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transformers-mosaic · 5 months

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Transformers: Mosaic #503 - "Home Is Where The Laser Core Is"

Originally posted on June 16th, 2010

Story - Juan Pablo Osorio Art - Oscar Choquecota Letters - Franco Villa Edits - Zac DeBoard Diaclone designs - Benjamin Galley

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: The first of three strips written to bring a Transformers Animated character into Sunbow continuity; I've bumped up the other two, which were originally posted not long after, for a better reading experience. Bulkhead’s group here has a mixture of origins, as explained in the comments on deviantART, but includes a couple of Diaclone bots, who were slightly redesigned by Galley for the sake of variety. The blue bot is actually a Brazilian character, Camaro, who was renamed "Sprint" after Windcharger's preliminary name. In the final panel, the bots present are the main cast of Animated, and to cement the homage Ratchet is seen fixing his forehead chevron, a cheeky reference inserted by Choquecota. Bulkhead’s original design was done by Choquecota, and Osorio wrote the whole story based on it; later, Osorio would create a separate character model for Bulkhead along similar lines for The Lost Seasons, which was widely shared online and seems very likely to have inspired the later official release of the G1-style Legacy Bulkhead. See below for all of this relevant artwork.

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transformers-mosaic · 2 months

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Transformers: Mosaic #600 - "Instrument of Destruction"

Originally posted on May 16th, 2011

Story - Juan Pablo Osorio, Franco Villa Art - Francesco D'arcadia Colours - Eveline Albers Edits - Zac DeBoard

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: This strip aims to give some more background to Blitzwing’s final appearance in the Sunbow cartoon, in “Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5″, by tying his motivations into the legion of Blitzwings seen in the opening to the cartoon’s third season. See the link above for the creators’ original annotations, and below for clean art and an Italian translation.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Sunbow Transformers #Transformers: The Lost Seasons #Juan Pablo Osorio #Franco Villa #Francesco D'arcadia #Eveline Albers #Zac DeBoard #Blitzwing #Megatron #Doctor Arkeville #Soundwave #Hot Rod #Galvatron

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Transformers: Mosaic #517 - "Hunter Or Hunted"

Originally posted on July 16th, 2010

Story - Zac DeBoard Art - Kei Tomoe Letters - Franco Villa Edits - Juan Pablo Osorio Lockdown design - James Cox

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: This is the second of three strips aiming to back-port a Transformers Animated character into Sunbow cartoon continuity, following the previous strip "Home Is Where The Laser Core Is"—here, Lockdown is pitted against classic bounty hunter Devcon. I’ve included Cox’s full art for Lockdown’s design below.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Sunbow Transformers #Transformers: The Lost Seasons #Zac DeBoard #Kei Tomoe #Franco Villa #Juan Pablo Osorio #James Cox #Devcon #Lockdown #Quintessons #Megatron

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transformers-mosaic · 29 days

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Transformers: Mosaic #633 - "The Answer"

Originally posted on January 23rd, 2012

Story, Art - Tomoko Story, Letters - Franco Villa Edits - Zac DeBoard Ideas - Ibai Canales

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: Seeds of Deception

wada sez: This strip is set prior to Canales’ prior strip, “Full Metal Contact”. Tagging this one for transphobia is maybe a little unfair, as there’s nothing overt in the strip itself (at least nothing worse than in Spotlight: Arcee), but it’s definitely developing ideas from this same creative team on worse prior strips, and I figure I may as well spare most readers this aggressively mid writing. See below for clean inks, colors, and an Italian translation.

#Transformers Mosaic #Dreamwave Transformers #Transformers: Seeds of Deception #Tomoko #Franco Villa #Zac DeBoard #Ibai Canales #cw transphobia #Arcee #Bludgeon #Jhiaxus #Yoketron

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transformers-mosaic · 5 months

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Transformers: Mosaic #527 - "Remembrances"

Originally posted on August 9th, 2010

Story - Franco Villa Art - Tomoko Edits - Zac DeBoard Thanks to - Gianluca Gamba, Davide, Peter Istyle

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: Seeds of Deception

wada sez: As always, see above for full annotations for this strip. Peter Istyle was credited solely in deviantART description, not on the strip itself. Preview, clean colors and Italian translation below.

