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H.B.M.C. wrote:Never forget that the original toy of Ironhide didn't have a fething head!!!
Was that the version that had a sticker with a face in the cabin behind the windshield? This one, the black blob that's barely visible is a face, black with silver lines if I remember correctly?
I had the Rachet toy (same difference) and thought that it was an odd design having the face being the backrest of what looked like a seat.
Decades later, I discovered the origins of the Diaclone toys and suddenly all of the seating compartments in the G1 toys made sense.
hotsauceman1 wrote: So this thread is just people who grew up watching TV in the 80s complaining about a kids show meant to sell toys and not to make sense?
Pretty much
Bearing in mind that ten year old me didn't have the cynical views of the universe that grown up me has, nor did he have an Internet for him to find out what the real reason for all this stuff.
All he knew was that having big, bad Megatron turn into a gun that couldn't do anything on his own was stupid. That confused ten year old me.
Actually he could float in the air and shoot by himself.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Yeah, Megatron always has terrible alt modes. Even in the glorious Civil War version- where Shockwave is an Ironclad- he's still a pistol. Or possibly a cannon, Galvatron style.
To make your inner child drool, follow the link to the totally not Ironclad Shockwave toy. Knight Morpher Cyclops indeed.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
There seems to be a desire to make adult things not adult to try and market them to kids them it isn't just a problem for Megatron. I'm sure we've seen kid friendly versions of Wolverine or Punisher, just as examples.
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Well the plan was an "Alien of the Week" thing where lotsa eggs anded on earth but scattered and teams where sents out to dispatch them. With things like chicken aliens, bull aliens, Horse aliens and even a whale alien at some point.
Its weird, all the be found are stills onine from the korean studio that made it
As MDG pointed out there was a cartoon series planned to go along with the toys but the show was never released but we did get to see all the toys. There was also a second attempt at a kids cartoon and toy line with Alien: Hive Wars.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Wow I had some of the toys but never knew there was supposed to be a cartoon.
That would be have been terrible.
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hotsauceman1 wrote: So this thread is just people who grew up watching TV in the 80s complaining about a kids show meant to sell toys and not to make sense?
Yeah who are these NERDS with their NERD TALK talking to other NERDS!
And on the Geek Media forum no less!
Oughta call a mod...
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God I loved all my Aliens action figures! They are actually still in my parent's attic!
"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
I guess I misremember it, but I could have sworn that Megatron's aim was deplorable, which is why he went to Starscream typically, who had much better skills.
Just Tony wrote: I guess I misremember it, but I could have sworn that Megatron's aim was deplorable, which is why he went to Starscream typically, who had much better skills.
Nah, like anybody in those cartoons, his aim was as good or bad as it needed to be for the story at the time.
I always assumed he generally went to Starscream just because Starscream was the 2IC.
Everyone talks about Optumis Prime getting killed but at least he put up a fight and took down Megatron with him.
And came back!
Prowl died bleeding his guts out on the floor and no one mourned him.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Skywarp was my first Transformer, but Prowl was my first Autobot (barring the 3 Diacrons who were repainted as Autobots later).
RIP Prowl.
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Ironhide got his head blown off while trying to fight (pathetically) with the last ounce of his strength. To which Megatron commented, "Such heroic nonsense."
He turned into a radio cassette player and had a loyal cadre of mini bots who turned into cassette tapes. Laserbeak sat on his arm like a loyal familiar. His AA batteries turned into guns.
He was just about perfect.
But that was 30 years ago and cassette tapes have gone from being obsolete, to laughably anachronistic, to mysterious artifacts known only through vestiges like Sound Wave.
So what would work today?
Sure MP3 players make sense but they you lose the elegance of the cassette tape familiars. I think one of the movies had him turning into a satellite which is very cool, more appropriate than a car or missile launcher (both of which have been made as toys) but take him in a different direction entirely.
One idea I saw was a laptop, with his cadre turning into a mouse, a thumb drive and a cell phone. Which is kind of neat.
Any other ideas for something modern that still has the family feel of a tape player and tapes?
2017/09/27 09:26:35
Subject: The Megatron problem (pg 2 the Soundwave problem)
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