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Kurui Reiten posted:Of course, half of the reason for all that is that Bayformers tend to look like random masses of scrap metal with a little paint and almost no loving armor. Seriously, it looks like if you jammed a stick into one of them somewhere, all their gears and poo poo would seize. No wonder they die so easily. If they were just designed to look simpler in robot form, a lot of rendering power could be shifted. Orv posted:What about Shockwave's weird skyscraper killing cyberworms then?
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What gets me to this day about Movie-Devastator is that none of his component parts have wrecking balls. They appear magically out of nowhere for the sake of a one-off sophomoric joke.
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DukeofCA posted:a one-off sophomoric joke. AKA Michael Bay's career. (I actually like a great deal of his body of work, just not Transformers.)
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Nov 11, 2016 05:03
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http://bayifier.com/ i'm just gonna leave this here and let nature take its course
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Nov 11, 2016 05:21
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Veloxyll posted:Well. yeah. Swindle is a Decepticon. And one of the Combaticons no less. Oops, poo poo, I hosed up. I meant that the Autobot that they talked about trying to one up the Ammonites was Whirl, not Swerve. That conversation took place in issue 22 of MTMTE. Which is probably one of the better stand alone comics in the series.
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Kurui Reiten posted:Of course, half of the reason for all that is that Bayformers tend to look like random masses of scrap metal with a little paint and almost no loving armor. Seriously, it looks like if you jammed a stick into one of them somewhere, all their gears and poo poo would seize. No wonder they die so easily. If they were just designed to look simpler in robot form, a lot of rendering power could be shifted. Prime seemed to refine the basic Bayformers style into something that actually looked decent. Parts slid together to form mostly solid coverings with reasonable colors leaving characters looking distinct rather than jumbled masses of metal. Sure, they cheated with size changing parts and faces moving as if they were liquid metal, but that looked so much better than any of the films' crap. Geostomp fucked around with this message at 10:35 on Nov 11, 2016 |
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Nov 11, 2016 10:32
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I never saw any Bayformers movies past the first one, so thanks for bringing robot testicles to my attention.
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Green Intern posted:I never saw any Bayformers movies past the first one, so thanks for bringing robot testicles to my attention. Orv's suggestion I actually subject myself to Bayformers seems like someone trying to convince you that because you sit in chairs you need to staple your junk to a chair because they did it three or so times. I won't do it.
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TheLastRoboKy posted:Orv's suggestion I actually subject myself to Bayformers seems like someone trying to convince you that because you sit in chairs you need to staple your junk to a chair because they did it three or so times. Each Bayformers movie has ten to fifteen minutes of balls-to-the-wall intense robot-on-robot violence that's a joy to watch, with the Optimus vs Megatron fight in the first movie being a highlight. Problem is, you have to dig that ten to fifteen minutes out of the rest of the drat movie. Megatron also suffered badly in every movie after the first. In the first movie, he displays drat well why everyone's scared of him and why he leads the Decepticons: he takes on Optimus, Jazz, Bumblebee, Ratchet, and the human military simultaneously and more or less wins, killing Jazz in the process. In every movie after that, Megatron exists mostly to get clowned on by Optimus and the humans.
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Cythereal posted:Each Bayformers movie has ten to fifteen minutes of balls-to-the-wall intense robot-on-robot violence that's a joy to watch, with the Optimus vs Megatron fight in the first movie being a highlight. Problem is, you have to dig that ten to fifteen minutes out of the rest of the drat movie. Yeah I know what happens in the movies in a vague sense of everything you just said. It's hardly encouraging and straight up you will never get me to watch them without paying me way more money than the endeavour is worth.
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Coolguye posted:http://bayifier.com/ 
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The first Bayformers movie is worth watching. The rest, I can take or leave. I'm a big fan of the entire Scorponok sequence in particular. JT Jag fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Nov 11, 2016 |
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Cythereal posted:Each Bayformers movie has ten to fifteen minutes of balls-to-the-wall intense robot-on-robot violence that's a joy to watch, with the Optimus vs Megatron fight in the first movie being a highlight. Problem is, you have to dig that ten to fifteen minutes out of the rest of the drat movie. Also, good luck trying to make heads or tails of those 15 'good' minutes of action, because Bay loves his shakycam, and it's difficult enough to tell the horrifically overdesigned and incredibly busy designs of the Bayformers from one another when they're standing still, let alone when they're engaged in frantic combat. Seriously, if it weren't for that stupid red and blue flame paintjob they somehow felt compelled to cram on Optimus, I wouldn't even know which of the moving jumble of spare parts was the hero.
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actually, megatron is the hero, and the films are brilliant communist propaganda because
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Don't forget the latest movie where one of the heroes resurrects megatron in an even more powerful body because he's angry at humans who are harvesting transformers since they can use the metal they're made out of to make My Little Pony dolls.
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mandatory lesbian posted:actually, megatron is the hero, and the films are brilliant communist propaganda because 🔌 Coolguye fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Nov 11, 2016 |
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The first and 4th bayformer movies are....uh....sort-of okay? Like, they have their fair share of garbage, but they at least have some fun stuff about them. The third movie is horrendously boring, and the second is legitimately one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The only decent thing about it is that the toyline was pretty cool. It also had one of the best transformer figures, by far
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TheLastRoboKy posted:Orv's suggestion I actually subject myself to Bayformers seems like someone trying to convince you that because you sit in chairs you need to staple your junk to a chair because they did it three or so times. It's something about social human nature. "That's the worst thing I've ever tasted! Here, try it."
