A Transformers Thread

Yeah.

It's a good thing it's all still enjoyable.

I think it didn't quite work because you were adding the Merchandise-Driven aspect of the franchise on top of all the difficulties of a Shared Universe. The games got a handful of toys but Prime had issues with trying to integrate the Beast Hunters subline. By Robots in Disguise it had become the only remnant of the Aligned franchise.

Have there been other franchises with a similar mess of ideas yet turned out ok?

Probably Star Trek from about 1991-1999. Specifically about early 1994 you had three TV shows and a movie in some stage of production, and they mostly had different creative groups involved. All things considered it turned out okay, mostly by letting each team do their own thing.

The Aligned Continuity was a mess but Prime can stand on its own. Best think of it as Prime being the core story and everything else be tie-in comics that may or may not be canon.

Kind like the DCAU shows and its tie-comics (that may not be canon due to how many times it gets contradicted by new retcons).

Fair enough.

The Aligned Continuity had some good stuff (War for Cybertron games, and I think Rescue Bots is actually pretty fun even if it's skewed for a much younger audience), but see Prime as top canon and everything else as lower level canon is fine with me.

Double post:

Why are Sunstreaker and Sideswipe seen as brothers, while a lot of characters who share body molds (the seekers, Ratchet and Ironhide, Smokescreen, Bluestreak and Prowl, etc) are not?

According to TFWiki, while there isn't a direct answer for Sideswipe and Sunstreaker specifically, the More Than Meets The Eye comics retroactively introduced "a spark that was being introduced to a protoform naturally split" for a general explanation on twin Cybertronians.

I just watched Carnage in C-Minor and wow. I don't know if I excuse it more because of its simplicity but that was REALLY bad. Nothing made sense, everything was going everywhere.

I'm watching B.O.T. next, wish me luck.

EDIT 1: I'm a minute in and am already dying of laughter. This is horrible.

EDIT 2: Starscream picking up Swindle made me lose my breath. What did I get myself into?

EDIT 3: What is with this animation? I know 80s animation is bad but I never expected it to forget about scale.

EDIT 4: I don't think I've ever sworn at a piece of Transformers media as much as I did. Is it because I'm now more analytical? Is it because I'm in the safety of my own home? Who knows.

Edited by ChicoTheParakeet on Mar 9th 2021 at 8:34:48 PM

The only thing that bothers me about B.O.T. is that the autobots were able to fit inside the school. Ironhide should have been way too big.

But hey, that's Transformers scaling.

Also, I only now realized, in regards to my earlier Sunstreaker / Sideswipe question, that they don't share a body type, but they do share a vehicle form (both being not just Lamborghinis, but a Lamborghini Countach LP 500 S). I always assumed they were different Lamborghinis because of Sunstreaker's intakes on the top, but no. He's just more modified.

The twin spark thing explains a lot.

One final thought in Sideswipe. I was thinking back to the current 2019 series, and him being in the same team with Prowl, Bumper and Strong-Arm.

It took me some time to realize that, similar to how Wings of Honour Sideburn was seen as Prowl's brother is calling back to Sideburns familial relationship with a very different Prowl, him being on a team with Strong-Arm is a mythology gag to RID 2015.

I kinda like when they do stuff like that.

Double Post.

Twelve Million Sons of Bitches!

Rescue Bots has a Musical Episode.

I've watched it three or four times already. Remember: when you rely on rescue bots, you can depend on rescue bots.

Here's a Transformer that actually makes sense to break into parts.
Transmutate now available for preorder.

I decided to finally start actually buying the WFC Maximals figures, before it's too late. Unfortunately I don't see Primal or Cheetor on local shelves anymore, and I'm not going to get Blackarachnia without confirmation that there's other good Predacons coming (I don't want an "all vs two"). In time, I should be able to get the set, though. I know they're available on the website, too.

Huh so thats what Transmutate would have turned into.

Not necessarily. Fossilized dinosaurs are just the thing this series is doing.

What if she turned from one "My life is pain" life form to another, and became Shin Godzilla?

On the news of Kingdom reveals, both leaked and otherwise...

