I think it's time we all faced the depressing but very real possibility that Michael Bay killed my inner Transformers. :(

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Say it ain't so! Go watch "Transformers: The Movie" (I'll lend you my copy if needed!) or some early animated series first and see if that helps. Also, While I enjoyed the Michael Bay films on their own, it wasn't the Transformers I had grown up with, and I consider it a parallel timeline at best...

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>Also, While I enjoyed the Michael Bay films on their own, it
>wasn't the Transformers I had grown up with, and I consider it a
>parallel timeline at best...
>
>Offsides

Gotta say I agree with this. IMHO, the Bay movies were far enough from original canon that you could have named them and the characters anything else, and it wouldn't have made much difference to the stories.

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>I think it's time we all faced the depressing but very real
>possibility that Michael Bay killed my inner Transformers. :(

Hey, boss, you can't take all the blame; I haven't felt particularly inspired ever since the great medical adventures of '07 -either-... and I've happened to watch the rather inspiring "TransFormers Animated" since then, and played "Transformers: War For Cybertron" after that. It'll come back eventually -- if nothing else, I've got my entire G1 boxset to go through to get the proper mindset to return.

I just need to find the time to -watch- it. ^_-;

--- Philip

	Philip J. Moyer Contributing Writer, Editor and Artist (and Moderator) -- Eyrie Productions, Unlimited CEO of MTS, High Poobah Of Artwork, and High Priest Of the Church Of Aerianne -- Magnetic Terrapin Studios "For what it's worth, with the mind-boggling number of alternate continuities in the overarching Transformers fiction, there's got to be at least -something- for everyone in there, somewhere... you've just got to pick-and-choose, and disregard the rest."

>>I think it's time we all faced the depressing but very real
>>possibility that Michael Bay killed my inner Transformers. :(
>
>Hey, boss, you can't take all the blame; I haven't felt particularly
>inspired ever since the great medical adventures of '07 -either-...
>and I've happened to watch the rather inspiring "TransFormers
>Animated" since then, and played "Transformers: War For Cybertron"
>after that. It'll come back eventually -- if nothing else, I've got
>my entire G1 boxset to go through to get the proper mindset to return.
>
>I just need to find the time to -watch- it. ^_-;

I was actually coming in to ask if you'd seen TF: Animated. It starts a bit slow, but I really enjoyed it. It's really a nice change to "Hey, wait, this is GIANT ROBOTS that turn into cars and stuff, and it's supposed to be -fun-!" even when dealing with a fairly deep story.

>I was actually coming in to ask if you'd seen TF: Animated. It starts
>a bit slow, but I really enjoyed it. It's really a nice change to
>"Hey, wait, this is GIANT ROBOTS that turn into cars and stuff, and
>it's supposed to be -fun-!" even when dealing with a fairly deep
>story.

Yep, I've watched it -- have the first 3 DVD's, and the Allspark Almanac I, and the comic series -- and I am STILL deeply lamenting that Hasbro/whoever has not yet deigned to give us Season 3! Oh lament and woe!

--- Philip
(For what it's worth, while the majority of things in TFA probably won't make it into UF (given the predominance of G1 influences which would contradict them), I could -easily- see it perceived as a liscenced in-universe TV-series... I mean, c'mon, if you can have a TF -sentai show-, an -animated- one isn't that much of a stretch...)

	Philip J. Moyer Contributing Writer, Editor and Artist (and Moderator) -- Eyrie Productions, Unlimited CEO of MTS, High Poobah Of Artwork, and High Priest Of the Church Of Aerianne -- Magnetic Terrapin Studios "It'd be worth it just to see Bumblebee, Prowl, AND Ratchet go 'bwa?!' at their TFA interpretations. Wreck-Gar, of course, would be perfectly copacetic with his. :)"

>(For what it's worth, while the majority of things in TFA probably
>won't make it into UF (given the predominance of G1 influences which
>would contradict them), I could -easily- see it perceived as a
>liscenced in-universe TV-series... I mean, c'mon, if you can have a TF
>-sentai show-, an -animated- one isn't that much of a stretch...)
>
Wait, What?

Clearly I missed a post somewhere about that one. link?

>Clearly I missed a post somewhere about that one. link?

That'd be Super Robot Squadron Autoranger.

I've caught an episode or two of Transformers Animated; it wasn't bad, but it didn't really grab me. I think because the character designs did nooooothing for me. That animation style doesn't work for me.

--G.
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