Transformers questions by newbies, and not-so-newbies

[Hursticon]

So I'm watching Animated on youtube. Never seen the episodes before, so i'm trying to get into them now. In the first season, I found it pretty slow with the introduction of the human villains. I got so frustrated with the introduction of yet another human villain when the episode "Headmaster" came up that I ended up skipping the episode completely.

Will I miss anything important if I skip episodes like that?

I'm up to season 2 episode 2 - and wouldn't you know it? "The return of the Headmaster."

@#$%!!!!!!!!!!!

Can I skip these episodes? Is it important to the story line??

The 'Headmaster' story lines are pretty integral & important facets of the overall TF: Animated story, YES - So yeah I'd recommend going back & watching them.

[ITZTRU]

*Sigh*
ok
if i have to...

thanks hursti

[Hursticon]

*Sigh*
ok
if i have to...

thanks hursti

No probs man ; honestly it's worth giving the series an entire thorough watching at least once, as it really picks up once you get past Season 1.
(Trust me, I utterly detested the show until I gave it a go & now I love it )

[GoktimusPrime]

ITZTRU: There's only one more episode with Henry Masterson in it. Thank Primus. I totally agree that the human villains in Animated are just painful to watch... Season 2 is better... but it's like haphazardly hit and miss -- some episodes are great, others make you wanna cry. Season 3 is good (sadly it's the only season never released on DVD ).

You might wanna consider skipping episode #24 (SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy) - the only canonically important event in that episode is that (spoiler): Swindle falls prey to one of his own weapons and becomes locked in vehicle mode (end spoiler)

[Tober]

That is indeed the rumor. TFW member TCracker, who has proved a very reliable source on the Takara masterpiece line stated somewhere in the masterpiece speculation thread (cant find the page, but i did read it. Thats what made me finally pull the trigger on RA. And at that time BBTS only had 8 left so i was lucky.) that if you didn't already have SS or RA, get them now. There will be no reruns due to Lamborghini either pulling or not allowing Takara to renew the license due to some issue Lamborghini has with the toy. That's all he knew though. Although he did believe that because of this there will be no MP-12T Tigertrack, or any other variant. But apparently Sunstreaker is a separate license application so he may not be affected.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Darn!

Thanks tho.

[Trent]

I heard the very same relayed via twitter, hence I promptly hit up eBay for SS & now have him currently in transit; At the time I couldn't afford it when he was 1st issued but this news sort of made me find the money.
I feel that it's likely due to the paint issues which I see as more of a factory problem than a Takara problem, i.e. the people on the factory floor painting the figures weren't used to the quality of paint or construction of the figure.

While its possible thats the case, I personally doubt it. How would Lamborghini know there are numerous paint issues? It's not like they hang out over at TFW or Siebertron so where would they find out it was a widespread issue? Maybe Lambo aren't happy with one of the repaints (like Tigertrack) that Takara had planned?

Dunno. And I doubt we ever will find out officially.

That said, I wonder if we'll ever see an MP Jazz or Bumblebee? - Seeing as though Volkswagen own Porsche and the former is a "Don't even ask" state of affairs. [/SIZE]

But VW own Lamborghini as well through Audi. And VW allowed the official use of an Audi in ROTF. As a decepticon no less. So I don't see the validity of that arguement.

[GoktimusPrime]

But VW own Lamborghini as well through Audi. And VW allowed the official use of an Audi in ROTF. As a decepticon no less. So I don't see the validity of that arguement.

Only in the movie, but not for the toyline though. All the ROTF Sideways toys are just approximations of an Audi R8, but not actually modelled on the Audi R8 itself. So it looks similar enough for people to know that it's meant to be an R8, but dissimilar enough so that Audi won't sue Hasbro. Likewise Ferrari allowed Paramount to use the Ferrari 458 Italia for DotM Dino, but not for the toy -- so Speed Star Mirage is only an approximation of the 458 Italia.

[Bidoofdude]

Movies are different, aren't they?
Toys are a bit more... iffy...

[Hursticon]

But VW own Lamborghini as well through Audi. And VW allowed the official use of an Audi in ROTF. As a decepticon no less. So I don't see the validity of that arguement.

Only in the movie, but not for the toyline though. All the ROTF Sideways toys are just approximations of an Audi R8, but not actually modelled on the Audi R8 itself. So it looks similar enough for people to know that it's meant to be an R8, but dissimilar enough so that Audi won't sue Hasbro. Likewise Ferrari allowed Paramount to use the Ferrari 458 Italia for DotM Dino, but not for the toy -- so Speed Star Mirage is only an approximation of the 458 Italia.

Honestly, Goki has probably said it best; bare in mind too that apart from Alternators/Binaltech & Alternity, almost all automotive-based Alt modes are merely approximations of actual vehicles when it comes to mainline toy lines & never direct representations.

• Note that we've never had a Beetle or 'New' Beetle representation of Bumblebee or a modern Porsche 911 equivalent for Jazz.

[BigTransformerTrev]

I just got a Worlds Smallest Transformer - Thrust. He came packaged and labelled as WST: GTF-11 Thrust. Can anyone tell me what the GTF-11 stands for?