I remember that issue! "We're holding an alt-mode party! Come and join in!" "How do you reach your drinks?" "Ah." Also, not 100% sure about this, but didn't it eventually turn out that Rung was actually a god who transformed into a big lever for turning on some Cybertronian relic or something like that?
@@voidspine the canonical alt mode is a crystal-generator, generating the smae cristals the matrix is made of I like the healbeam of the siege targetmaster figure tho
I believe it was implied that his alt-mode, aside from being capable of producing Matrices, was the key to Vector Sigma? I may be remembering incorrectly.
@@tinyshinyfeathers no, that was the functionist excuse to open vector sigma. the functionist council combined into the key to vector sigma, but the key was not needed to access it in the first place, rung was completely unneeded
Funny thing about Sky-Byte teaming up wih Jazz in the IDW comics. At least one species of shark has shown a preference for jazz music in a series of tests to see what kind of music they react the best to during feeding trials. Also: Come on, Hasbro -- Insecticon Bob, please!
I really which they made a GenSel - like package with all those marginal small bots heck, a perfect collection of Bob, NIckel and Moon in "core class+" would certaintly work!
Transmute is a cinnamon roll that will give you nightmares by accident Heard she got an alt universe design where she wasn't a half baked potato clock and is a happy bot livin life at one point in the comics
in the comics she looked..pretty-close to a alternatively colored version of transformers primes arcee. who had trouble connecting with others but was still a kind and naive person.
that comic version is fully working in body, as a recolor of arcee, but still has the neurodiverget setup. luckilly it's a warmer and more easygoing universe she also got a GenSel of a skeletral tyrannosaurus that transforms by falling apart and getting back together
i honestly could see him getting a redesign where he has a vehicle mode and his robot mode being a anthropomorphic version of his beast mode thus making him kinda like the Decepticons from RID2015
I think the reason both Megatron and Galvatron's performances in Transformers: Prime were more subdued was because Frank Welker's vocal cords can't handle the strain of Megs'/Galv's voice for extended periods of time during the recording sessions. But I find the more smoldering, barely contained rage just under the surface, of the more low-key Megatron more menacing that the cackeling 80's Saturday morning cartoon villain of yore.
Because it shows that he's calm,collected, and vicious. No need to do great displays of anger and madness, just pure military authority and ruthless cunning make him threaning.
Also if you thought Flamewar was weird for her design, I'd recommend looking into Thunderblast as she uh... let's just say they put a bit too much love into her model which can be very clearly seen in the episodes: "Starscream" and "Memory" of Transformers: Cybertron.
They are all based of Blackarachnia. Whose design i kid you not was inspired by an asian stripper from the strip joint that the people from Mainframe entertainment frequented.
thunderblast cannot be save in anyway. there's joke about the cartoon animators not being allowed to go back home for far too long on that for a reason
Couple of includes. Monstructor, the combiner that also went mad, was created by Jhiaxus and Optimus Prime had to try to reason with him/it or something. There was a short story in the original comics set in a dystopian future featuring monster pretenders that all looked weird and one bot turned into a piano(!). Also Emirate Xaaron who never had an alt mode and whose mouth had vertical bits. Oh, and Bludgeon, the samurai, bot mode was missing his lower jaw.
Xaaron _did_ have an alt-mode (some kind of combat vehicle), but never actually used it. I think there was one comic where he nearly transformed out of desperation, but was also concerned that the strain of transforming after remaining in robot mode for thousands of years could probably kill him.
Froid's robot mode seems to be HEAVILY inspired by Transmetal Terrorsaur's design. So it seems to be safe to assume he turns into some kind of Cybertronian jet.
I would've like to see you give a shout-out to the rock lords from gobots as dishonorable mention. They literally just turn into rocks. I know they aren't technically transformers, but they are in a transformer franchise gray area now.
I always figured Allspark robots were like that because, well, that is literally their first few moments of life after being a completely inanimate, nonsentient creature. That seems like the perfect background for something just being either completely feral or lacking in any kind of morality.
And something straight out of Resident Evil which fun VA fact, did you know that Grimlock’s OG voice actor, Greg Berger voiced Nemesis Type-T in Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City?
Unicron's creations from another universe: Hook, Line, and Sinker in the original marvel continuity. I know, not technically transformers, but I always loved their designs.
The reason he was built like a Dorito is becauese of his alt mode, the F-22 Raptor. If you look at its shaoe, it's a bit triangular and also F-22s was nicknamed "Dorito" by many pilots
About the Prime “Galvatron” he is still Megatron as that is what he is called and in one of the aligned continuity books Galvatron was basically a crazy cult leader that was obsessed with dark Energon so it’s a IDW style kinda and Megatron was still Megatron but with a Unicron upgrade
Yo the Protoform is one of the best episodes of Beast Wars. It sympathized Rampage as a more rounded character, touched on mutations and how quick "others" are ostracized for being different. Don't shy away from it, recommend it
especially given he does a monolauge to transmutate as the suffers in the pod cheering them on as he knows that pain he says twisted a form of endearment not an insult as he is a twisted being
I feel the other valuable reason the allspark energy makes evil bots is... The allspark cannot thrive in a poisoned world - Unicron's famous words from Transformers prime, Predacons rising. And given, he technically is earth
The Japanese Beast Wars Transformers are all redecos of either toys that didn't make it into the American show or stuff from Machine Wars. The only original molds are the Convoys, Galvatron, And Probably Magmatron. With the Predacons from Car Robots being all Transmetal 2 redecos from Beast Wars. Except Gigatron.
