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 Oct 3 2007, 02:34 PM
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Released Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007.
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Oct 3 2007, 02:39 PM
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 ASM Contributing Editor Group: Citizen Posts: 1,628 Joined: 24-December 01 Member No.: 135 |
Not fully read it yet, but while skimming through it in the store while waiting to buy it, I noticed one thing.
Blackarachnia sure is......orange. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-depth.gif) This post has been edited by Monocle: Oct 3 2007, 02:40 PM -------------------- |
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Oct 3 2007, 02:43 PM
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Group: News Manager Posts: 14,656 Joined: 12-January 02 From: Buffalo, NY Member No.: 268 Faction: Free Agent |
QUOTE(Monocle @ Oct 3 2007, 03:39 PM)  Not fully read it yet, but while skimming through it in the store while waiting to buy it, I noticed one thing. Blackarachnia sure is......orange. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-depth.gif) As is BB. -------------------- |
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Oct 3 2007, 02:46 PM
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ASM Contributing Editor Group: Citizen Posts: 1,628 Joined: 24-December 01 Member No.: 135 |
QUOTE(NightViper @ Oct 3 2007, 03:43 PM) QUOTE(Monocle @ Oct 3 2007, 03:39 PM) Not fully read it yet, but while skimming through it in the store while waiting to buy it, I noticed one thing. Blackarachnia sure is......orange. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-depth.gif) As is BB. I guess orange is the new black! -------------------- |
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Oct 3 2007, 03:32 PM
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Group: Citizen Posts: 2,457 Joined: 17-October 04 From: Atlanta Member No.: 5,172 |
Yeah what's up with that? I thought I knew my TF's pretty well, but there's definitely some stuff in here I've never seen.
Have only read a few entries so far and it's good, but some things are a bit odd. Just kinda weird seeing Apache and then B'boom a few pages later looking pretty much the same. Is the only difference between the toys a slight shade of blue? The art is good, but I find it to not be as impressive as the DW G1 profile books tbh. Some pics seem too small while others seem overly large. I feel they could have added a bit more text here and there as well. I like profile books though, so I'll continue buying these. |
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Oct 3 2007, 03:35 PM
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The Real Ghostbuster Group: Citizen Posts: 7,644 Joined: 19-July 05 From: Springfield, VA Member No.: 6,887 |
I gave it a once-over, only reading the bios. I'll go back more thoroughly later.
Pretty good so far and basically everything I was expecting...save for some of the very "liberal" liscenses taken with a few color schemes (why is BB orange?). I noticed that they nicked my motto for Autocrusher/crasher that I wrote for his BWII Universe profile. Guess the IDW guys read those things. Which is kind of embarassing, considering how awful most of those profiles are (I wrote them way back when I was in high school). Oy. If I could delete those things off the face of the interweb I probably would. -------------------- Hey, check out one of my sites!
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Oct 3 2007, 03:57 PM
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Okay, the lack of alternate art for alternate forms of characters was hurting.
Why show TM2 Cybershark for robot mode and regular non-TM hammerhead shark for his beast mode? AND WHY WAS BB COLORED LIKE SUNSTORM??? Seriously, that and the Blackarachnia thing were errors that should not have happened. -------------------- Only for the Royalty, do I have such Loyalty.
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Oct 3 2007, 04:02 PM
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Group: News Manager Posts: 14,656 Joined: 12-January 02 From: Buffalo, NY Member No.: 268 Faction: Free Agent |
QUOTE(Shockprowl04 @ Oct 3 2007, 04:57 PM) Okay, the lack of alternate art for alternate forms of characters was hurting. Why show TM2 Cybershark for robot mode and regular non-TM hammerhead shark for his beast mode? Yeah, I'm not really a fan of how they tried to cram all of the forms for each character into the one entry. They really should have at least extended the number of pages for those with Transmetal and Transmetal 2 forms. -------------------- |
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Oct 3 2007, 05:55 PM
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 Aw Yeah Ragdoll! Group: Citizen Posts: 3,389 Joined: 28-September 03 Member No.: 3,634 |
What in the name of crap is up with the coloring on Dinobot?
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Oct 3 2007, 06:32 PM
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The Real Ghostbuster Group: Citizen Posts: 7,644 Joined: 19-July 05 From: Springfield, VA Member No.: 6,887 |
Reading all the way through Antagony's bio...
