Transformers Venting thread!

[Jinto]

A sort of cheaty way around the short arm-i-ness is if you consider the wheel and cover area as the shoulder and rotate the arm forward from there.

That is what I'm talking about. Tye whole wheel assembly rotates too low.

[philby]

I'm sure this has been mentioned a few times already over the years but I think with the latest movie it's ground my gears a little more I haven't seen the movie yet and part of me isn't really sure I even want to, I have a feeling I'm just gonna look at the screen and go wtf is happening now....

I really just hate a lot of the designs for the live action movie Transformers. I find them ugly and hard to look at and all buggy and sharp and jagged and spindly. I also think they seem too humanoid and you should be able to see more of what their alternate modes are. Some of them are just, I dunno, I have no words, WTF??

Drift and Galvatron from the latest movie are what inspired/filled me with rage enough to type this vent.

I mean come on what the hell is this crap? Why is an alien robot warrior who transforms from european supercar to robot have a samurai head??? It just seems so ridiculous and out of place. Fine, if you have a 'Japanese inspired' character like Drift or something just have a Japanese accent or voice artist. The head just looks stupid and is completely out of theme or alignment or I dunno I can't think of the fucken word it just doesn't fit.

I saw a picture of someone's Galvatron they just bought with some of the other current toys and couldn't work out which robot turned into that dark grey and black truck. How the hell do you go from that rounded curvy humanoid thing covered in cables and wires to the truck? He looks stupid! It's just not Transformers to me. Argh! anyway that's my vent

*image from user Mythirax in the aquisitions thread*

[GoktimusPrime]

Yup, I totally agree. The lack of alt mode kibble makes them look less like Transformers. And the Decepticons are even worse, but this is also because in they movie they actually (spoiler) 'scatter'-morph rather than transform in the conventional sense (parts/panel shifting). (end spoiler) And the humanised themed heads/bodies on the Autobots does make it look cartoony and camp. I didn't mind it on toys like Beast Wars Neo and Car Robot, but of course, those were toys that were explicitly aimed at kids, and their accompanying cartoon series were aimed at a very young audience... and it's a cartoon! Seeing it in a photorealistic live action movie setting just looks cheesy. But tbh, it's nothing new -- we had goofy looking characters like DotM Quejack... and characters with bearded faces seem to be getting more organic looking as the movies progress too.

Evolution of live action TF bearded faces


"Themed" robot modes

[Magnus]

Voyager Hound is proving surprisingly difficult to find; none of the shops I've been to seem to have him in stock

Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places

[GoktimusPrime]

Voyager Hound is proving surprisingly difficult to find; none of the shops I've been to seem to have him in stock

Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places

I'm sure I saw some at my local shops. I'll grab one for you if I find one.

[Mythirax]

Voyager Hound is proving surprisingly difficult to find; none of the shops I've been to seem to have him in stock

Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places

I'm still seeing him at every Kmart I've been to in Melbourne, which is quite a few. Might just be unlucky?

[Sinnertwin]

Well, Hound is the most awesomest character in the movie, "I'm a fat ballerina!" so that could explain his lack on store shelves. Being packed only one per box doesnt help either :/

[Magnus]

I've tried two different Kmarts, three Myers, two Targets, a Big W and a TrU over the past week and a bit. No Hound

I'm sure I saw some at my local shops. I'll grab one for you if I find one.

Aww, you don't have to, but thanks!

[griffin]

It's starting to get hard to secure one cheaply online too...
Amazon sold out, and BBTS only have pre-orders of second wave full cases (with just one Hound in the case of four) that I have a feeling they have now missed, as they already got in the second wave some time ago... so I fear that they might not be getting in a refreshment of wave 2.
On the other hand, if you are desperate, but not keen to pay higher secondary price, the Japanese version comes out July 19th, and might look nicer too.

[Sinnertwin]

I've tried two different Kmarts, three Myers, two Targets, a Big W and a TrU over the past week and a bit. No Hound

I've got a Hound at Mt.Druitt put aside for you. Shoot me a PM if you're keen