Transfans Newbie of the Year Awards 2006...Nomination-time

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:40 pm

Yes... it never TRULY stops, for this show has no shame whatsoever.

It's time to nominate the new lads for the price, and honestly, this year I have no idea who they might be, since I have been frequenting the site far less actively than last year.

So, whom might these new peeps be? Dr Doom perhaps?

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:16 pm

we have no friends

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:30 pm

Aardvark.

Batman has spoken.

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:02 pm

I vote Batman

Have we even had any newbies this year?

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:51 pm

Hound wrote:I vote Batman

Have we even had any newbies this year?

All of them were alt ids. Multiple Personality Disorder doesnt qualifies for "newbies"?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:56 pm

There's not that many, really.

Lots of registrations, subtract the spambots, ignore the one-post whiners, cull the alt-ids, deny the deities and the list gets ery short indeed.

For fun, here's the (very) short list:

Aardvark
Autobot 420

In terms of posting power, Aardvark was well-up in the summer, but seems now to have fallen into the ultimate drought.

Autobot 420, on the other hand, posts little and often. Like Xeno's tortoise.

It's been a lean year for TransFans.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:35 pm

Man... is that ALL?? Do we really suck that much..?

What about Jack Kade, that posted in the year in review-thread, is he a real person?

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:40 pm

I wonder why we dont get the traffic of other TF boards? it must be our attitude towards the TF fandom I suppose?

I wonder if the new movie will increase visitors?

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:02 pm

That probably is it, yeah. That, and the fact that we're all a bunch of misfits!

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:51 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:I wonder why we dont get the traffic of other TF boards? it must be our attitude towards the TF fandom I suppose?

Most definitely

I wonder if the new movie will increase visitors?

Yes, but a good part of them will -probably- stay not too long.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:11 pm

che6mw
Autobot420
Aardvark
Deceptichick
mistajonz
Jack Cade

I'd probably vote for man-with-the-dogs. He did start one of our longest ever threads after all..! http://transfans.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5446

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:58 pm

Ha! My comics thread still reigns supreme. Nacho supreme. Burrito supreme. Supreme.

I think it has less to do with our movie opinions and more to do with our lack of TF discussion in general. I mean, there are multiple toylines going on, and almost everyone here has stopped collecting the toys, or never started, or just doesn't post about it in childish glee.

Even in the IDW stuff, it seems that there's definitely less discussion of the issues then we seemed to get for the DW run.

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:25 pm

Shanti418 wrote:Even in the IDW stuff, it seems that there's definitely less discussion of the issues then we seemed to get for the DW run.

There was more people discussing comics then. Some of them are MIA.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:45 pm

i think we banned most of the newbies for being pricks...

sprunkner · Post by **sprunkner** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:49 pm

Shanti418 wrote:Ha! My comics thread still reigns supreme. Nacho supreme. Burrito supreme. Supreme.

I think it has less to do with our movie opinions and more to do with our lack of TF discussion in general. I mean, there are multiple toylines going on, and almost everyone here has stopped collecting the toys, or never started, or just doesn't post about it in childish glee.

Even in the IDW stuff, it seems that there's definitely less discussion of the issues then we seemed to get for the DW run.

It's not as easy to post voluminous complaints when you're satisfied.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:06 am

Comic discussion seems to have gone down on most boards to be fair. IDW's board seems the place to be regarding that. Dreamwave's board, if I remember rightly, was mainly populated by *****.

In the meantime, Transfans can be our little secret.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:13 am

I vote for Batman!

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:55 am

I have a theroy that many of us grew up with TF and are a similar age - the internet allowed us to talk about this childhood passion, untill we had covered every topic available to us.

Maybe we have run out of topics to discuss, and even with new comics and toy lines etc, we are to old to get as invloved? - yes there are new, young fans but they probably dont mix with our age group aswell?

just an idea.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:42 pm

Woe is me... since I'm younger then almost everyone on this board!

But allright, thanks for the nominees Spidey, I might well vote Mizta Jonez, since I'm already biased.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:45 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:I have a theroy that many of us grew up with TF and are a similar age - the internet allowed us to talk about this childhood passion, untill we had covered every topic available to us.

Maybe we have run out of topics to discuss, and even with new comics and toy lines etc, we are to old to get as invloved? - yes there are new, young fans but they probably dont mix with our age group aswell?

just an idea.

You're saying we've become old fuddy-duddies who just can't get down with the kiddies anymore?

Well, just as long as we don't become or present the impression of having become a clique of first-generation Transformers fans who are deep-set in their decades-old opinions, because that would really make us look unattractive to these later-generation fans who haven't grown up with the Marvel interpretation.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:50 pm

Rebis wrote: Well, just as long as we don't become or present the impression of having become a clique of first-generation Transformers fans who are deep-set in their decades-old opinions, because that would really make us look unattractive to these later-generation fans who haven't grown up with the Marvel interpretation.

I guess thats what im saying, I know im a bit set in my ways, which isnt really usefull...
I wonder how the rest of the fandom percives transfans?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:00 pm

Well, from the inception, TransFans.net has been designed to occupy a specific niche, a definite Marvel UK orientation, but hopefully the perception isn't that that's all that's discussed here, and it would be quite depressing if the tongue-in-cheek nature of the presentation was missed or taken at face value and an assumption made that everything else was being poo-pooed here.

I'd hate to think that TransFans was perceived as otherwise inaccessible by the fandom in general.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:50 pm

Have we actually asked the fans on other boards about this? Like for instance, the Archive?

Why the chaps that dun' post here, post there instead.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:48 pm

i blame you preds..

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:57 pm

For the record, I've always thought that the place could easily be regarded as inaccessible to newbies, for the reasons stated.

I've just never mentioned it because I don't mind in the slightest. I like being able to come here and talk to a small core of sensible people (plus Impy and Preds) about stuff. If I want to partake in a hyuge thread (with added idiot exposure), I'll go somewhere else. Tis niiiiice.

Jus' kidding Impy.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:45 pm

But I dun' smell that much of pubes...

Anyways, I'll be posting the vote-thread after I've contacted these lads for the regular rumble-preparations.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:15 pm

Brendocon wrote:Jus' kidding Impy.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:26 am

Predabot wrote:But I dun' smell that much of pubes...

i think it's the fact that you smell at all of pubes that's the problem.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:08 pm

Aight chaps, mates, blokes, and lads and lass's in general. I've gotten in touch with most of the nominees, so sometime next week I'll be posting the actual thread where we decide...

WHO will be the Transfans Newbie of the YEAR??!

I'll be darned if I know...

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:35 pm

yay................................................................................