What would you dread the most in relation to Transformers

[BigTransformerTrev]

For me it's TOTALLY the No. 1 you had: Fire burning all my TF's to nothing. I've never managed to get them insured properly and would never be able to replace them all. Plus I live in an area which has had 9 days which have been 40+ in the last 2 weeks.

So my top 3 would be:

Man, that's actually kinda scary! You don't live around a lot of scrub do you?

I'ts mostly farming country round here, and what scrub there is is near the Murray River, in fact despite it can be a desert at times I'm not sure we've ever had a bushfire up here. That said, I've got 10 acres of stubble next to my house that would go up in a second if someone put a match to it

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I fear two things being broken into and fire.

[Waxpython]

I fear two things being broken into and fire.

im sure that neither the fire or the thief will go for the fancy toys and will instead help themselves to that big fancy television

[Slag]

Fire over everything else.. i've often thought about which ones i'd save if my house was burning down.. never came up with an answer though..

[Bidoofdude]

Can you explain the second one? I'm intrigued.

I don't want to give them ideas but I rewatched Dark Awakening (zombie Prime) and the idea flashed in my mind of an MP10/Masterppiece Op with cracked windshield and broken face and body reprolabels. I thought that idea was pretty cool at first but it would give me episodes if it ever came to light...

[Paulbot]

At the moment I'd dread:
1. IDW abruptly and mid-story cancelling the current titles (DW style)
2. The mainline shifting younger (Rescue-Bots style conversions and figures being the norm.)
3. Losing TFs in the mainstream shops (Kmart or Big W stop stocking TFs altogether)

[Bartrim]

3: Transformers going back to a predominately 'animal based alt-mode' era rather than 'vehicle alt-modes' (it's why I stopped buying most G1 Decepticons back in the day and I pretty much ignored Beast Wars. Sorry, but I want my heroes to turn into trucks and sports cars - not gorillas and rats, and my bad guys to turn into tanks and jets - not ants and crabs. Liked the cartoon, didn't care for the figures).

Yeah thats a big one for me. I generally have no interest in animal transformers. Ironically though when I first got back into collecting the first figure I bought was Leo Breaker

This. I dread never seeing a good modern Transformers movie. I mean, I enjoyed the first one, but I'm not sure that I'd recommend it to anyone.

Yeah but you'll still go and see TF4 when it comes out like all of us hoping that things have gotten better.

[Megatron]

What I would dread in relation to Transformers if these things were to ever happen:

1. Megatron being turned into Galvatron...
2. Starscream getting killed and becoming a ghost..
3. Soundblaster ()
4. Gunnn not T-Rexxx!!!1!
5. My favorite characters repeatedly getting killed in various ways..
6. (Really) bad fan fiction about my favorite characters all over the interwebz..

And... oh, wait -



Oh and Bidoof in relation to your point 3. All I will say to that is: NEVAAAAHHH!!!!!

[GoktimusPrime]

Aside from personal loss, my big fear is the end of the Transformers franchise. *knock.on.wood*

I mean, I enjoyed the first one, but I'm not sure that I'd recommend it to anyone.

I would recommend the first one. The first one was nice and captured the spirit of the G1 cartoon well. Yes, the Transformers were fairly shallow caricatures rather than developing characters, but that's how they were in the G1 cartoon as well. I've always preferred the G1 comics over the cartoon, and a TF movie that's written closer to the spirit of the comics would excite me more... but I don't think the cartoon is bad either and is certainly endearing in its own way. So to that end, I find the first movie endearing too. I wouldn't recommend Revenge of the Fallen though... when I saw "The Fallen" in the title, it massively shot my hopes up since they've taken a comic book character and placed it in the movie, I assumed that after the cartoon-level writing of the first movie, they were going to ramp things up with the sequel and make it more like the comics. Boy was I wrong!

Dark of the Moon I would mildly recommend. It certainly is a much better effort than ROTF (though that's not hard)... if someone's already seen TF1 and ROTF, I'd say DOTM is watchable. It's not so bad that I would say "avoid it." Heck, if someone had never seen the movies, I'd say just watch TF1 and DOTM... skip ROTF. Heh... it's kinda like Highlander in that regard.

Yeah thats a big one for me. I generally have no interest in animal transformers. Ironically though when I first got back into collecting the first figure I bought was Leo Breaker

Heheh, that is ironic. Even as someone who loves Beast TFs, I still consider Leo Breaker to be an awful toy.

Yeah but you'll still go and see TF4 when it comes out like all of us hoping that things have gotten better.

Damn straight. It's like excitingly looking forward to the next big Lotto Draw or Melbourne Cup punt... I just can't wait for this to happen so I can be disappointed! BRING IT!

And... oh, wait -

Okay, so what do you dread that _hasn't_ happened yet? ;p

Oh and Bidoof in relation to your point 3. All I will say to that is: NEVAAAAHHH!!!!!

It's not going to happen since G1 Megatron's not even illegal in all parts of the world. They're perfectly legal in WA and SA.

[Shirokaze]

1. Hasbro driving the brand into the ground due to:
-Poor marketing/sales choices
-Case assortments that are proven not to work
-Cheapening toys
-Rising retail prices

2. Bumblebee not going away. I bet he and Prime will be the only members of the team that stay on for TF4.

3. Hasbro listening to you lot and not giving us more BW