Machinima Preview Video – Prelude To Transformers Combiner Wars

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Spark Extractor, Jun 28, 2016.

  1. Brave Magnus

    Brave Magnus Drawings from Argentina! :D

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    I need that Windblade poster! O-O
     
  2. jamarmiller

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    its MISTRESS OF THE FLAME, so unless thats the same character as solus prime in the comics, then no its not her.

    As do I, I want the entire combined poster too though

    AND I LOVE THE TRAILER !!!!!!!!!!!!
     
  3. Jalaguy

    Jalaguy has no known physical weaknesses

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    In IDW, the Mistress of Flame is the leader of Caminus's dominant religion, the Way of Flame, which venerates Solus Prime as the greatest of the Thirteen.

    Seems like this series is just positioning her as the regular leader of Caminus, though, without the religious angle.
     
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    First thing I see when I wake up is hatred (not just here).

    Hatred of the animation, hatred of the Aligned Continuity, hatred of poster layering...

    ...seriously, am I the only one who likes this?
     
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    kary Karyuudo Fansubs

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    I'm really liking it! For those criticizing it before it's even out, perhaps it would be better if you reserved judgement and see what the final product is like.

    Judging from the short clip from SDCC, it looks very impressive. Again, I'm cautiously optimistic, but I do like what I see.

    As far as voices go, I think everyone needs to remember that the guys at Machinima are trying to do their own thing, and the character voices don't need to be 1:1 match-up with the original G1 counterparts. If you look at other straight to DVD/BluRay productions of Warner Bros material, Batman doesn't always have the same actor playing his voice, even though Kevin Conroy is (to my ears) the voice of Batman. Sometimes you just need to give another voice actor a chance. Just something to think about.
     
  9. Slingshot

    Slingshot Back In the Game

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    That's exactly what the cast needed to do. They needed to have their own twist on the characters, and not resort to fan service. Unfortunately, they didn't, and the voice work is flawed. Need examples? Optimus Prime and Starscream.
    As for the characters, Windblade hardly has any justification for going out and wanting revenge. It's the exact same problems Prime Arcee had. A poorly written character, who went on a hypocritical and poorly written adventure of revenge. I just hope the other characters have better written personalities and characterizations.
     
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    Exactly. The actors are spending all their effort on impersonation and have nothing left over for the actual acting.
     
  11. jamarmiller

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    THIS THIS THIS ! I had to skip Devastator because it was just way too big. Its beautifully designed , Looks fantastic and exactly what I wanted ( other than Mixmaster barrel being the wrong way ) but was just way too big. Dont mind him being a bit taller by a head or so but NOT THAT MUCH bigger.

    Sucks that I am missing Devastor out of my combiner collection now.

    Hasbro should have either made them ALL that big or all the other size.
     
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    He was made to go on your mp shelf.
     
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    Precisely, plus in most modern fiction he is 'that much bigger'. He's made up of bigger vehicles (even though jets should be bigger than construction vehicles but scale never works). The constructicons themselves are supposed to be hulking monsters and their combined mode should be bigger.
     
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    yeah, exactly and I do not collect MP. Cause I hate that scale
     
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    Well, the real answer, imo, is that they should ALL have been Devistator's size. It's all the other combiners who were too small.
     
  16. jamarmiller

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    And I would have been perfectly fine with them being all that big
     
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    Yeah, I meant out of the two choices you gave, I'd go with that one.
     
  18. Spark Extractor

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    SPLIT LIP Be strong enough to be gentle

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    Or you could just get Devastator as a standalone piece because you like him.

    Afterall, not all non-combiners are the same size, why should Combiners all be the same height? I got him, despite having three CW Combiners already. The size difference never once bothered me, and if it ever did, I must have just got over it. If I had to justify it somehow, I just think of him as a particularly big Combiner. Isn't Devastator also kind of special already, being six guys with a set transformation scheme?
     
  20. jamarmiller

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    In the cartoon , they are all the same height,
    I dont buy toys for myself, I buy for my boy,
    My boy wants his toys to look like the cartoon in which they are all the same size. He hates that his scorponok is smaller than his generations Metroplex and Encore Fortress maximus
    And as I said above in my post I say I dont mind him being a bit taller ( because he does have six guys ) but NOT THAT TALLER.

    So I voted with my wallet and skipped him

    its a beautiful toy but my family not interested in having a third scale around