Transformers Legacy toyline

[ZacWilliam1]

I like Thundertron. He's a fun concept with a ton of potential. It'd be nice to someday get a story that did something with him.

-ZacWilliam, here's the part where I wish all the capsule lines got the treatment Velocitron did in Japan with a couple page web comic to bring it to life. I would love even a brief story about the Toxitron line and the Star Seekers.

 

[Swerve]

I like Thundertron. He's a fun concept with a ton of potential. It'd be nice to someday get a story that did something with him.

-ZacWilliam, here's the part where I wish all the capsule lines got the treatment Velocitron did in Japan with a couple page web comic to bring it to life. I would love even a brief story about the Toxitron line and the Star Seekers.

We really have been missing good fiction for Legacy. The Velocitron comics are great....and motivated me to get the whole collection when they showed up at Ross...just need Galaxy Shuttle.

 

[LordGigaIce]

That is far more thought or effort I will ever commit to Thundertron.

I like the IDEA of Thundertron, in fairness.
Just like... there's nothing there fiction wise.

 

[Sabrblade]

I'd bring up the novels, but...

Exiles was... so bad (and kept him a mystery 'til the very end, a mystery no one cared about since the payoff was some rando no one had ever heard of before), while Retribution just got him out of the way early on, to make room for the Quintessons.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

And it was still better than the Hardwired trilogy. Granted, they're both terrible.

 

[Sabrblade]

And it was still better than the Hardwired trilogy. Granted, they're both terrible.

I've actually softened up on that trilogy just a bit. Granted, it's still not good, but in light of the live-action movies adding so much edgy grimdark uber-violence to the brand (even towards humans, like DOTM showing Decepticons blasting hundreds of humans into flaming skulls, and AOE turning Lucas into a flaming corpse that it shows up-close and personal, and then lingers on for too long afterward), those books no longer stand out as anomalous in how graphic they were.

If anything, I still find the character of Allister Greaves and ideas of the Followers and the Augments to be interesting concepts that never really got a chance to be developed in anything better written.

 

[LordGigaIce]

I'd bring up the novels, but...

Exiles was... so bad (and kept him a mystery 'til the very end, a mystery no one cared about since the payoff was some rando no one had ever heard of before), while Retribution just got him out of the way early on, to make room for the Quintessons.

I went into Exodus with high expectations and it just.... fell so flat. Disappointingly so. Like... RotF levels of disappointment. Made me not even want to bother with Exiles and Retribution.

 

[Platypus Prime]

I got as far as "And now I will show everyone how to store his accessories in alt-mode....THUNDER! THUNDER! THUNDER! THUNDERTRON! STOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!"

-and then realized I don't have any version of this character or a youtube channel. Oh, well.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

We really have been missing good fiction for Legacy. The Velocitron comics are great....and motivated me to get the whole collection when they showed up at Ross...just need Galaxy Shuttle.

It's shocking that little or no fiction was made for the Fossilisers or Not-Lords...

"Stones and Bones"?

 

[Confuzor]

"Not lords"? Are you 10?!

 

[Tuxedo Prime]

It's a bit more succinct than "We-Aren't-Sure-If-WB-Will-Let-Us-Call-Them-Rock-Lords-And-Anyway-The-Inferniac-Universe-Is-Not-A-Gargent-Stream"....

 

[Sabrblade]

It's a bit more succinct than "We-Aren't-Sure-If-WB-Will-Let-Us-Call-Them-Rock-Lords-And-Anyway-The-Inferniac-Universe-Is-Not-A-Gargent-Stream""....

That's not what Confuzor's talking about.

 

[Platypus Prime]

I proposed "Rock and Rollers" except then they made a helicopter.

 

[Swerve]

How about Rock Peasants so there will be no worries about confusing anyone in Hasbro's legal department?

 

[LordGigaIce]

I mean I have my Inferniacs displayed with my GoBots/Machine Robo guys.

 

[Platypus Prime]

"Rock Autonomous Collective"

 

[ZacWilliam1]

It's not a very Legacy feeling name but I'm going with the late G1 style "Geomasters." (I considered the early G1 style Geobots, but I thought Masters was snappier.)

-ZacWilliam, I've probably mentioned before I'm imaging them as a team of Autobots who crashed through the crust into the Inhumanoid's Hollow Earth and hooked up with the Granites to fight Metlar and co...

 

[Tuxedo Prime]

That's not what Confuzor's talking about.

Remembering Cybertron Metroplex, perhaps not, but in this particular case I was inclined to view the shorthand moniker through the filter of "Hasbro is reluctant to call these characters GoBots Rock Lords" as opposed to "I don't think these are as good as GoBots Rock Lords".

It's not a very Legacy feeling name but I'm going with the late G1 style "Geomasters." (I considered the early G1 style Geobots, but I thought Masters was snappier.)

While punny, I was leaning towards "Sili-Cons", in the style of Armada's Mini-Cons. Geomasters has a nice ring to it, though.

 

[Sabrblade]

Remembering Cybertron Metroplex, perhaps not, but in this particular case I was inclined to view the shorthand moniker through the filter of "Hasbro is reluctant to call these characters GoBots Rock Lords" as opposed to "I don't think these are as good as GoBots Rock Lords".

That still doesn't have anything to do with Confuzor calling out PrimalxConvoy's juvenile refusal to call them by their proper name of "Armorizers".

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

How about Rock Peasants so there will be no worries about confusing anyone in Hasbro's legal department?

Well, we couldn't call them "Stone Peasants" as in some places, that might still be an imperative to this day...