Thread: Moonbase 2 and the Underbase awards show 2011 - vote now!

Best Toy - I have a hard time keeping up with who was released when, and don't pick up many toys anyway as the movie-lines are just not my thing. But if he counts, Generations Warpath.

Worst Toy - N/A for reasons above.

Best 3rd Party Product - Thundershred.

Worst 3rd Party Product a.k.a The Cobra Crappy Corner Special Award - Hmm. I guess there have been some transforming spears and stuff that I'd give this to. Again, don't follow it all.

Best 3rd Party Company - Well, I have more FansProject stuff than any other 3rd party, so I'll tip them the wink.

Best Episode/Film of the year - Transformers Prime: "Partners". Starscream's rapid personality shifts from suck up, to snivelling coward, to murderous sychophant were a joy to watch and has probably never been topped as a single-story example of his overall character.

Best Voice Actor/Actor - Frank Welker, easily. "So, this is where the magic happens..."

The Underbase Awards

Best Comic - Chaos Theory. More specifically, part two.

Best Comic Moment - Chaos Theory part two has so many moments. Optimus "blowing off steam" and apprehending all of the criminals in the sector was one. His showdown with Whirl's buddies another. But I think his storming the senate and demanding to be heard for the people tops it. I think if I had to summarize it, it would be "Having Optimus Prime acting like Optimus Prime again."

Best Writer - James Roberts. Sometimes the answers are obvious because they're just true.

Best Artist - I'm going to pre-empt the Death Of Optimus Prime and say Nick Roche.

Best Colourist - Johanna LaFuente.

The FMH Awards

Biggest Disappointment of the Year - I haven't read Chaos or Police Action yet, and wont until the trades. I want to say Heart Of Darkness, but I think the thing which actuallt upset me most was the complete and total waste of the potential for the future of the Kup/Prowl conspiracy.

Outstanding Moment of the Year - Regeneration One, baby!

Person most deserving of an honourable mention - If this can be anyone, then for me it's John-Paul Bove. He has done wonders for my self-esteem this past year by taking me along to the London Film and Comic Con as his sketch buddy, and for just being a real friend. Him getting the Regeneration One gig is more than well deserved in my opinion.

Best Toy - G1 Apeface (well, I got him in 2011!). Sorry, don't buy much new stuff

Worst Toy - don't know

Best 3rd Party Product - don't know

Worst 3rd Party Product a.k.a The Cobra Crappy Corner Special Award - them Omega Supreme high-heels sounded pretty awful

Best 3rd Party Company - don't know

Best Episode/Film of the year - got to say Thundercats - the one with the little plant people. Best film was Thor.

Best Voice Actor/Actor - The guy who does Knockout

The Underbase Awards

Best Comic - Chaos Theory issue 1

Best Comic Moment - Prime and Megatron's chat / trip down memory lane

Best Writer - Mike costa. The ongoing just got better and better.

Best Artist - Livio - his artwork has blown me away. So refreshing, atmospheric and just plain different (in an awesome way).

Best Colourist - Livio on his own stuff (otherwise Johanna LaFuente).

The FMH Awards

Biggest Disappointment of the Year - Heart of Darkness. It wasn't all bad, I was just expecting a lot more.

Outstanding Moment of the Year - the excellent comics building up the movie! The movie itself didn't live up to the comics though.

Person most deserving of an honourable mention - Simon Furman for Regeneration! Can't wait for that to kick off!

Worst Toy - DOTM Bumblebee, it doesn't matter which one they're all the same.

Best 3rd Party Product - I don't buy third party stuff.

Worst 3rd Party Product a.k.a The Cobra Crappy Corner Special Award - Anything that's a knock off.

Best 3rd Party Company - Masterminds creations. Look at that shockwave and tell me you don't want it.

Best Episode/Film of the year - Crisscross. It was freaking dark and hilarious at the same time, plus some awesome fight scenes to boot.

Best Voice Actor/Actor - Steve Blum. His Starscream has i think the greatest range of any starscream we have seen before, from sinister to bitchy and everything inbetween.

