transformers character design is nega-appealing to me
i haven't yet found out how much praise is necessary for me to check one of the comics out. maybe if every post for thirteen pages was about how good transformers is and then someone hit me in the head with an omnibus of em
But Bay's versions are somehow even more boring than the other ones
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Theodore Flooseveltproud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelodorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered Userregular
transformers character design is nega-appealing to me
i haven't yet found out how much praise is necessary for me to check one of the comics out. maybe if every post for thirteen pages was about how good transformers is and then someone hit me in the head with an omnibus of em
I miss Antimatter
that her unparalleled transformers passion couldn't get me to pick up an issue is a testament to the absolute incompatibility of my eyes and transformers' character design
Anything else Transformer related is boring by comparison.
but what about beast machiiieeengnghghhgh where is all THIS BLOOD COMING FROM
Having not seen much of either, I think the problem with Beast Machines is that it was deliberately written not to have continuity with Beast Wars, but still had continuity with Beast Wars. If it had been truly standalone it wouldn't have been so bad.
The current comics are the single-best Transformers fiction ever produced, bar none.
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Theodore Flooseveltproud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelodorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered Userregular
the MTMTE designs are very boring to me but at least they aren't the bay designs. those are just fuckin' ugly
Anything else Transformer related is boring by comparison.
but what about beast machiiieeengnghghhgh where is all THIS BLOOD COMING FROM
Having not seen much of either, I think the problem with Beast Machines is that it was deliberately written not to have continuity with Beast Wars, but still had continuity with Beast Wars. If it had been truly standalone it wouldn't have been so bad.
Yeah, shitting all over beloved characters sure didn't help
transformers character design is nega-appealing to me
i haven't yet found out how much praise is necessary for me to check one of the comics out. maybe if every post for thirteen pages was about how good transformers is and then someone hit me in the head with an omnibus of em
I miss Antimatter
She's still writing a lot about Transformers (and a bunch of other stuff) over at Women Write About Comics
Anything else Transformer related is boring by comparison.
but what about beast machiiieeengnghghhgh where is all THIS BLOOD COMING FROM
Having not seen much of either, I think the problem with Beast Machines is that it was deliberately written not to have continuity with Beast Wars, but still had continuity with Beast Wars. If it had been truly standalone it wouldn't have been so bad.
Beast Wars = Robot gorilla has three transformation modes, one being a travel mode with a hoverboard. He uses this to fight a mecha-dragon. Other stuff happens along the way.
Anything else Transformer related is boring by comparison.
but what about beast machiiieeengnghghhgh where is all THIS BLOOD COMING FROM
Having not seen much of either, I think the problem with Beast Machines is that it was deliberately written not to have continuity with Beast Wars, but still had continuity with Beast Wars. If it had been truly standalone it wouldn't have been so bad.
wait what
what do you mean, I thought it directly followed from the end of beast wars?
Anything else Transformer related is boring by comparison.
but what about beast machiiieeengnghghhgh where is all THIS BLOOD COMING FROM
Having not seen much of either, I think the problem with Beast Machines is that it was deliberately written not to have continuity with Beast Wars, but still had continuity with Beast Wars. If it had been truly standalone it wouldn't have been so bad.
What's funny is that this is basically the same core problem that the New 52 has with the Post-Crisis DC Universe.
Guess what Beast Machines and the New 52 have in common.
Anything else Transformer related is boring by comparison.
but what about beast machiiieeengnghghhgh where is all THIS BLOOD COMING FROM
Having not seen much of either, I think the problem with Beast Machines is that it was deliberately written not to have continuity with Beast Wars, but still had continuity with Beast Wars. If it had been truly standalone it wouldn't have been so bad.
Beast Wars = Robot gorilla has three transformation modes, one being a travel mode with a hoverboard. He uses this to fight a mecha-dragon. Other stuff happens along the way.
Anything else Transformer related is boring by comparison.
but what about beast machiiieeengnghghhgh where is all THIS BLOOD COMING FROM
Having not seen much of either, I think the problem with Beast Machines is that it was deliberately written not to have continuity with Beast Wars, but still had continuity with Beast Wars. If it had been truly standalone it wouldn't have been so bad.
Beast Wars = Robot gorilla has three transformation modes, one being a travel mode with a hoverboard. He uses this to fight a mecha-dragon. Other stuff happens along the way.
Beast Machines = No more hoverboarding gorilla.
It's very clear where they went wrong.
TRUKK MOT MUNKEY
No truck will ever drive the awesomeness that is Optimus Primal, the most optimal primate ever conceived, from my heart. And from being the best.
Anything else Transformer related is boring by comparison.
but what about beast machiiieeengnghghhgh where is all THIS BLOOD COMING FROM
Having not seen much of either, I think the problem with Beast Machines is that it was deliberately written not to have continuity with Beast Wars, but still had continuity with Beast Wars. If it had been truly standalone it wouldn't have been so bad.
Beast Wars = Robot gorilla has three transformation modes, one being a travel mode with a hoverboard. He uses this to fight a mecha-dragon. Other stuff happens along the way.
Beast Machines = No more hoverboarding gorilla.
It's very clear where they went wrong.
TRUKK MOT MUNKEY
No truck will ever drive the awesomeness that is Optimus Primal, the most optimal primate ever conceived, from my heart. And from being the best.
Beast Wars has:
Optimus Primal
Dinobot
The smarmiest Megatron, who eventually got to transform into a dragon
Waspinator
Also the best smack-talking New York accented rat since Rizzo.
