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The_Doctor posted:Did you know Legacy leaders are $36 at target right now? Because they are. Thanks for the heads up, went and got Dreadwing and Armada Megatron
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Just mulling over whether to buy the current Springer that I've seen in a local shop for half the price of the new SS version (which I'm pretty sure I wouldn't buy as it's too pricy,..)
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May 18, 2024 09:03
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The Siege version is decent but some of the transformation is fiddly and relies a lot on little tabs. I remember people in this thread saying the Wreckers version was a bit loose and floppy (and despite being a Marvel UK comic fan I much prefer the cartoon colours).
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May 18, 2024 10:02
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Funny thing I noticed about Armada Megatron, his turret can't freely rotate in a full 360° and there shouldn't be any reason for that since it wouldn't interfere with transformation and doesn't seem to be a safety thing either, and then it hit me, they did that so that when you do that mode of his where he has the turret on his front you can't position the cannon in a way that would make it look like a dick
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May 18, 2024 10:33
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drrockso20 posted:Funny thing I noticed about Armada Megatron, his turret can't freely rotate in a full 360° and there shouldn't be any reason for that since it wouldn't interfere with transformation and doesn't seem to be a safety thing either, and then it hit me, they did that so that when you do that mode of his where he has the turret on his front you can't position the cannon in a way that would make it look like a dick Thew pointed it out in his review as well.
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May 18, 2024 21:39
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Went and saw the 40th anniversary thing at the movie theatre. The 10 minutes of literal commercials was tacky, but whatever. The table read for the first episode was neat. The guy they got to be the Chris Latta replacement actually did a really great job, I was surprised. Seeing the other episodes in the theatre had some novelty to it, but I don’t think it was quite as revelatory as, say, seeing the 86 movie back in theatres (which is guaranteed to happen in 2026, and I’ll be there for it).
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From the online reactions I've seen the majority of people appeared to not know what was going to be shown. Most believed it to be the 86 movie itself.
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May 19, 2024 20:57
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Yeah, a friend from home went to it expecting the movie and was surprised to get the cartoon instead.
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May 19, 2024 21:03
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I knew it was going to be the cartoon, but I didn't know they were going to be redubbing the first episode. I think the ads just described it as a table read. I liked what we got a lot better, but they really didn't advertise what this was very well.Xenomrph posted:The 10 minutes of literal commercials was tacky, but whatever.
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May 19, 2024 23:43
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my friend who has been to over a loving thousand movies, said this was the only time he walked out of a showing. about the 11th commercial people were already getting pissed.
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May 20, 2024 00:55
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The Last Call posted:From the online reactions I've seen the majority of people appeared to not know what was going to be shown. Most believed it to be the 86 movie itself. The read through was good, even if they missed the mark on the vocoder for Soundwave. The constant commercials and two (?!) trailers for TF ONE was something else.
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May 20, 2024 01:25
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Cowslips Warren posted:my friend who has been to over a loving thousand movies, said this was the only time he walked out of a showing. about the 11th commercial people were already getting pissed.
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May 20, 2024 01:29
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Xenomrph posted:The table read for the first episode was neat. The guy they got to be the Chris Latta replacement actually did a really great job, I was surprised. That guy also did Starscream in those awful Machinima series (CW, TR, PotP). At least something good came out of those train wrecks. Shame they didn't do more than just the first episode, but I suppose the second episode is very heavy on characters with voice actors who have died, and it would have gotten a little weird eventually. I hope they release the full recording session at some point, I'd definitely watch that.
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The movie would probably be pretty awkward because half the cast is dead.
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https://youtu.be/jz1FTmaUGiQ?si=orjq5e_a2WgumUyT
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Keldroc posted:That guy also did Starscream in those awful Machinima series (CW, TR, PotP). At least something good came out of those train wrecks. When one of the guys at the table read after the episode said “haha we’re goofing on each other constantly, someone should animate all of our fuckups because it would be super funny!” I was absolutely convinced that they were going to do just that. Huge missed opportunity.
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Xenomrph posted:When one of the guys at the table read after the episode said “haha we’re goofing on each other constantly, someone should animate all of our fuckups because it would be super funny!” I was absolutely convinced that they were going to do just that. Michael Bell is really good and I still remember seeing panels at TFCon with him. Seems like a cool old dude. I went today and actually was laughing to myself pretty hard that they had like 5 mins of commercials beforehand with stuff like "PARENTS USE THIS CODE FOR 20% OFF" or something. Another friend of mine was also surprised to see it wasn't the movie and I didn't realize they were doing a table read. It was pretty fun and I loved Welker just loving with Cullen in the outtakes portion. Man did Berger make Spike sound like a big weiner though lol.
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SlothfulCobra posted:The movie would probably be pretty awkward because half the cast is dead. Yeah and the actors passed away too
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May 20, 2024 13:13
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Silhouette posted:Yeah and the actors passed away too need a senzu for that one. I always remember Michael Bell as Raziel from Legacy of Kain. Outtakes from that game are loving hilarious. More VA fuckups are always good.
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May 20, 2024 14:50
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A buddy of mine got to meet Neil Ross who was delighted to find out that my pal's favorite line of his was Springer's "I've got better things to do tonight than die" because apparently he doesn't get asked about that one much, to my mild surprise.
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May 20, 2024 15:38
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Dawgstar posted:A buddy of mine got to meet Neil Ross who was delighted to find out that my pal's favorite line of his was Springer's "I've got better things to do tonight than die" because apparently he doesn't get asked about that one much, to my mild surprise. What, really? It's proper 80s action movie cheese, and I don't think Springer has a better line.