FMH REWARDS

Biggest Disappointment of the Year - being able to come to AA for only one day. I would say DOTM, but let's face it, everyone knew it was going to be terrible.

Outstanding Moment of the Year - AA. That one day was full of win. Meeting David accidently, getting to talk to david kaye, and of course buying my W driver off Andy. (BTW, I know it's a little late, but sorry for any embarrassment I may have coursed. I'm not very good at socialising due to my Aspergers.)

Person most deserving of an honourable mention - Everyone who works at AA, and I hope to see you all next year.

The MB2 Awards

Best Toy - Wreckgar, a toy that ride its self is so awesome


Worst Toy - Power core combiners, I want proper combiners dammit hasbro

Best 3rd Party Product - TFC Hercules, yes he is yet to be fully released but the first 2 figures have been great and the pics we have been given make the complete thing look epic

Worst 3rd Party Product a.k.a The Cobra Crappy Corner Special Award - too many to list with what it seeming every week a new 3rd party appears on the scene - though worst annouced included the blurr upgrade kit, metroplex eye and that skinny ass Kup


Best 3rd Party Company - Fans project

Best Episode/Film of the year - the season ending of Prime some very nice ideas in that ep

Best Voice Actor/Actor - Jeffery combs man his rachet is awesome

The Underbase Awards

Best Comic - 22+23 of the ongoing them issues were damn good

Best Comic Moment - Megatron being stuck in gun mode for 2 yrs

Best Writer - John barber for being this years dark horse new comer to tf comics who churned out good movie comics and fixed up the continuity while he was at and made it seem easy

Best Artist - Alex Mine he has improved a lot since his early days and does excellent tf crowd scenes

Best Colourist - Joana Lafuente - girl can do some damn fine colouring

The FMH Awards

Biggest Disappointment of the Year - Heart of Darkness, after showing promise with the infestations issues abbnet and Lanning just failed to deliver on every level

Outstanding Moment of the Year - AA2011 AA is always awesome and its great to mingle with fans and get to meet the guests

Person most deserving of an honourable mention - John barber for once again being a complete unknown and being a great surprise for movie comics and is now editor of tf for 2012 and writing 1 of the two ongoings looking forward to what he will do

Best Toy - TF Prime Starscream. Everyone should get this toy. I <3 it!

Worst Toy - Sideburn. He's nothing to write home about.

Best 3rd Party Product - Make Toys Constructicons. How I so want these!

Worst 3rd Party Product - Dr. Wu face plates. Really? Do we need these?!

Best 3rd Party Company - Make Toys, I'm liking all the stuff they're putting out lately.

Best Episode/Film of the year - TF Prime "Operation: Breakdown". Dark and twisted, plus we get to see Silas a another true threat to the Transformers.

Best Voice Actor/Actor - Tyrese Gibson - I will vote for this chocolate God until he is not involved in Transformers.

The Underbase Awards

Best Comic - Infestation - I loved the cross over and the character of Bayontte/Brit, especially when she slaughted Kup...gave me a chill thrill.

Best Comic Moment - Again, the splash page with Bayontte ramming her fist through Kup.

Best Writer -Marty Isenberg. The BotCon comic made me miss Animated so much more after reading this gem.

Best Artist - Nick Roche for Infestation

Best Colourist - Thomas Deer and Jesse Wittenrich for Stunti-Con Job. Ever since I spoke with Derrick J. Wyatt at BotCon and I saw his eyes light up from just the simple sparkles on Sentinel's cape it was looking at a kid on Christmas. Just a great memory.

The FMH Awards

Biggest Disappointment of the Year - Heart of Darkness...do I really need to say more?!?

Outstanding Moment of the Year - BotCon...I finally got to go to the Transformers fans Mecca! I was extra surprise when I ran into Gregg Berger remembered me from two years ago. So many fun memories of that weekend!