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XavierGenisi posted:The first and 4th bayformer movies are....uh....sort-of okay? Like, they have their fair share of garbage, but they at least have some fun stuff about them. The third movie is horrendously boring, and the second is legitimately one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The only decent thing about it is that the toyline was pretty cool. It also had one of the best transformer figures, by far
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anilEhilated posted:This guy would be hilarious in an over-the-top horror movie. TOASTER OF DOOOOM. "A TOASTER IS JUST A DEATH RAY WITH A SMALLER POWER SUPPLY!!"
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The only thing I remember about the Bayformers movies was the time Megatron surrendered and asked, apparently earnestly, for peace. And then Optimus stabbed him in the face. Edit: Oh, and the time Shia made out with a sexy blender. PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Nov 11, 2016 |
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Rabidredneck posted:"A TOASTER IS JUST A DEATH RAY WITH A SMALLER POWER SUPPLY!!" I was thinking of something more along the lines of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z4B2h1KfWg
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PoptartsNinja posted:Violence to faces. "Give me your face." => "Come and get it."
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When I watched Transformers 4 the only thing I thought was "wow, they really needed to do a few more rewrites of the script." For example, The film opens with Optimus Prime narrating about how now all the autobots are hunted by the army, then five minutes later, we see a scene of Ratchet being hunted by the army that renders Otimus' narration completely pointless. Then the film went out of it's way to point out that a character was indeed, a seventeen year old girl in a relationship with a twenty year old man and it was perfectly okay because of a law in Texas. Okay I get that they wanted to show that Mark Wahlberg's character was an overprotective dad They could have just made the girl eighteen and it would have worked just as well without bringing up creepy laws into the scene. And then the film went out of it's way to make you hate the boyfriend character too: "Why did you buy mouthwash" "I like to have a clean mouth when I'm making out with your daughter"  Also did the film really need to be nearly three loving hours long? Jesus at some point during the end of the movie I just stopped paying attention and decided to boot up Fallout Shelter and check on my vault.
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David D. Davidson posted:Also did the film really need to be nearly three loving hours long? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgtKS0Fyqgw
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Say what you will about Michael Bay, but at least he wasn't responsible for the laziest Transformer of all time. The only part of Thunderblast's body that's part of her transformation is her feet. She's got loving boat wings. But hey, at least there are two notable things about her :nsfw:
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PoptartsNinja posted:The only thing I remember about the Bayformers movies was the time Megatron surrendered and asked, apparently earnestly, for peace. To make it even better, from what I remember Megs was essentially brain damaged at the time.
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David D. Davidson posted:When I watched Transformers 4 the only thing I thought was "wow, they really needed to do a few more rewrites of the script." For example, The film opens with Optimus Prime narrating about how now all the autobots are hunted by the army, then five minutes later, we see a scene of Ratchet being hunted by the army that renders Otimus' narration completely pointless. Then the film went out of it's way to point out that a character was indeed, a seventeen year old girl in a relationship with a twenty year old man and it was perfectly okay because of a law in Texas. Okay I get that they wanted to show that Mark Wahlberg's character was an overprotective dad They could have just made the girl eighteen and it would have worked just as well without bringing up creepy laws into the scene. And then the film went out of it's way to make you hate the boyfriend character too: Transformers 4 taught me that Swordguns and Football are the most dangerous weapons in the galaxy. PoptartsNinja posted:Say what you will about Michael Bay, but at least he wasn't responsible for the laziest Transformer of all time. But at the same time... It's still not as cool as flipping around bits of torso and limbs.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Say what you will about Michael Bay, but at least he wasn't responsible for the laziest Transformer of all time.  Or any of the other numerous Beast Wars transformers which were just robot bits hanging off of the bottom of an animal.
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Er- what is going on with shoving the penguin head into that giraffe person's crotch? e:I guess y'all weren't kidding about the problems with Cybertronian combiner tech.
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Zomborgon posted:Er- what is going on with shoving the penguin head into that giraffe person's crotch? It's some lovely Targetmaster-style gimmick.
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Kurieg posted:I dunno, that's still probably a better design than Break. Yeah see? This is what I'm talking about. It's easier to give that kind of design a pass to a boat or something over animals, because it looks less  as an end result.
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Then there's Signal Lancer from Galaxy Force/Transformers:Cybertron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fTrI021xaY A running sight gag throughout the series that got a great finish.
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I am the person who will always laugh at the robot testicles. The idea of a robot having testicles is hilarious to me.
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Kurieg posted:I dunno, that's still probably a better design than Break. All those extra parts that just hang off the robot not doing anything have a name amongst the community, because of course it does. It's called Kibble.
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Wasn't there a guy in the comics who is the only member build/born of a cancelled combiner? So his alt-mode is the leg of a giant robot that will never exist.
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Loxbourne posted:Wasn't there a guy in the comics who is the only member build/born of a cancelled combiner? So his alt-mode is the leg of a giant robot that will never exist. Yup.
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A medic robot that can only transform into a leg being called Ambulon is kinda great. Also, not being a Transformers nerd, I can tell just from what's been linked in this thread that the Transformers wiki is a deeply thorough and dedicated labour of love, and a hefty percentage of that wiki is dumb absurd unbelievable poo poo.
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TheDarkFlame posted:A medic robot that can only transform into a leg being called Ambulon is kinda great. And that the people involved in the former are completely aware of the latter.
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TheDarkFlame posted:A medic robot that can only transform into a leg being called Ambulon is kinda great. Welcome to Transformers.
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