Governor Mister Phes Posted August 8, 2005 Governor Posted August 8, 2005 Me and Zenithfleet have been having a discussion about Transformers in another thread, so to prevent that from going completely off topic I have created this thread here so we can discuss Transformers in more depth. Quote
Governor Mister Phes Posted August 8, 2005 Author Governor Posted August 8, 2005 Zenithfleet said: Really? Predators? Weird... I always remember them as Predacons, because when Beast Wars came out I remember being surprised that they'd re-used the name. Although I do recall the other Predacons you mention (had that lion one...) Oh well, for me it was always about the Aerobots and the elusive Terrorcons *glasses* As another off-topic aside, the fighter jets had some sort of flip-down transparent panes on their undersides that were supposed to fit into the big tank's missile (which you could look through) as a kind of targeting system, but I could never figure out how to make it work... baffled me for years 8-| Yes, they were called the Predators. I even went and checked on the packaging of the only one I bought. They weren't available in Northern America so there isn't as much information about them online. Quote
Zenithfleet Posted August 8, 2005 Posted August 8, 2005 Ah, rightio then. Thanks for taking the time to confirm that. I bow before the immortal wisdom of phes' avatar, aka Serge the Seal of Death. By the way, were sets ever made of the Terrorcons? I would imagine so since they formed into a five-parter, Abominus or something such. Never saw them in Oz - my only knowledge of them came from a couple of episodes on video at the local rental shop - but they were always among my faves (who wouldn't love two-headed transforming chrome dragons?) And to throw things open to everyone else, what were your favourite a) Transformers toy lines and b) series? Personally I swear by The Movie to this day *glasses* "Your bargaining posture is highly dubious" :^D And just to show I'm not totally ignorant of Transformers trivia: Almost-Interesting Factoid No. 1: there were two intros for the movie, right after the title appeared - in one, which I remember from my childhood, blue text scrolled up the screen Star Wars style explaining about Unicron and the Autobot-Decepticon war. The other intro, on the modern DVD release, has voice-actor credits flash up on screen instead. Almost-Interesting Factoid No. 2: since the animation was done in Japan, some extra stuff was done during the work-in-progress, showing Autobot City fully-silver and firing all its weapons at the approaching Decepticons, and a bunch of other shots of Autobots running aimlessly from explosions, and all this was shown on the ridiculously long Japanese preview. It's one of the DVD extras I think. Quote
Governor Mister Phes Posted August 8, 2005 Author Governor Posted August 8, 2005 Quite a long post so I'll answer it in sections... Zenithfleet said: By the way, were sets ever made of the Terrorcons? I would imagine so since they formed into a five-parter, Abominus or something such. Never saw them in Oz - my only knowledge of them came from a couple of episodes on video at the local rental shop - but they were always among my faves (who wouldn't love two-headed transforming chrome dragons?) I dunno bout you but I saw the Terrorcons in Oz... I remember being in a toy store tossing up whether to buy Rippersnapper of Sinnertwin. I ended getting Rippersnapper... At any given time you'll find all of them on eBay from local Australian sellers. Even all 5 in one auction. So they were definitely released in Oz. Quote
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