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Transformers: Mosaic #557 - "Loyalty Rewarded"

Originally posted on November 15th, 2010

Story - Zac DeBoard Art - Kei Tomoe Letters - Franco Villa Edits - Juan Pablo Osorio “Chopper” design - Andy Short Whirl design - Paul Vromen

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: The last of three Sunbow-version-of-Animated-character strips. On the Machine Wars Starscream color scheme used for Scrash, DeBoard said on Seibertron: “I believe Scrash's coloring was a way to differentiate between he and Skyquake (even though they were pretty much consdered to be the same character), as well as being a shout out to MW Screamer.” Onslaught’s seeming death here appears to be an choice, as he’s alive and well later in the Sunbow timeline—but Cattleprod points out that the Combaticons first appeared reduced to personality components after a failed coup, so presumably this is intended to lead into that, with Onslaught just heavily damaged but alive. The blue character is an OC based on the Diaclone helicopter who, in later official sources, would variously be given the names "Fumes", "Rotorbolt", and "Skyklik"—the creators of The Lost Seasons apparently used a common fan-name at the time, "Chopper". I've tagged him as Rotorbolt, because of the Wreckers connection. On the strip’s ending, DeBoard said: “Personally, I love ol Luggy and I just assume that while his body may have been destoyed, his spark survived....like they put it in a machine like they have a Garrus 9 or something.” He explained the strip’s plotting as follows: “Again, this is just "in my head" but Megs was probably obsessed with The Autobots on The Ark (at least for the moment) and didnt bother to take attendance, so to speak, and therefore didn't notice Lugnut. Another thing to keep in mind is...we were kinna working within a set continuity and trying to fit stories and characters where we can. Obviously Lugnut wasnt in G1 originally so it's a tricky thing to do. I just kinna thought it was a pretty neat way to introduce him and explain his "absence" from the show. Believe me, I try to take all of this stuff into account when I write, but if I overthink it, I'd never get anything written! Hehe. As for the faces of the "transplanted characters. It seems to be harder to translate the facial features of the TFA bots into a G1 style (for instance, I felt Lockdown's face in the Drift mini was just horrific), but I think Lugnut came out very well in this. [...] We are floating around some more stories featuring G1 Lugnut so hopefully he will be fleshed out more in later stories. Personally, I hope to bring his personality closer to the fanatic he was in TFA, which is what made him one of my favorite characters. With the space limitations of the Mosaic, we really didn't get to do a lot of it (though it was more prevalant in the script).” This strip evolved from an earlier script of DeBoard's, which went unused: “Unfortunately, I realized there was already a Mosaic piece essentially telling this same story. This one however was set in the G1 universe”—I’ve reproduced the full text below, alongside the usual Italian translation. The earlier strip with a similar idea was “False Saviour”, in case you were wondering.

Before I was little more than a thug. ��Making a living by robbing those less fortunate than me. Feeling I was destined for a greater purpose, I had applied numerous times to the Cybertron Military Academy only due be denied due to what the Head of the Academy deemed was an aggressive attitude.

This would haunt me in my future endeavors as I could find little work.

Eventually I found the Arena.

It was there than I unleashed my aggression and anger, my strength was unparalelled and I became known as the Kaon Crusher.

And, as quickly as I embraced my newfound outlet, I soon found myself longing for more.

Was this all I was meant for? Mindlessly destroying mechs for little more than a thrill?

Blastburn lies defeated at my feet and I feel nothing. I walk away, feeling just as beaten as my foe.

"Your designation Lugnut?"

I nod.

"It is."

"My commander has had an optic on you for over a Vorn. He has seen your indifference and longing."

"What do you or your commander know of me?!"

"He believes he can provide you with a sense of purpose--a new life, if you will."

The blue mech (Soundwave) has my attention.

"And what do you call your glorious leader" I say to him mockingly.

"His name is...Megatron."

At the end would be a close up of Lugnut's single red optic, with an image or a shadow of G1 Megs in it.

