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<blockquote data-quote="Leatherhead" data-source="post: 8360060" data-attributes="member: 53176">I am deep into Transformers stuff right now, partly because of the typical mid-life crisis stuff, and partly because I needed a hobby that didn't depend on having a group of other people around to hang out with for the past year and a half.I give it an 8. But then again, I &quot;got&quot; all the things it was trying to go for.I watched the entire series on 1.25x speed, as was recommended to me. And honestly that felt like it should have been the default speed due to the pacing of the dialog. I want to elaborate that the voice actors themselves were not bad, just that the direction was off. ( Hearing a 25 or 35 year old catch phrase with the &quot;wrong voice&quot; is just unfortunate and not their fault. )As a toy commercial, it's better than most. They used the actual toy CAD files (or whatever they are called) for making the character models, which is really nice for those of us who like that kind of thing, enabling you to take your figures and re-create your favorite scenes easily. While there were a few &quot;Lets get this toy in here&quot; moments, I was ironically disappointed that they did nothing with the Fossilizers (A new set of transformers that have skeletal dinosaur alt-modes and are totally rad).There is a lot of violence and death in the series, as is normal for Transformers outside of the Saturday-Morning Cartoon block. I think they handled most of them them well. A few heroic sacrifices, a few merciless slaughters. Even [ISPOILER]Elita 1's off screen[/ISPOILER] death is poignant, despite how easily wrong such a thing could have gone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leatherhead, post: 8360060, member: 53176"] I am deep into Transformers stuff right now, partly because of the typical mid-life crisis stuff, and partly because I needed a hobby that didn't depend on having a group of other people around to hang out with for the past year and a half. I give it an 8. But then again, I "got" all the things it was trying to go for. I watched the entire series on 1.25x speed, as was recommended to me. And honestly that felt like it should have been the default speed due to the pacing of the dialog. I want to elaborate that the voice actors themselves were not bad, just that the direction was off. ( Hearing a 25 or 35 year old catch phrase with the "wrong voice" is just unfortunate and not their fault. ) As a toy commercial, it's better than most. They used the actual toy CAD files (or whatever they are called) for making the character models, which is really nice for those of us who like that kind of thing, enabling you to take your figures and re-create your favorite scenes easily. While there were a few "Lets get this toy in here" moments, I was ironically disappointed that they did nothing with the Fossilizers (A new set of transformers that have skeletal dinosaur alt-modes and are totally rad). There is a lot of violence and death in the series, as is normal for Transformers outside of the Saturday-Morning Cartoon block. I think they handled most of them them well. A few heroic sacrifices, a few merciless slaughters. Even [ISPOILER]Elita 1's off screen[/ISPOILER] death is poignant, despite how easily wrong such a thing could have gone. [/QUOTE]

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