• "BEHOLD! GALVATRON!!!!"
  • Leaked just yesterday, Leader Class Galvatron, to put it mildly, makes the Titans Return Galvatron from a few years ago look so second-rate that calling it "bush league" is being too generous. Seriously, he's even wielding his particle cannon like Megatron. (I'm aware that TR!Galvatron's particle cannon placement harkens to the cartoon and G1 toy, but let's be honest, that placement is unwieldy IMO.) YMMV on the battle damage paint apps on his shins and chest, but he more than makes up for it with his everything else. And you see those blasters? They look just like the ships Unicron hooked Galvy up with and they look like they can scale with the Haslab WFC Unicron!
• "ARISE RODIMUS PRIME!!!"
  • Revealed a few days earlier thanks to Takara, Kingdom Commander Class Rodimus may look Leader sized, but he makes up for it with toy engineering and accessories you wouldn't find in a standard Leader release, like articulated fingers, blast effects, photon rifle, the Sword of Primus from the Regeneration One comic series, and his signature big honking trailer!

^note (Yeah, Kingdom Commander Rodimus Prime got revealed before Kingdom Leader Galvatron, but shush.)

He possesses the rub!

He's possesses the movement!

Huzzah!

https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/new-transformers-show-coming-to-nick.5789716/#post-87756922

It looks like Icon Studios will be doing the animation for the Nickelodeon Transformers series. Their other works are mainly with Disney, like on Goldie And Bear, Elena Of Avalor, TOTS, The Rocketeer, and Monsters At Work.

So Vince DiCola made an alternative theme for the movie once upon a time, but they used the Lion theme instead.

I still think this should have been the Season 3 theme, but what do I know?

I still prefer the regular season 3 opening, but I like how this one has some beats from the themes played during the movie (the Autobot-City battle).

The same theme was somewhat remixed in the series as (odd since those guys weren't in the cartoon) Wreck and Rule

Though yeah, not the exact same theme as you can tell by listening.

x3: Guess we're sticking with the 3DCG era of Transformers cartoons for the Nick series. I thought The Rocketeer looked pretty fantastic for TV 3DCG, and Monsters At Work is shaping up to look just as good.

This still plays with the strengths of Nicole Dubuc and Ant Ward, though I'm wondering if the series will be cel-shaded?

Today is a good day for falcons! Not only did one have a really great first episode of his TV show, I picked up an Airazor figure at Target (and a Cheetor).

Man, Paleotrex is already a shelfwarmer... And the sad thing is it was predictable. Warpath is also on that path (no pun intended). But it sucks for Paleotrex that I (and possibly others) might actually want its redeco, specifically because it's Transmutate.

having an Airazor figure is actually pretty special for me. The original figure was the first one I really regretted not asking my parents for the one time I saw it in a store (not that they would have gotten it, but it didn't hurt to ask). That day, seeing that figure in a store, was a happy childhood memory during a stretch of really sad ones.

Edited by wanderlustwarrior on Mar 19th 2021 at 8:51:25 AM

Regarding the Nickelodeon series. Part of me thinks that they went with Nick due to how Cartoon Network dumped Robots in Disguise 2015 and Cyberverse... which is ironic considering the whole Spongebob standard business.

If we get another Transformers series for older audiences, I would love a revival of Animated..... but I know that it would never happen...

I figured all future Transformers series would've been on Netflix given how the War For Cybertron series (I think that's what it's called) is on there, as well as the upcoming Bot Bots series.

Fun fact: Some international Nickelodeon channels aired Transformers cartoons. Transformers Animated aired on Nicktoons Network in the UK. Transformers Prime and Transformers Robots In Disguise (2015) aired on Nickelodeon in Germany while Transformers Rescue Bots aired on Nick Jr in the latter.

We talk about the live-action films here as well, right?

In any case, TFW2005 confirms that Steven Caple Jr.'s "Transformers 7" "will carry out its principal photography in Canada" for "11 weeks, spanning from July to September, before heading to Peru for the next portion of filming". Additionally, the film's budget is reported to be $200 million dollars.

This is the reboot film right ?