting in fall 2010 (hence well before the fading of the Slapstick Effect) to appear in the publicity tour for the spring ratings push, but most of the time it remains in a hangar in the Japanese Fen Trade Zone unless Takara has something they want Wave Convoy to do with it - mall openings, convention appearances, etc. - and they have some kind of in at the Diet that gets special permission to allow it, in scheduled appearances only of course, to travel beyond the Trade Zone when required.
One noteable example being that they'll send him to Starbase Two to meet the Miranda coming back in December 2014.
Another point of interest is that despite the relatively major role his group played in OGJ, and even the inclusion of the Epyon reproduction in the attack on Crystal Osaka that had been built aboard Gnarlycurl in 'real life,' Wave Convoy is not so much as hinted at in the Gundam retelling, due to the Takara/Bandai corporate rivalry. This is one of the Gearheads' major gripes with the series, the exclusion of one of their own BNFs, even among the primarily Gundamite members.
- CD
ETA: When the Miranda returns, there'll be a half dozen or more "TV" or OVA series produced on board by board crew and Liza, the Entertainment/Councilor/Astrogation AI. Not that I've actually got even concepts for them, but there will be.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Quote:What ended up paying the bills until the garage was fully online, incidentally also ended up fulfilling the last of my three childhood dreams - I'd already flown through space, and we'd made a stop at Mars to walk on another planet - with my legal entanglements cleared Takara got in touch with me about having built my body in a style resembling one of their trademarks, and taking a name that was even closer. This could have been a problem, but I was all too eager to follow their proposal to make things right by them, and where it was literally my legal identity things weren't as cut and dried as they could have been in the first place... And so, with a temporary red, blue, and silver paint job over my green, dark grey, and gold, I embarked on a publicity tour for a yet another new interpretation of the Transformers, the third season that would tie into the Galaxy Force continuity, and while it had to be done in the orbit-based animation studio's cyberspace, I got to shake the hand of Optimus Prime.
Fulfilling the final contract for voice acting and publicity appearances took the rest of the year and well into 2011. We headed out to Mars soon after that, since the major Fen presence was getting to be there more than Earth orbit, and Jen was right - the wanderlust did hit me after all, a new sky was just what I needed.
Wave Convoy appeared as himself (well, mostly) in a minor but recurring role, a human truck driver who came into contact with the results of a (tt)Destron (tooltip
ecepticon, in the English language version of the mythology) attempt to duplicate the Matrix with energy (tt)stolen from Primus (tooltip:by Master Megatron on Gigalonia in TF:Galaxy Force to fuel his rebirth as Master Galvatron) and was fused with his rig as a Transformer. Pursued by the Destrons who want to take advantage of the effect to increase their numbers or at least reclaim the power of Primus, he gets involved in the storyline similarly to Live Convoy and Autospark, the Earth native Transformers in (tt)TF:Galaxy Force (tooltip:AKA the Cybertron series in the US, though I don't know their specific dubbed names), and even gets a mid-season power-up in the form of the Full Wave Booster trailer, to take part in the finale by occupying Dark Nebula Starscream (Former herald of Unicron in place of G1 Galvatron; thought destroyed in TF: Galaxy Defenders with his master) while Galaxy Force Defender Convoy deals with Emperor Galvatron. Renewed anti-'wave fervor after the Grover's Corners launch ended that otherwise promising continuity, leading to the animated reboot now in progress IRL. Incidentally, a Wave Convoy-esque color swap on that version of Optimus Prime is almost exactly the way my preliminary sketches for Shortwave, WC's human size telepresence drone, turned out a year or so ago when I was working on them - though given how much influence the Star Convoy design has shown in the post-Beastie franchise, I suppose that should be less surprising than I found it.
The physical Full Wave Booster is built starting in fall 2010 (hence well before the fading of the Slapstick Effect) to appear in the publicity tour for the spring ratings push, but most of the time it remains in a hangar in the Japanese Fen Trade Zone unless Takara has something they want Wave Convoy to do with it - mall openings, convention appearances, etc. - and they have some kind of in at the Diet that gets special permission to allow it, in scheduled appearances only of course, to travel beyond the Trade Zone when required.
One noteable example being that they'll send him to Starbase Two to meet the Miranda coming back in December 2014.
Another point of interest is that despite the relatively major role his group played in OGJ, and even the inclusion of the Epyon reproduction in the attack on Crystal Osaka that had been built aboard Gnarlycurl in 'real life,' Wave Convoy is not so much as hinted at in the Gundam retelling, due to the Takara/Bandai corporate rivalry. This is one of the Gearheads' major gripes with the series, the exclusion of one of their own BNFs, even among the primarily Gundamite members.
- CD
ETA: When the Miranda returns, there'll be a half dozen or more "TV" or OVA series produced on board by board crew and Liza, the Entertainment/Councilor/Astrogation AI. Not that I've actually got even concepts for them, but there will be.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows