Thread 149068759

So, Earthshart is gay but I gotta say I do like this Soundwave. It's a nice blend of designs and stealth bomber is pretty much the only fitting vehicle mode for him if not going for something chunky like a type of van, truck, or transport copter.

Not many stealth bomber TFs either, off memory there's like G2 Dreadwing, a version of Megatron (bad fit imo), Bayverse Mindwipe....who else?

As an aside for a personal project, what do you think would be the most fitting vehicle mode base for a weasel beastformer? I was thinking either motorcycle or formula 1 car

>>149068759 (OP)
I've wanted this guy to get a new toy or be featured in fiction decently forever.

>>149068759 (OP)
Ravage is the man. Soundwave is the dog.

>>149068759 (OP)
He's a shit attempt to recreate the simple perfection that was his TFP design.

>>149069288
TFP had a cool headsculpt (ripping off Cyberjets, and Cybertron Sideways who ripped them off) but doesn't resemble the blocky monolith of OG soundwave, so I like these combinations

>>149068759 (OP)
No one has ever had any idea what in the fuck to do with Soundwave since there really are no small recording devices that work out anymore, and nothing fits for having his little tape minions either. But his robot design is so cool people want him in any new show anyway.

Not the first time.

>>149069288
I love his Prime design but you gotta admit it changed him waaay too much for most people to accept.

>>149069422
I honestly don't mind just giving him minions who transform on their own, like give Rumble and Frenzy some micromaster vehicular modes, and Lazerbeak and Ravage don't really need to transform IMO, they can just be mechanical animals

>>149068759 (OP)
>bad fit imo
How so?

I think that black-purple is Megs' true secondary color scheme with grey/black as a primary. Sort of like Optimus' optics are sometimes yellow. Prime combined them with Dark Energon and I think the purple makes great contrast.

>>149069578
I like the design, just that a stealth bomber is not very Megatron, who IMO should always have like a brutish altmode.

But yeah black/purple works as an alt color scheme, though to me it's more always varying betweem grey/black/red of GI, and grey/purple of some more modern designs being the most common Megs looks. I like the idea of a black Megatron alternate look though whether it used purple, or red primarily as a second color

>>149068759 (OP)
I'd go for a news van since it's something that would also fit Blaster.

>>149069649
I kind of hate Rodimus didn't keep the black paint job he got in Cyberverse. I think the black looked great on him instead of IDW's abysmal purple pastels. Alt paint colors should happen a lot more often. Bumblebee's yellow jacket color scheme especially.

But as for function, I do agree a stealth bomber isn't very Megatron. However, he still works really great as a jet. In Bay, I think I liked his original jet more than Knight or Truck.

>>149069752
bee looks good with more black breaking up yellow

>>149069422
>>149069498
Soundwave is a suburban dad SUV and his minions are stuff commonly found on them.
>Ravage is a bicycle that mounts on the back
>Laserbeak is the luggage pod that attaches on top
>Rumble is a kid's razor scooter
>Frenzy is a child's seat that fits in the back
>Ratbat is a stroller that fits in the back

ive wanted a toy of this

>>149070209
in these colors, no real reason, just a reptile brain desire

>>149070132
This would actually be great.

He's the cassette's parent depending on continuity instead of them being equals or forced.

>>149070621
i hate when theyre forced

>>149070223
Comic colors are zased

>>149070923
Everything, except the Headmasters, was fun in Marvel's run.

Blue-White Megatron grew on me.

>>149069752
I think a stealth bomber works well enough for Megatron if you emphasize the shape more than the function.
An unreachable harsh chevron and the wide oppressive shadow it casts on the ground

>>149071029
sure was

>>149071029
Headmaster are bad in the comics? I've never read em, but the Headmasters was always my favorite line of figures.

>>149070132
Just go ahead and make Soundwabe and his minions into a combiner team at this point. They already did for the dinobots.

>>149071448
the mini that introduced them isn't great, then they're mostly just background except Fort Max

>>149070132
I kind of like the idea of all the minions being little things that connect onto the bigger thing. Even if it's not a vehicle. Like Soundwave being a massive speaker and the other guys are a mix table, laptop, keyboard etc. Or Soundwave is a utility truck and his minions are tools like jackhammer, ladder, tool box, etc.

>>149069422
Cellphone with external sd and sim cards. You already accept crazy size changes in the universe, so why not.

>>149068759 (OP)
Soundwave should turn into a cell phone and be a cute micron boy

Megatron should be a triple changer like the current Energon Universe comic
>Robot
>Tank
>Gun, with mind control/will powers

This would have been a perfect Beast G1 Megatron instead of gator. Just picture it more grey and with a Megatron buckethead

>>149068759 (OP)
Shoulder pads too big

>>149069422
Some sort of a bomber with casettes turning into bombs\missles or tv van\mobile command center truck or a swat van,with the latter he can team with barricade and casettes can be cop bikes automated turrets,laserbeak turns into a drone.
Armored personel carrier also would work and If you want to go civilian with 80s motif make him an a team style van with ravage painted on the side,he can be later retooled into shredhead.

I almost regret not getting into newer transformers because the toys look really awesome.

So if they decide to make Silas and MECH franchise reoccurring mainstays, should Silas become Nemesis Prime or Autobot X in terms of cybernetic bodies? Or just basic cyborg traits?

>>149073030
>Some sort of a bomber with casettes turning into bombs\missles
Was this >>149069431

Laserbeak turns into a bomb

>>149073033
Earthspark is hated on for being more than gay. It's bad.

Bad animation after season 1. As in, basic animation errors and no choreography.

Bad writing. The human kids are horrible people to each other and other people. Rules for thee not me made into the ugliest kids ever animated since the cramp twins.

