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Post by ladymoondancer on Jun 17, 2009 20:20:52 GMT -5
Hey guys, after a disappearance of several years, I finally re-uploaded (is that a real word?) my My Little Beast Wars picfics.  Beast Wars, you may recall, is a line of Transformers toys that turn from robot to beast. They are also made by Hasbro, which is where the idea for My Little Beast Wars came about. Well, that and a picture on a video cover of Cheetor looking absolutely shocked and horrified. ;D So here is the very first MLBW . . . The camera work and word bubbles are ROUGH in this one as I was still learning all the settings on my camera, etc. Now with OCCASIONAL COMMENTARY! One of the questions I got asked the most on this fic was "Why is Megatron red?" (In the cartoon he's purple.) The reason was simply that I didn't own BW Megatron at the time but DID own the red recolor of him, T-Wrecks. In fact, this was basically the reason for all the Transformers choices in this fic. I didn't own most of the show characters. |
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Post by ladymoondancer on Jun 17, 2009 20:29:29 GMT -5
Ah, the "transformation virus" . . . a convenient way to excuse Razor Claw (the green velociraptor) and Poison Bite (the fish) from ever transforming. They actually don't HAVE robot modes, they only turn into other animals . . . in Poison Bite's case a scorpion and in Razor Claw's case a wolverine.
A GREEN wolverine.
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Post by ladymoondancer on Jun 17, 2009 20:33:33 GMT -5
Wasn't it awesome how the baby ponies talked in complete sentences in the two specials and the movie but then were reduced to idiotic and grammatically incorrect baby talk in the series? And by "awesome" I mean "appalling."
Oddly, their language took an evolutionary leap forward whenever they burst into song.
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Post by ladymoondancer on Jun 17, 2009 20:46:59 GMT -5
The Maximals, too, are infiltrated by characters who never appeared in the show! But at least they have Dinobot and Silverbolt. 
Ramulus (the goat) was the first Beast Wars Transformer I ever bought--and, indeed, the first Transformer I ever bought at all. IIRC, I had vague ideas of using him as Tirac in a picfic--being goatlike and all.
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Post by BrightGlow on Jun 18, 2009 2:57:37 GMT -5
Yay, this is so unny, I can't wait to read more.
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Post by caelum on Jun 18, 2009 7:37:02 GMT -5
I actually just saw these the other day on your LJ! And...didn't get around to commenting, cuz I suck like that.  Anyways. These are hilarious! I've never seen them before, but I do remember something like them back on Moondancer's Dream.........just these little single photo pic fics, only one or two of which I remember. One was Munchy with your Booster Gold custom saying, "Boo-ster nice. Munchy LIKE Boo-ster." And Booster whimpering, " Help..." The other was Moondancer with some Transformer on her back.....Megatron, I think, and he was saying, "What're YOU looking at?" While she complained, "Megatron, you're breaking my back." Anyway, seeing as I've already read all of these thanks to your LJ now, I need to ask the inevitable..........will you ever update any of them?!? I must know what happens next!!! ;D Also, I totally agree with you on the baby talk. I mean.......GAH!!! *rips out hair* WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY?!?!? What drives me even crazier is when some people decide the baby talk is absolute canon and HAVE to include it in their fanfics!!! (No one here, but a good number of stories on ff(dot)net do it...) (And in my opinion, fanfiction is a divine gift to the MLP fandom, since most of our canon sucks so much fanfic is the only way we can make this fandom respectable...oh dear lord, that's just SAD, now that I think about it like that...  ) So, yeah, all-in-all, I love these pic fics. I love the TFs, I love the MLPs, I love your usual brand of humor. Hee. ;D |
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Post by Battlefield on Jun 18, 2009 21:56:26 GMT -5
I'm glad to see it's back. Hope to read more!
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Post by ladymoondancer on Jun 19, 2009 10:28:55 GMT -5
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Post by ladymoondancer on Jun 19, 2009 10:43:17 GMT -5
Yay, this is so unny, I can't wait to read more. Thanks! It's fun posting it again, it brings back so many memories of making it. ^_^ I'm glad to see it's back. Hope to read more! Thanks! There will be more . . . yeeesss. *channels BW Megatron* These are hilarious! I've never seen them before, but I do remember something like them back on Moondancer's Dream.........just these little single photo pic fics, only one or two of which I remember. One was Munchy with your Booster Gold custom saying, "Boo-ster nice. Munchy LIKE Boo-ster." And Booster whimpering, " Help..." Oh yeah, those! I think that was the Picture of the Week thing on my old website (although I updated so seldom it was more like picture of the month, ha ha.) My favorite . . . and maybe this was from my old TF website rather than my old pony website . . . but anyway, my favorite was a picture of a drunken Cybershark dancing with Sealight the seapony.  I'm actually going to try to update one of them this weekend, now that I actually have some time off. (Yaaay!) The question is . . . which? DUM DA DAAAAA! I hardly saw the cartoon at all as a kid . . . I only remember seeing part of the Glass Princess episode and part of the End of Flutter Valley. (Well, and I saw the movie. Dragged my parents to the theatre, yep yep. ;D ) When I started collecting and got ahold of the tapes, I was STUNNED to hear that baby talk. "WHAT THE . . . WHAT IS THIS?" Ha! MLP fanfiction is great because unlike, say, Star Trek there's not enough canon to "box you in." Yet just enough canon that you can kick it around for ideas. Merci! ;D |
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Post by ladymoondancer on Jun 19, 2009 10:51:04 GMT -5
     Buzzclaw's backcard describes him as a "ferocious but sly warrior," but here his function might be more aptly described as "punching bag."    |
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Post by ladymoondancer on Jun 19, 2009 10:55:26 GMT -5
 Baby Lickety-Split seems more than willing to lead scheming villains to her home. It is worth noting that I was unimpressed with her character in MLP: The Movie.  Doing this picfic really turned Buzzclaw from a "buyer's regret" purchase to one of my favorite characters.
