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SpikeMcclane posted:Oh my. MTMTE20 has the single saddest panel. :smith: The Something Cybertron Forums > General Scrap > E/N Scrap > My *cat* died and I miss them so much :(
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Sentinel Red posted:The Something Cybertron Forums > General Scrap > E/N Scrap > My ***cat*** died and I miss them so much Remember that photoshop Aatrek did of the SA forums in the Star Trek universe? ...I'll be in Chrome's pagesource editor for a while, I think.
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Gammatron 64 posted:That said, if you criticize anything James Roberts does, the fandom has a tendency to pounce on you immediately. I love 95% of his comic immensely and recommend it to everyone but if I have a tiny nitpick like "Eh, I dunno how I feel about an evil Star Saber" people are like "BWAAAAAH HOW DARE YOU QUESTION HIM?!?!" Remember when they did this with Furman? I'd really like for Roberts to graduate to TV work. He's so great at packing backstory and world-building into comics, it'd be neat to see him do something with 22 minutes of airtime versus 22 pages. For one, it'd be an instant improvement over TF:Prime's decompressed storytelling.
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GD_American posted:Remember when they did this with Furman? Well, a lot of things would be an improvement over TFP's non-existent storytelling. One thing that kinda sucks, is that nobody reads Transformers comics except for Transformers fans, and to non-fans it's "some toy advertisement Michael Bay garbage" so it might take a while for James Roberts to get noticed. On the plus side, this means we get to keep him for a while. But no, he's a very talented writer and I really hope he graduates to something better. Simon Furman is forever "the Transformers comics guy", but Roberts is so much better than that and deserves to move up in the world.
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Gammatron 64 posted:But no, he's a very talented writer and I really hope he graduates to something better. Simon Furman is forever "the Transformers comics guy", but Roberts is so much better than that and deserves to move up in the world. I remember there being this cartoon in the very late 90s or early 2000s that Simon Furman wrote for, but gently caress if I can remember what it was about. Which I think speaks to its quality.
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Phy posted:I remember there being this cartoon in the very late 90s or early 2000s that Simon Furman wrote for, but gently caress if I can remember what it was about. Which I think speaks to its quality. Simon Furman wrote the last couple episodes of Beast Wars. I think that's just because Transformers fans really loved him at the time, though.
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So, uh, we might be getting movie-brand Dinobots. If it were still 2007 I'd be excited, but now I'm just stuck wondering how this will inevitably end up WORSE than Beast Hunters.
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Beast Hunters are pretty cool so gently caress you buddy  But yeah movie Dinobots are probably gonna disappoint, and they won't be the typical dinobots except for grimlock grimlock grimlock the only dinobot that matters.
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Aug 29, 2013 01:22
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I can only imagine what kind of aesthetic disaster the Bayverse Dinobots are going to be.
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I think movie Ravage looked better than just about anything else, so a tiny bit of hope? oh wait, laserbeak's face...
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Movieverse dinobots probably won't have actual robot modes and will just be big robot dinosaurs. Which would actually be pretty cool because I wouldn't mind a Grimlock robot mode that was just like, MADE of joints.
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I bet they'll combine. You'll see.
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I'll bet on you both being right, and they'll be a team of robots with no alt modes who combine into a giant junkyard sculpture dinosaur that Optimus Prime rides into the final battle.
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Rei_ posted:Movieverse dinobots probably won't have actual robot modes and will just be big robot dinosaurs. Dinosaurs that turn into MONSTER TRUCKS. Actually that would be really cool, so it probably won't happen in the movie.
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MTMTE was excellent as usual. I can't be the only one who thought of Inception during Skids' backstory explanation, right?Gammatron 64 posted:Simon Furman wrote the last couple episodes of Beast Wars. I think that's just because Transformers fans really loved him at the time, though. Hey, about Beast Wars... I finished (re)watching the series for the first time since I was in second grade. A few thoughts: -Season Two is easily the strongest, although I'd only label a handful of episodes as "bad", and most of those are buried early in S1 (e.g., the one where all the Maximals think they're actually animals). -"Code of Hero" is indeed fantastic, but "The Agenda" (pts. 1-3) is so obviously the pinnacle of the series' run. It's just too bad that all of Megatron's work is immediately undone within the first two minutes of S3. -Silverbolt and Blackarachnia are perfect together. -Silverbolt is perfect, period. gently caress the haters. -A couple pages back, someone brought up how MTMTE made Transformers ridiculously durable. The same rule applies to Beast Wars, but goddamn, a little more consistency would've been nice. Judging from the major deaths on this show, the only surefire ways to kill a TF are a) by dropping him into a lava pit, b) by setting off a massive gently caress-off explosion, or c) by waiting for his battery to run out (note: rules a and b are subject to change). -Also, is it just me or was the entire Vok subplot completely dropped after "Other Victories"? -Those protohumans... yeah. And now my 100% official, totally comprehensive Beast Wars character rankings! Megatron > Dinobot > Tarantulas > Waspinator > Optimus > Blackarachnia > Inferno > Silverbolt > Rattrap > Quickstrike > Rhinox > Rampage > Tigatron > Tigerhawk > Depth Charge > Cheetor > Ravage > Terrorsaur > Scorponok > Transmutate > Tripedacus Council Guys >>>>>> Airazor
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Keldroc posted:I'll bet on you both being right, and they'll be a team of robots with no alt modes who combine into a giant junkyard sculpture dinosaur that Optimus Prime rides into the final battle. This is a bad thing?
