transformers has phenomenally slept on it's greatest character
how do you, as a brand, have a intergalactic mailman squid named IKARD and not put him in literally every piece of media you make
i feel like a surprising amount of people do know ultraman, but only as kitschy "lol, wacky cheesy japanese monster stuff" and it makes me sad
it's the coolest shit ever, guys! it's not just something to laugh at on space ghost or w/e!
i understand that he'll always be yours (and, honestly, mine) but this sentiment both keeps us in the past and disrespects the multiple other talented people who've taken the role
this, at best, just ensures we get more Jon Baileys in the role
in the Japanese dub of Bumblebee, Optimus Prime screams in exaggerated fashion as he jumps off this building, harkening back to how he was portrayed in the Japanese dub of the original cartoon (2018)
This has always come across as insanely sinophobic to me and I detest that it's still a talking point
Oh no!! The film series that consistently did insanely well in China had some stuff in China in movie FOUR
"they've got to focus on mmpr because that's what sells!" is so fucking depressing
they said it's for little kids, man
are you gonna force children to like the same EXACT shit you liked for as long as this shade of a franchise exists?
i like when shattered glass did stuff like this and it wasn't just "here's an autobot wearing the colors of a tangentially related decepticon" or "the original SG colors slapped on a character's latest generations toy no matter how unfitting"
it's so cool that transformers fans cried military propaganda for 10 years but the instant the military propaganda involved is another toy brand suddenly it's all super fine and dandy
I saw a tweet saying rotf relies on the racist ancient astronaut trope of non-white civilizations needing help for their works, but i think that misunderstands how bonkers the lore is
the pyramid wasn't built by aliens but stonehenge was
I LOVE LIVE-ACTION TF HUMAN HISTORY LORE
07: Antarctic voyage found Megatron, Hoover Dam built to hide cybertronian artifact
RotF: they've been here forever Al-Khazneh and THE PYRAMIDS built to hide cybertronian artifacts
DotM: Chernobyl? The moon landing? Transformers.
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@SplendidEhhg
"Oh so the yellow countache isn't either? Nope, that's the red ones brother
"Ohhh so are the two different police countaches related?" There's three, and no
Just remember, the guy who presided over power rangers for the past two years? Where nobody gave a fuck about it and the ended up just throwing it to another company out of disinterest?
He's the lead on transformers stuff again
Fun stuff!
hideaki anno being pigeonholed as a dude who hates the stuff he very obviously loves and is influenced by because the tone of his most famous work actually does make him the alan moore of anime
Eva fans are a breed of nerd culture that has to be studied, they have this delusion where Hideaki Anno is like the Alan Moore of anime, while in reality he's the biggest Otaku of all and he enjoys everything they're ashamed of
There should be more body diversity in toku
Everybody's stupid thin and then maybe once in a blue moon somebody buff comes in
Some big people would be nice
@ARCTIC_ST0RM
mhm
jon bailey, and they didnt learn their lesson because they hired him for soundwave, shockwave and the prime scratch track in bumblebee, with him doing such a bad job peter cullen felt actively disrespected
Shin Ultraman
The ultimate and perfect distillation of Ultraman into 110 minutes. Thank you, Shinji Higuchi.
The human race's unending ability to evolve got to me.
Momoka Tojo (20), who joined idol group "KATACOTO * BANK" last month, accidentally posted a photo with her boyfriend on her birthday. As a result management have issued these disciplinary measures:
1 - She will keep a certain distance from her boyfriend.
2 - As a "punishment"
The Michael Bay Transformers movies did not make me want to join the military
unfortunately they DID make me want a yellow Camaro and lots of Burger King
@Luminus_Prime
this argument has never made sense to me, one of the coolest parts of the commander class is the bravery of the character selection
if they can sell magmatron and sky lynx at that price point they can sell an ultra magnus that turns into the sickest truck in transformers
big american/european toy manufacturers have stopped pricing anything based on production and materials costs, now everything is priced at the absolute maximum number some random fucking bean counter suggests nerds will be willing to spend on "iconography" or whatever
An
#Xmen
#LEGO
set?!? COOL!!!
It has 358 pieces, a lot that are big and cost more to makes sense for them to price it at $54, considering licensing, right?
Try $85
That’s not what licensing costs look like on a product btw.
i think there are a couple reasons, chief among which is the brand is so laser focused on nostalgia and strip-mining old lore that the idea of taking the two most iconic symbols of generation one and doing something "new" with them like this is shocking
Real question about Skybound Transformers
Why do you think this image kicked off in peoples heads as much as it has?
