I'm generally skipping repaints in BotBots, and as such I initially passed up on Songwave. Until I discovered that the redeco is an homage to Tron, and I've since acquired the toy. :)
https://i.ibb.co/yXtYFtz/botbots-TRON.jpg
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I'm generally skipping repaints in BotBots, and as such I initially passed up on Songwave. Until I discovered that the redeco is an homage to Tron, and I've since acquired the toy. :)
https://i.ibb.co/yXtYFtz/botbots-TRON.jpg
In 2016 IMDB made a page for a Beast Wars live action movie that's supposedly meant to be released this year. :confused:
Buh?
Let me fix the post above: anyone can submit new film titles to IMDB including based on rumours and gossip. This isn’t a movie database listing though, it’s a fan named Septembermorn321 doing a fantasy casting list. He’s got a similar list for a Last Knight sequel and people they think should voice Galvatron and Jazz.
Holy cow, this video essay has made me realise that there really IS more to meets the eye to Mikaela Banes! :eek:
Lindsay Ellis makes great videos on all kinds of media, and is a big Starscream fan.
Until I read a ‘choose your own adventure’ Transformers Animated book to my son last night, I never realised Animated was set in the 22nd Century :eek:
A true fan would have known that
*runs for cover*
You... you what?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinnertwin
What the frag did you just say to me?
Not a fan? NOT A FAN?! I am THE fan mother-fragger! It is I who has the Transformers Blog! It is I who slavishly collects toys from all TF genre's! It is I who brings the fandom together! I speak Cybertronian, breathe it's air and embody it's lore! I am the Alpha Trion and the Omega Supreme - I AM TRANSFORMERS AND WITHOUT ME TRANSFORMERS WOULD BE NOTHING - NOTHING DO YOU HEAR!!!!
Ahem... not that I wish to give myself airs or anything.
But yeah, did they ever say in the cartoon what year the show was set in? The revelation in the book did come as a surprise to me. Spose it makes sense considering how mechanized that world was.
FootnotesQuote:
Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev
? The packaging blurb on the "Transform and Roll Out" DVD refers to the movie taking place in the 22nd Century. Additionally, in "Blast from the Past", Professor Sumdac mentions that his updates to Dino Drive's animatronic dinosaurs will "bring Dino Drive into the 22nd Century".
taken from https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Animated_timeline
Well there ya go, Heh - I must have been a bit oblivious to it all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Krayt
*Nelson Laugh*
I just learned that there are two G1 characters named Ricochet. The Japanese repaint of Jazz known as Stepper in Japan but known as Ricochet in the West and a Targetmaster from 1988 that was partnered with Quickmix.
I only realised tonight that SS Shatter has 5mm ports on the inside of her arms.
Never knew this before! But now suddenly the fact that Megatron's scope has handles and part of the stock has a peg on the side makes sense! :) Naturally Megatron was originally a Microman toy so it makes perfect sense that he would've been designed to be compatible with Microman figures.
https://i.ibb.co/zfyWGZB/megatron-microman01.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/mXPPJtX/megatron-microman02.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/5RmLcPh/megatron-microman03.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/3pR7rd1/megatron-microman04.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/JtM7FGx/megatron-microman05.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/JB7FRxh/megatron-microman06.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/Y2sRGSv/megatron-microman07.jpg
Thanks to tha_phantom for pointing this out to me. :) I've also just realised that the position of the plug hole on the back of Microman figures can vary. On Gamede and Kicker* they're located on the upper back (between the shoulders) but on vintage Microman toys it's on the mid back (upper lumbar). And while doing a Google image search I found that some Microman toys appear to have holes in either or both positions!
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*Not that it does Kicker much good since his backpack seems to be permanently attached (I can remove his chestplate but the straps don't feel detachable)
I got my first Targetmaster style Battlemasters today. I didn't realise how much of downgrade they are from the LG-EX Targetmasters. Good thing I bought all of the LG-EX stuff so I can skip the Battlemasters that are repeated characters.
Around the turn of the century I got a second-hand Astro-Magnum or Galaxy Man or knock-off (still never verified which) and I love it. But only recently, for some reason, I was watching a YouTube review of G1 Shockwave and was astounded to see its head turns. I went to my toy and discovered that, while stiff, its head turns! I'd never even bothered to check that.
