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Post by blueshift on Oct 13, 2018 15:22:01 GMT
One for Bogatan here! There's a new anime, SSSS Gridman, which is apparently using lots of obscure Transformers as colour design homages, including our old friend Actionmaster Thundercracker!
Shattered Glass Rodimus:
Shattered Glass Sideswipe:
Cliffjumper and Longview:
Guy with the Cliffjumper shoes also has Cliffjumper's backpack:
Megatron, SG Starscream and SG Soundwave (she even has a picture of Ravage and the words 'RAVAGE' so not even Ralph can say it's a coincidence)
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 13, 2018 15:40:15 GMT
That is fantastic!
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Post by Bogatan on Oct 13, 2018 15:40:16 GMT
Id be impressed if it was proper AMTC homage and not just one of many Botcon homages.
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Post by blueshift on Oct 13, 2018 19:11:47 GMT
SG Megatron and Prime
Movie Dinobots (lapel pins are their shoulder sigils) (top left guy was apparently also released in black and purple which matches up more)
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Post by blueshift on Oct 13, 2018 19:31:12 GMT
Oh wow, a better look at the back of that jacket!!  |
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Post by blueshift on Oct 14, 2018 11:45:05 GMT
CY-KILL!
And apparently her name is "Tonkawa Sakiru" (Tonka Cy-kill)
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Post by blueshift on Oct 14, 2018 20:42:23 GMT
I can't see the secret Transformers Blueshift can see. They are twitter pictures Ralph, I know how much you like twitter pictures twitter picture twitter picture -Ralph Come on Ralph, you know you want to see Cy-Kill as an anime schoolgirl |
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Post by Toph on May 21, 2019 2:40:58 GMT
How many here have heard of this recent mecha anime? It's an update of the sentai-style show that was brought over in the nineties as Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad. But SSSS.Gridman is remarkable and significant to TF fans (aside from being a good show), because every single character design in it is an obscure transformer reference. Most humans are Shattered Glass references, but a group is based on the AoE Dinobots, the kaiju have several other references (including BWII). Even Real Gear Robots gets visually referenced. Opening:
If it's not region locked, the entire 12 episode series should be available for free on crunchyroll.com |
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 21, 2019 6:52:50 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 21, 2019 6:55:52 GMT
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Post by Toph on May 21, 2019 8:58:33 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 21, 2019 9:07:53 GMT
No bother, gives us an excuse to have a thread. And ta for the viewing links.
To be fair the Posts were buried away and some time ago.
The only reason I knew it was there was I recalled the TF references thing!
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Post by Toph on May 21, 2019 9:30:48 GMT
I didn't know it was related to Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad until tonight...
....OH SHIT! You think that's where he got the SSSS part from?!?
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 21, 2019 9:37:14 GMT
That's what the Wikipedia article says, made explicit in the final episode.
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Post by Toph on May 21, 2019 9:59:09 GMT
In fairness I had no clue there was any relation between the two until I saw it while looking up references tonight, and it was months ago when I watched the series.
And Syber Squad had been banished from active thought altogether like all the others in the glut of Power Ranger knockoffs that failed (Big Bad Beetle Borgs, and VR Troopers). I'd remembered it as Samurai Cyber Squad, at that.
I'd never heard of Gridman, either, before this anime, and had thought it was all an Ultraman homage.
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Post by Hero on May 21, 2019 10:29:53 GMT
Still on my to watch list. SSSS is a major guilty pleasure and I own the complete series on DVD!  |
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