Transformers general thread - Toy Robot men based on giant robots based on previously mentioned toys about said robots

King Of Braves said:
Somehow found SS Sentinel Prime, B-127, and Scrapper all way earlier than I expected. I've only opened Sentinel so far and he's pretty great. The official pictures did not do his paint a service. In hand, his colors are much more screen accurate. Jet mode suffers from the usual "robot underneath a plane" kibble but it does pretty well at hiding it. I love that this figure includes his battle mode from the movie as well, popping out no less than 12 extra blasters and changing his silhouette quite a bit. Then everything just cleanly folds away for his normal robot mode. Certainly the definitive TFONE Sentinel toy, even though there weren't many options.
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Sentinel was one of the very few cases where a newer form of media made me want to consoom.

Just the stars aligning, one of my favorite actors playing a favourite character of mine, not phoning it in and actually being the second best voice actor in the film, essentially being the best version of Sentinel, ever all while being made of a lot of deep-cuts for lorefags (looking like Nominus, coloured like Animated and Sunbow Sentinel, the personality of Nova Prime and the “apex mode” of IDW Sentinel) it was great. Robot Handsome Jack and robot Kratos carried that film.
Hope Eradicated said:
Garry Chalk is doing better.

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It was about time for some good news, love to see it.
 
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i got railracer complete.
well, "complete", railspike does normt have his head and midnight express does not have his weapon, but i'm not paying out of my ass for something that will remain in combined mode nearly 99% of the time.
he's neat, but a lot shorter then a guy made out of trains sounds like.
give us legacy commander railracer hasblo!
 
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Looks like the unwanted child of MP-10 and TW-M01.

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Red flaming panda said:
All they have to do is get Daniel Johnson to direct their next big TV show and a fuck load of money. It would make bank, I tell you.
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Just do X-Men 97 but for Sunbow, get Johnson, get good animation slaves, it’ll make money. The legend of the 86 movie would gurantee people would watch, not everyone knows the Sunbow show, the movie? Legendary for the first thirty minutes and it being free on YouTube/open season for reaction channels.

Hell, start it with a Bayverse-style serious narration then reveal it’s Optimus practicing a speech and then he says,

“No, far too dark.”
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Travoltron said:
The new CGI anime has started. It's really cheap looking. They're too lazy to even animate the characters' faces.
It's schlock for little kids. Which is fine, I guess. Making Transformers edgy and adult has never worked. Something in the middle would be nice.
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It looks like it's got more of a story than Jobraver, so that's more than I was expecting.
 
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Travoltron said:
Making Transformers edgy and adult has never worked. Something in the middle would be nice.
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I disagree. The comics have done it quite well for a while. The closest thing to "edgy and adult" we've gotten in animation are the Bayformers and the problem there was fourfold.

1) Humans are the main characters. Humans should never be the main character, they should be sidekicks and/or tools to move the plot along.
2) Character designs are busy and confusing, very difficult to follow in motion. You should be able to see a transformation in progress and have a general understanding of what goes where between forms.
3) Character deaths should be meaningful and purposeful, not just an excuse to cycle in new toys. Optimus going on a face-taking spree should feel like he's caused incredible damage to Decepticon leadership, not like he slapped down some faceless drones.
4) Transformers are not "robots" they are technological organisms. Bayformers were far too mechanical. They should be able to push their limits in a fight, continue fighting through severe damage. Transformers One did a much better job in their fight choreography, especially in the final encounter between Optimus and Megatron where you can see how much more powerful they'd both become. They beat on each other with enough force that would devastate lesser bots. You literally see Optimus 1v3 the leaders of the High Guard in the film in seconds.

What I'm saying is I really want Transformers Two.
 
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King Of Braves said:
I disagree. The comics have done it quite well for a while. The closest thing to "edgy and adult" we've gotten in animation are the Bayformers and the problem there was fourfold.

1) Humans are the main characters. Humans should never be the main character, they should be sidekicks and/or tools to move the plot along.
2) Character designs are busy and confusing, very difficult to follow in motion. You should be able to see a transformation in progress and have a general understanding of what goes where between forms.
3) Character deaths should be meaningful and purposeful, not just an excuse to cycle in new toys. Optimus going on a face-taking spree should feel like he's caused incredible damage to Decepticon leadership, not like he slapped down some faceless drones.
4) Transformers are not "robots" they are technological organisms. Bayformers were far too mechanical. They should be able to push their limits in a fight, continue fighting through severe damage. Transformers One did a much better job in their fight choreography, especially in the final encounter between Optimus and Megatron where you can see how much more powerful they'd both become. They beat on each other with enough force that would devastate lesser bots. You literally see Optimus 1v3 the leaders of the High Guard in the film in seconds.

