A Transformers Thread

Attention everyone!

The entire second season of Transformers: Cyberverse has finished airing in Australia... yesterday.

Enjoy!

That ginormous Unicron is basically hosed, yes? One week left and still needs 2000+ more backers...

Edited by HamburgerTime on Sep 30th 2019 at 5:15:07 AM

The word on the grapevine is that there's stores taking pre-orders who have not dialed in their preorders to Hasbro, and those will be added the last day / the last week.

Same way the ticker when up 3000 during its last week before it got extended.

At this point I suspect only Hasbro knows.

Edited by Ghilz on Sep 30th 2019 at 2:54:41 PM

And right on call the backer count jumped to 6,800 in a single night.

Other update: Besides the tiny Galvatron, there will be a tiny Rodimus, and a tiny Autobot Shuttle. The hand articulations have also been improved.

Edited by Ghilz on Oct 1st 2019 at 1:00:28 PM

Any thoughts on Cyberverse!Wheeljack? I'm glad that he looks like Jamie Hyneman, er, his Animated self.

850 backers to go, three days remain. Can it be done?

Well it was already renewed once so they are prolly willing to do it one more time when its so close to finishing.

750 to completion

Honestly, I'd not be surprised it fills up to 8000 when the clock runs out. Either from more stores giving their orders, or from Hasbro just taking the 750 themselves to resell at some other point (Assuming hasbro hasn't inflated the number this way already with the few times it jumped in the thousand).

They sort of reach a point where it'd be more shameful to fail so close to completion.

I can't get into Cyberverse because I can't stand that version's Bumblebee.

Edited by RAlexa21th on Oct 4th 2019 at 9:00:54 AM

Skip to season 2 where he can speak again.

Also, 700 to Unicron

Is it the radio bit?

Cause yeah he loses that in the second season completely.

Edited by slimcoder on Oct 4th 2019 at 12:42:08 PM

That's just a minor annoyance. He also acts like an ass.

What do you find donkey-like about him?

Less than 600 to Unicron.

500!

My dislike of consumerism is fighting with my dislike of anticlimaxes over whether I wan't this to succeed!

This has moved like 700 figures in the last 24h I expect it to make it tomorrow

I honestly didn't expect this to turn into a countdown party when I posted that link.

I’m curious what the next project Haslab is gonna focus on.

Edited by slimcoder on Oct 4th 2019 at 11:03:19 AM

Phelous recounts Top 20 dumbest moments from Transformers G1:

Didn't thoses come out a while ago?

Yeah. Couple of years ago actually. Just decided to post it to showcase the funniest dumb Transformers moments.

Edited by VeryVileVillian on Oct 5th 2019 at 10:49:45 PM

Speaking of dumb things I just thought of this.

Ultra Bee from the 2015 RID cartoon is a terrible Combiner. Seriously each of the limbs have autonomous control from each other requiring Bee to manually instruct them meaning in order to make a fist he has to outright tell Swideswipe to make a fist.

Plus the bots are effectively blind in limb state so they can only move by pure feeling which is hard when your a big arm.

That is a terrible implementation of the teamwork lesson. You've effectively made a Combiner that is Awesome but Impractical. Tellingly Menasor & Galvatronus have no such issues, Motormaster & Galvatron can control the entire body & limbs just fine unless someone is actively fighting back.

Edited by slimcoder on Oct 5th 2019 at 1:01:40 AM

I feel much the same way whenever Power Rangers does a similar "control each limb" style. It is more engaging to have each character contribute to a different aspect of the mecha operation: movement in three dimensional space, hand to hand combat, weapon operation and deployment, allocating energy levels to necessary systems and of course the leader issuing commands. In Transformers it's said that the combiners are trying to merge their consciousness together, and the reason the combiners end up so stupid is because they can only agree on being violent. Reminds me of Mythbusters trying to do the Achimedes death ray using reflective shields, coordinating so many people on one simple mechanical goal is difficult.

I got the Studio Series Optimus Prime classic based on the Bumblebee appearance. An utterly beautiful figure, probably the most complex voyager class I've ever seen. The Transformation scheme is wildly atypical considering how easy it could have been but it makes for a really complex but GOOD looking toy. The vehicle mode is a little clunky because it falls into a common trap with overly complex (but typically screen accurate) figures, so many things need to peg in that it's way too easy for something to slip out of alignment.

Less than 500 backers left for the Unicron figure! I wish I could, but then again, I don't yet have my own credit card.

Also, does anyone else want... a Cyberverse Maccadam figure?

Edited by Andrei_Bondoc on Oct 5th 2019 at 8:31:36 PM

Less than 400 now. Went up by 50 in the last hour. It could be done by the end of today.

ETA: 300 now!

200!

Edited by HamburgerTime on Oct 5th 2019 at 4:56:51 AM