Wow. WOW. See previous about my favorite quote from this show, and reflect on the fact that Wheelie doesn't say it, and why that line makes Hot Rod a much better character than anyone in the Bayformers.
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Wow. WOW. See previous about my favorite quote from this show, and reflect on the fact that Wheelie doesn't say it, and why that line makes Hot Rod a much better character than anyone in the Bayformers.
Gen 1 and the movie were literally 30 min (180 for the movie) commercials for toys.
At least Prime and Beast Wars told a good story with compelling themes and story/character arcs. Hell Beast Wars did time travel better!
Think it worked better for those of us in the UK as it felt like we had a fair bit more stuff regarding the Matrix in our version of the comic.. Given we had so much additional content and many more issues than the US version.. (The aforementioned issue where Prime dies in a computer game is issue #24 in the US but #105/106 in the UK)
By comparison, we got barely any of the cartoon past season 1. Some of the multipart stories from season 2 showed up in Blockbuster etc.. but I don't think we got the whole lot broadcast at the time.. The movie is at least a LOT better than the majority of the series..
Oh and 'Nothing's Gonna Stand In Our Way' is a great track.. up there with Dare/The Touch..
Yep. TFTM is the single most cynical piece of marketing bullshit I have ever seen.
Or maybe they had their childhood ruined by it :D
And I agree with this:
The UK comic was so, so much better than the US version, mainly thanks to Simon Furman. Although unfortunately he did also give us Death's Head, who was a wanker (and ended up shoehorned into the TF continuity, which was bullshit).
All true, and yet it was still the best TF movie ever made until last December.
Oh, hell yeah. For all of its many flaws, the 86 film is still miles ahead of the Bayformers bullshit. Those films are so, so bad.
Yeah, he somehow managed to be in both continuties, although I'm not quite sure how they hand-waved away the fact that he was Transformer-sized and human-sized. It's been such a long time that I just can't remember the details!
I believe the Doctor used the Master's tissue compression eliminator to shrink him. Doesn't ask me why that worked on death's head.
Death's Head is a Marvel character, he's been around recently, too. He's a fine character, and his stories worked. Why he's Trasnformer sized, and what his original size is, was even explaining in the comics. Both UK and US.
Bumblebee is quite good. I still don't like the Studio series design but overall the movie had way better plot and engagement than Bayformer. Shit it's worth it for that opening sequence.
So, he mentions his older videos that he used to have, looks like they're not available on his channel anymore though as there are no let's plays and that series he referred to is gone.
I've only got one video left on my YouTube channel
And I used to have around 20
sometimes dead is better
Thanks for this. I enjoyed this podcast from real fans.
I liked how you discussed how the Decepticons have the power of flight and the Autobots don't except the Dinobots.
Also, you talked for 86 minutes and you didn't mention if Skywarp or Bombshell became the OG Cyclonus? lol
Unless they had bigoted content in them, I think it's better to keep them around. It's interesting seeing how a channel evolves.
Transformers: The Movie is a cynical advert to make kids buy toys. But it's also great fun; enjoyably pulpy with one of the most gratifying soundtracks I've ever heard.
I'm not here to argue that it's objectively good, or that it makes sense without childlike wonder (or lashings of nostalgia for the 80s). But it's a very fun time if you're suitably primed!
"Tell Grimlock about petro-rabbits again!"
I'm not here to argue that it's objectively good, or that it makes sense without childlike wonder (or lashings of nostalgia for the 80s). But it's a very fun time if you're suitably primed!
"Tell Grimlock about petro-rabbits again!"
you do you, but there's a lot of shit i made that is nothing but embarrassing to me that is luckily gone now
I have a ton of embarrassing shit on my channel, but I keep them around because they're a part of my channel's history.
I did have to delete videos though for community guideline/copyright reasons. I deleted over 1000 1 second videos I made in 2010 because I got a community guidelines strike from one for being low effort/spam content. However, I still have some interesting shit to walk through.
I had my daughter and nephew both watch this a couple of years ago when the bayformers movies were still a thing.
They LOVED it, and since they had never seen the OG animated series the prime dying stuff didn't traumatize them
They LOVED it, and since they had never seen the OG animated series the prime dying stuff didn't traumatize them
IIRC Beast Wars Transformers are organic/machine hybrids. For some reason prehistoric earth was saturated with energon, and being in beast mode (as opposed to robot mode) shielded them from interference/energon poisoning/something similar over long periods of time.
Doesn't mean it was good though. I would argue it still would have been made. It was all about marketing toys.
Man, I love this movie so damn much. I rewatch it every two years or so. There's few things Transformers-wise that are as good as this movie, and they are the UK comics and more recently the James Roberts comics (More than Meets the Eye and Lost Light). And the last issue of James Roberts' Lost Light is pretty much a love letter to this movie.
Do you really think children would rather buy toys that transform into gorillas and giant rats, than supercars and fighter jets? Come on son.
I absolutely love the movie but I think because I was already later to the game it didn't have the same impact with the death. I was into Transformers via VHS rentals and didn't watch religiously on TV.
Not the point and kids did. Still doesn't mean G1 cartoon was any good.
Yeah. Beast Wars was way after my time, but I would not have been interested in semi-organic looking animal toys at all. I began to bail on G1 around when they introduced Pretenders. I just couldn't get down with the concepts of janky looking Transformers wearing giant human suits. I didn't get it then and I don't get it now. Also once G2 hit and everything became a neon coloured mess and vehicle modes started having stickers instead of translucent plastic windows.
Reminds me of the take that without the Joker, The Dark Knight wouldn't be a great movie.
"Apart from the attack on the shuttle and Autobot City, the Deception leadership struggle, the trial, the final battle, the Unicron and Megatron/Galvatron interactions, the dialogue, the music, and the animation, the 1986 Transformers movie is a bad movie. Also, I was born six years after the movie was released."
(But HBomberguy does provide good points regarding the themes of movie.)
"Apart from the attack on the shuttle and Autobot City, the Deception leadership struggle, the trial, the final battle, the Unicron and Megatron/Galvatron interactions, the dialogue, the music, and the animation, the 1986 Transformers movie is a bad movie. Also, I was born six years after the movie was released."
(But HBomberguy does provide good points regarding the themes of movie.)
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He is right, the animation was inconsistant at best, characters would appear and disappear randomly and plots made little sense
Planet-sized god can only die by a macguffin, wants to destroy it, characters are caught in the mess as it escalates. Honestly it's pretty easy to follow even for kids.
It's not like A New Hope where they expect you to believe that a moon-sized weapon of planetary destruction can be destroyed by a single hit in the exhaust port. And yet it's considered a good movie for decades until they retconned the plot hole.