A Transformers Thread

Third time if you count Cybertron Sideways being redecoed into both Universe Ratbat and a Botcon Exclusive Scourge.

Edited by Ghilz on May 16th 2023 at 8:08:55 AM

Third party company making a Roller than transforms into Roller in MP scale

(That's to say a Roller as in the Drone Optimus has that turns into a robot mode based on IDW Roller)

I adore it.

Very cute

Rise of Tyranny and Humble Origins. So the Ratbat/Megatron set has an accompanying counterpart: Senator Shockwave (WFC Starscream retool) and Orion Pax (Siege Hound retool). They also look really good.

Man, I JUST got that Orion Pax/ Alpha Trion 2 pack. They couldn't think of anyone else to do?

Edited by Krory on May 16th 2023 at 6:40:55 AM

Siege Hound is a weird pick for Optimus

They decided to give Kup a break.

New video from Chris Mc Feely, with the Basics on the Vehicons.

The Prime Vehicons seemed pretty sentient to me. Where did Chris get that they weren't quite alive like other transformers?

Keyan Carilie, best known for his recent Transformers Combaticons web series, recently uploaded another Season 4 video that uncovers episode plans that pre-date the known Allspark Almanac details. Written by Marty Isenberg, these plans would've had Blackarachnia as the overarching villain. However, Hasbro would reject and force the crew to retool these ideas to be inline with ones featured in the Bayformers films.

Edited by XMenMutant22 on May 20th 2023 at 7:55:36 AM

Honestly, I'm glad Animated Season 4 wasn't made if it had to be movie-mandated by Hasbro executives.

Animated was many things, but it can never truly be an animated adaptation of the live-action Transformers series. Just a cheap paint job that would look off on the characters and story.

What was purposed before the mandated Megatron back on Earth plot - Blackarachnia's Predacons - is far more interesting and unique of a story to tell. I can already tell from the Animated Season 4 mandated plot that Megatron would lose his Magnificent Bastard status as he goes completely crazy with triple changing technology, and the final battle would take place on Earth again.

If I wanted a crazy, insane Megatron, I would go with Prime Megatron. At least that incarnation would feel natural sounding both insane and yet somehow competent and scary at the same time.

Heck, Prime pretty much is the animated adaptation of the live-action films, just with all the good parts emphasized and the bad parts revised or downplayed to the bare minimum.

If Animated Season 4 had been green lighted with this Hasbro mandate, I suspect the bad aspects of the live-action films would be amplified over the good aspects.

I still think a season 4 with Megatron could have been interesting or at least elements of the season such as Kaon coming to Earth and the Organic energon.

All Megatron are a little crazy they just bury it under layers of charisma and savagery.

Be warned about the movie as a whole now. https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/05/26/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-news-conference-in-singapore-spoilers-484752

Warned as in spoilers, or warned as in quality?

I don't know I wasn't warned.

I thought that Rattrap would have been in the Movie especially since Unicron is in because it is the perfect situation to have Rattrap see Unicron and say "We're all gonna die."

Maybe have Rattrap talking with the Maximals Dinobot, Silverbolt, and the Predacons Waspinator and Cicadacon in a room.

Edited by neoamon on May 28th 2023 at 1:21:21 PM

Just been catching up on Transformers animated ( still think it's an odd name, I mean all transformer media is animated.) I love it and has reignited my love for the Transformer franchise. The post-war setting and the inner Autobot conflict were brilliant. I admit I fell off after Cyberverse and War for Cybertron, admittedly I found the reintroduction of the Quintessons to be very well done but the latter was a bit Wangst.

Both it and TF: Prime are now my favorite shows. They both represent transformers at its best: a balance between adventure and drama, developed characters, and a nice use of the human factor.

I really like Sari ( any character voiced by Tara Strong grows on me) it's a pity she does not appear more often in other media.

I find it a bit odd that Hasbro hasn't tried to make a season 4 comic series for animated.

closest thing is the Botcon comic continuation. Which is a decent read.

What exactly do Kup and Arcee's names refer to?

Kup's alt-mode is a futuristic picKUP truck.
"Arcee" is a phonetic spelling of R.C., a common abbreviation of Remote Control toy vehicles.

Kup's name has confused me for literal decades. This whole time, it was just that basic?

Ye.

I think I learned the Pickup Truck detail recently myself.

Arcee was kinda obvious, though I don't think I ever thought about it enough.

Also, here's Rodimus Primal with his latest video on Metal Hawk.

Funny thing. Chris Mcfeely's next video will be Metal Hawk as well. It'll go up this weekend I think.

I think this is the first time the two of them have done videos on the same character so close together.

Life found a way...to net us a new Transformers/Jurassic Park crossover set!

It's another Autobot vehicle vs. Decepticon Dinosaur, this time it's Autobot JP12 vs. Decepticon Dilophocon.

Dilophocon turns into a Dilophosaurus (big surprise) while JP12 turns into a (licensed?) Jeep Wrangler Sahara modeled after the character Dennis Nedry who tried to get out of dodge with a shaving cream canister full of stolen dinosaur embryos...only to meet a grisly (if deserved) fate. To that end, JP12 even comes with his own shaving cream canister just to cement the connection.

...Huh. Come to think of it, it's kinda weird that an Autobot would model his robot mode after a slimeball. Probably should've been an established character like Hound or someone who had a case of "well, I gotta have some alt mode."

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Jun 1st 2023 at 9:41:44 AM

And here's Chris Mc Feely's Metalhawk video.

Not much to say really.

You know, I never thought of it that way, but it does make sense. Charlie kind of is Mikaela if she were the main protagonist instead of Sam.

Yikes.