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DJ Fuckboy Supreme posted:If they got the colors right that would be difficult to pass on. Neon hot pink!
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From pages ago but just wanted to post that I signed up and a big thanks for hosting this year.
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THE 2021TRANSFORMERS THREAD SECRET SANTA! 
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Fantastic! I was going to repost that at some point today or tomorrow anyway, so good on you for doing it! 
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Looks like Big Lots in the US got the latest Studio Series wave in, the one with Gnaw, Jazz, & Jolt for $23 And also some real naff looking GI Joe knock-off legos.
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Anyone got any tips for getting Waspinator back into robot mode? Mine's crotch is stuck in his bug rear end.
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Good Listener posted:Anyone got any tips for getting Waspinator back into robot mode? Mine's crotch is stuck in his bug rear end. Why universe always kinkshame Waspinator
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Good Listener posted:Anyone got any tips for getting Waspinator back into robot mode? Mine's crotch is stuck in his bug rear end. I had this problem too. Nothing really helped except putting it in and out several times till it loosened a bit. Basically... Phy posted:Why universe always kinkshame Waspinator
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I spose I will have to figure out a way to poke it out of there then haha glad to hear atleast it's not just me.
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Rewatched The Rebirth last night thanks to all the original TF episodes being up on Hasbro's youtube channel, first time saw it since saw it as a child much like the last episodes I spoke of before. Wow Spike turns out to be a freaking genius, he ends up creating the head master process. Is able to re engineer the target master process from the Decepticons AND he builds Fortress Maximus in a day or two via using the Hives own machines and old city. He puts even wheeljack and Perceptor to shame. You'd think it would be Brainstorm or one of the Nebulans but nope it's Spike. Granted Brainstorm did have the thought of Transformers and organic beings could be powerful together but it was still Spike who came up with the what and how. The Lithone designs from the animated movie gets reused again for Hive members. One showed up in season three with Wreck Gar, the female junkion. Lithones were the robots eaten by Unicron in the movies opening. The Last Call fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Nov 5, 2021 |
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Didn't we have a resident Diaclone person? If so are you around and did you get the Gridman stuff? Kinda perusing that and was interested in impressions. Sorry, I am awful at remembering usernames. You're all robot pictures and avatars to me.
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Phy posted:I think that's Droyer Thanks! I'll check their post history. I could of course skim other boards for impressions but I feel like I get a clearer picture of stuff from folks here.
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The Last Call posted:Rewatched The Rebirth last night thanks to all the original TF episodes being up on Hasbro's youtube channel, first time saw it since saw it as a child much like the last episodes I spoke of before. It's amazing that "The Rebirth" is even watchable since it introduces literally dozens of new characters, most of them in the first episode. Originally it was supposed to be five episodes but it got compressed into three, so the squeezing in of new characters was even more noticeable. Too bad it was the end of the cartoon's original run in America, unless you count those weird reruns with the kid and the giant Optimus puppet: 
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DisposableHero posted:Didn't we have a resident Diaclone person? If so are you around and did you get the Gridman stuff? Kinda perusing that and was interested in impressions. Yeah i have the Diaclone/Gridman stuff. Out of the 3 releases I'd say only the first one is like, particularly impressive. Cool little fairly well articulated Gridman figure with a neat plane it can combine with, though the combination does limit articulation somewhat. The second release is just a shinier Gridman without the combiner parts, but it does come with the main character of the story they wrote for the crossover, who is also the first named human character in Diaclone history. The third one is very cute and it comes with a teeny tiny Diaclone-member sized Gridman, but the robot itself doesn't transform so if you're here for transforming robots you might be disappointed. It has crossplay features with the first release though.
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Action Jacktion posted:Too bad it was the end of the cartoon's original run in America, unless you count those weird reruns with the kid and the giant Optimus puppet: This (and VHS rental) is how I remember watching Transformers as a kid, and I probably have a few VHS recordings with a few episodes with these bits somewhere
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Droyer posted:Yeah i have the Diaclone/Gridman stuff. Out of the 3 releases I'd say only the first one is like, particularly impressive. Cool little fairly well articulated Gridman figure with a neat plane it can combine with, though the combination does limit articulation somewhat. The second release is just a shinier Gridman without the combiner parts, but it does come with the main character of the story they wrote for the crossover, who is also the first named human character in Diaclone history. The third one is very cute and it comes with a teeny tiny Diaclone-member sized Gridman, but the robot itself doesn't transform so if you're here for transforming robots you might be disappointed. It has crossplay features with the first release though. Thanks. Yeah the first you mentioned was really the only one I was super entertaining. I'm used to low articulation combined since I have the Dyna Dragon and Gridman that combined from when I was a kid. I was reliving my obsession with that toy a bit recently and wanted a modern representation of Gridman at least.
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Deceptive Thinker posted:This (and VHS rental) is how I remember watching Transformers as a kid, and I probably have a few VHS recordings with a few episodes with these bits somewhere
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DisposableHero posted:Thanks. Yeah the first you mentioned was really the only one I was super entertaining. I'm used to low articulation combined since I have the Dyna Dragon and Gridman that combined from when I was a kid. I was reliving my obsession with that toy a bit recently and wanted a modern representation of Gridman at least. In that case it might interest you to know that while the crossover is with SSSS.Girdman and uses that deisgn, the toy has a bunch of little nods to the original Gridman.
