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Wow, yeah, new Voltron is really good. I’m surprised at these terrible opinions.
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Rhyno posted:The designs are not bad. The show is dreadful though. Which version are you looking at I think some iterations are cheaper than others because they come with less stuff Also I keep hearing that the new Voltron is a good show but I can't bring myself to watch it because I was never huge on Voltron to begin with.
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Mar 29, 2018 01:22
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New Voltron is dreadful. Hunk and Lance are basically one-note jokes 50 episodes in and the attempts to recapture ATLA-style humor are almost uniformly failures. I went in with high hopes but every new episode batch disappoints me more.
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Mar 29, 2018 01:32
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As an adult, I find this children's cartoon extremely derivative
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Mar 29, 2018 02:08
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DoctorWhat posted:new Voltron sucks You're right. There's not nearly enough Coran in it. The_Doctor posted:Wow, yeah, new Voltron is really good. I’m surprised at these terrible opinions. These are better opinions, but it still needs more Coran. DoctorWhat posted:New Voltron is dreadful. Hunk and Lance are basically one-note jokes 50 episodes in and the attempts to recapture ATLA-style humor are almost uniformly failures. I went in with high hopes but every new episode batch disappoints me more. What now? Maybe I should finally watch that newer anime not based upon my childhood
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Mar 29, 2018 02:28
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DoctorWhat posted:New Voltron is dreadful. Hunk and Lance are basically one-note jokes 50 episodes in and the attempts to recapture ATLA-style humor are almost uniformly failures. I went in with high hopes but every new episode batch disappoints me more. that's kind of hyperfocusing on some small problems when it manages to have do a lot of other things really well, but w/e
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Mar 29, 2018 02:30
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Transformers: that's kind of hyperfocusing on some small problems
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Mar 29, 2018 02:42
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Don't get me wrong I still watch it whenever it debuts but it lacks a strong conceptual focus and it feels like they're writing by the seat of their pants using recycled archetypes. It's a great plot for, like, an improvised RPG, but it doesn't hold up to latter-half Korra or Steven Universe or other adventure serials aimed st that age group.
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Mar 29, 2018 02:43
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:Transformers: that's kind of hyperfocusing on some small problems Oh no, this thread title is never changing.
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Mar 29, 2018 02:44
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DoctorWhat posted:Don't get me wrong I still watch it whenever it debuts but it lacks a strong conceptual focus and it feels like they're writing by the seat of their pants using recycled archetypes. It's a great plot for, like, an improvised RPG, but it doesn't hold up to latter-half Korra or Steven Universe or other adventure serials aimed st that age group. Still better than the original show or the 3D show or the show where they trained children to pilot the lions. Voltron isn't really a high bar for quality.
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Mar 29, 2018 02:56
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Keldroc posted:I had Jazz, Mirage, and Wheeljack in mind when I wrote it but I didn't know Smokescreen and Drag Strip were also part of the club. Movie Scorponok is actually the best disguised Transformer of all because he's so good at hiding as Blackouts engine that not even the Fans realize that's what he turned into this whole time
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Mar 29, 2018 03:02
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I only watched like half of the new Voltron but I thought it was pretty good. I liked it enough to get that big Voltron set. It was a steal at $100. It seems Voltron toys are on clearance. I guess the show is done \ on its way out? I think it's on its third season, which is about par for the course for these sorts of things. I'm not really a Voltron fan, though. I would see the original from time to time on TV as a kid, but it never really wowed me. I never fell in love with it like I did for things like Transformers, Gundam and Robotech\Macross. So I mean... I think the new Voltron show is probably about as good as Voltron is going to get. People like to thumb their noses as western-made faux anime but I don't really care. I like a lot of combining super robot toys, but I just can't get into any shows where you have a robot that combines, kills the monster of the week, then does that every single episode. I think Power Rangers is totally unwatchable.
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Mar 29, 2018 03:24
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It's not dreadful, but it's dreadfully underwhelming. I mean even Miko had a character arc. Voltron is mostly farting around, except I guess the one guy is a ninja now? There's a ton of episodes for not very much progress. The prince is dreamy though. I'd be happy to just have a show about him, being awesome. Gammatron 64 posted:I only watched like half of the new Voltron but I thought it was pretty good. I liked it enough to get that big Voltron set. It was a steal at $100. It seems Voltron toys are on clearance. I guess the show is done \ on its way out? I think it's on its third season, which is about par for the course for these sorts of things.
