megatronus wrote:Of all the pics you could have chosen to make Leo Dux look like a brick with legs, you chose the wrong one. That pic of Leo Dux looks great.
Are you joking? He looks ridiculous. He looks more like a goddamn pussycat than a lion. That and the way his legs are basically bolted to the side of a square arse rather than actually looking like legs.
MMC took G1 concepts and did a fantastic job updating them, IMO. With TFC, I can't even recognize most of their Predacons as Predacons...
Which is a good thing, because the original Predacons were monstrously derpy. I mean, look at them. Razorclaw looked like a plush toy, the limb-bots were just plain daft, and the combined mode was a thunder-thighed mess. The original concept was good, but the execution was atrocious. TFC is the concept done right. MMC's has some good thing about it, but is too beholden to G1 to work properly, resulting in the combined mode's lower legs being way too thick, the torso being too small, and the beast modes all looking, quite frankly, terrible.
so, yea. If you can't find a reason to hate on G1 other than the fact you can't relate to it due to your age, then its best to err on the side of respectful silence. You kind of had to be there.
I'm not "hating on it" because I can't relate to it due to my age. I'm saying the original G1 Predacons (especially the toy) was a good concept that had objectively terrible execution. Putting aside the fact that in a team called the PREDAcons, only 3 of them were actually predators, the designs were bad. The TFC version takes those concepts and gives them the modern interpretation they so desperately deserve.
Also, quit with the "You had to be there" argument. If anything I'm more qualified to judge it as I'm not blinded by nostalgia/rose-tinted goggles. G1 isn't some kind of sacred work that must be honored at every moment. It's an outdated merchandise-driven cartoon that had some redeeming factors (such as the admittedly top-notch voice acting and...well, that's it). Practically every single Transformers cartoon that has come since has surpassed it in terms of quality. The animation is blatantly terrible. The story makes no sense. The character designs were exceedingly average. The characters were utterly one-dimensional. It's not something like the original Gundam or Evangelion, which despite being kinda dated and questionably animated at times had incredible stories and deep, well-written characters. It's a cheaply made (even by 80s standards I might add) cartoon made to convince children to buy repurposed Japanese toys. It deserves a footnote, but it's time to move on. We've had G1. It's time for something new. And quite frankly I'm disappointed that thanks to the hordes of people still convinced that nothing can ever be better than G1 that the third-party market will always be beholden to making figures based on those tired old concepts, instead of coming up with something new or homaging more deserving continuities.
Also, for all the praise you heap on Nemean, try displaying him without the guns on his back. I think you'll find he looks like a plank with legs.
I've seen Nemean without his cannons and that's simply not true. He looks lithe and slender, sure, but he doesn't look like a "plank". And compared to the alternative (Mr Breezeblock the Wondercat) I'll take my planky lion.
Also, you could always, you know, just not take the cannons off?
BUT WAIT - why are we talking about this in an
ABOMINUS thread???
Well it was Rated X who brought it up. Don't look at me.
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