That toy is iconic. So much so that when it was proposed, the ripple effect of iconicness traveled back in time to create this scene that has now always been there.
This may have happened before.
This may have happened before.
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This entire conversation reminds me of Takara's logic in leaning show accurate for as long as they've been able to: for them, the animated series wasn't just the "only" version they got (due to its status as an already made import), but it continued to be due to just how accessible it was beyond its initial airing thanks to any re-airings and especially the whole show getting the laserdisc release.
It's a notable contrast to how in America one might struggle to find a scant few G1 episodes on VHS that weren't the movie, it was much easier to find (or find online) the old Marvel floppies. In the days of dial up internet it was certainly easier to share those scans around than it was to watch an episode from Season 2, as an example!
I mean, of course. What's the saying, the pen is mightier as a sword?
Hmm. You're right, and it does look it, but... Something about it still makes the left (our left) side seem a bit more spacious than the right, even in that head-on shot.
Something may be wrong with me, but the designer is harder to correspond with.
I forget a LOT about Cyberverse. The show deserves better, but I feel justified in forgetting a lot about it.
(From what little I remember, this was told in flashback rather than being a chronologically told event where narrative time and story time are roughly similar, right? That may also be another factor.)
Also, I don't know if at this point I can really say seven years is "only". Like yeah, it's not 20, and boy, I'm always surprised that it isn't 3, but... I FEEL the weight of all that time. (And to be honest my brain has been so fried by the last few years I remember nothing I literally studied and got decent grades on in 2018/9. And I need that for a comprehensive exam I've been delaying to sweet fork as a result.)
(From what little I remember, this was told in flashback rather than being a chronologically told event where narrative time and story time are roughly similar, right? That may also be another factor.)
Also, I don't know if at this point I can really say seven years is "only". Like yeah, it's not 20, and boy, I'm always surprised that it isn't 3, but... I FEEL the weight of all that time. (And to be honest my brain has been so fried by the last few years I remember nothing I literally studied and got decent grades on in 2018/9. And I need that for a comprehensive exam I've been delaying to sweet fork as a result.)
The Ark's actual crash was shown in flashbacks, yes, but the awakening of the Autobots aboard it was the present-day climax of the first season finale, as the first season's present-day storyline was Bumblebee, Windblade, Grimlock, and Teletraan-X's search for the Ark while also trying to prevent Shockwave and the Seekers from causing an extinction-level apocalypse.
That seems substantially different in key ways from G1/Skybound or even Animated, which all used it as the inciting incident for Transformers on Earth. That distinction is to Cyberverse's credit for doing a lot of interesting things with the Ark, er, arc (he said, having had to skim the wiki a bit) as it approached and crashed, and then eventually using the awakening on Earth in a different sense.
But to your point, this was indeed a more recent use of the Arkfall event in general.
(Earthrise, Kingdom... I forget, but did either do this?)
But to your point, this was indeed a more recent use of the Arkfall event in general.
(Earthrise, Kingdom... I forget, but did either do this?)
Oh yeah, the Netflix cartoon had the Ark crash too, but the Autobots woke up right away still in prehistoric times, so it did not do the "millions of years slumber" that all the other versions do, which is kind of an important part of the Ark's crash that to have it missing feels like the Netflix cartoon shouldn't count, especially since they not only woke up right away but also got the Ark out of there and off of Earth within mere days of its crashing, so it's more like Netflix avoided telling the story of "the Autobots waking up aboard the Ark after sleeping for millions of years" altogether.
I don't think there's anything wrong with you at all. I think it's a combination of lighting, slightly asymmetrical sculpting, posing, and camera angle.
- My primary lighting was more from the right than head on. You can see more shadow in his abs on the right side of the picture.
- The sculpted detailing around the Autobot symbol appear free-handed. In particular, there's a short vertical line directly below it that is NOT centered.
- While I was trying to pose him with everything aligned straight, I'm honestly not sure if I was trying to center his waist details on the symbol or that off-center line. I hadn't noticed that detail at the time. He may be a little twisted there.
- Likewise, I tried to get a straight-on picture, but it's inevitably going to be a bit off.
Anyway, in-person it certainly seems centered. Or at least I can't find anything off.