Meet the Unicron.com Team  

Name: Kevin Lukis
Screen Name: Perceptor
Role: Admin & Event Reporter

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Unicron.com contributor since: The Beginning of Time (AKA 1997 Cofounder of Unicron.com)
Year of Birth: 1972
Primary Residence: Maine, USA
First Transformer Ever bought: Starscream/Sideswipe (same purchase)
First series ever paid attention to: G1

Favorite TF Cartoon: Beast WarsFavorite TF Comic: Armada
Least favorite perrsona/toy: Kicker/RID Bruticus

Top 5 Favorite Toys of all time:
1.) Movie Leader Class Optimus Prime
2.) Armada Unicron
3.) Cybertron Primus
4.) Magnaboss (BW combiner)
5.) G1 Sideswipe

Most rare TF collectible I own: 2007 Movie poster autographed by Peter Cullen, Mark Ryan (Bumblebee) Michael Bay, Brian Goldner, Activision (video game) Team.  (Not knock-off) Constructicon gift set in Greek letter packaging (found in Greece)!

Screen Name: Brian Lukis
Screen Name: Stampy
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Unicron.com contributor since: The Beginning of Time (AKA 1997 Cofounder of Unicron.com)
Year of Birth: 1978
Primary Residence: Minnesota, USA
First Transformer Ever bought: Thundercracker/Trailbreaker (same purchase)
First series ever paid attention to: G1

Favorite TF Cartoon/Comic: Depends which one I'm watching/reading
Least favorite toy: Cybertron Demolisher

Top 5 Favorite Toys of all time:
1.) Beast Wars Ultra Optimus Primal
2.) G1 Wheeljack
3.) Cybertron Armorhide
4.) Classics Astrotrain
5.) Beast Wars Neo Stampy

Most rare TF collectible I own: What I lack in rarety, I make up in quantity!

Lightning round! 
Coke or Pepsi? Coke, all the way

Mikela, Black Arachnia, Maggie or Arcee: Nightbird

Miller Time, Merlot Time, 2% milk time?
Have to go with the most ultimate beverage, The Ultimate Meal(jTM).  It's gross, but good for you!  

Night owl or early bird?  night owl

Others will be surprised to know that: 
I collect Transformers.  Oh, wait.  That answer works everywhere but here!

Name: Jason Lukis
Screen Name: Obsidian
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Unicron.com contributor since: The Beginning of Time (AKA 1997 Cofounder of Unicron.com)
Year of Birth: 1981 
Primary Residence: Minnesota, USA
First Transformer Ever bought: Skywarp/Sunstreaker (same purchase)
First series ever paid attention to: G1 (fan of all)

Favorite TF Cartoon: Beast Machines
Favorite Comic: IDW TF: More than Meets the Eye (we Lukis Bros generally refer to James Roberts as "The Thought Wizard")
Least favorite TF persona/toy: Nightscream/Beast Wars Injector

Top 5 Favorite Toys of all time:
1.) TF: Animated Deluxe Bumblebee
2.) 2010 Generations "Cybertronian Megatron" (War for Cybertron style)
3.) Classics Rodimus
4.) G2 Arealbots
5.) Beast Wars Neo Heinrad

Most rare TF collectible I own: Transformers Masterforce Overlord - found in a crowded shop window on a old toy store on an Island in Greece!

Lightning round! 
Coke or Pepsi:? Dr. Pepper

Mikela, Black Arachnia, Maggie or Arcee? 
Mikela (I prefer females to be human)

Miller Time, Merlot Time, 2% milk time?
Tea time

Night owl or early bird?
Definitely Night Owl

Others will be surprised to know that:
I can sing like Kermit the Frog.

Screen Name: Sabrblade
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Unicron.com contributor since: 2007
Year of Birth: 1990
Primary Residence: Florida, USA

First Transformer Ever bought: Not sure the first I bought, but I remember the first I ever owned was a small gray & green robot that turned into "half a car."  Years later I discovered it was the G1 Pretender "innards" of Longtooth, minus all his accessories (including the back half of his car mode!)  Amazing what you can learn on the internet!