What I'm saying is I really want Transformers Two.
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I think skybound does a pretty good job, too it takes a great mix of mechanical and organic in a weird way, like prime ripping off his arm or the shit that happened with Magnus.
 
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King Of Braves said:
I disagree. The comics have done it quite well for a while. The closest thing to "edgy and adult" we've gotten in animation are the Bayformers and the problem there was fourfold.

1) Humans are the main characters. Humans should never be the main character, they should be sidekicks and/or tools to move the plot along.
2) Character designs are busy and confusing, very difficult to follow in motion. You should be able to see a transformation in progress and have a general understanding of what goes where between forms.
3) Character deaths should be meaningful and purposeful, not just an excuse to cycle in new toys. Optimus going on a face-taking spree should feel like he's caused incredible damage to Decepticon leadership, not like he slapped down some faceless drones.
4) Transformers are not "robots" they are technological organisms. Bayformers were far too mechanical. They should be able to push their limits in a fight, continue fighting through severe damage. Transformers One did a much better job in their fight choreography, especially in the final encounter between Optimus and Megatron where you can see how much more powerful they'd both become. They beat on each other with enough force that would devastate lesser bots. You literally see Optimus 1v3 the leaders of the High Guard in the film in seconds.

What I'm saying is I really want Transformers Two.
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The Bayformers were too fragile, this is a Great War past the million year mark, being fought by the original combatants, they can take punishment, it’s part of their stalemate. Chaos Theory expertly touched on the idea that Optimus and Megatron have made numerous attempts on each other’s lives and not only are they both too stubborn to die, but they are not in any of their original parts. Devastation even had Optimus do a Master Chief orbital drop.

Not every Cybertronian should be shrugging off anti-tank rounds but the Bumblebee movie had it right, even the small ones are incredibly dangerous living weapons platforms.
 
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Been on the fence about ordering some blokees after finding out you can order full boxes of them to get the whole set including the one you're after because money issues and I don't want to resell them since trying to sell shit no matter how low the price never pans out for me. 60 something dollars for a box set of 7 dollar kits is an ok price but still yeah life and shit whatever. Fuck people trying to sell the chase figures for 80-100 on ebay that's gay as hell.

Anyways, saw amazon had some of their exclusive 2 packs on discount that wasn't a markup and then markdown deal like tey did with the kingdom and wrecker exclusives they couldn't sell a year or so back. Ordered the bludgeon and ruckus one and got it the same day for once! Usually same day free shipping ends up delayed for like a week anywhere that advertises it, amazon included.
Never got around to reading IDW transformers in full and I don't think I ever read the bludgeon plotline thing, but I found out the design from IDW was actually not an original concept but was just a reuse of a cancelled energon bludgeon design which kind of explains a lot about the coloration and why the design kinda appealed to me aesthetically. Probably also helps they have the torso resculpted to be bludgeon's torso which they for some reason didn't do for the first bludgeon retool from tarn. His leg skirt things are a little too tight and need to be manually rotated before or during the time I move the legs which is unfortunate, and the yellow is technically that swirly gold that looks like yellow they used for jhiaxus' hands. Really hope this doesn't start disintegrating in a few years.

Travoltron said:
The new CGI anime has started. It's really cheap looking. They're too lazy to even animate the characters' faces.
It's schlock for little kids. Which is fine, I guess. Making Transformers edgy and adult has never worked. Something in the middle would be nice.
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Well animated for a clearly budget production, but it does that annoying thing licensed animations with robot characters have done since the lego hero factory animations about 10 years back where they animate what's clearly supposed to be a moving face like it's some kind of unmoving mask.
 
King Of Braves said:
2) Character designs are busy and confusing, very difficult to follow in motion. You should be able to see a transformation in progress and have a general understanding of what goes where between forms.
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The first two bayformers movies actually did a good job of this despite the overcomplicated alien bug people designs.

Like even if the end result is a shitload of fucking noise visually, You can see every frame if you pause during a transformation sequence and see where things are going.
Devastator from revenge of the fallen is a really good example of what I'm talking about, especially given his reveal scene is expliciitly to show him transforming into robot mode.
 
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Monk Amen said:
I dont get it, why not get the ss86 one over this? Or magic square, or mp10 off ebay, literally anything.
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It's very odd that this optimus has an upscaled siege battle axe. Also it's funny how my initial thought upon seeing ths figure was "mp10 captured optimus' vibe better" lmao
Stilla cool figure though but I wonder what hteir definition of "more affordable" is here.
 
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