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chibs posted:A few more movie Soundwave pictures, including some guesses at the alt mode: peugh reviewing soundwave made sean long cry sean long posted:I just can't take this anymore man. I got the Soundwave just to care about all the G1 Reviews and other reviews and videos I do but everyone keeps asking why don't you do any NEW Figures like Peaugh or Dbanks like you used too well it's cuz I'm jobless right now. oh poor sean long 
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| # ¿ Nov 26, 2008 01:27 |
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| # ¿ May 18, 2013 22:42 |
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Okay this is getting more pathetic. Sean Long is calling for everyone else including Peaugh to STOP REVIEWING until he can get toys first again because right after he got fired he blew all his money on getting youtube attention. Until now I've sort of ignored him but this is unbelievable that he'd try to drag everyone else into his mess.
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| # ¿ Nov 27, 2008 01:37 |
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Keldroc posted:Monstructor would be interesting, but wasn't the Japanese version of that completely different from what we got? Only in colors and pretender shells, they were dinosaurs there instead of monsters.
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| # ¿ Jan 11, 2009 18:00 |
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Joe Fisto posted:Movie 2 Decepticon Bi-Plane. This looks like something some crazy inventor would build if he was trying to invent a Transformer, i.e. the best thing ever.
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| # ¿ Jan 12, 2009 05:46 |
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If you are looking for a mature show about giant robots, why would you go to Transformers anyway. There's plenty of giant robot shows from Japan with mechandise, gore, sex, realism, layered plots to investigate. Hate it all you want but I really don't get why you'd go "  OH JOY, they've stopped the children's cartoon I didn't like maybe they'll make one that appeals to my adult sensibilities now!". I haven't watched any of those series (except the first quarter of Gurren Langan), though, because personally I'm fine with an immature cartoon and haven't really felt like putting time into that kind of thing anyway. Might someday. But it's nice to chill out with a bowl of waffle crisp and let my inner child out now and then. And despite being an immature cartoon, Transformers Animated has a fresh new perspective to a franchise that has so many inbred stale ideas. For the first time I've seen, the Autobots are not designatedly wonderful guys but instead are elitist assholes, and the Decepticons aren't really as evil as people like Porter C. Powell. The references and voice acting are fun too. (man, just the other day someone yelled at me for having most of my posts here and now here I am defendeding the cartoon for three paragraphs)
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| # ¿ Jan 28, 2009 03:09 |
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Phy posted:How is that necessarily different from Runabout and Runamuck, who were Beavis and Butthead long before there was a Beavis and Butthead? Beavis and Butthead were funny. These look more like Jar Jar Binks.
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Rubiks Pubes posted:Part of me really hopes that the Megatron as a tank is just a toy and won't appear in the movie at all. I haven't heard anything about Hugo Weaving in the cast and also the images of what appeared to be The Fallen inside the pyramid that floated around the internet a while back would support that character as the villain. In the trailer people have been claiming that Megatron was pinning Spike down due to knife treads in the background and the hands looking more like Meg's than Screamer's. And Activisions site, the one that leaked the twins, had a big pic of Megatron before being taken down, it's pretty clear his presence is a badly kept secret. I mean, did you really expect a Transformers movie without Megatron. I like this design for him much better than last movies. I do kind of wish it flew because "Transform and rise up" is so fun to say. SublimeDelusions posted:Which are you saying? That the guy Optimus was hanging from was only ONE part of Devastator? Yes.
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| # ¿ Feb 1, 2009 17:55 |
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Transformers is such a fragile franchise with delicate characters that are easy to ruin forever, as Bay's last movie has proved (it ruined every character that has appeared in it and there have been no appearences of optimus prime, megatron, jazz, rachet, ironhide, starscream, or bumblebee since)
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| # ¿ Feb 2, 2009 20:14 |
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Keldroc posted:Supposedly he not only comes back more badass, but merges with Jetfire to beat Devastator. do they play "The Touch" during this scene?
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| # ¿ Feb 3, 2009 22:40 |
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You guys really care a lot about which characters are in the movie and which are not for something that's as complete a reimagining as possible, with almost every similarity to the original being tangential. The entire movie is like something a destructive little kid would make up after getting some Transformers toys for Christmas and watching an episode or two on TV (not a bad thing if the special effects are up to par). And most of these probably won't even GET characterizations given that they're throwing such a huge cast into a two hour movie. Why should I care if one of them is named "The Fallen" or not? What huge difference does it make? I think the toy looks pretty cool, though.
