The Energon Pub

by **Raymond101** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:14 pm

Overall, I like ones with alien faces, although a lot of the human faces are awesome, in particular that of Primus. But even then it's not particularly 'human'.

I actually think Prime, in all incarnations, is somewhat in the middle. Not too alien, not too human.

News Credits: 11 · by **Overcracker** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:23 pm

I actually like them more with face masks, like Prime. Bu yeah i like them more human than alien. Not like Barricade or Blackout. I prefer the more humanoid faces. Although I do like Visors too.

by **Sportimus Prime** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:31 pm

Overcracker wrote:I actually like them more with face masks, like Prime. Bu yeah i like them more human than alien. Not like Barricade or Blackout. I prefer the more humanoid faces. Although I do like Visors too.

Yup! With or without mouth showing. :grin:

by **schizophrenica** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:59 pm

I like em with face plates.. The Alien look just doesn't work for me..

by **Deadpool.** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:10 am

I like visors and faceplates.

And i don't think that TFs should have human-like mouths, as they can just emit sounds through stuff like speakers....

by **Predacon Rampage** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:15 am

Raymond101 wrote:Overall, I like ones with alien faces, although a lot of the human faces are awesome, in particular that of Primus. But even then it's not particularly 'human'.

I actually think Prime, in all incarnations, is somewhat in the middle. Not too alien, not too human.

I like both, all depends on the situation of the series. Prime in the movie, is the only one with a human face, Ironhide looked like some kind of guerilla or something, but his game self had a awesome face plate.

by **Satomiblood** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:22 am

The alien faces are more interesting.

by **Raymond101** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:26 am

And 'human' face is kind of deceiving, since the eyes are robotically shaped anyway and the helmet is actually part of the head... only the mouth and nose is distinclty human save for the lack of nostrils.

News Credits: 150 · by **GetterDragun** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:27 am

I like them with G1 style faces. Remember, they were originally based off of Samurai masks, G1 Wheeljack has a Kendo helmet.

My favorite is Multiforce-14s head:

by **Raymond101** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:30 am

Then what's Primus's 'helmet' based off? :???:

by **autobot commander** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:45 am

Raymond101 wrote:Then what's Primus's 'helmet' based off?

i think its based of rodimus's head

by **ttman** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:43 am

as long as the face doesn't have teeth & a tongue I'm OK :grin:

News Credits: 4 · by **General Magnus** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:50 am

They are aliens, so it´s alien faces. That´s what i liked more about the movie designs.

by **Rushie** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:53 am

Alien/Mouth plate & visor for me.

With that said, Dropkick is one of my favorite head designs ever.

by **Satomiblood** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:27 am

I like the head design in the boxart for Movie G1 Starscream.

by **microclone** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:37 am

I always liked the tiny chiselled robo faces on TF, they have personality. The alien faces of the movie toys do not, not atall, i dont mind the alien faces but on the whole i find them ill realised, BB 08 for eg, theres nothing noteworthy about that head design atall, very weak.

(the real gear toys of course carry over the robo faces, the camera robo has more personality than all the movie toys proper combined)

News Credits: 1 · by **Creature SH** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:12 am

Stylized human faces, aka G1 style. Not fully human, but close enough to project. Perfect science fiction element.

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:47 am

yeah, humanoid looking faceplates would probably be my preference for the most part. The occasional more robotic or animalistic looking faces work for me sometimes, but the almost abstract designs for the movie heads don't feel like Transformers to me. Lacking character so that they could be mechs from any random anime.

Some of the best head/face designs over the years that I remember:
G1 Prowl
Soundwave
Powermaster Prime
BW Rampage
Wreck-Gar

of course there are loads others, but these stand out to me at the moment

by **woosh** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:15 am

I prefer the guys that don't have mouths.
i'm looking at you, shockwave! for me, lensfacers are awesome.
And prime lookms fantastic with a face cover on.

News Credits: 5 · by **skywarp-2** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:22 am

actually i like simplistic faces and not sooo much stuff going on you can't tell what it is.. but alien, humanoid, masks, cyclops.. they are robots.. so it really doesn't matter.. they look cool either way, as long as it's not tooo much detail..

by **thedistinctroom** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:37 am

I prefer the original Diaclone style faces on G1 characters. The whole alien look is good but I prefer the original.

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:07 pm

Never thought about it before, but I think I'd have to say I prefer human faced TFs.

Visors, faceplates and all that are welcome, since Prime and Soundwave are 2 of my favs, but overall, for me, the majority of TFS had human-esque faces.