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Cyhwuhx

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Screw the game just make it into a new franchise with a TV show and toys. Very cool trailer. One of the best Transformer related things I've seen since that G1 CGI Optimus v Megatron homage and a gazillion times better than Revenge of the Fallen

Also has anyone heard about this Shattered Glass storyline where the Decepticons are the good guys and Prime is a power crazed lunatic leading the evil Autobots?

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Yup! It's full of little details like Megatron's head being the same as his very first animation-appearance (in a commerical) and allows Hasbro to repaint old molds for extra cash during the winter. :(

Also Hot Rod/Rodimus with a mustache is just prime!

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When it boils down to it, the Transformers are rubbish. I mean, 4 million years and no one's won or wiped each other out? Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, we'd have annihilated the Earth 10 times over in that period, Cybertron should be a mass of dust and debris scattered throughout the galaxy by now.

Amatuers.

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Also if that is Onslaught there might be Combiners in the game. Really really like the art direction of the game.

Yeah, I can only pinpoint him as Onslaught or a bizarro-Blitzwing.

And battling gestalts would be awesome. :omg: (Though where's ol' green-purple then?)

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Yeah, I can only pinpoint him as Onslaught or a bizarro-Blitzwing.

And battling gestalts would be awesome. :( (Though where's ol' green-purple then?)

Constructicons were made on Earth in the G1 storyline. I cant remember whether they were from Cybertron or not in the cartoon, but most G1 fans know that the cartoon was pants compared to the comic anyways :(

This does look like it might be made of pure win from that trailer. Especially as we wont see any Earth alternate modes for the characters so as long as they keep the basics of the *comic* and not the naff cartoon, I'll be happy.

They'll probably base it off the cartoon now out of spite :D

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Constructicons were made on Earth in the G1 storyline. I cant remember whether they were from Cybertron or not in the cartoon, but most G1 fans know that the cartoon was pants compared to the comic anyways :(

This does look like it might be made of pure win from that trailer. Especially as we wont see any Earth alternate modes for the characters so as long as they keep the basics of the *comic* and not the naff cartoon, I'll be happy.

They'll probably base it off the cartoon now out of spite :D

Yeah, they were friends of Omega Supreme on Cybertron in the G1 cartoon. Turned evil and made him a right miserable sod and unwilling to get involved in the war (which was a nice plot device to stop and all powerful 'bot kicking the cons into rubbish).

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Constructicons were made on Earth in the G1 storyline. I cant remember whether they were from Cybertron or not in the cartoon, but most G1 fans know that the cartoon was pants compared to the comic anyways ;)

This does look like it might be made of pure win from that trailer. Especially as we wont see any Earth alternate modes for the characters so as long as they keep the basics of the *comic* and not the naff cartoon, I'll be happy.

They'll probably base it off the cartoon now out of spite :blink:

UK or US comics? :P

Besides, the Constructicons were already present during The War Within comic series, which this is allegedly based on.

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Originally, Shockwave used the matrix to create the Constructicons and Jetfire. The War Within takes place in a pseudo G1 comics continuity, a kind of salad bar where the best bits of the comics and cartoon are cribbed from.

Does this matter? Can we not just see the Constructicons and Devastator because they were in the cartoon and were really cool when we were 5?

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UK or US comics? ;)

Besides, the Constructicons were already present during The War Within comic series, which this is allegedly based on.

UK clearly. If it wasnt for the UK comics the US ones would be utter gash like the time Bumblebee is killed by fucking GIJoe.....I kid you not :lol:

Originally, Shockwave used the matrix to create the Constructicons and Jetfire. The War Within takes place in a pseudo G1 comics continuity, a kind of salad bar where the best bits of the comics and cartoon are cribbed from.

This.

Comics > Cartoon made to sell toys. The comic went balls to the wall and had Megatron* rip Cyclonus's head off ffs. You cant get much better than that.

*Ok it wasnt really Megatron but his psycho clone with Lord Straxus' mind in it but hey ho.