Person most deserving of an honourable mention - Mike Costa. yeah, I know it sounds weird, but the interview that the Underbase did this past month really opened my eyes to the behind the scenes of the comics. Plus, I'm sure it did get the Moonbase name out there to the public that may have not hear y'all before.

[I don't know anything about toys, so I'm skipping those questions. ]

Best Episode/Film - This is a tough choice..."Scrapheap", "Operation Breakdown", and "Rock Bottom" were all phenomenal episodes in an already great show. After careful consideration, I'm giving my vote to "Rock Bottom". The took a boring sounding premise (people trapped in a cave) and made a great character piece that really explored deeper into the minds and motivations of some of the characters.

Best Actor/VA - Steve Blum. TFP Starscream is one of the all-time best iterations of the character, and Blum's acting is a huge part of that. ALL of the TFP cast is very talented, but Blum raised the bar for acting in a Transformer show. In only one season, he has earned his place among the best.

Best Comic - Issue 22 of the Ongoing. Wonderful story, beautiful art, great character exploration and development. This issue sums up *exactly* what I want to see in a TF comic. Honorable mention goes to "Space Opera", which was a suprisingly well-written and nicely drawn story arc that has the additional benefit of likeable non-TF characters (a rarity in TF comics!).

Best Comic moment - Optimus Prime frying Megatron. Seeing the usually calm and compassionate Prime snap and stoop to torture was intense.

Best Writer - Tough call between James Roberts and Marty Isenberg, but I'll give my vote to James. He knocked his Ongoing issues out of the park, and proved that LSotW wasn't just a lucky fluke. His ongoing series next year is going to be great!

Best Artist - Lots of talent here, but I'm going with Alex Milne. I've always been a fan of his style, but his tenure on the Ongoing has exceeded almost everyone's expectations. He took Don's odd movie-inspired designs and made them his own, and the results are gorgeous. I love it when comic art is beautiful enough to make me stare at it long after I've finished reading the speech bubbles, and Milne's work on the Ongoing easily pulls this off.

Best Colorist - Joanna Lafuente. Fabulous work, as always!

Biggest Disappointment - Heart of Darkness takes the prize with a bullet. The writing and art were both immensely disappointing. Experimenting with new writers and artists is fine, but they need to be a good fit for Transformers or the results can be disastrous, as they are here. Neither the writing or art crews fit the bill on this mini. Like others have said, this made me embarrassed to be a fan of both Transformers and comics in general.

Outstanding Moment of the Year - The "Stunti-Con Job" script reading at Botcon. Hearing voice actors do their thing in person was AMAZING. I've always loved and respected VAs, but now I have an even greater respect for their talent now that I've heard it live. Neil Ross in particular was incredible; he has so much vocal talent it hurts.

Person most deserving of an honorable mention - Marty Isenberg. He penned a great one-shot comic, showed his acting chops as a voice actor (and did pretty darn good!), and is generally a great guy and an asset to the franchise.

The MB2 Awards

Best Toy - Generations Warpath

Worst Toy - Powercore combiners, DOTM Air Raid

Best 3rd Party Product - I Gear's Impactor.....if i cant choose that since he is not out yet.....Hexatron, closly followed by the Kup Heads

Worst 3rd Party Product a.k.a The Cobra Crappy Corner Special Award - the face plates, simply awful

Best 3rd Party Company - Fansproject closly followed by I Gear

Best Episode/Film of the year - Rock Bottom, One Shall Stand part 3

Best Voice Actor/Actor - Jeffrey Combs (Ratchet), Daran Norris (Knock Out), Gina Torres (Airachinid)

The Underbase Awards

Best Comic - Ongoing Issue 23

Best Comic Moment - Optimus kicking exhaust pipe and taking names in Ongoing 23

Best Writer - James Roberts

Best Artist - Nick Roche

Best Colourist - John Paul Bove and Johanna LaFuente

The FMH Awards

Biggest Disappointment of the Year - Sadly Heart of Darkness i expected a lot more from the writer of Horus Rising, pity really. I would say DOTH but it was more of a bitter average then anything else, the moonbase 2 forum closing

Outstanding Moment of the Year - AA2011 as always always great seeing friends

Person most deserving of an honourable mention - Everyone at AA, Nerdsphere and at FMH

Happy Holidays and a great new year to you wonderful people

The MB2 Awards

Best Toy -
: This is a tricky one, but for me, its gotta be something from Generations/RTS, thats the line thats impressed me most this year, hmm... I'm gonna say Generations Kup. He's one of my favourite characters, and finally he has a decent toy!