"Weaknesses: Other than her arrogant sense of self worth and place in the grand scheme of things..." Sounds like a certain psychotic fangirl we all know of, hm? -------------------- Hey, check out one of my sites!
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Oct 3 2007, 06:44 PM
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Ok, can someone explain BA's first vok transmetal body? That made me go "HUH?" when I read it.
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Oct 3 2007, 06:52 PM
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McDonalds.
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Oct 3 2007, 06:53 PM
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 Group: Citizen Posts: 1,407 Joined: 8-July 06 Member No.: 8,456 Faction: Decepticon |
i like how many people they're including in these books. but if they can remake antagony, then why not catacyslm? i know he never had a character, but that'll be 2 people from that storyline being brought into the beast wars world (at least) and he gets shafted. the color problems really bothered me, too, especially the aforemention orange bots and dinobot having the 10th anniversary colors
i also want to know where they're going with the airazor bio! are we gonna see primevil dawn finished or are they gonna re-imagine that whole thing as a tie in to the current beast wars comic storyline --------------------  |
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Oct 3 2007, 07:08 PM
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 LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF DOOM Group: Citizen Posts: 7,848 Joined: 26-June 02 Member No.: 1,143 |
Wait wait wait.
Let me see if I got this straight. They left B'Boom and Apache, two characters who share a bodyform and coloration and AN ISSUE OF THE BOOK... they left those two the same visually(when there IS an official alternate color scheme available for Apache)... But BB... who does NOT have any body double in the BW series AT ALL... Him... they gave a new completely made-up color scheme. What the sweaty hell? M "No, Really. What In The -ing Hell Were They THINKING?!" Sipher -------------------- http://www.tfwiki.net - Crisis on Infinite Prowls
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Oct 3 2007, 08:14 PM
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 This Title Section Needs To Be Longer Group: Citizen Posts: 2,202 Joined: 9-February 02 Member No.: 628 |
Most of the profiles are really no better than the tech specs that came with the toys. Also, Dinobot's art is crap. You can't convince me that was the best piece anyone could come up with. And speaking of Dinobot, why do established characters like him and Depth Charge get single pages while Archadis and Corahda get two page spreads?
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Oct 3 2007, 09:07 PM
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QUOTE(M Sipher @ Oct 3 2007, 08:08 PM) Wait wait wait. Let me see if I got this straight. They left B'Boom and Apache, two characters who share a bodyform and coloration and AN ISSUE OF THE BOOK... they left those two the same visually(when there IS an official alternate color scheme available for Apache)... But BB... who does NOT have any body double in the BW series AT ALL... Him... they gave a new completely made-up color scheme. What the sweaty hell? M "No, Really. What In The -ing Hell Were They THINKING?!" Sipher Yeah man, it's weird, but don't have an aneurysm over it. It's just a comic. Anyway, I picked this up today and while I haven't read very much of it, I have looked over all the art and I can't say I'm as impressed as I'd hoped to be. With artists like Don, Su, and Roche on staff, you think they could have gotten some better character art. A lot of it was as good or slightly below the quality of art found in DW's MTMTE profiles, which I thought was disappointing. And unfortunately, most fo the characters don't seem that appealing in the first place, so I'm not terribly inclined to jump right in and blitz through the whole thing. --------------------  |
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Oct 3 2007, 11:06 PM
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 FORM BLAZING SWORD! Group: Citizen Posts: 5,054 Joined: 23-January 04 Member No.: 4,009 |
Yeah, this one was a real let-down. I want my money back.
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Oct 4 2007, 12:16 AM
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 Spooky. Group: Retired Staff Posts: 4,535 Joined: 22-December 01 From: Bay Area, CA Member No.: 87 Faction: Decepticon |
How kosher would it be to scan an example of this made up color scheme nonsense?
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Oct 4 2007, 01:28 AM
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Group: Citizen Posts: 3,622 Joined: 1-August 03 From: Wisconsin Member No.: 3,318 |
Few (preferably small) images used for critical purposes falls under fair use.
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Oct 4 2007, 03:54 AM
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 Theoretically God Group: Citizen Posts: 1,858 Joined: 27-May 05 From: London, UK Member No.: 6,587 Faction: Unicron's Spawn |
erm wow, well i can assure you guys that manterror and mantis dont look the same (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-waspy.gif) and that anyone i coloured (especially show characters) are accurate, (with show characters being show accurate) i dare someone to say inferno isnt accurate.. spent like an hour getting as many screen caps of him as i could to make it perfect
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