Grimshock wrote:And, actually, that just points out how ridiculous it is. He created some of the material for tech spec cards and then didn't even adhere to it.
Denyer wrote:It was deliberate misinformation so that things in the film would come as a surprise to audiences... but got passed to companies who were writing books as well.
Grimshock wrote:I can certainly say my enjoyment of TF's had taken severe blows over the last couple of years. Stormwolf asks "It won't bother you if you don't read comics, so what's the problem?" The problem is that I WANT to read comics. I've been such a hardcore fan. You wouldn't believe how many times I've read them over. How I could quote them. Even went through every single one and counted the appearances of every character. I mean HARD F'N CORE.
Leonardo wrote:Did Furman write any of the actual tech specs?
Leonardo wrote:what, pray tell, are these guidelines of which you speak? The tech specs?
Leonardo wrote:Was, then, the Galvatron toy designed after they wrote early drafts of the film, or did the film team take a new toy design that had no tech spec / thumbnail character sketch and develop it that way?
Denyer wrote:Leonardo wrote:what, pray tell, are these guidelines of which you speak? The tech specs?
This is the thing. There isn't any "ultimate canon" -- writers have the option to do anything Hasbro doesn't overrule. If they think, say, that Windcharger (or Cliffjumper's glass gun) is insanely over-powerful, they won't use that bit. If they think Carnivac has more character potential as a Decepticon squad leader disillusioned with his side, or Thunderwing would make an interesting leader, etc, a bland techspec will be built on substantially.
Over several hundred issues, Furman was mostly self-consistent and interested in building an ongoing continuity, which he did.
Leonardo wrote:With that in mind, how did Furman stray from the roots? Where was he significantly inconsistent?
Stormwolf wrote:Leonardo wrote:With that in mind, how did Furman stray from the roots? Where was he significantly inconsistent?
Or alternately, how CAN he stray from the "roots"? Only he, Bob Budiansky, Bob Forward and Lawrence DiTillio have ever bothered to create any background whatsoever.
It's what gave their stories strength and durability in the first place.
Glyph wrote:Loki120 wrote:Sorry, just lost interest in IDW a while back, and considering how the franchise works, I expect it gone and a whole new continuity to start with the next year or so.
That's how the cartoon and toyline side of the franchise works, not the comics. IDW and Furman have already said that they're building the so-called 'Furmanverse' as an ongoing continuity into which all their G1 stuff will fit; this is coming from a guy who sustained a single G1 continuity for nigh-on 15 years of comics and text stories before moving into Beast Wars, long after the G1 cartoon and toyline were cancelled.
Loki120 wrote:Wrong! What? That's how both works not just the cartoon, the comic has gone threw a new incarnation with every new company. Furmanverse from which all G1 stuff will fit? Who are they kidding? Please.
Psychout wrote:Im not scared of a gender confused minibot!
Merc With A Mouth wrote:Who is Glyph and why is he so awesome?
Glyph wrote:How many continuities has the cartoon been through again, sometimes within the same series?
bookofjunon wrote:in the same series... ZERO
Hot_Rod wrote:If you want to make a statment about something the only way to do it with with money. The old saying: "Money talks; BullSh*t walks!" So if fans aren't happy with what they did, simply don't give into it. If you give them your money, then you are telling them you totally approve with what they did to the character designs and as a result you will see Hasbro take that direction in all immediate future Transformers designs.Grimshock wrote:Another thought: A huge contributing factor is that TF fans allow themselves to be pushed around. Hasbro and Takara produce a multitude of repaints and we buy 'em all. The stories are created haphazardly and don't jive, but we buy them too. The movie producers tell us "this is how it's gonna be" and, of course, so many are gonna go see it. We don't stand up for ourselves. We don't stand up for quality. We don't make them earn our money. It's a shame really.
Hot_Rod wrote:That seriously concerns me. Because at that point you have Transformers going from something we all loved, into something totally different. The elements and the formula that was the ONE common denominator we fans liked (The formula for the look of our Robots), then becomes something different that makes it no longer feel like Transformers, which in turn risks the death of Transformrs as we know it.
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