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News Credits: 28 · by **Dead Metal** » Tue May 01, 2012 1:37 pm

orangeitis wrote:
Gearslide wrote:I like it. I'm gonna pick it up and the inevitable Frenzy repaint. I do like when the Casseticons (I guess they're Minicons now, huh?) get sized-up figures, like the alternaters cars and the generations tanks.
They're way too small to be Minicons, if my math is accurate.

No, he means that they're referred to as Mini-cons now by Hasbro and all official fiction.

by **orangeitis** » Tue May 01, 2012 1:40 pm

Dead Metal wrote:
orangeitis wrote:
Gearslide wrote:I like it. I'm gonna pick it up and the inevitable Frenzy repaint. I do like when the Casseticons (I guess they're Minicons now, huh?) get sized-up figures, like the alternaters cars and the generations tanks.
They're way too small to be Minicons, if my math is accurate.

No, he means that they're referred to as Mini-cons now by Hasbro and all official fiction.

Oh, that.

I thought that was true, but TFwiki(or was that Teletraan-1) don't seem to want to accept that... :-?

News Credits: 18 · by **JelZe GoldRabbit** » Tue May 01, 2012 1:43 pm

orangeitis wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:
orangeitis wrote:
Gearslide wrote:I like it. I'm gonna pick it up and the inevitable Frenzy repaint. I do like when the Casseticons (I guess they're Minicons now, huh?) get sized-up figures, like the alternaters cars and the generations tanks.
They're way too small to be Minicons, if my math is accurate.

No, he means that they're referred to as Mini-cons now by Hasbro and all official fiction.
Oh, that.

I though that was true, but TFwiki(or was that Teletraan-1) don't seem to want to accept that...

Because it's outrageous, that's why.

by **RAcast** » Tue May 01, 2012 3:42 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
orangeitis wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:
orangeitis wrote:
Gearslide wrote:I like it. I'm gonna pick it up and the inevitable Frenzy repaint. I do like when the Casseticons (I guess they're Minicons now, huh?) get sized-up figures, like the alternaters cars and the generations tanks.
They're way too small to be Minicons, if my math is accurate.

No, he means that they're referred to as Mini-cons now by Hasbro and all official fiction.
Oh, that.

I though that was true, but TFwiki(or was that Teletraan-1) don't seem to want to accept that...

Because it's outrageous, that's why.

More importantly, since when is there a size limitation of how small a "minicon" can be? xD

And to answer the original question, I think it's GREAT. I REALLY like the Gunman (ala TTGL) look of him.

And both versions will be instant buys.

I don't have any Frenzys OR Rumbles, and Soundwave needs his minions dammit. xD

by **orangeitis** » Tue May 01, 2012 3:48 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
orangeitis wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:
orangeitis wrote:
Gearslide wrote:I like it. I'm gonna pick it up and the inevitable Frenzy repaint. I do like when the Casseticons (I guess they're Minicons now, huh?) get sized-up figures, like the alternaters cars and the generations tanks.
They're way too small to be Minicons, if my math is accurate.

No, he means that they're referred to as Mini-cons now by Hasbro and all official fiction.
Oh, that.

I though that was true, but TFwiki(or was that Teletraan-1) don't seem to want to accept that...

Because it's outrageous, that's why.

But why is it outrageous?

News Credits: 18 · by **JelZe GoldRabbit** » Tue May 01, 2012 3:58 pm

orangeitis wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
orangeitis wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:
orangeitis wrote:
Gearslide wrote:I like it. I'm gonna pick it up and the inevitable Frenzy repaint. I do like when the Casseticons (I guess they're Minicons now, huh?) get sized-up figures, like the alternaters cars and the generations tanks.
They're way too small to be Minicons, if my math is accurate.

No, he means that they're referred to as Mini-cons now by Hasbro and all official fiction.
Oh, that.

I though that was true, but TFwiki(or was that Teletraan-1) don't seem to want to accept that...

Because it's outrageous, that's why.
But why is it outrageous?

G1 never had Mini-Cons until Classics, so all smaller partners including Targetmasters (talking to you, Nightstick) and especially Soundwave's cassettes should not be called that.

I know, the games are not part of G1 proper, but I still refuse to call them Mini-Cons. Heck, I don't even consider the PCC ones Mini-Cons!

News Credits: 35 · by **Diem** » Tue May 01, 2012 4:16 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
orangeitis wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
orangeitis wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:
orangeitis wrote:
Gearslide wrote:I like it. I'm gonna pick it up and the inevitable Frenzy repaint. I do like when the Casseticons (I guess they're Minicons now, huh?) get sized-up figures, like the alternaters cars and the generations tanks.
They're way too small to be Minicons, if my math is accurate.

No, he means that they're referred to as Mini-cons now by Hasbro and all official fiction.
Oh, that.

I though that was true, but TFwiki(or was that Teletraan-1) don't seem to want to accept that...

Because it's outrageous, that's why.
But why is it outrageous?

G1 never had Mini-Cons until Classics, so all smaller partners including Targetmasters (talking to you, Nightstick) and especially Soundwave's cassettes should not be called that.

I know, the games are not part of G1 proper, but I still refuse to call them Mini-Cons. Heck, I don't even consider the PCC ones Mini-Cons!

It's the worst kind of retcon. It brings nothing new to the table, it creates plot holes and it dilutes the simplicity and originality of the original story.

by **orangeitis** » Tue May 01, 2012 4:21 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:G1 never had Mini-Cons until Classics, so all smaller partners including Targetmasters (talking to you, Nightstick) and especially Soundwave's cassettes should not be called that.

I know, the games are not part of G1 proper, but I still refuse to call them Mini-Cons. Heck, I don't even consider the PCC ones Mini-Cons!

You never heard of a ret-con?

Things are added to what we previously have "known" about established fiction all the time. Labeling the cassetticons "Minicons" now in no way contradicts anything established in G1 any more than the addition of sparks as their "essence".

Targetmasters, along with most other -masters of G1, at least in western continuities were Nebulans, not purebred Transformers. So who's to say that purebred -masters weren't Minicons?

There could be lots of reasons to consider small TFs in G1 "Minicons", but if the best we can come up with is "we never heard them be called Minicons before so they can't be called Minicons now", it's best left within personal continuity IMO.

News Credits: 2 · by **craggy** » Tue May 01, 2012 4:24 pm

orangeitis wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
orangeitis wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:
orangeitis wrote:
Gearslide wrote:I like it. I'm gonna pick it up and the inevitable Frenzy repaint. I do like when the Casseticons (I guess they're Minicons now, huh?) get sized-up figures, like the alternaters cars and the generations tanks.
They're way too small to be Minicons, if my math is accurate.

No, he means that they're referred to as Mini-cons now by Hasbro and all official fiction.
Oh, that.

I though that was true, but TFwiki(or was that Teletraan-1) don't seem to want to accept that...

Because it's outrageous, that's why.
But why is it outrageous?