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[Hikuro]

16 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

Studio TRIGGER may have something in store for TF fans:

yeah, it was a music video.

 

[davidwhangchoi]

why is megatron shaking hands with prime

 

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

1 hour ago, Hikuro said:

yeah, it was a music video.

 

 

Pretty cool tribute for the 40th anniversary - I liked seeing the Prime gang in anime form.

[IronRaptor]

8 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

why is megatron shaking hands with prime

 

Depending on continuity now, Megs has reformed his ways. 

In the IDW comics he goes as far as switching sides and becoming an autobot

In the latest cartoon, I think he is still a Deception, but has gone his separate ways from the main faction.

[JB0]

9 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

why is megatron shaking hands with prime

 

Statistically speaking, they probably teamed up to clown on Starscream.

[davidwhangchoi]

4 hours ago, IronRaptor said:

Depending on continuity now, Megs has reformed his ways. 

In the IDW comics he goes as far as switching sides and becoming an autobot

In the latest cartoon, I think he is still a Deception, but has gone his separate ways from the main faction.

3 hours ago, JB0 said:

Statistically speaking, they probably teamed up to clown on Starscream.

Sounds the same as the Japanese Headmaster's series... Six Shot kills Ultra Magnus... next episode: Six Shot, the hero Daniel looks up to 

[Hikuro]

and I think megatron makes a human friend or some BS thing like that....I dunno, Earthspark is weird and is a lil woke for me so I don't really care to watch it, plus I'm not keen on the character designs and animation, sorta why I don't even bother with RID, not into the look.

I managed to score SS86 Optimus yesterday, pretty smart engineering on this figure! Sure, I don't like the kibble compressing backpack at all, but at least he's not flat and bare backed like other figures tend to make him. I think my only complaint is that the trailer hitch is terrible! It's really loose in comparison to the ER version maybe, it's been years since I even transformed that particular figure so I can't really recall, but I just know I don't like how it feels. And rather bummed out again on the trailer just being molded plastic and no color separation or neat panel details and colors inside when you tear it open into the repair bay. I would have liked something to go with it for all that money. 

[mikeszekely]

I gave up on Earthspark. They start by showing you an interesting premise- the war is over, and the Autobots and humans formed a joint organization to police Cybertronian activity. They open with cool characters... Optimus Prime, Elita One, Swindle, Megatron... Then immediately abandon all that to focus on a cast of original robots with personality disorders who live in secret with three of the worst human characters the franchise had seen so far (the mom is pretty cool, so she gets a pass). Every now and then they'll cameo more interesting Autobots or Decepticons, but the main baddies in the show are the director of the ostensibly good human/Autobot alliance and a mad scientist. It's ultimately frustrating because the bones of something good are there, but the writers are basically constantly saying, "who cares about your favorite Autobots and Decepticons, focus on our original fanfic characters!” as if the producers assembled their writing team from Sonic Deviantart pages.

Edited Monday at 06:46 AM by mikeszekely

[pengbuzz]

4 hours ago, Hikuro said:

and I think megatron makes a human friend or some BS thing like that....I dunno, Earthspark is weird and is a lil woke for me so I don't really care to watch it, plus I'm not keen on the character designs and animation, sorta why I don't even bother with RID, not into the look.

I managed to score SS86 Optimus yesterday, pretty smart engineering on this figure! Sure, I don't like the kibble compressing backpack at all, but at least he's not flat and bare backed like other figures tend to make him. I think my only complaint is that the trailer hitch is terrible! It's really loose in comparison to the ER version maybe, it's been years since I even transformed that particular figure so I can't really recall, but I just know I don't like how it feels. And rather bummed out again on the trailer just being molded plastic and no color separation or neat panel details and colors inside when you tear it open into the repair bay. I would have liked something to go with it for all that money. 

Do you plan on getting the Reprolabels set for him?

And yeah; I couldn't even bring myself to consider watching Earthfart.

[Hikuro]

5 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Do you plan on getting the Reprolabels set for him?

maybe the trailer decals to help that interior on the next paycheck, right now I can't cause I blew everything on him, Stellarus and Frenzy...wish they had Rumble where I got him, hell even wanted Gears but they didn't have him at the store, somewhere in the warehouse instead. 

[Old_Nash_II]

https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/01/08/transformers-reactivate-officially-cancelled-529324

F*ck

[mikeszekely]

58 minutes ago, Old_Nash_II said:

https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/01/08/transformers-reactivate-officially-cancelled-529324

F*ck

Sometimes I hate being right.

[davidwhangchoi]

2 hours ago, Old_Nash_II said:

https://news.tfw2005.com/2025/01/08/transformers-reactivate-officially-cancelled-529324

F*ck

ah, i see it was posted already. I just posted it in the videogame thread.

[Hikuro]

not surprised, with the little of updates posted, no trailers outside the original, one studio dropping off the face of the earth and the other not really giving much of a care, it was time. 

[JB0]

I just wish they'd figured out  this was d ad two years ago and not spent... however much money and manpower has gone into it since the trouble started.

