how powerful are the dinobots? |
04-19-2007, 02:46 PM
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#1 | | Maximal Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 353 Location: New York, NY | how powerful are the dinobots?
hey transfans, just wanted to know if the dinobots were all that powerful.. or perhaps weak. In g1 season 1, those guys are unstoppable in dino mode(even a transfomers said that(?), almost nothing can penatrate their skin(robot modes, that's a different story), but as the series continues, they've become very weak, even in dino mode. Why is that? | 
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04-19-2007, 02:50 PM
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#2 | | Made of sterner stuff Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 264 Location: South Beloit, IL Collection Count: Currently downsizing, going for quality over quantity | They stopped mass-shifting. Notice how they appear much larger in Season 1, and gradually shrink as the series continued.
Beware ebay user fasstfredy - lied to get a refund from me on alot of stuff :mad
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04-19-2007, 03:22 PM
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#3 | | MP Grimlock > All Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 14,264 Location: Boise,ID Collection Count: 1000+ | They were reduced to Comedy relief in season 3. If you're referring to why they got their asses kicked so easily in the movie...well they never did beat Devastator in season 1 or 2 so thats continuity that actually makes sense. | |
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04-19-2007, 03:26 PM
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#4 | | Won't talk about the sig. Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 2,493 Location: SC Collection Count: 200 somethin | Different continuities portrayed them differently. In season 1, Grimlock could take on Megatron by himself. In the comics, all of the Dinobots combined couldnt take Shockwave, and Megatron could take Predaking himself.  | |
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04-19-2007, 03:29 PM
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#5 | | Transit Former Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,286 Location: Eerie, Transylvania Collection Count: ~300 reg. ~180 mic. | SS82:
A quick look at "The Ultimate Doom" reveals that they are "more powerful than the pounding surf", just like the 1940s cartoon Superman after the narrator upgraded him from locomotive-level.
Well, at least they can build breakwaters that are that powerful. 
Update, 11/22/09: "Through the Heart." | |
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04-19-2007, 03:45 PM
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#6 | | Beware my textbook! Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 4,962 Location: Central Florida Collection Count: 700 News Credits: 6 | See, it depends on the needs of the story. If the story needs weak comedy relief, you get Season 3 Dinos. Tough badasses? Season 1-2 dinos. They're pretty flexible that way.  | |
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04-19-2007, 03:56 PM
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#7 | | MP Grimlock > All Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 14,264 Location: Boise,ID Collection Count: 1000+ | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Omegatron1 See, it depends on the needs of the story. If the story needs weak comedy relief, you get Season 3 Dinos. Tough badasses? Season 1-2 dinos. They're pretty flexible that way. | In other words they're better actors than Nicolas Cage. | |
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04-19-2007, 03:58 PM
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#8 | | Not a physicist, dammit Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,077 Location: Virginia | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Grimlock_13 In other words they're better actors than Nicolas Cage. | better than Keanu Reeves even.... Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence. | |
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04-20-2007, 03:49 AM
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#9 | | Engaged to Deceptikitty Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 5,801 Location: Boise, ID Collection Count: I hope I never know. | They were more or less indestructible in Dinosaur modes, In robot mode they could be taken down just like any other bot.
See 'Desertation of the Dinobots' where Megatrons strategy actually works, and the Dinobots get their collected asses kicked!
Basically, 1-on-1 The Dinobots would win, most of the time.
But weight of numbers can be enough to defeat them, as was shown when they were captured by Shockwaves guard unit on Cybertron.
Also, 1-on-1 some can beat them using their own tactic of brute force against them. See Predacons.
Also, due to budget cutbacks following the movie, all Dinobots were fired excluding Grimlock | |
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04-20-2007, 07:48 AM
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#10 | | The Swedish guy Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 2,622 Location: Malmo Sweden Collection Count: Not to many | The G1 Dinos would be an emense force to recon with if they hade a bit higher IQ. The autobots should have sent them to training camp or something to sync them togheter , even the dumbest of creatures can this way be learned to. A Syncronised battle team of all 5 Dinos would be unstoppable. But luckeöly for the Decepticons they arent ..thats why for example Devastator can take them down ..they attack one at a time. | |
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