Deceptic0ns Life Story + Rant

[Deceptic0ns]

Whats up, i have just found this site by chance thanks to KillinSpoon and some transformers i am selling on ebay. Well ive been a TF fan since the early 80's when as a kid growing up watched the show religiously every morning and begged my parents every time we went out to buy me a TF. I did manage to get a few back in the 80's but i was never able to convince them to splash out the big bucks (!) for Ultra Magnus who i desperately wanted, along with the constructicons.

In the 2000's i noticed reissues coming out at Toys R Us by chance one day and as soon as i saw Ultra Magnus i snapped him up and that got me back into collecting. I tried mainly for G1 reissues and original loose G1's for my collection but would pick up any i liked. Which brings me to now when i am selling most of my collection to help me move. I will be holding onto my G1 reissues, masterpiece's and a couple of other fav's which will form the backbone of my new and improved collection (muhahaha) that i intend on getting stuck into once i have settled into my new residence.

So basically i have been collecting TF for about 25 years on and off, i am now 29 and really i cant see today's toys getting close to the quality and coolness of those original TF's that i used to see lining every shop wall that i would go into. The joy of entering a newsagent and seeing a vast display of TF's for sale was a great time, and just doesn't happen these days. Robots that transform, have an awesome show, great comics, great packaging and some suspect movies from Michael Bay (who has no idea) what could be better. On the new movies, for crying out loud, listens to the fans and puts in devastator and makes an absolute joke of it, looked garbage. Original green devastator would have almost saved that movie. For the next one, Grimlock and Soundwave awesome battle could save the series but i wont get my hopes up. 1st movie had potential but that went out the window for RoTF and neither come close to the Original Motion Picture. The End.

[Deceptic0ns]

Thought i should mention my username has been my username on Xbox Live for the last 4 years, and ill try and post up some pics of my collection once i have moved, i never got any before i moved a few years ago when it was in all its glory.

[BigPenney]

Welcome aboard Deceptic0ns

[liegeprime]

Welcome to the forum, can't wait to see pics of your collection room once it's all set up in your new house!!

[5FDP]

[Vector Prime]

[GoktimusPrime]

really i cant see today's toys getting close to the quality and coolness of those original TF's that i used to see lining every shop wall that i would go into.

In terms of overall engineering and construction, I'd say today's Transformers are better made than G1. Consider the following:

(1) Contemporary Transformers are far better articulated & pose-able than G1 Transformers.


(2) Contemporary Transformers are more durable than G1 Transformers. Just earlier this evening I was playing with RtS Special Ops Jazz at a playground where I had him hanging off a net at a height of about 1.65m... then this little girl bumped it and he fell smack on the floor below. The toy's still fine. If that'd been 1984 G1 Jazz I don't think it would've fared so well.


(3) Contemporary Transformers have more detailed sculpting and detailing. The idea of using stickers to add details seems crude by comparison.


Now I'm not saying that G1 toys are bad... they generally were very well engineered for their time. However HasTak have come a long way in the last 27 years.

The joy of entering a newsagent and seeing a vast display of TF's for sale was a great time, and just doesn't happen these days.

I personally never saw Transformers being sold in newsagents. Although newsagents were a vital source for me in obtaining TF comic books as I didn't discover comic book stores until the 1990s.

On the new movies, for crying out loud, listens to the fans and puts in devastator and makes an absolute joke of it, looked garbage. Original green devastator would have almost saved that movie.

I don't think having Devastator in complete green would look that good. IMO Devastator's Diaclone colours looked better and I prefer the more realistic and varied colours of ROTF Devastator. The more simian stance is something that occurred due to consideration to laws of physics. A robot that size and immense mass standing completely erect like a human would make it more cumbersome to stand and move - particularly with any ferocity for fighting.

My gripe with the Constructicons is:
+ No character development. They were treated like set pieces rather than characters.
+ Killed by off-screen human cannon. Yeah, I know it's plausible, but I would've liked to see the Autobots take him out.

1st movie had potential but that went out the window for RoTF and neither come close to the Original Motion Picture.

The original 1986 Transformers The Movie was a box office flop. While Transformer fans like us love it, general audiences didn't and critics gave it scathing reviews. Think of it this way - if you knew nothing about Transformers, Transformers The Movie is not a terribly engaging movie. One of the great things about the first live action movie was that anyone could get into it, and lot of people enjoyed it, not just Transformer fans.

I agree that ROTF was weaker than the first movie though. ROTF had some good moments, but also some bad moments... it was a rather "bipolar" movie jumping from hot and cold. Hopefully Dark of the Moon will be better (couldn't be possibly worse, right? )