[mikeszekely]

A bit over a year ago I said that the developers announced they were starting over on a new engine and tossing out six years of development, and I'd told you then that historically that those sorts of announcements lead to cancelations, not finished product.  I predicted then than Reactivate would never see the light of day.  I really wish I could have been wrong this time.

[M'Kyuun]

4 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

A bit over a year ago I said that the developers announced they were starting over on a new engine and tossing out six years of development, and I'd told you then that historically that those sorts of announcements lead to cancelations, not finished product.  I predicted then than Reactivate would never see the light of day.  I really wish I could have been wrong this time.

I feel more badly for the folks who were working on the game than actually not getting the game itself. All that incalculable investment of time and effort by those people was just shelved; I can only imagine the emotional and mental toll something like that must take. It's unfortunate and dismaying. 

[mikeszekely]

56 minutes ago, M'Kyuun said:

I feel more badly for the folks who were working on the game than actually not getting the game itself. All that incalculable investment of time and effort by those people was just shelved; I can only imagine the emotional and mental toll something like that must take. It's unfortunate and dismaying. 

Plus their PR team mentioned "potential" layoffs.  When PR says "potential" you should read that as "definite."

I can't help but be curious how they got to this state.  Usually an engine switch mid-development (which, like I said, results in cancellations more than anything else) is brought on by scope creep, publisher interference, licensor interference, or the game turning out so bad that they go back to the drawing board.  I know it's kind of morbid (and I do feel for the dev team), but I sincerely hope Matt McMuscles eventually does a "What Happened?" about Reactivate.

Also, I still want a toy of the Megatron they designed for the game.

[lechuck]

Some news from Takara today, we will probably see more of this at the T-Spark event in the coming week.

First we have MPG-15 Rattrap – 15,000 Yen, September release.
https://www.taghobby.com/archives/828571

The there is a tease of Synergex [Transformers x Macross 7] – Basara Prime
https://www.taghobby.com/archives/803242

And finally a preview of Predaking from the Adamas Machina line – looks great if you ask me.
https://www.taghobby.com/archives/792414

[Tking22]

Absolutely in for Rattrap, I could care less about the rest of the news. 

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

Liking the Predaking, it leans towards the Studio Ox look.  I'm glad the combiner they chose for this line wasn't another Devastator.

[JB0]

Basara Prime is the obvious marketing decision, but I'm still disappointed given Armada Starscream is RIGHT THERE.

He basically already has sound boosters in the design, even!

[pengbuzz]

31 minutes ago, JB0 said:

Basara Prime is the obvious marketing decision, but I'm still disappointed given Armada Starscream is RIGHT THERE.

He basically already has sound boosters in the design, even!

Starscream can be Mylene

[M'Kyuun]

The point of "Basara Prime" is lost on me. Elevating the most worthless and ineffectual protagonist within the entire series to Prime status is laughable on the surface. However, my real concern is with the eventual abysmally reimagined VF-19 that they're going to attempt to make him become, and the terrible non-canonical bot mode that they've created for him b/c they are so very bad at designing transforming jets. The real tragedy of this is that the VF-19, one of Kawamori's most beautiful and iconic designs, exists. They could simply ask Kawamori to work with them designing a Transformers toy that captures the VF-19 in both modes, albeit at their budget limitation. I would rather have a slightly lesser quality VF-19 that looks and transforms like the VF-19 than some crappy remake that pretends to be a VF-19. Obviously Big West and likely Kawamori gave the ok to TT for this, but if I was Kawamori, I'd want to supervise the design to keep it close to source. That faded pic says otherwise.

This saddens me; how amazing would it be if we could get the Macross pantheon of valks as Transformers characters, maintaining the og designs?!! It would be revolutionary, and we'd finally have some TF jets worth a damn at a more affordable price point than most of Bandai's and Arcadia's offerings. Even if they did them all at commander class price points, if those budgets went into the mecha and not into peripherals, i.e. a lot of useless accessories and effects parts, to keep them as close to source as possible, that would be excellent and would offer a fantastic crossover element to the line. The glimpse of what's coming dashes all hopes of any further Macross crossovers living up to the potential. Well, at least we got Maverick and Jetfire.

[mikeszekely]

I'm happy for the Beast Wars fans that are one step closer to completing their Season 1 cast, but I'm personally not doing MP Beast Wars.

I'm curious about Predaking, but it's going to depend on a couple of factors... just how big is it?  How do the individual bots look?  What kind of price are we talking?

And Basara Prime... yeesh.  Jet or truck?  It's got a head that's a hybrid of Prime and the Fire Valk, with the Fire' Valk's hips for shoulder pads?  But the usual Prime truck-window boobs?  And I can't shake the notion that I've seen that chest, with those shapes for the windows and that corkscrew between them, somewhere before...

[M'Kyuun]

36 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:

I'm happy for the Beast Wars fans that are one step closer to completing their Season 1 cast, but I'm personally not doing MP Beast Wars.

