Cobotron wrote:Yo Carnivius, I don't think you really need to worry too much about the Bee movie toys taking over the Studio Series line. There are PLENTY of Bayverse bots left they can, and most likely will make toys of. I'm guessing you are still gonna have plenty of fun with the line for a good long while.
Are there though? Most of the best ones been done by now or have good enough figures from a previous line (like TLK Megatron prob don't need an update).
I was quite happily collecting Studio Series as the first collection I would ever fully complete. Not bloody likely now.
Also what was the point of the Camaro Bee with the add on parts and a Charlie mini-figure if NONE of that happened in the film and she only saw him as a camaro for like 3 seconds? They could have put her figure with VW Bee... but that would just be.. ya know...logical... Which Transformers has a real hard time of being.
Deadput wrote:This is a franchise based off a children's cartoon and toyline for children, heaven forbid that they actually start making movies for children with heart again instead of heartless juvenile garbage that rots the brain.
Based on a poorly made cartoon with idiotic plots, a decent comic and toyline. And movies can have heart when it feels genuine. Problem is so many people don't get how to write that stuff properly so you end up with hamfisted, attempts like half this movie where they may as well just put up a big sign saying "CRY NOW!".
At least I can say the human scenes in Bumblebee mattered a lot more then whatever the hell went on in the Bay movies like over sexualized attempts at getting the girl or Sam's mom eating pot brownies
Hey i don't care much for crude humour but the human scenes in this film felt so padded out to the point of ridiculousness. At least for a love interest Mikaela was pretty badass (driving the legless Bee about in the pick up truck in the middle of battle). I can't even remember what the point of not-really-love-interest-so-kinda-worthless-to-plot-the-nerd-who-doesnt-look-like-a-nerd-in-the-80s-was or any of. Charlie's mum was... ok. Frustrating but almost realistic? The kid brother was an unlikable brat and Ron? Oh god he was a piece of garbage.
Lennox was human sandpaper outside of the first movie, nothing about him in ROTF, DOTM or TLK stood out so I'll take hammy and entertaining Agent Burns over him thank you, Epps was fine but he was just sort of there and didn't contribute to the plot much besides getting Sam to Chicago in DOTM.
Yeah I wanted more Lennox stuff in the other films but he'd had enough to build him up as a character in the first one and I believed in him and he fit the world he was in. Cena wasn't entertaining at all and just stood out like the crappy WWE superstart that he is, desperately wanting The Rock's movie career but lacking any of the charisma and acting chops to do so. He dragged every scene he was in to some weird parody... it was really off putting.
But overall you're missing the point of my main complaint about the Studio Series. I bloody love this toyline. I do not like Siege or other G1 update lines and to see it taken over by G1 looking bots pretty much messes up the one actual collection I was quite happy to be giving what little money I have over for. Because yep, us Bayverse fans are being forced out of our part of the fandom with the movie aesthetics being written over with G1 stuff cos the G1 folk whined like frickin' crazy for the past ten years so maybe if I do the same for the next ten I'll get more of what I like instead except I don't have any other lines to keep myself occupied with til then like the G1 folk have constantly had so wow... this will be tough...
I forgot what my original reason for coming back into this was.... oh.. .yeah the backpack on the revised Prime. Sticks out a bit much more than I'd like but eh overall the figure is an improvement. Just needs better paint and toyhax stickers. Yeah. Ok i'm done. I need my meds. Christmas day is the worst day of the year for me anyways... Enjoy any cool stuffs you get!