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drrockso20 posted:I actually like the military stuff fine, as it helps establish how big a threat the Decepticons are initially It's not necessarily bad in and of itself (hell the hacker woman is the only major female character in the series Bay doesn't leer at through the camera in every scene other than Sam's mother), it's just pointless and goes nowhere. It's a leaner, tighter film without it. Keep Blackout attacking the base at the beginning but everything else is just filler.
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Jan 26, 2019 13:13
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I would salvage the 10 minutes of robots fighting, scrap the rest, and film around 80 minutes that most composed of robots either fighting or talking about why they fight
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Jan 26, 2019 14:51
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It appears that the Sam figurine is actually with Jazz instead of Megatron.
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Jan 26, 2019 16:06
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GD_American posted:I would salvage the 10 minutes of robots fighting, scrap the rest, and film around 80 minutes that most composed of robots either fighting or talking about why they fight 90 minutes of that 20 second sequence of starscream dogfighting the other f22's and I'll pay to see it, it wouldn't take much.
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have picked up siege sideswipe, optimus, and megatron, and happy about all of them - i'm actually having a hard time thinking of the last time we had a prime and megatron this good at the voyager scale?
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Crusader posted:have picked up siege sideswipe, optimus, and megatron, and happy about all of them - i'm actually having a hard time thinking of the last time we had a prime and megatron this good at the voyager scale? Never. We've never had ones this good, at least not simultaneously and in the same style. Literally unprescedented, somehow.
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New Thew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKZkZVghX5k
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Siege Prime is especially super good, but am I wrong for hoping there's a repaint without the grime/rust aesthetic?
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Jan 26, 2019 18:47
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No, lots of people are hoping they do a giftset or vs box that presents them with a different no grimey deco.
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Jan 26, 2019 18:58
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Iron Factory have missed a trick by not including this head.
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Jan 26, 2019 19:32
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The_Doctor posted:Iron Factory have missed a trick by not including this head. Megatron, is that you?
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TheDK posted:Megatron, is that you? Here's a hint! 
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Jan 26, 2019 20:38
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Smyths in the UK has the Siege Deluxes and Voyagers on their site now, to aid with searching for them. Search 'War for Cybertron' rather than Siege.
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I know that's Alex Milne on art, but something about the art there made me exceptionally wary about him doing MtMtE full time, and this was before I'd started reading that book. I'm guessing he changed his inking style or colourist (I'm pretty sure that's neither Burcham or Lafuente) or something because there's just something off about that era of his work
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I know that's Alex Milne on art, but something about the art there made me exceptionally wary about him doing MtMtE full time, and this was before I'd started reading that book. I'm guessing he changed his inking style or colourist (I'm pretty sure that's neither Burcham or Lafuente) or something because there's just something off about that era of his work That's from Megatron Origin, most of which he'd completed before IDW even had the rights if memory serves. It was a back burnered Dreamwave project that was repurposed into an IDW series.
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Rhyno posted:That's from Megatron Origin, most of which he'd completed before IDW even had the rights if memory serves. It was a back burnered Dreamwave project that was repurposed into an IDW series. according to TFWiki, it wasn't even drawn during the DW days but my personal point of "I wasn't keen on Milne's art on an on-going based on that series" still stands, though I skipped the 'Drift' mini where he'd left behind that washed out style from Origin and moved to the much cleaner style he would use in MtMtE
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:according to TFWiki, it wasn't even drawn during the DW days but my personal point of "I wasn't keen on Milne's art on an on-going based on that series" still stands, though I skipped the 'Drift' mini where he'd left behind that washed out style from Origin and moved to the much cleaner style he would use in MtMtE The wiki may state that but lots of people remember Milne showing off some of those pages at cons before IDW ever got the rights.
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The_Doctor posted:Iron Factory have missed a trick by not including this head. Is it weird that I actually like that idea, not necessarily on present day Megatron, but it feels fitting for him in his Gladiator days, like it's a style he wouldn't have chosen himself, but Rumble and Frenzy convinced him that it would look good on him Which ties into one of my favorite things about Megatron Origin, that his earliest followers were Rumble and Frenzy, and it's a shame that as far as I know IDW never did more with that
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drrockso20 posted:Is it weird that I actually like that idea, not necessarily on present day Megatron, but it feels fitting for him in his Gladiator days, like it's a style he wouldn't have chosen himself, but Rumble and Frenzy convinced him that it would look good on him I always liked that idea, in part because it reconciled his two G1 head designs in a compatible and original way. It's weird but hardly the most ridiculous thing we've ever seen on a TF.