Likewise. I quit collecting them after Dinobot; the retail offerings sufficiently meet my need for BW figs, and they're more space-friendly in my ever-shrinking house. as you say, it's great for the BW collectors who want to finish off the core cast.

36 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:

I'm curious about Predaking, but it's going to depend on a couple of factors... just how big is it?  How do the individual bots look?  What kind of price are we talking?

Funny, I love the Dinobots, but I've never been much into the Predacons, which really should have been the proper antagonists for the Dinobots, both with their robo-beast alts. Easy pass on that set, which ostensibly looks good from the pic. If Takara & Hasbro get around to doing a set in Legacy, I'll consider getting them if I like how they turn out. I have yet to own a set of Predacons/Predaking, so that would be my first.

36 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:

IAnd Basara Prime... yeesh.  Jet or truck?  It's got a head that's a hybrid of Prime and the Fire Valk, with the Fire' Valk's hips for shoulder pads?  But the usual Prime truck-window boobs?  And I can't shake the notion that I've seen that chest, with those shapes for the windows and that corkscrew between them, somewhere before...

Yeah, this thing looks tragic. I've already posted my rant, but looking closer, there couldn't be two more diametrically opposed designs between OP and the VF-19 Fire Valkyrie. So what's this thing going to turn into: a truck with weird plane bits hanging off of it, or another extremely boxy jet that's more robot cargo hanging under jet facade than a proper jet? Like I said above, they should have just asked Kawamori to help them design a bargain version of the VF-19 maintaining its salient features and transformation and maybe given the bot mode Basara's turtle shell shades as a nod. I would hate the head, but if everything else was truly VF-19, I could live with it as a crossover.

Edited yesterday at 03:35 AM by M'Kyuun

[JB0]

34 minutes ago, M'Kyuun said:

The real tragedy of this is that the VF-19, one of Kawamori's most beautiful and iconic designs, exists. They could simply ask Kawamori to work with them designing a Transformers toy that captures the VF-19 in both modes, albeit at their budget limitation.

Perhaps Kawamori's MOST iconic design, however, is Battle Convoy. Though admittedly he was part of a team, and that one wasn't JUST his in the way the variable fighters are.

But the Transformers team may not want to work with him these days, given how upset the fanbase was over MP Starscream.

 

 

 

ALSO! Basara Prime should be a headmaster! I want a tiny Basara that becomes a robot head!

...

Actually, scratch that. I'd make him a JP-style Powermaster, have him do the Ginrai thing, write lore connecting chokon power to spiritia, and REALLY make a confusing mess of this entire concept.

[obakesan]

What if Basara Prime is a triple changer? Truck and plane? Looks like he's holding a guitar 🎸 in that teaser too 

[JB0]

33 minutes ago, obakesan said:

What if Basara Prime is a triple changer? Truck and plane? Looks like he's holding a guitar 🎸 in that teaser too 

Yeah, that looks like a guitar to me too.

He should be a Double Godmaster Triple-Changer. Ginrai turns him into a truck, Basara turns him into a plane, both of them turn him into a robot. Wait, that's almost exactly the opposite of how the gimmick works...


The real takeaway here is that my headcanon now says that Ginrai is anima spiritia.
Has anime spiritia? I'm not actually sure if the term in Mac7 referred to Basara himself or just the energy he produced.

[sh9000]

I hope there are more TF Crossover toys where the alt mode is an actual vehicle from the tv show or movie because those are the only ones I'm collecting.  Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, X-Men, Jurassic Park, Top Gun, GI Joe, TMNT, Knight Rider.  Bring on the rumored Batman Batmobile.

As for the Godzilla crossover, the Trypticon mold would have been a better candidate.

Edited 37 minutes ago by sh9000

[M'Kyuun]

1 hour ago, sh9000 said:

I hope there are more TF Crossover toys where the alt mode is an actual vehicle from the tv show or movie because those are the only ones I'm collecting.  Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, X-Men, Jurassic Park, Top Gun, GI Joe, Knight Rider.  Bring on the rumored Batman Batmobile.

As for the Godzilla crossover, the Trypticon mold would have been a better candidate.

I'm in agreement. Along with the '89 Batmobile and Tumbler, I'd love to see them do the Mach 5, Kaneda's bike, a Lightcycle, the original Spinner from Blade Runner, the dropship and APC from Aliens, the Oblivion Bubbleship (admittedly, not much to work with given its skeletal frame), Airwolf, and Blue Thunder.

Trypticon would have been ideal for a Godzilla crossover, as the scaling between him and the majority of normal sized bots works out much better.

I'd really be stoked if they brought back M.A.S.K. as part of the Transformers line, but I think the optimal time for them to have approached such complex toys would have been in the early Bayformers era, when deluxe figs cost $10 and some of the Bayformer toys were nigh-MP levels of complexity. Where both prices and complexity levels are now, I don't think they'd be able to do the toys justice, quite frankly. I think 3Ps would do a better job at this point, and I'd welcome it.