Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: stock renders of upcoming Alpha Trion, Micronus, Flatline, Fireflight, Skydive, ++
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I wonder if the shoulders are on 5mm pegs and there might be enough clearance to peg them further forward, above the wheel. That would at least have just the forearm/pipes sticking out in the back, just generally better proportions.
I want to do that but with the pipes pointing upwards. It doesn't look like there's anything stopping us from doing that but a lot of hinge joints often only bend in one direction.
I’m betting PCC but without the dumb springs.
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Maybe put each arm on the opposite side so the elbow joint bends upward?
That's what I was gonna say. The arms pop off, weaponizer-style, so you can put them on either side you want to.
It's been exciting to see the reveals and some of these "how the sausage is made" missives from Mark. However, I am firmly in the "don't care about The Thirteen" camp. The truth is that I left the shores of Transformer fiction long ago. I just enjoy a well-designed, fun bot though, and Micronus Prime checks a lot of boxes for me. Can't wait to mess around with this lil unicycle thing!
Any concept/story can be great if its written well. The potential is *always* there.
The 13 have forever fascinated me, and the fact the brand has gone head first in to them with an entire line, where each of them has their own thing going on, is great to see.
The 13 have forever fascinated me, and the fact the brand has gone head first in to them with an entire line, where each of them has their own thing going on, is great to see.
My dumb take on the 13: I loved them at the beginning, how the reveals were slow and haphazard. Vector Prime in the club comic, the Fallen in Dreamwave, reaching back to grab Prima from the old Marvel comic. Nexus being the culmination of a five year story. Logos from a Takara story (I know that wasn't the author's intention.) I liked how the toys were all from different toylines. Felt like piecing a puzzle together. Like a treasure hunt.
But when the Covenant laid them all out in broad daylight, it kind of took away the fun. The designs were a little ugly. There wasn't any emotion attached, no real stories, just an encyclopedia entry. It was hard for me to care about them.
I think Micronus might be the first one I get, because I really liked the RID15 toys/cartoon and he'll fit right in. And I like Mini-Cons.
But when the Covenant laid them all out in broad daylight, it kind of took away the fun. The designs were a little ugly. There wasn't any emotion attached, no real stories, just an encyclopedia entry. It was hard for me to care about them.
I think Micronus might be the first one I get, because I really liked the RID15 toys/cartoon and he'll fit right in. And I like Mini-Cons.
So Armor Powered by Disk thing is obviously an Iron Man reference, the minicon Bayblade wheel mode is from an entirely different Minicon set from the Armada origins, but it does have the Armada symbol, which was linked to Unicron, and the 'Armor copies the users movements' is more of a Pacific Rim thing and the way it LOOKS is similar to that...
This is the Turducken of homages.
This is the Turducken of homages.
Hasbro canonizing the definitive Thirteen was always going to happen. And it could have even been fun.
The problem was they did it in the most boring and eye rolling way possible.
That being said, a story can be as bad or as good as the means by which it's told. I hated the idea of The Fallen being "Megatronus Prime," and I've been calling it the most LiveJournal fanficy name ever since it was unveiled.
But TFO actually made me really like the idea of "Megatronus Prime."
So it really just comes down to how these ideas are conveyed. Hasbro hasn't done a super good job with that since they came out with their "definitive list," which was itself flawed.
Still, the ideas are workable. This is a toyline first and story is a distant concern, but it seems like they've already put more creativity into these characters and ideas then Archer and Alvarez did when coming up with the Aligned lore/CoP.
The problem was they did it in the most boring and eye rolling way possible.
That being said, a story can be as bad or as good as the means by which it's told. I hated the idea of The Fallen being "Megatronus Prime," and I've been calling it the most LiveJournal fanficy name ever since it was unveiled.
But TFO actually made me really like the idea of "Megatronus Prime."
So it really just comes down to how these ideas are conveyed. Hasbro hasn't done a super good job with that since they came out with their "definitive list," which was itself flawed.
Still, the ideas are workable. This is a toyline first and story is a distant concern, but it seems like they've already put more creativity into these characters and ideas then Archer and Alvarez did when coming up with the Aligned lore/CoP.
I just headcanon him as "Tronus" since the suffix -tron is used a lot in transformers. Megatron, Cybertron, Fisitron, Banzi-Tron, Computron, Magmatron
I will always get a laugh out of how the Exodus novel itself seemed to acknowledge how dumb or at least clunky a name that is by NARRATING how the crowd changes their chant of "Megatronus" to "Megatron"... AND explicitly justifies it by saying "as if they wanted to end on a stronger syllable" or something like that.
Honestly the fiction from that era (Prime and the comics aside) was really, almost aggressively, bland. The novels were such a drag I didn't even finish the third one. The Covenant of Primus wasn't much better, and while it contributes some newish ideas and bits of lore it's generally got enough issues that make it just easier to dismiss it.
TF One really pulled off the Prime/Megs origin better, and I appreciate the new take on the Thirteen that's being tried here and wonder if we'll finally get toyline-based fiction again.
Honestly the fiction from that era (Prime and the comics aside) was really, almost aggressively, bland. The novels were such a drag I didn't even finish the third one. The Covenant of Primus wasn't much better, and while it contributes some newish ideas and bits of lore it's generally got enough issues that make it just easier to dismiss it.
TF One really pulled off the Prime/Megs origin better, and I appreciate the new take on the Thirteen that's being tried here and wonder if we'll finally get toyline-based fiction again.
TF One also was interesting in that Megatronus was certainly capable of some immense destruction, even Sentinel openly admired his power, but he was never one of the 'bad' guys, in fact, he was one of those betrayed and murdered. His cog was taken by Sentinel and Megatron in turn, but that was after the Prime in question's own death. Megatronus in TF One never 'fell' at all, and I thought it was an interesting refresh to the character, what little time he got for it, anyway. He appeared to be well liked and fondly remembered by the average Cybertronian, even. He had STICKERS...actual merchandising in-universe.
It'll be nice for Solus to do things that don't end in her being dead/a magic vagina.
Whoever's reading this, just keep living your best life. You do NOT need to call your ex.
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