A Transformers Thread

So I saw AOE Voyager Hound the other day along with Galvatron, and snagged them both because they can be hard to find. Galvatron is... okay. Decent design but too much shellforming, and the colors don't do the detail of the figure justice. Hound... is the best figure of the line by far. The only weird things are the joints looking like a door hinge instead of a humanoid elbow and somewhat odd placement of kibble on his hands. Some expressed disappointment in his deco, but while you could do more it doesn't feel unpainted (his chest has a grey piece with a red dot in the middle, breaking up the green). There are some small touches like the silver and gold dots on his shoulders and some of the features of his robot mode like exhaust pipes and rails are a different color and show through.

For me, a good deco should have at least three solid colors, with the dominate color no more than 75% of the figure. Ideally, you have a primary color for about 50% of the figure. Then a secondary color upwards of 30%. Then fill in the details with contrary colors to make everything pop, like yellow on green or blue and orange.

Interesting bit of a trivia the TV show mentioned in Minewipe's Marvel Universe Bio My Mother The Car is an actual show!

It's not really new or particularly notable. Marvel comics would often reference existing existing show or media (Rarely ever show them for legal reasons, but mention them yes). See: A lot of Spider-man's quipping.

In this context you're talking about a show 20 years off the air when this comic was printed. It'd be like referencing MASH or Dallas today. Heck, the GI Joe Comics had a character watching Cheer! (And annoyed at its cancellation!)

Marvel UK also had Shockwave watching The Honeymooners to learn about humans.

My Mother The Car itself is rather notable as one of the inspiration for The Simpsons in their Spin off special for "The Love-o-Matic Grampa" where Grampa Simpson is reincarnated as a love tester machine.

Actually "Dead person reincarnates as something weird" is sort of a surprisingly common TV Pitch. My Mother The Car, Poochinski...

edited 4th Sep '14 10:05:38 AM by Ghilz

(Shrugs) I was just reading through the TF Bios and got amused at some of the quirks given to the characters. Mindwipe's caught my eye about his interest in an Earth TV shows and I was curious if My Mother The Car was even a real show.

edited 4th Sep '14 10:16:58 AM by WorldTurtle

has Tansformers always had the hottest character names or what?

Not always.

There used to be, before the Web 2.0 era, a "fan award" ceremony that used to be based on popular vote, the ceremony being essentially a giant fan fic.

Anyway, it had a "Worst name" category. Featuring:

• Fart Windbreaker
• Prowl 2 (Electric Boogaloo)
• Loafer
• Drill Nuts
• Rodney (Not a human!) (See also Joe and Alan. Also not humans)
• Erector
• Nightbeat

The IDW comic makes fun of this, one character (I don't remember who offhand) complains about his name, saying that "All the good names were already taken" so he was left with his.

edited 7th Sep '14 5:25:16 AM by CobraPrime

I had that Generation 1 Nightbeat toy.

In fact, I might still have it somewhere in my room (though I'd long since lost the head).

Also, I gotta agree that Drill Nuts and Erector are pretty bad names.

I mean, Windbreaker is bad, but Drill Nuts? Why would you name anyone that?

I remember my cousin having Optimal Optimus and Transmetal Rattrap toys. This was a long time ago though.

I just had a moment of Fridge Horror assuming there was a Stable Time Loop in play and the Beast Warriors were supposed to go back in time (The Covenant of Prime and the Nemesis crashing where it would be later found in the G1 Episode "Microbots"). Rampage is still alive, in Deep Mental, when we first meet Depth Charge he's in the present and has his computer scan for Rampage's energy signature, which the computer detected.

Which means Rampage has either been in hiding or he's still in pieces, scattered across the ocean floor, too damaged to repair himself for the last four million years...

edited 7th Sep '14 8:52:44 PM by WorldTurtle

Didn't he pick up the signal before he went through the... Timey Wimey Rip? Maybe it just guided him to Rampage's last known coordinates in the present... which is now the past of the future of... why do I taste metal?

It's worth it to not think too hard about anything relating to Depth Charge. Like "Why is he a Transmetal?" (besides that they had to think of some way for an aquatic transformer to get around) or "Why is he even in the show when non-Transmetal Cybershark is the coolest of all aquatic Transformers?"

No. His computer did a scan of our solar system and it highlighted the Earth, "Energy signature of Protoform X detected".

Well you actually do SEE him being transmetalized. I just assumed the portal was a side effect of the Quantum Wake that transmetalized the rest. Which was itself a time and space do-hicky.

On second thought: Maybe not Rampage, but Dinobot II (if his spark is still Rampage's but with the original Dinobot's personality now dominant). We never did see the body...

edited 9th Sep '14 3:33:49 PM by WorldTurtle

Well, when the Decepticons find their ship in G1 in Microbots, Dinobot isn't to be found. Maybe he repaired himself, and has been wandering the earth ever since.

Well in the episode Victory he was intending to go Walking the Earth after the Maximals left… guess he finally got to go do that.

"I'm stuck on ancient Earth for the next 4 million years with Waspinator" ... "Optimus, Vermin please come back!"

edited 15th Sep '14 12:13:07 PM by WorldTurtle

Bump.

Well, I, for one, didn't see this coming.

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/other-news-20/the-hub-no-more-discovery-to-rebrand-the-hub-and-take-larger-stake-181163/

It doesn't sound like it'll affect the production of the next Transformers show, but this is still pretty noteworthy.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!

edited 18th Sep '14 4:36:27 PM by Nexus

Like I said, I never saw it coming.

Speaking of things that no one ever sees coming:

In recent Transformers IDW comic news, Brainstorm's apparently a bad guy.

Now who saw that coming?

edited 19th Sep '14 5:44:38 AM by TargetmasterJoe

Well it's not exactly surprising. In hindsight, he's probably the most logical pick for a Decepticon plant on the crew.

He's a guy that makes WM Ds for shits and giggles, and he's shown a rather... loose morality by autobot standards (See him mentioning he'd make weapons as horrifying as possible to shock the ethics comity who oversaw his work during the war.

edited 19th Sep '14 10:53:34 AM by Ghilz

Oh.

Well, I still didn't see it coming.

And to be fair, didn't he mention that he himself knew that bringing Overlord on board the Lost Light was gonna bring nothing but trouble?

I wonder if they'll either make him do a Heel–Face Turn and redeem himself or get him Killed Off for Real. I really hope it's the former.

Wait, there's a new Transformers show?

Guess it's time for me to finally get into this universe...

edited 20th Sep '14 7:44:45 AM by Stratofarius

There will be. We were talking about IDW's G1 comic though.

Bump.

Hey, does anyone think John DiMaggio would make for a good Wheeljack? As in the one from IDW?

In fact, if we were gonna get any form of the IDW-verse that has voice acting, I'd like to hear the following:

• Stephanie Sheh as Windblade
• Amanda Céline Miller as Chromia and
• Cristina Valenzuela as Nautica

Thoughts?

EDIT: Speaking of Wheeljack, he's officially back! And they're starting to build up the Combiner Wars storyline! Isn't that exciting? Also, Sarah Stone still draws T Fs like a boss.

edited 26th Sep '14 7:36:56 AM by TargetmasterJoe

I apologize for double-posting, but…

Well, isn't this something? http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/disney-leaving-mattel-for-hasbro-hasbro-will-begin-production-in-2016/31383/

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