He's a retool of Titans Return Mindwipe, seemingly minus the Titan Master gimmick, just like all the other Collaborative figures are retools of pre-existing figures (save for Maverick).
And JP93.
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The Galvatron I ordered directly from Hasbro Pulse still managed to have the incorrectly assembled shoulders.
Today I fixed them making use of a special tool called a flat head screwdriver on a Swiss Army knife to jam it into the shoulder blade and rock it back and forth a bunch until the pin loosened and I could pull the arm off the shoulder, flip it around, and put it back.
I wouldn’t have bothered, since it doesn’t look terrible if you rotate the piece around with the pin in the front, but I realized that the arms parts don’t fully click together during transformation when the wrong way around.
It was a bit worrying since you really have to use a bit of force on the parts.
Also got Tracks, who is fine, and the Ark, which is large. The Ark’s hands are kinda rubbish and I hope someone makes third party replacements. I think I am going to paint the micro Optimus Prime that comes with the Ark.
He's a retool of Titans Return Mindwipe, seemingly minus the Titan Master gimmick, just like all the other Collaborative figures are retools of pre-existing figures (save for Maverick).
And JP93.
I thought he was a retool of Hound?
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Today while watching my dad with my folks, I caught the first hour or so of Transformers: The Last Knight on "sci fi." So far, I haven't seen it, but I've been interested in giving it a shot for a few months now. For reference, I got up to the point where Megatron goes after Yeager in the town that he's rigged with explosives.
I... didn't hate it?
Like. I had a VISCERAL hatred of Age of Extinction. I knew about the "Rape card" thing (probably from Doug Walker). I also had another TF nut friend of mine absolutely tear it apart and set bad vibes for me. And I just could not understand why they went where they did with the plot.
So to see this version of the universe... where the world was stuck in a constant war, where the lines between good guys and bad guys were blurred and you just had the "other," and so on... it seemed alright? I kinda liked the baby dinobots, or what I saw of them, and I liked incorporating transformers tech into various things. I... did not care for the teenage girl being shot like she was, but.. it's Bay, it sucks, what are you gonna do. Also the "gathering a team" splash screens for the decepticons was STUPID. Straight out of something like Armageddon or The Rock or a heist film.
I dunno. There was potential there. Reminded me a lot of C&C: Tiberium Sun, where you had seen the results of the war and the Tiberium spread across the planet and all that. There were still scenes of normalcy on the edges, but they seemed out of place.
I want to finish watching it, naturally. And I also want to see Bumblebee, which I've heard good things about.
I found it comprehensible, I just hated giving Hot Rod the accent (everything else about him was great), and that it dragged on so long that the ending felt
more like they ran out of time than left it on a cliffhanger.
I did a mostly spoiler-free(bar what's in the trailers) review of it at the time here.
(Please forgive the Nostalgia Critic embed; shit hadn't gone down yet, and I forgot it was even there until now.)
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All the figures I ordered from Hasbro Pulse like last year are starting to ship. Galvatron, Tracks, and the Ark are on their way.
I literally can't remember if I ordered Commander Rodimus Prime somewhere along the line, but.. frankly, I don't care too much. I have the PotP versions which are pretty nice.
I picked up Rodimus and honestly, I'm really disappointed. It's really a voyager class with a big trailer, and the figure itself isn't any bigger than Earthrise Optimus Prime. I think they are asking too much money for what you get, especially when compared to Jetfire and Prime.
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All the figures I ordered from Hasbro Pulse like last year are starting to ship. Galvatron, Tracks, and the Ark are on their way.
I literally can't remember if I ordered Commander Rodimus Prime somewhere along the line, but.. frankly, I don't care too much. I have the PotP versions which are pretty nice.
I picked up Rodimus and honestly, I'm really disappointed. It's really a voyager class with a big trailer, and the figure itself isn't any bigger than Earthrise Optimus Prime. I think they are asking too much money for what you get, especially when compared to Jetfire and Prime.
This is good to know, honestly. Jetfire and Sky Lynx were both so good, but Rodimus... Seems to just be there because of the trailer? Especially if the rumors are true that the next commander will be Motormaster.
