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Noideaforaname wrote:For the record, I have just as much a problem with (Prime) Megatron, Dreadwing, Predaking, Shockwave, Optimus, and Ultra Magnus all having that "buff superhero" physique as I do with Arcee and Airachnid (holy crap, is that all the gal bots in the Prime cartoon?) having the same "slim supermodel" physique.
...Incidentally, there needs to be more female bots in general.
The vastly-superior-to-the-cartoon comics did.Noideaforaname wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Sureshock's probably the most memorable of that bunch.
Which isn't saying much, especially considering they could never get her name right.
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.'
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Dead Metal wrote:
For now, could we see the positive in this? Hasbro made a brand new character, a female character, and she's getting a toy. Hasbro has thankfully already gotten ridd of pink and oversexed designs and is moving in the right direction.
Silverwing wrote:Also, I feel compelled to give the obligatory:![]()
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One for each year of the Movieverse's decade strong tenure. Here's to a few more explosive years!
SW's SilverHammer wrote:No one asked, however i'm going to throw my opinion in this den of wolves.![]()
In real life, women aren't built specific ways. Not all women are built rail thin , like tanks, nor like the 12 foot tall amazon women from futurama. Women's bodies vary as much as men's and there's nothing wrong with that.
Now, that being said, when gender is introduced in transformers it sparks debates on whether or not they have no gender and should be completely androgynous, or have two distinct sexes; male and female. My opinion is that in fiction, once characters start referring to each other by gender specific pronouns; "He, She, Her, His, Hers", then the idea of gender-less robots is thrown out the window. One could make the debate that they only identify with that gender rather than actually share it, which is a good point, until it's mentions that certain character are always portrayed as male, while other are always portrayed as female.
So what does that mean in relation to this mess, basically that if there are two distinct "sexes" female and male, then it would go to reason that both would have features that differentiate one sex from the other. One can also reason, like real women, these fembots would have different body types as well, skinny, tall, short, athletic, curvy, boxy, whatever. Much like how their "male" counterparts also have different body types any where from barrel chested to willowy. Personally i would like to see as much assorted body types in "fembots" as there are "malebots". However it's a step forward that Hasbro is actually acknowledging that fembots exist in the mainstream outside of Arcee.
TulioDude wrote:Dead Metal wrote:
For now, could we see the positive in this? Hasbro made a brand new character, a female character, and she's getting a toy. Hasbro has thankfully already gotten ridd of pink and oversexed designs and is moving in the right direction.
This.So much this.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:You know. The more I look at this figure, the more I want it so I can replace the head and slap a Decepticon symbol on it. So I just might pick it up after all once it's released.
Of course, now that the figure has grown on me, it'll be revealed that she's a convention exclusive or something.
Oh well, here's hoping they use this mold for a Nightbird repaint.
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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