Possible First Look at Studio Series Sideways

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Pixelmaster, Apr 26, 2022.

  1. John TheDestroyer

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    Huh?? He has ball jointed ankles, pretty clearly visible in most pictures and also directly pointed out in Chefatron's review
     
  2. JonzyYT

    JonzyYT Studio Series is great again!

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    Yes, but it can't tilt side to side, which is the most disappointing thing.
     
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    Honestly, most vehicle bots are extremely oversized (save for ss Prime and Sentinel)
     
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    I wonder if the laws regarding unlicensed imitations are scricter now than they were in the past, I noticed SS Dino's altmode is less like the official altmode than the imitations of it seen at the time of dotm, like in the game.
     
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    Rlly wish they could get the r8 license but I do quite like the unlicensed car, reminds me a bit of a zenvo st1 with a shooting brake rear end or something
     
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    I wouldn't call it an insult, I think this is closer to the Audi R8 than Dino's alt was to the Ferrari Italia.

    Luckily I think based on the characters we have left we shouldn't have any unlicensed alt modes to deal with after Sideways. Most other car or construction/military companies have already been licensed for TLK and/or SS figures, including GM, Mercedes, Lamborghini, and Ford.
     
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    Dang legs are made of Swiss cheese :eek: 
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    Looks like Sideways skipping the hell out of Leg Day is a repeated occurrence:

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    My biggest fear right now is his stability. I don’t want him to fall every time I try to lose him.
     
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    All this talk about his legs has lead me to a very messed up mental image of Sideways moving around like Sebulba with little gremlin hands instead of feet.

    I blame you all for this.
     
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    Is movie Sideways the same person as UT Sideways? I know UT Sideways is able to go to other universes.
     
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    He wasn't initially, that's something that's sort of been adopted post development.
     
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    It does not make sense if the two are the same, but I wouldn’t put it past Hasbro to do so.
     
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    So there's a concept in the franchise called "Multiversal Singularity" which I believe applies to god-like characters such as Unicron, Primus, and the Fallen... and the idea is that it is the same single version of these characters existing among all the disparate continuities of the franchise they appear in (i.e., the Fallen of the G1 comics is the same as ROTF Fallen, G1 / Armada / Prime / Movie Unicron is the same Unicron), versus say G1 vs. Armada vs. Movie Optimus Prime who are different incarnations of Optimus Prime.

    It's a neat idea but somewhat of an issue given how unique some continuities' versions of the characters are, like Unicron being Earth in Prime and TLK. Sideways being an agent of Unicron is what I believe put him in this category for a time, and while it's kind of a cool concept for him to have "infiltrated" the live action universe, again, it's a little hard to justify given ROTF Sideways dies in 2 seconds. It kind of works for the Fallen if you go off the original idea for the movie in which he was trapped in a transdimensional sarcophagus.

    The more likely scenario is that Sideways was just a cool name they found that they weren't otherwise planning to use and found it fitting for the design (maybe even moreso considering he's killed by Sideswipe). Since he was named Sideways anyway I think the idea was floated (potentially even by official sources) that he could be one and the same with the UT character, but I don't think it was held onto all that long.

    Multiversal singularity - Transformers Wiki

    (Sideways is actually mentioned at the bottom of the page)
     
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    The idea sounds grand. The Fallen and Soundwave being established characters from past universes and crossing over into live action. The problem lies in its execution. I would buy RotF Sideways being the same as UT Sideways if he wasn’t so easily dispatched by Sideswipe.
     
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    If someone really wanted to make the idea work, they could treat each 'Sideways' as just a semi-autonomous host body for a single multiverse/dimension-hopping consciousness. So to fix RotF Sideways' predicament, you could say he ditched that doomed body for another in a better timeline.
     
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    its the universe hopping one, theres a joke on som ask vector prime that i think goes he just got tf out of there after being murdered, look that place is hell for decepticons, you cant evn try to run like a cartoon villain theyll fucking bisect you alive.


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    THE JAR CAN'T CONTAIN HIM
     
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    im loving it so much
     
  20. Masktique

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    I think I’m liking what I’m seeing. I just wish he had the ROTF toy’s color scheme to avoid being monotone, accuracy be damned.