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Veg posted:This is a bad thing? Dinobots that don't turn into dinosaurs are a very bad thing, yes. Also they're in a Michael Bay movie, so doubling down on the very bad things. In the comedy relief department, Bay's Grimlock will probably be an intelligent design proponent. You know, for irony.
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Veg posted:MTMTE 21 speculation, what if Rodimus ends up biting it? I've seen a lot of talk that his matrix bearing spark will give back all the life the switch took, like when he stepped on Luna-1, in exchange for his life. I reckon it will be Ratchet, as he said his goodbye to First Aid as they were leaving the Medibay. Also note that Rodimus said not everyone escaped the jail cell when they slide through the electrobars...
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I'm moving into my new house in about a week and a half, what are the goon-recommended shelves/cases/whatever for action figures and statues and poo poo?
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You Am I posted:I reckon it will be Ratchet, as he said his goodbye to First Aid as they were leaving the Medibay. Also note that Rodimus said not everyone escaped the jail cell when they slide through the electrobars... I'm pretty sure it's not Rodimus as he appears on some Dark Cybertron covers, I believe. Xenomrph posted:I'm moving into my new house in about a week and a half, what are the goon-recommended shelves/cases/whatever for action figures and statues and poo poo? Ikea Detolfs. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10011055/
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Keldroc posted:Dinobots that don't turn into dinosaurs are a very bad thing, yes. Also they're in a Michael Bay movie, so doubling down on the very bad things. In the comedy relief department, Bay's Grimlock will probably be an intelligent design proponent. You know, for irony. But there's a junkyard sculpture dinosaur in one of my local malls and it's p. fuckin' neato.
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Keldroc posted:I'll bet on you both being right, and they'll be a team of robots with no alt modes who combine into a giant junkyard sculpture dinosaur that Optimus Prime rides into the final battle. quote:Both Optimus Prime and Bumblebee will reportedly ride the Dinobots Grimlock and a Pterandon (possibly Swoop) into battle in Hong Kong... My guess on the movie Dinobots is they'll transform from regular looking vehicles into dinosaurs in place of a robot mode. I just can't picture Bay giving anything an alt mode that isn't product placement by GM or fellating the military.
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I would be totally okay with Grimlock going from a tank or something into a robot dinosaur. Trypticon didn't have a man-shaped robot mode either in G1! Swoop would probably go from a Predator Drone into a pterodactyl. Or something completely unrelated to flying into a pterodactyl, like a Humvee.
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Knormal posted:My guess on the movie Dinobots is they'll transform from regular looking vehicles into dinosaurs in place of a robot mode. I just can't picture Bay giving anything an alt mode that isn't product placement by GM or fellating the military. Ravage and Laserbeak turned into a missile and anything the idiot plot required, respectively. Dinobots that only have beast modes and vehicle modes are definitely a bad enough idea to be part of a Bay film, but I really wonder if Hasbro would go along with that. The Dinobots are one of the few elements of G1 that everyone, even non-fans, remembers, and messing with that concept too radically might be seen as a risk.
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MTMTE 20 was great. I always thought the "compromise" for a Bay movie Grimlock would be for him to be one of those destruction-derby/monster truck show fire breathing car dragon things.
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Keldroc posted:Ravage and Laserbeak turned into a missile and anything the idiot plot required, respectively. Dinobots that only have beast modes and vehicle modes are definitely a bad enough idea to be part of a Bay film, but I really wonder if Hasbro would go along with that. The Dinobots are one of the few elements of G1 that everyone, even non-fans, remembers, and messing with that concept too radically might be seen as a risk. You know, like Soundwave.