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transformers-mosaic · 6 months

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Transformers: Mosaic #460 - "Behind the Noise"

Originally posted on February 25th, 2010

Story - Franco Villa Art - Gianluca Gamba Edits - Zac DeBoard Thanks to - Ibai Canales

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wada sez: On Brawl’s surprisingly-intelligent characterisation here, Villa had this to say on deviantART: “I was a bit bored of the fact that 90% Decepticons seem to be moron. And since this is an updated version of the character, I gave him some knowledge... but after all, he just read the tech specs of his weapon: this doesn not exactly make him the sharpest mech in the bunch.” See below for a clean version of the first panel, Gamba’s character models for Brawl, and an Italian version of the strip.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Transformers Animated #Franco Villa #Gianluca Gamba #Zac DeBoard #Ibai Canales #Ironhide #Brawl

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transformers-mosaic · 6 months

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Transformers: Mosaic #490 - "Replacement"

Originally posted on June 3rd, 2010

Story, Letters - Franco Villa Script, Art - Simon Reeves Colours - Timothy Pugh Edits - Zac DeBoard Thanks to - Peter Istyle

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: Seeds of Deception

wada sez: Italian version below.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Dreamwave Transformers #Transformers: Seeds of Deception #Franco Villa #Simon Reeves #Timothy Pugh #Zac DeBoard #Peter Istyle #Blitzwing #Shockwave #Fistfight #Sixshot

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transformers-mosaic · 2 months

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Transformers: Mosaic #590 - "Following In The Footsteps"

Originally posted on March 28th, 2011

Story - Zac DeBoard Art - D.P. Letters, Edits - Franco Villa

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wada sez: Slipstream originated in Transformers Animated as a female clone of Starscream. This strip serves to back-port her into Sunbow continuity; also appearing are other notable Seekers: Sunstorm, Acid Storm, and the Coneheads. Clean inks, colors, and an Italian translation below.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Sunbow Transformers #Zac DeBoard #D.P.#Franco Villa #Slipstream #Megatron #Starscream #Sunstorm #Acid Storm #Dirge #Thrust #Ramjet

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transformers-mosaic · 5 months

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Transformers: Mosaic #511 - "The Flaw Within"

Originally posted on July 2nd, 2010

Story, Letters - Franco Villa Art - Jeremy Tiongson Colours - Ibai Canales Edits - Zac DeBoard

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: Seeds of Deception

wada sez: A “Side B” to the previous strip, told instead from the Decepticons’ perspective. See the link above for more notes on this one.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Dreamwave Transformers #Transformers: Seeds of Deception #Franco Villa #Jeremy Tiongson #Ibai Canales #Zac DeBoard #Soundwave #Megatron #Grimlock

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transformers-mosaic · 15 days

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Transformers: Mosaic #640 - "Ragnarok"

Originally posted on March 12th, 2012

Story - Juan Pablo Osorio Art - Mitsuko Hazama Letters, Edits - Franco Villa Edits - Zac DeBoard

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: See the link above for some commentary! On deviantART, the project team clarified: “Yep, multiple Abominuses (or is it Abomini? :D ), these guys had so little personality in the cartoon that the ones we saw in the show could have very well been different sets of Terrorcons, it's also a nod to the armies of Terrorcons the Quints had in TF:Energon.” They also had this to say about their involvement with Mosaic generally: “this will be most probably one of our last Mosaics as we've been asked to not submit any more thre-part stories.” The evil is defeated!

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Sunbow Transformers #Transformers: The Lost Seasons #Juan Pablo Osorio #Mitsuko Hazama #Franco Villa #Zac DeBoard #Cosmos #Abominus #Quintessons #Computron #Perceptor #Arcee #Hot Rod #Jazz #Springer

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transformers-mosaic · 17 days

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Transformers: Mosaic #638 - "The God Makers"

Originally posted on February 27th, 2012

Story - Juan Pablo Osorio Art - Mitsuko Hazama Letters, Edits - Franco Villa Edits - Zac DeBoard

