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Marking the occasion from a simpler time.
Misfire's anime phase got wild.
Oh, this image is not really relevant to anything, but my dad found this on an old SD card, via a digital camera he had over twenty years ago. Brings back memories! Was a week or two before I went back to university for the new academic year.
(That rug was dreadful.)
Personally, I never had a problem with him but I think the main ccomplaint with Energon is that the story in the anime has poor direction as there's not enough story to fill up the whole run time of 52 eps, Cybertron/Galaxy force has a bit of a similar problem with its run time where they spend maybe a bit to long racing on the speed planet while other elements appearing later, get glosed over, such as Planet X, where Soundwave and Sidesways comes from
Not the least bit what anyone was talking about.
I seem to remember it getting some love as the only "modern" G1 update of Starscream for a time, but everyone pretty much agreed it sucked once the Classics version dropped.
I never cared much for the Classics figure.
So imagine how disappointed I was when the official convention finally came to Rhode Island, the home of Hasbro, and the toy box set was three-fifths that mold.
So imagine how disappointed I was when the official convention finally came to Rhode Island, the home of Hasbro, and the toy box set was three-fifths that mold.
Yeah, I remember this more than any hate. I never really followed the discourse around it because my focus was more on stuff that got more regularly imported at the time, but I recall "this is cool" being a common sentiment. Although of course there were people who were aware of its flaws.
Funny enough, the Robotmasters take is among the things the new SS86 Seeker reminds me of at first glance for some reason.
It was a toy for a budget line and as cool as it was, its flaws were made all the more glaring when the Classics Seeker basically did the same trick. The pinhead with mushy face sculpt, the weedy arms, the lack of knees, the ball jointed wings that got loose way too quickly... it at least was in the right place at the right time to be one in probably the most iconic Transformers Robot Chicken sketch, so there's that.
I have a distinct memory of someone ranting about the Classics Seeker mould back in 2007 (IIRC) on the old TFormers message board, about how it took liberties with the F-15 design. And that the Robot Masters mould, for all of its glaring flaws, was superior because it kept faithfully to that F-15 design.
No one really took that seriously back then, and it's even funnier now. The Classics mould is a pretty faithful F-15, just making some minor adjustments to the wing shape. Probably to get out of paying Boeing a licensing fee.
I suppose we all have our lines in the sand, but I'm a pretty big nerd about military aviation, and it never occurred to me to be bothered by that.
No one really took that seriously back then, and it's even funnier now. The Classics mould is a pretty faithful F-15, just making some minor adjustments to the wing shape. Probably to get out of paying Boeing a licensing fee.
I suppose we all have our lines in the sand, but I'm a pretty big nerd about military aviation, and it never occurred to me to be bothered by that.
I guess all the good hills to die on are taken.
I can't criticize anybody. My favorite Thundercracker color was the retail Classics mold I got for my birthday almost thirty years after my first G1 Thundercracker, and my favorite Kup is the one that turns into what looks like an antique truck.
Generations Kup would be a GOATed mold if his face wasn't like that.