SkyWarpsGhost wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Some people who grew up on G1 toys didn't grow up watching the cartoon.Rated X wrote:I never understood why people would want a cartoon accurate mold/sculpt in vintage toy accurate colors. It boggles the mind.
If, say, you had lived in the UK instead of Miami back in the 1980s, you would not have grown up watching the Transformers cartoon because it didn't air there. The UK got the toys and the comics (even creating a ton of UK-original comics the U.S. didn't get back then) and the 1986 movie, but the cartoon barely ever aired over there, airing only a scant few episodes of season 1 before just disappearing from UK television completely. UK fans in the 1980s had only the toys and the comics to get their fill of the Transformers, and since the comics largely drew from the decos of the toys themselves moreso than the cartoon did, people developed a certain fondness for the look and colors of the toys over what they characters looked like in the cartoon (cuz they weren't watching it since it wasn't on).
Some kids in other markets had ONLY the toys and NO cartoon or comics, having to play with the toys by making up their own stories with them, and making their attachment to the toys' looks even more justified.
Not everyone allowed the cartoon to dictate how they feel a character should look. Some simply preferred how the toys looked over their cartoon looks, and some didn't even get to watch the cartoon to really make a choice and just defaulted to the toys' looks anyway.
Actually the videos of the cartoon were easily accessible and the key to vector sigma and a lot of the following episodes were aired as I watched them growing up from videos taped off tv. We even got season 3 on tape. don't quote me on this but the wide awake club programming block may have shown it all.
I remember it being on every morning on ITV, either before or part of TV:AM.
ZeroWolf wrote:So far it seems that only bombshell is going there as part of the adventures line
MemphisR56 wrote:Anyway, in a more contributory post;
The 2 pack figures mentioned in the listings for the upcoming takara figures seemed a mystery, I've been nosing through HLJ on my lunchbreak and they have them both listed as GRIMLOCK vs. STRONGARM Rival pack and BUMBLEBEE vs. STEELJAW Enemy pack.
Nothing new and interesting there then.
and im SUUUURE alpha bravo has nothing to do with it...Va'al wrote:I prefer the Hasbro version, seeing them side by side.
shajaki wrote:and im SUUUURE alpha bravo has nothing to do with it...Va'al wrote:I prefer the Hasbro version, seeing them side by side.
ZeroWolf wrote:Are we sure that blades is going to be a remold and not a new mold (or at least a remold like chromia)
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:Are we sure that blades is going to be a remold and not a new mold (or at least a remold like chromia)
He was shown on a comic cover as part of Defensor: Blades' tail piece looks remarkably like Alpha Bravo's, only in red, plus he follows the arm transformation exactly.
ZeroWolf wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:Are we sure that blades is going to be a remold and not a new mold (or at least a remold like chromia)
He was shown on a comic cover as part of Defensor: Blades' tail piece looks remarkably like Alpha Bravo's, only in red, plus he follows the arm transformation exactly.
Hmm he could still be a retool since reports were saying he was more futuristic looking. Then again I'm buying him anyways so I can have rotor arms
CrankyOldTruck wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:Are we sure that blades is going to be a remold and not a new mold (or at least a remold like chromia)
He was shown on a comic cover as part of Defensor: Blades' tail piece looks remarkably like Alpha Bravo's, only in red, plus he follows the arm transformation exactly.
Hmm he could still be a retool since reports were saying he was more futuristic looking. Then again I'm buying him anyways so I can have rotor arms
If it's a re-tool it's going to be the absolute minimum they can get away with to make it different. Look at the rest of the line. EVERYTHING is getting repainted and re-purposed at least twice and they are hauling in crap from 2 lines (or further) back and repainting and re-purposing THAT stuff as well. It's not going to be a matter of what figure, it's going to be what color do you want any figure in because you are going to have 6 different paint schemes to choose from.
Cyberpath wrote:I take it the Takara version will be available only as a set?
Autobot032 wrote:Courtesy of fellow Seibertronian, fenrir72, we were directed to the link of Amiami's higher resolution and non-watermarked copies of the previously seen promotional photos for the upcoming TakaraTomy Unite Warriors Aerialbots set. The updated images feature Slingshot in better detail as well, and as expected, all of the figures feature different decos from their Hasbro counterparts including their weapons and combiner weapons/appendages.
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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.'
Va'al wrote:I prefer the Hasbro version, seeing them side by side.
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