That's the entire point of it! Using more modern versions of G1 toys (e.g.: Classics, Masterpiece, Robot Masters etc.) or kitbashing them to make them more poseable is cheating because it's not G1-accurate. It's like going to a Medieval/Renaissance Fair and finding someone walking around with an in-period costume that's been made with modern machine stitching!Originally Posted by STL
Whereas a person who goes around with an authentic hand-made costume, sewn in the same or similar method as the period would gain greater praise. That's why I personally really like the costumes in The Lord of the Rings - they could have pressed them from machines but they instead chose to hand-make them (e.g.: each piece of chain-mail is painstakingly hand-made one link at a time). Likewise why I prefer the look of people in Monty Python's Holy Grail and the Life of Brian, where most folks are just filthy and disease-ridden... which is how people lived back in those days!* It's not like a lot of other historical movies where people are walking around with shampooed hair and good dentistry.
It's all about G1-authenticity. It might not look dynamic compared to what toys can do now, but modern toys are not in-period. I'm only sticking to what the toys can do (could have done) in 1986. I've used MS Paint to add in occasional effects, but I've tried to make it minimal and as non-intrusive as possible. This comic is supposed to represent how the movie would look like when you recreated it with your toys as a child in 1986 (or as a grown collector in 2008!
I cheated a bit with my Primal Scream photocomic where I used Classics Grimlock instead of Pretender Grimlock, Masterpiece Starscream as Pretender Starscream and Action Master Jazz as Pretender Jazz... but that's not what I have intended for this series of photocomics. I'm trying to make them as "in-period" and authentically Generation One as possible. You'll notice that I even switch between reissues and originals too - Hot Rod in robot mode car mode is the reissue Targetmaster, but the one in mid-transformations (and with the open canopy) is a 1986 original (the broken roof allowing me to do the open canopy shot). Likewise with Ironhide's transformation in Part 1.
I diverged a bit with Soundwave and Megatron's transformations though - I used Music Label and Smallest Soundwave and Mega-SCF and Smallest Megatron for their transformations in order to show the mass-shifting - since I cannot actually physically shrink the toys IRL.I've digitally cheated with
Sam/MuttDaniel too to make him look tiny compared to Hot Rod**. But I consider these to be necessary cheats... whenever possible I'm trying not to cheat.
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*From Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
"He's a king."
"How do you know?"
"He hasn't got sh** all over him."
**Except for the panel where he's riding the turbo board in front of Hot Rod. That's an unmodified shot. But Daniel's larger size creates the illusion that he's far further ahead of Hot Rod than he actually is!
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