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News Credits: 2 · by **Insurgent** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:31 am

If the Japanese love Convoy so much, why kill him off in ep 3?

Does any of the accompanying manga that I hear accompanies these shows explain how Galvatron survived ground zero of a planetary explosion, or where that funky alien ship he returned on came form?

There were more, but I forget them now.

by **ThunderThruster** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:04 am

unfortunatly, we dont know why, only that they were making way for the headmaster characters!

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:29 am

They needed an excuse to have the Headmasters as the best and most powerfull TF around, and having Prime around they wouldn't have conidered powerefull inuf.

Galvatron was able to shild himself from the blast (I supos)

Galvatron was the alien ship!! (that was such a stupid story!!)

by **Uncrazzimatic** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:45 am

ThunderThruster wrote:unfortunatly, we dont know why, only that they were making way for the headmaster characters!

Yep, they killed him for the exact same reason he was killed in the movie, poor Prime. :-(

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:47 am

Uncrazzimatic wrote:
ThunderThruster wrote:unfortunatly, we dont know why, only that they were making way for the headmaster characters!

Yep, they killed him for the exact same reason he was killed in the movie, poor Prime.

You know wat?
I think Prime is like a bit of a TF Kenny!
I mean he dies in every show since the movie.

Website · by **Skullgrin140** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:27 pm

Prime would have had a larger importent story if the Japanese didnt kill him off in HM

News Credits: 2 · by **Insurgent** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:17 am

That's what I don't get. The Japanesse love Convoy, even making the Alt ram a Convoy just so it would sell there. So if they show him the love, why kill him off? The Headmasters could still be more powerful than him.

Another thing I remembered.

About 10 eps in, the cons on the intro start flashing. I heard somewhere this is a gimmick with the toys of those characters. Can someone clarify this?

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:21 am

It's just bad animation, cos I've got a few of them and they don't flash.

News Credits: 2 · by **Insurgent** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:31 am

Dead Metal wrote:It's just bad animation, cos I've got a few of them and they don't flash.

For most of the series?

They dont do it in the early eps of the series, they only start just after the ep Rodimus leaves. Or around there.

It seems more faulty dvd disks than the animation, because the rest of the animation is faultless.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:47 am

Insurgent wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:It's just bad animation, cos I've got a few of them and they don't flash.

For most of the series?

They dont do it in the early eps of the series, they only start just after the ep Rodimus leaves. Or around there.

It seems more faulty dvd disks than the animation, because the rest of the animation is faultless.

You've got the Metrodome relise?
Cos they stated this was taken from the "master copies" as you can read in the leaflet by Chris McFeely.
So I'de say it's a defect in the animation and not the discs!
Man that show has some wird and stupid times!

by **evernight** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 9:25 am

I just thought it was that the Japanese have that whole Master/Student thing in their culture. Think Lio Convoy and Jr, Goku and his lazy kids in DBZ, and Optimus and Rodimus. They also kill anime characters all the time. While American kiddies may have been traumatized by Optimus's loss, I suspect Japanese kids just thought it was weird that Hot Rod gave up his leadership position, which had to be a smirch on sensei Convoy-san. So the Japanese producers did another pass-the-torch arc that cemented Convoy and Rodimus Major's hero status.