I never noticed or knew that two of the Japanese Seacons had the same names as the Hasbro Seacons (Overbite and Tentakil).
With four of the names being Turtler, Gulf, Kraken and Lobclaw, I was expecting the other two would also have odd "Japanese English" names when the third pair of Generations Selects were added to the TakaraTomyMall website today... but when they had the Hasbro names listed, I actually had to check tfwiki to see that two of the six indeed have Hasbro names.
I guess since I never had an interest in the Japanese Seacons as toys (the toys were identical to the Hasbro ones) and I only watched the Japanese Masterforce cartoon once, I never took notice of the names.
I just found out that the music score to the Rescue Bots cartoon from Season 2 onwards, was done by an Australian composer Christopher Elves (from Brisbane).
That's very cool and interestingQuote:
Originally Posted by griffin
CHICKEN TRANSFORMERS EXIST
Sort of.
Titans Return Crashbash and its Legends repaint Servant transform into robotic birds which, according to at least one source of canon, are chickens.
Of course, these sort of vehicles don't count individually as Transformers (under the UCM), but still -- I must have at least one of these now as they're currently the closest thing we have to a chicken TF until HasTak actually properly do one! I now have a new Grail.
You can probably find one for $8 at Toymate BankstownQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
Probably! That seems to be ToyMate that time forgot! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by SMHFConvoy
Transmetal Waspinator's jet mode is possibly a reference to Starscream's possession of him back in Season 1 of the cartoon.
Marcelo Matere is an identical twin.
Until I got Spinister in hand I didn't realise how Euro G1 like his colour scheme is.
In the UK, Transformers Cyberverse is called "Transformers Bumblebee: Cyberverse Adventures."
Better than "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" I suppose. :p
Armada Jetfire is an homage to G1 Galaxy Shuttle. Vairn and I noticed some similarities and sure enough TF Wiki confirms they are intentional.
Soundwave transforms into a blue box.
And he is bigger on the inside.
That took me a moment to think about, but that's true... like a tardis he seems to be able to house quite a few cassettes inside him at one time in the cartoon.
Blaster transforms into an orange box and has the same ability. Soundwave was a purple box in the G1 comics, and in the Japanese anime he becomes a black box [Soundblaster] (not a black box flight recorder, which are orange). Blaster does become a blue box [Twincast] in the anime.
Every Transformer has some degree of mass cheating though. Just by virtue of all their internal robot parts largely vanishing in alt mode and vice versa.
Well, now we know why MP Hound has Super-GPS*. :rolleyes: HasTak's factory in Vietnam used an inferior grade of plastic. :rolleyes:
The other one is super obvious which I'm sure everyone already knows, but the reason why MPs are getting so expensive is because of the overwhelming demand from fans for slavish screen accuracy, which in turn increases the number of parts that must be manufactured. I cannot imagine how this news could possibly come as a surprise to anyone. So long as people pine for "kartoon akkurasee" then toys will become more complex and expensive. So long as the majority demand greater "sHoW AkKuRaSseY" then that's what TakaraTOMY will cater for. I personally don't care either way, and as many of you know, I actually prefer toy-accuracy (since the toys usually came first).
https://i.ibb.co/q1v7YqN/ironhide-toyacc.jpg
G1 Ironhide is not inaccurate to the cartoon, the cartoon is inaccurate to the toy.
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*Super Green Plastic Syndrome. Unlike standard gold/brown/blue plastic syndrome which takes years or decades to manifest, SGPS manifests only days or weeks after receiving MP Hound.
https://news.tfw2005.com/2020/02/09/...e-event-404884
Technically the G1 toy is already a 100% toy accurate figure, you could not possibly get any closer. The reason MPs exist in the first place is because the cartoon models didn't previously have accurate figures, which themselves were already refined a lot from the toy designs, to a point where they're mostly not comparable beyond the time they came out. Homages are good like the toy-accurate MP-36, but they shouldn't be a substitute for the base figure, which was made for a clear purpose that is easy to understand.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
↑This so much. :) What I love about CHUG and earlier MPs is how they were more focused on homaging the G1 cartoon aesthetics and design features rather than just trying to exactly emulate them. Homaging>fidelity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bidoofdude
But it is true that fans do keep on pining more and more for "show accuracy." Even before the internet existed. I remember even in the 80s listening to people talk about how they wanted their toys to look more like the cartoon. My G1 Trailbreaker and Skydasher, which I obtained second hand, had their eyes painted blue by their original owner (why Powerdasher? He never even appeared in the 'toon!). And one thing that Action Masters did was start introducing cartoon biases into the toys (e.g. Bumblebee's head etc.).
