Sabrblade wrote:It's not out yet.SJ21 wrote:I didn't order this one, but I am curious about how it is. Anyone get theirs yet?
And now it is out.Counterpunch wrote:Sabrblade wrote:It's not out yet.SJ21 wrote:I didn't order this one, but I am curious about how it is. Anyone get theirs yet?
I got mine yesterday.
It's really cool.
Where it beats previous attempts at this is by including interesting things like, animation cells, original (repro) product catalogs, movie tickets, etc.
For $25 ... there are few reasons to pass on it.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
You do realize that this book came out BEFORE Transformers: Prime did, right?SeanoptimusPrime wrote:I mean, 1/2 page on Transformers Prime, are you JOKING?!
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
If he did, he probably wouldn't have been so disappointed.Sabrblade wrote:You do realize that this book came out BEFORE Transformers: Prime did, right?SeanoptimusPrime wrote:I mean, 1/2 page on Transformers Prime, are you JOKING?!
It's safe to say he was talking about Beast Wars, or possibly Beast Machines. He spoke of Headmasters beforehand, so it most likely was a typo. It's not hard to put 2 and 2 together.And what is "Beastmasters"? There's not Transformers series called that.
Only one edition of the book was ever printed. Any later run releases would be of the same edition as the earliest ones.SeanoptimusPrime wrote:And for clarification, the edition I have was printed 1 year after the Prime series was released.
Even though that book contains plenty of errors and is written with a bias towards the Dreamwave comic material?Rodimus Prime wrote:I already have Simon Furman's The Ultimate Guide to Transformers (even though it doesn't include Prime or the Bayverse sequels because it came out in 2007) and it's adequate for me.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Even so. Care to tell me the errors you know of? You probably know of more than I do.Sabrblade wrote:Even though that book contains plenty of errors and is written with a bias towards the Dreamwave comic material?Rodimus Prime wrote:I already have Simon Furman's The Ultimate Guide to Transformers (even though it doesn't include Prime or the Bayverse sequels because it came out in 2007) and it's adequate for me.
Rodimus Prime wrote:Even so. Care to tell me the errors you know of? You probably know of more than I do.Sabrblade wrote:Even though that book contains plenty of errors and is written with a bias towards the Dreamwave comic material?Rodimus Prime wrote:I already have Simon Furman's The Ultimate Guide to Transformers (even though it doesn't include Prime or the Bayverse sequels because it came out in 2007) and it's adequate for me.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Rodimus Prime wrote:Even so. Care to tell me the errors you know of? You probably know of more than I do.Sabrblade wrote:Even though that book contains plenty of errors and is written with a bias towards the Dreamwave comic material?Rodimus Prime wrote:I already have Simon Furman's The Ultimate Guide to Transformers (even though it doesn't include Prime or the Bayverse sequels because it came out in 2007) and it's adequate for me.In a way, I guess you could nickname that book "The Gospel According to Furman (At The Time)"
- The book shows its preference of the Marvel Comics origin of the Dinobots by flat out dismissing the cartoon's origin as being a mere rumor.
- The book describes the Quintessons' history of being the creators of the TFs in the cartoon as being entirely conjectural, when it was made pretty clear in the cartoon that they were.
- Several names are misspelled, such as "Teletran-1", "Carlee", "Eleta-1", and "Sean Burger".
- Several summaries of cartoon episodes are faulty, mixing up facts with innaccuracies.
- Same with several comic book issue summaries.
- Many of the toy images are mistransformed or have missing/wrong accessories.
- Optimus's Japanese G1 toy is identified as "01 Convoy" as though the "01" were part of its name rather than an ID number.
- None of the toys in the Generation 2 toy section are from Generation 2 (save for Megatron), as they're all European late-G1 toys that (aside from two of them) were not rereleased under the G2 banner.
- None of the episode guides are as complete as they claim to be, being more of a selection of "best of" episodes.
- Robots in Disguise is missing any and all traces of its cartoon.
- The Robots in Disguise section contains info that mixes up info from Car Robots with the English version (such as labeling Koji as "Yuki").
- The Armada Super Base Optimus seen in the book sports the wrong deco, bearing paint apps never seen anywhere else.
- Armada Laserbeak sports its prototype colors.
- All the pages in the Generation 1, Armada, and Energon sections that pertain to historical topics are written with the Dreamwave comics in mind and ignore any factual info from the cartoons that wasn't in the Dreamwave materials.
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