Noisemaze has used his force chip 3 times so far, and not once has he called out its name

Flame Convoy has summoned his more than that but only called out Death Flame once, and rather belatedly

Autolander used his only in his debut episode, and did not call out its name

Mickey did not throw out the hardest and funniest “they’ll pay for this” only for Aerith to walk on screen with those deliveries

TF Prime will always serve as the epitome of this phenomenon to me, as every subsequent piece of G1-reimagined media to hit the screen has followed in its wake

an object lesson in taking the wrong aspects from a work, & in turn creating something that lacks both the original's charm and its own

The distillation of Transformers to its barest elements when folks consider adapting it to future media has left the series sorely lacking

seemingly "superfluous" plots, character traits, and other beats are discarded with nothing substantially interesting taking their place in many newer shows

The nearest anything(GameStop, Walmart, even Target, etc) is an hour away from my home town, so I feel you on that one

Best of luck, mate

I think seaspray is on shelves right now fwiw

As for cosmos

Despite the reissue, I think aftermarket prices are still like 10 bucks above retail at least

they are in effect both raised by Soukichi

which helps, I think

albeit with no *direct* appearances by Starscream himself this time

instead using his unique nature as the backdrop by which we establish the latest addition to the roster, twisted though he may be.

I like him. He's like the Serial Killer II to Tarantulas' Serial Killer I

by way of strange technicality, Bad Spark is something of a sequel to the S1 episode Possession

but where that episode brought back the notion of Starscream's ghost for a harmless episodic romp

this is the point where the much tighter and continuity-heavy season 2 decides to revisit the concept

That's where you're wrong, kiddo