First series ever paid attention to: Beast Wars!
Favorite TF Cartoon: Beast Wars, (but "Animated" is catching up!
Favorite Comic: Don't really have one.
Least favorite TF persona/toy: 
Cerebros from Rebirth/any that lack pose-ability!

Top 5 Favorite Toys of all time:
1.) TRU 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal (the 1 packed w/ Megatron)
2.) Takara Music Label Soundwave
3.) Armada Unicron
4.) 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime
5.) RID Megatron/Galvatron (This thing has 10+ modes!) 

Most rare TF collectible I own: 1989 Autobot Pretender Longtooth (minus every accessory!)

Lightning round! 

Coke or Pepsi:? Orange/Strawberry Soda!

Mikela, Black Arachnia, Maggie or Arcee? 
Minerva from "Masterforce!"

Miller Time, Merlot Time, 2% milk time?
Gatoraid!

Night owl or early bird? 
Varies greatly!

Others will be surprised to know that:
Aside from Transformers, I'm one of the biggest Digimon fans out there. Ever since the first episode of the English dub aired way back in third grade. I've never stopped liking it, and I especially like the new series, Savers/Data Squad, best of all. I've seen every episode of each series (253 total) and all 9 movies, most dubbed, some subbed. To me, it's one of those franchises that's *almost* as awesome as Transformers.

Screen Name: The Last Autobot
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Unicron.com contributor since: 2012
Year of Birth: 1980
Primary Residence: Transformers Perú Headquarters in Lima, Perú (South America)
First Transformer Ever bought: First one I had was a G1 Warpath. Fist one I bought was a G1 Sideswipe

First series ever paid attention to: G1, since the very beginnig
Favorite TF Cartoon: Beast Wars
Favorite Comic: A tie between Robert´s MTMTE and Furman´s Marvel UK G1.
Least favorite TF persona/toy: Sam Witwicky and his constant whining and "No, no, no". I can´t stand him.

Top 5 Favorite Toys of all time:
1.) G2 Sideswipe
2.) Cybertron Vector Prime
3.) Mp10 Optimus Prime
4.) BW Silverbolt
5.) G1 Overlord

Most rare TF collectible I own: A couple peruvian Lynsa minibots MOSC.

Lightning round!
Coke or Pepsi:? Coke
Mikela, Black Arachnia, Maggie or Arcee? Blackarachnia. I´ve always liked the crazy ones!
Miller Time, Merlot Time, 2% milk time? Chocolate milk.
Night owl or early bird?
I'm TM2 Prowl. Definitely a Night Owl.

Others will be surprised to know that:

Unicron.com was one of the first transformers websites I visited in 1998 (a lifetime ago!). And I´ve got a lot of archives of the different versions of the site to prove it! Its been always my main reference to organize my collection, and now more than ever as one of the Administrators.

Screen Name: Byrerprime
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Unicron.com contributor since: 2004
Year of Birth: 1971
Primary Residence: New Jersey, USA
First Transformer Ever bought: Air Raid
First series ever paid attention to: G1

Favorite TF Cartoon: G1 Season 3
Least favorite toy/persona: Any toy that transforms in less than 3 steps

Top 5 Favorite Toys of all time:
1.) G1 Air Raid - (always love your first!)
2.) G1 Sideswipe, my first non-combiner
3.) Energon Landmine -love the complexity
4.) Masterpiece Optimus Prime
5.) Alternators Mirage 

Most rare TF collectible I own: BW 2 Lio Convoy

Lightning round! 
Coke or Pepsi? Neither, I hate dark sodas

Mikela, Black Arachnia, Maggie or Arcee: Mikela

Miller Time, Merlot Time, 2% milk time?
Dew Time again! :)

Night owl or early bird? Early Bird

Others will be surprised to know that:
At one time, I liked GI Joe better than Transformers ('87-1990).  I repaired helicpoters and avionics in the National Guard (1989-1995 notice the overlap with them preceding item).  I once carved a 10 inch long carousel horse for my wife's christmas present -and it looks good too!  I actually like G1 season 4, Beast Machines and the IDW Universe, but not better than others. 