Granted that I haven't filled out a TakaraTOMY survey since 2017 (thank you, geoblocking), but the last time I checked Q14 asked why you like the toy, with one of the options being "G1 accuracy."
But the big indicator would be sales. How many people here started collecting MPs before or after their shift towards slavish screen accuracy (around 2015/16) vs those who started collecting before then? How many of us have proportionately more pre-2015 MPs vs post-2015 MPs, and to be fair, proportionate to the number of MPs produced in those periods? And the fact that TakaraTOMY are now pumping out more MPs than they did before indicates that the line has been a strong seller.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
At the end of the day we all vote with our wallets. If people want to get an MP but circumvent the "vote," then just get the toys second hand. That way you're not adding money into TakaraTOMY's pockets -- that vote was already cast by the toy's original owner. Plus getting MPs LMIB even a few months after its release date is significantly cheaper (as Japanese fans prize sealed mintiness). Often these toys will have been opened but rarely handled if at all -- they're really loose mint. It's just that the sticky tape's been broken.
On King Cheats, the 2 of Spades is red and the 5 of Diamonds is black (blue).
https://i.ibb.co/nP2cvMB/botbots-kingcheats0.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/zbCV8gR/botbots-kingcheats1.jpg
Well I had been thinking of ordering myself a hound (to go with Ravage, and I have a 3D printed cage to keep him in too!), but hasn't been following the QC issues. If the toy is breaking down days or weeks after opening then I'll have to hold off. Is it all of them, or isolated cases?
Isolated cases, but a fair number of them. I've stopped transforming my MP Hound after the cases became more prevalent. I now keep him permanently displayed in robot mode (with my BT Hound displayed in Jeep mode). Basically it's like the worst case of Brittle Plastic Syndrome ever, because even Gold Plastic Syndrome takes years if not decades to manifest, whereas Hound's Green Plastic Syndrome is showing up only weeks after opening in the hands of careful adult collectors.Quote:
Originally Posted by reillyd
But yeah, I treat my MP Hound as I do with other toys w/ BPS. He's more of an overglorified Action Master. :( The last known BPS toy that I tried super-carefully transforming was Chewbacca (the rear half of the Millennium Falcon TF)... and yeah, broke the arm off (which I've since super-glued back on and now he and Han Solo are permanently displayed in Corellian cruiser mode - but even then, this was a good 13 years after I'd bought the toy!).
This is not so much a thing I never noticed as much as a thing I have new appreciation of.
I just wanted to point out that the designing of the Transformers figures since Combiner Wars has been amazing - providing figures that fit well with the line before and the line after.
Combiner War really is a great bridge between the old CHUG line and the newer lines and could really fit either way.
TFTM (Cartoon) used Fist of the North Star animation. How good were the 80's!
This has probably been posted already :cool:
Yeah, when I visited the Toei Movie Village in Kyoto, there was an anime timeline on a wall showing all the anime series that they made, which included Fist of the North Star. More importantly, it also included Transformers but the timeline only showed the Transformers series made exclusively by Toei and did not include stuff made in collaboration with Sunbow. :( So it only showed stuff from The☆Headmasters to Zone. :( I guess they only wanted to display things produced by Toei. <shrugs>
Not only "Scrapper" and "Mixmaster," but the card art of all of the Late G1 Constructicons are entirely different works of art from the Early G1 Constructicons - many of them being emulations but not exact duplicates of their Early G1 art. :eek: Whereas the G2 Constructicons' card art are all just recolours of their Early G1 art.
Big Horn
https://i.ibb.co/6RLZtGK/constructic...orn-compar.jpg
Desmond
https://i.ibb.co/7Jj6Xf0/constructic...ond-compar.jpg
Evicerater
https://i.ibb.co/3mD7n6R/constructic...tor-compar.jpg
Heavy Lode
https://i.ibb.co/BC7sktV/constructic...ode-compar.jpg
Hooks
https://i.ibb.co/WphpdzJ/constructic...oks-compar.jpg
Ventus Lamina
https://i.ibb.co/txQCpZK/constructic...ina-compar.jpg