Maybe it was intended for stabbing, not slashing.
Swordfights in space never look like fencing but they totally could.
Swordfights in space never look like fencing but they totally could.
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It’s nominally a saber and while not shaped like a saber, it’s not any closer to a rapier or something so probably not.
I guess that would explain why it was able to be smashed to pieces by the Dark Star Saber.
A random thought.
Everyone remember those scene transitions from G1 and RiD2001? Where one insignia would pull back, turn around, and might be replaced with a different insignia? How cool would it be if one insignia transformed into another?
And yeah, something like that was probably done with G2, but my memory is fuzzy.
Everyone remember those scene transitions from G1 and RiD2001? Where one insignia would pull back, turn around, and might be replaced with a different insignia? How cool would it be if one insignia transformed into another?
And yeah, something like that was probably done with G2, but my memory is fuzzy.
IDK if anyone can help me with this, but I'm trying to figure out which song is playing at the timestamp here.
Thinking it might be this one...?
The voices and sound effects, and I think something about the quality in general make it sound different to my ear, but I kinda suck at music, anyway.
Thinking it might be this one...?
The voices and sound effects, and I think something about the quality in general make it sound different to my ear, but I kinda suck at music, anyway.
How did Beast Wars fail to give us a Menasaur?
No, that's the Orgysaurus.
Seems like they got hit with the "GEEWUN" stick by the third season.
Market forces. Combiner Wars sold so well that the last season of RiD '15, which lined up with it, was under pressure from retailers to skew closer to it.
it might just be me being on the wrong side of the internet but does no one read the funpub text stories anymore?? i feel like most of the fandom (the parts where i'm at anyway) either haven't read them or don't know they exist. weren't they kinda popular when they first came out..
i don't mean the shattered glass stuff, i feel like more people know about that. i mean wings universe and transtech etc etc.
i don't mean the shattered glass stuff, i feel like more people know about that. i mean wings universe and transtech etc etc.
At the time they first came out, most of them were locked behind a Members Only wall accessible only to club members, and not everyone in this fandom was willing to be a club member. They only really became free to read by the general public in the final years of the club when it became clear that Fun Publications would be losing the Transformers license, but by then the only people reading the prose stories were the diehard loyalists who had already been reading them, and/or those who read them primarily for wiki coverage.
Not to mention the fact that Transformers is so visually driven a brand that many don't like reading text-only prose with little to no illustrations, believing Transformers simply doesn't work as novelized fiction and can only really function and thrive in visual mediums like comic books, TV shows, and movies.
And then there were the critics who just derided the convention/club fiction in general (not just the prose stories but the comics, script readings, Facebook fiction, and all of it) as "fanfiction" (used in a derogatory manner despite there also existing well written fanfics out there on the 'Net) just because it all had a niche release venue aimed strictly at geeks instead of any mainstream releases at mass retail aimed at more general audiences.
Ah- that makes sense, thanks for the enlightenment.
I do wish more people would appreciate them though :/
Plus you kinda need to take a trip to the wiki to figure out the recommended reading order for a lot of this stuff, and at that point it's so easy to just stay there and read the summaries.
Until today I was unaware that they had ever been available to non-members.
Well, one of them had always been free for anyone to read. It's just that it was one that even the Club had wanted to sweep under the rug and pretend like it didn't exist (but it still did since it was published and promoted and everything): "The Razor's Edge", the story written by Ben Yee to advertise the 2007 pre-beast Airazor toy.Until today I was unaware that they had ever been available to non-members.
The story itself wasn't terrible (it was more just "okayish"), it's just that it had some elements of being an awkward Charlie's Angels parody and some really bizarre choices made, like the main villain being Flamewar cosplaying as G1 Megatron.
Though, something that amuses me about it is how it made Derik (of the Sideways fiasco infamy) go berserk throwing a tantrum on the story's wiki talk page, just because it did some things that disagreed with his headcanon.
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In Beast Wars, I’ve been wondering what Megatron’s plan was for the transwarp cell Tarantulas stole at the end of the first season. First, he says that he added some modifications to the cell… but what those are are not clear. One would assume it’s some tampering to maybe make it explode and take out Tarantulas for his treachery. This seems to be the case when the Planet Buster comes online, and Megatron says that Tarantulas will “save them”; it looks like whatever he did to the cell would serve just as well in this case.
However, when the Maximals discover the tampered stasis pod, THEY put a bomb on it… so does the pod now have two bombs in it? And when Megatron says he and Primal had the same plan, except in his version the pilot dies, how did he disable the hatch locks? Through the cell? It’s a bit confusing, even after a few watches (and I’m still not confident that Megatron planned to kill Tarantulas before the PB emerged; he let him get away with a lot, even after becoming a Transmetal).
However, when the Maximals discover the tampered stasis pod, THEY put a bomb on it… so does the pod now have two bombs in it? And when Megatron says he and Primal had the same plan, except in his version the pilot dies, how did he disable the hatch locks? Through the cell? It’s a bit confusing, even after a few watches (and I’m still not confident that Megatron planned to kill Tarantulas before the PB emerged; he let him get away with a lot, even after becoming a Transmetal).
I need to rewatch it, but I though the Maximals didn't add bombs, they just planned to detonate the Transwarp cells. They found the modifications that would allow the pod to lift off and function as a small ship, that Tarantulas had made. Megatron would have had to make his own additions/sabotage very well hidden, Tarantulas wasn't stupid. So Primal and Megatron both came up with the detonation, it's just Megatron thought to do it remotely and have the pilot locked in at the time. That was the only change, and the Maximals didn't know about those aspects. Tarantulas didn't either, though his mind clearly thought, since he wasn't on it, that it worked well, hence the "Bye Bye, Optimus."
I never want to see the Bee Movie/ROTB Optimus design ever again. It’s just not that good and there’s a ridiculous amount of figures official and otherwise of it. If G1 Optimus didn’t have a 40 year head start, Bee Optimus would probably beat him.