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Nah, the original dinobots were built to look like that, because who wouldn't want to fight alongside robot dinosaurs?
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I think this should explain everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-aTbHsZJ9g
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G1 Transformers had a lot of really hilariously dumb poo poo about how Transformers worked, later shows mostly handwave it with space magic.maltesh posted:It isn't, actually. Transformers: Rescue Bots has the most episodes, and is the only Transformers series to have four full seasons. I thought Rescue Bots was like, Paw Patrol with Transformers.
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Apr 5, 2018 14:14
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Inescapable Duck posted:I thought Rescue Bots was like, Paw Patrol with Transformers. Sort of? It's Transformers for a younger crowd so they help people instead of fighting most of the time.
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Apr 5, 2018 15:26
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The Bloop posted:Beast Wars shows how when they arrived on Earth they sort of automatically scan the area for appropriate vehicle modes, but as they were on prehistoric Earth and there were no vehicles, they got animal forms instead. Heck, the G1 pilot has Teletraan 1 scanning for new alternate forms and reconfiguring the Transformers based on what it finds. (It's also the first example of how the Decepticons probably would have won if Starscream hadn't been an impulsive clown, but.)
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Yeah, when they finally visit Cybertron in the G1 cartoon (not long before the movie) to introduce new
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*sees trap, walks into it anyway* Arcee was a car and first appeared in The Transformers: The Movie (not getting an official toy until 2008), other female Autobots appeared in the season 2 episode The Search for Alpha Trion and have recently started to get toys in the present Power of the Primes toyline. There was a pink motorcycle Arcee in the Energon toyline, but that's not the same continuity as G1.
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If it helps, it was an unintentional trap. I'm uh, not a TF Nerd and don't know my stuff.
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Apr 5, 2018 16:36
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I love how the transformers wiki has a self awareness wookiepedia lacks
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Choco1980 posted:If it helps, it was an unintentional trap. I'm uh, not a TF Nerd and don't know my stuff. There's a simple rule of thumb that everyone died in Transformers: The Movie and was replaced with new characters. Bumblebee is the only exception as he just got a new paintjob and was renamed Gold Bug.
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Apr 5, 2018 17:01
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Mokinokaro posted:Sort of? It's Transformers for a younger crowd so they help people instead of fighting most of the time. Transformers is Transformers for a younger crowd
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Apr 5, 2018 17:24
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More Arrested Development retrospectives: Annyong was another weird, kind of tone-deaf character that served to make fun of a version of Korea that had not existed for 30 years at that point.
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Whiz Palace posted:More Arrested Development retrospectives: Annyong was another weird, kind of tone-deaf character that served to make fun of a version of Korea that had not existed for 30 years at that point. But what if he was North Korea? I can't recall if they ever said what Korea. I do remember a shortwave radio and some kind of spy plotline though.
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Apr 5, 2018 17:35
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Iron Crowned posted:There's a simple rule of thumb that everyone died in Transformers: The Movie and was replaced with new characters. Bumblebee is the only exception as he just got a new paintjob and was renamed Gold Bug. You buffoon, you absolute clown, Bumblebee became Goldbug when he was rebuilt after the Hate Plague thing which was a third season 2-parter episode "The Return of Optimus Prime" well after the movie! Jokes aside, yeah they killed off pretty much everyone, probably so they wouldn't have to do license deals with real companies and could just make whatever they wanted and declare it a space car or whatever.
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Besesoth posted:Heck, the G1 pilot has Teletraan 1 scanning for new alternate forms and reconfiguring the Transformers based on what it finds. The bigger question should be why their original robot forms looked like they had parts from Earth vehicles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZjs1KNlmIg&t=2m42s
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Davros1 posted:The bigger question should be why their original robot forms looked like they had parts from Earth vehicles That's just convergent evolution.
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Krispy Wafer posted:But what if he was North Korea? That was just a red herring to make you think he was North Korean. They flashback to it when his master plan is revealed.
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Davros1 posted:The bigger question should be why their original robot forms looked like they had parts from Earth vehicles Teletraan 1 obviously chose vehicles that matched the robot forms. Jeez, do they have to spell everything out for you? 
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Apr 5, 2018 22:07
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Black's older stuff is still funny.
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James Woods Fan posted:Black's older stuff is still funny. Agreed, but I think you should refer to him as Chris Rock, not just "Black."
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Apr 5, 2018 23:11
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 It's his little face at the end that makes it
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Sorry just felt like being an old here but Chris Latta is the only Starscream and all post Latta death Transformers are inferior for it TYIA.
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Stairs posted:Sorry just felt like being an old here but Chris Latta is the only Starscream and all post Latta death Transformers are inferior for it TYIA. I don't know much about the rest of the media franchise but Fall of Cybertron had a pretty great Starscream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q-3A7l_bw4 Whole game was pretty great, really
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Ziv Zulander posted:I don't know much about the rest of the media franchise but Fall of Cybertron had a pretty great Starscream War for and Fall of Cybertron were fantastic. And then Activision hosed High Moon over and we never got the third game they wanted to do.