The 2021 Transformers Hall of Fame vote is up; vote for your favorite Beast Wars S1 character and/or Transformers: Generations: War for Cybertron: Kingdom toy.
Strangely they included the entire Beast Wars S1 cast even though Optimus Primal, Megatron, Waspinator, Dinobot and Blackarachnia are already in the hall of fame.
...he played Ramjet, Smokescreen, Omega Supreme, Astrotrain, Ultra Magnus, Cyclonus (following the death of Roger C. Carmel), Basso Profundo, Katsu Don, Sir Wulf, Professor Terranova and a Sweep.
Apparently there was a Transformers themed Overwatch knockoff released only in China, and was shut down in 2020. I'm not sure what's worse, that I'll never play it or or that it was apparently a terrible game with some of the power loadouts ripped directly from Overwatch.
I did recently finish the Cybertron games for the first time since basically they came out. The first game took awhile to grab me, but the second one was a lot of fun. It's a very visually dark and angular take on the Transformers aesthetic but I think it holds up pretty well. If the Activision buyout goes through I hope Microsoft relicenses these games and puts them on on backwards compatibility so I don't need to yank my 360 out of storage to play them. Had to buy a used 360 for $55 'cause my old one came out of storage unable to play discs.
There's a rumor that they're going to be releasing new toys of these figures next year. (Store listing for 'War for Cybertron' Studio Series toys) I'll be curious to see if that pans out.
Also the new Transformers show starts on November 11th. Transformers: Earthspark is about the first set of Transformers born on Earth, Twitch (Drone) and Thrash (Motorcycle with sidecar) being trained by the Autobots, while also being raised by a human family they bonded with. The show is set post-War, though there are Decepticon hold-outs, and the main villian is actually a human, Dr. Mandroid, who hates all Cybertronians and wants to rid Earth of them, but hypocritically uses their tech to augment himself.
The show is doing some interesting stuff with the characters
Megatron is working with Prime and appears to be on friendly terms with humans, but there are still Decepticon hold-outs, including Soundwave who refers to Megatron as a traitor.
Like the trailer gets that focus should be on the Transformers at least.
Still tired of that Bumblebee design.
Earthspark is really good. It's definitely a show aimed at kids, but it still has some of the coolest action pieces I've ever seen in an animated Transformers show. First season is fully out on Paramount+.
I think recasting Garry Chalke as Optimus Primal while keeping Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime is weird
And if there's no David Kaye Megatron, why even bother?
There was apparently two scripts they were interested in. One was a Beast Wars movie, the other was a Bumblebee sequel. Apparently they just decided to mash the two ideas together.
It's a move that doesn't inspire confidence, quite frankly. But a handful of Autobots and a handful of Maximals versus the new faction of Terrorcons, lead by a RiD2001 inspired Scourge, isn't something I've seen before so it's got that going for it at least.
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What it will say genuinely is I don't remember the last time a first trailer had CG that looked that good (thanks, Marvel).
Also at first glance I kinda like those Beast designs, we'll see how that holds up
I like that they are fucking huge.
I'll also be the first to admit I did not care for the original Beast Wars designs, especially the toys. I understood what they were going for I just didn't love it. It looks like the movie designs will be quite a bit less kibble
Keep in mind the original Beast Wars characters were wildly out of size too; tiny dinosaurs and giant ass insects and rodents.
Since they're going to be going up against other G1-sized transformers, it makes sense to make them G1-sized. Especially if they're going for the G1 style robotic beasts that didn't fool anyone back in 1984 and sure as shit ain't fooling anyone now. "Robots in Disguise" my ass.
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Those were actually the subtlest disguise of all.
Robots...
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Disguised as robots
GENIUS
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I think recasting Garry Chalke as Optimus Primal while keeping Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime is weird
And if there's no David Kaye Megatron, why even bother?
They know Cullen is the one actor they can't ever replace, and I'm fine with that, let him be in all the things.
Eh, I can take or leave Cullen at this point. If he want to keep working, then fine. If he ever decides to stop, that's fine too! Let the guy retire! He's 81!
Just don't recast someone specifically to sound like him. Especially if they're not very good at it. (I'm looking at you, War for Cybertron trilogy)
I think recasting Garry Chalke as Optimus Primal while keeping Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime is weird
And if there's no David Kaye Megatron, why even bother?
