A Transformers Thread

Because one of the biggest franchises in all Western Animation deserves its own thread, right? Here we can discuss our favourite series, Optimus death, change that ruined transformers forever, etc.

Wow, this threads been here for hours and nobody has anything to say?

Western Animation gets disappointingly little action, come to think of it.

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This'll get me flak, but I still prefer the Beast era to G1.

mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really.

Well, as long as you don't prefer Headmasters to G1 I don't think anyone will hate you.

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I like Transformers Animated.

Bite my shiny metal ass.

Animated was awesome, too bad it had to end.

I don't have too much to say.

And they killed off Starscream! What kind of cruel world is this?

Anyway, Animated is the only series I find the human characters likable.

Also, Shockwave is AWESOME!

Bite my shiny metal ass.

Looking forward to Transformers:Prime. The desings seem like a hybrid of the live-action movies and a lil of Transformers:Animated. They even have Bulkhead!

A wish is never free.

Actually, with Prime it looks like they're going for the Energon/Cybertron approach of CGI Transformers and cel-animated humans.

I've seen a lot of references to the Autobots 'bonding' with humans. I this going to be like a Powermaster thing?

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Just as long as its not like Kiss Players...

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To be honest, I prefer the Beast Wars / Beast Machines to any other instalment in the franchise.

Ladies and Gentlemen, shall we discuss Transformers Prime?

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I rather like what I've seen of the art style. It looks like they've smashed the styles of Animated and Beast Wars together into a glorious blob of coolness.

Whether it'll look as good in the final production remains to be seen.

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You notice that the kids are the same ethnic mix as was mandated for Armada? There's the white boy, the Hispanic boy, and the east Asian girl.

edited 14th Oct '10 3:56:20 AM by VampireBuddha

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To be honest, I've not really been all that big a fan of anything since G1. I don't, however, go all RUINED FOREVER! fandumby about it.

The less said of Bayformers  ^*

, though, the better.

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I don't really understand the hatred for the Michael Bay design. If we ever discover Transformers IRL, that's probably what they'd look like.

I, for one, am a big fan of the designs.

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I don't think it's the designs people had a problem with, it just how the characters were used. There's seems to be a lot more focus on the human characters than the Transformer characters.

The designs in the first I didn't mind, though mostly they didn't impress, either. I only have Google images for the designs of the second movie, as the first one's story was so blech-y I didn't bother going to see the sequel. The human focus was only part of my disappointment, though I will admit I did like seeing some humans who weren't just useless ugly bags of mostly water, even before the "Spooky" came in and opened up an industrial sized can of whupass and dakka on the scorpion bot whose name escapes me at the moment.

All in all I just didn't care for the first one, and nothing I've heard of the second makes me feel I missed anything by not seeing TF RotF.

edited 14th Oct '10 6:05:05 AM by Nohbody

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I actually kinda-sorta enjoyed Revenge of the Fallen, believe it or not.

I consider it the first sign that I'm going senile.

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I thought it served it's purpose quite well- it managed to accurately capture the mayhem and utter violence of a robot war.

Besides that, there's not much else to say about it, but since when is Michael Bay known for making artistic tour-de-forces?

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Bah, the only humans I liked in that movie were the soldiers.

Animated actually had the right idea with using Sari, in my opinion.

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Sari was awesome.

I once dated a girl who cosplayed as her.

edited 14th Oct '10 10:33:45 AM by CrowT.Robot

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-thumbs up, grins-

With the armour?

I'm only up to episode 9, but I've seen her older form.

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The older form, yes.

Also, I really need to play WFC... is it worth picking up?

edited 14th Oct '10 11:53:53 AM by CrowT.Robot

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By the looks of it, yeah. Is also supposed to be relevant to Prime.

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War For Cybertron is quite fun.
It is definitely the best Transformers game made to date.
(Not that that is a particularly difficult achievement, given the competition...)

As a rabid Transformers fan(over 400 toys at last count and I haven't taken a new inventory since the first Bay movie came out), I'd rank my favorites as follows:

1. G1 - I'll chalk a lot of this up to nostalgia, admittedly. I groan here and there when I re-watch them on DVD, but G1 defined the Transformers. It's rough in patches and overly silly in others. It setup everything to come after it and has shaped nearly every TF story, character, and generation that followed in ways that vary from blatant to subtle. Despite all it's flaws, though, it worked, and it worked well.

2 & 3. Gonna cheat here. Tie between Beast Wars and Animated. I like them both for very similar reasons. The stories were well plotted and shifted well between one-off episodes to plot-driven arcs. I feel they both also keep that precious balance of epic story, humor, and introspection in respectable ratios. Also, by keeping the cast relatively small, it allowed for much deeper character development in both cases. I've been thinking and comparing the two in my head for about 20 minutes now and I've realized that I can't pick one over the other. Tie game.

4. R.I.D. I liked R.I.D., I really enjoyed it, but it's just a little too heavy on the silly side. Admittedly, the American version cranked the silly factor way overboard. The original Japanese version was less silly, but not by enough. If it weren't for the super silliness and too-large cast, it would've been a three way tie above. (C'mon, a flying shark that talks only in rhymes? I wanted to kill Sky-Byte as badly as G1 Wheelie. Grrr.)

edited 16th Oct '10 4:16:50 AM by ArcanGenth