Haslab Unicron

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  1. Shattered Trousers

    Shattered Trousers That thing Ratchet needed.

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    How is he meant to eat with that thing in the way?
     
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    At last the nightmare is, not so much over, but elsewhere.
     
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    Probably what made them change the orientation of the ring.

    “uh sir, you said thing was supposed to eat something right?”

    “Huh....tbh I didn’t read the script. just turn the ring the other way”
     
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    At that early point in production, The Entity (later Unicron) would discharge a pink electric mist that would digest a planet outside of his body.

    Later, when the movie was being animated, the decision was made to have Unicron violently consume a planet with his maw.

    There is evidence of the corrosive pink mist version in Marvel comics The Transformers The Movie adaptation.

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    thats the mist I was talking about
     
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    Yep, you had it.

    It's kind of an unfortunate design trade-off, now that I think about it.

    Having the orbital ring in it's original orientation looks more like Saturn's rings, which helps Unicron look more like a planet, but they would get in the way of him feeding.

    The orientation used in the final design leaves the maw unobstructed, but turns the ring into more of an anglerfish lure kind of design, or an array of sensors around some immense sci-fi space station. Neither of those things communicate "planet mode" to me.

    It's not a big deal, but it does take away from the original purpose of the ring.

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    Aw... That's too bad. I would have loved to see a review of Unicron from Peaugh.
    Always enjoy them.
     
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    I love the idea of Floro Diri just doing designs and the screenwriters radically rewriting the film to accommodate.
    Is there anywhere we can read the old drafts? They sound pretty crazy.
     
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    I also like that in transformation to robot mode, rather than the hands sliding out like you'd expect, the forearms actually slide up to reveal them... which is how they transformed in the movie too.
     
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    I had fallen away from Transformers for a couple of years in the mid-'90's, pushing back against all the voices telling me it was time to grow up and stop being so into toys.

    My facination with Unicron lore is what brought me back in, rediscovering the 1986 movie through teenage eyes and learning about all the Marvel comics material. Who knew Unicron's head ended up on the Planet of Junk, controlling the Junkions? Or that Primus was Unicron's good counterpart, inhabiting Cybertron itself? Or that Unicron's essence would eventually be channelled into the Matrix and that Rodimus would spend the remainder of his life keeping that evil contained?

    Well, people who grew up reading the Marvel UK comics knew, sure, but it was a whole new world for me to discover.

    Learning that Unicron appeared in planet form in a brief flashback in Beast Wars season 1, and then the image his head appeared in the last episodes of the season were all the push I needed to start watching Beast Wars (and fall in love with it!)

    In a big way Unicron has been a catalyst for my Transformers fandom which has lasted from 1997 through to today.

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    Okay, there is one thing about this figure in person that I cannot stand, the way the shoulders transform. I appreciate the effort put into recreating the way the arms worked in the film, but it really messed my wrists up, it also flexes some very thin plastic and then there's a clip meant to hold two panels together that barely works. As cool as the idea is, I don't think the trade-off was worth it.
     
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    Remember that time someone said that Unicron would never be in scale? That he would have to big as big as a house or something equally ridiculous? And how that's just never happening?

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    Well, get Palpatine on the phone time to start construction.

    Life size Megatron to go with him and it's just a gun.
     
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    I've always liked that design, not only does it make it look more like Saturn, but sleeker and makes the "bumps" look more like moons. We sure that scene was animated based on that though? I always took it that the ring rotated between shots to be in position for the arms. But if not, still cool.

    Kinda want that design to be used again. But instead of using mist, they can have the ring split open to act as another way to grab the pray planet, like the "horns".
     
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    RavageX-9 I don't know

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    EDIT: Nevermind, I realise now you're talking about a much earlier draft than I've ever read.

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