Ah, yes, that's less cringe of them.
Imagine being a fly on the wall as they tried to check if the trademark was clear.
Imagine being a fly on the wall as they tried to check if the trademark was clear.
Transformers Collaborative | Hot Wheels x Transformers
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There is a non-zero probability it’s been trademarked for toys of a different adult persuasion
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PLEASE let that also be called Play With This Too
Ok, I haven't been interested in this so far as I have no attachment to He-Man, but damn that Star-Scare-Scream-Go looks good.
I went back and blew up the video some to get a better peak at the story. And SPOILERS...
The Bots and Cons leave Cybertron as in the Cartoon. The Nemesis ambushes the Ark as usual. And that's the last we see of the regular Autobots and Decepticons. During the Ambush the Autobots eject a pod containing their entire Historical Archive and a warning about the Decepticons. So that some record of themselves will at least survive.
The pod eventually crashes on Eternia and is discovered by Man at Arms. He's just examining it with the Sorceress (in a lab? in Greyskull? I'm not sure) when Skeletor with Megatron armor and Havok Canon appears and attacks him. He already knows about the Transformers and has made the Megatron Armor to drain Greyskull of its Energon. Yes the book specifically explains that the power signature of Energon is the same as The Power of Greyskull. They are the same thing! (That's an awesomely weird thing to establish.)
He-Man arrives and Skeletor starts to drain the Power of Greyskull energon from him, making him weak. Man at Arms manages to defeat Skeletron with a bazooka and after he retreats decides to take a page from his book. He studies the Cybertron Historical Archive and creates Bumblebee and Optimus inspired Cybertronian tech armor to counter the Megatron armor.
Meanwhile Skeletron contacts Scareglow and offers him the powers of "Megatron's greatest warrior" Starscream and transforms him with a Havok blast.
There is no explanation how Skeletor learned about the Transformers or created his Megatron armor, since Man-At-Arms had the Archive pod.
The pod eventually crashes on Eternia and is discovered by Man at Arms. He's just examining it with the Sorceress (in a lab? in Greyskull? I'm not sure) when Skeletor with Megatron armor and Havok Canon appears and attacks him. He already knows about the Transformers and has made the Megatron Armor to drain Greyskull of its Energon. Yes the book specifically explains that the power signature of Energon is the same as The Power of Greyskull. They are the same thing! (That's an awesomely weird thing to establish.)
He-Man arrives and Skeletor starts to drain the Power of Greyskull energon from him, making him weak. Man at Arms manages to defeat Skeletron with a bazooka and after he retreats decides to take a page from his book. He studies the Cybertron Historical Archive and creates Bumblebee and Optimus inspired Cybertronian tech armor to counter the Megatron armor.
Meanwhile Skeletron contacts Scareglow and offers him the powers of "Megatron's greatest warrior" Starscream and transforms him with a Havok blast.
There is no explanation how Skeletor learned about the Transformers or created his Megatron armor, since Man-At-Arms had the Archive pod.
-ZacWilliam, is a story fanatic so weird little storylines like this are gold to me. I hope there's a part 2.
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There was so much about that, that was just uncomfortable.
Vangelus doing leg work for them on his podcast... I mention that because that podcast had a dedicated thread on TFW's boards and I asked Rik "you make a lot of statements about getting out from under the bean counters... but you're asking for people to crowd fund you. How can you guarantee that investors' money will be put to good use if you're not beholden to the financial side of business?" and he replied "we have an accountant."
Ok, concerns alleviated I guess!
Then there was that Ignash guy who was simping so hard for them that PWTT had to tell him to stop because it was hurting their perception.
I bring that up because I got a random DM from someone on TFW from a general action figure message board. He told me Ignash had gone to this board I'd never heard of before to push PWTT and had started insulting me behind my back because I'd voiced skepticism about this whole thing on TFW.
The embarrassing cringe names were pretty bad.
