Transformers CyberWorld: Optimus STILL Hates Spiders

Dvandom

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Put me on the list of people who think Cyberworld IS Cybertron, and the Big Red Button reformatted the planet in order to avert something worse. The whole "undersea/underground" theme of the next year of toys would suggest they're going under what turns out to be a surface-only reformatting.

---Dave
 

Haywire

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A wild Cheetor and Jazz appeared!
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So, there was a lot of speculation that Jazz was a remold of Cheetor; while they have shared engineering and an identical transformation, there seems to be no shared parts between the two. They have larger bodies than previous quadruped Megatron, but the arm and leg proportions seem a little off, moreso on Jazz than Cheetor. Jazz in particular reminds me of the Landstriders in The Dark Crystal. My Jazz had an assembly error on his right knee, so I may be looking for a second copy.
As with all the Cyberworld figures, the lack of elbows and head movement really hurt an otherwise okay pair of figures. Cheetor gets a tail to wield as a sword (I assume, could also be a whip), but posing is limited.
The atypical altmode for Jazz is fun, but Cheetor kinda reads as Tigatron, and would probably have been better released in a different color (CATscan red, perhaps?). For $10 a piece, I don't feel like they are a terrible deal, but I wouldn't expend a lot of time, energy, or money trying to hunt them down.

No pics for now, but I also found Scourge and Shockwave on the same run, and I will say, I really appreciate the ways the smaller figures continue to interact with the larger ones. It's really been an good interconnected toyline, lacking mainly elbows and accessory packs to elevate it to great.
 

lastmaximal

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There's a universe somewhere where 3P kits with injection-molded plastic exist specifically to replace the arms on all the Cyber Changers. Just the arms, identical paint, but with elbows. And scattered posts in the fandom keep wishing they'd make more upgrade kits to fill little gaps in mainline toys, maybe add parts that make them more Geewun, but they're just not profitable enough.

There MAY be another universe where Hasbro just does it themselves, but who knows.
 
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Haywire

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There MAY be another universe where Hasbro just does it themselves, but who knows.

I thinks it's most frustrating because the Cyber Changers occupy this space where they are simple enough to be fun and cheap enough to buy a couple without having to eat Ramen for a month. They have the feel of the basic class toys of Beast Wars/Machine Wars, or the Omnicons/Terrorcons from Energon; simple, fun toys that transform, yet their articulation is so much more limited than their predecessors' that it just feels like they were close to greatness but fumbled at the last minute.

And, don't get me wrong, I still think it's a pretty great line overall, warts and all. I just wish someone had looked at the overall line concept and said, "Yeah, give them elbows so they can interact with each other better."
 

LordGigaIce

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There's a universe somewhere where 3P kits with injection-molded plastic exist specifically to replace the arms on all the Cyber Changers. Just the arms, identical paint, but with elbows. And scattered posts in the fandom keep wishing they'd make more upgrade kits to fill little gaps in mainline toys, maybe add parts that make them more Geewun, but they're just not profitable enough.

There MAY be another universe where Hasbro just does it themselves, but who knows.
Thing is these are just elbow joints away from being pretty fun... like... just do some ball joints. It wouldn't require anything complicated tooling wise. FFS, the budget figures during G2 figured this out.
 

LordGigaIce

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That was the way I felt about Cyberverse when I finally sat down to watch the series. I was like, "Why was I not watching this when it first aired. This is FUN!"
I still need to give Cyberverse a chance. I tried it when it was current but "Bumblebee and Windblade go searching for Bumblebee's memories" bored me really quickly and I never came back to it.

But everyone tells me it gets much better after that so it's just a matter of me getting around to it.
 

Sabrblade

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I still need to give Cyberverse a chance. I tried it when it was current but "Bumblebee and Windblade go searching for Bumblebee's memories" bored me really quickly and I never came back to it.

But everyone tells me it gets much better after that so it's just a matter of me getting around to it.
Get to episode 10. That's when season 1 gets good. Like, really good. And it only goes up from there.
 

lastmaximal

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I'm in that boat, yeah. They definitely didn't do themselves any favors with that dragging memory reassembly.

I think I did catch a string of episodes around the "vehicle armor" Allspark stuff and that was okay. And then I deliberately started a later chunk of episodes cold just to get right into the thick of it and that was also okay. The one where they get stuck in the space bridge was kinda light fun. The weirdly interminable parade was not. I'm sure the best material that gets all the praise is just beyond this scope. It's all entertaining enough but has some of the blandest voice work.
 

Sabrblade

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One of these days, we ought to have something like a forum-wide watch-along for Cyberverse.

Schedules permitting, of course.
 

CoffeeHorse

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I actually like a slow burn, so I really ought to give it a chance. I just never got past the preview clip I pretended to be excited about on our front page. It was already way past time to retire Bumblebee's radio voice gimmick, but his unchanging face while he talks made it so much worse.
 

Undead Scottsman

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Rather than slow-burn it, you can kind of turn Cyberverse into a series of movies.... Hang on I think we've had this conversation before...

You can nicely combine them based on plot arcs into about six animated length movies (Well, 4 animated length movies and 2 full-length ones)

Season 1, Episodes 1-9 (90m)
Season 1, Episodes 10-18 (90m)
Season 2, Episodes 1-13 (2h10m)
Season 2, Episodes 14-18, Season 3, Episodes 1-4 (90m)
Season 3, Episodes 5-17 (2h10m)
Season 3: Episodes 18-26 (90m)

And then the two 40-minute specials at the end that you can kind of roll together even though they are very much separate plots.
 


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