Rodimus Prime wrote:People have the right to their own opinions and personal views, especially when it comes to such things as fictional characters, regardless of whether others agree or not. And maybe the percentage of the fandom against those new characters was larger than the characters' supporters think, which is why those characters never got any further.
Unrelated question: why is G1 Megatron's helmet black in the comics and gray in the cartoon? Black looks much better. Is it to be toy-accurate?
So then why didn't they keep his helmet black in the cartoon?JelZe GoldRabbit wrote: In the case of Megatron, that's the origin of his vertical barrel, and the different black helmet for the Marvel comics and the first toy commercials.
I think it's because they wanted fans to associate Magnus with Prime, and he was red, white and blue.ZeroWolf wrote:My question is why they changed the colours on ultra magnus I thought the powered convoy deco was much better
ZeroWolf wrote:Again I agree, it's annoying that some can not be happy with the decision bit leave it at that while others take it to extreme lengths as though hasbro has a personal vendetta against them and their collecting styles. It sometimes comes up in the takara threads as well when talking about the different decos that get released for the toys.
Rodimus Prime wrote:Unrelated question: why is G1 Megatron's helmet black in the comics and gray in the cartoon? Black looks much better. Is it to be toy-accurate?
Rodimus Prime wrote:But that's exactly what it was modeled after. Even his alternate mode was a German gun. But maybe that wasn't made clear in the cartoon? The comic and the toy definitely specified it. On the other hand, I understand why it would have been censored in Europe if it was made clear what Megatron was based on.
You know I thought that when I was younger and started to read the comics, ironically. Even with the helmet being a different color. Then in issue 25 of the US Marvel comics, "Gone But Not Forgotten," Razorclaw rips the side of the helmet in the fight between Megatron and the Predacons and that's when it became clear that he had a helmet. So when I finally saw the cartoon years later, I just looked at it as a helmet. But I agree that it being the same color as his face and upper body makes it less obvious that it's a helmet.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I suppose being the same grey as the rest of him, the assumption could be that it was just the shape of his head and not specifically a helmet?
Rodimus Prime wrote:You know I thought that when I was younger and started to read the comics, ironically. Even with the helmet being a different color. Then in issue 25 of the US Marvel comics, "Gone But Not Forgotten," the Razorclaw rips the side of the helmet in the fight between Megatron and the Predacons and that's when it became clear that he had a helmet. So when I finally saw the cartoon years later, I just looked at it as a helmet. But I agree that it being the same color as his face and upper body makes it less obvious that it's a helmet.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I suppose being the same grey as the rest of him, the assumption could be that it was just the shape of his head and not specifically a helmet?
IDW drops the ball on a lot of stuff, especially when that hack James Roberts is the writer.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Really it wasn't until I read Megatron: Origin and the 'Fan Reveal' moment, that I thought "oh? it's a helmet". Not that IDWverse ever did anything with that revelation, nor address what purpose it was supposed to serve?
Rodimus Prime wrote:As for Galvatron, being the upgraded version of Megatron, I just figured his helmet was changed as well.
Rodimus Prime wrote:Here's one thing I never understood: why was Omega Supreme used seldomly in G1? Especially the comics? For the longest time he was the most powerful Autobot character aside from Prime, and he didn't get much screen time or page space.
ZeroWolf wrote:About the head fans on megs I always took that to be a visual flourish by the artist as it's easily something that could have been added to fill a page or its something that Furman thought was cool (as he was the main writer at that point) as to why it was never brought up again..why would it? It was out if place then and I think they knew it was a one off.
ZeroWolf wrote:Seriously though the best omega is still in Animated, and it's criminal that no toy was ever made.
ZeroWolf wrote:Given one of his alts, you would have thought so but he's not since for some reason they thought it best he be the same size as the other triple changers
ZeroWolf wrote:Oh I agree completely, maybe who ever handles him next will make that move
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