Spotlight: Wheelie | UPDATE
Spotlight: Wheelie | UPDATE
http://idwpublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3286
Anyone who wants to make jokes, can you please have a stab at making them ones that people who've been in the fandom a few years haven't heard beaten like a fetid nag corpse? Ta.
Personally I'd be quite interested in a characterisation that was more like the original concept and tech spec, and less like the cartoon, old comics and Wheelie: Wild Boy of Quintesson Big Looker storybook... i.e. to see if a writer (maybe not Furman, if this is a spotlight) could twist the character into something readable and likable.
UPDATE
Ryall's blog updated. Possible confirmation.
http://ryalltime.blogspot.com/2008/02/w ... -dead.html
You know, assuming this is true, I saw this one coming awhile back. Of course, that was when Furman announced that there'd be a Spotlight of a character who was featured in the original '86 movie, that could receive a fresh new spin, blah, blah, blah, worship me. Turns out that would be Arcee, but still.....
But it doesn't look like Roche's work He would have worked magic on the character, artistically and narratively.
But it doesn't look like Roche's work He would have worked magic on the character, artistically and narratively.
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It's not, according to the linked thread the mystery artist is one who didn't work on the BW Sourcebook.zigzagger wrote:, blah, blah, worship me. Turns out that would be Arcee, but still.....
But it doesn't look like Roche's work He would have worked magic on the character, artistically and narratively.
The fact it seems to have a indervidual title in Survival Run rather than ju8st being called [i}Wheelie[/i] suggests either a minor change in the format for the Spotlights or it isn't one.
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There wouldn't be much point in Ryall saying "can you guess what we're going to do" and posting art direct from it, would there? "Oh, here's a picture of Wheelie..."
Or am I being incredibly dense?
I'd say whoever did those sketches is the artist... beyond that, I'd say it won't be Wheelie.
Survival Run was a story from UK #238, so I'll be random and say the artist in question will be Lee Sullivan.
Or am I being incredibly dense?
I'd say whoever did those sketches is the artist... beyond that, I'd say it won't be Wheelie.
Survival Run was a story from UK #238, so I'll be random and say the artist in question will be Lee Sullivan.
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Well... Furman WAS hinting at two movie chracters getting their own Spotlights way back in August. And there was a hint of this back on the first page of the Optimus Spotlight...
[edit:] I guess they already did two. I totally forgot about Kup. But they were hinting at it in the Prime Spotlight...
[edit again:] And Ultra Magnus and Hot Rod... God™, these things are just blending together now.
[edit:] I guess they already did two. I totally forgot about Kup. But they were hinting at it in the Prime Spotlight...
[edit again:] And Ultra Magnus and Hot Rod... God™, these things are just blending together now.
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I don't think I've ever read the tech spec... got a link maybe?Denyer wrote:Personally I'd be quite interested in a characterisation that was more like the original concept and tech spec,
Edit: Found the link:
http://www.botchthecrab.com/archive/tel ... &year=1986
He seems pretty similar to how he was portrayed in the movie. The "Savage" bit might be interesting to explore though. Actually I guess it would be an interesting challenge for a writer to take a character that is generally hated by the majority of the fandom and actully make him interesting.
[rhetorical] Do people even look at this ****ing site? [/rhetorical]Blitzwing wrote:I don't think I've ever read the tech spec... got a link maybe?
http://tfarchive.com/toys/techspecs/original/
Confirmation.....
Well, sort of....
Chris Ryall updates his blog, teasing at a possible June release.
http://ryalltime.blogspot.com/2008/02/w ... -dead.html
Chris Ryall updates his blog, teasing at a possible June release.
http://ryalltime.blogspot.com/2008/02/w ... -dead.html
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