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Droyer posted:In that case it might interest you to know that while the crossover is with SSSS.Girdman and uses that deisgn, the toy has a bunch of little nods to the original Gridman. That definitely does! I guess there's a non zero chance this awakens some sorta Diaclone interest in me but I'm gonna go for it anyway.
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Arquinsiel posted:I saw you posting and I was kind of hoping you were going to say "that puppet is in the canteen in the Hasbro office" or something similar. If they had any class they'd give it to an orphanage
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Action Jacktion posted:It's amazing that "The Rebirth" is even watchable since it introduces literally dozens of new characters, most of them in the first episode. Originally it was supposed to be five episodes but it got compressed into three, so the squeezing in of new characters was even more noticeable. Too bad it was the end of the cartoon's original run in America, unless you count those weird reruns with the kid and the giant Optimus puppet: Hot Rod totally got the shaft, he goes from leader of the Autobots to barely saying three sentences in the Rebirth. As you said there are so many characters to introduce it's kinda hard to give them all a fair shake, especially with the number of episodes being cut down. I never knew about that giant Optimus puppet thing until only a few years ago, I can't remember anyone ever mentioning it. Now the whole Generation two thing with that stupid cybertron cube thing I saw on TV, I was so disappointed to see at the time it was only the old episodes with that annoying gimmick inserted. Hated it then, hate it now. Was there ever a reason why the cartoon in North America ended? The toy line was still going, the comic was still selling. It always seemed odd they stopped. Or did they consider that Optimus puppet and retelling cheaper so cheaped out.
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https://youtu.be/cdd3tTD1SDU The first of the last of the Cyberverse show has landed, in the form of a special movie episode. The 2nd one and grand finale will come later this month. This one is super fun! Mercenaries! Beatboxing face offs! Girl Swoop!
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Burkion posted:The weird thing is that they didn't just start dubbing Japanese Transformers That's what I thought for years as well, upon reading about the Japanese stuff the more I realized how silly they often did things. And yeah I know the original stuff was silly at times but feels like over seas they made it more so. Will give them credit for not being afraid of killing humans. Planes, boats, poo poo was destroyed and people killed. The Last Call fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Nov 6, 2021 |
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Brilliant, blocked in the UK. It was that kind of thinking that meant the original show was hardly viewable in the UK and led to the cartoons ending in the west while they were still trying to sell the toys.
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Nodosaur posted:https://youtu.be/cdd3tTD1SDU I love Dinobots, and I love Volcanicus I don’t care for smart Dinobots, and I don’t care for cool Volcanicus Volcanicus should be terrifying and uncontrollable That said, I do really like all of the Dinobot designs and especially Volcanicus with wings
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Good Listener posted:Having recently finished Victory and Zone, my opinion is that Victory is the best of those 80s Japanese ones. Masterforce had some fun characters but man can Headmasters gently caress off lol. The WORST Chromedome Headmasters was kind of odd since it tried to continue the American series and use the same characters, though it wrote out or killed off some of them to give time to the new ones. Masterforce and Victory mainly just ignored old characters and focused on the new ones. Zone was basically the Japanese cartoon's version of "The Rebirth," since it introduced lots of new characters but turned out to be the end of the series, except instead of three episodes, Zone was only one episode. The Japanese writers seemed to like having demonic aliens leading the Decepticons, what with Devil Z in Masterforce, Violengiguar in Zone, and the comics-only Dark Nova.
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Anora posted:looks like Thew got name dropped in this episode if you translate the data pad. I see we've reached the correct Timeline after all.
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Sockser posted:I love Dinobots, and I love Volcanicus That doesn’t really fit this version of Grimlock, who has always been more of a gentleman adventurer than “ME GRIMLOCK BAD rear end RAAAAGH”
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Nodosaur posted:Grimlock [...] a gentleman adventurer I've managed to pretty much completely avoid Cyberverse until now and this is the first thing I've read to make me feel like I've been missing out
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Phy posted:I've managed to pretty much completely avoid Cyberverse until now and this is the first thing I've read to make me feel like I've been missing out He throws after victory soirées and is best friends with Arcee. They go on adventures together
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Why exactly did they bring Optimus back to life at the end of season three? Yes I know, parents and kids complained. But they only had the Rebirth after his return and that was it. No more full new seasons, so what did it really achieve? If there had been more full proper seasons okay I get it but there wasn't. Unless you count Headmasters and they killed him again the very first episode and send off most of the season three cast nine episodes later.
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The Last Call posted:Why exactly did they bring Optimus back to life at the end of season three? Yes I know, parents and kids complained. But they only had the Rebirth after his return and that was it. No more full new seasons, so what did it really achieve? You're missing part of it Remember that time they brought Optimus back as an evil zombie and then killed him even harder? Turns out that didn't sit well with the target audience even more than killing him the first time
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Burkion posted:You're missing part of it I remember watching and thinking "Hey it's Optimus! Okay he's messed up, kinda a zombie. Oh crap half of him is a mess! Wow he blew up real good" Then later: "Hey how did his side get repaired when they found him?" That part bothered me more than anything as a kid.
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The Last Call posted:Why exactly did they bring Optimus back to life at the end of season three? Yes I know, parents and kids complained. Probably would have went over better had Hot Rod not been part of the reason he died, or at least, been more likable once he was Rodimus. I think it says a lot that the alternate future '86 movie comic has Hot Rod die at the end.
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