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Robots in Disguise (Transformers 4! Coming June 29th 2014)

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  • MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    Wait, isn't Prime also in the Cybertron games continuity? So that means ...
    Spoiler:

  • AntimatterAntimatter The First Mechanized Ninja Repent!Registered User regular
    metroid we have to kill you and remove all evidence of your existence now

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  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    whose idea was this anyway

    "oh yeah prime and WfC are the same universe and characters

    ...even though in WfC Starscream was the scientist in charge of messing with dark energon and in prime he's all 'WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT'

    and oh yeah the dinky little kid's cartoon is ALSO the same universe, I guess they're Optimus's second family that he visits during 'business trips'."

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    because even when hasbro tries to be consistent they are inconsistent

    it's kinda sad to watch but at the same time they're trying

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  • AntimatterAntimatter The First Mechanized Ninja Repent!Registered User regular
    Hasbro consistently refers to all Aligned fiction as one "continuity", and while different storylines may appear to contradict each other, "reasons for the confusion will be revealed".[1] However, that ideal is hampered by the fact that various elements of the fiction have separate creative teams with distinct visions that sometimes conflict. For that reason, this wiki takes the more cautious route of calling it a "continuity family". The brand bible's description in Transformers Vault states it paints the Transformers history in broad strokes, so as to give creators the necessary flexibility when crafting their stories, a belief echoed by statements made at BotCon 2011: Archer spoke of a "squint test" where everything can be seen as one family of stories, where only fans would see differences.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    we can't get our shit together because unicron is gnawing on the walls of reality

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Brother of the Bug Registered User regular
    I hate prime

    because

    it's not animated

    NO NINJA PROWL, NO SALE.

    Also, we're learning about primates in Anthropology class, and I I kept thinking TRUKK NOT MUNKY.

    Then I wondered if there was an alternate continuity where beast wars was the original canon, and people screamed MUNKY NOT TRUKK.

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  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    we can't get our shit together because unicron is gnawing on the walls of reality

    Unicron! I told you before, stop gnawing on the reality wall!

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Duly Appointed Enforcer of the Tyrest Accord Robot spaceship that itself contains a spaceship robotRegistered User regular
    Superman needs to punch it harder then.

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  • MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    we can't get our shit together because unicron is gnawing on the walls of reality

    Unicron! I told you before, stop gnawing on the reality wall!

    No! NO!

    Someone grab the squirt bottle, Unicron just won't listen

  • SchideSchide Registered User regular
    Ceno wrote:
    I have no idea what Rescue Bots is, but I just preordered the first season of Transformers Prime on blu-ray.

    I'm back in full swing. Have a subscription for both comic book series with my local shop, Fall of Cybertron is currently my most anticipated game, and now I'm hunting around for toys.

    If that new TMNT series hitting this fall is any good, I'll be partying like it's the 80s all over again.

    You're watching the new Thundercats, right? You know, when they actually bother the show it.

    and oh yeah the dinky little kid's cartoon is ALSO the same universe, I guess they're Optimus's second family that he visits during 'business trips'."

    That's the explanation they actually use as far as I can tell.

    Dichotomy wrote: »
    we can't get our shit together because unicron is gnawing on the walls of reality

    Unicron! I told you before, stop gnawing on the reality wall!

    Stop it SUPERMAN, you're BREAKING THE WORLD!

    Schide on
  • ReignerReigner Registered User regular
    The fact that so many people seem to vehemently hate Prime in this thread saddens me. And the only reason anyone ever gives is "it's not Animated"

    Well Animated "wasn't Beast Wars" and we still liked it. Beast Wars "wasn't G1" and we still liked it.

    Basically shut up and like Prime

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    Reigner wrote:
    The fact that so many people seem to vehemently hate Prime in this thread saddens me. And the only reason anyone ever gives is "it's not Animated"

    well that's just not true

    I've spoken out against the designs, the voice actors, the plots
    pretty much everything you can

    the things with animated being compared to beast wars and beast wars being compared to G1 aren't really cogent arguments because animated is a very recent show with strong designers, voice actors and writers of its own whereas folk only ever hated beast wars compared to G1 because of rose-colored glasses

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  • CenoCeno Chumble spuzz. Registered User regular
    ...I like the Prime designs. They remind me of Bruce Timm's art style.

    Also, I grew up on G1, but I really like that Bumblebee actually looks like a bumblebee now. That is one Bay/Prime design I think is quite clever.

    I don't care about the humans in Prime, but I don't care about the humans in ANY Transformers. Otherwise, I really like it. I've watched enough to make me preorder the season set.

