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I think the fact that Michael Bay had absolutely zero care for the toyselling aspect of things, so there were no big directives for Hasbro to follow aside from not sticking with most of the franchise's common design orthodoxy and also to probably be shy about doing direct tributes to G1 characters who might show up in later movies really pushed Hasbro designers to do a lot of new things that they never did before or since. There's never going to be another toaster or snowmobile or biplane.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think the fact that Michael Bay had absolutely zero care for the toyselling aspect of things, so there were no big directives for Hasbro to follow aside from not sticking with most of the franchise's common design orthodoxy and also to probably be shy about doing direct tributes to G1 characters who might show up in later movies really pushed Hasbro designers to do a lot of new things that they never did before or since. There's never going to be another toaster or snowmobile or biplane. I thought you misspelled 'storytelling' for a second but both are true.
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holy poo poo https://twitter.com/dearsqn/status/1756650768810250240
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https://x.com/othatsraspberry/status/1756652473589371376?s=20
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just noticed this channel that had uploaded the entirety of Beast Wars in 4k HD with incredibly clean AI upscaling got nuked into oblivion https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK3BmCfwmCvPe6ziVso1Upw/videos what a shame
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Yeah, the official TF channel started uploading Beast Wars episodes weekly last year, so it was really only a matter of time before they decided the fan uploads were going to be a problem. A charitable reading of the situation could imply a new official upscaled re-release is coming, but I don't know how likely it is.
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DoctorWhat posted:That's not actually true at all. Beast Wars 2/Neo/Car Robots are all directly in continuity with specifically the G1 cartoon, up to and including the return of Unicron being a major plot point. I have never seen anyone complain about BM's treatment of the actual G1 era beyond "that's a dumb way for Cybertron to end up in that continuity." The problem is that it's in continuity with Beast Wars and doesn't match up to any of it at all in any way. None of the characters from BW who are in BM resemble their established selves at all, and none of that feels intentional. BW is incidentally G1, but even if it wasn't, BM would be a terrible followup to it. Also it's been a while since I watched BW but I really don't remember any G1 comic references in it.
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Looks like Transarts is doing Depth Charge first, then Rampage. https://showzstore.com/transart-bwm-14-beast-warstransformers-depth-charge_p5984.html
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Keldroc posted:Looks like Transarts is doing Depth Charge first, then Rampage. gently caress yeah
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Keldroc posted:I have never seen anyone complain about BM's treatment of the actual G1 era beyond "that's a dumb way for Cybertron to end up in that continuity." The problem is that it's in continuity with Beast Wars and doesn't match up to any of it at all in any way. None of the characters from BW who are in BM resemble their established selves at all, and none of that feels intentional. BW is incidentally G1, but even if it wasn't, BM would be a terrible followup to it. I kind of like the idea that Beast Era Megatron is responsible for the divergence in the Japanese and US G1 cartoon timelines. The original timeline would have been the Japanese one, with the various small Master Transformers and the Pretenders setting the stage for the Maximal Upgrade. But when they were hauling Megatron back to Cybertron at the end of Beast Wars, he escaped during the Transwarp - with the time dilation planting him at the end of Season 3 of the G1 cartoon. Megatron's presence changed things enough so that The Rebirth happened instead, and the show ends so abruptly because that's when Megatron starts taking over and prevents the development of techno-organic Transformers.
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Robot Style posted:According to the TFWiki, the show's G1 references came largely from online fans the writers were interacting with, so it wasn't an intentional decision as much as them just pulling in stuff people were suggesting without worrying about where it originates. I guess I would watch a webseries or something about this angry little red dragon guy the size of Bumblebee running around trying to change the future while everyone tries to pretend they're not looking at him. Edit: Actually I guess TM2 Megs is almost 40 feet tall so he'd blend in okay. But it would be funnier if he was Season 1 sized. Keldroc fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Feb 13, 2024 |
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Robot Style posted:Yeah, the official TF channel started uploading Beast Wars episodes weekly last year, so it was really only a matter of time before they decided the fan uploads were going to be a problem. That really sucks, I doubt Hasbro will even put a little bit of effort towards doing their own upscale and re-release
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 drat this is a well-engineered toy. The ankles are unreal, transformation means he gets nice deep double elbows, and I love what he does with his hands. I don't think I've ever seen hands folding out with the inner part of the arm, mounted on a ball joint for the wrist. That's brilliant. Had a minor QC issue with mine, the mushroom pegs around his waist were weirdly squared off at the sides with corners sticking out so they wouldn't rotate, bit it was easy enough to pop them out and trim them down.
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Dabir posted:
Never knew until now they made Sassy Prime. You know he ain't takin no lip from Megatron.
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I like that version of prime, except the lack of face mask just looks weird to me. I'm sorry Optimus prime just looks funny without it. It's like seeing soundwave without his mask.
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The Last Call posted:Never knew until now they made Sassy Prime. I was going for kind of a jojo thing
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Cowslips Warren posted:I like that version of prime, except the lack of face mask just looks weird to me. I'm sorry Optimus prime just looks funny without it. It's like seeing soundwave without his mask. Marvel Soundwave deserves a comeback
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I like Animated Prime but I am waiting for the Motormaster repaint. It's my favorite Motormaster since it keeps his blockhead design but without neding to be a Menasor torso and also much more affordable. Plus, his moustache.