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Mar 29, 2018 03:25
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I got the Classic Voltron combiner for $60 (possibly $48 if they do the post price adjustment).
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Mar 29, 2018 03:26
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Spiderdrake posted:It's not dreadful, but it's dreadfully underwhelming. I like new Voltron, and I've got like zero childhood attachment to Voltron. But I think the release schedule where they bleb out six or seven half hour episodes at a time doesn't do it any favours. First couple of seasons up to where Voltron fought Galra Gundam Epyon were best.
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Mar 29, 2018 03:41
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Spiderdrake posted:It's not dreadful, but it's dreadfully underwhelming. Well I thought the first 12 or so episodes were really good, but I guess it wasn't good enough to really hold my interest. Spiderdrake posted:It is on both season 3 and season 6 and maybe sort of season 5? Huh? What? You lost me, there.
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Mar 29, 2018 03:42
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Keldroc posted:Granted the concept could work better in the hands of a better writer, yeah, preferably as an element of a particular character or subplot rather than as the entire story concept. It's not a core tenet of the brand and never has been outside of the "-ation" stuff and, ironically enough, the beginning of Revenge of the Fallen, in which Demolishor is disguised as a gigantic excavator...parked at a steel mill, a place that would never have a need for such a vehicle. And now we're back to that "better writer" thing again.
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Mar 29, 2018 03:48
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I need this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjdqjiEyR74&t=9s Edit: Now I'm worried that if I buy it someone will rock out a KO at twice the size for the same money. Rhyno fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Mar 29, 2018 |
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Mar 29, 2018 04:17
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Gammatron 64 posted:Huh? What? You lost me, there.
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Mar 29, 2018 04:33
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Rhyno posted:I need this e: maybe its just the legs
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Mar 29, 2018 04:39
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TheDK posted:Whoa he shares the same skeleton as Nitro kinda. He appears to be an extensive retool of AOE Leader Grimlock?
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Mar 29, 2018 04:41
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If I liked that design at all, that would be a must have figure. They really outdid themselves with the paintwork on that Grimlock, Christ. One thing in its favor, it's likely going to be much more shelf friendly than any future KO OS versions!
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Mar 29, 2018 04:54
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Burkion posted:One thing in its favor, it's likely going to be much more shelf friendly than any future KO OS versions!
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Mar 29, 2018 04:57
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I already have enormous stuff up on my shelves.
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Mar 29, 2018 04:58
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Normally I'm not immediately down on the humans in Transformers, but maybe they'd be better is instead of a bunch of misfit young adults, they were hapless fools who kept getting their vacations ruined by the autobot/decepticon war. And then one of the transformers keeps hitting on her car.
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Mar 29, 2018 04:58
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I want a group of actors from dumb scifi robot movies who end up getting caught in the Autobot Decipitcon war and have to help out Because why not Galaxy Quest Transformers
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Mar 29, 2018 05:01
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People hate human characters in Transformers, but this causes a bit of a conundrum, because I think transformers with earth modes are typically cooler than ones with generic cybertronian vehicle modes. Spike and Carly aren't that bad. Now their son is another story... but I kind of love Chip Chase. COURAGE! I also give Raoul the thumbs up. Jack and Jack's mom from Prime are good. Sari from Animated grows on you but I dunno if she counts as human or not. I don't think human characters always necessarily have to be awful in transformers. The really obnoxious ones are usually super young children or people in paramilitary groups who are out there to kill all transformers. Just avoid those. And also maybe Shia LeBeouf and Megan Fox. Marky Mark is fine, though. GET IN THE ROBOT fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Mar 29, 2018 |
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Mar 29, 2018 05:15
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DoctorWhat posted:Blackwing's packaging is poorly-designed leading to nigh-universal fin curl. It's also why nearly all Hasbro MPM04s have warped hoods.
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Mar 29, 2018 05:37
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Knormal posted:A hair dryer can also fix warped rubber, and I find that method a little less stressful than boiling a figure. I'll have you know that PVC/ABS soup is delicious.
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Mar 29, 2018 05:59
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You don't actually need to boil the whole toy, you just stick the warped bit into boiling water as best you can and then straighten it out. While holding it straight, stick it under a running cold tap. Should fix it.