Besides One, modern isn't worth it. Cyberverse is weird because if you are not an IDW fan I don't really see much appeal. It relies almost entirely on you being familiar enough with the cast to care about what they're doing. Windblade just shows up in the first episode with less of an intro than 2015.

>>149073081
I would much rather MECH not be just Silas. He was, arguably, a Headmaster in purpose but his goals and organization were weak since there was no reason to support him. Were his men paid well? Did they hate the new species hiding on Earth? We don't know. At least g.h.o.s.t. was lead by someone who had friends. Everyone working for her wanted to be there and Mandroid just needed the resources.

I dislike it when humans don't really serve a purpose beyond an annoyance OP can't get rid of. If they returned, I'd love to see them be an organization that wants to collectively fuck them over.

>>149069140
>I've wanted this guy to get a new toy or be featured in fiction decently forever.
Nothing could ever surpass this though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZRfDSMvfg8

>>149069140
Would you accept the little one being a flamboyant pretty boy and the ig one being a dumbass and they mutate into beast cyborgs later on?

>>149073173
That didn't really answer my question. You can still expand upon MECH

>>149073173
Well yes, but the toys sure do look good.

>>149073219
I think Autobot X is a bit boring, more of a camp idea instead of something worth spending time on. A Halloween episode/comic, sure. But not anything of real substance.

Nemesis Prime I also think works more as something else. A clone made by a force that could make him a problem. Which is why I brought up the Headmasters. I think bodyjacking robots always makes for an interesting story because of how much they go out of their way to show how 'human' they are

>>149071681
Scorponok arguably has a bigger role than Fortress Maximus, but most of the other Headmasters and Targetmasters on both sides don't matter than much in the comics. The three cartoon episodes they were in managed to give some of them more personality than the comics did, sometimes even just hearing what a character's voice sounded like would give you some impression of who they are and what they're like.

>>149073316
Scorponok making it all the way till the end surprised me. And Circuit Breaker and crew. Blackrock staying relevant with his lame human team ended up being pretty fun because they were so lame. I would love to see Starscream fighting a billionare in some modern media because they both want a magic human and it's him vs several tons of cash

>>149073316
oh true but Scorponok is barely Zarak at all towards the end, I'm not even sure when the last time he refers to himself as Zarak or a Headmaster is, let alone the last time we actually see Zarak

>sometimes even just hearing what a character's voice sounded like would give you some impression of who they are and what they're like.

god bless old cowboy movie stars who hit retirement and young performers too poor to turn down a paycheck

>>149073173
There's only season 1 where I live , so how shitty were the other ones ? Also how many are there ? Is it like that one shitty HTTYD show that got milked for 9 seasons even though everyone hated it?

>>149073464
Besides Headmasters is there a series that has objectively bad voice acting?

As silly as Armada is, it's only really Carlos who sounds terrible because his VA can't pick if he wants to be mexican all the time or just american.

>>149073504
There are 3.

Season 1 is the source of pronouns and the fights everyone posts because the animation is actually good to look at.

Season 2 has new writers and I've tried watching it 4 times. I give up. It's just poor in every regard.

Season 3 is about the same and I only see people watching it for specific characters when they appear. Like Prowl.

>>149073575
Honestly , everytime that the fag one was on screen I had to switch the language to english , since hearing the pronoun shit in my language makes me wish to kill the guy who greenlit the idea of a non-binary machine.
Though I did like the dinobot one , honestly felt like he was one of the better ones of the new cast .

>>149073652
Grimlock was wasted so badly.

Keith David with ptsd. Honestly, the version of him that should have been in Prime. I hated the terran triggering him in the most bizarre message about veterans because the terrans in general are given special treatment by everyone and never truly shown consequences for their behavior that stay.

They pissed me off episode 2/3 when Bumblebee was assigned to them and they just treat him like shit. And that's just how he'll be treated from then on.

>>149073369
Scorponok got one of the most memorable and tragic deaths of the comic, too. Blackrock's Neo Knights were only introduced towards the end, but it was a way of keeping him and Circuit Breaker around. In retrospect Circuit Breaker's design was like a decade ahead of it's time and she'd have probably looked more like a circuitry version of Witchblade if she'd been created later.

IIRC after the G1 comic ended, Furman and Wildman actually pitched a Neo Knights book set in the Marvel Universe, with them fighting various Marvel robot heroes and villains.

>>149073464
It's sort of the other way around, in personality he's more Zarak and barely Scorponok anymore, though it's rare he does any Headmaster stuff.

>>149073688
Really wish we got more of grimlock . For the most part it's just Optimus , Megatron and I think Ratchet sometimes . Though I'm sorry if there's somethings I'm not remembering here since I saw the show last year . Also I'm thinking about this now , why the fuck did that little false pachycephalosaurus ( I'm not searching the name they gave the thing in the show) manage to square up to GRIMLOCK , after receiving 2 minutes of training? I liked the fight , it's one I still kind of remember, but he should've been dead.

>>149073763
I know people hate Hashtag for he name, but I genuinely think the terrans should have been Twitch, Thrash and Hashtag. Giving the Malto family two sons, two daughters and Hashtag's internal circuitry a boost as an older daughter. She's big, strong, and I like her fumbling. She gets taken advantage of, a lot, which would give her a way to click with Grimlock. I think Nightshade is redundant with her there as the tech wiz and the fat one being a punching bag can go right back to Thrash who gets his shit kicked

I know Starscream's redemption was cancelled, but she would have made an excellent bridge to the cons being surveillance to counter Soundwave. Emotional growth boosted by Starscream. And technology/science to counter Shockwave. I knot this is putting a fuck ton of emphasis on her alone, but she's just easily such a versatile terran who feels useless because they split the same personality between her and two other characters.