Transformers: Robots in Disguise speculation thread.

Discussion in 'Transformers Earthspark and Cartoon Discussion' started by Autovolt 127, Jun 12, 2014.

  1. endless_abyss

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    I just feel like they won't waste the design and copyright of a new Faction Symbol without a future purpose. I mean, who the heck knows, maybe Bay will throw them in TF5? lol
     
  2. jestermon

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    As long as you pay for something the government will gladly take your money to file something.
     
  3. edgs2099

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    So IMDB pages are reliable sources? So evidently, I'm Santa. What do you all want for Christmas?
     
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    That makes no sense. Santa doesn't exist, IMDB does.
     
  5. edgs2099

    edgs2099 Optimistically realistic. Moderator

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    It makes perfect sense. IMDB is a reliable source, I am Santa. Now hurry up with the list, it's already July.
     
  6. SaberPrime

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    That doesn't explain your logic... at all... you just repeated the exact same thing. Literally you didn't add any new information.
     
  7. edgs2099

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    Seems pretty clear to me. I am Santa as much as IMDB is a reliable source of information. ESPECIALLY on projects in pre-production. Just because you think you know what you're talking about, doesn't mean you know what you're talking about.
     
  8. SaberPrime

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    I don't think I know what I'm talking about, I DO know what I'm talking about.

    Adrian Colon - IMDb

    Steve Marvel - IMDb

    Leah Bateman - IMDb

    Robbie Allen - IMDb

    Ted D'Agostino - IMDb

    Just some of the actors on IMDB that I know personally. Robbie and I actually graduated from the same High School. And I still talk to all of them on FaceBook. I knew about Wild Card before it was even posted on IMDB because Leah Bateman posted it on her FaceBook page first. The release date for Wild Card on IMDB changed not because IMDB was inaccurate but because U.S.A. Networked canceled the series before it even aired. The pilot had already been filmed and so they later decided to release it as a T.V. movie. Despite being released much later than Leah's other work it's actually the first film she ever acted in. The reason I know her is because I worked back stage when she was playing Helen Keller in Miracle Worker at SRT. I actually let her mom barrow my script for "Meet Me in St. Louis" because like most people she had only ever heard of the musical and never seen the straight version before. And I never got that back. She lost it, she did offer to get me a replacement but that script had all my notes in it from when I was the Grandfather in the play back in 2004 and a new clean version wouldn't really be a decent replacement for my own personal script with all my old notes in it.

    Tell me where do you think they get their information from. Oh right they don't post sources so you think they just make it up. I know where they get their information from because they post updates on FaceBook all the time. I'm betting the bigger names have people to do this stuff for them but yes IMDB is actually run by people who are in the business and have gotten their information directly from the source. Unlike other web sites that you seem to think are more reliable and yet, they get their information from fan speculation and here's a shocker, from IMDB.

    Why would the source need to list other less reliable sources. Is the fact that you're getting information directly from the horse's mouth not good enough for you? Would you rather hear it from the horse's ass?

    "Actors and directors don't know anything about what they're doing because they don't credit sources but random nobodies off the street some how know everything because they credit the actors and directors who don't know anything." Sorry but that's how you sound. That's literally what you're saying. You trust Average Joe Construction worker who heard from a relative, who heard from a friend, who heard from a co-worker, who read online, that such and such news credible news. But you hear directly from the people involved telling you something and NOPE NEVER HAPPENED, SOURCES I NEED SOURCES!

    Oh yeah... and TFWiki which is a bit more reliable than the random wiki page I posted earlier and everyone here seems to trust as the word of God... they even put IMDB down as their first source for information on every voice actor's external links. If it's so unreliable, why does everyone use it? Why do references/sources matter to you so much if you obviously never even bother to check where they're from. Kinda defeats the purpose of having them doesn't it?
     
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    While you're pretty neat with your list, it doesn't change the fact that IMDB is well known for having INCREDIBLY unreliable information on pre-production listings. Off the top of my head just related to the Transformers films, it took an interview answer from Glenn Morshower to get whomever the "totally reliable sources" that edited the IMDB page that he wasn't involved with AOE.

