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MP Rhinox was apparently announced! No images were allowed. https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/06/09/masterpiece-rhinox-announced-at-tokyo-toy-show-2023-486670 Woooo. I was getting worried. Last official MP BW was 2020 (Tigatron). And yeah, no idea on how the Skybound license will be. I didn't even bother with the last IDW run. If I hear people saying how it's the second coming of MTMTE or something I'll check it out, but it launching as a "Hasbro universe" immediately brings back thoughts of the terrible Revolutionaries poo poo, and in general how bad things get whenever Hasbro threw its heavy hand into the creative storytelling. It having Kirkman is definitely cool, but I don't know if that'll be enough.
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In Further Adventures of MinionOfCthulhu's Starspawn Playing With His Toys, he's been good and it's just me and him this weekend so I let him pick some figures from my Detolf and he got Siege Ironhide and Cyclonus. Ironhide turns into a fire truck according to him after I put his weapon on top. Cyclonus is his new favorite thing though, since he's big and chunky and not fiddly (Ironhide's leg panels love to pop off if you breathe on them). Also, I've had Cyclonus since he came out but I never transformed him, and DANG this is a good transformation.
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Jun 10, 2023 19:35
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:In Further Adventures of MinionOfCthulhu's Starspawn Playing With His Toys, he's been good and it's just me and him this weekend so I let him pick some figures from my Detolf and he got Siege Ironhide and Cyclonus. Ironhide turns into a fire truck according to him after I put his weapon on top. Cyclonus is his new favorite thing though, since he's big and chunky and not fiddly (Ironhide's leg panels love to pop off if you breathe on them). Also, I've had Cyclonus since he came out but I never transformed him, and DANG this is a good transformation. That nose cone is perfection.
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Jun 10, 2023 21:06
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Saw ROTB today with my dad, I liked it a lot. All three of the Terrorcons were badasses, the action was great, Mirage ruled, all around I had a good time. My dad liked it too and he knows next to nothing about Transformers. They did Airazor dirty though, killing her off and she never even got to transform. I guess we’ll never know which of her toys has the accurate robot mode.
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Jun 10, 2023 21:59
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xZAOx posted:MP Rhinox was apparently announced! No images were allowed. https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/06/09/masterpiece-rhinox-announced-at-tokyo-toy-show-2023-486670
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Jun 10, 2023 22:33
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Fil5000 posted:That nose cone is perfection. It's CRAZY how it fits into his chest. And he just looks so GOOD in robot mode. I had to take him away though; son launched it across the room making pew pew noises.
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Jun 10, 2023 22:38
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:It's CRAZY how it fits into his chest. And he just looks so GOOD in robot mode. Now give him ROTF Jetfire or Leader Optimus, and tell him he doesn’t get to eat until he transforms them from robot to alt mode and back.
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Jun 10, 2023 22:52
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Arquinsiel posted:Kirkman means that the robo-gore is going to be off the charts, to the point where I feel like I'm subsidising his fetish and feeling weird about it. I'd be impressed if it topped Roberts, heh.
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Jun 10, 2023 23:03
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Xenomrph posted:Now give him ROTF Jetfire or Leader Optimus, and tell him he doesn’t get to eat until he transforms them from robot to alt mode and back. Bean Dad? Is that you?
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I saw RotB today as a slightly belated birthday present to myself (and I may have picked up Legacy Skyquake and Transmetal Megatron after...) and I enjoyed it. Mrs. Randalor said she enjoyed it as well, though she didn't know who any of the characters were (did they ever actually namedrop Battletrap?). I tapped out of the Bay films after Dark of the Moon, and I didn't regret watching this one in the slightest, even with the expensive fancy seats in the theaters. I'm just curious where they go with the next movie. Come on Headmasters or Skylynx!
