It is actually a meme, by its purest definition. Not the "internet joke" definition, but spontaneous proliferation (what the Ghost in the Shell TV anime called the eponymous "Standalone Complex", because the anime actually pre-dated meme-culture). Blue text is not codified in this site's rules, and it's not widely accepted netiquette elsewhere. It's just something people started doing here, with no determinate starting point. So, academically speaking, it's a meme. It's just that most people who partake in meme culture don't actually know where that term comes from, so it's sorta taken on its own definition/connotation.
Goodness, this reminds me of trying to stay up until midnight to watch the show on Toonami and sleeping on and off throughout whenever they went into a long winded, technobabble riddled exposition on the human psyche. I had to watch the first series three times to actually see the entire show.
The first season did not age well, in the sense that a good chunk of its long-winded psycho-babble could've been shortcut by simply saying "it's a meme". But back when it was written, meme culture wasn't particularly recognized as such, and no publicly recognized term had yet been established for the phenomena.
I wasn’t digging the new face until my wife pointed out she looks like she just ate really spicy food, that’s kinda cute. Still not going to display her with it but it is a cute option
Ugh just realised they only gave her a new half of the forearm, a little lazy. Anyway, I've ordered the iGear Shadow Assassin so I may end up using her forearms for the cartoon accurate custom I'm going for. I love MP-51, no way I can pass up on another excuse to own this mould. Also, since I'm going toon-accurate, I'll be able to pull off Nightbird's chest and her entire alt-mode and have her car mode chilling separately on a shelf (or sell it).
why can\'t takara or hasbro ever design a female character without her having a huge backpack/partsforming?
Hi and welcome. Well the problem is if the female character robot mode design is basically a human woman, like Arcee and Nightbird here, you can't use much of the alt mode to make bot parts, so they'll just end up as backpack, or worse, partsforming. If the character design is more like Windblade, or Road Rage, it's easier to avoid the backpack.
What's funny is that they can and have several times, like with Strongarm Transformers vs Terminator Arcee, Road Rage, and Windblade. But the G1 cartoon didn't since they only ever planned for Arcee to maybe get one, so she and the others are just naked females (how they described Arcee's design process) that morph into cars.
Road Rage doesn’t have an oversized backpack. Her proportions are fine from the back view. So in my book, she’s a fembot that doesn’t have a big backpack. I’m looking forward to Nightbird. These obscure MPs add a lot of variety to the collection. Looking forward to another solid addition of the Arcee mold.
Yeah if you watch Arcee transform in the movie her chest and legs increase in size a lot to make the car hood and rear of the car. They are mass shifters, although not as much as Soundwave or Megatron.
What I really would've liked to see from Arcee is the trick they used with MP-41 Dinobot's thighs, where the thighs fold out to go from convex to concave. The sides of his beast mode here are this thighs folded out: Maybe it wasn't possible to do the same trick at the smaller scale that Arcee is though. Would've been cool for some of her car-mode to be made up of anything other than her chest (which is basically the only robot mode visible in car mode). I don't know if Blackarachnia has any magic going on with her thighs, maybe it wasn't a question of size but just design choices.
