bumblezzz wrote:well I guess you are all stuck in the past, affrad of change. transformers that are blocky are out of date and are old. but I ca understand if you like the older versions more but you cant really hate something if you haveent got to see it in action yet.
bonecrusher is a garbage truck .jkBlack_Convoy wrote:HitsugiKun wrote:So im gussing the pic we saw a while back is bonecrusher
No, this is Bonecrusher
Menbailee wrote:OK.
I'm sold.
I've given warm comments on some toys and 'bot modes we've seen and cooler on others. I felt fine with the different aesthetic, save only for the faces. As of seeing these full-color shots, however, I'm completely sold on the movie line. They'll probably cost more than I want to spend, so possibly I'll be waiting a while for some, but each figure in that line-up looked pretty impressive. Even Megatron, if you disassociate him from any previous Megatron.
Just think about that feature on the best figures--electronics automatically moving parts to assist in transformation. You'll feel like you're dealing with a bona fide robot in disguise. If they actually get that working without a long list of glitches, that'll be the first gimmick that's come around since G1 that's really and truly new and impressive.
........excuse me? I thought we got past all this crap months ago. If "blocky" TF's are so out of date....why have they been Hasbro's bread & butter for so many years? Better yet, Why did Beast Machines fail? Why did they ditch Transtech designs & RID designs for the Unicron trillogy...which was nothing but "blocky"? Why did Hasbro decide to use "blocky" G1 designs as the base for the filler line between Cybertron & the movie line? No sir, blocky robots are not out of date just because a few key people in high places in hollywood are trying to shove the idea that they are down people's throat.bumblezzz wrote:well I guess you are all stuck in the past, affrad of change. transformers that are blocky are out of date and are old. but I ca understand if you like the older versions more but you cant really hate something if you haveent got to see it in action yet.
I think the problem a lot of people have is that these movie characters are meant to represent their G1 counterparts, where applicable, & yet most of the designs seen so far look nothing like who they represent, & those that do are really stretching it. I mean honestly, have you heard anybody complain about Blackout? hell, I think he's awsome myself, but Megs....he's supposed to be representing ol' Nazi handgun, & looks nothing like him, save the fact that he's gray. On their own, these designs are pretty neat, & I really think Hasbro did a good job of coming up with designs that are "blocky" enough to satisfy die-hard fans...except maybe Beast Warrior(no offense, dude, everybody's entitled to their opinion)....but as representatives of G1, they fail miserably.
.....& I'll probably get at least 1 version of every last one of them.
Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:........excuse me? I thought we got past all this crap months ago. If "blocky" TF's are so out of date....why have they been Hasbro's bread & butter for so many years? Better yet, Why did Beast Machines fail? Why did they ditch Transtech designs & RID designs for the Unicron trillogy...which was nothing but "blocky"? Why did Hasbro decide to use "blocky" G1 designs as the base for the filler line between Cybertron & the movie line? No sir, blocky robots are not out of date just because a few key people in high places in hollywood are trying to shove the idea that they are down people's throat.bumblezzz wrote:well I guess you are all stuck in the past, affrad of change. transformers that are blocky are out of date and are old. but I ca understand if you like the older versions more but you cant really hate something if you haveent got to see it in action yet.
I guess the reverse could be said about people favoring change.....they're stuck on anything "new" or "different"...afraid of clinging onto anything for more than a brief second for the fear that they might get left behind if they do....or better still, they're not true TF fans, because they don't want the Transformers, they just want generic movie monsters with the Transformers logo slapped on it.
.......but then again, that would be ignorant to say, because everyone is entitled to their opinion, & everbody will love or hate what they want based on nothing but their own tastes....
Aside from that, what I posted earlier just about sums up any other thoughts about your baited post:I think the problem a lot of people have is that these movie characters are meant to represent their G1 counterparts, where applicable, & yet most of the designs seen so far look nothing like who they represent, & those that do are really stretching it. I mean honestly, have you heard anybody complain about Blackout? hell, I think he's awsome myself, but Megs....he's supposed to be representing ol' Nazi handgun, & looks nothing like him, save the fact that he's gray. On their own, these designs are pretty neat, & I really think Hasbro did a good job of coming up with designs that are "blocky" enough to satisfy die-hard fans...except maybe Beast Warrior(no offense, dude, everybody's entitled to their opinion)....but as representatives of G1, they fail miserably.
.....& I'll probably get at least 1 version of every last one of them.
It would be the first I've heard of it. Everything I've heard from producers like Don Murphy & Desanto & such was that they tried making blocky designs & Bay's crew decided they liked the exploding kibble designs better.HitsugiKun wrote:Yeah but wasnt their a law suit or somthing where bay had to make big changes to transformers so parmount couldnt say they own the original.
Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:It would be the first I've heard of it. Everything I've heard from producers like Don Murphy & Desanto & such was that they tried making blocky designs & Bay's crew decided they liked the exploding kibble designs better.HitsugiKun wrote:Yeah but wasnt their a law suit or somthing where bay had to make big changes to transformers so parmount couldnt say they own the original.
...the differences are about the same as the differences with video game today and games that were made around the same time as G1.... they're made more intracately, & play time from start to finish is longer (usually 10-40 hours as opposed to 2 or 3), but by making games longer you lose replay value, because the more complicated designs are more cumbersome & time-consuming to repeat than the older, simpler games. With the newer TF designs, it is also more cumbersome & time-consuming to continually transform the newer toys than the simpler G1 figures did. So as far as simplicity in design, there are strengths & weaknesses in either method, as you'll have some that like one way & some that will like the other. But I will agree that their structual designs, not transformations, are far better than G1's designs, what with ball joints & ratchet joints & plastic injection techniques & such.HitsugiKun wrote:Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:It would be the first I've heard of it. Everything I've heard from producers like Don Murphy & Desanto & such was that they tried making blocky designs & Bay's crew decided they liked the exploding kibble designs better.HitsugiKun wrote:Yeah but wasnt their a law suit or somthing where bay had to make big changes to transformers so parmount couldnt say they own the original.
well they do look better and funner to transform cuz g1 was so boring you flip 2 things and wala its done.
Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:
Anyway, I've heard of no one that has stated that they wanted this movie to be pure G1 with the movie set in the 80's, & all the toys nothing but G1 reissues. Most people I've heard from just want something more like what they know to be transformers....something along the lines of what they did with the Classics line, or better yet, the Alternators....but no, not a flat-out live action CG remake of the first 3 episodes of G1.
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