They know Cullen is the one actor they can't ever replace, and I'm fine with that, let him be in all the things.
Eh, I can take or leave Cullen at this point. If he want to keep working, then fine. If he ever decides to stop, that's fine too! Let the guy retire! He's 81!
Just don't recast someone specifically to sound like him. Especially if they're not very good at it. (I'm looking at you, War for Cybertron trilogy)
I think he said in an interview he loves doing the role because of all the love he gets for it, but I could be wrong. Either way, he's the only constant in these silly movies, so I'm there for it.
(I remember it was the most exciting thing in the first Bayformers film trailer.)
I think recasting Garry Chalke as Optimus Primal while keeping Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime is weird
And if there's no David Kaye Megatron, why even bother?
They know Cullen is the one actor they can't ever replace, and I'm fine with that, let him be in all the things.
Eh, I can take or leave Cullen at this point. If he want to keep working, then fine. If he ever decides to stop, that's fine too! Let the guy retire! He's 81!
Just don't recast someone specifically to sound like him. Especially if they're not very good at it. (I'm looking at you, War for Cybertron trilogy)
I think he said in an interview he loves doing the role because of all the love he gets for it, but I could be wrong. Either way, he's the only constant in these silly movies, so I'm there for it.
(I remember it was the most exciting thing in the first Bayformers film trailer.)
Yeah I heard an interview where he seemed touched with how important a touchstone his voice had become for some fans and I would have to imagine doing voice actor work in big movies is about as awesome a retirement job as one could have.
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And JP93.
Today I fixed them making use of a special tool called a flat head screwdriver on a Swiss Army knife to jam it into the shoulder blade and rock it back and forth a bunch until the pin loosened and I could pull the arm off the shoulder, flip it around, and put it back.
I wouldn’t have bothered, since it doesn’t look terrible if you rotate the piece around with the pin in the front, but I realized that the arms parts don’t fully click together during transformation when the wrong way around.
It was a bit worrying since you really have to use a bit of force on the parts.
Also got Tracks, who is fine, and the Ark, which is large. The Ark’s hands are kinda rubbish and I hope someone makes third party replacements. I think I am going to paint the micro Optimus Prime that comes with the Ark.
I thought he was a retool of Hound?
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SO HYPE
for the '86 Cyclonus Armada that I'm very, very tempted to buy Scourge just so I can have the pair.
I... didn't hate it?
Like. I had a VISCERAL hatred of Age of Extinction. I knew about the "Rape card" thing (probably from Doug Walker). I also had another TF nut friend of mine absolutely tear it apart and set bad vibes for me. And I just could not understand why they went where they did with the plot.
So to see this version of the universe... where the world was stuck in a constant war, where the lines between good guys and bad guys were blurred and you just had the "other," and so on... it seemed alright? I kinda liked the baby dinobots, or what I saw of them, and I liked incorporating transformers tech into various things. I... did not care for the teenage girl being shot like she was, but.. it's Bay, it sucks, what are you gonna do. Also the "gathering a team" splash screens for the decepticons was STUPID. Straight out of something like Armageddon or The Rock or a heist film.
I dunno. There was potential there. Reminded me a lot of C&C: Tiberium Sun, where you had seen the results of the war and the Tiberium spread across the planet and all that. There were still scenes of normalcy on the edges, but they seemed out of place.
I want to finish watching it, naturally. And I also want to see Bumblebee, which I've heard good things about.
The Last Knight I thought was incredibly incomprehensible. Just an awful mess.
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I did a mostly spoiler-free(bar what's in the trailers) review of it at the time here.
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I picked up Rodimus and honestly, I'm really disappointed. It's really a voyager class with a big trailer, and the figure itself isn't any bigger than Earthrise Optimus Prime. I think they are asking too much money for what you get, especially when compared to Jetfire and Prime.
This is good to know, honestly. Jetfire and Sky Lynx were both so good, but Rodimus... Seems to just be there because of the trailer? Especially if the rumors are true that the next commander will be Motormaster.
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Vehicles look cool, at least.
