Custom My Little Pony Transformers for International Day of Friendship - Press Release

Oh great. Another Bumblebee!

I log on expecting this thread to be filled with fanboy rage and THIS is all I get?

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:Oh great. Another Bumblebee!

I am disappointed. I wanted to laugh at fanboys.
They are quite well done though.

OK, I'll bite.

THIS IS AWFULL HOW CAN DEY DO DIS TO PONIES WTFBBQ

Oh great. More stunted horses on the internet.

To paraphrase Snatch, "I f*cking hate ponies".

The rest of my day will now be consumed with finding an old WWF wrestling ring on ebay so I can create the stop motion event we've all dreamed of-
HELLO KITTY PRIME vs MLP PRIME- the cage match!!!

Can't wait for people to come into the thread and start complaining about Bronies and how they watch a show made for little kids despite us also being fans of a show and toys that is also made for little kids.



I admit I'm a fan of the show and that's pretty much it I like the show nothing more.




Any one want to play the drinking game with me?

Are these going to be manufactured for retail sale, or are these just one-of-a-kind customs made for an event?

GuyIncognito wrote:Are these going to be manufactured for retail sale, or are these just one-of-a-kind customs made for an event?

Thier official customs from what I can tell.

I wish Combiner Wars would be supplanted by a MLP:FiM/Transformers movie crossover line.

Second coolest My little ponies right after that custom my little Cthulhu....

Why couldn't they have done a Megatron/Starscream instead

(But seriously, i thought there would be a lot of "FFS" and "you ruined the TF franchise!")

ctrlFrequency wrote:Why couldn't they have done a Megatron/Starscream instead

(But seriously, i thought there would be a lot of "FFS" and "you ruined the TF franchise!")

Wait for it. The thread is still young.
And I'm with you, I want to see a Megatron/Starscream version of these. Not so much "instead of" but as a set to accompany the Prime/'Bee set.

Yeah, that's right folks. I'm a Brony too. Deal with it!
It's not my fault that you die-hard TF fans are too close minded to accept anything beyond your black & white view of how a fandom should be run.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go post pics on other sites of Dr Who/transforming Autobot TARDIS with an MLP character steeping out of it just because I like to watch the world burn.

It Is Him wrote:I wish Combiner Wars would be supplanted by a MLP:FiM/Transformers movie crossover line.

I will hunt you down and tear out your spine, and then feed it to you.

CrankyOldTruck wrote:Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go post pics on other sites of Dr Who/transforming Autobot TARDIS with an MLP character steeping out of it just because I like to watch the world burn.

Oh my God, I'd sooooo love to see that

Delta Magnus wrote:

It Is Him wrote:I wish Combiner Wars would be supplanted by a MLP:FiM/Transformers movie crossover line.

I will hunt you down and tear out your spine, and then feed it to you.

I dunno, I'm kind of with Him on this one I'm so tired of Combiner Wars. I get it... next step.. evolution... everybot and his brother combines... wooo...
Comixology sent me the Combiner Wars one shot instead of the MTMTE, which is what I'm subscribed for, last Wednesday, as if to stab me with the fact that Combiner Wars is all Hasbro can think about.

I was about to say MLP is cancer, but that's an insult to cancer.

MLP is Malaria.

Delta Magnus wrote:I was about to say MLP is cancer, but that's an insult to cancer.

MLP is Malaria.

FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC!!!! *starts throwing Ponies around in an attempt to instill friendship through violence*

Funniest thing someone commented on the MLP Facebook page about this... "The fact that the plot of MLP is miles deeper than any Transformers narrative is hilarious."

Eh? Have they actually watched TF? (G1 doesn't count, it had 80's depth, which is to say none. Yes, I grew up in the 80's)

ctrlFrequency wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:I was about to say MLP is cancer, but that's an insult to cancer.

MLP is Malaria.

FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC!!!! *starts throwing Ponies around in an attempt to instill friendship through violence*

Funniest thing someone commented on the MLP Facebook page about this... "The fact that the plot of MLP is miles deeper than any Transformers narrative is hilarious."

Eh? Have they actually watched TF? (G1 doesn't count, it had 80's depth, which is to say none. Yes, I grew up in the 80's)

I wouldn't know about MLP, haven't watched it. But TF:P has a paper thin story that's poorly executed and then hastily wrapped up. It spent too much time trying to look gritty and dark.

