#216.5: JAPANESE G1 SERIES - THE HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA 2023 - Pt 2
Join your holiday ho-ho-hoes of the APDC as they review the classic Japanese animated Transformers series Victory and Zone! Plus more from Lonely Shockwave and a cameo by Alphamagnus!
Victory!!! Jack Shack!!! There’s a lot going on here!? A lack of research and experience!! Zone!! So many capes!!! Tinker toy Predaking! Human heart power source!!! Sassy-ass rabbits!! Exquisite corpse!!! Anime music! So it was White Christmas the whole time!!!
2:13 – VICTORY 32:40 – ZONE 59:12 – REAL WORLD
From TFWiki: Early Victory treatment artwork by Ban Magami, based on early concepts for the series by Masumi Kaneda. Unused designs repurposed as characters in later fiction include Bikecross (seen to the right of early Black Shadow and Blue Bacchus designs in the lower left) and Greatsix (above Minerva and Wilder on the right). Image from internal TakaraTomy documentation.
It would have been great to see Thunderwing in Victory. Or, ANY animated capacity.
Look at these weirdos.
The God Ginrai toy is a truly ludicrous amount of armor add-ons.
Violengiguar's three insectoid forms, and his own big ol' head. Artwork by Ban Magami, scanned from Transformers Visualworks.
Metrotitan's package art, as seen in Legacy: The Art of Transformers Packaging.
