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say it with me:

"WE ARE NOT LEAVING TRANS PEOPLE BEHIND!"

Sure but it's so weird to me that Monstructor was a massive deal in the early IDW days, when their sales were really high, but he got ignored completely for 2 decades by the toy line. Then again he also got ignored by every other piece of media of this franchise...

I have waited for 20 years to finally get Monstructor toys, ever since they were the first combiners we saw in IDW. WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG?!

It's funny you say that because Toy Story 2 WAS supposed to be one of those direct-to-VHS (or, DVD I think at that point) movies, but the project got scrapped part way through when the execs realised it was "too good" for that market and it became a theatrical release eventually, but rushed AF.

Hey what's going on with people getting arrested for trying to block AI data centers all over the country

It's almost like the AI industry and fascism have the same goals in mind IDK IDK I'm not a doctor

Or, some comics on the DVD would also have been cool... rather than the immensely confusing special it actually had.

Ah I remember that. I had that DVD back in the day too. And like Phelous it confused the hell out of me why these clearly G1 (or G2 in Megatron's case) toys came with a DVD with this weird Unicron Trilogy tribute.

It's cool that it even had a DVD, but why not have some G1 episodes instead??

The animation is one of the many problems caused by rushing 52 eps out in one year to meet a deadline for the toys hitting shelves.

Given how much crunch and underpay there is in normal Japanese animation studios, and how complicated the TFs are to draw, I'm surprised the animation isn't WORSE.

I don't recall a Phelous video like that but I do remember GodzillaMendoza making a joke along those lines when he reviewed the Armada PS2 game.

Best version of Armada, that. Close call between that and the Dreamwave comic tho.

with things i've heard of this run you would think it lasted ffor half a decade instead of just 2 years

I've always wondered if Batman's dialogue here was a direct reference to Star Trek's Balance of Terror, considering it's word-for-word the same. I know he's talking about the Silver Age here but still, the way it's written is funny.

I find it hilarious that Byrne whined and complained that Clairmont would "cover up" his art with speech bubbles which obscured the visuals for years... only to do THIS, and crap this stupid fucking speech in there so much that you can barely even see Superman's face. Just ridiculous.

That "he's not made or organic material" was the exact excuse Superboy made too of the fact it was okay to "kill" Bizarro, as he didn't see Bizarro as alive... except he could clearly reason and think and somewhat express himself so, yeah, still death, dude.

What makes this weirder is that Byrne ripped off the original Bizarro story almost exactly. Except originally he was a clone of Superboy, but still of inorganic material. He even took the EXACT PLOT POINT of a blind girl thinking Bizarro was Superboy, and being healed by Bizarro's destruction.

I can't be the only one who sees zero legitimate (non momey-grubbing) reason for this sequel to exist. Especially after the last (very mixed bag) film ended things pretty conclusively.

This despite the ridiculously high failure rate of Live Service games and the near-death of the genre outside of extremely lucky exceptions?!

My financial situation is FINALLY looking up, so I might actually get to go this year!!

And, of course, they tried to redact as much of it as possible... only they're a bunch of incompetent clowns so it turns out they just put black highlighter over the supposedly redacted bits, so copying and pasting the text into another program reveals EVERYTHING. It's kinda darkly comedic

That said, I have NO idea WHY they felt the need to make each show 52 episodes!!

Transformers: Animated likewise struggled to keep its animation consistently good, and it only had to do 42 episodes total over THREE years!!

It's just a shame that the 3D CGI they went with was, well... bad. But again, I have to put that at least partially down to the fact they had to make them WEEKLY. That kind of crunch is obviously gonna come at the sacrifice of making the show look as good as it should.

The decision to do 3D cel-shaded CGI for Energon makes a lot more sense when you realise how many Transformer characters had to be drawn frame-by-frame in that short a time span. It must have been a huge relief when they no longer had to actually draw them in 90% of the shots.

The UT shows had to pump out one episode a week for 52 weeks each. NO WONDER so much of it was barely animated, only occasionally looking good.

Considering how understaffed, underpaid, overworked and stressed out Japanese animators are under NORMAL circumstances, Armada must've been a NIGHTMARE!

I watched Armada before I saw G1, and when I finally did, I was surprised that Optimus' face mask moved up and down when he talked, because NONE of the Unicron Trilogy, nor RID01, had it do that.

I wondered why that change was made, before I realised it's probably just because it was cheaper.

I don't think I realised just how much of Transformers: Armada was basically a slide show where characters would stand, unmoving and not being animated for minutes on end as a voice actor pretended something was happening, until I had to look at the show on mute for the retrospective.

And STILL we have hundreds upon hundreds of mentions of Trump. HOW MANY MORE crimes of his (and others, of course) have we NOT seen yet?!

Trekkies, you owe it to yourself to check out this thread. Genuinely, really fascinating and made me extra appreciate the thought, time and talent which has gone into the font choices of Star Trek over the decades, in a way I hadn't thought of before.

Thank you for this thread. I didn't think I needed one of these going through every Star Trek font but now I actually found it fascinating and enjoyed it thoroughly.

If nothing else it made me appreciate Galaxy font a lot more (and suddenly realise that's what they used in DS9 and Voyager)

The Starfleet Academy logo, which uses Galaxy with just a slightly extended 'S' and 'Y' for symmetry in the opening titles, but didn't on early promotional posters. All very simple.

There isn't really much to say about the STARFLEET ACADEMY logo, beyond the obvious fact that it uses the font created for the original movies - GALAXY - which is also used for on-screen title cards. The end credits use the classic Star Trek font, HORIZON.

Yeah, something to reflect its status as a cartoonish take on parodying/paying tribute to the TNG era. I think it works well for that

The Lower Decks logo font looks kinda like a parody "Chibi" version of the TNG font, if that makes sense