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Post by CkRtech on Aug 1, 2005 23:54:17 GMT -5
It's interesting that you say that because I personally think that Beast Wars has a lot more cheese than G1. (but not eighties cheese, mind you )
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Post by Destro on Aug 2, 2005 0:35:27 GMT -5
It's interesting that you say that because I personally think that Beast Wars has a lot more cheese than G1. (but not eighties cheese, mind you ) I'll never get you ck. And when I said prime's fight in tftm was an "oh please" moment, I meant that he was killed far too easily. The fight had some good lines in it, but c'mon, the greatest autobot takes a few hits from megs and is killed w/ a handgun? Dinobot took on every pred when he was killed, and he died destroying the golden disk. And I will also say that even w/ a smaller cast, there were more cool characters in bw than in g1.
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Post by Jo'Roq on Aug 2, 2005 18:31:00 GMT -5
And I will also say that even w/ a smaller cast, there were more cool characters in bw than in g1. G1's problem became the sudden surge of "never seen but had always been there" characters as new toys were released. Season 1 did a good job of giving new characters an intro ep that explained how they got there (Skyfire & the Dinobots). Season 2 new characters just showed up (for example, where did Tracks come from?). There were a lot of cool characters introduced later, but the never really had as much time for character development - had to keep gettig the new characters worked in. BW had the advantage that they could spend more time on individual characters, and they HAD to provide an intro ep for all new characters. The good thing was they knew it and so had the orbiting stasis pods as their story point. BW was simply just better planned. G1 was solely a long-running commercial.
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Post by CkRtech on Aug 2, 2005 23:15:11 GMT -5
They had to cram almost every single Transformer made into the cartoon - as more came out...it really started to hurt any character work.
Again though - "different eras" applies quite a bit to the time difference between those two shows.
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Post by StrykerX2K on Aug 3, 2005 8:01:10 GMT -5
You know, the one thing that I really liked about G1 was that they wee consistent on the size of the figures. Megs was big and OP was big, mini-bots were small. THey just seemed to be in better scale witht he figures of that time. I feel like a lot of the toys made now aren't necessarily kept in correct scale. For example Armada hotshot and Red Alert looked to be the same size or pretty close, yet their toy counterparts did not really reflect that. Red Alert is noticeable larger than Hot Shot. Let's not even go there with "King" Starscream...
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