As was the BMOG tie-in, and Aaron Archer of all people getting roped into it, after he'd made a big show about speaking out against 3P IP theft before.
Everything was either way too try-hard or just cringey, or reeked of clout chasing.
I'd never really been in the target market for this weird "$55 a pop for toys that are 4 and a half compromises mishmashed together", mercifully, and I was glad to not be paying close attention to it. AND on the Allspark, where honestly it feels like we were on an entirely different continent watching the curiously cringe self-immolation mostly taking place elsewhere.
I had a sense about it being doomed from the very get-go, partly because nothing about the drip-fed reveals really inspired interest, let alone confidence. I mean, a lot of the constraints faced by the project I don't necessarily blame them for. The niche they were after (basically the Club's "Hasbro's being slow and deliberate with the homages, we'll pick up the slack" schtick) was very much the style at the time, and like the club they needed a hook to get backed. But idk, the approach... everything about it really gave off that "bitter ex" stank, somehow simultaneously jaded and smug. So I checked out almost immediately and never looked back.
I either did not know or totally forgot about Ignash's ultra-simping. Until I googled the spelling of Skull-fckr (too late as it turns out) and stumbled onto a long recap post on r/HobbyDrama that told the whole story, from the initial announcements to the bajillion stretch goals to Ignash demonstrating what not having a social life does to a creature (to the point where the team had to very belatedly tell him to knock it off) to them revealing the toys'... WALK CYCLES of all things and so on. That was a nice little soupçon of renewed schadenfreude for the afternoon.
I had a sense about it being doomed from the very get-go, partly because nothing about the drip-fed reveals really inspired interest, let alone confidence. I mean, a lot of the constraints faced by the project I don't necessarily blame them for. The niche they were after (basically the Club's "Hasbro's being slow and deliberate with the homages, we'll pick up the slack" schtick) was very much the style at the time, and like the club they needed a hook to get backed. But idk, the approach... everything about it really gave off that "bitter ex" stank, somehow simultaneously jaded and smug. So I checked out almost immediately and never looked back.
I either did not know or totally forgot about Ignash's ultra-simping. Until I googled the spelling of Skull-fckr (too late as it turns out) and stumbled onto a long recap post on r/HobbyDrama that told the whole story, from the initial announcements to the bajillion stretch goals to Ignash demonstrating what not having a social life does to a creature (to the point where the team had to very belatedly tell him to knock it off) to them revealing the toys'... WALK CYCLES of all things and so on. That was a nice little soupçon of renewed schadenfreude for the afternoon.
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I'm getting terrible flashbacks from doomed situations I've been asked to fix.
I'm lost, I thought BMOG were those little 'pre-Weaponizer' animals that Trent Troop made, they were great. I still have my platypus, in orange AND green.
They are, and I'm as lost as you are. And hoping your platypus has a brown fedora.
The green one does! The fedora on the orange one is blue!
Is there anywhere to still buy those? I always liked them on Shapeways, but never did buy any. Google takes me to his online store, but it hasn't been updated for 10 years, so I find it hard to believe that it is still active.
Trent Troop was trying to get stuff up on Cults3D, but not a lot of progress has been done there.
Cults3D is only the model, though, correct? I don't have a 3D printer, so it wouldn't do me much good.
Unfortunately, yeah.
PlayWithThisToo roped BMOG into their second crowd funding campaign. It was just an attempt to latch onto a popular thing. They roped Aaron Archer into things around the same time.
aaron 'Theft of IP like this is staggering, develop your own characters and designs!' archer being involved in a failed attempt at doing not-pretenders is still the funniest jive lmao
It was accidental performance art. The way every single update just made the situation funnier is a special moment in comedy that I don't think can ever be repeated.
I didn't find it very funny, just kind of sad. i probably wouldn’t even remember if the guy who lived in the old forum’s 3P section didn’t go absolutely insane about every single tweet or drawing they put out
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