Honestly I'd like to be a fly on the wall for that decision, it could be a designer really wanted Shattered glass colours and this was their chance to take some artistic liberties but keep it somewhat close to the on-screen character. Or maybe the colours are based on skywarps

 

And if you take away Blackarachnia's arc with Silverbolt, her defining characteristic in the original was "Tarantulas but tits" and Airazor was "girl." They gave Airazor something with Tigatron and their connection to the planet, but that was just to write them off and then never went anywhere because they got killed off. Blackarachnia got some depth once Silverbolt showed up but until then....oof.

Nyx got to be the focal point for Dinobot's eventual face turn, and Skold was starting to get something before the series was abruptly cut off. But both were given WAY more to do in their short time in the comic than BA before Silverbolt and Airazor period.

 

I wish that dude would get around to putting Thundercracker at the top of the list. I need those colors in my life.

And before anyone asks me how I'd feel if Thundercracker was turned female, let me respond in advance by saying GIVE HER ELECTRIC OR FROST BLUE LIPS YOU COWARDS.

 

Shattered Glass Thundercracker: Instead of a guy and his dog she's the crazy cat lady.

Previously I called Siege lazy because they billed it as cybertronian molds and all we got were pseudo Earth vehicles and then it was all erased by Earthrise.

I take that back. Siege was a surprising amount of effort that was essentially all just to justify to SOMEBODY why they should sell the tetrajets at retail. Reusing the Cyberverse molds comes off as lazy when the show isn't copying that style. If they wanted to retool some of them in to new stuff that'd have been cool. There's only so many ways to make a jet in to a robot.

 

As a person with too many cats myself, I approve/feel called out. Especially since I spent all last night hunting an escaped cat. Had to just leave the door open until she went in on her own time.

 

I think my favorite female Seeker moment was when Animated Starscream clones himself based on his various personality traits and when he gets to Slipstream they're both like "....let's not discuss this further."

 

I'm of a similar opinion as Pixelmaster.

I personally think people wouldn't care as much if she was at least new. The problem is Skywarp looks like a recreation of G1, which is why Skywarp being female here bothers me a tiny bit, but I don't really care about it.

I believe that the worst problem here is how unoriginal most of the designs are, at least Megatron and Soundwave tried to be different. The majority of this looks like a G1 rehash. I either wasn't alive, or wasn't old enough to be into Transformers at the time, but I miss the days of the UT where we got reinvented characters. Or even the days when I was into it like Animated and TFP, we still got new stuff there.

If Skywarp looked different, this would be a whole lot better. I don't even care that she's female, I just wish she looked different to the G1 counterpart.

 

If you wanna go that far sure then whatever.

 

I figured people would be mad about the Cyberverse Warrior Seeker mold being reused when the new Earthspark Warrior molds seem to be much more articulated, should have known instead people would be getting offended about Skywarp being a girl. TFW never changes. As long as she acts like a Skywarp (which isn't a hard barrier to surpass, Skywarp's always been the least defined of the original three Seekers), her gender really doesn't matter

 

A few of us are definitely bothered by the mold choice. I haven't liked that mold since it came out.

 

As long as she has a bouncer bomb then all is forgiven. (Not like I am mad at the gender change anyway.)

 

And I'm telling you some of the same people have complained about "all new" female characters.

I did like the Grandus vibe of the Cybertronian Seeker mold, though.

 

Seekers invite to gender-swap. Let's face it.

Personally I don't like it (I am too much G1-centred for this), but I can image (and understand) the reasons of doing this: fresh new to the character, new series = new twists and storylines... I'd be the first to raise an eyebrow at gender swaps, but it is probably not fair to criticise a new series and the new interpretation of the characters simply because it doesn't match with previous series or version of the characters we are already fans of. I am the first to admit that if it were up to me, all the series would be based on G1 characters (as they were), and I can guarantee the entire fandom would then be complaining that it is always G1, G1, G1, G1... nothing fresh, nothing new... etc etc etc.

I bet the younger generations, without preconceived standards, will love the show and enjoy every minute of it. I probably will too after the first time I see the character  . Even if my favourite version of Skywarp remains male...

Truth be told, the toy looks genderless/male, and without the black lipstick the actual character could have passed as either, male or female. I think excluding that would have been the best approach.. leave it to the fan's imagination  

 

We wouldn’t be losing anything if the female grey and blue seeker was not called Skywarp and we had an actual black and purple Skywarp repaint of Starscream later.

 

we aren't losing anything. it's just another version of skywarp from another universe. you are the one continuing to throw a hissy fit over it

 

Y'know... I know it wasn't a popular decision with many folks back in the day, but now that we've had Animated, Prime, Cyberverse, and now Earthspark all basically "G1 characters, but with a few changes...", I miss how AEC had the characters as mostly new takes. Sure, a lot of nameslaps, but even then they were all different. If you had a listing for Ironhide, you had no idea what you were getting. RID01, too, but I couldn't stand that show enough to finish it.  

 

I don't even mind reusing names, but then I got in to TF during BW so I was surprised how many BW guys I came to learn shared names with G1 guys even if they weren't the same guy. For me it was totally bizarre hearing various BW voices coming out of non-BW versions of the characters once the UT started.

Most notably was Optimus Prime and Primal having the same voice.

 

Honestly while some of the Unicron Trilogy stuff was cool and I grew up with it alongside Animated and G1 in the late 2000s but the name slap stuff was a bit 50/50 to me. You had cool stuff like Jetfire, Scavenger and Thrust etc but some characters like Ironhide, Blurr or Sideswipe didn't entirely work for me.

Although in Ironhide and Blurrs case, they're cool, they just lacked what made the originals unique or distinct to me and should've been a different character.

I prefer the fact that more modern TF shows and media of the past 15 years are more consistent with certain design aspects and looks for characters throughout the franchise.

I'm all for reinvention and taking the franchise to new places but I still want some consistency when it comes to designs and how the characters look/act to an extent.

It's like other long running franchises and characters, you can do new stuff, styles and takes but at least keep recognisable aspects that make them iconic and who they are. But that's just me

 

Looks like you’re the one having a hissy fit that I’m not drinking the Kool-Aid. You were relentlessly attacking me last time I dared to voice my own views upon something too. You were slyly lying in wait for me to respond to this thread despite my response being the same as other people earlier in this thread.

Then someone will quote this post having their own hissy fit. Then I’ll say “See, told you.” and then someone will have a hissy fit over that.

And then the posts are going to get scrubbed. We’ve been here before.

 

ok man