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:

ctrlFrequency wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:I was about to say MLP is cancer, but that's an insult to cancer.

MLP is Malaria.

FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC!!!! *starts throwing Ponies around in an attempt to instill friendship through violence*

Funniest thing someone commented on the MLP Facebook page about this... "The fact that the plot of MLP is miles deeper than any Transformers narrative is hilarious."

Eh? Have they actually watched TF? (G1 doesn't count, it had 80's depth, which is to say none. Yes, I grew up in the 80's)

I wouldn't know about MLP, haven't watched it. But TF:P has a paper thin story that's poorly executed and then hastily wrapped up. It spent too much time trying to look gritty and dark.

I disagree, to an extent. Prime suffered "Hasbro Meddling Syndrome"
There was quite a good story there that got shuffled under by toy agendas. However, I was thinking more along the lines of Rescue Bots. Though "Hasbro Meddling Syndrome" hits there too, the character development and plot depth, for a show aimed at 2-5 year olds is pretty amazing. RID is showing early signs of depth too, but I get the feeling the network isn't airing all the shows, it seems like episodes were skipped, the plot is a bit jumpy.

MLP is actually a pretty good show, I've watched a few episodes and it has a decent plot from what I can tell. Of all the 'girly' shows, it's probably the best (The Littlest Pet Shop is utter crap)

It Is Him wrote:I wish Combiner Wars would be supplanted by a MLP:FiM/Transformers movie crossover line.

I'm not in favor of "supplanted", but "accompanied" would be cool.

I would love to see what they transform into

These customs leave me thinking of only one question:

Prime and Bee are best friends?

Delta Magnus wrote:

padfoo wrote:I would love to see what they transform into

Or IKEA meatballs.

ctrlFrequency wrote:Funniest thing someone commented on the MLP Facebook page about this... "The fact that the plot of MLP is miles deeper than any Transformers narrative is hilarious."

Eh? Have they actually watched TF? (G1 doesn't count, it had 80's depth, which is to say none. Yes, I grew up in the 80's)

I agree with that sentiment. Not the one defending Transformers cartoons, the one against Transformers cartoons. Aside from Prime, Beast Wars, Animated (in its third season), and Beast Machines (as a separate entity from Beast Wars), Transformers cartoons pretty much suck. And though Prime and Beast Wars are the best Transformers cartoons of all time (despite in-thread disagreement), they're not even the best TV shows of all time.

The reason? A lot of Transformers shows tend to be gimmicky. They tend to focus too much on a single element than the story because Hasbro's trying to market the franchise to little boys. Granted, this is something Prime and Beast Wars did not do (so much), and that's because the writers had respect for the material they were working on as a story rather than another Transformers cartoon. I hear writers and directors of a lot of modern Transformers works (yes, even the films) babbling on about "what makes Transformers Transformers," and cramming all of these so-called "elements" in to try to make it feel like "Transformers," whatever the fuck any of that even means. I don't watch Transformers to watch robots beat the shit out of each other anymore. I watch Transformers for the same reason I watch any show, to get enjoyment and find interest in the story and characters at hand.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has this element. I admit that now, in the fifth season, they're really trying to cram friendship as some kind of goddamn religion with all of its forced-as-hell melodrama (see "Amending Fences" as an amazing example), but for the first four seasons, the spirit of simply telling a great story marketed to everyone was there. The writers, and especially the creator Lauren Faust, weren't trying to tie to any kind of "what makes Ponies Ponies" bull. They just wanted to write a story and MLP seemed like a good outlet to base the world off of. MLP: FiM could survive as a great show without being associated with the franchise behind it. Transformers shows couldn't, because it heavily revolves around the "robots fight robots and turn into stuff" aspect of it. Take that away and all you have are a bunch of cardboard nobodies that fight each other over something because it's, like, the thing to have or whatever.

