Hard-to-find Transformers resources

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Transformers is a big franchise with a very dedicated fan community who have archived the majority of obscure material across the brand's history. Due to the community being so big and things being split up over the years, it can be difficult for an outsider to know where to look for certain materials. In general, your best friend is TFWiki, which always has detailed and useful write ups of everything in the franchise and very frequently has a direct link to material that's otherwise unavailable, but even that might not guide you to where to find it sometimes. Here's a list of useful links for anybody trying to look through the franchise's media or is digging for something obscure

https://tfwikicommunity.wordpress.com/media-archives/ - Used for the majority of media you can't just find with a quick look up, including most Japanese material and a ton of old Western media ranging from convention exclusive comics to prose stories to script readings to books. If you're looking anywhere for anything, this is the first place to start.

 https://tfwikicommunity.wordpress.com/reading-guides/ - Relatedly, the TFWiki's Community wordpress contains full and comprehensive reading guides for many of the major continuities, including both IDW continuities, the Marvel continuities, the Fun Publications stories, Dreamwave, and more. This is less obscure, but these are easily the best reading guides for most of the comics that you can find and cover absolutely everything for each continuity, making them very useful for if you're trying to read through a certain series


https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Category:Source_material - TFWiki's archive of full transcriptions of hard to find source material, this is where AVP and the Earth Wars full script (up to 2021) are

https://www.tfraw.com/ - Source on tons of highly obscure Transformers material, including loads of very hard-to-find Japanese stuff, especially under the booklets section


http://tftechspecs.com/, http://tflab.net/japaspe/japaspe.html, and https://www.tfu.info/ - Bios for most of the toy releases in general, especially from older toylines, for more modern toylines you can generally just look them up on a search engine and find an image someone uploaded directly . The second link contains many transcriptions of Japanese tech-specs. Be wary of anything labelled as a "custom" in the first link, since that means it's fan-made.

https://karyuudofansubs.blogspot.com/ - Karyuudo, who are the top tier translators in the fandom and have done translations for a lot of misc content and full fansubs for all of the anime in their original Japanese,. Their torrent releases include a lot of bonus material like guidebooks or misc prose stuff that's otherwise difficult to find


https://www.soundwavesoblivion.com/ - Has translations and raws for all the Japanese bios for all the main toylines and translations for a lot of other toy related text stories, in additional to several translated comics, this is a major resource for the Japanese side 

https://www.camphortree.net/tf/books/ - Complete and comprehensive scans of the old G1 books from the 80s, alongside miscallaneous material like the audio adventures, in general this covers most of the random side material from the early G1 days

https://mega.nz/folder/JJQkHRCJ#p-GROHa1vq8HNztmQbRmug - Tons of Transformers books and guidebooks, primarily hard to find Japanese ones, full credit to Saix on the TFWiki 

https://mangadex.org/title/0ddf9ab6-081a-4d19-a3d0-72630555d70c/transformers-legends - JG1 Legends manga as it's translated, currently finished with part 1 as of the time of writing


http://www.transformertoys.co.uk/resources/article/magazine+scans/30 - Scans from Japanese magazines over the years

https://mega.nz/folder/jCo2yCyC#G6S18yLNtleNaj6R4eQxeA - Two of the recent RPG books, the others you can find online

https://ridforever.info/ - A fan site dedicated specifically to the 2001 Robots In Disguise series, with high quality scans of the toy bios in both English and Japanese and various pieces of assorted media 

https://mega.nz/folder/KfphzQzS#NWLMcaMSkcju2bCPspJ84Q - Various pieces of Go-Bots material from the 80s, compiled into a single folder

 Even with all this, you still might struggle to find some especially niche pieces of media and will have to look separately. Like I said, Transformers is a big franchise. By and large though, this should cover most of the things someone might need to dig into the franchise's nichest depths.

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