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Mar 29, 2018 06:14
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Spiderdrake posted:It's not dreadful, but it's dreadfully underwhelming. Yeah, well, it is a Netflix show, after all. Rhyno posted:He appears to be an extensive retool of AOE Leader Grimlock? New mold.
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Mar 29, 2018 07:09
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Gammatron 64 posted:People hate human characters in Transformers, but this causes a bit of a conundrum, because I think transformers with earth modes are typically cooler than ones with generic cybertronian vehicle modes. Sari counts as human in my opinion, as she was raised as one
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Mar 29, 2018 07:19
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Captain Fowler from Prime was also pretty good, when they played him straight
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Mar 29, 2018 07:35
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Burkion posted:Captain Fowler from Prime was also pretty good, when they played him straight As was Fanzone from Animated(honestly most of Animated's humans would be nice to have show up in the new IDW universe)
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Mar 29, 2018 07:59
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Shia Labeouf is just a stand in for all the manchild TF fans we have come to hate. He's also the Spielberg to Mikaela's Michael Bay. I hope John Cena ends up a cool human in a Transformers movie.
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Mar 29, 2018 08:03
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John Cena will probably be cool because he's John Cena. And if you don't think so, don't worry, you can't see him anyway. For horrible human characters, I think most of the most recent ones were from IDW (namely their version of Spike) or shows like Prime or the various anime shows where very young children are palling around with Transformers for some reason. Of course its also really weird that in G1 they recruit some random construction worker on an oil rig and his son. One of the things that the G1 comics actually did better was that the Witwickys were car mechanics which kinda makes sense. They should just go for human companions like G1 Spike, Carly or Jack Darby that are young but are more high schoolers \ college freshmen and are old enough to at least have a learner's permit. That said, Sam and Mikaela from the Bay movies should be fine as well, its just that they're in a Michael Bay movie and most people in any Michael Bay movies act like complete turds
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Mar 29, 2018 13:21
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They aren’t choosing human companions in G1 strategically. They are friendly robots making friends, and the Witwickys are the first humans that are actually friendly to them. Nothing weird about that. Also, going back to that thought that Beast Wars is great because they invented an energon reason to make Transformers transform less, I don’t get you or why you’d want to use that for other shows. I want to see robots in my robot show, not cars and trucks rolling around talking to each other the whole time. Even as a kid, I remember being frustrated that Grimlock was always in his tiny arm Dino mode in Season 3. There was even one episode where he transformed just so he could hold something for a moment, then immediately went back Dino. YOUR ROBOT MODE IS AWESOME, GRIMLOCK! YOU GRIMLOCK NOT MOVING AS FAST AS HE CAN IF YOU ARE NOT RUNNING IN ROBOT MODE TRYING NOT TO GET CRUSHED BY FALLING TRYPTICON.
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Mar 29, 2018 13:35
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Steve Vader posted:They aren’t choosing human companions in G1 strategically. They are friendly robots making friends, and the Witwickys are the first humans that are actually friendly to them. Nothing weird about that. Maybe that's why I like civilian characters like G1 Spike or Jack more than when the transformers work with governments or quasi-military organizations or whatever. They're aliens and they don't know anything about Earth, so they just befriend the first earthlings they meet. It brings things "down to earth" so to speak by having average, regular people in the show. I think its just that I'm tired of super secret government organizations that fight transformers and little kids because little kids are usually written poorly and are annoying. Shows like Stranger Things where child characters are actually good are kind of the exception.
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Mar 29, 2018 14:49
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Gammatron 64 posted:Maybe that's why I like civilian characters like G1 Spike or Jack more than when the transformers work with governments or quasi-military organizations or whatever. They're aliens and they don't know anything about Earth, so they just befriend the first earthlings they meet. It brings things "down to earth" so to speak by having average, regular people in the show. That's one of the reasons I like Sari so much, she presents a nice middle ground, she's first and foremost their friend, but her dad being a genius scientist and owner of one of the biggest companies in the world also gives them some practical reasons to associate with her
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Mar 29, 2018 19:17
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Steve Vader posted:They aren’t choosing human companions in G1 strategically. They are friendly robots making friends, and the Witwickys are the first humans that are actually friendly to them. Nothing weird about that. His robot mode isn't good for adorable slapstick comic relief, which is all Grimlock was allowed to do in Season 3. Because Season 3 sucks. Even if he is actually adorable sometimes. 
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