Posted by Flashwave
Sun Dec 29, 2019 3:50 pm
Motto:
"Our society's downfall will not be this war. The war IS our society. That which will get us will be the little things. Some humanoid race, some tossed cannon, the little things that no one looks out for. THAT is for what we must be vigilant."
Weapon:
Twin Shoulder-Mounted Rocket Launchers
Thank goodness for the 30 second skip...
I think Cyberverse S2 deserves some credit, that has been a huge step up from S1.
Why is Generations Hoist terrible?
That RID cliffjumper was bad, but the weapon was a three sided hammer club/gun and I loved it. First you use it as a Glass Gas Gun and make everythig super brittle. Then you use the butt of your gun and BASH IT INTO A MILLION TINY PIECES. I gave that gun to GDO Cliffjumper
Recue Bots: can we talk about how Rescue Bots is not afraid over the toyline to transform into anything? Generations is so locked into "Starscream is an F15" or whatever and Rescue Bots is like "Who would look good as this Racecar?" "Who can be a good Quinhet?" Or "Ooh! Everyone's a Dinosaur!!"
Salvage was a Garbage Truck, unless he got a rescan somewhere. J think Boulder got a Rescan as a dumptruck? Salvage was in it as a B team player
Hold on Ryan, it hasbt been long enough for your daughter to be 10. #old
I think Generations has gotten too story heavy now to pull in Rescue Bots. Before Combiner Wars when the toyline was random characters was a great time for Rescue Bots Generations.
I was at Botcon 2007!
counterpunch, I fully agree with what you were saying about botcon being prohibitively expensive, however let me interject here real quick with a personal experience. I'm part of a local Model Railroad Club here in Indianapolis we put on a show three times a year at one of the Indianapolis high school and every year now IPS has continually jacked up both the venue cost and added fees (such as a security guard, except the first year they pulled that it was a Wrestling Coach with a whistle... We put our foot down on that). For us to set up Friday night and use their Gym for 5 hours Saturday is going to be $1000. There probably was a lot of extra bloat in FunPub's budgetting that jacked the coat of Botcon up, but if its costing us that much to use a 50+ year old Gymnasium for 5 hours, and "its" going up, I cannot start to guess what a Hotel Ballroom and room block reservations is for a weekend+.
I think the surprising thing you guys poke at and not really delve into is that Hasbro is lettingbthe boid be filled with an unlicensed Convention. They were pribably making mint from Fun Pub in licensing and to let TFCon run with it seems... Odd? I gotta wonder if they were surprised by the return on investment from HasCon snd thats whyvthey let the Convention side go, focusing strictly on the toys.
I gotta agree with Cobotron. The Podcast and getting to be on an episode has been a huge highlight for me and I thabk you again for the opportunity. I, like Cobin, don't have a TF fandom in my area. I do have a few close friends and I randomly ran into a collector at a Walmart at the start of Siege, we were both stalking the Pallet of new figures. I dont have the time anymore it seems to write out my long replies but I really look forward to these podcasts.
Bragging Rights: i am gonna divide this into two.
Best purchase was probably Takara Metroplex with the Iron Factory Slammer and Six Gun for the original retail. I don't need to elaborate on the why, you guys have covered Metroplex, but suffice to say that figure enticed me to drawing out a full ship schematic for it. Favorite overall purchase was either LGEX Black Convoy and or Baldigus. RID01 was my jumping on point, and Baldigus is my favorite Combiner, even though its "just" a repaint. I am also super attached to the SkyByte redco of Sharkticon, I think that was this decade.
Honorable Mentions for me is Overlord, and Tidal Wave.
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So what you are wanting is more like HftD Lugnut, and I wholeheartedly agree. I still want a Generations Lockdown that is more of the regular asthetic. I really feel FE Bulkhead still looks good with the Pre-CW Generations, but he is a bit too big with the generally smaller scale figures of the current lines, being more in line with guys like T30 Springer and RTS Jazz, although I do think he looked VERY good next to CW Prime, but the other CW bots in that line are too thin and spindly.
Funny you mention a "Teen Titans" cast, the Rescue Bots or an offshoot thereof could really slot into that kind of story pretty easily.
I still stand by if they had done more of the Transformers with the soldiers from the first movie nest in the second movie and less of focusing on the annoying kid and the dog on drugs, those movies could really have been a big thing and not have as many of the complaints as they currently do. Yeah you probably still have the same plot pacing issues, and the lack of character development from the Transformers side, but you'd have more of an action movie with more subdued in control characters. It wouldn't be that hard to replace Captain Lennox and NEST with GI Joe. A toy line might be somewhat harder, I think the easiest way to do it would be the Matic GI Joe vehicles like they've done with the exclusives released alongside identical transforming characters in our regular toy line scale and just a little bit of imaginary fudging. I do not want to see that Acid Trip comic made real.
I'm okay with sticking with the core cast of characters, if that's what it takes, but in 2020-2021 I really want to see Generations adopt what Rescue Bots is doing so well with its toy line, where they seemingly draw a random alt mode out of a hat anco dragster race car who can we turn that into let's use blur or maybe we turn Bumblebee into a motorcycle because we need to do another motorcycle Transformer. Let's go back to our ID 2001 and give Optimus Prime a fire truck alt mode that actually looks like a fire truck that Cybertron mode doesn't count. Or if they don't want to skewer Original Classic characters with new alt modes like that then reach into the archives and find a dragster Transformer. I think the definer is I don't have a problem with buying more Optimus Prime toys, but how many more red cabover Optimus Prime semis am I really going to buy?
Something else I want to see, I want them to take the Bot Bots next level and give some of them 5mm Pegs.
Happy New Years Guys! "See" you in 20/20!
