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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Goatmon wrote: »
    That's kinda neat, King Riptor.

    It's the first thing I've written that's been "published".
    I'm just thankful the artist was good, it's like playing russian roullette with those deviant art guys.

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Cloudman wrote: »
    I always thought Quickstrike was pretty cool too but I never got his toy.

    I did have a bitchin' polar bear and all 4 Megatrons, though, so it was okay.

    That dragon really wasn't as cool as I hoped.

    I had most of the character's toys.

    Brothers and a dog do not make for a good condition collection. . .

    Quickstryke was okay but his entire left arm was ball joints and he just fell apart after a few poseing seesions.

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    That's a sweet comic, dude.

    Sucks about Quickstrike, though. I had enough that it never bothered me too much, but it always irritated me a little. :|

    Hard to pick a favorite, really. I liked the transmetal Megatron a lot, though.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Cloudman wrote: »
    That's a sweet comic, dude.

    Sucks about Quickstrike, though. I had enough that it never bothered me too much, but it always irritated me a little. :|

    Hard to pick a favorite, really. I liked the transmetal Megatron a lot, though.

    Out of the entire line I think Optimal Optimus Primal is the best mold. He held together and all of his transformations looked natural.

    Close Second is TM Megatron though. Just one of those toys you can screw around with. Even did his Dino rollerskate mode a few times.

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Transmetal Tarantulas was pretty awesome too. His legs tended to get in the way of his wheel mode, but it was cool anyway.

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  • TriggerhappypilotTriggerhappypilot Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I am Shrapnel.

    DECEPTICON HEEERO!

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Wasssssspinator TERRORIZE!

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  • RedeemerRedeemer Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I was really into Beast Wars right around the time puberty hit

    So I'll forever associate it with sweaty balls

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Kuribo, you are delightful. :^:

    fucking saved

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  • J3pJ3p Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I casually watched Beast Wars for a while there.

    Originally I was like "Fuck this noise and you can shove your phong shaders" but after a few episodes I warmed up to it. It's cool.

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm watching Transformers Animated

    they should call it Transformers Poorly Animated

    or Transformers Poorly Animated And Also Has Terrible Character Designs

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    seriously if you have to do the fake anime bullshit at least do it well

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  • BedlamBedlam Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    An oximoron!

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    teen titans did it alright when they weren't doing the giant crying/angry head thing

    but this, when people talk their mouths switch between like three different positions and it looks like it's missing frames of animation and I can't even tell if the plot is any good because the show's so fucking ugly I can't concentrate on it

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    and I swear to god if this bad guy says ownage or noob one more time I'm going to cut myself

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    fuck, there he went

    it's been a good run

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    A character in the show is actually talking that way?

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    the bad guy of the episode

    "prepare for total ownage"

    "you got punk'd"

    all callin' guys noobs

    alright guys I get it, he uses the internet, he's an evil robotics nerd, great

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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Yeah, I got bored wtih Transformers Animated largely because it was a little too childish for me.

    Good casting, a neat style, but terrible animation quality and could've been executed a lot better for the most part.

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  • SpazMuffinSpazMuffin Hey Cut it outRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    God I love this show. I run through the show every couple of months and I love the fact that I have all 3 seasons on me at any time on my iPod.

    Also I will never ever forgive myself for at one time thinking I was "too cool for Beast Wars" and giving away all my toys except a few. I quickly realized I was not and will never be too cool for Beast Wars and regret the decision to this very day. I luck fully still have Optimal Optimus, Depth Charge, and transmetal 2 Dinobot. However, I know I never got rid of Transmetal 2 Megatron and my very first figure, a little blue beetle guy whose name I can't remember, but I cannot find them. I tear my room apart every couple of months and search, but to no avail.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
  • SpazMuffinSpazMuffin Hey Cut it outRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Antimatter wrote: »
    Yea, that's the guy. And I have thought about that route before, but man, the sentimental value is through the roof. Like, I'm willing to look up Transmetal 2 Megatron on eBay because he was awesome, but he was just one of my guys, an early birthday gift in fact. But this Beetle guy was my first. It's like, special, ya know?

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  • The Last GentThe Last Gent Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I remember owning the Beast Wars game for the PC. I never ever got it to run properly. I heard it sucked in the reviews but I still want to play it, because it's freaking Beast Wars.

    They need to make a new Beast Wars game, we're at the point where most game graphics are better-looking than what they did on the show.

    Also, looking at Transformers Animated, I realize one problem it has: American Censorship. Beast Wars was made in Canada, so we got to see characters get shot, stabbed, and sliced up. We also got heartwrenching episodes like Code of Hero and Transmutate. We'll NEVER see that kind of stuff on the new show because they'll never let anyone dramatically die, and never allow episodes as dark as Transmutate. At the same time, we'll never see anyone get shot, or stabbed, or sliced up in the new show. All shots will miss, and all melee attacks will bounce off. It's a little sad that so much of Beast Wars was dependent on the time and place it was made.