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ROTB was a blast. I guess Bay was involved but it didn't feel like it almost at all, the humor was very good, mirage was fun as hell, got a lot of good laughs out of me. the epilogue scene was fantastic, too. I feel like it was missing a few things to make things not feel like "I am saying this thing to get us to move on to the next scene" in some places, but ultimately it was fine in that regard. My biggest complaint is the lack of maximals doing stuff, especially like...saying anything(besides airrazor or primal), and they transform for basically no reason(and only are transformed for a single scene), cheetor and rhinox are just there to fill space. does rhinox even say a single line? I don't think he does. now I know why rattrap isn't in the movie, because he'd never shut up, and they clearly didn't want to have more than two highly-animated speaking animal robots. Also Stratosphere just showing up and saying "hi I'm stratosphere" and that's literally the extent of his character for the entire movie was funny, but a bummer.The MSJ posted:Optimus Primal also said Ancient Aliens is stupid. Not literally, but it's implied. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Jun 11, 2023 |
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I loved the Ancient Aliens line too that was nice. Overall I thought it was fine, not as fun as Bumblebee but better than the Bay films. I think things just kinda moved too fast and had too many characters to get to really shine. Mirage was fun but I really wish they'd let Bumblebee talk and not have Prime be so loving murderous. Also I wish the other sounds wasn't so loud cuz they hyped up the Unicron theme and I could barely hear it.
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Randalor posted:I saw RotB today as a slightly belated birthday present to myself (and I may have picked up Legacy Skyquake and Transmetal Megatron after...) and I enjoyed it. Mrs. Randalor said she enjoyed it as well, though she didn't know who any of the characters were (did they ever actually namedrop Battletrap?). Also is it really a spoiler when his toy has been out for a while, and he's all over the trailers?
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Xenomrph posted:I think he gets mentioned when he first shows up. It just came out and gently caress if I know what counts as a spoiler. I completely missed his name being said if they did say it early on.
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Jun 11, 2023 04:37
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They did Bluestreak dirty in the movie
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xZAOx posted:I'd be impressed if it topped Roberts, heh.
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I enjoyed ROTB but good lord does it fall apart in the final act. Like, everything makes sense and flows naturally up to the bad guys getting the second half of the key and then it feels like they handed the script to someone else. Stuff like introducing the issue that the shutdown code is split in two and then IMMEDIATELY resolving it, human scale tunnels in the tower that don't appear to serve any purpose other than getting the heroes to the console, it's all necessary contrivance I know but it doesn't match the energy and pace of the rest of the film. I had a lot of fun regardless and my youngest kid punched the air when Bee leapt out of Stratosphere to the strains of LL Cool J, so target audience achieved.
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Jun 11, 2023 08:37
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I hope there are two more SS ROTB deluxe Mirages and also a voyager one
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Maybe they thought having very similarly named characters (Rattrap and Battletrap) in a movie would be confusing.
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Captain Invictus posted:I guess Bay was involved but it didn't feel like it almost at all Bay's contract gives him a producer credit on any live action TF stuff. He was not involved in ROTB at all beyond that. I do agree the humor was a step up, and the best line in the movie is Prime's "I don't want you going to that drive-in theater anymore" crack. But the extremely weird interaction between Noah and Wheeljack when they first arrive in Peru left the entire audience dead silent in my opening night screening. I have no idea what they were going for there.
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Jun 11, 2023 09:05
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I was surprised that there wasn't a "trukk not monkey" joke in the movie
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Here it is
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Here's some good news, Rise of the Beast did better than predicted numbers than previously expected. Still below the Bay ones but better than Bumblebee. https://twitter.com/Luiz_Fernando_J...%5Es1_&ref_url= https://twitter.com/BORReport/statu...%5Es1_&ref_url=
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Oh they're already doing a shared universe? I'm already not really interested in the new comics.
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I kind of expect them to incorporate MASK and VENOM as sub factions of GIJoe and Cobra using Transformer tech. Fairly sure that's what they did last time as well.
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If the next movie is a GI Joe/Transformers crossover, it better have both Starscream and Cobra Commander with the same actor.
