Legacy Skids and Bulkhead revealed

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by ezim93, Oct 20, 2021.

  1. Astrotrain52

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    Congrats. 80s kids should get the G1 aesthetic….for G1 characters. We literally had that in Kingdom and Earthrise (and some Siege).

    So when the time finally came for non-G1 characters to get the CHUG, treatment, they’re done in a G1 style? Why?

    G1 fans need to take a backseat for a few years. It’s way, way past time that other fans get their characters done the way they want them to look.
     
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    Get off my lawn, whippersnapper!

    Seriously, though, they're not really banking on the nostalgia of Prime fans. Those fans have not yet reached prime "nostalgia market" years. Heck, they're not even really making G1 for us G1 fans who have followed TFs for decades. They're making it for the masses who have hit nostalgia years, haven't touched a TF since they were kids, but will snap up the G1 looking figures they see at Wal-Mart "for their kids (really themselves)."
     
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    Patience, grasshopper.
     
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  4. Astrotrain52

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    We were patient, and then slapped in the face with “gotta be G1.”

    God I hope Legacy tanks
     
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    octobotimus Bad company ruins good morals

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    Even Hasbro doesn’t believe in waiting that long for remakes. They literally made an entirely separate line to make remakes of Movie figures…. Only 11 years after the 1st one… and a mere year after the 5th one….
     
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    There's a lot of G1 characters we've gotten a definitive version of, and most of us would be fine with being left alone for a few years at least. That said, there are still a lot of late 80s G1 characters that haven't had a decent version, and that includes all the gestalts in my opinion.
     
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    They probably think the movie figures have a wider customer base. Personally, I still resent Michael Bay for hoodwinking me into going to see TF1 and seeing humans on the screen 98% of the time. The few times TFs were actually on the screen, his crazy whirring directorial style made it so you barely saw them.
     
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    What the hell? This actually confuses me. See, my understanding of things is the setting visually adheres to the Generations G1 aesthetic. So any characters form is to be seen through the aesthetics of The G1 form, if the characters were to be predominantly seen through, say the Animated Aesthetic it would be weird to see G1 prime or TFP Prime Slavishly adhering to their normal aesthetics in that setting. As for the altmode which we have seen can affect the robot mode, designs, transformers can, and have change their alt mode, what's not to say Bulkhead had a reason to change it.
     
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    Ah! Then yeah, he def comin'!

    98%? So there were only humans for 138 minutes of a 140 minute movie? Or was this just hyperbolic overeaction to your displeasure with the movie?
     
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    octobotimus Bad company ruins good morals

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    And….. now we have further evidence/confirmation On what knockout will look like. Generic red jazz with all of his signature design traits removed. Fucking yippee
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    I still don't have any figure of Botanica.

    Frankly, given how good the Prime toyline was? Yeah. Folks can wait a bit longer.
     
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    This has to be a troll post


    Good god my eyes…

    Generic, watered down, garbage. Devoid of anything special. But at least it’s Geewunn! Gotta appease the Geewunners!
     
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    Okay I'd come to terms with Bulkhead but this is going to take at least a month for me to recover after reveal

    Hall of Fame.................gets a repaint

    Edit: just please, please make the windows opaque HasTak.
     
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    So Knockout's gonna be a retool of the ss86 Jazz mold? First thought, Lazy. Second thought its gotta be a budget issue. Third thought I like the jazz mode somewhat hard. I'll probably buy it.
     
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    Nope, don't like it.
     
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    Dead serious, mate.

    Prime's toyline was fine. FE Bulkhead goes for absolute yonks and regular Bulkhead isn't too bad. The worst of the line is Airachnid which, well, is bad, and debatably Knock Out, who's just meh.

    Meanwhile MY childhood stuff either is GPS ridden (let's hear it for G1/G2 transitionary~), shedding chrome like a cat for BW Transmetals, or so far distanced from the concept of screen accurate in Beast Machines its absurd.

    Please forgive me for not seeing the reason why the Prime fans are crawling out of the woodwork acting as if their toys have turned to dust in the past year or something and we need to just have the Prime toyline given to us all over again. I'd be happy with a Prime Soundwave with a new head as Botanica, but even the smallest nod towards the Prime fans who already have decent toys and they're just complaining it doesn't meet those previous lofty heights

    Welcome to your character being a legacy character. Sometimes you get Earthrise Prime. Othertimes, you get Classics Battle in a Box Prime, or Titanium Prime. There'll be Bulkheads in the future
     
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    Jesus Christ. You guys have been at it all night. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. Complaining endlessly about it isn’t going to change anything. You said your piece. Save your anger energy to bitch about the stuff being revealed later today. :lol 
     
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    I wonder if we'll see more non-G1 stuff like Kingdom had.
     
  19. Yuuki

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    Oh this is going to be a long day...
     
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  20. Applejacktimus

    Applejacktimus Still see the Sunshine

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    There are many ways to make Knock Out look good in G1 style. This isn't it.
     
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