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: The first part of yet another three-part trilogy from these guys, titled “They Were Titans”—y’know, ‘cause they’re literally Titans. I’m told Mosaic at one point had a hard limit on multi-part stories going no longer than three strips, and I have to imagine that was entirely because of this team. Click the link above to find out what they meant by this, I’m not your dad. See below for a character model for the little Sharkticons and a cover for this storyline.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Sunbow Transformers #Transformers: The Lost Seasons #Juan Pablo Osorio #Mitsuko Hazama #Franco Villa #Zac DeBoard #Quintessons #Sharkticons #Unicron #Primus

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transformers-mosaic · 3 months

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Transformers: Mosaic - "The Genie Has Left The Bottle"

Originally posted on April 28th, 2011

Story - Franco Villa Art - Marco Maccagni Colours - Sean Tourangeau Edits - Zac DeBoard Thanks to - Ezekiel Huerta, Peter Istyle

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: Seeds of Deception

wada sez: The concluding entry in the trilogy told across “Dark Auspices” and “Evening The Odds”. With Blaster’s appearance here, we note that Maccagni has been drawing these characters with a more feminine appearance than normal. On deviantART, one of the project leads (presumably Villa) commented, “It's Marco's style...he likes to make the Transformers look less genderless, even if in this continuity they are genderless.�� See below for clean colors and the Italian translation.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Dreamwave Transformers #Transformers: Seeds of Deception #Franco Villa #Marco Maccagni #Sean Tourangeau #Zac DeBoard #Ezekiel Huerta #Peter Istyle #Slamdance #Squawkbox #Blaster #Jhiaxus #Devastator #Shockwave #Scrapper

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transformers-mosaic · 4 months

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Transformers: Mosaic #546 - "Supreme Recall"

Originally posted on September 24th, 2010

Story, Letters - Franco Villa Art - Jeremy Tiongson Colours - Eman B. Zubia Edits - Zac DeBoard Thanks to - Peter Istyle

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: Seeds of Deception

wada sez: Basically, this strip is one of many Seeds of Deception stories that exists entirely to reconcile inconsistencies between The War Within and Furman’s later IDW work; in this case, the prevalence of combiner teams in The War Within versus the near-total absence of combiners in IDW. Turns out, everyone forgot! See the original annotations at the link above for more specific details beyond that.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Dreamwave Transformers #Transformers: Seeds of Deception #Franco Villa #Jeremy Tiongson #Eman B. Zubia #Zac DeBoard #Peter Istyle #Omega Supreme #Boltax #Monstructor #Jhiaxus #Devastator #Defensor #Bristleback #Scowl

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transformers-mosaic · 3 months

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Transformers: Mosaic #575 - "Evening The Odds"

Originally posted on January 24th, 2011

Story - Franco Villa Art - Marco Maccagni Colours - 110 Letters - Zac DeBoard Thanks to - Peter Istyle

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: Seeds of Deception

wada sez: The sequel to yesterday’s strip, “Dark Auspices”, albeit with a new colorist this time. Come back tomorrow for the conclusion in “The Genie Has Left The Bottle”. Italian translation below.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Dreamwave Transformers #Transformers: Seeds of Deception #Franco Villa #Marco Maccagni #110 #Zac DeBoard #Peter Istyle #Raindance #Grand Slam #Slamdance #Squawkbox #Squawktalk #Beastbox #Omega Supreme #Jhiaxus

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transformers-mosaic · 6 months

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Transformers: Mosaic #487 - "Beast Wars: Loose Ends"

Originally posted on May 28th, 2010

Story - Zac DeBoard Art - Roy Stiffey Letters - Franco Villa Edits - Juan Pablo Osorio Thanks to - Josh van Reyk

