The Arcade Power Hour

Well, it's official

SDCC 2026 will have the first Jem based Transformer with a Jem inspired redeco of Blaster and three cassettes (each named after character from the... shudder.. Kiss Players part of the TF mythos. Click on that link at your OWN peril, I have warned you)

Imagine Hasbro did a Jem and Transformers crossover? Wouldn't that be Outrageous!? ✨🎤🎶✨

Jem seriously needs to crossover with both Transformers and G.I. Joe at least.

There should be a cute Prince Starscream's Castle playset with some build-able Starscream figure that switches between all the various Starscream frametypes and which comes with a sparkly energon shower of tinsel and storage for his little capes and crowns and spaces for Mini-Cons and pet cats, and ponies, and a lady President to visit him.

GIJoe should have an adventure in Candy Land where the team needs to be outfitted in pink camo and other special new outfits and like candy-striped Holiday Prime or somesuch just shows up there.

There should also be some kind of Hot Rod's Garage playset with a converting Hot Rod figure and places to store all his zillion accessories and like car wash facilities and sticker sheets and just like radical bot-customizing supplies.

A variation on this could be like Bee and Charlie garage playset with some M.A.S.K and/or Human Alliance type scale figures.

What about mech suits that My Little Pony ponies can fit in to get around on Cybertron to join the battle against Quintessons or something?

Like, they've had some of this IP for decades and so much of it is still in these weird gendered markets that don't cross over with each other.

I feel like my self reblogged post above got some new attention since Hasbro did announce this Jem and the Holograms x Transformers SDCC Exclusive Autobot Blaster with KP Glit, KP Sundor, and KP Rosanna set.

And this is so cool.

But, in year of our lord 2026 economy and a convention exclusive?

Must be nice to be able to afford toys, I guess.

I would be the market in terms of interests, but I'm poor, so I'm not really 'the market' in terms of consumers to prove there's interest.

Beautiful set, though. Would look nice with the Knights of Unicron figures, I think.

My relevant contribution to the fandom was using these KP characters in my continuity soup fics, I suppose.

The less brilliant stories don't survive because people didn't make a million copies of them to pass around. It's pretty much guaranteed that there were a hundred other Gilgamesh stories circulating around the same time that did in fact suck balls, and just as many that were solidly mid, but people didn't write them down as many times (if ever), so fewer (if any) fragments survived.

some dessriel fanart i made a while ago which i still kinda like