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The thing about undertaking a project like the Transformer-of-the-day is that it takes a lot of little efforts to bring everything together each day. Usually, I am working on the pictures, slogans or backgrounders for three or four characters at a go, which makes for a lot of work in a single setting, but then lets me off the hook for a few days. This approach was working really well until I met up against the deadline for the diorama, and the limited access to the internet in Pasadena.

You see, I had a plan going forward. I had the characters and I had the pictures. I figured I would update the characters a little bit each day in California and never miss a beat. But I failed to make the pictures easily accessible and the diorama ate into more of my time than expected. And it was California - who can really focus on Transformers to the exclusion of those mountains, to say nothing of the toys.

And once one is off the wagon, the wagon can get ahead of you.

One week back from my travels, and a little more than two weeks after my last timely entry of Shattered Glass Goldbug, I am pleased to announced that the backlog is restored. Continuing in daily order, you can find the last of the best exclusives in Airazor and Piranacon, before moving into seven proposals for futures toys in Kranix, Jhiaxus, Devcon, Shattered Glass Downshift and Dirge, Straxus and Botanica. The trick to each of these entries proposes a toy rendering that could bring these characters to life.

Then, in celebration and tribute to the best Transformers’ series since 1996’s Beasties, the TF of the day showcases not one but TWO WEEKS worth of Transformers: Animated toys that need to be made. Week One kicks off with “Ramjet”, Perceptor, Strika, Warpath, Mixmaster, Brawn and Cyclonus, while week two follows with Wheeljack, (today’s entry) Susan (Slipstream) and… well, that would be telling.

Suffice to say, we’re back. Let the good times roll!