Screen Name: Aaron Thomas
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Unicron.com contributor since: 1999
Year of Birth: 1982
Primary Residence: India
First Transformer Ever bought: G1 Sunstreaker
First series ever paid attention to: G1

Favorite TF Cartoon: G1
Favorite TF Comic: War Within, 1st series
Least favorite perrsona/toy: Minicons

Top 5 Favorite Toys of all time:
1.) G1 Sunstreaker
2.) Movie Leader Prime
3.) Cybertron Primus
4.) Beast Wars Transmetal 2 Megatron
5.) Beast Machines Blackarachnia

Most rare TF collectible I own: 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime and Megatron, (rare for way over here in India!)

Lightning round! 
Coke or Pepsi? Pepsi

Mikela, Black Arachnia, Maggie or Arcee: Arcee!

Miller Time, Merlot Time, 2% milk time?
Mountain Dew time!

Night owl or early bird? night owl

Others will be surprised to know that: 
I have worked on a CG (computer generated animation) project with Mainframe Entertainment, the guys who did Beast Wars.

Screen Name: TriPredRavage
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Unicron.com contributor since: 2005
Year of Birth: 1988
Primary Residence: Connecticut, USA
First Transformer Ever bought: G2 Terradive
First series ever paid attention to:  I watched G1 reruns when I was little, but I was too young to actually follow it.  Beast Wars was the first I had ever completely followed.

Favorite TF Cartoon: Beast Wars
Least Favorite TF persona/toy: Nightscream

Top 5 Favorite Toys of all time:
1.) Beast Wars Transmetal Ravage (BW Metals Jaguar)
2.) Universe Nemesis Prime
3.) Beast Machines Magmatron
4.) Beast Wars Snapper
5.) Classics Leo Prime 

Most rare TF collectible I own: Transmetal Ravage (Metals Jaguar) or BW2 Lio Convoy

Lightning round! 
Coke or Pepsi? Coke

Mikela, Black Arachnia, Maggie or Arcee: Blackarachnia 

Miller Time, Merlot Time, 2% milk time or Mountain Dew time? Mountain Dew 

Night owl or early bird? Both, I'm a morning person who stays up WAY too late!

Others will be surprised to know that: 
I actually do not have a sense of smell!

Screen Name: Knightwing
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Unicron.com contributor since: 2006
Year of Birth: 1974
Primary Residence: Minnesota, USA
First Transformer Ever bought: 
No idea!  I sold all of my childhood transformers at grage sales when I was about 14.  I started re-collecting in winter of 2002/2003.  The first Transformer I bought at that time was the Super Class Optimus Prime
First series ever paid attention to: G1.  I turned 10 during it's first season on the air.

Favorite TF Cartoon: I would love to say G1 because of it getting the ball rolling, but I can't.  When looked at objectively it just isn't the best series ever.  It also isn't the worst that would be RID.  The best series in my opnion is Beast Wars, especially seasons 2 & 3. 

Least favorite toy/persona: Wheelie's an easy one to dislike, because he was utterly annoying.  But, I liked all of the human sidekicks even less (exept Kicker), mostly because they didn't even do anything related to the story.  But, my least favorite persona is the Cybertron Soundwave.  It's not that he was that bad a charactor.  It's that it was such a slap in the face to his G1 self, and agian his presense was completly unnecessary to the story line.

Top 5 Favorite Toys of all time:
1.) Leader Class Movie Optimus Prime
2.) Masterpiece Optimus Prime
3.) Classics Mirage
4.) Masterpiece Megatron
5.) T.H.S.-2 Optimus Prime 

Most rare TF collectible I own: Botcon '06 Dawn of Future's Past Megatron (alomst made the top 5 favorite toys)

Lightning round! 
Coke or Pepsi? Coke

Mikela, Black Arachnia, Maggie or Arcee: Maggie 

Miller Time, Merlot Time, 2% milk time?
Coffee Time! Starbucks White Mocca!