Anything else Transformer related is boring by comparison.
but what about beast machiiieeengnghghhgh where is all THIS BLOOD COMING FROM
Having not seen much of either, I think the problem with Beast Machines is that it was deliberately written not to have continuity with Beast Wars, but still had continuity with Beast Wars. If it had been truly standalone it wouldn't have been so bad.
wait what
what do you mean, I thought it directly followed from the end of beast wars?
Oh, it does. In terms of continuity it's treated as being in the same universe as and a continuation of Beast Wars.
Mainframe Entertainment executive Dan DiDio explicitly told [story editors] Bob Skir and Marty Isenberg to ignore all previous Transformers cartoons when writing Beast Machines, because "Beast Wars was too continuity-heavy". It clearly did not work out that way.
GreasyKidsStuffMOMMM!ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered Userregular
Beast Wars premiered when I was 6, so I was at the perfect age to be absolutely fucking enamoured with the whole thing, and I was! I had tons of those things! So did a few of my friends! It was great. Some of the G1 references didn't resonate with me until I was a bit older and picked that stuff up through osmosis, but it was still a rad show.
Some of that animation though... hoooooo boy :bigfrown:
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GreasyKidsStuffMOMMM!ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered Userregular
Oh man I found the first tv commercial for the toys
Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
Speaking of Beastwars,
Reboot is still one of my favorite cartoons ever.
Cartoons I love equally, there is no order they are all at number one in my mind,
Reboot
Duck Tales
Darkwing Duck
Tale Spin
Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers
Tiny Toons
Animaniacs/Pinky and the Brain
Freakazoid
Batman the Animated Series
The Tick
The Real Ghostbusters
Back to the Future the cartoon
Everything newer than that stuff is on a lower level
But Bay's versions are somehow even more boring than the other ones
I felt like those at least got the point of "alien robot" across
They're not great but they're better than men made out of different colored cardboard boxes
The designs themselves are just a symptom of a greater issue of the movies, which is that the robots are really just secondary characters to the humans, who are surrounded by forgettable robots in forgettable action sequences fetishistizing all the things that Michael Bay thinks we want to see in movies.
Like, the second and third films have tons of robots in them, but I couldn't name more than a few because they're all just giant junkyard explosions that we're expected to accept as characters.
And, sadly, the most distinctive looking ones are probably the racist cartoon caricatures that appeared in Revenge of the Fallen.
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I miss Antimatter
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Transformers in any form is super-unappealing
But Bay's versions are somehow even more boring than the other ones
that her unparalleled transformers passion couldn't get me to pick up an issue is a testament to the absolute incompatibility of my eyes and transformers' character design
I felt like those at least got the point of "alien robot" across
They're not great but they're better than men made out of different colored cardboard boxes
Anything else Transformer related is boring by comparison.
but what about beast machiiieeengnghghhgh where is all THIS BLOOD COMING FROM
Having not seen much of either, I think the problem with Beast Machines is that it was deliberately written not to have continuity with Beast Wars, but still had continuity with Beast Wars. If it had been truly standalone it wouldn't have been so bad.
The current comics are the single-best Transformers fiction ever produced, bar none.
Yeah, shitting all over beloved characters sure didn't help
She's still writing a lot about Transformers (and a bunch of other stuff) over at Women Write About Comics
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/06/24/placeholder-rachel-stevens-transformers-politics-guest-post/
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/07/10/human-after-all-representation-of-people-in-idws-transformers/
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/08/29/science-fictional-and-fantastic-the-universe-of-idws-transformers/
Beast Machines = No more hoverboarding gorilla.
It's very clear where they went wrong.
I was born
In a cross-fire hurricane
wait what
what do you mean, I thought it directly followed from the end of beast wars?
What's funny is that this is basically the same core problem that the New 52 has with the Post-Crisis DC Universe.
Guess what Beast Machines and the New 52 have in common.
I lost an eye in the cross-fire war.
TRUKK MOT MUNKEY
That's what happens when you get caught up in the
CROSS-FIRE
Beast Wars has:
Optimus Primal
Dinobot
The smarmiest Megatron, who eventually got to transform into a dragon
Waspinator
Also the best smack-talking New York accented rat since Rizzo.
Yeah Beast Wars is pretty great.
Oh, it does. In terms of continuity it's treated as being in the same universe as and a continuation of Beast Wars.
But:
it all makes sense
Some of that animation though... hoooooo boy :bigfrown:
so good
Reboot is still one of my favorite cartoons ever.
Cartoons I love equally, there is no order they are all at number one in my mind,
Reboot
Duck Tales
Darkwing Duck
Tale Spin
Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers
Tiny Toons
Animaniacs/Pinky and the Brain
Freakazoid
Batman the Animated Series
The Tick
The Real Ghostbusters
Back to the Future the cartoon
Everything newer than that stuff is on a lower level
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The designs themselves are just a symptom of a greater issue of the movies, which is that the robots are really just secondary characters to the humans, who are surrounded by forgettable robots in forgettable action sequences fetishistizing all the things that Michael Bay thinks we want to see in movies.
Like, the second and third films have tons of robots in them, but I couldn't name more than a few because they're all just giant junkyard explosions that we're expected to accept as characters.
And, sadly, the most distinctive looking ones are probably the racist cartoon caricatures that appeared in Revenge of the Fallen.
@Antimatter you need to see this movie.
Everyone one needs to see it.
It's amazing
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wait but
chappie looks awful