favorite transformer?

[Ziona]

A few ramblings of my own about Transformers...

Optimus Prime was my favorite, or the little yellow VW Bug...Yellowjacket?

But the reason I felt compelled to post...I recall being very young and having my parents take my older brother & I to the local mom-and-pop toy store in our town to meet Starscream! He was surrounded by kids, and I remember being nervous around him. What really gets me is that he was hugging children. For the life of me, I could never understand why a Decepticon would be hugging us! He was crazy & mean in the cartoon, but he was hugging us at the toy store...

Besides that, I bought both The Transformers Movie & GI Joe The Movie on DVD for my husband last year for Christmas. He was super happy. The quality is nice, and the GI Joe DVD even has some of those public safety announcements! Classic.

 

[Siridar]

Optimus Prime was my favorite, or the little yellow VW Bug...Yellowjacket?

Bumblebee

 

[drowdude]

Armada, friday on Cartoon Network. Looks soo cool! Can't wait.

I was quite dissapointed with Armada... oh well... heh, at least the new MotU cartoon roxxx da hizouse

 

[King_Stannis]

yeah, i was disappointed in armada, too. didn't come close to capturing the spirit of the original.

cyclonus a snivelling fool?

it's a cool idea, with the mini cons, but lackluster followthrough. i hate the anime style kids, too.

oh well, my little boy loves it, so that's all that matters to me.

 

[Ferret]

I can only remeber: Kup, hot rod, sound wave(?), optimus, and those ones that crack the robot in a bubble(that was sound wave yeah?) But last time I watched them was when I thought "Robots in disguise" meant "Robots in de skies"

Favourite Autobot:Hot rod

Favourite Desepticons:Those ones that were hammers, not only are they the only ones I remeber but they were cool as well

 

[drowdude]

yeah, i was disappointed in armada, too. didn't come close to capturing the spirit of the original.

cyclonus a snivelling fool?

Yeah, that was *reaaaally* annoying, as was the new version of Starscream.... and dont get me started on Laserbeak... that traitor

it's a cool idea, with the mini cons, but lackluster followthrough. i hate the anime style kids, too.

I honestly dont think it's a particularly kewl idea. Of course I always hated the Headmasters too...

 

[Napftor]

I'm guessing the minicons try to recapture the generation 1 feel by sort of replacing energon cubes. I'm sure I watched a few eps where Megatron gulped down some energy form those things and got more powerful. That's my theory, but you're right, it's not the best series so far. Anime kids and slow/awful dialogue...

 

[Green Knight]

Dr. Archeville, eh? Optimus Prime from http://boards.allspark.com right here (Also using Optimus Prime at AUG, though I've yet to post there, as well as the BWTF forums).

And considering what name I go under on Transformers boards, it's pretty obvious who my favorite Transformer is.

Anyway, Hand of Vecna is right. The reason they had to change Megatron is because of current toy safety laws. Look at the current Laserbeak. He turns into a fake laser gun, but even THEN that wasn't enough. Their color choices were limited to blue and orange. Does anyone here want to see Megatron turn into a kiddie lazer gun with a blue or orange paint scheme? No thank you.

As for Armada, yeah, that was painful. I was thouroughly disappointed by it. From what I understand, they didn't even write it, beforehand. See, they want to air it in both the US and Japan. And so to save them the trouble of dubbing it from one language to the other, they had it animated first and then had the dialogue inserted afterwards. So there's a reason for the awful dialogue. Though that hardly makes me feel better at how lacklustre the show was. Or how much the kids were focused on to the exclusion of the Transformers. Or many other reasons why Armada was a letdown. *sigh* Oh well. With any luck, they'll drastically improve the series and soon.

BTW: They didn't end Beast Machines for Robots In Disguise. They ended Beast Wars for Beast Machines. It was supposed to go longer, but they decided to take the line in a completely new direction and so cancelled Beast Wars after the 3rd season. Beast Machines, on the other hand, was only supposed to last 2 years. Whatever the case, I'm glad it wasn't to go longer. God, does Beast Machines suck. Yeah, RID is weak, but it was still pretty entertaining (And if you didn't know this, it wasn't made to be aired in the US. It was originally Car Robots, a Japanese series, and Hasbro decided to fill out a year by dubbing that series over and bringing over the toy line. It was nothing more than filler). Whatever the case, I'd have much preferred for Beast Wars to have lasted longer than it did, rather than to have it cut short only to be replaced by Beast Machines.

 

[drowdude]

I happen to have enjoyed Beast Machines very much, and I was very sad to see it go.

 

[Deedlit]

As a long time BW fan, and a bit of a G1 and CR fan(Hated BM), my favorite would be Tigetron, followed closely by Cheetor and Black Arachnia(Does she remind anyone else of your typical Yathrine?)