HasLab 2025: Liokaiser

Darth_Prime

Well-known member
Citizen
The note worked! And the driver gently set my box down. This might be the FedEx driver if the year.
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LBD "Nytetrayn"

Broke the Matrix
Staff member
Council of Elders
Citizen
"I'm just saying, in Megatron's day, a Combiner was big enough that they could scoop up the Autobot commander in the palm of their hand, and -- if they so desired -- climb a skyscraper with him, easily. Look at us now!"

"Hey, you think you got problems? We gotta combine just to be as big as an average bot!"

"Duly noted."
 

Superomegaprime

Wondering bot
Citizen
In Megatron's day, the Decepticon leader wasn't Combiner-sized by default.

Back in the day, he was someone's weapon on occasion, mainly Starscream with at least once Optimus using him, at least in the cartoon, from what I recall off the top of my head
 

Darth_Prime

Well-known member
Citizen
It’s wild the combiner is a big as the leader. But it also gives her leader a more heroic presence when the regular soldiers can’t defeat the combiner, here comes VS to save the day.
 

Blot

Well-known member
Citizen
In Megatron's day, the Decepticon leader wasn't Combiner-sized by default.
When I first got my Rhino DVDs all those years ago, the "Transformers in Japan" section was just the Victory Opening theme. Having zero context on anything Victory I just assumed it was like how Hasbro turned everything into name reuses and that it was Japan had made a show where Optimus Prime (Star Saber) fought Megatron (Deathsaurus). Heck, Spike (Jan) and even the Dinobots (Dinoforce) were there too!
 

Sabrblade

Continuity Nutcase
Citizen
When I first got my Rhino DVDs all those years ago, the "Transformers in Japan" section was just the Victory Opening theme. Having zero context on anything Victory I just assumed it was like how Hasbro turned everything into name reuses and that it was Japan had made a show where Optimus Prime (Star Saber) fought Megatron (Deathsaurus). Heck, Spike (Jan) and even the Dinobots (Dinoforce) were there too!
You know, I once joked about how, if they wanted to, Hasbro could have easily taken Victory and given it the same English dub treatment that was given to Car Robots and make it into a new continuity like RID 2001 was. Rename Star Saber as "Optimus Prime", Deathsaurus as "Megatron", God Ginrai as some other Prime name like "Zeta Prime" or "Sentinel Prime", Victory Leo as maybe something like "Omega Leo" so that Victory Saber could be something like "Omega Prime", and then give all the rest of the characters a mixture of pre-existing familiar names and brand new names.

The guest-starring Wheeljack and Preceptor could keep their names for branding consistency, but since this would be a new continuity, their voices wouldn't have to be imitations of Chris Latta and Paul Eiding, and could instead be their own new voices where we just say, "That's just what these versions of Wheeljack and Perceptor simply sound like in this continuity."
 
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