Animated - what's left?

[Doubledealer]

I think this is a good list and I agree with everything on it. The Soundblaster difference is subtle, so I think the Hasbro one is fine there (although I do have a Takara ACTIVATOR Soundblaster).

Fortunately for me, Fisatron, G2 Sideswipe and Toxitron from Botcon 2011 did not make my list. They're characters from different eras, were never feature din the fiction, and are utterly hideous.

Cheers bud. Like you say, the Hasbro Soundblaster is perfectly acceptable and his Ratbat is probably the nicer of the two versions, it just really bugged me that he wasn't jet black and that's why I ended up getting the Takara release along with the Hasbro one.

Not that I'm trying to temp you Jay () but check out the bio's for those three characters you mentioned, particularly Fisitron and Toxitron. I love the fact that Fistron made Prime's laser axe!!

[LordCyrusOmega]

Thing of beauty, want em all

[Paulbot]

Fortunately for me, Fisatron, G2 Sideswipe and Toxitron from Botcon 2011 did not make my list. They're characters from different eras, were never feature din the fiction, and are utterly hideous.

Depends if you count the BotCon comic as part of the fiction. It's probably the closest to s4 we'll get (at least in the short term).

[Doubledealer]

Thing of beauty, want em all

That's the spirit! How good are the bio's, gotta love the G1 styling

[GoktimusPrime]

"Nemisis Prime"?? ???

Heh, Toxitron is like Bizarro Optimus

[loophole]

Heh, Toxitron is like Bizarro Optimus

i like that line of thinking

[UltraMarginal]

Toxitron is pretty hideous at first, but after you look at him a few times, he becomes more attractive. I think they deco'd him really well, I'd say my least favorite of the whole lot is shattered glass Galvatron, largely because of the mold, but even that one's pretty good.

Fisitron is great though, love his design. Sideswipe is pretty good, doesn't hurt the eyes like other g2 inspired stuff/.

[GoktimusPrime]

I think Toxitron was intended to be a Bizarro Optimus, but of course, the name and concept of Bizarro is owned by DC - but I think it's suggested in the tech specs line "a bizarre duplicate of Optimus Prime" -- and just as Bizarro is like the opposite of Superman in many ways, it seems that Toxitron is the opposite of Optimus Prime.

Bizarro has the same abilities and powers as Superman, but some of them are 'reversed' (e.g. freeze vision instead of heat vision, vacuum breath instead of super breath, vulnerable to blue Kryptonite instead of green Kryptonite etc.) - Toxitron has some traits similar to Optimus Prime, most noteably both have exceptional physical strength. But a lot of Toxitron's features are reversed to Animated Optimus Prime, e.g. Prime's cannon can shoot fire retardant chemicals, whereas Toxitron's cannon shoots corrosive chemicals. Optimus Prime has a high intelligence, whereas Toxitron has a 'stunted intellect.' Toxitron even drives in reverse. Also, Bizarro is meant to be ugly, and I'd say that was the intent for Toxitron too. Toxitron was created as a failed experiment to 'artificially' create a warrior in an Autobot shell - Bizarro was created in an attempt to clone a Kryptonian (Pre-Crisis Bizarros = clones of Zod, Post-Crisis Bizarro = clone of Superman).

RE: Fisitron's function... "weapondry"? So... his function is to dry wet weapons?? Or does someone note know how to spell 'weaponry' (possibly the same person who can't spelly 'nemesis'?). ???

[jaydisc]

Not that I'm trying to temp you Jay () but check out the bio's for those three characters you mentioned, particularly Fisitron and Toxitron. I love the fact that Fistron made Prime's laser axe!!

I love temptation!

For me, it's like this:

Fisitron was/is a bit tempting.

Sideswipe would be HUGELY tempting if he wasn't G2 colored. Can you imagine that toy in a nice, solid red? But both him and Toxitron (even Fisitron a little bit) seem to be part of this fan love of grossly coloured G1.5/G2/Shattered Glass toys that just do absolutely nothing to float my boat (quite the reverse actually).

My distaste for Toxitron is only compounded by the use of the voyager class Pig-Nose Prime mold, which I already have little-to-no time for. Their decision to use that mold for Motormaster almost made me boycott the box set. I don't even use it to represent Optimus Prime in my display because I dislike it so. (Cybertron Deluxe FTW!)

As to whether I'd count the Botcon comic as fiction, if it's sole purpose wasn't to unite this latest round of disconnected figures with the pre-existing fiction, I'd give it more credence. Are Galvatron and Thundercracker in the comic? If so, that would definitely discount it as not having any merit in my world.

Gosh, I miss Animated. It's a shame that it seems key folk at FunPub aren't big fans and this will be their last use (or so it has been theorized).

[Paulbot]

As to whether I'd count the Botcon comic as fiction, if it's sole purpose wasn't to unite this latest round of disconnected figures with the pre-existing fiction, I'd give it more credence. Are Galvatron and Thundercracker in the comic? If so, that would definitely discount it as not having any merit in my world.

No, Galvatron and Thundercracker are not in the Animated comic. Having listened to the comic performed by Transformers voice actors, including David Kaye as Optimus, helps elevate the story and characters a bit more part of the continuity, but it is a case of "you had to be there".