It's still getting referenced and talked about months later.
I'm not being contrarian, I just am really curious cause its not world moving for me
i think the reason so many fans expect things like undoing the flux or decanonizing the sequels is because pop culture has been giving nerds everything they say they want, so they expect them to remove anything they dislike if they whine enough
i know it's fascism's whole thing to be scared of the other but its still so funny to me that people will earnestly go "i'm a big strong smart manly man! and u can tell because i think bugs are yucky!"
you've gotta feel for 80's kids man
they got fed a diet of pure, uncut commercial slop and then they had to watch the 90's kids get shit like Beast Wars and Gargoyles
This is such an impressive sequence. All one shot, a double transformation and cgi that still holds up.
(I can’t wait for “film Twitter” to come in and tell me this “isn’t a shot”)
everytime you see a headline like this, just remember that Lorenzo sank everything into the Bayverse and is desperate to prove to everyone that it wasn't a total flop that crashed and burned because of his incompetence
This is a really good value for money pack with some interesting ideas but the choice of cassette floors me
The most famous animal companion of the pirate: the Bat
the idea that earth and cybertron are two fundamentally enmeshed cultures is extremely compelling and i love the huge twists on the AA trope
Some of the knights of the round table were giant alien robots! that's SICK AS FUCK
i love when people on fandom twitters get really fed up with cheap drama and declare that it is in fact their niche group on one social media site that's the worst of all time
honey nobody is beating star wars fans, ever
genuinely what is up with this. you are gonna live somewhere for the rest of your life and restaurants are even on your radar of what to be concerned about? make it make sense, what is this world
The next
#SuperSentai
coming to South Korea is
#KingOhger
under the name "
#PowerRangers
Kingdom Force" in March!
For those unfamiliar - They use the Sentai episodes dubbed into Korean & use the "Power Rangers" name, including lightning bolt logos. #파워레인저 #キングオージャー
The idea of Mechagodzilla being piloted by the son of the man who sacrificed himself to save Godzilla while inside Ghidorah's skull with the conciousness of said skull eventually taking over said giant robot to make it evil is so insane and yet it goes so hard
My birthday haul! This is everything I didn't buy for myself! Please look at the next tweet where I thank all the lovely people who got me this mound of coolness
leave our town alone
leave all these people who are here bettering my fucking city alone and drop your depraved racist fantasies before people get killed
Dotm is easily the best example of the franchise going dark with the alien invasion angle
It's destructive and scary and harsh but it never feels like gore porn, and the designs aren't straight from the cartoon so it doesn't feel faux edgy either
i do think the sequel trilogy will get its reappraisal but i dont think it will be as easy as the prequels because instead of two deeply flawed movies leading up to Peak Star Wars, it's two good movies leading up to absolute garbage
Sales thread! All figures are complete unless noted and shipping is not included. Prices are flexible, and RTs are appreciated!
Cosmic Fury Megazord: $30
Ryuki: $10
BW2 Dirge: $20, no gun
Road Rage: Official, no extra barrel or Twincast, $30
I feel kinda bad for Sydney Sweeney because she's been shoved into random culture war nonsense on here for like two years all because she
*checks notes*
Is blonde and really hot
the dichotomy is really embarrassing, but unfortunately this is just the endpoint of the classical approach to gender dimorphism in TF: big chunky blocky dudes and skinny naked metal women. It kinda sucks!
To me this idea is the perfect example of comic book fans prizing "accuracy" over quality
They look at nuances, at Acting, and reject it, ignoring the strengths of film entirely because he doesn't have any pupils in the comics! Surely that fact trumps any other concerns!
the tendency for fanartists to draw every girl rider as a hypersexualized waif has annoyed me for a while but it's so much worse when the most recent one is a 15 year old
Please understand that "Madame Web" and "Morbius" type movies were ALL we were getting before the MCU.
Like...it was THAT caliber of bad.
So whenever people are like "[Insert MCU movie here] is bad!", I'm like ".....wat?"
The MCU has been a blessing to comic book media.
Sorry but I’m putting my foot down with this 01 bad revisionism. The show was made when we lived in a time where A.I was still a sci fi fantasy concept. Plus the story was heavily similar to Detroit: become human, where the androids were treated basically like humans but still-
The worst version of Elita-1 is definitely the IDW version. How do you ruin a character like that? Like it sucks that it was a lot of people’s introduction to the character. They took a character that was the motherly figure of all the Autobots and turned her into a fucking bitch