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Listen Up! You've Got to Post Pictures of Your Unicron Trilogy Toys! IT IS OUR MISSION
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Love it!
Good work team!
The sad part is I have so many REALLY OLD comics where I used some of those toys due to them being out at the time and my old digital camera not handling small stuff. A lot also had only MS Paint for edit.
It would only be sad if you didn't share them. These are giving me life right now.
That's half the charm.
I really need to pull out my Terrorcon Horde.....
LEADER-1 POWERLINK!
MAXIMUM BLEHH!!!
SWINDLE POWERLINK NULL RAY CANNONS HWAH-HWAH WAAAAHH!!!
NOW SHUT THE #+*% UP AND LET ME SHOW YOU WANT I’M TRYING TO TEACH YOU, LONGARM.
BLEEP BLOOP BITE ME, POPS.
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"Beep bleep bleep beep boop."
"You all gripe about the dubbing but trust me, the way the minicons swear it would be SO MUCH WORSE if we didn't censor those lines..."
"You all gripe about the dubbing but trust me, the way the minicons swear it would be SO MUCH WORSE if we didn't censor those lines..."
In my headcanon all the Mini-Cons do is swear. If I were in their place going through what they go through daily as their entire prescribed purpose, all I’d do is swear too.
Optimus: "What did you do to your windshield?!!"
"Well, you know how Long Haul has that bumper sticker saying 'Stay Back 200 feet'...?"
Nice! And it's not just a well-done fight, but the rendering and framing are great too. Like, this shot is gorgeous:
I wonder what could be accomplished with some serious editing. Like, multiple episodes combined or just done away with entirely, with a liberal approach to fidelity to the original narrative. With enough condensing, could the raw material be turned into something worthwhile?
I also wonder, forgetting about the existing cartoons entirely, could another story be told with the same gimmicks and cast that makes the whole trilogy more cohesive and interesting? Furman's DW comics were shaping up to be something like that - not without problems, but at least in the hands of a writer with basic competence.
Excellent.
It's like seeing old friends.
Yes, I have no friends.
Yes, I have no friends.
I have often wondered the first thing myself. The available footage probably would support it, as it gives copious "raw" material for a massive cutdown and reworking akin to how Saban reworked and restitched Zyuranger into MMPR. Revisiting that series more recently with an eye toward production rather than content has been fun, especially when I discovered and read up on shot-for-shot "stock footage usage" tracking that's been done. But it would require a not-insignificant amount of rewriting and redubbing in any case. Still, might be worthwhile. Lot of fun concepts and characters there to do stuff with.
The second point: at the time I'd almost entirely checked out of the Transformers shows for reasons we've discussed here (and because, in those bygone days, it wasn't nearly as easy or reliable or safe to get to watch them in the first place). What filled that void was prose fan fiction by DragonTail, published on the old Allspark board. It's not quite what you asked, depending on how strict you want to be with "same gimmicks and cast" (it's definitely a whole 'nother story) but I feel it was more satisfying for it. It was mostly connected to both the characters and the UT plot as a whole in broad strokes only, but it was by a writer with far more than basic competence.
It more or less uses Transformers Cybertron as the main setting (Vector Prime, Cyber Planet Keys, colony planets) with toys from across the UT and sorta-contemporary lines (Armada Thundercracker, Energon Rodimus, Universe Swerve, Energon Bulkhead) as either G1-ized versions of their UT/etc counterparts with some repurposing (Swerve, Arcee, Energon SWAT Prowl as Nightbeat) or wholly new characters not based on their UT counterparts (Bulkhead, Sharkticon). The series starts somewhat in medias res (more or less at the top of Cybertron) after Megatron steals the map and Vector Prime arrives, and the teams depart for the colony planets. It was very refreshing to encounter some exploration of the lore that was quite competently written, with interesting character dynamics and repurposings that mostly worked. I don't think I've had the same level of commitment to reading fanfic since.
Cutting down Superlink footage into something decently paced is something I'd enjoy doing if it weren't 52 episodes and if I could wrap my head around how much capacity hard drives have now. The size of video files still fills me with an irrational dread.
Ah, got it! Thanks!
Yeah, that was pretty good. XD
"Polly wanna Powerlink?"
As for Energon... that's always a weird one for me. Other than select moments/scenes (I especially love the final credits and the bit preceding it, at least in the Super Link version), I have never rewatched it and never plan to, but... I don't regret it?
It's a series I'm happy to have seen once, and happier to leave it at that.
But there was enough interesting stuff going on throughout. Moments. Character designs and quirks.
Hell, we got the return of/a new Rodimus Prime (screw you, Hasbro, if he was Convoy in Japan, he can be Prime here) with some cool ideas. I can't be mad at that!
Some nice 2D animation in a couple of rare instances...
I would definitely say if you're the type with an imagination, a burning creativity, then it provides a lot of fodder for something like Jackpot suggested.
It's a lot of "what ifs" for someone to take advantage of.
I think I'm happy to have watched it, taken what positives there are from it, noted the negatives, and just adding that knowledge to my collective memory of Transformers lore. In that way, it's valuable to me.