User blog:Concernedalien11780/Greetings, Teletraan I.

Greetings, Teletraan 1. My name is Concernedalien11780. I come to you with this message of my history with the Transformers franchise as an introductory statement to becoming an editor and blogger on this wiki about Hasbro's toyline turned multimillion dollar media franchise. OK, talking like Optimus Prime over. I got a few McDonalds Happy Meal/Mighty Kids Meal and Burger King Kids Meal/Big Kids Meal toys themed to Transformers Armada/Energon/Cybertron and saw those show on the Kids' WB AfterToons Show a few times back when the WB still existed, though I preferred shows like Teen Titans, The Batman, and Sonic X. Then, around age ten, I developed an unhealthy obsession with Aquapod water bottles due to their marketing depicting parents as boring zombies and kids using giant Aquapods to drown them. Even though I was never the kind of kid that acted out, I enjoyed talking about Aquapods and playing games on their websites. In the mid-2000s, on of the best ways to make kids buy your product was by telling them that they can use that product to drown their parents simply because they're doing their job and that you are joining a rebellious group of kids called the Aquapod Squad that claims to want to bring fun back to their city of Hydropolis and that a villain named The Baron stole it out of spite at his parents for grounding him for life after flooding his own birthday party for the lulz, even though the fun never left, the Aquapod Squad is a bunch of whiners, and The Baron is just an extremely mentally ill child. How does this connect to Transformers in any way? I was also into Lunchables as well at that time due to their similar team, the Lunchables Brigade. Before then, the best thing Lunchables did for me was include Bionicle mini-comics showcasing specific struggles the Toa Metru had with their search for the Great Disks in the winter/spring 2004 arc of that Lego theme (learn more at Bionicle Wiki). Fortunately, Oscar Mayer did not condone inciting child rebellion like Deer Park did. Their organization as a group of kids representing a product intended to give other kids their fun back from something allegedly taking it away (in the case of Lunchables, routine and/or gross lunches rather than a kid with sadistic personality disorder "brainwashing" adults into boring zombies, making them "forget" their fun childhood, and cutting off the town's water supply) reminded me of the Aquapod Squad, and I thought of liking them as well, sometimes switching between the two. Being a bigger company than Deer Park, Oscar Mayer has more of an ability to practice movie tie-ins, so they promoted many blockbuster movies that, despite their PG-13 ratings, were intended to be popular with kids (and besides, the only reason PG-13 blockbusters make so much money is because of parents who take their four-year-olds). Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Spiderwick Chronicles (yeah, that was PG, not PG-13, but it was one they promoted), and the first Transformers. Eventually, I moved away from both Aquapods and Lunchables, but the interest in Transformers stayed. The film came out on my eleventh birthday, and it was perfect for someone of that age. Big action, a Linkin Park theme song, and humor that I wouldn't truly understand for at least another year and a half made it my favorite movie until Iron Man came out. Of course, the worst thing that can ever happen to a tween boy happened to me- I grew up. I can appreciate the first Transformers for being just a big, dumb, fun romp, but you need to be under the influence of a chemical substance, be a boy between the ages of nine and fifteen from West Virginia, or have the name of Michael Bay to be able to call Revenge of the Fallen, Dark of the Moon, or Age of Extinction legitimately good films. The plans to make Transformers spinoff films may be a very good one, as it will allow us to see how other blockbuster filmmakers than Michael Bay would make a Transformers film. Robert Kirkman, the creator and writer of The Walking Dead who also executive produces the TV show and assists with the writing of the TV show and video games, is set to work on one of the spinoffs/prequels/sequels, and I think he could make something really awesome out of something the average neckbeard views as a joke by now. Michael Bay should switch careers to theme park ride designer, because his style of filmmaking was used to great effect on the Transformers rides at the Universal Studios theme parks. Lastly, Transformers Prime was probably the best depiction of the Transformers of the modern age, and I would probably enjoy its sequel series, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, if it allowed itself to show up anywhere. They say it airs on Cartoon Network, things are available to watch for it on Xfinity On Demand, Google Play, and presumably iTunes, it's probably on Amazon Instant Video, Hulu, or Netflix, and I've seen Happy Meal toys advertised for it, yet it does not actually air on Cartoon Network like its developers say it is. Perhaps this is an experiment in airing a show only on its network's Internet streaming services, or it's simply because Adventure Time, Regular Show, Steven Universe, Uncle Grandpa, Clarence, Teen Titans Go, and The Amazing World of Gumball are the ones that get the views and advertising money. I understand the views, considering the critical acclaim the Internet and many journalists have given to Cartoon Network's current main shows (with the notable exceptions of Teen Titans Go and Uncle Grandpa), but advertising? Transformers: Robots in Disguise is the one based on a toy franchise, so advertising should be a much smaller problem for it than any other show on Cartoon Network. I've heard that most of the other Transformers cartoons, especially Beast Wars from the 90s, are also very good, and that IDW's Transformers comics and the War for Cybertron video games are also very good quality media in the franchise. Despite its bad reputation in the mainstream due to Michael Bay's involvement and a fandom that gives Bay too much credit on this websites and not enough on Reddit, the Transformers franchise has been going strong for the past thirty years, and with the right people behind it, and enough care put into its characters, action, and toy design, it will probably have the power to go another thirty. I hope that I can prove on this wiki that I am more than meets the eye. Time for me to roll out.