Is there any way to have a transparent object distort/magnify the stuff behind it?

Not for TGF2 Users but if you buy Multimedia Fusion 2 for 75£-Discount=40£, you can get the Lens Object, the Lens object has lots of uses including Distortion, Magnification, Cloak & Sphere.

Im pretty sure MMF2 isnt 75£ because its $119 USD

But thats unfair, why is it cheaper for the better country?

Last time I checked it was 10£=16€=20$.

Sience were on the topic of distortion, how can you make the screen blurr out (as it does in many SNES games) as a transition?

The closest you'll get is to use the actual transitions in GF2.

* Go to the storyboard editor.
* Right click on the level, you'd like to apply the transition to.
* Choose Properties
* In properties, choose your transition under Settings->Transitions.

There's a couple of the transitions, which's almost as the one you describe:
- Zoom 2 (zoom out)
- Mosiak (As known from e.g. Wolfenstein)
- Cell (As known from e.g. Indiana Jones - Last Crusade)

Hopefully, this will help you..

Hey, now. No country is better than another. Except Ireland.

Anyhoo, this "lens object" thing is really something I would like to see in TGF2.

Wait, if I already own GF2, I can buy MMF2 at a discount?

Yeah.

http://www.clickteam.com/eng/upgrade.php

That is correct.

Marv

I do know you can do a blurry, pixelated effect for an object's animation:
Right-click on a frame and select "resize zoom." After applying that, go through each frame that was just added and scale it back up to its origional size. The result will be an animation where the pixels get larger and the image loses detail. Repeat the process for the frame you want it to transform into, but reverse the order(so it starts blurry and ends focused).

That's great! But... It says I need to enter a serial number, and all I can find is my registration number. Where is the serial number written?

It's a sticker on the user manual.