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EmmyOk posted:
No the best part is that he gently sets down the statue before taking the seat
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Weird thing is that in some versions Megatron was originally Cybertron's Spartacus analogue (complete with originally going by Megatronus) and fought for the freedom and rights of the slave castes before the power went to his head. (and shared correspondence with Optimus Prime, then Orion Pax, who was a government archivist who agreed with the need for radical change) Maybe there's a touch of respect.
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If optimus prime is so cool then why did he get his head blown off in 4 million BC by a robotlet?
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Volcott posted:If optimus prime is so cool then why did he get his head blown off in 4 million BC by a robotlet? For our sins.
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RaspberryCommie posted:War for and Fall of Cybertron were fantastic. And then Activision hosed High Moon over and we never got the third game they wanted to do. The second game in the series (can never remember which is which) was pretty great and ramped up to a fantastic last chapter where you're bouncing from perspective to perspective across a massive battle. It basically captured the nostalgia of how I remembered the old cartoon rather than how it actually was. Shame they merged that universe with some lovely movie tie in game and I don't think there's gonna be a sequel.
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The first game has the more linear campaigns where you start as the Decepticons loving everything up for the first half and then the Autobots fighting back in the second. The second game switches perspectives a lot, and you can even choose to fight the final boss as Optimus Prime or Megatron. (in which case, the final boss is Megatron or Optimus Prime) I do love the part where you play as each of the Combaticons and then combine into Bruticus at the end.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I do love the part where you play as each of the Combaticons and then combine into Bruticus at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gEgFDWZ0Og 
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The first game has the more linear campaigns where you start as the Decepticons loving everything up for the first half and then the Autobots fighting back in the second. The second game switches perspectives a lot, and you can even choose to fight the final boss as Optimus Prime or Megatron. (in which case, the final boss is Megatron or Optimus Prime)
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Fall of Cybertron is just straight up fantastic and I loved all the gimmicks for each level, like playing as Grimlock and smashing everything as a straight up melee dude, or playing as Optimus in that early level where you call in Metroplex’s artillery to gently caress poo poo up.
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mostlygray posted:ThunderCats This happened to me with the animated Beetlejuice series. I used to come home from Kindergarten and after Gargoyles wrapped up, Beetlejuice would come on. I loving loved it. I was in love with Beetlejuice, I wanted to be Beetlejuice and/or Lydia at any given time. I guess the show lineup changed because at some point I just must have abruptly stopped watching it. In college I randomly looked up an episode on youtube. Holy poo poo it was so bad. Just like that lame, slow humor that probably a lot of shows from that era aimed at young kids had. I mean I love corny jokes but the pacing was just an enormous drag. 5 year old me had really low standards.
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sweeperbravo posted:This happened to me with the animated Beetlejuice series. I used to come home from Kindergarten and after Gargoyles wrapped up, Beetlejuice would come on. I loving loved it. I was in love with Beetlejuice, I wanted to be Beetlejuice and/or Lydia at any given time. I guess the show lineup changed because at some point I just must have abruptly stopped watching it. Gargoyles however is still extremely good.
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Random making of the Transformers derail worse, but in the case of these bots that turn into one embiggened voltron of a bot, what happens mentally? Is Bruticus a separate mind from the five combaticons?
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Choco1980 posted:Random making of the Transformers derail worse, but in the case of these bots that turn into one embiggened voltron of a bot, what happens mentally? Is Bruticus a separate mind from the five combaticons? It depends on the continuity. The original series seemed to waver between "It's a new personality" and "It's the combined personality of all the individual robots." Robots in Disguise (215) seemed to go with "All the individual robots are in there, and can talk to each other, but still generally control their bodies, with whoever makes up the head as the de-facto leader."
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Pick posted:Gargoyles however is still extremely good. Up until you get to the season that's just the big gargoyle and cop lady wandering the planet in a rowboat.
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Volcott posted:Up until you get to the season that's just the big gargoyle and cop lady wandering the planet in a rowboat. The final season when Disney shifted the show from random weekday syndication to ABC saturday morning lineup was a drop in quality, imo.
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sweeperbravo posted:This happened to me with the animated Beetlejuice series. I used to come home from Kindergarten and after Gargoyles wrapped up, Beetlejuice would come on. I loving loved it. I was in love with Beetlejuice, I wanted to be Beetlejuice and/or Lydia at any given time. I guess the show lineup changed because at some point I just must have abruptly stopped watching it. i just looked up an episode and i had forgotten that they made beetlejuice and lydia a couple. wasnt she barely a teenager in the movie?
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