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  1. lastmaximal

    Post Pictures of your Transformers and have people add captions!

    I gotta get those Japanese deluxes already. I hope they someday make a Core class Twitch.
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    The Taxonomy of Toy-Based Fiction, or a further look at Continuity Families

    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...
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    (40th Anniv.) Ranking the 100 Marvel (US) G1/G2 Comic Covers: Complete!

    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.
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    Transformers Collaborative series

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

    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...
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    Transformers Legacy toyline

    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...
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    Transformers Legacy toyline

    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...
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    Transformers Legacy toyline

    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...
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    Reimagining Quintessons

    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...
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    Transformers: EarthSpark

    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...
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    Post Pictures of your Transformers and have people add captions!

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

    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.
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    Transformers Legacy toyline

    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...
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    Reimagining Quintessons

    Yeah, them too :)
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    Transformers Collaborative series

    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...
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    Transformers Legacy toyline

    Seems par for the course with Rebirth really. Although I do recall one moment where Brainstorm is fighting and/or panicking and Arcana thinks to scan the Nebulan that Brainstorm has grabbed a hold of. To this day one of the best things about it is just Peter Cullen's sheer exasperated (and the...
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    Reimagining Quintessons

    I do like the angle of a rogue Quintus creation trying like hell to kill Unicron before he... Regenerates or whatever. Maybe she was a primary creation, the sole survivor of Quintus' first planet that was devoured by Unicron. She takes the planet's name and a measure of his power somehow...
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    Post Pictures of your Transformers and have people add captions!

    I... don't think I want to validate that. Like, I get feeling resigned to it, but "it's the stereotype, what ya gonna do" doesn't sit well.
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    Takara announces T-Spark: a transforming IDW Rodimus and more

    I'm not particularly champing at the bit to see that sort of thing, because then Transformers basically turns into... "every piloted mecha show ever". Fan-gasms over crossovers aside, it just loses something when the unique hook becomes something various others can approximate. This may be why...
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    Reimagining Quintessons

    Be interesting if Quintessa was, Quintus' first creation, and who the planet was named for. (Do we see her actually creating life at any point in TLK?) One thing I'd like to see more done with is the Emberstone. It might be interesting to explore the interactions between, and boundaries for...


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