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Originally posted by: Kickback @ TFW2005.com

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TFW2005.COM is pleased to present an unscheduled, unplanned news update that we're calling "not quite news" ... because these stories, by themselves, aren't quite news worthy! But gathered together, they might just be worthy enough for your attention. So enjoy these random bits of news that just weren't enough to get their own frontpage love and had to be gathered together.

Powerglove Covers Transformers Theme
There's an awesome metal band out there that call themselves Powerglove, and they have a rather unique focus - they take popular music, such as theme songs, and metalize them in to bits of awesomeness and joy. In their upcoming album Saturday Morning Apocalypse, they cover the original theme song to The Transformers ... though a close listen will confirm it's more of a remake of the 1986 Animated Transformers movie "Transformers" track by the band LION.

You want to hear it don't you? Crank up the volume and click this link!

Special thanks to fastballspecial for the heads up.

Stan Bush and Vince DiCola - Dare To (Be) Plagarized!
Music plagarism happens all the time - just ask the video game industry. But back in the 80's there was no Internet (sorry Al Gore) and CD's (compact discs for us old folks) were barely scratching the surface (pun not intended) of the sales floor. So if something originated in one country and was plagarized in another, chances are NO ONE would know!

Well, someone might want to call Stan Bush and Vince DiCola.

We all remember the song "Dare" from the original animted Transformers movie. Nothing got your blood pumping like singing along to "Dare" as your favorite Autobots were slaughtered in Autobot City while the camera focused on Hot Rod and Daniel being BFF's fishing/driving/shooting down their own shuttle/blowing up a mountain/showing their "O face". Need a reminder?

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Now think back anime lovers to an anime called "Dancouga" ... which, according to my amazing research skills (heart Wikipedia), was a "Super Robot" anime that featured combining robots, similar in essence to Gundam, but wasn't Gundam. From what fans have researched, the following song was never in the actual anime, but was one of the songs on an album titled "Song for Dancouga". If you take out the Japanese singing, you can tell that the song is more or less a direct copy of Stan Bush and Vince DiCola's "Dare".

Don't believe me?

It's been hard to peg the actual release of the album, but most of the research leads to the belief that the album, and thus this song, came out around 1989-ish, which would make Kazuki Yao a thief! Stan Bush should get his creepy guitarist back and go head-hunting.

Thanks to Fe 26 for giving us a good three days of research time, and to all the other board members who looked in to what the heck was going on!

Transformers Reference in Episode of Venture Bros.
I dunno what this show is, but one of the characters put on a "Movie Optimus Prime" helmet after kidnapping his own dad (again, I don't know what this show is). It's red in color, but does resemble Movie Optimus Prime. The screen grabs are included in the article.

Special thanks to BB Shockwave for the heads up.

Did you enjoy our "Not Quite News" segment? Was it just too full of irony that we decided these items weren't news worthy, then threw them on the frontpage anyway and called it a special? Are you envious that your website didn't think of it first? Are you shocked and dismayed that I have no idea what "Venture Bros." is? If so, blame the price of cable. But also click the ***DISCUSS*** button. Inside you'll find links to each one of the threads regarding these original stories, and can share all your thoughts in the new thread. If you didn't click the links in this story, that is.

Original Source: TFW2005.COM "Not Quite News" Segment! @ Transformers - TFW2005.com.