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| # ¿ Feb 8, 2009 05:52 |
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I just realized who that design for the fallen reminds me of.
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| # ¿ Feb 8, 2009 15:42 |
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Jet Ready Go posted:Actually I never read any of that. Sorry haha You're getting incredibly horribly upset over how terrible parts of the movie are when you haven't seen Beast Wars or read most of the comics? What high points of quality in Transformers fiction besides those do you have to compare the movie to? (Animated doesn't count, it came afterwards).
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| # ¿ Feb 9, 2009 03:53 |
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Nefud posted:i'd think by now we'd be used to that 90% of criticism on the new movie designs, this is what I think. Though I do think most of the designs seem a tad more coherent than last time
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| # ¿ Feb 9, 2009 18:31 |
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Xenomrph posted:Well some people might not know who or what the Fallen is. I mean, WE know he's a character named "the Fallen" because of War Within and because we read spoilers. But the term "the fallen" is really open ended. A whole bunch of Decepticons died in the previous movie, for someone who didn't know the spoilers "the fallen" could be all of them, including Megatron, coming back from their ocean grave to kick Autobot rear end. And it still could be
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| # ¿ Feb 9, 2009 21:10 |
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Honest Ray posted:That article annoys me for because he talks about the fundamental difference in that he cared about the robots in the old movie but in the new one he didn't. The new film didn't have a several year old show to flesh out the characters giving it backstory. Neither did the old one, given that they killed the original cast in the first twenty minutes.
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| # ¿ Feb 10, 2009 17:23 |
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chibs posted:Well, that's the end of that. Well, he's been wrong before. Here's hoping. In before "LOL good anmated sux now we can hav mor tf anime  "
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| # ¿ Feb 10, 2009 17:43 |
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Maybe they're planning to relaunch the show with a new subtitle and different cast again.
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| # ¿ Feb 10, 2009 22:46 |
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Why do I keep clicking on spoilers for this, I'm so far completely unspoiled for the Watchmen movie except for the first trailer, but for this every time I see a link, CLIIIICK, oh so that's what movie Horri-Bull looks like. Revolver Bunker posted:The face is alright, but what the hell is going on in the neck area? His head looks like the mixer end of a cement mixer. I'm also getting a strange Vectorman main boss vibe from him. Not sure why. Supposedly when it turns real fast it sucks up everything in front of him for him to grind up, was described in a previous spoiler. I'm kind of surprised, except for the face he once again looks pretty much like I expected him too from the other spoilers. He'll look a lot cooler onscreen. But I'm kind of wondering why they even bothered giving him feet. Giant treads would work better for something so massive, would make him look even more like a big killing machine, and it's not like his components have bothered having feet so far.
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| # ¿ Feb 11, 2009 18:23 |
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Keldroc posted:Here's a real picture of Jetfire. That looks nothing like the legends toy AND it has names of forum members from that horrible don murphy board, hmmmmm....
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| # ¿ Feb 12, 2009 01:20 |
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Veg posted:God I hope once the movie bombs they bring back Animated. It's just so good. The movie is not going to bomb, that's wishful illogical fanboy thinking of the highest order. However, I'm sure that Hasbro will need a cartoon to sell the toys to kids after the movie's hype burns out. Hopefully they'll have some sort of sequel series to Animated or something.
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| # ¿ Feb 15, 2009 03:34 |
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Veg posted:I think they'll get a fair idea from when all the movies profit is from the actual movie and not the toys. Just because nerds on the internet don't like them doesn't mean they won't sell.
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| # ¿ Feb 15, 2009 05:20 |
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I think they look pretty bad even without the heads. Kibbly. Green is sitting on his car doors. But it's not like anyone wanted these after seeing the concept art. I'm dreading their appearance in this movie, given that not only do they have LOLDUM heads, their names are obvious poo poo jokes (Mudflap, Skidmark)
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| # ¿ Feb 15, 2009 07:02 |
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zVxTeflon posted:Why the gently caress does he have a keytar? Uhg...this is what TF fans think is good nowadays, really? Really? I have absolutely 0 understanding of how people like Animated. Yeah, what is this silly juvenile crap? Transformers was always an intensely serious show for mature viewers only. Like how Megatron would such scoop up people from the crowd running from their battle and would crush them, laughing with blood oozing down his fingers. And I'll never forget the episode where Carly flashed her tits, it was the first time I ever saw anything like that as a youth. It was almost the most mature show on TV, but the surprise sex scene in Power Rangers put it ahead of Transformers a bit.