Ironhide maybe?
That reminds me of this little third party number that was floating around for a while.
Helps alleviate the "Alt-mode is a very unique 80's era racing vehicle, complete with specific sponsors." problem with Wheeljack's disguise
Strangely they included the entire Beast Wars S1 cast even though Optimus Primal, Megatron, Waspinator, Dinobot and Blackarachnia are already in the hall of fame.
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Bummer. I've been enjoying the current continuity a lot.
Hopefully they'll get to wrap up all their major plotlines and not leave anything dangling.
I didn't enjoy this run as much, but that's probably because the last run was so good, it's hard to achieve that level of quality twice in a row.
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I did recently finish the Cybertron games for the first time since basically they came out. The first game took awhile to grab me, but the second one was a lot of fun. It's a very visually dark and angular take on the Transformers aesthetic but I think it holds up pretty well. If the Activision buyout goes through I hope Microsoft relicenses these games and puts them on on backwards compatibility so I don't need to yank my 360 out of storage to play them. Had to buy a used 360 for $55 'cause my old one came out of storage unable to play discs.
There's a rumor that they're going to be releasing new toys of these figures next year. (Store listing for 'War for Cybertron' Studio Series toys) I'll be curious to see if that pans out.
Also the new Transformers show starts on November 11th. Transformers: Earthspark is about the first set of Transformers born on Earth, Twitch (Drone) and Thrash (Motorcycle with sidecar) being trained by the Autobots, while also being raised by a human family they bonded with. The show is set post-War, though there are Decepticon hold-outs, and the main villian is actually a human, Dr. Mandroid, who hates all Cybertronians and wants to rid Earth of them, but hypocritically uses their tech to augment himself.
The show is doing some interesting stuff with the characters
Teaser Trailer (Less spoilerly)
Cool Trailer (Spoilery)
That looks.. alright, actually?
Like the trailer gets that focus should be on the Transformers at least.
Still tired of that Bumblebee design.
Earthspark is really good. It's definitely a show aimed at kids, but it still has some of the coolest action pieces I've ever seen in an animated Transformers show. First season is fully out on Paramount+.
I think recasting Garry Chalke as Optimus Primal while keeping Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime is weird
And if there's no David Kaye Megatron, why even bother?
There was apparently two scripts they were interested in. One was a Beast Wars movie, the other was a Bumblebee sequel. Apparently they just decided to mash the two ideas together.
It's a move that doesn't inspire confidence, quite frankly. But a handful of Autobots and a handful of Maximals versus the new faction of Terrorcons, lead by a RiD2001 inspired Scourge, isn't something I've seen before so it's got that going for it at least.
Also at first glance I kinda like those Beast designs, we'll see how that holds up
I like that they are fucking huge.
I'll also be the first to admit I did not care for the original Beast Wars designs, especially the toys. I understood what they were going for I just didn't love it. It looks like the movie designs will be quite a bit less kibble
Since they're going to be going up against other G1-sized transformers, it makes sense to make them G1-sized. Especially if they're going for the G1 style robotic beasts that didn't fool anyone back in 1984 and sure as shit ain't fooling anyone now. "Robots in Disguise" my ass.
Robots...
(big images)
Disguised as robots
GENIUS
They know Cullen is the one actor they can't ever replace, and I'm fine with that, let him be in all the things.
Eh, I can take or leave Cullen at this point. If he want to keep working, then fine. If he ever decides to stop, that's fine too! Let the guy retire! He's 81!
Just don't recast someone specifically to sound like him. Especially if they're not very good at it. (I'm looking at you, War for Cybertron trilogy)
I think he said in an interview he loves doing the role because of all the love he gets for it, but I could be wrong. Either way, he's the only constant in these silly movies, so I'm there for it.
(I remember it was the most exciting thing in the first Bayformers film trailer.)
Pretty sure he got recast in the last 2 major projects. In that franchise, he’s not the irreplaceable voice actor.
Oh sure, just recast Eeyore. Not like anyone would even notice . . .
Yeah I heard an interview where he seemed touched with how important a touchstone his voice had become for some fans and I would have to imagine doing voice actor work in big movies is about as awesome a retirement job as one could have.