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Randalor posted:If the next movie is a GI Joe/Transformers crossover, it better have both Starscream and Cobra Commander with the same actor. Do it like they did on Legends of Tomorrow and do the meta joke where they need Starscream to say something so they get Cobra Commander to do it.
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Good Listener posted:Oh they're already doing a shared universe? I'm already not really interested in the new comics. God, imagine Transformers existing in a shared universe. Ridiculous concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofmv2ZF59GA
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How have we had a decade of movies without a Starscream? That's wild. (a few seconds with no dialog at the start of Bumblebee doesn't count)
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Dabir posted:God, imagine Transformers existing in a shared universe. Ridiculous concept. On top of that, Transformers itself started out as a combination of 2 different toy lines. It's always been a shared universe, just a big ol' Katamari attaching more universes to it.
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Crossover Transformers and the MCU, cowards!
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Eh, just because the brand has a history of crossing over doesn’t mean everyone has to be super stoked on crossover content. I’m not interested in more hasbro property crossovers either, it’s where I fell off the IDW books in the end because there’s just no part of me that gives even a little bit of a poo poo about MASK or GI Joe or any of their other properties.
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Dabir posted:God, imagine Transformers existing in a shared universe. Ridiculous concept. Famous fact, Transformers were in Marvel cannon as seen in this issue until they got removed. They were removed due to being perceived as too great of a impact upon the Marvel Universe. You know, the one in space aliens, world eaters, beyonders, and whatever Gods you shake a stick at. Also they put Circuit Breaker in a Secret Wars issue before her debut to keep the character. And then never did anything with her in the marvel universe proper.
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I really hope the TF franchise doesn’t cross over with GI Joe. The transformers movies are super serious cinema, and I can’t have it be silly. Having Snake Eyes show up will disallow new films from being in the Criterion Collection like the previous ones.
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Thankfully no TF movies had humans beating them up already. Imagine if that happened. Humans killing Trasnformers, oh so laughable am I right?
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The Last Call posted:Famous fact, Transformers were in Marvel cannon as seen in this issue until they got removed. They were removed due to being perceived as too great of a impact upon the Marvel Universe. You know, the one in space aliens, world eaters, beyonders, and whatever Gods you shake a stick at. Which is weird because they managed to use Death's Head in things and he not only was part of the TF universe but they got him into the main Marvel universe via a Doctor Who crossover, his poo poo was so much more convoluted than CBs.
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Fil5000 posted:Which is weird because they managed to use Death's Head in things and he not only was part of the TF universe but they got him into the main Marvel universe via a Doctor Who crossover, his poo poo was so much more convoluted than CBs. I've been wondering about that, figured it might have to do with UK laws being a bit different. Or maybe they did the same trick ala CB.
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The Last Call posted:I've been wondering about that, figured it might have to do with UK laws being a bit different. It was said for a while that there was an advert strip for him as a character that they put in other Marvel UK titles before he first appeared in the TF comics, but there's something sketchy about the timeline for it. Maybe Hasbro just didn't notice.
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The Last Call posted:I kind of expect them to incorporate MASK and VENOM as sub factions of GIJoe and Cobra using Transformer tech. Correct. Miles Mayhem headed up Cobra's special weapons division - separate from Destro who also does that - and used research from a vivisected Blitzwing to come up with MASK vehicles. He recruited a lot of the characters from MASK but Matt Trakker took the good guys on the run when they figured out Miles was a baddie. Randalor posted:If the next movie is a GI Joe/Transformers crossover, it better have both Starscream and Cobra Commander with the same actor. Get Tom Kenny to do it. He was great as Starscream in Animated and I'm sure he could do a fine Commander.
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There's been no real reason to use Josie since, she's just another rando 'hates big robots' lady. Actually, screw it, let her join the X-Men on Krakoa, she'd probably love to go gently caress up Nimrod and some Sentinels.
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