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May 20, 2024 15:45
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Fil5000 posted:What, really? It's proper 80s action movie cheese, and I don't think Springer has a better line. Like I said, surprised me too but apparently Ross' eyes just lit up when he asked about said that was his favorite line.
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Cowslips Warren posted:need a senzu for that one. The Berserk anime outtakes are so revered that a studio just got the rights to make a Blu-ray for it, and one of the bullet points was just that they had them.
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Cowslips Warren posted:need a senzu for that one. The hidden stuff on that game was outstanding, you never really got to see VA’s doing their lines and chatting with each other. It was quite the unique feature and when I first watched it, I thought to myself “this is the future and everyone’s going to be doing this”. That didn't quite happen but it was still one of my most favorite aspects of the SR games. I remember listening to Tony Jay doing some VA and thinking to myself, yeah, I’d listen to this guy read a phone book. René Auberjonois was likewise a VA and he was amazed by how much dialogue was in the game. He’s best known as Odo from Star Trek: DS9 and in those games based on that series he mostly had lines that were “Go through that door”, the SR games with their storylines and dialogue was far beyond that.
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The Last Call posted:The hidden stuff on that game was outstanding, you never really got to see VA’s doing their lines and chatting with each other. It was quite the unique feature and when I first watched it, I thought to myself “this is the future and everyone’s going to be doing this”. That didn't quite happen but it was still one of my most favorite aspects of the SR games. I will never forget his reaction and Michael Bell cracking up in the video outtakes because Renee realized he had like two or three straight pages of talking. I think Michael Bell's response was something like, he wants to get paid by the word now! I really wish more animated shows had those kind of video outtakes. I can't find it online, but apparently there's a transformers Prime video where the guy who voices knockout stuck string cheese up his nose during a very somber recording, and made everyone lose it laughing. That's really strange with the springer line, that's the only one I really remember him saying that was quotable! edit: My speech to text is bad. Cowslips Warren fucked around with this message at 20:51 on May 20, 2024 |
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Cowslips Warren posted:That's really strange with the sprainer line, that's the only one I really remember him saying that was quotable! Figure he meant he gets asked about his other roles a lot more Springer chat reminds me of how I went looking for prior uses of "I have nothing but contempt for this court" and came up empty-handed. It seems like too obviously cool of a line to have been first dropped in an animated movie about selling robot toys to kids!
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Phy posted:Figure he meant he gets asked about his other roles a lot more Oh true, that must be something that voice actors and actors in general probably get, but I think the former gets it. perhaps less. I'm reminded of the guy who played q in Star Trek, who was also in breaking bad briefly, and also did a voice for the My Little pony friendship is magic show. in an interview, he said he gets a lot of fans that come up to him wanting autographs and to talk about his work, and he always has to figure out what show they're talking about and he used to be able to tell just based on their age, but with the pony stuff, it became a lot more murky.
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May 20, 2024 20:51
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Phy posted:Figure he meant he gets asked about his other roles a lot more Yeah, Ross has one of those absurdly prolific careers across animation like most of the Transformers cast did. I was amused to note he's Hector Ramirez, thus the connective glue that binds Transformers, GI Joe, Jem and the Holograms and Inhumanoids together.
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah, Ross has one of those absurdly prolific careers across animation like most of the Transformers cast did. I was amused to note he's Hector Ramirez, thus the connective glue that binds Transformers, GI Joe, Jem and the Holograms and Inhumanoids together. Oh the Giraldo looking guy? That's cool. Also it's very funny that that means a Jem concert could be disrupted by D'Compose shoving Hologram fans into his rib cage.
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Fil5000 posted:Oh the Giraldo looking guy? That's cool. Also it's very funny that that means a Jem concert could be disrupted by D'Compose shoving Hologram fans into his rib cage. Somebody's been to my account at AO3~!
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Once I get an immaculate, beautifully done modern Pizzazz in 1:12, finally I will be *complete*.
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Fil5000 posted:Oh the Giraldo looking guy? That's cool. Also it's very funny that that means a Jem concert could be disrupted by D'Compose shoving Hologram fans into his rib cage. Outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:Truly, truly, truly ribcageous.
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah, Ross has one of those absurdly prolific careers across animation like most of the Transformers cast did. I was amused to note he's Hector Ramirez, thus the connective glue that binds Transformers, GI Joe, Jem and the Holograms and Inhumanoids together. Too bad Ramirez never showed up in Visionaries or My Little Pony to completely link all of the major 1980s Sunbow series. My Little Pony had modern human kids sometimes, so hey, you could've just put Ramirez on their TV. I have no idea where he would fit into Visionaries, which apparently took place on another planet entirely.
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Man, modern Visionaries would be cool as hell. Replace the old holographic sticker gimmick with little LCD screens like those creepy new furbys' eyes and they'd be amazing.
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Silhouette posted:Man, modern Visionaries would be cool as hell. Replace the old holographic sticker gimmick with little LCD screens like those creepy new furbys' eyes and they'd be amazing. Go full ham, put video portals to Ireland in every toy like the one in New York(?)
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Back when Tron Legacy came out there was a brief toy line of figures whose faces were like, video projected GIFs that worked in some kind of Visionaries-esque way. https://youtu.be/D_tb5U46-To?si=AGi3EU3071yHh6w1
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I miss the 80s era of proper holograms
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One of the oft-cited reasons for the Visionaries' line going under was being overpriced. Given what toys cost now I wonder what their retail was back then which apparently put them out of the coveted "you can have a toy if you're good" price point for the average family that GI Joe and Transformer's minibots/cassettes held.
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The carded figures were $5 and vehicles about $17-20. But a lot were discounted, so $2 figures weren’t uncommon at KB Toys.
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