Cool. To hear Weird Al in a cartoon. His voice is very very suited to the medium.
I think G1 Wreck-gar was more stoic and he constantly "talked in TV"
again, strong G1 route, but this is just kiddified that extra bit, I guess which fits the show and works well within it.. still don't like the animation style, but I appeciate the conceptual thought gone into this here.
Coulda done without the "More than meets the eye with you" level of corny dialogue refering to the 86 movie.
EG That whole "Hi Im Wreck Gar! And I dare to be stupid" thing...
Well thank you for the classifieds ad, Mr.Wreck Gar!! Do you also also like busty blondes, smoking and find children and pets irritating? Jeez.
You all know I love the G1 stuff, but that execution was so hammy.
But feck it, this one for Pre-schoolers, so one can't expect Shakespear
I suppose.
Not bad design though. Not too bad at all.
Clearly resembles him
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It's aimed at the same audience as almost every Transformers show 5-10 year olds. G1 was just as immature. Its just been animated in the same style most modern action cartoons are been done in.
If you want more mature robot shows go watch Gundam or Macross you'll never get it from Transformers again.
Well why not stick on Robocop in that case? Now thats a mature robot movie...
I do know that when I was ten to like thirteen and the originals were about, they never featured Powder-puff girl stuff and still took a more dark angle somehow. And the comics were the mark of the more mature side of what made Transformers great anyhow.
On your last point, sadly, I agree it looks that way.
The DW comics are the last best hope.
Thank god they did. 90's comic book style exxxtreme writing and stories pepered with over powered Mary Su's are not what Transformers needs.
Pat lee's appalling business paractices gaurateed both failures. Spending company funds on yourself anf your girlfriend while not paying anyone isn't the best idea.
Its because you were younger back then and have your vision clouded by nostalgia now. G1 was full of rediculous stories and one off villains that made little sense.
Besides the comics were subpar up until Furman took over. I wouldn't call Prime commiting suicide over a videogame deep. What about villains like the robot master?
Its not just nostalgia. I re-read the scans from time to time.
Furman was in it from UK marvel issue 20-something.
His stuff was always cool.
Robot master and the government storyline was still way cooler and more mature than a flying powder puff girl.
You're right about the depth of the US scripts which served to introduce product every issue first then worried about content later. Yeah the prob was Bob Budiansky going into a decline around the Fifteenth US issue or so. "The Car wash of doom" would be another great example of the lameness that sometime infect the US comic's writing while the US had that, we had Target: 2006. THATS where the deep/good stuff is at.
That Prime death no.2/Pretenders story licked cybertronian donkey sacks allllllll day, But the underbase saga etc was good..
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I don't know if anyone here has read the Transformers comics put out by IDW, who received the license after dreamwave's demise...but i recently got a hold of all of them and the stories are really entertaining.
There's a "spotlight" series, where each issue features characters that aren't primary characters in the main story, though it still ties all together and is overall very well done.
re: transformers animated...i've been traumatized by attempts to watch the transformers cartoons from japan (armada, RID) and I really dislike these anime-style programs....that's not TF at all. Granted I'd like to take a look but I just can't get over the designs of the TFs on animated....IMO they're just hideous. How is the show itself?
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I'm very fond of the IDW comics. Much better than dreamwave.
It's generally well written. Megatron is the best we've had for years. It suffers from low frame rate in some of the episodes. Also some of the filler episodes plot are a bit off. In general though its a good show with endless nods back to G1 and I mean loads. They've even had spike appear played by his G1 voice actor.
Holy crap, this just got way better. They included the twins, [SPOILER - highlight to read]: Jetstormand Jetfire, and the sweeps, with a female Screamer, Cyclonus, Hot Rod, Ultra Magnus, Waspinator, Shockwave, precepter, wheeljack, Elita-One, Blurr, Arcee and Blackout, Just to name a few.
It f*ckin' sucked that [SPOILER - highlight to read]: Blurr was "killed" by Shockawave, wtf was that? He was a cool character, and it also looks like Shockwave might've killed Ultra Magnus as well.
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May 9th, 2008 12:46 AM
Thats one hell of a guilty or ironic pleasure... 