Though I will frankly admit a lot of his characterization was stolen from inspired by Waspinator on the show. Let's face it, everyone loves that playset. Even evil Predacon overlords. |
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Post by ladymoondancer on Jun 19, 2009 11:05:21 GMT -5
   Noooo, you killed a Euro exclusive! Noooo! I really like "reaction" panels. Those moments of ". . .". Megatron's little dino arms make me laugh.   Most "Transformers transforming" panels end up looking like they're falling to pieces, but I was really pleased with this one. This is EXACTLY what Megatron's transformation sequence looked like in Beast Wars. Aside from, you know, not being red.     Heh. |
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Post by caelum on Jun 19, 2009 12:28:47 GMT -5
Y'know, now that you mention it, I think I can just BARELY remember a pic with a sea pony....... But yeah, those were hilarious. Man, I wish I had a camera so I could do this sort of thing. Unfortunately, the only cameras in this house belong to either my mother, who is a professional photographer and thus all her equipment is off limits, or my little sister, who doesn't like ponies and would probably kill me if she knew I'd dirtied her camera's memory system with images of them. ;D Yay!!! Looking forward to it!!! ^_^ Eh, good point. Though still, there are certain aspects of canon that I just don't know what to do with and thus end up ignoring. I mean--GIANT HOUSE-SIZED DOGS?!?!? WHAT THE @&$#%&!?!?!?!?!? >.< On to the actual pics now. Yay fight scenes!!! Ah, velociraptors, aren't they fun? I guess that DOES make you kinda old... I don't think I knew what they were until Jurassic Park came out, but I was a dinosaur nerd back then, so I might've. Good times. I remember getting upset cuz my parents went to see JP and didn't take me cuz I was too young. I was pissed. But they got me the video tape for Christmas, which made me very happy. A decade later, my three-year-old sister discovered the movie, and demanded to watch it about six times a day. Seriously. This went on for several months. It got to the point where my sisters and I would come up with random dialogue for the dinosaurs, cuz there was nothing else to do and we couldn't watch TV. We wound up naming the velociraptors Mithra, Elsie, and Charlotte.................why am I telling you this?  I love the Maximals/Autobots/whatever the good faction is in any given TF continuum. They're so pathetically noble. Cuz, you know, they're the good guys. XD Someone should tell them that canon!Baby Lickety Split isn't worth it. I'm really starting to like Buzzclaw. He's pretty hilarious. And yes, everyone DOES love that playset! I'm so happy I have it. Got it for free at a thrift shop cuz it's missing the flat, non-tower wall. It's still beautiful, nevertheless. Why'd you let them kill the Euro Baby Heart Throb??? You should've let them take a hit against those freaky beddy-bye eyes!!! Would you like your internet rare, medium, or well done? ;D |
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Post by sunstar on Jun 21, 2009 0:08:18 GMT -5
(gasping through tears of laughter) I remember reading this one! A friend printed it all out for me while I was in the hospital with a bad bout of bronchititis. it made my day. I laughed so hard I about had an asthma attack! I love Buzzclaw! And Ramulus! I have Ramulus and Buzzclaw, and this fic shaped their personalities for me! (Disolves into laughter, starts coughing/laughing/crying, worried cat brings inhaler, second worried cat jumps onto chest, third cat lays on table, watching the proceedings with detached interest,) not to worry, I'm fine!
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Post by BrightGlow on Jun 21, 2009 10:22:25 GMT -5
Yay it starting to be very intresting, I really needed this intresting picfic since there wasn't any update at my favourite videofic show the My little Transformer.
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Beast Wars, you may recall, is a line of Transformers toys that turn from robot to beast. They are also made by Hasbro, which is where the idea for My Little Beast Wars came about. Well, that and a picture on a video cover of Cheetor looking absolutely shocked and horrified. ;D
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