Silverwing wrote:Also, I feel compelled to give the obligatory:
One for each year of the Movieverse's decade strong tenure. Here's to a few more explosive years!
The only exception is that Hasui (Shogo Hasui) always wants to design Starscream and we let him.
Mykltron wrote:Soooo.... he had to design toys without knowing what role they play in the film or what they would actually look like on film. Nice one. No wonder a lot of the toys so far have been inaccurate! Some people need to be sacked.
starfish wrote:Mykltron wrote:Soooo.... he had to design toys without knowing what role they play in the film or what they would actually look like on film. Nice one. No wonder a lot of the toys so far have been inaccurate! Some people need to be sacked.
.... 2) It takes a long time to design a transformer, from concept to prototype to production. As such, a lot of the ROTF figures were in the design stage a year or two before the film's release, in order so that the toys would be ready when the film came out....
starfish wrote:Mykltron wrote:Soooo.... he had to design toys without knowing what role they play in the film or what they would actually look like on film. Nice one. No wonder a lot of the toys so far have been inaccurate! Some people need to be sacked.
I think that's a tad unfair, for three reasons...
1) The fewer people who know the plot of the film, the better for Dreamworks so as to avoid early spoilers. We know the filmmakers resent the release of spoliers, hence Bay's misinformation campaigns (Megatron will only appear in flashback, etc.) As such, it makes sense not to let too many people know what's going to happen.
2) It takes a long time to design a transformer, from concept to prototype to production. As such, a lot of the ROTF figures were in the design stage a year or two before the film's release, in order so that the toys would be ready when the film came out. Let's not forget that ROTF was a troubled production thanks to the writer's strike, and there were many last-minute changes that we know of (such as the presence of Jolt, for example). As such, it's no surprise that some of the toys resemble earlier stages of character development, such as Leader Megatron. That's not something people should be sacked for, it's just a necessary evil when the CGI designs are in a constant state of flux and the toy designers are working to deadlines.
3) Anyway, why should it matter what the role of the character is in the film? The designers should always give their best when designing the toys. It's no use saying "oh well, Sideways is only in the film for three seconds, let's not bother so much when designing him." I for one am glad that the Hasbro and Takara designers lavish the same care and attention they do on Bumblebee as they do on no-mark characters such as Jolt. It shouldn't matter how many scenes a character is in, the designers should work to their very best regardless of screen-time or character importance.
Stay happy x.
As for the characterization ideas, we hardly had any information as to how he would be featured in the story, which made it very difficult for me to come up with a character-based gimmicks.
starfish wrote:
3) Anyway, why should it matter what the role of the character is in the film? The designers should always give their best when designing the toys. It's no use saying "oh well, Sideways is only in the film for three seconds, let's not bother so much when designing him." I for one am glad that the Hasbro and Takara designers lavish the same care and attention they do on Bumblebee as they do on no-mark characters such as Jolt. It shouldn't matter how many scenes a character is in, the designers should work to their very best regardless of screen-time or character importance.
Stay happy x.
Mykltron wrote:Are you serious? You think it's okay that the toy designers are kept in the dark when designing the toys that we are going to buy? It's for this reason that the most expensive Megatron in the ROTF range only bears a passing resemblance to the CGI. And the designer said that the Doctor's toy and films microscope modes aren't the same.
fenrir72 wrote:Mr Yuki Hisashi, the uber engineering designer of Neo Unicron, Big Convoy and Fire Convoy among others.......has categorically stated the immense contribution RID had on the resurgence of TF interest in the early 2000? Wow, imagine to much chargin what that statement would mean to anonymous "know-it alls" who think otherwise.......
Counterpunch wrote:fenrir72 wrote:Mr Yuki Hisashi, the uber engineering designer of Neo Unicron, Big Convoy and Fire Convoy among others.......has categorically stated the immense contribution RID had on the resurgence of TF interest in the early 2000? Wow, imagine to much chargin what that statement would mean to anonymous "know-it alls" who think otherwise.......
What? Where did that come from?
RiD has pretty much universally been loved for its new molds.
People were frantically importing Car Robots because of the delay in getting RiD toys in the States.
Personally, it was the RiD show that reminded me that Transformers was back in the public eye.
Unless I'm missing something, I don't know of any real RiD detractors that have a real hate-on for the show or toys.
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