Recently I did an article going over how I’d combine the various origins of the Transformers, mainly the Quintessons versus Primus. I’ve been wanting to continue that idea, focusing on early life on Cybertron before the Great War as I really don’t like the current concept, and then later going over what cause the war itself and so on. It will never be canon but it’s the closest I’ll ever get and I haven’t flexing my storytelling brain cells enough lately.
However, before I go over life on Cybertron I need to better understand the various takes on what a Transformer, what a Cybertronian, is. A bit more recently, Chris McFeely did a compilation and update of previous videos discussing the various aspects of Transformers. In the video below, slightly under an hour in length, he goes over protoforms, which I already worked into my TFU originwise but not in general society, sparks, the “soul” of a Cybertronian, the art of transformation itself, and the basic fuel source of Energon, which I also gave an origin to.
I’m not just posting this video but going over it as I tried see how it will work in my take on life on Cybertron, which once I’ve worked the various bugs scrapmetals out of I’ll post in the future. Some of the original videos I posted as daily or filler videos, but these are updated with new information as new media–comics, an animated movie, and more cartoons–have come out since then with different takes on various aspects of Transformer life. With this new data I can form my own continuity and explanation, even if it only benefits me in getting my storytelling skills active and creating a Transformers lore that has what I see lacking in other media. I’ll watch each segment, think about how this affects or could affect my overall ideas, and post will be written as I watch the video. You can read the whole thing, or jump back and forth between the video and my ideas. Or ignore one or the other. Or both if you don’t like what you’ve seen in the intro. So let’s watch the video and see what it inspires.
BW’s Daily Video> The Tragedy Of Wish
I wasn’t planning to do this many daily videos in one week to a movie I haven’t seen and didn’t care to after the reviews, but it is fascinating just how badly modern Disney screwed up their anniversary movie. This goes more into the history of the original concept for Wish and what could have been.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on May 21, 2025 in Animation Spotlight, Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, Disney, Wish.
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