Night owl or early bird? Early Bird

Others will be surprised to know that: 
Like other fans, I collect because I love the shows and toys.  I wouldn't spend money on 'm if I didn't.  Another reason, is when I was a child I had real medical problems.  The kind that ultimately required me to be on one medication or another from ages 3-14.  The constant doses of meds had the net result of nearly wiping out my childhood memory.  Among the few things I can remember from, "when I was a kid" are Transformers. So when I found Armada on Cartoon Network, I fell right back into it.  And while I now do to some degree remember things, I will never remember them the way most people do. Having children of my own has done more to bring back my memories than anything else ever did.

Screen Name: Human Error
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Unicron.com contributor since: 2007
Year of Birth: 1982
Primary Residence: New Jersey, USA
First Transformer Ever bought: G1 Megatron
First series ever paid attention to: G1

Favorite TF Cartoon: G1
Favorite TF Comic: War Within, 1st series
Least favorite persona/toy: Grimlock/Wheelie

Top 5 Favorite Toys of all time:
1.) Masterpiece Optimus Prime
2.) Armada Unicron
3.) Music Label Spark Blue Soundwave
4.) G1 Soundwave
5.) G1 Devastator

Most rare TF collectible I own: Powermaster Optimus Prime

Lightning round! 
Coke or Pepsi? Coke

Mikela, Black Arachnia, Maggie or Arcee:
Mikela 

Miller Time, Merlot Time, 2% milk time?
Milk, it does a body good!

Night owl or early bird?  Night Owl

Others will be surprised to know that: 
I had a job as Bugs Bunny for a major theme park chain for six years.

Screen Name: Blasten Blaster
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Unicron.com contributor since: 2006
Year of Birth: 1990
Primary Residence: Washington, USA
First Transformer Ever bought: BW Depth Charge
First series ever paid attention to: Generation 1

Favorite TF Cartoon: 2007 Movie
Least favorite perrsona/toy: Fortress Maximus (because I don't have'm yet!)

Top 5 Favorite Toys of all time:
1.) 2007 Movie Blackout
2.) Movie Optimus Prime
3.) Cybertron Downshift
4.) G1 Astrotrain
5.) Cybertron Wingsaber & Jetfire (tie!)

Most rare TF collectible I own: Train Bots (a.k.a.) Raiden

Lightning round! 
Coke or Pepsi? Coke

Mikela, Black Arachnia, Maggie or Arcee: Mikela

Miller Time, Merlot Time, 2% milk time? Mountain Dew time!

Night owl or early bird? both, I hate to sleep!

Others will be surprised to know that: 
Has been beaten up once for defending the good name of Transformers and loves playing on X-Box Live.

The Unicon.com / Lukis Bros' Story:

Alright, we admit it!  We are serious (Transformers collecting) geeks!  Grown adultes, who still shiver with childish glee when opening up a new Transformers toy, we may fool most of the world into thinging that we're just "normal" guys, but guess again!  Since the very first time we saw them as young children in a "Hills" store near West Seneca, New York in 1984, The Lukis Brothers have been Transformers fans-for-life!  We have countless fond memories growing-up with these robots in disguise. Jason, (still pretty young when the were first released), might have cut a few molers gnawing on the rubber nosecone of one of his first Transformers (Skywarp)! Today, we're loving life and continue this "hobby" for the sheer fun and camaraderie of it all!  Unicron.com was formally extabolished on October 7, 1997, back when the business world was still trying to figure out what exactly the internet was! Originally, the website was created to show off Jason's toy alterations, but it quickly evolved into much more.  In the months and years that followed, we were amazed to learn how many other Transformers fans there were across the world; young and old, some even nuttier than us! What fun!

Without a doubt the internet has a lot to do with why Transformers fans and collectors are among the most passionate of any fan base, of any property.  We have a lot of fun being a part of that growing community and that's what it's all about! Although our interest in Star Wars is quite cursory, when it comes to collecting Transformers, we are believe in following the principles of Rebelscum's Collect to Collect, Code of Honor.