Dean ML wrote:Hey, I'm a 34 year old teacher, husband, and father of two children and I watch at least one G1 episode nearly every day! Usually while I'm working out before anyone else is up. Can't really articulate my infatuation with the show, but it was such a huge part of my elementary years and so much of the mythology and great characters still fascinate me as an adult. I often skip over the hack work of the AKOM episodes, though. Just started watching the three Japanese G1 seasons and it's like it's new all over again. The animation in Masterforce and Victory is often on par or better than Transformers: The Movie. Plus it was great to finally see Headmaster, Targetmaster, and Pretendor TFs, among others that I have fond memories of, on the screen.
$100 is steep for anything for me, but I had a huge TF movie figure collection (the movies brought me back to TFs), and as much as I enjoyed them, MPs are what I really wanted. They were the real Transformers, y'know? So I sold my entire collection, sold a few more things around the house, and will soon have a (what I consider to be) complete MP collection. Best hobby related decision I've ever made. MPs only from here on out. Quality over quantity!
Same here!
The AKOM animation wasn't nearly as dynamic and polished as Toei, it was rather... schematic. But it still had a certain charm. :)
It was interesting to see different styles.
I tried watching some of the Japanese shows years ago, but the writing style and limited animation (and in later shows, the design aesthetics) put me off.
May be drifting off-topic here, but what I would love to see is a new American series, hand-drawn like "Young Justice", starring only new characters & character names -- no Primes, no Megatrons, no Starscreams, Bumblebees, etc. It's not likely to happen since Hasbro will understandably keep making money off these characters by coming up with new iterations of them, but it would be unpredictable and fun to see.
REMINATOR wrote:Considering he's a repaint of MP12 Sideswipe, I totally welcome the inaccurate cartoon shoulder wheel. It looks close enough to the toon and currently is a lot better than to omit it out.
with that said, I just couldn't by pass the red thigh. This MP14 is neither show accurate nor toy accurate like G1. He's hybrid, therefore, I'm force to pass it up.
I'm not a toy maker so I don't know, but I assume these toys start out as computer 3D models; and ultimately a mold/prototype is "printed" in a 3D printer? So wouldn't it have been fairly easy for Takara to create Red Alert with wheels-for-shoulders, regardless of Sideswipe?