However, with all of the writing problems that follow Transformers shows in comparison the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, I believe that the author of that comment was suggesting that Transformers shows as a whole don't really have an overarching theme or moral that all ties it together in the end. It tells its story about fighting robot people and that's it. Beast Machines was the closest we've ever gotten to that concept. It's a good thing to have that because you don't have to just pick through episodes to find a moral that suits you. You can fall back on the series as a whole as enforcement of one big concept and then pick through the episodes to find even more gems. Although, as a counterpoint, there's nothing wrong with shows that just tell their story to tell a story. Avatar: The Last Airbender and Teen Titans are great examples of doing just that and still being fantastic shows. Also, overarching themes can get tiresome and worn out after a show's stuck around too long. MLP is also a great example of that, considering the whole concept has turned to mush this past year. Even with all of that "deeper plot" stuff aside, I do think that MLP FiM is a better series on its own than any Transformers cartoon put together for the superior writing techniques, characters, and world building alone. Yes, even Prime.

^ I notice a lack of comparison of MLPFIM to Rescue Bots in that post, which I only bring up since Rescue Bots is like the closest thing to a MPFIM-type TF cartoon (having similar tones, writing styles, and targeted age ranges for their toylines), and has tackled several unorthodox and even mature ideas that most TF cartoons have not, or even tackled topics found in other TF shows in revolutionary ways.

I have to agree with Sabreblade. Rescue Bots is probably the best show to compare with MLP (almost the same target ages).

Rescue Bots has a lot if depth to it. A lot. It seems like people dismiss it because of it's target and style. Clearly it's aimed for young kids, but kids shows have become very complicated since the 80's. It's not mindless entertainment anymore, they deal with life and emotional situations as well as include an deep plot that actually is a story arch, building on previous episodes. Characters are growing and changing just like real people do.

I really didn't care for it at first, then my 5 year old got interested and I really started paying attention, changed my mind very quickly.

I wanted to mention Rescue Bots, but couldn't make a valid argument for it myself because I've only watched three-quarters of the first season and every season premiere thereafter. I didn't want to make a full assessment of the whole series based on the 18 or so episodes that I entertained from the first season, which started to really bore me after a while. I can agree that Rescue Bots is the closest to a Friendship is Magic we've gotten from Transformers, but MLP even manages to beat that show by keeping my interest in it for this long in comparison to RB.

The Blurr (& Salvage) Trilogy is arguably one of the most mature stories of any TF cartoon ever made, and deals with the age old concept of "the rambunctious youngster needs to learn how to follow the rules while the leader tries to mentor him" that we've seen before with Cheetor in Beast Wars, Side Burn and Wedge in RiD 2001, Hot Shot in Armada, Ironhide in Energon, Hot Shot again in Cybertron, Bumblebee in Animated, Smokescreen in Prime, and Sideswipe in RID 2015.

The big difference with how it was handled with Blurr in Rescue Bots compared to all those other examples is that, while all of those other youngsters would get into trouble, get bailed out by their leaders, learn their lesson by the episode's end, and then repeat the cycle in other episodes, the situation with Blurr spanned three whole episodes instead of being done all in one, meaning that Blurr did not learn a thing by the end of the first episode, which actually ended on a solemn conclusion with almost no one willing to ever trust Blurr ever again. After all, what Blurr had done to put himself on everyone's bad side was the following.

Back when he and Salvage first came Earth way back in the past, their ship had crashed on what would in the present be known as Wayward Island. At the time they arrived on Earth, cave people were still around, so this was way back in prehistoric times. A meteor storm was going on at the time and Salvage tried to save the humans. However, one of the cavemen was missing from the rest and Blurr took off, promising to locate and bring back the missing caveman. When Blurr didn't come back, Salvage had to get the other humans to safety without the missing one, and then went to look for both the missing one and Blurr. Salvage found the missing caveman all alone, with Blurr nowhere in sight. Salvage took the caveman back to the cave where his ship was located, and that's where he found Blurr, who was then trying to get the ship working so he could get off the planet and leave Salvage behind. Enraged that Blurr had both deceived him and attempted to leave abandon him, Salvage went at Blurr and two fought, eventually being forced into the ship's stasis pods when the meteors started hitting the cave. The remained in their pods for some ten thousand years before being discovered by the Rescue Team in the present.

Thus, when the history of Blurr and Salvage was later made known by the episode's conclusion, virtually no one on the team was willing to forgive Blurr after learning that he tried to leave Salvage for dead.