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| # ¿ Feb 16, 2009 00:59 |
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zVxTeflon posted:Ahh yes the old "cartoons aren't 100% serious therefor any criticism for something intensely stupid such as a robot with a keyboard-guitar is completely invalid" What part of this is invalid. If it is a Transformers show, it's aimed at kids. It's fine to not like it but to throw a fit because it's not totally serious is just silly. If you're looking for a mature robot show there's plenty of Japanese shows, there's the comic, but letting loose because a Transformers cartoon has just the teensiest bit of fun with the characters is like barging into Toys R Us and demanding to know where they keep hunting gear and rifles. And what IS stupid about keytars anyway? Maybe you're more into country music or something? zVxTeflon posted:No, im just honestly curious how movie design starscream and hacker plots are crossing the line yet Animateds Brett Favre chin Starscream design and slapstick humor plots are considered the epitome of quality fiction. Because the MOVIE is a PG-13 aired in THEATERS while the SHOW is FV7 (or something) and airs on CARTOON NETWORK. The movie was supposed to be mature entertainment for mature adults such as yourself. The cartoon is fun and has a lot of homages and a pretty good plot, and that's why I like it personally. Yonic Symbolism fucked around with this message at Feb 16, 2009 around 01:55 |
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Shiftypenguin posted:I thought I read it somewhere that it's a guy from the IDW comics or something. There were rumbles of this early on, but Hasbro recently said there's actually no plans to make Drift into a figure.
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My god my internet service is positively DIAL UP quality right now. gently caress.
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Orgophlax posted:Anybody else hate the tone of TF Wikis? Like the retarded captions? The entry for Carbombya is especially irritating. Nope, you are the only one. I mean some of the entries try a little too hard but still, I would not have nearly as much fun with a serious TF wiki, in fact I'd find it embarrassing.
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| # ¿ Feb 20, 2009 05:00 |
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I'm not sure why I keep reading shortpacked. I usually disagree with his comic jokes, I'm 'eh' on the toy jokes that aren't Transformers because I don't collect them and don't care either, I hate the toy store and all its dumb drama, yet I come back to read every update. Eh. I don't blame him for making fun of lil formers - why is making fun of a webcomic such a big deal, if he was making fun of Least I Could Do or CAD or something everyone would be like "Right On!", the only reason he doesn't is because his target audience wouldn't get it. And Lil'formers gets a lot of attention for being a webcomic that really, really doesn't try at all. Execution is lacking though. Smoke posted:Which is a good reminder that the TF fandom tends to be a bit nutty. If you need a good reminder of that, browse any tf message board.
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| # ¿ Feb 20, 2009 15:23 |
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Gammatron 64 posted:Why is it that most webcomic authors are insane, egomaniacal drama queens? You just have not been reading the right webcomics. Steering away from webcomics about hobbies or about self-insertion fantasies is a good start. (Seriously Dr. McNinja, KC Green, and many others own but this is not a webcomics thread).
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| # ¿ Feb 20, 2009 16:27 |
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Hey is there anything resembling a confirmed airdate for season 3? I thought I remembered there was one, but  is failing me.
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| # ¿ Feb 22, 2009 05:30 |
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Gammatron 64 posted:Kup is badass, and there's a scene when Ironhide suspects Mirage to be a traitor and beats him to death, and I was like, "oh my god did that just happen" Welp, between that and that picture of Arcee's origin resembling surprise sex so much, it sounds like Transformers comics are well caught up with the extreeeeeeeeeme dark and "mature" flavor of the times in the comics.
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| # ¿ Feb 22, 2009 18:13 |
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Knormal posted:*cough* No but he had a squirt gun and the new toy has a water gun instead of a ladder sooooooo....
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| # ¿ Feb 28, 2009 20:40 |
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Silhouette posted:Speaking of this, why was Omega Supreme left in the hands of a space bridge repair crew? I mean, I know Ratchet helped program him and Optimus was in the elite guard, but it still makes no sense. Maybe Ultra Magnus had an ulterior motive? Did Shockwave do it to get Omega out of the way? I imagine they didn't want it to leave Rachet's sight or vice versa.