    Edit: Example. There's this one Character on animated who's on the good side but is a humungous prick. If this were Beast Wars he'd get beat the hell up. But in animated they wuss out and teach us about patience and tolerance. It's frustrating knowing that guy will never Get His.

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  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I remember owning the Beast Wars game for the PC. I never ever got it to run properly. I heard it sucked in the reviews but I still want to play it, because it's freaking Beast Wars.

    They need to make a new Beast Wars game, we're at the point where most game graphics are better-looking than what they did on the show.

    Also, looking at Transformers Animated, I realize one problem it has: American Censorship. Beast Wars was made in Canada, so we got to see characters get shot, stabbed, and sliced up. We also got heartwrenching episodes like Code of Hero and Transmutate. We'll NEVER see that kind of stuff on the new show because they'll never let anyone dramatically die, and never allow episodes as dark as Transmutate. At the same time, we'll never see anyone get shot, or stabbed, or sliced up in the new show. All shots will miss, and all melee attacks will bounce off. It's a little sad that so much of Beast Wars was dependent on the time and place it was made.

    Edit: Example. There's this one Character on animated who's on the good side but is a humungous prick. If this were Beast Wars he'd get beat the hell up. But in animated they wuss out and teach us about patience and tolerance. It's frustrating knowing that guy will never Get His.

    Your whole post is terrible. Not trying to insult you, but good god, your complaints are the worst. "It's bad because it's not dark and edgy like Beast Wars was".

    Beast Wars was really good, and it was more mature than Transformers: Animated, but you fail to realise that the target audiences are completely different.

    I am reminded of that one PA strip where the guy complains about a blueberry muffin or something because it wasn't chocolate.

    "Transformers: Animated is awful because it is not this completely different thing it was never meant to be!"

    That is your post, condensed.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    SpazMuffin wrote: »
    Antimatter wrote: »
    Yea, that's the guy. And I have thought about that route before, but man, the sentimental value is through the roof. Like, I'm willing to look up Transmetal 2 Megatron on eBay because he was awesome, but he was just one of my guys, an early birthday gift in fact. But this Beetle guy was my first. It's like, special, ya know?

    I completely understand; I've dealt with the exact situation with three of the McDonalds ones. But eventually you'll want the thing back so bad, you don't care who's it was at first or that wasn't yours to begin with. It's yours now, and that's what matters.

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Edit: Example. There's this one Character on animated who's on the good side but is a humungous prick. If this were Beast Wars he'd get beat the hell up. But in animated they wuss out and teach us about patience and tolerance. It's frustrating knowing that guy will never Get His.

    If you're talking about Sentinel Prime, he does tend to get his a lot. Falling off an uncompleted highway, getting knocked onto his ass by Grimlock, losing his body to the Headmaster, handcuffed right into stasis-lock, having a whole tower drop on him..

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    what was it insector always used to yell

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Skull Man wrote: »
    what was it insector always used to yell

    who the hell's insector? the closest I found was the italian name for powerpinch.

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ah wait, waspinator

    WHY UNIVERSE HATE WASPINATOR?

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm watching Transformers Animated

    they should call it Transformers Poorly Animated

    or Transformers Poorly Animated And Also Has Terrible Character Designs

    THANK YOU


    God the flack I get for thinking this show is shit on the TF forums. The argument that it's for kids is also a moot point. Beast Wars was for kids. It still managed not to talk down to them or have villans who say noob.

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    yeah it'll be like

    dang optimus why is your elbow suddenly bigger than your whole fucking head

    and when were there ever transformers that WEREN'T animated

    stupid name

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    allegedly, they were going to call it transformers: heroes at first.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I haven't seen too much of the new show, but I liked the Wreck-Gar episode

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I got Blitzwing yesterday. He is an awesome figure.

    He is the littlest tank, though.


    Right now I have him rocking out on Soundwave's guitar.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I have Lockdown, Jazz, Soundwave, and Oil Slick, and I'm currently debating getting Blitzwing and/or Grimlock.

    Say what you will about the animated series, but I'm loving the toys.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Grimlock is cool but he could be cooler if he wasn't so faithful to his G1 figure. Would have possibly allowed for better arms.

    Prowl is nifty, but his hips are loose as hell and he takes a while to transform. Voyager OP is amazing except for the lame axe. Soundwave has a fun transformation and has Lazerbeak who turns into a guitar, I just wish he was bigger.

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  • ShankusuShankusu __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    the character designs for animated are pretty fucking cool when they're toys

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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Yeah, the toys are fucking sick.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Goatmon wrote: »
    Yeah, the toys are fucking sick.

    I doubt one could argue that the animated toys are bad. I'm going to try to get Grimlock, and maybe the Wreck-Gar toy when it comes out next year. My one minor complaint is the lack of detail on the figures. They're a little too smooth and don't really have the raised and lowered plastic of transformers of yore.
    Anyone else have one of the classics seekers? I just got Acid Storm, and I'm loving this toy. Easy to transform, G1 accurate, deco based on an obscure character. It's just awesome.

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