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ENERGON OMEGA SUPREME PICTURES
One of the favourite G1 'big guy' bots, Omega Supreme, is finally making his return in the Energon series. Most people remember Omega as the large Autobot with rail tracks strapped to his back, a chunky claw hand and the classic alt mode of a base. So what is the new Energon Omega Supreme like? Blurry pictures hinted suggestions, but recently released clear images have emerged, allowing us to finally get a good look at the guy!
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ATARI PS2 GAME PREVIEW EVENT
As announced on the TAAU boards by one of Melbourne House's PS2 game developers, Desert Dog - which can be seen right here - Atari put on a huge show in Alameda, California on Tuesday, February 10 to promote their up-coming 'Transformers' computer game.
The spectacular event was held, believe it or not, on the gigantic USS Hornet Air Craft Carrier which was docked at the port, and the night included stage shows, music from band, Dropbox, game kiosks and discussions with the game developers themselves.
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PALISADES LINE SHRINKS
Before you get too upset, it’s not as bad as it seems.
Palisades will still be releasing a wide range of Transformers statues, however the statues' actual size will decrease. I am not overly ecstatic about the decision, but in order to help sweeten the deal they have delivered pictures of the new Grimlock Statue, so let's give them the benefit of the doubt and hear what they have to say:
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DODGE CARS: THE UNOFFICIAL SPONSOR OF ALTERNATORS?
It looks like the Dodge car company might be making another appearance in the Transformers: Alternators line. In an article from a Marketing publication, Brandweek, Hollie Holmes - an employee from Brand Sense (The agency representing Hasbro on the Alternators venture) - has confirmed that they are in negotiations with Dodge to produce two more Dodge oriented Alternators. The two models that are being negotiated are the Dodge Neon SRT-4 and the new Dodge Ram Pickup.
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TAAU CHAT V2.0 LAUNCHES
Because I know how many of you love TAAU's Chat feature, but were a little frustrated with the 'server push' method used in the old version which constantly refreshed your screens - using up a lot of bandwidth, slowing your connections down and only displaying messages every couple of seconds - I have thus decided to ditch it and upgrade big time!
So, after a lot of implementation work, I am now very proud to announce TAAU Chat V2.0; a completely new application with a very powerful Java backend which requires no constant screen refreshing and delivers messages instantly, so there is no lag what-so-ever! This baby is even faster than IRC, you just have to see it to believe it!
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TAAU AWARDS NIGHT
Well, it's fast approaching that time of the year again! No, I'm not talking about Canned Food Month, National Embroidery Month or National Wild Bird Feeding Month, although, believe it or not, those things are being celebrated in the US right now; no, I'm talking about TAAU's annual Message Board awards!
If you weren't here for our inaugural awards ceremony last year, I'll just quickly fill you in: I run this event each year to show my appreciation and to pay homage to all the great people we have here and who, collectively, make this board such a great place to visit and be a part of. In addition to the awards I will be presenting myself, the 'People's Choice' awards allow all of you to vote for your favourite members and message board threads, giving you the chance to have your say and show your appreciation as well.
Here are just some of the awards that will be given out, and for those listed in the 'People's Choice' section, I'd like everyone to start thinking about who/what you'd like to nominate for each one.
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS >>
Threads:
- Best Thread (Transformers related)
- Best Thread (Off-Topic)
- Most bizarre thread (Transformers related)
- Most bizarre thread (Off-Topic)
- Most original thread (Transformers related)
- Most original thread (Off-Topic)
- Funniest Thread (Transformers related)
- Funniest Thread (Off-Topic)
Members:
- Best member username
- Best signature
- Best custom Avatar image
- Funniest comment made by a board member
- Member who most deserves the coveted title of 'TAAU Smartass'
- Most insane member
- Most knowledgeable member
Fan Art:
- Best fan artist
- Best individual piece of fan art
Heavy Metal War:
- Best TAAU Heavy Metal War commander
- Best TAAU Heavy Metal War Autobot character
- Best TAAU Heavy Metal War Decepticon character
SPECIAL TAAU AWARDS (PRESENTED BY STEPHEN) >>
- The 'Hiding in the Shadows' award for the most subtle lurker
- The 'Awww, bless him' award for the most lovable board member
- The 'Get a Life!' award for the member who spends the most amount of time on TAAU
- The 'Touch Typist' award for the member with the highest post count
- The 'Smilie Junkie' award for the member with the most smilies per post ratio
- The 'Woodward and Bernstein' award for the best news scoop of year
- The 'Row, row, row your boat' award for the most constant and obsessive post/topic by any one member
- The 'Good Samaritan' award for the most helpful and obliging member/s
- The 'Dead Horse' award for the member who gets beaten / picked on the most
- Plus many more!
When submitting votes, please include an example of your nomination in the email, thus, for the 'Threads' category, please include a link to the particular thread in question, etc.
Please submit all votes, together in one email, to: myvote@theyareamongus.com
Closing date for all votes is: 29/02/04
So get campaigning and voting people, we have a load of new people here since last year, so it should be a lot of fun!
- Story by: Stephen Jesson
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TAAU GAINS SITE SPONSORSHIP
Good news people, TAAU is joining the big leagues! With around 1000 unique visitors a week coming to the main site now, a message board which has grown to well over 150mb in size as a result of the 50,000+ posts its received, plus downloads, streaming chat software and a newly created microsite to host the online version of our html-enabled newsletter, I've had to upgrade my hosting a number of times since I launched in 2001, and am now the proud owner of a package which boasts over 1gb of web space and virtually unlimited bandwidth.
However, such things don't come without a price, and for the past year I've had to pay well over $1000 for this setup, which, as you can imagine, ain't been easy for this humble web designer, despite offers by Blaster and Crank to donate money to keep it going (thanks for thinking of me guys!).
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TAAU'S FEBRUARY COMPETITION STILL OPEN
TAAU is proud to announce our first competition partnership with our new site sponsor, CaseFresh.com, who wanted to donate this prize as a kind of 'Hi guys, we're excited to be here and it's good to meet you all' type deal, so everyone, this is Cash Fresh, and Case Fresh, this is everyone!
Their welcome involvement this month allows us to jointly bring you a fantastic prize, which is an entire wave 5 Heroes of Cybertron set consisting of Starscream with crown, Megatron with Laserbeak, Optimus Prime with Communicator, Omega Supreme, Devastator, Ratchet and bonus figure, Metroplex!
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