A girl with a thing for things.

Oh wow, super, hi! Um, hello. Right, yes. This is like a job interview, isn't it? Only I'm not being paid and I don't get to bonk the secretary. Um...do we even have a secretary? Can I be the secretary? I can file! I like filing things. Shut up? Of course, I can do that too! By the way, would you like a scone?

The name's Becca. I've been invited to join the splendiforous crew at the Transforming Block mainly to contribute some sort of bi-weekly webcomic thing. I talk a little too much and I'm ridiculously British. I've also managed to buy 200-and-something Transformers toys since joining the fandom last July, so I guess this eradicates my newb status, right? Right? Please don't tea-bag me. PG Tips weren't made to be taken up the nose, you know.



Ahem. Let's get on with the questions, shall we?

What Interests You About Transformers?
Oh gosh, start with a hard one, why don't you? Let's see...
1. Toys that can turn from robots into cars, animals and aeroplanes and stuff. Hours of fun, and you feel sort-of intellectual doing it because you don't need the instructions any more. Well, much. Where do Warpath's feet go?
2. Cracktastic television. G1 = my brain on crack, BW = my brain on Red Bull, TFA = my brain on something undeniably perfect, and Prime = my brain on CGI.
3. The fandom, and in some cases, the fan-dumb. (Rumble is blue and that's all I got to say on the subject.)
4. But mostly, the toys. The delicious, amazing, splendid toys.

Who Was Your First Transformer?
ROTF Legends Bumblebee. Don't judge me! I had just seen Transformers on DVD, and the next day Mother-dearest and I were doing the monthly food shop in Sainsburys. They had their ROTF Legends on sale (for once) and she treated me to a Bumblebee. It would be two years later that I watched the 1986 film for the first time ever (on PSP UMD no less) and bought a Universe 2.0 Starscream off eBay. My first proper G1 toy was a battered and beaten Red Alert.

Who Are Your Top Five Favourite Characters?
1. G1 Red Alert.
2. TFA Prowl.
3. G1 Rumble.
4. TF:P Ratchet.
5. BW Silverbolt.

What Is Your Favourite Gimmick?
Weapons storage. I don't think it ought to be a gimmick because it's so bloody useful, but it's still pretty much treated as one. I'm especially fond of the Beast Wars toys for this reason: Rhinox, par example, has one of his weapons break into four separate bits that are then stored throughout his beast-mode without breaking the flow of the toy. Thankfully Universe Generations figures are starting to show this sort of flare, and it needs to be encouraged. *glares at all of the G1 bits she's keeping in a shoebox*

Which Show Is Your Favourite?
G1 will always have to be my favourite (like the Second Doctor will always have to be my favourite Doctor despite me loving Eleven a tiny bit more) because it's the first one I saw, but it's on a tie with TFA, with Prime and Beast Wars coming slightly below them both. To be perfectly frank, G1 is a bright, colourful mess of a show with little to no plot coherency and more cheese than a wine-lover's fridge, but it doesn't try to take itself seriously and the gravitas this gives it makes it wholly likeable. TFA had a kick-ass storyline and great characters (and even better toys), Beast Wars had a brilliant sense of characterisation and timing, and Prime is shaping up to be a bridge between all that is light and fluffy and dark and terrible about Cybertronian mythos.

Right, I'm going to shut up now before I bore you all to tears any more. I look forward to speaking to/hearing from y'all in the future, and hopefully I'll be getting the first comic up soon! If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear 'em. Peace out, bros.