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  • ReignerReigner Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote:
    Reigner wrote:
    The fact that so many people seem to vehemently hate Prime in this thread saddens me. And the only reason anyone ever gives is "it's not Animated"

    well that's just not true

    I've spoken out against the designs, the voice actors, the plots
    pretty much everything you can

    the things with animated being compared to beast wars and beast wars being compared to G1 aren't really cogent arguments because animated is a very recent show with strong designers, voice actors and writers of its own whereas folk only ever hated beast wars compared to G1 because of rose-colored glasses

    But how can you hate Steve Blum, Frank Welker, Peter Cullen, Jeffrey Combs, Ernie Hudson, Adam Baldwin and Clancy Brown.

    The first season plot of any show is always full of growing pain world-building (and fuck a Miko, but I hated Sari too)

    And the comparison argument actually has some bearing because there's always a vocal minority that hates everything that's not the last thing they liked (and then end up liking it). A few years from now they'll be hating the next thing because it's not Prime.

    But I'm also a strong believer in buying a Transformer based on whether or not it's a good toy, not so much the show/continuity of where it comes from. And a lot of the Prime toys are good toys!

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    Reigner wrote:
    But how can you hate Steve Blum, Frank Welker, Peter Cullen, Jeffrey Combs, Ernie Hudson, Adam Baldwin and Clancy Brown.

    like this

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  • AntimatterAntimatter The First Mechanized Ninja Repent!Registered User regular
    I don't like the writing, the plots, most of the characters, the animation style is sterile


    It just seems like "oh hey you like transformers right? We've got tons of stuff you like and we aren't going to experiment with it!"

    It's dull. Decepticons fight autobots for resources. There's tiny amounts of autobots like the movie. The biggest changes are silent soundwave and the decepticon prime, which only lasts til the second episode of next season according to the episode blurbs

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    plus animated was really getting good

    let's all go look at the concept art of animated powermaster prime

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  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote:
    plus animated was really getting good

    let's all go look at the concept art of animated powermaster prime

    pics or gtfo

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  • AntimatterAntimatter The First Mechanized Ninja Repent!Registered User regular
    That's also infuriating

    Animated got an ok, if rushed finale but there could have been so much more amazing stuff

    Prime is ok. Not bad, not great. Mediocre, average, not fantastic.

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  • SchideSchide Registered User regular
    I don't hate Prime but I pretty much agree with what Anti said up there. But I am looking forward to the second season because it is true that the first season of these things usually ends up being the worst.

    Hey, anyone want to split a box of those Microns Arms things? $30 for a box of mixed 10, so there might be at least two full sets in there. Gonna preorder it anyway because it's BBTS.

  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    cool things about prime: soundwave

    not-cool things about prime: everything else
    it lost a lot of goodwill with me over the cliffjumper thing

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  • AntimatterAntimatter The First Mechanized Ninja Repent!Registered User regular
    i loved when Soundwave beat down Airachnid

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    oh, and the vehicons are cool

    that's two things

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  • CorporateLogoCorporateLogo Registered User regular
    Vehicons, more like redshirticons

  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    want that dude

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  • AntimatterAntimatter The First Mechanized Ninja Repent!Registered User regular
    http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-fall-of-cybertron-onslaught-figure/23932/
    hrm.
    i liked the original model for Onslaught and I'm sad they had to change it this much since Brawl stayed the same

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    less interesting robot mode with the loss of the back cannons, but I like the vehicle mode better than the gun truck

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  • AntimatterAntimatter The First Mechanized Ninja Repent!Registered User regular
    brawl stole his cannons

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    maybe swindle pawned them off and brawl's one cannon just underwent mitosis

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  • BugBoyBugBoy once a boy always a bugRegistered User regular
    oh man

    I really like that guy

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    transformbros

    I have actually not played war for cybertron yet

    but it is on demand

    I axe you, how's the single player, because I ain't too big on multi

  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    the single player is

    not offensive, but not great

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    okay then I'll just wait for the new one where I can be grimlock and bruticus

  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    TLB you should at least watch the ending credits

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  • SchideSchide Registered User regular
    This is important. And apparently I completely missed it from like 5 hours ago but:
    Spoiler:

    tl;dnr: Hasbro is sorry and will try to get out the remaining Prime First Edition figures out in the US in some fashion.

  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    this pleases me

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  • mightyspacepopemightyspacepope Registered User regular
    If only Hasbro had some sort of online venue that they could use to sell such a product...

    If only...

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  • PersonfacePersonface HAIL GAY SATANRegistered User regular
    If only Hasbro had some sort of online venue that they could use to sell such a product...

    If only...

    If only, if only, the woodpecker sighs, The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies. The wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, And cries to the moon, if only, if only

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