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On this special Christmas episode, we’re joined IDW Transformers colourist John-Paul Bove as we relive memories of Transformers Christmas past and review a Transformers Christmas G1 comic story. All this and much, much more on this episode of TransMissions!
Check out our “Trips to the Store” video segment on YouTube!
This episode was edited by Michael Ordway (@minervion). Please check out his work in 3D modelling and animation and video and audio post-production at www.michaelordway.com! Huge thanks to Michael for his hard work!
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Show Notes:
- Thanks again to the amazing John-Paul Bove for joining us on TransMissions!
- Contact John-Paul online:
- Buy prints of John-Paul’s work online!
- Buy John-Paul’s original creator-owned comic UnEarth!
- The John-Paul Bove TransMissions Saga
- Episode 26 – First Interview and the birth of the Jake Dalrymple legend!
- Episode 37 – Guest hosting while Yoshi is away, JP explains the murderous reason for Yoshi’s absence…
- We announce our campaign to bring back the G1 cartoon as a comic – JP expressed interest in writing it
- Episode 64 – JP drops by to talk Transformers toys
- Episode 79 – JP and Nicole (@BeatlesDiva) break the show while Jeremy and Darryl are away
- Episode 83 – Yoshi’s Christmas Special of outtakes featuring all the JP and Nicole stuff we couldn’t fit in Episode 79
- Episode 108 – JP discusses his new comic UnEarth and the upcoming summer conventions he’s attending
- Episode 124 – JP gives us a recap of the last UK Auto Assembly
- Cold Open [0:00:30]
- Intro [0:01:36]
- Thank you new Patreon supporter Kevin Dorsey (@GrimPrime)!
- Kevin’s first third party Transformer purchase – Cubrar (Dinobot Slag)!
- Thank you new Patreon supporter Kevin Dorsey (@GrimPrime)!
- Uncle Yoshi’s Classic Comic Review [0:12:38]
- The Night The Transformers Saved Christmas from December 1985 Women’s Day Magazine (TFWiki Entry)
- Memories of Transformers Christmases Past [0:25:41]
- John-Paul Bove [0:26:54]
- Yoshi [0:29:13]
- Darryl [0:33:19]
- Jeremy [0:37;37]
- Charles [0:40:11]
- IDW Transformers Holiday Special Mini-Review [0:47:54]
- Trips To The Christmas Tree [0:51:58]
- ‘Twas The Night Before A TransMissions Christmas [1:28:44]
- As read by Sir Ian McKellen (AKA John-Paul Bove) and written by Dual Mirrored Gridwork (@DMG1001)
- Closing [1:36:50]
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SWEET PRIMUS,SWEET PRIMUS,SWEET PRIMUS,SWEET PRIMUS,……………..
(ahem)
THEY GOT HIM to do it,that is VER….y good of him to do that, thank you Sir Ian McKellen (AKA John-Paul Bove)…i truly look forward to listening to it,,and big ups to you big c for pulling this all together for this fan!
THANK YOU SO MUCH transmission podcast for EVERYTHING you do for its fans, and to my fellow fans for what we do for them!!!!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE ,AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
“Dual Mirrored Gridwork”
(think im going to find a corner and cr..uh, find out whats in my eye now…..sniff)
YES! Second Comment!
EGO….
thoroughly stroked (but more squealing in my head like a little schoolgirl),gentlemen…. it took me a while to get to it but it was well worth the wait. im VERY pleased it happened,jpb knocked it WELL INTO the parking lot ,and then some..next to my wife’s and “gridlettes” presents,and of course my gifts from Kevin and the palladium grab bag this year, this present is the most AWSOME and wonderful kind I can re open every time I hear it,and the charm will still be there every time I do (three times so far). ..Thank you transmissions and John Paul Bove…
I may not be a grinch,but my heart did grow 3 sizes today..you all have started my Christmas off with such a wonderful note…
Thank you so very much,
DMG
Btw,how do I set my clock to Colorado time yoshi?
LOVE YOU!!!
DMG
A$$hole i am,I know…
STILL LOVE YOU!
DMG
You’re welcome DMG! Thankfully Sir Ian (Sir-ee I call him) is a close personal friend…
Well im glad,THANK YOU BOTH!!!!!