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The_Doctor posted:Smyths in the UK has the Siege Deluxes and Voyagers on their site now, to aid with searching for them. Search 'War for Cybertron' rather than Siege. And they have Skytread listed as Flywheels... wonder how that happens?
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It implies a lot of interesting things about Soundwave and their relationships, the way IDW fleshed out the Mini Bots into proper characters Rewind I'm looking at you and Chromedome
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There are IDW comics about Soundwave's relationship with the team loyal to him. It's also kinda implied that he protected them from racist purging by a culture that hated beastformers. Marmaduke! posted:And they have Skytread listed as Flywheels... wonder how that happens? There's some sort of weird thing in the TF channels where names that get or need replacing remain stuck. Titan wars is a good example, though I think that might be caused by the name being used as translated and not changed. Also that Thew bot is like drat nice. I keep waffling on buying some of that line, but that one is really cool in a unique way.
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The_Doctor posted:Smyths in the UK has the Siege Deluxes and Voyagers on their site now, to aid with searching for them. Search 'War for Cybertron' rather than Siege.
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Arquinsiel posted:In stores here now too. Only €19.99 for a Deluxe, which made Skytread an insta-buy for me. Now to await the Micromasters... Forever. Yeah, they're only £16.99 at Smyths UK which is a really good price, almost on par with the US.
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Yea IDW Soundwave protected them because iirc they also helped him out a lot in his younger days due to his super hearing stuff.
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Good Listener posted:Yea IDW Soundwave protected them because iirc they also helped him out a lot in his younger days due to his super hearing stuff. Right. Ravage also had a super sense and helped him figure out how to filter out the background noise. So to speak.
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I found a couple botbot packs, so I grabbed them to see how they were. They're alright. not great, but okay. the material isn't particularly good, which led to needing needlenose pliers to pry out the limbs of three of them, and I will never transform the donut guy's face again, had to use an exacto knife to carefully prod it back into place because it's so tightly in there. cute little things though. waddlepops is great.
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Captain Invictus posted:I will never transform the donut guy's face again At least you got to be the first and only person to ever say this phrase.
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Super happy to see that the new Machine Robo is still going.
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The_Doctor posted:Yeah, they're only £16.99 at Smyths UK which is a really good price, almost on par with the US. Really? I am certain I paid £19.99 for Hound, I would put money on it. Maybe I should dig out the receipt then go
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History Comes Inside! posted:Really? I am certain I paid £19.99 for Hound, I would put money on it. Maybe I should dig out the receipt then go Yeah, really.
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Lepecard posted:Super happy to see that the new Machine Robo is still going. Agreed, also it's kinda funny looking back at the 80s Machine Robo/Go-Bots toys and comparing them with the G1 Transformers toys, in many respects I'd give the edge to the former, though there are some areas that Transformers does do better in that era, especially when it comes to combiners and figures with non vehicle alt-modes, both of which were things that Machine Robo/Go-Bots often struggled with
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Machine Robo/Go-Bots is underrated, even the Go-bots cartoon isn't that bad for the era. A lot of the hate for it is just tribalism. BTW, did you know the series had a different name and intro song in Australia? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArAsVfsZ028
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I'd love to grab up those new MR bots but there's so many other things with higher priorities.
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As small as Shockwave is, I loving love this dark purple color, and just his whole thing, armored up or not. He's a great toy. Now I just need to get Magnus. I have all of the wave but him. Although, my shiny paint job CW Magnus is probably gonna beat this one, just cause oh his colors. Daaku Shinsei fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Jan 27, 2019 |
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Other posted:Machine Robo/Go-Bots is underrated, even the Go-bots cartoon isn't that bad for the era. A lot of the hate for it is just tribalism. BTW, did you know the series had a different name and intro song in Australia? That was very similar to the theme song from Go-Bots toy commercials in the U.S.: "MIGHTY ROBOTS, MIGHTY VE-HI-CLES! GO-BOTS!" And if you want to compare Go-Bots to Transformers, the most appropriate comparison would be to 1984-1986 Minicars, due to price point, size, and complexity. The '84-'86 Autobot cars in the $8-$12 price range would make Go-Bots look cheap and chintzy, but Go-Bots were generally much nicer-looking than the Minicars, with die-cast metal, better detailing on every level, and far more diverse alt-modes.
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Just... Don't go into your display room shoeless. Just in case. Learn from John McClane's mistakes.
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