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I was skeptical that this book could deliver, but on opening the cover was immediately drawn in by its graphic spreads and the marriage of art and type. No one could hope to chronicle the multifarious incarnations of Takara's transforming toys; but someone has. No one could untangle all the plot threads weaving through the saga of Cybertron; but someone did. No one could possibly provide an engrossing account of Hasbro's marketing variations or its Sunbow division's many animated series; no one except Furman, himself an astute observer and able author of Transformer comics.
Amazon's low price shifts this book from its intended specialty audience to the wider fringe fandom with some tangential interest in its subject: Seen the transformers movie, or the Armada series or owned an original Optimus Prime. Transformers raised the bar for toys, transforming action figures into complex and intriguing robots, and for cartoons, giving all those blocks of steel individual personalities. Furman's guide will delight the cognoscenti among collectors while opening for the casual reader Takara's transforming world.
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This is a great guide to the history of the Transformers franchise thru the various generations of toys, comics, and television series.
It is an oversize book with many lavish color pages of great artwork; I have enjoyed reading parts of it over again and again.
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This book is cool and all. Fun to look at 20 years of transformers and stuff, but it is extremely biased.
Simon Furman can and his story can go to hell. Why..Because he blatantly trying to pass off these characters as his own without giving any respect to their orignal origns.
Lame!
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The Transformers ultimate guide is the ultimate guide! This Transformers reference book is written by one of the Transformers most beloved comic book writers, Simon Furman! He writes in detail about the history of the Transformers, the origins, 1980s,the cartoon, the comics,and the japanese toys! I think this Transformers book is great because tells you everything you need to know about them including Transformers: Generation 1, Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Energon! It also summarizes the 1980s -1990s Marvel Transfomres comic books and to the current Dreamwave Transformers comics! I love this book! I am a big fan of the Transformers: Generation 1 series and I am very proud of it! Highly Recommended! *****
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When looking at an item such as this you have to factor in three things:
1. Transformers (or any toy, TV show, movie, etc. with a fan base) is personal. Not everyone will like everything all the time and what one thinks is fantastic another will hate.
2. A writer makes promises to his/her reader that should be kept. Mr. Furman tried, but fell flat. Let me explain with some selling points from the back of the book: "Cross-section artworks of the inner mechanics of the TRANSFORMERS". Yes, both of them..there is only 2 such drawings in the entire book (Prime and Megatron) and there are fairly forced explainations of the inner workings. "Extensive reviews of the toy lines, TV series, and comic book chronologies". These are extremely brief..2 pages for the TV series season one (12 episode recap with scarcely more than a paragraph each), 2 pages for season 2 (12 episodes, again the same), 2 pages for the Marvel series (issues 1-37). 37 comic issues in 2 pages is an "extensive review"??? Add to this a quote from page 8: "The saga has spawned many inconsistencies and divergent storylines, but now, at last, the one true history can be revealed". Guess what Furman was referring to...yep, Furman's comic script. A tad biased and not really appropriate for a guide that covers all storylines. Another troubling section is the toy coverage seeing that all this *is* based on toys. Let's take Generation 1 for example, only 16 characters are shown in toy form (multiple Primes and Megatrons). Many of the toys actually show paint and sticker wear. This may be a bit unprofessional since it is the "ultimate" guide and they can't get a First Aid with a readable decal?
3. Finally the question: What generation are you? 77 pages are devoted to G1 - G2 and 64 pages are Beast Wars and beyond. People that don't like Beast Wars will be bored with almost half the book and the same for people uninterested in G1. If you are a fan of both then you probably already know 98% of the material presented.
Hope this helps and I apologize if I was harshly negative, but people do expect something top notch when the word "Ultimate" is tossed around.
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