And i got a new one this year, but you need not ask him to do it….
…but if he wanted to I would not say no to it…
HAPPY HOLIDAYs to you both, dear gentlemen!!!
DMG
As stated earlier:
“Christmas on Cybertron”
Inspired by/REALLY loosely Based off of
Christmas At Sea – Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
Modified/HEAVLY reformatted by Dual Mirrored Gridwork
I had wished to have Christmas on Cybertron, so supply’s in my shuttle I did stash,
I truly wanted to go there I was such in a hurried dash.
I radioed prime told him I’ll be there super quick,
On the way past orbit I almost clipped st nick!
(…flippin stupid reindeer…)
After landing the ground was metal hard, it had no rocks and no sand,
The underground had numerous levels, the fact my mind could barely stand.
The wind was blowing squally yonder off the sea of rust,
A planet full of wonders, I feel explore this sphere I must.
A few short moments heard the torchbearers on patrol before the break of day,
But after seeing the events of combiner hunters, I knew I must get away.
Hastily I use my wrist comm, a TRANSMISSION I must send,
I feared if it did not go through I might wind up at the dead end.
All day I scanned and charted between the South and to the North,
All day I hauled the frozen data pads, and got no further forth.
All day it was cold but still I determined to continue and march on,
For I still needed to chart Polyhex, Darkmount and of course…iacon
I knew my time was short, hurried I had to make tracks,
I figured I would spend time listening to a podcast called yakko yaks.
But then a ‘con saw me….. Hastily I ran, fast as I could for I was no fool,
I knew you get A LOT MORE than just a tan if you went to the smelting pool.
So I headed to an autobase meet with a few ‘bots whom were cleaning off the muck and mires,
I noticed a few transformed into cars, I thought Yoshi would ask “can you SPARE to put some rubber tires?”.
The data screens sparkled clear, and all the power cells were handed out,
And I used my remote to call my vessel, and shortly it had come about.
Then the autobots were in good moods they let out a mighty jovial cheer,
For I wished sometimes event like these came shorter than waiting a solar year.
This day of Christmas on Cybertron, a day truly I would forever mark,
And in the base the moods were all happy, not there be a dim glowing spark.
O well I saw the activities in the room, the pleasant faceplates there,
Made me miss my mother’s silver spectacles, the silver in my father’s hair.
And when I talked to fireflight, and the minicons reminded me of homely little elves,
One gave me flack and said “you’re not going to collect us and just put us on shelves”.
(At this point I thought this was a odd little duck,
I wished I had Yoshi here to reply to him “what the F653!!”)..
And well I knew that prime would later want to set time aside and talk to me,
And of the earlier events that happened and the one nearby that rusted sea.
And for a short time I had enjoyment, in every kind of way,
To be here and hauling frozen data pads on blessed Christmas Day.
Windblade came by stopped shortly before me and said “hello”,
I simply LOVE your overlapping lines ,they make me feel so mello.
but she had a question,she thought to ask as energon goodies were roasting,
she did not understand this thing human term called …..”deepthoating”….?
(um, yoshi, care to take it from here?)
And then when I conversed greatly about reality with the mini con named astroscope,
Preceptor came in with an issue he had yet seemed had to grasp and to cope.
“By primus the data base is down…. what do I do now?” he cried,
“Go contact the human by the handle Big C, he’ll help you. “ I replied.
I thought about the con eailer that day, my thoughts would go on,
I got me an idea… I just ask a favor from a beast from cybertron.
But then blaster had comm issues…. the recordings he could not use, He began to pout,
“No worries” I stated, “I’m sure we can get mike to edit that out”.
And they had a merry time, armor plates all a glow,
As then I knew my time here was at an end I had to begin to go.
But I could not stay life had called me back, in my ship I flew back into the darkness and the cold,
As I was leaving,warm feeling began in my heart, could this be another age of gold?.
To all,
MERRY CHRISTMAS, and HAPPY HOLIDAYS,and HAPPY NEW YEAR…..
“Dual Mirrored Gridwork”
If you could maybe rewrite it to half or a third the size… Sir Ian finds it hard to do long stories you know…