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Later revised and annotated for Transformers: The Lost Seasons

wada sez: This is a sequel to "Charge" by Josh van Reyk, hence the acknowledgement. Stiffey’s involvement and the inclusion of the character of Insecticon calls back to the otherwise-unrelated strip “Disturbing the Nest”. The strip serves to reintroduce Terrorsaur and Scorponok, who were unceremoniously killed off in “Aftermath”, the start of the show’s second season, to reallocate budget towards new characters and redesigns. As they fell into the lava, they were shown beginning to mutate under the effects of the quantum surge, so this strip follows up on that by using their toy-only Transmetal forms. It seems that the writer had only learned of Scorponok’s Transmetal form from the Beast Wars Sourcebook, unaware that it originated as a McDonalds Happy Meal toy. Iguanus is female here, at Villa’s suggestion: “That's my personal contribute to the plot :) I though that Iguanus was a "she" since IDW's first BW miniseries by Figueroa and Furman. Don't know why ^^”. The name “Iguaness” was slightly revised from Stiffey’s suggestion for the character, “Iguaniss”. Obviously, as she has no speaking role in the comic, the extent of the effect this has on the strip is that she appears with boobs and lipstick; you can check out all of Stiffey’s designs below. Zac DeBoard’s original script was slightly different to the finished product; I’ve also reproduced that below with his notes. Fair warning, we’re about to get a bunch of Franco Villa strips in a row; per a later comment of his on TFW2005: “I'm afraid I clogged the project and I'm very sorry for this: I made some timing mistakes in sending the pieces and I ended up piling them up in a very short time span. After this bulk, however, I slowed down everything, in order to give room back to other authors (as it must be).”

Panel 1.

(A three fingered metallic clawed hand is digging through what looks like rock.)

CAPTION: It took us stellar cycles to dig our way out of the hardened magma.

Panel 2.

(another image of the hand, this time showing more of the arm. This is transmetal Terrorsaur. Nearby another arm, golden, and mechanical with a scorpion claw at the end is digging at another area. This is transmetal Scorponok)

CAPTION: Chances are we've been presumed dead by Maximal and Predacon alike.

CAPTION: If that quantum surge hadn't hit the two of us before we fell into the lava, we would be.

Panel 3.

(Here there would be a flashback image of Terrorsaur and Scorponok falling into the lava as the Transwarp energy that created the Transmetals washes over them)

CAPTION: But now we have returned and both Primal and Megatron will suffer our wrath.

Panel 4.

Terrorsaur and Scorponok are free. They are in the ruins of the Darksyde. Terrorsaur has his hands up in the air as if he was claiming victory. Before he can act further, he and Scorponok find themselves surrounded by LioConvoy and the newest incarnation of the Pack (*see notes)

WASPINATOR: "Waspinator do good?"

LIOCONVOY: "Your knowledge of the planet and your former comrades has been invaluable. Although I'm quite surprised to find these Preds functioning"

TERRORSAUR: "What the Pit is this?"

LIOCONVOY: "The Beast Wars have been over for years. We're just here to tidy up loose ends and preserve history. Surrender and come peacefully or fight and come in pieces."

Panel 5.

Terrorsaur and Scorponok raise there hands in surrender. Terrorsaur sighs.

TERRORSAUR: I should've stayed in stasis lock..." This is the original version of the Beast Wars story I wanted to do for Mosaic. We are going in a slightly different direction with it, so, once I had permission, I thought I would post it and let you guys read it. Lemme know what you think.

This is written as it would be for an actual Mosaic, with Panel descriptions and what not. These are the original notes I wrote.

NOTES: Scorponok is based on his transmetal form from the Beast Wars Sourcebook although his head would be closer in looks to his original.

Maybe as the 2 Preds are coming out of the lava, Megatron's rubber duckie could be laying on the ground.

The Pack...since this takes place after Beast Machines they would all have the new Maximal badge

The new Pack would consist of original members Longrack, Break, Stampy, Mach Kick and LioConvoy (who would appear here in his Lio Prime form which is the Leobreaker mold with the Lioconvoy colors) also Grimlock and transmetal Waspinator who would also now have a maximal badge as well

I have this picture in my head of Stampy holding a huge weapon...like bigger than he is.

#Transformers #Transformers Mosaic #Maccadam #Beast Wars #Transformers: The Lost Seasons #Zac DeBoard #Roy Stiffey #Franco Villa #Juan Pablo Osorio #Josh van Reyk #Terrorsaur #Scorponok #Sonar #Insecticon #Stinkbomb #Dinobot #Iguanus

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