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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

@Trebleshot,
yes, the CG is terrible. Overanimated comes to mind.

I'm sorry, I just don't see how that's possible. It's an animated show. It's not meant to mimic reality. It doesn't even have to resemble reality.

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Megatron is a flippin bobblehead anytime he speaks. Prime climbing up the mountain in one of the pilot episodes was hilariously bad. The animators have no consistancy when it comes to shadows and colors, and through 90% of the series none of the characters actually occupied the backgrounds they supossedly exist in.
The animators also have no real grasp of gravity and weight.
So yes, Prime's CG is terrible. It's all flash and no substance. Looks pretty but when you put them all in movement, then the illusions shatter.

Again, it's an animated show. Physics are routinely disregarded in most types of animation. Would you also criticise the Cars movies for ignoring physics? Or how about the movie Up?

Don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying you're wrong for having that opinion, I'm simply trying to understand the reasoning behind it better. Also, if all you've seen is the 5-episode pilot, you really should watch some of the later episodes. Especially towards the end of season one.

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I'm not even going to comment on your responce to my saying the UT had redeeming qualities, Because in doing so you missed my point.

I think I may have. My comment was to show that no TF line or series is without fault. I re-read your post to be sure, and nowhere do you state that you were only listing the redeeming qualities for the UT (or for any series). In fact, you added that the only fault with the UT was the fiction supplied by Taraka. I was pointing out that the fiction wasn't the only problem with the UT.

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When A character has this huge bulky car, and then transforms into an extremely slender and almost frail robot in a way that is not physically possible (*cough*arcee*cough*) that shows the designers have no concept of what they're doing, and thus kills my suspension of disbelief.

Arcee turns into a motorcycle - certainly not a bulky car. If anything, I figured you would take issue with the mass shifting that she apparently does when going from a small bike to a robot only slightly shorter than Bumblebee (who's a muscle car).

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You also seem to have missed where I acknowledged that this is a separate continuity from G1, and is not the neo g1 hasbro wants us to believe.

No, no, I caught that. I was simply responding with my personal opinion about its continuity.

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Originally Posted by Greenskar

Damn dude all of the pcc's? I've been out of the TF game too long I guess. Damn Marvel. I wouldn't even have got Hercules if Symbiote hadn't got me the first one as a gift to begin the slippery slope, lol.

Lol, yup. Just two more 5-packs (Dinobots & Stunticons) and two more 2-packs (Heavytread & Salvage) and I will have them all. To be fair, it's a relatively small subline and most of it I got on sale at one point or another. Once I get the last of them, I will see about taking group shots and posting them in the TF catch-all thread.

And I would love to pick up Hercules but it's too expensive for me to justify the cost right now. I might do it if I could spread the costs out over the year. It may be something I'll have to get at a Con in the future.

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You aren't kidding either. In comparison to combiners of previous generations this is definitely better, there is also the accounting side of the business that factors in so while most on here complain about the designs and corner cutting, including me, I also appreciate the way they worked around cost hurdles to bring something like this to retail. Until you've had to actually create and manage a budget for a manufacturing project in production operations you just really have no idea what kind of hurdles, constraints and bottlenecks you face trying to accomplish this for an affordable price to mass consumer market.

I've had to deal with something similar while designing networks, so I completely understand when things get compromised due to budget restraints or other factors. That's one reason I'm a little more forgiving when it comes to TF designs than most.

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I will no doubt grab these...now the question is, do I wait for the Takara repaint or just grab these Hasbro ones?

Get them both and you can mix-n-match.

But seriously, wait for the Taraka version to see if it has a game-accurate deco. But beware of the Random Chrome Fairies.