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Sabrblade wrote:Do you feel that the overall quality of mainstream Transformers fiction (e.g. - the most accessible-to-everyone stuff, like the cartoons and films) has objectively diminished over the years, or do you feel that some of the newer fiction is actually more along the same level as some of the older stuff and that is it just a dual case of "We're adults now, so we're not as easy to please as we were when we were children" and "We're nostalgic to the older stuff because we're more familiar with it than we are with the newer stuff"?
Or is it a little of both?
Or do you think the quality varies depending on things like the creators, or the networks (like, Cartoon Network having a say on RID's content vs. Discovery Family's say on Rescue Bots's content), or the target demographic, etc.?
You may be surprised to hear that it's not all just about Power of the Primes in our responses to this one! Thanks to both Sabrblade and Ironhidensh for the questions, and be sure to post yours in the Ask The Twincast thread.Ironhidensh wrote:Are the forced gimmicks hurting more than they are helping recent lines?
SW's SilverHammer wrote:Eat my ass funpub.
Burn wrote:And this is for taking Nemesis Maximo seriously.
*high fives Silly in the face*
carytheone wrote:I can't be assed to do any better right now.
You know, I did think about the Unicron theme but I've been trying to save the non-standard audio intros for very rare circumstancesFlashwave wrote:I'm sorry, but you have Unicron (.com) and you didn't rip his theme intro from the 86 movie?
I fully expect the old Supermarket format to be replaced with shoppable warehouse formats, not unlike Costco and Sam's, but on a different sort of scale.
Thanks so much, this made my day!Nemesis Maximo wrote:You know even though I've never met a fellow Seibertronian in real life, being able to convene here with other fans of my hobby is so special. I love listening to the podcast, and I find myself laughing along with the in jokes. "Hey remember that time Scotty got Counterpunched?" And all that.
The real question is will your family also want to transform MP-32, and if so will you let them?Nemesis Maximo wrote:And my mom, dad, brother and I all got really into Beast Wars, to the point where my own mother recognizes and has connection to the actual characters. To the point where my parents get excited over the fact that I've got MP-32 coming in the mail hopefully soon. Good stuff, good stuff.
ScottyP wrote:The real question is will your family also want to transform MP-32, and if so will you let them?Nemesis Maximo wrote:And my mom, dad, brother and I all got really into Beast Wars, to the point where my own mother recognizes and has connection to the actual characters. To the point where my parents get excited over the fact that I've got MP-32 coming in the mail hopefully soon. Good stuff, good stuff.
SW's SilverHammer wrote:Eat my ass funpub.
Burn wrote:And this is for taking Nemesis Maximo seriously.
*high fives Silly in the face*
carytheone wrote:I can't be assed to do any better right now.
You know, my biggest/most vivid memory of buying Transformers is only one, during Beast Wars.
My mum (whom I saw about once-twice a month) decided that for my birthday that year - whatever year it was, probably 1996 or 1997 - she would get me a game of my own for her Game Boy. We went to an Amico Giò shop, and headed for the videogame section. But I was transfixed by the Beast Wars red boxes. The Ultra class toys were out. They were beautiful. I picked up both Optimus Primal and Megatron, and looked at all the lookable, read all the readable, tried all the triable. I settled on Optimus Primal, in the end.
On our way out of the shop, my mum said she was willing to get me the other one, as well, as she had intended to spend more on the videogame anyway - I said no, it was more than enough to have this one. I keep thinking back at that strange day, as I never owned BW Megatron since, but still have the same OP.
I lied! There is a second!
It was a year later, I think, when my grandad promised me Magnaboss for my birthday, knowing full well (him, me and everyone else in my family) we might not find it in Italian shops. Which we didn't. So he took me around six shops in one afternoon later in the week, and bought me a Transmetal Waspinator as a 'pacifier' - I loved it, and it worked. My dad eventually found Magnaboss a month later in a weird department store, and I got it as a second birthday gift.
Cobotron wrote:Hey! You seemed to have attracted a wild Megatronus. They're hard to find, but boy are they fun when you catch one!
RodimusConvoy13 wrote:
I don’t think there’s enough Mirages there. They might run out before I can get one.
Cobotron wrote:Hey! You seemed to have attracted a wild Megatronus. They're hard to find, but boy are they fun when you catch one!
Flashwave wrote:
Now I will say too, there was a lot of cry for playset marketing. I think Ryan or someone not he Podcast even said they wanted to see it, so I am glad we got Basebots, and working cockpits,, and whatever else, and if for nothing else, I am glad that PotP continued that playset Trend in figures like Beachcomber and Windcharger, because it does add play value, and this time without having to partsform their heads.
Tigertrack wrote:Flashwave wrote:
Now I will say too, there was a lot of cry for playset marketing. I think Ryan or someone not he Podcast even said they wanted to see it, so I am glad we got Basebots, and working cockpits,, and whatever else, and if for nothing else, I am glad that PotP continued that playset Trend in figures like Beachcomber and Windcharger, because it does add play value, and this time without having to partsform their heads.
I haven't been on in a long time, but I have always loved base modes. Guess it comes from my Micromaster love. When DOTM came out with their legends bases and mini-figs (the ark and transforming Starscream gunship come to mind), I was excited.
But that was movie line, which never properly found any place in my collection.
I like(d) the titanmasters bases and general interaction of titanmasters similarly to how micromasters at times worked with their vehicles and bases/play sets. It's not the same but it's fun. This coming from a guy who wants to find micromaster equivalents in any new figures that he can (because they can now be guzzlers too), trying to pair a minicon with a vehicle that fit the original form in many cases. I'm a little excited because toyhax is teasing micromaster conversion stickers set(s).
I'm excited for my Legends Overlord to show up this week. All my years of collecting and I finally am able to see the main line release of this guy/gal in both companies...
It's pretty amazing collecting times we live in... And I wonder if my collecting years are starting to see the sunset now, the prime wars trilogy being the finale that will allow me the satisfaction of saying this journey is completed...
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