Worst Toy -
: I wouldn't say it was the worst, but I was most let down by Generations Thunderwing. Too small and too simple a Transformation for a Generations figure.

Best 3rd Party Product -
: iGear's Kup heads, totally awesome stuff.

Worst 3rd Party Product a.k.a The Cobra Crappy Corner Special Award -
: Hmm... Crazy Devy have made an exorbitant amount of crap this year, but I'll go with the Omega Supreme legs... WHY????? WHATS THE POINT???

Best 3rd Party Company -
: Its a toss-up between a iGear and Fansproject methinks. I can't decide, pick one of them for me!

Best Episode/Film of the year -
: Stereotypical, but The Prime season finale, I totally didn't see it coming!

Best Voice Actor/Actor -
: Frank Welker. Knocking Prime Megatron out of the park in every episode. Definintely Welker

The Underbase Awards

Best Comic -
: Ongoing 23, I've not been this excited about a TF comic in a long time, definitely my pick.

Best Comic Moment -
: Magnus FINALLY arresting Swindle in the final part of Police Action. Made me squee like a small child!

Best Writer -
: James Roberts, hands down.

Best Artist -
: I've been most impressed with Alex Milne this year, his work is always phenominal.

Best Colourist -
: As a colourist myself, its been very inspiring this year with the amount of amazing talent in the IDW books, but the artist whose work I've been most impressed with, and have tried to emulate in my own work, is Josh Perez. Vibrant, strong colours, great depth and shadow, and his highlights are amazing! I wish I was as good as Josh Perez!

The FMH Awards

Biggest Disappointment of the Year -
: I honestly can't think of anything I've really been disappointed with this year!

Outstanding Moment of the Year -
: AA'11, I spoke to literally every guest about my colouring portfolio, and knowing that my work isn't terrible, and in-fact is *almost* at professional standard, is a great feeling, Including Simon Williams telling me he'd hire me as a colourist for his own work if he had a self-published book!

Person most deserving of an honourable mention -
: John-Paul Bove, for being a true gent at AA'11.

Best Toy - Toys R Us MP Rodimus (I know the orignal cam out last year but this version came out in 2011 so it counts in my book! So glad I didn't pay over the odds of the Takara version with its QC problems!

Worst Toy -Cyberverse Powerglide. Ewww...

Best 3rd Party Product - The fansproject insecticons, especially Stormbomb. Headrobots Bludgeon set for a very close second though!

Worst 3rd Party Product a.k.a The Cobra Crappy Corner Special Award - That Dr Wu floating Unicron head - WTF?!

Best 3rd Party Company - Fansproject as always, although Igear are making some nice stuff these days too.

Best Episode/Film of the year - Thundercats opening two parter.
Best Voice Actor/Actress - Kevin Michael Richardson

The Underbase Awards

Best Comic - Transformers Infestation 1 & 2

Best Comic Moment - Kup's tragic realisation in Infestation 2.

Best Writer - Mike Costa (after an iffy start I really enjoyed Chaos and the conclusion of his run).

Best Artist - Nick Roche

The FMH Awards

Biggest Disappointment of the Year -Heart of Darkness, I've been a massive fan of Galvatron since the days of Target 2006 and Time Wars and this was such a missed opportunity all round.

Outstanding Moment of the Year - The new Thundercats series and toys being so fricking epic!
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Person most deserving of an honourable mention - The 5 awesome Transformers guys on youtube, I have had alot of run posting silly videos over the year. Rapping boglins anyone?