And by the second episode, they still don't trust him, only working with him out of obligation, meaning that Heatwave, unlike every Optimus that ever mentored a troublemaking youngster, did not want to have anything to do with Blurr nor even believed that Blurr had the potential to get better at cooperating.

Not helping matters was that Blurr himself simply did not care about saving lives or working with a team. He was not a Rescue Bot and never wanted to be. He was just a regular Autobot who felt like he was being forced into a profession he never wanted any part of, only going along with it in the first place because Optimus Prime himself assigned him to it. But even though he did try to get used to his new life for Optimus's sake, he was still more prone to ignoring orders and endangering lives more than otherwise. He just really did not care at all about doing what he was told, and after overhearing Heatwave talking to Chief about wanting Optimus to reassign Blurr to a different team, Blurr took the opportunity to do everyone a favor and just leave on his own... by stealing the Sigma (the ship owned by Heatwave's team) to leave Earth altogether.

In many regards, this is the most realistic portrayal of the youngster/leader relationship ever seen in a TF cartoon, as real teenagers do not always learn their lessons so easily and those who don't respect authority tend to regularly make life hard for the authority figures who are trying to guide and mentor them. Compared to Cheetor and his ilk, Blurr was much more difficult and defiant than all of those others of his kind, causing way more grief and frustration for the team and never learning anything or even wanting to make amends for anything after two whole episodes. And even stole the Sigma, leaving the team defenseless from what was to come next.

The third episode showed that Blurr's committing "grand theft spaceship" had even greater consequences than expected. Of all the times that the traitor could have stolen the ship, he just had to do it right as solar flare activity was getting underway, which included a Coronal Mass Ejection that both knocked out all power on Griffin Rock but also took out a space satellite that was headed for Earth. For Griffin Rock. Without the Sigma, the team had no way of stopping the satellite, meaning that the renegade Blurr (whom they knew wouldn't care to come back and save them) was their only hope for survival.

It took Blurr's own conscience to convince him to go back and save everyone. Recall that I said "almost" and "virtually" no one on the team wanted to trust him, meaning that there were still one or two who did. Specifically, Cody, Boulder, and Salvage still believed in him. Remembering how, despite his not getting along at all with most of the team at, Cody still wanted to believe in Blurr, Blurr felt that even though he didn't like those guys that didn't mean he wanted them all killed. So he turned the ship around to go after the satellite and be the hero they needed him to be. And it sure wasn't easy since the ship had to both catch up to the fast-falling satellite and blast it at a dangerously close distance (since the ship's laser hadn't been properly installed before Blurr stole the ship) that could have taken out the Sigma as well, and all before impacting the ground. So it was a near suicidal rescue.

After blowing up the satellite, Blurr brought the ship back down and owned up for his misdeeds. So it took a really critical situation that would have killed many (which he'd have been partly responsible for) to open his eyes and show him just how important both being a Rescue Bot and selflessly saving lives really are, as well as how much he really is needed and can make a difference as a Rescue Bot.

I don't see why we couldn't get pony colored Transformers instead

LegendaryAntiHero wrote:I don't see why we couldn't get pony colored Transformers instead

There was one as an unused concept for a BotCon/TCC figure.

A pony colored Transformer... transforms from robot to MLP....

In 1984, I would have been throwing my allowance at that screaming "YES!!!!!" (I was a weird girl, only one of my friends who loved robots, horses, and frilly dresses... and blowing stuff up! I really haven't changed much except for my color palette)

Was?

Burn wrote:Was?

Burn... you're so mean.

So, these aren't mass-market retail? Bummer. I'd pick them up.

I love FIM. And hell, I love the old G1 too.

Sabrblade wrote:

LegendaryAntiHero wrote:I don't see why we couldn't get pony colored Transformers instead

There was one as an unused concept for a BotCon/TCC figure.

Since when did FP had the MLP license?

LegendaryAntiHero wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

LegendaryAntiHero wrote:I don't see why we couldn't get pony colored Transformers instead

There was one as an unused concept for a BotCon/TCC figure.

Since when did FP had the MLP license?

The point is, "Twilight Sparkle Prime" (TS-based redeco of Mach Kick) never made it past conception.