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Video reviews: Watch or Skip the Transformation?

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Video reviews: Watch or Skip the Transformation?

Postby no-one » Sat Jun 06, 2015 7:17 am

Recently I've seen a small amount of talk about either watching or skipping the transformation section of video reviews.

Some people use them as instructions.

Some people feel they are spoilery.

I enjoy the reviews and insight, but skip the transformation. I like to "crack the nut" myself.

What do you think?
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Re: Video reviews: Watch or Skip the Transformation?

Postby Stuartmaximus » Sat Jun 06, 2015 8:08 am

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I've left transformations out in my video reviews....but only because it would take too much time with the limited equipment that I have to work with! + there are tons of better reviews of the same figures out there....as well as reviewers with far better video equipment & some have even built a platform or reviewing area to review them....like for instance....Optibotimus.
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Re: Video reviews: Watch or Skip the Transformation?

Postby no-one » Sat Jun 06, 2015 8:22 am

Cool cool, thanks. I guess I should have stated I'm also curious as to what reviewers think as well and the feedback they receive.
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Re: Video reviews: Watch or Skip the Transformation?

Postby Logan. » Sat Jun 06, 2015 3:18 pm

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I watch a video review mostly for the transformation.

Objectively, I think a videoreview without transformation is incomplete, because a Transformer has always three features: robot mode, alternative mode, transformation. :D
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Re: Video reviews: Watch or Skip the Transformation?

Postby Insurgent » Mon Jun 08, 2015 8:50 am

I skip transformations. I really don't care to sit there for 10 minutes and watch someone drone on relentlessly about a step by step description of what they're doing. I'll figure that out myself if I get the figure.


The only exceptions are Emgo if he's doing a quick to transform figure, because he actually puts in some personality (though I still skip if it's something involved) and Vangelus, whom I never skip. Because his transformations are done as a short montage where he gives an overall impression of the transformation, rather than a step by step account, but he'll focus on something that impresses him or is rather nasty, and takes less than a minute. If all reviews were done like that with the transformation, I wouldn't skip.


As for my own videos, I just say "On to robot mode!" or alt mode if I'm going that way, and just do a straight cut to it with the transformation noise.
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Re: Video reviews: Watch or Skip the Transformation?

Postby grimdragon2001 » Mon Jun 08, 2015 9:58 am

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when doing reviews i prefer to animate the transformation rather than go through a tutorial. some things are best left a mystery
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Re: Video reviews: Watch or Skip the Transformation?

Postby jay5 » Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:37 pm

I always watch the transformation if I haven't seen it transformed before. The viewer (and potential customer/buyer) can learn a lot about a specific model by how it transforms (ease, difficulty, caveats, things to watch out for, details they might miss), provided the reviewer does it well.
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