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Dabir posted:I was going for kind of a jojo thing Well, you got that, alright I was thinking top half Jotaro, bottom half Dio 
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Man, for some weird reason the digital version of this months comic is delayed til next week. Do I make a run to the local store to get the physical copy?
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Kingtheninja posted:Man, for some weird reason the digital version of this months comic is delayed til next week. Do I make a run to the local store to get the physical copy? That is weird. How does a digital comic get delayed. Unless it's printed version is delayed as well.
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The Last Call posted:That is weird. That's what I assumed but my local shop posted their releases for today and #5 is in the picture. Edit: just looked and another image comic (the cabinet) has a physical release today but the digital release is listed as next week. Kingtheninja fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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Keldroc posted:I guess I would watch a webseries or something about this angry little red dragon guy the size of Bumblebee running around trying to change the future while everyone tries to pretend they're not looking at him. lmao I just realized that season 1 Megatron's alt mode isn't a tyrannosaurus rex; due to scale, he's a nanotyrannus
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So Hasbro is not having a good time in the Quarterly Earnings, which may mean bad things for their output. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/13/hasbro-has-earnings-q4-2023.html I do kinda feel like there may have already been a lot of cost saving from the reduction of detail in molds and paint. I kinda felt like some of my newer figures looked "blurrier" than the older ones, and I think it's most obvious with Hound.   There's not just less paint applications and no wash, I feel like the mold pieces that are new are a lot smoother. Which I don't particularly want to scold Hasbro for cost cutting, but it might explain more why a lot of new figures aren't so much my jam. I've also been feeling like a lot of figures have less "crisp" looking details, and I don't really know how to really precisely analyze that, like the Junkions aren't the right sort of gribbly, I dunno.
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SlothfulCobra posted:So Hasbro is not having a good time in the Quarterly Earnings, which may mean bad things for their output. Aren't they selling off Dungeons and Dragons too?
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I don't know who's buying dungeons in this day and age, no wonder business is bad
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SlothfulCobra posted:Which I don't particularly want to scold Hasbro for cost cutting, but it might explain more why a lot of new figures aren't so much my jam. I've also been feeling like a lot of figures have less "crisp" looking details, and I don't really know how to really precisely analyze that, like the Junkions aren't the right sort of gribbly, I dunno. I feel like that may have more to do with the design team's preferences than corporate cost cutting. The Generations line even up through Siege was, on some level, trying to modernize the designs of the older characters, while Earthrise and Kingdom were basically the progenitors of SS86, with their "animation accuracy above all" design philosophy. Legacy's been continuing that, so even new characters like the Legacy Junkions or the Infernac guys still need to have a bit of that "easy to animate" feeling in order to give the line consistency. I really like how Thew divided the different eras of CHUG:
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Dabir posted:I don't know who's buying dungeons in this day and age, no wonder business is bad My eldest kid is big into D&D and has been for a couple of years, the actual play podcast/youtube trend still seems to be paying dividends there. My local gaming cafe ran an introduction session the other week and loads of people turned up for it, I think it's doing ok.
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Dabir posted:I don't know who's buying dungeons in this day and age, no wonder business is bad They’re popular in the rich pervert crowd, but there aren’t enough to sustain a business
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Dabir posted:Read that post again 😉 Ohhhhh. Yeah fair enough, even Nic Cage has given up his castle buying habit.
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Fil5000 posted:My eldest kid is big into D&D and has been for a couple of years, the actual play podcast/youtube trend still seems to be paying dividends there. My local gaming cafe ran an introduction session the other week and loads of people turned up for it, I think it's doing ok. Dabir posted:Read that post again 😉 The joke aside, D&D is big right now. Was talking to the girl at my comic shop and it started with Stranger Things, and then last year it just went into overdrive with the success of the movie (which is awesome if you haven't seen it) and Baldur's Gate 3. It's the time of the Dragon!
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Medullah posted:The joke aside, D&D is big right now. Was talking to the girl at my comic shop and it started with Stranger Things, and then last year it just went into overdrive with the success of the movie (which is awesome if you haven't seen it) and Baldur's Gate 3. It's the time of the Dragon! The movie is both very good fun AND accurately represents what a game of D&D ends up being like. There's a bunch of scenes that just reminded me of goofy poo poo that my players had done to my carefully laid DM plans, and it just made it funnier.
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Fil5000 posted:The movie is both very good fun AND accurately represents what a game of D&D ends up being like. There's a bunch of scenes that just reminded me of goofy poo poo that my players had done to my carefully laid DM plans, and it just made it funnier.  I saw this post on Reddit and man it's 100% accurate heh
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Medullah posted:The joke aside, D&D is big right now. Was talking to the girl at my comic shop and it started with Stranger Things, and then last year it just went into overdrive with the success of the movie (which is awesome if you haven't seen it) and Baldur's Gate 3. It's the time of the Dragon! It's weird, I never see a lot of discussion about the movie in the spaces I'm in, but I think in 10-15 years or so we're going to find out it was as formative for The Kids These Days as, like, Ghostbusters was for our generation Silhouette posted:lmao I just realized that season 1 Megatron's alt mode isn't a tyrannosaurus rex; due to scale, he's a nanotyrannus IIRC Nanotyrannus was found to be a juvenile tyrannosaur, so if that's the case, he turns into a child. But more reasonably I think he's just a rescaled regular T. rex the way all the bug guys and Rattrap are enormous versions of those.
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