    While IMDB is better now then it has ever been, it's still got a good amount of hearsay with anything pre-production. Especially with the ever concise (Rumored) tag. I'm sorry, but IMDB isn't the bible you'd like it to be. It has a better chance than most other sources to be correct, but it's still really only at its most useful as a source on information that has already come to pass.

    In order not to smear even more boring shit around in this thread, I'm done. If you have a boredom fetish, feel free to PM me and we can bat this ball of yarn around.
     
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    Of course it is. That's because things change between pre-production and post-production as I've already pointed out twice. The first time I just said it. The second time I actually gave an example of that happening. So no shit sherlock, of course anything pre-production isn't going to be accurate. Thanks for just repeating what I already told you.

    You do realize that actually makes them more reliable not less right? Other web sites tend to spout rumors as if they were facts leading readers to believe it's actually true. IMDB sheds some light on those rumors by actually telling people that they're only rumors. I'd find it less reliable if they didn't tag rumors and instead made us believe this was actually true like pretty much every other web site does.

    If you already know that why am I wasting my time sitting here trying to explain it to you? Why are we even having this argument? Oh yeah because someone said a random wiki page was the most reliable source on the internet and IMDB couldn't be trusted at all. So again thanks for repeating what I already told you.

    No thanks, since you've just agreed to everything I've been saying this whole time there's no real point in continuing to argue with you. I don't really understand your motives for wanting to argue with someone you actually agree with so please go find someone else to have your nonsensical arguments with.
     
  11. AKSpartan1661

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    Back on the thread topic, I think the show looks like it will be as bad as Animated or Beasties.

    Hopefully not, but Fixit's design and the focus on Bumbleturd has already destroyed it for me.
     
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    Um... Beasties? As in Beast Wars? That is one of the best Transformers shows there is. Animated, the animation style sucks, there are a couple bad episodes, and a few unsolved plot points as the ending of the series seemed a little rushed but other than that it was a decent over all series. This new series looks to have a similar animation style as Animated only instead of poorly proportioned G1 designs, it's now just poorly proportioned.
     
  13. PcPrime23

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    Just as bad? What? Beast Wars and Animated are one of the best TF shows we've ever gotten.
     
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    I will give a show a try.

    I am not crazy about all their designs.
     
  15. SaberPrime

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    This... bad designs doesn't always equal bad story... unless you're Directed by Micheal Bay... and even that's only really the second worst version of Transformers. I can still watch his movies and tolerate them. There are some good moments. It's not all bad. Armada though, I like the designs, hate the show. Never again, burn it... BURN IT WITH FIRE!

    I'm pretty sure everyone who says they don't like Beast Wars either has never actually seen Beast Wars and really just hate anything that is not G1. Or they're not old enough to realize every CGI Cartoon at that time looked like crap and it's really not fair to judge an aged cartoon based on the animation of today.
     
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    Yes I was referring to Beast Wars. The first Bay movie got me into Transformers when I was 10, and while I didn't grow up with Beast Wars, like you said, I have seen some episodes of all 3 seasons, and they just didn't appeal to me story-wise, but I can see how other people would like it.

    Animated though was just too kiddy, even for someone who was in the target age range at the time. (I realize it may have gotten better at the end, but the first season was atrocious in my 10 year old eyes)

    And I fear that is where this new show is going.
     
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    Bumblebee and team go to Earth. Instead of a friendly U.S.A. government welcome, to their shock, they are fired upon and hunted down by evil government agents who take them to a factory to study their genome and melt them down for Transformani.....wait that's Age Of Extinction.
     
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    Assuming your description of the characters are the same, there is nothing suggesting that it could simply be two different characters called Sideswipe. Or that one of the Sideswipes is actually someone else posing as them. Or that Sideswipe took a blow to the head and reset to "Hot-blooded Rookie" levels of competence.
     
  19. JCthegreat

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    Two characters both using the name "Sideswipe" would probably be even more confusing. Resetting a well-loved character's personality would cause fans to rage. I know sideswipe makes rash decisions and is somewhat a loose cannon...but he's definitely not a rookie even if they did take away his memories .
     
  20. SilverOptimus

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    Aligned Continuity is not longer applicable, I believe. The team which handled the Aligned Continuity is not even at Hasbro any more.