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AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Plus that cover art is purely nostalgia-bating false advertisement.
Indeed. The other factor that was a gut punch, back in the day. I had zero interest in the BW 2 and Neo cast before that book, during and after. The real waste was the previously toy-only designs. Debuting as generic cameos and nothing more.
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.'
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.'
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.'
JazZeke wrote:Not sure I like the idea of a snarky internal computer, either. When you think about it, it doesn't make much sense for the Maximals and Predacons to have secondary AIs for internal computers. I know the show featured that too, but I figured it was a convention for the audience's benefit, just about as literal as the time Dinobot flattened himself into a tree cartoon-style.
Sabrblade wrote:"Writing for the trade" has done no favors for the pacing of this series.
o.supreme wrote:I was thinking it might be nice to get in story form, the actual events of "Dark Glass", but since that was supposed to be a mid-s3 episode, IDW probably wont get there for several years, and then of course I came to the realization that they probably wont ever get there, because they are not just going to do a skewed retelling of the original series, they ae probably going to go in a completely different direction.
It was never going to. From the onset, it was always going to be to the cartoon what the Marvel G1 comics and the Dreamwave Armada comics were to the G1 and Armada cartoons, respectively.o.supreme wrote:Although I have no interest in this series, I recently thought it would be nice to fill in some gaps left in the original BW story,
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:It was never going to. From the onset, it was always going to be to the cartoon what the Marvel G1 comics and the Dreamwave Armada comics were to the G1 and Armada cartoons, respectively.o.supreme wrote:Although I have no interest in this series, I recently thought it would be nice to fill in some gaps left in the original BW story,
Besides, we've had plenty of BW cartoon tie-ins over the years, the most recent of which we got from IDW in 2016 was just mind-bogglingly bad. We don't need any more.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Sabrblade wrote:It was never going to. From the onset, it was always going to be to the cartoon what the Marvel G1 comics and the Dreamwave Armada comics were to the G1 and Armada cartoons, respectively.o.supreme wrote:Although I have no interest in this series, I recently thought it would be nice to fill in some gaps left in the original BW story,
Exactly. Any of us that wanted ..more from this, were always going to be disappointed.
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.'
That's what Universe already did, at the ironclad commanding behest of Hasbro.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I would have loved for them to go beyond Beast Machines. To progress that narrative. Not rehash Season one with superfluous kitbashed characters.
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:That's what Universe already did, at the ironclad commanding behest of Hasbro.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I would have loved for them to go beyond Beast Machines. To progress that narrative. Not rehash Season one with superfluous kitbashed characters.
Oh, but see, that's not Universe. That's what Hasbro was like "Kill the story, we don't care about The Wreckers. Do Universe or else!"AllNewSuperRobot wrote:
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.'
ZeroWolf wrote:They'd probably need to come up with real designs mind, some of those mock ups would raise Bandai's eyebrows
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I would have loved for them to go beyond Beast Machines. To progress that narrative. Not rehash Season one with superfluous kitbashed characters.
It was the brand's 20th anniversary, celebrating everything (on Hasbro's side, that is) that had come before: G1, G2, Beast Wars, Machine Wars, Beast Machines, Robots in Disguise, and Armada, all in one fell swoop.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Yes and that is far too much G1 and Botcon redecos for my liking. The general concept art and designs for TransTech leaned more towards evolving the Vehicon aesthetic IE something completely new and different.
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:It was the brand's 20th anniversary, celebrating everything (on Hasbro's side, that is) that had come before: G1, G2, Beast Wars, Machine Wars, Beast Machines, Robots in Disguise, and Armada, all in one fell swoop.
Sabrblade wrote:If Beast Machines had been "too different" for both Hasbro's and the fandom's liking, Transtech looks like it would have been even more divergent. As for any story, there likely wasn't any planned or even thought of at the time, so there's nothing we missed out on that wasn't even there.
Yeah, Transtech Megatron was cannibalized into both Armada Megatron and Animated Shockwave. And maybe ROTF Megatron's legs.ZeroWolf wrote:Of course some of the designs were folded into other projects even as nods, like Animated Blurr
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.'
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