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This could've been avoid if they had, you know, picked someone who wasn't as ugly as Thunderclash to lead the team, or had chosen different colors. I mean, come on, raise your hand if you wanted an new Thunderclash.
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| # ¿ Mar 31, 2009 23:22 |
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Ensign_Ricky posted:So this popped up on my Facebook today: Waaaaaaaaaaaiiiit a minute. Devastator has seven components? And none of them are actually named Demolisher? Probably Scavenger is "Demolisher". Hightower's probably the crane, Mixmaster can't be anything other than the mixer, and Scrapper's probably the other shovel, and we've seen Long Haul and Rampage. So who's "Overload?"
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| # ¿ Apr 3, 2009 02:05 |
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Gammatron 64 posted:But... Demolishor is on the box of the toy... but he has SCVNGR on the side of the toy... but the poster lists them as separate... quote:Oh, gently caress, I'm confused. Don't tell me this is another snafu like Brawl where a character has two names. But if not, when who the hell is Scavenger? Or Demolishor, for that matter? It probably is such a snafu. Scavenger's toy is probably demolisher, but why the toy Devastator is only six components, or why if they couldn't name the toy Scavenger they gave it the name of a different con, well, it's anyone's guess. I mean, this list itself is not entirely accurate. It only lists "arcee" when the trailer had three girlbikes (she may or may not be a combiner, but wouldn't the individuals have names? They have robot modes). And it also does not list Megatron. Yonic Symbolism fucked around with this message at Apr 3, 2009 around 21:36 |
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Rei_ posted:I thought it was confirmed that the Bike sisters AREN'T actually a combiner. it has not been confirmed either way  also, I actually like the bike sisters robot mode in cgi, doesn't work so well as a toy though. Same with Demolisher and especially Rampage who's awesome.
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| # ¿ Apr 9, 2009 23:01 |
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Captain Invictus posted:So what exactly happened there? Did they actually get sent back in time? Looked like a completely different place at the end. I realize it was probably just a reference to BW, but really where did they go? Derrick Wyatt just said on twitter "Waspinator not in rest of sesazzon.", which lines up with what I heard about Hasbro asking for both less Sari and less Blackarachnia (yeah I know), so we wouldn't know until season 4 if that ever happens anyway. But given the transwarp energy and the fact that they were totally gone when they looked, they probably are someplace different. Back in time lines up with the premise of Beast Wars and the Earthlike animals.
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| # ¿ Apr 11, 2009 18:05 |
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Hemp Knight posted:I have a horrible feeling that it's going to be the lovely human villains again, if the Decepticons on Earth have all been captured. That or Soundwave/Wreckgar again, but neither of those would take up more than 1 episode each. I think if they were going to do a heavy focus on the human villains they'd of had at least ONE plot thread started by now. It's not like Decepticons never escape imprisonment or Megatron is going to warp around space randomly forever. Besides, you forgor Team Chaar. I'd really be surprised if they never reach Earth to at least give us an Earth mode Oil Slick. (that said, I actually know some things about who's in the next episod but I'm not going to bother spoiling it) quote:Like the Animated Dinobots, Blackarachnia's pretty useless (at least BW Blackarachnia was always plotting something or other). All she does is bitch about getting rid of her organic half. And PR seemed to wrap her story up pretty well if that's the last we see of her. Yes, in this episode she CERTAINLY didn't do anything proactive about that organic half, didn't she? Her storyline gives her a lot of possibilities, and if she had stuck around she'd probably make even more predacons which would be great. Neither her nor the Dinobots have really been given a chance to do much outside their little island, there's been more focus on the drat human villains than them. quote:Also, was everyone expecting this episode to be a Beast Wars homage (I'm guessing it was, since I never saw it myself), or did you, like me, consider the possibility of an animated Predaking somehow coming to be? Given this is where Blackarachnia and Wasp's plotline was obviously headin, everyone was expecting Waspinator, and the Beast Wars guys worked on this episode, (and the fact that getting any combiners on the show seems VERY unlikely), I'm not sure why anyone would think this WASN'T going to be a Beast Wars homage. DamnitGannet posted:Sooo...are we going to see the Dinobots again or is that it for them?
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Neocon 4Ever posted:Springer. Perfect combination of deadpan and smartass. Springer was actually one of the Transformers in the Dojo in five servos of doom, so if we got another season he could show up (  )
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