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Comics > Cartoon made to sell toys. The comic went balls to the wall and had Megatron* rip Cyclonus's head off ffs. You cant get much better than that.

While this is so true it surpasses mere opinion (!), you'll find that the more casual types are only really familiar in passing with the cartoon. Animated motion just has a more immediate magical hold over people, even if the G1 cartoon stories were white rain-soaked dog turds in comparison to the great Brit-written Transformers comic book.

I'd kill for a 'proper' G1 game with design cues taken from Barry Kitson's / Geoff Senior's art in the UK comics. Controlling the Dinobots fighting a deranged Megatron through the streets of London would be ace.

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The UK comics went by largely unnoticed in the Netherlands. We got the translated US ones, so nope I'm not familiar with them as well. Though there will always be preferences for either, I do find it bit weird that one would call the cartoon as only a vehicle to sell toys. It's not like the comics didn't support that same notion. Transformers as an IP was only created to be able to sell multiple toy-lines under one brand in the West. Hardly glamourous for any medium making use of it.

Besides, who is Cyclonus, Skywarp or Bombshell?

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Bombshell, blatant. Skywarp had the brains of a cabbage, not even Unicron can make a silk purse of out a sow's audio receptor.

The UK comic gave the world Death's Head, the greatest freelance peacekeeping agent in the history of modern literature. Alas, the Doctor ruined any future chances of Death's Head kicking Galvatron's ass when he shrunk him to human size and gave him a ride in the Tardis to some point in Earth's future where no Transformers were even present.

Confused? You will be. Marvel UK was awesome.

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Bombshell, blatant. Skywarp had the brains of a cabbage, not even Unicron can make a silk purse of out a sow's audio receptor.

The UK comic gave the world Death's Head, the greatest freelance peacekeeping agent in the history of modern literature. Alas, the Doctor ruined any future chances of Death's Head kicking Galvatron's ass when he shrunk him to human size and gave him a ride in the Tardis to some point in Earth's future where no Transformers were even present.

Confused? You will be. Marvel UK was awesome.

But not before he got Unicron to show him the origin of the Transformers, yes?

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The UK comic gave the world Death's Head, the greatest freelance peacekeeping agent in the history of modern literature. Alas, the Doctor ruined any future chances of Death's Head kicking Galvatron's ass when he shrunk him to human size and gave him a ride in the Tardis to some point in Earth's future where no Transformers were even present.

Confused? You will be. Marvel UK was awesome.

I never read the UK Transformers comics, but I remember Death's Head and the story you describe. He showed up in the Fantastic Four comics afterwards, Transformers backstory and all, back when it was written and drawn by Walt Simonson.

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[edit] In other news, my order of AHM #4 is on its way!

Bit behind arent you :)

I really enjoyed that whole series, although the coda stuff that follows it was not as good (optimus drinking transformers alcohol- what?!). The art was fantastic and the story was ace too.

I cannot stand the new IDW ongoing series though. The art is wretched and even if the story was amazing, its so hard to look past the artwork that it doesnt matter. Its like a horrible cross between G1 and the movie :wub:

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I never read the UK Transformers comics, but I remember Death's Head and the story you describe. He showed up in the Fantastic Four comics afterwards, Transformers backstory and all, back when it was written and drawn by Walt Simonson.

Jinkies, I'd love to see a Simonson Death's Head, his style would be pretty much perfect for him.

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which origin?

I prefer wreck-gars version.

The true origin, where both Primus and Unicron were gods and all that, and Primus created the Transformers in his own image etc.

The Wreck Gar one was based off the cartoon, and was in the comic as a piss take seeing as how mismatched and a mess the cartoons backstory was.

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Jinkies, I'd love to see a Simonson Death's Head, his style would be pretty much perfect for him.

It was, I'll see if I can find out which issues it were. Like I said, he even recapped the whole Transformers story you described. Also, the Simonson FF storyline is imo the best FF storyline I ever read - Byrne who?

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