They managed to make the earthspark kids look like actual people lmao I had to do a double take.
My God, that was beautiful. The best I've seen in the past 6-7 years...10 maybe too.
Watch lunatics claim this is racist or something
That was awesome, loved seeing the characters from across the years in scenes together.
What they'd probably do if they did anything like that would make some stink about "representation" or something. Or do what journos did when the live action sonic movie delayed to fix the cgi from the initial trailer and call it "enabling toxic fanboys" or some shit.
I personally liked seeing the Battle Beasts. Sad that the kickstarter to bring back Battle Beast like figures never happened.
That split second was the most impressive thing out of the entire animation; I didn't know it was possible to make movie Megatron look cool without overhauling the design entirely, but Megatron's spikiness was translated to look almost like something from Samurai Jack instead of being an overcomplicated mess, while still staying in the ballpark of the movie depiction, just lankier.
Have you ever seen the "armorvor" figures by Onell that are basically just battle beast tribute guys? The person that makes them usually puts out one or 2 variants every few months each year for about a decade now. I finally managed to get a few a year or 2 ago but there's like 3 or so ebay/etsy accounts that literally just buy up the stock as fast as possible and squat scalp on it forever for like 40-80 depending on how shitty they feel like being at that moment. I have like maybe 4 or 5 of a gorilla one that was available on some other guy's site as a collab thing, and three singles of different ones I've gotten each time I've seen them actually stocked since. The reason I got so many of the gorilla one was I liked the color scheme of it and it was the only one available at MSRP because scalpers and resellers didn't notice the thing's existence yet. I didn't buy them to sell, either! The thing about these figures is they're modular and come with alternate heads (and sometimes extra parts) so you can make them into different characters.
Tell me more, I'm interested. I never knew it involved playset-building.
I'd rather watch a Transformers anime made by Studio Trigger than Earthspark, holy shit.
Mattel brought back Dino Riders as a miniature set. MFA Collectables, were going to do some statues of them but never went anywhere, IP was bought by a British company so I had no hope for it. I have a feeling that Mattel is doing so many Jurassic Park/World figures so they can bring back the line as back in 2015 there were talks about a Dino Rider movie of some sort.
The modular playset building was the PRIMARY GIMMICK of imaginext and why it was called that in the first place. When it first came out back in the day it was a series of modular plates with small figures. I got a bunch of the things on clearance or discount back in the day as a kid and used to use them to make weird mazes for my smaller pets out of them. I never sold them off so they're probably in a bin somewhere in the basement gathering dust and hopefully not mold. There was also a tie in movie for some reason that was included with the one of the large castle sets. Ironically it's on youtube too.No clue of the quality but I'll link it in the spoilered thing anyways.
I like how professor sumdac is tied to animated megs. Also the BW/BM part was my favorite bit. Genuinely the best way to celebrate 40 years.
Holy shit that's a blink and you miss it moment lmao. Didn't even see that till rewinding several times just now.
While i do think the stories could have been expanded on, i'd rather have something that's short but fun, instead of something that's a mountainous pile of garbage that continues for way longer than it should (once again referencing IDW here and even Earthspark, despite not being cursed with 3 seasons). I do agree that the best shows are the Transformers anime. RID2001, Victory are some of my favorites and Deathsaurus is awesome. He's one of the best Decepticons in all of Transformers to me and i wish more will be done with him in the future. I quite frankly would kill for another Transformers anime with a similiar style from the 80's or hell even 2000's, just unfortunate that old shows like that don't really get produced anymore. They look aesthetically more pleasing and would be much less expensive than a 3D show
Not necessarily. Look what happened with Gridman -- a wonderful short and then a terrible show. It could be good if they either made a crossover TV show that links all things Transformers into one universe (implied with the Sparkplug/Hot Rod/Dai-Atlas shot, and likely given Takara's obsession with continuity) sans human characters or goonerbait (that Prime Arcee frame scares me) or just made a kids' show that promotes a new toyline and stays in its lane.
You can have something short and fun yet more substantial than fight fight fight, and while you don't need that in TV, you absolutely need it in comics. The Marvel comics proved this.
The issue is that there aren't many 2D robot animators around anymore. All modern animators care about drawing is anime girl panty shots, and they can't even draw that well. The old generation of mecha animators have nowhere to pass their skills, and shows made to train new mecha animators (Buddy Complex and AMAIM) always fail, so the best you can hope for is a 2D frame or two, and in the future the current 3D mecha animators won't have anyone to pass their skills onto because all anime will be fully CG anime girl/Vtumor/Hoyoverse shows and shonen remakes, and all the animators of the future will be able to do is 3D-render bouncing breasts and rape tentacles.
