We got our G1 movie in 1986. It bombed both critically and at the box office. Time to move on.

Don't get me wrong, I do like Gen1 but I can't stand watching the old cartoon anymore... It puts me to sleep. I would rather have gen1 in comic books that a animated series again. Yes, at first I didn't like the movie designs at all, that and I was afraid that this movie would turn into another Independance Day or Godzilla movie where the american military kicks the Decepticon Ass and starts hunting Autobots... well partially right with the first half of statement(read the novell), But now I like the movie designs(all except Megatron, he reminds me of a giant insect).... Though last weekend I luckly found and bought both of the Leader class figures! Yeah me!

 

I'm a fanboy, but not a extremeist(sp?) Gen1 fanboy, to were its Gen 1 or nothing at all.

The great thing about the G1 comics was that I enjoyed reading them as a kid, and I still enjoy reading them now. The G1 cartoons on the other hand, I just laugh at it when I watch it now... so campy!

 

And the idea of Kevin Smith making a TF film is laughable - aside from the budget thing, if anyone thinks that Kevin Smith has a high opinion of Transformers fans, go watch Clerks 2. :P

 

There's no problems with people being pure G1 fans, it's when they get over-zealous and anti-everything else people get annoyed. And more innocent G1 fans will get caught in the backlash as a result.

 

As a Beast Wars fan first and foremost, I don't have any nostalgic love for the G1 cartoon, and when trying to watch it I find myself quickly reaching for the remote. I won't go bashing on it all the time though, nor do I feel the need to bash it's fans.

I agree that the G1 cartoon is a bit campy but that is also part of its appeal.

 

I do not watch it often but it has several great episodes which I enjoy a lot. The comics are awesome though and I like reading those even more.

 

The first movie did bomb but that was because it was aimed just at children AND it was a direct continuation of the show so adults who went did not understand a thing which did not help. And my understanding is that a lot of kids did not get to see it because it got bad reviews so parents would not take them.

 

As for those reviews- it makes sense for people whom never saw the show to be negative. Fantastic Four got poor reviews too but people who wrote those probably NEVER even read a Fantastic Four comic. Been a FF fan for almost half my life and I think that I can better judge it than the aforementioned reviewer.

 

I agree that the Thing did not look too good (but the character was nailed perfectly) and that Doom should have been more evil. I do understand that his origin had to be tied into the FF's because of time constraints. But it is an awesome movie. For non fans it is very enjoyable movie as well though they (obviously) will not enjoy it as much as the fans will.

I don't get why people say "I liked G1-BW, but anything after that has sucked". Where's the love for RiD? It had memorable characters, and was practically G1 with some self-consistancy.

I don't get why people say "I liked G1-BW, but anything after that has sucked". Where's the love for RiD? It had memorable characters, and was practically G1 with some self-consistancy.

 

never saw an ep of RID, saw the toys and said no, didn't like BW so i never watched BM, and didn't like A/E/C, but i liked galaxy force.....

 

i've since considered downloading car robots, micron legend, and superlink, but i'm too busy working on japanese g1 at the moment.

I don't get why people say "I liked G1-BW, but anything after that has sucked". Where's the love for RiD? It had memorable characters, and was practically G1 with some self-consistancy.

The main thing I didn't like about RiD was the attempts at humour. Plus it kinda felt (to me anyway) like it was never meant to be important but was always meant to be a filler series.

The main thing I didn't like about RiD was the attempts at humour. Plus it kinda felt (to me anyway) like it was never meant to be important but was always meant to be a filler series.

:note Skybyte :note

 

I was just getting into collecting when RiD started, so I never got the filler feeling.

I was a big fan of the RID toys and A/E/C Toys. But the reason many say all those shows sucked is because.... They SUCKED.

 

I watched G1, voltron and thundercats all when I was a kid. Loved'em. G1 is 90% still watchable. Thundercats is ok. Voltron is beyond unwatchable. I am ashamed I enjoyed it as a kid.

 

I think all those post BM shows are gonna turn into Voltron level "I can't belive I watched that crap" even for the kids who liked them.

 

Any one know what happened to Mainframe? Why they don't make AWSOME Tf shows anymore? Instead we get dubbed photoshopformers. He-Man had less shot repetition.

 

Oh and is the pig f---er who threatend Bay here?

 

... No?*

 

Then can we stop brining it up EVERY OTHER POST? One moron who forgot to take his meds is hardly a cohesive reason not Starscream about the the Bhey formers, or to tell anyone who does to "shut up" "move on" or "get over it".

 

How do we know that the death threat douche wasn't a BM nut who was pissed Prime wasn't a monkey, or a RiD fan who wanted a firetruck and Giant Hand megs... actually megs does kinda look like that... Hmm...

 

I digress.

 

 

 

*If he is here: Bhey humps yer Mom.