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Before Michael Bay, Before Hasbro, Before They Were Ruined.
June 30th, 2009
So, a lot of people often ask me, “Sean, why do you fucking hate everything?” and I would always say ” I don’t hate things, I just know the history and I know the difference between quality and a generic clone product.”
Over the last few years, I have seen so many amazing and creative and original things. I have seen a full re-emergence of The Transformers line as the Unicron Trilogy. I didn’t follow it amazingly close, but damn the toys were really getting back to where they needed to be.
The character art was really strong, the sculpts were impressive and I was seeing less and less crappy beast wars/machines clear plastic in fruity colors and more and more heavy solid and strong figures.
Especially this :
But one thing always struck me as interesting. Through all of these changes, and series. Optimus and Megatron and for the most part, the characters remained RECOGNIZABLE and these various authors RESPECTED the work/timeline/universe/history/fact that the original goddamn toys were awesome.
Anyway.
Any person who has any sense at all would have looked at the Unicron Trilogy(Micron in japan) and seen how freaking amazing the art and story was and said “Damn this is bad ass”.
But instead, Douch le rouche(® Joey Rubin) Michael Baytard and Steven Spielhump said, “Hey let’s let a bunch of fucking over excited fuckers redesign a bunch of Matrix reject looking transformers.” “That’ll really get those kids off their rock-em-sock-em robots!”
Major fail douche turds.
How can what bay made be more “Modernized” than this:
He could already fly and shit Bay. You’re a loser for not giving a shit about the real deal.
That is how real female transformers get down. Heavy guns. I’d totally check her oil if I was a robot.
This guy is pretty pissed, all though I couldn’t agree less on the jetfire comments, but whatever : awesome podcast nerd rant on why you shouldn’t see The new transformers film.
At any rate. The GalaxyForce/Cybertron series had amazing character design by Takashi Kumazen and why the fuck Bay/Spielpuke or whoever even remotely thought for one second they were qualified to make the decisions they did, is beyond me.
I can’t believe it. But there is all kinds of attention being brought to transformers. Why? Becuase the average American money spender, who can’t watch “animation” as a feature film, now feels that Transformers are “real” and will therefore now spend on said property.
I happen to remember a time before the animated series, before all of this shit. When toys and robots were awesome in their own right, and when animation reigned supreme. Ah the magic of childhood. Kids toys today pale in comparison.
Fucking Boombox yo.
There were some other Gun Robots that never made it to the states. And, Megatron was actually a good guy. You know, to shoot the bad guys with.
In short, screw you michael bay. No one cares about your bastardazation of our beloved characters, toys and the stories. We know the real deal when we see it.
Oh and if you ever wondered what optimus prime’s real purpose was, it was to deliver shit and get to work. And his real name is convoy.
And yes he was blue AND red.
OH. And I have no idea who was responsible for ruining devastator but this is the real deal – You know. Construction Robo.
I remember what you said about Transformer 1 and all the cars being GM:
It’s like making a movie of the American Revolution using Mexicans. It just doesn’t work. Hahaha.