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Dear Continuity Challenger, I remember Quintus fondly, and always looked forward to tales that would feature the lesser-seen of our brethren. Megatronus and Solus have a tale for the ages, but Quintus' brilliance and the manifold possibilities granted by the Emberstone are well worth enjoying as...

That would've been a neat direction to go in. Very Collaborative vibe.

Given how much of an anchor the Maltos are in this storyworld, they should call it... Lumpia. Because that stuff is DELICIOUS.

Oh a big part of "the problem is AVP" is just... me swinging back to the AVP stuff. At the core, the stream stuff alone is potentially intriguing, and as fun a for-storytelling element as, say, the Ancient Autobot alphabet. It's mainly tiresome when it gets inflated into this... Aesthetic...

I mean, they're looking pretty good, and they're not even that bad (Blitzwing at least has a nice robot mode). Astrotrain is more successful than Blitzwing, but then he's just changing between two similar tube shapes.

I gotta get those Japanese deluxes already. I hope they someday make a Core class Twitch.

Funny enough, this looks like a problem that only exists BECAUSE of the stream system. That's just it though. Prior to AVP we HAD a whole way to approach "what happened to __" -- fan fiction. And for a long time everyone was content with that. But the thin veneer of canonicity and legitimacy...

Excellent thread and solid picks. Hard pressed to argue this top 5, let alone the top of the top. What a ride. I need a cigarette and I don't even smoke.

Not to mention having a FAR shorter left arm in robot mode.

Just had a thought about Unicron's mission turning out to be just trying to reset the universe -- by ingesting and absorbing everything in it (living beings first so the rest is simpler/ more efficient), so that all are one (again). (I had a whole thing about entropy here before realizing I did...

Might be neat if there was like some colony where it was all Headmaster beasts. Like the Transformers crashed and were locked in altmode, and were "driven" by robotic warriors who fought over a Cybertronian artifact that blew up and bonded them together into a mentally synced robot. (The...

Come to think of it, the Transtector angle can make for an even smoother transition into the downsizing into Micromasters and then Maximal/Predacon era bodies. First they become the heads for their altmodes. Then they're like "just make the entire thing smaller, altmode and all". The "smaller...

For the latter i kind of picture them having the faceplate removed from their cyberwhateversuit and set up in their home or laboratory so they can talk to them. Arcana's checking out some samples, thinking aloud, looks over at Brainstorm's face and asks a question...

And this I think isn't really incompatible with the 3H stuff, so it's fine by me. The whole "factory world" thing to me is them taking a world and making a factory out of it, expansively overwriting what records they could to manipulate later generations into thinking their way (they're the...

I wouldn't go quite that far, but it's a solid series with characters that are easy to root for and a status quo that allows for weighty themes (Megatron recounting the war to literal kids who think it's just an action story is such a powerful juxtaposition) that are then explored in...

Takara could, as they have the Legends redeco as precedent. That looked really nice.

It's a bit awkward to write it given there are sentient species involved, but in terms of life span alone it's akin to losing a pet. That's a very gutting experience and hard to package for the usual types of media.

I'm with you on the other storytelling benefits of having a smaller partner in that sense. The aiming thing, I'm still iffy on. In order for that benefit to really be demonstrable, you'd have to show (say) Targetmaster Autobots whose onboard weapons hit targets in altmode with regular ones...

Yeah, them too :)

I mean, distinctive colors only go so far. No amount of color scheme is going to make a humanoid or a longnose cab evocative of a mechanical bipedal dragon thing. Maybe if they painted the longnose hood to look like Mechagodzilla's snout, the windows glowing eyes... I think things might have...