22:32 = Spine Shucker... okay that scares me since Shucking is peeling or forcefully opening which is not. So a bunny that is peeling my spine out of my body and Gets a Damn Title for it scares me.
Suprised you didn't bring up Extinction, being the perfected Dinobot combiner or beast wars neo Galvatron, having one of the craziest looking Dragon modes I've seen
Personally, I think that the G1 Super Pretenders (I think: I can't quite recall which ones were the super, mega and ultra pretenders, but I'm talking about the ones that had a transforming robot in a humanoid pretender shell that can ride in a larger, vehicle shaped pretender shell) were pretty crazy. I sort of get what Hasbro were trying to do, but they still just come across as Transformers Russian Matryoshka dolls to me. Also, Flamewar has NOTHING on Thunderblast from TF Cybertron. The animators actually gave T-blast a pair of *AHEM* items of milk-producing anatomy, which can clearly be seen under her breastplate in a couple of low-angle shots.
Mega Pretenders are Crossblades, Thunderwing, and Vroom. (Transformable outer shells that have their own vehicle mode. Both the shell and the inner robot can combine to form an upgraded vehicle.) Ultra Pretenders are Roadblock and Skyhammer. (Basically the shells have alt modes that the inner robot can ride in, and said alt modes can fit inside another, larger vehicle shell). I don’t recall “Super Pretenders” being a thing (I found nothing on them) but I could be wrong.
Another tree bot type can be found in the story of IDW's King Grimlock which were constructed by a Dark Sorcerer known as a Quintesson. All of whom were no match for the king of the Dinobots.
I actually owned the injector toy....Hornet and lionfish....we really did have the best toys growing up...all the imagination in the world without the use of cell phones to entertain us....90s to the max.
I did my best to collect the Beast Wars set. I had Inferno, Black Arachnia, redesigned Primal, redesigned Rattrap, Silverbolt and redesigned Megatron. I wish I had held onto them, but I never grew sentimental attachments to my toys or anything. It was always easy for me to give away my old stuff
A part of me thinks that transmutate would have been a rattite like an ostrich or cassawary since she had backwards bird knees and a long bendy neck but may have gotten caught between the process of being scaned and instead of the changes being added to a metal outershell it was aplied directly to the internal structures which would explain the different body shape compared to any other bot.
Bro no. The Fallen design in the life action films was not one of the most letdown designs. The only thing I think they screwed up is his character in the film. He had so much potential but no he gets killed. The comic book of his origin is actually good and really helps with his design, showing how ancient the primes look compare to the normal cybertronians.
For a second I thought you meant fuzors are fused from the two *closest* life forms, so I was wondering where the hell an elephant and Orca would be right next to each other.
At 11:07 with Demolisher I don't know if that's his name or not 'cuz the Studio Series figurine calls him Scavenger, like the OG Constructicon. Idk, it's most likely a continuity mistake like in the 2007 live action where they called the tank Devastator, and then added the REAL Devastator in the RotF and renamed the tank Brawl when making figurines. Edit: And also when you said "Almost identical Scavenger" at 11:23 I think theirs actually two teams of Constructicons because in the desert scenes you can see Rampage, Scrapper, Long Haul, and Mixmaster (Maybe a few more) fighting even though Devastator is already deployed and fighting the Twin Autobots.
In Cyberverse His Talking is Just YaY (:✨☄️🌌. And I think Dead End was Probably the Fourth Dread In the Dread Gang Tbh. And I Think was an Early Design For Him.
honestly, all movieverse constructicons are really weird looking. Theres mixmaster looking like a gibon with barels glue to its arms, overload being arachnoid body horror, hightower is more similar to a dinosaur than anything, rampage being a lamia with tread whips. Long haul looked the most normal out of the bunch also literaly the entire beast wars neo cast are just weird on top on having shelformery mess of toys(aside from that tanuki dude, he was cool)
I'm fairly certain the Rodimus.... rod is fake and is just a photoshop, however Nexus Prime was originally going to be called Nexus Maximus but was changed due to sharing a name with a pleasure device.
7:09 I'm always fond of the Z-list bad guy being left behind after all the drama and everyone going 'thatll prolly cause problems but fuck it whatever'
Deadend would look fine if he also didnt look like he accidentally scanned a Peppermint along with the ammonite. Also im a little shocked you didnt mention the scrapper bots/guardbots with the really weird googly eyes from Age of extinction. Always felt in the same vein as the designs for the appliance bots from RotF
thats not galvatron in transformers prime ... i know its dumb but he is called unicron megatron because galvatron was mentioned in the alligned continuitys books where he has no connection to megatron like in the idw comics
1:35 Actually, Injector thought he looked _gorgeous._ 6:30 For the record, Slapper, Gas Skunk, Dark Scream and Sky-Byte were originally late-model Transmetal 2 toys from Beast Wars that got redecoed for RiD; Spittor (who'd already had a non-Transmetal toy), Stinkbomb, Nightglider and Cybershark (who'd also had a normal organic hammerhead mode previously).