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Rei_ posted:You know, like Soundwave. Soundwave has been many things over the years, plus the Bayverse Soundwave still ejects Ravage as his scout and still serves as the loyal enforcer and communications hub. Grimlock and the Dinobots are famous for being exactly one thing: Robots who turn into dinosaurs. I wouldn't bet against the idea of a vehicle/dinosaur, because it's just dumb enough to be plausible, but if I were Hasbro, I'd be pretty adamant that the Dinobots be what people expect.
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Hmm, i'm starting to think my crazy MTMTE theory that Tailgate becomes the new Ultra Magnus isn't so crazy after all. Though, I still have a much crazier theory that Rewind is still alive!
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Keldroc posted:Ravage and Laserbeak turned into a missile and anything the idiot plot required, respectively. Dinobots that only have beast modes and vehicle modes are definitely a bad enough idea to be part of a Bay film, but I really wonder if Hasbro would go along with that. The Dinobots are one of the few elements of G1 that everyone, even non-fans, remembers, and messing with that concept too radically might be seen as a risk. Hahaha, yeah, right. Like Bumblebee being a small car with low self confidence and not R2-D2 Snake Eyes muscle car and Optimus Prime not being a psycho who rips off faces and lets human cities get attacked to prove a point, right? "Hasbro won't let Bay take liberties." "Too much of a radical risk!" Hahahahahahaha
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Keldroc posted:Dinobots that don't turn into dinosaurs are a very bad thing, yes. Also they're in a Michael Bay movie, so doubling down on the very bad things. In the comedy relief department, Bay's Grimlock will probably be an intelligent design proponent. You know, for irony. Starring Bill Engvall as Sludge, Ron White as Slag, Jeff Foxworthy as Swoop, and Larry the Cable Guy as Grimlock. That just leaves out Snarl, so we'll just throw Jeff Dunham in there as him. Actually, sarcasm aside, Ron White would be an amazing Slag...
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Mike Patton as Grimlock? All I can hear is his "Darkness" voice when I think of him. "Oh, listen to me, Jackie, I'm evil and totally enunciating every syllable... IN AN EVIL MANNER." Just get the original voice actor t do it. He did a great job in Fall of Cybertron, different as it was.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Just get the original voice actor t do it. He did a great job in Fall of Cybertron, different as it was. Optimist Prime posted:And now my 100% official, totally comprehensive Beast Wars character rankings!
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UK goons: Just checked TRU website and soundwave is available to order. http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Toys-R-Us/Toys/Action-Figures-and-Playsets/Transformers-Masterpiece-Soundwave(0104864)?searchPosition=1 Just bagged myself one as the store I visited didn't have any, just 2 acid storms.
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Gammatron 64 posted:I'm pretty sure it's not Rodimus as he appears on some Dark Cybertron covers, I believe. I'll second this recommendation. They are great display cases with good viewing angles and a port above to add lighting should you choose to. It seems to be the defacto display case for a lot of collectors.
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SRM posted:I think Bay said he wanted Prime to not be the focus of "the next trilogy" or whatever, so if there was a couple movies with Grimlock as the leader that'd be pretty cool. Only if he gets to wear his crown.
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SRM posted:I don't think I've ever found a character in all of Transformersdom as awful as Transmutate, save Michael Bay's Skids and Mudflap. Something about the gross way it looks, annoying voice and so on just make me glad it only lasted one episode. It was a sort of interesting concept but I didn't like the character at all. Fair enough, but at least that episode gave Rampage a little depth for a change. Looking back, I never fully appreciated how revolutionary Beast Wars really was: a smaller cast, decompressed storytelling, and a shocking amount of trust in the attention span of a younger audience. So many episodes, especially in the first season, have the pacing and ambition of hard sci-fi. At times it almost feels like the battle scenes are shoehorned in, sort of a necessary compromise so that all of the "bigger" ideas can be explored. (Or maybe that's all due to budgetary limitations on '90s CGI, but hey.) Back to Transformers in 2013/14. How do we feel about this? I'm going with "moderately disappointed".
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Optimist Prime posted:Back to Transformers in 2013/14. How do we feel about this? I'm going with "moderately disappointed". I really like the Barricade figure, I sort-of-kind-of won't kick Treadshot out of the display case... but that Fisitron/Ironfist is just a dumb colored poor choice mold.
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Yeah, I can accept that figure's shortcomings as part of a combiner, but not as an overpriced standalone.
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Optimist Prime posted:Back to Transformers in 2013/14. How do we feel about this? I'm going with "moderately disappointed". I mean, I already knew what mold he was gonna be so it's not like I was expecting much. In other news, that Calvin "Megatron" Johnson Megatron toy actually looks really cool and I don't even care about football or the Detroit Lions. He even comes with a little football!
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