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Post by Hero on Jan 14, 2008 18:55:38 GMT
Not sure if anyone else has covered this, basically Transformers: Victory (dub) is being shown on Anime Central (Sky ch199).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2008 17:29:16 GMT
It was mentioned on the old Hub when the channel started to run the dubs of Headmasters and Masterforce. I don't know if it has been mentioned on the new Hub though.
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Feb 2, 2008 23:48:58 GMT
New dub or Star Dub?
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 18, 2008 20:42:27 GMT
Optimus Prime, noooooooooooo!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 25, 2008 20:49:38 GMT
Star Saber is so calm.
-Ralph
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Post by Dark Stranger on Feb 26, 2008 9:33:34 GMT
Can Virgin users get this?
Oo-er!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 26, 2008 9:37:24 GMT
This space station is very powerful, but you lost it to a little boy!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2008 21:46:17 GMT
Leozack experiences work-related bullying.
-Ralph
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Post by charlesrocketboy on May 16, 2008 0:27:10 GMT
Who even needs the dub when you already have dinosaurs flying in space?!
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Post by The Doctor on May 16, 2008 6:47:27 GMT
True. The Dinosaur troop are awesome.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 10, 2009 10:08:46 GMT
I bunged on the subbed version of episode 1 last night. It was pretty watchable. Star Saber sounds very cool in Japanese. Never made it all the way through the show in sub-vision. It begins....er, last night.
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Jan 10, 2009 22:40:02 GMT
Sounds like an odyssey worth chronicling on the Hub!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 11, 2009 15:30:41 GMT
I look forward to further reports.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 11, 2009 23:57:05 GMT
Episode 2 heavily featured the Dinosaur Force and so was great. It becomes clear now why Deathsaurus spends most of the series on his chair. If I'd had my ass handed to me the way Star Saber beats the crap out of him in episode 1, I'd want to hide too.
I was surprised by Galaxy Shuttle's Japanese voice. Sounds like a drone. Unexpected.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 19, 2009 19:41:43 GMT
I'm watching an episode a night before bed. It's soothing at that time of night. It's surprisingly watchable in Japanese-audio with subs. Sure, it's no Super-God Masterforce, but it's nowhere near as horrendous as Headmasters (gloriously entertaining with the dub, dull as ditchwater in the original language). Fun nonsense, though best watched an episode at a time. I like the animation and character designs. I really like Leozack and the Dino Force, though the Multiforce need to die. Not too bad. Shame the DVD's omit the comedy dub though: the show is golden when watched like that.
-Ralph
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Post by chrisl on Jan 19, 2009 19:54:52 GMT
You're slowly coming around to the right way of thinking Ralph  Victory is great if you watch the following as an ongoing storyline: 1. The Brave Hero of the Universe, Star Saber 2. Sneak Attack! Dinoking 9. The New Warrior, Hellbat 15. Planet Micro: The Mysterious Warrior 16. Get Back Gaihawk! 17. Unite! Liokaiser 18. The Resurrection of the Decepticon Fortress?! 19. Battle Up Of Wrath! 20. Battle to the Death at the South Pole!! 21. Crisis! Ambush in the Desert 22. A Deadly Battle 23. The Death of Ginrai!! 24. Fight!! Victory Leo 25. Awaken! Victory Leo 26. The Tide is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, The Victory Unification 30. Terror of the Giant Tidal Waves 31. The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress 32. Showdown! The Fortress vs. The Victory Combination |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 19, 2009 20:37:22 GMT
I wasn't aware there was a right way of thinking. Just that though it's nowhere near as entertaining as watched with the dub, Victory is nowhere near as bad with the original audio track as I thought it would be. It's watchable.
-Ralph
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Post by grahamthomson on Jan 19, 2009 20:38:45 GMT
I do miss the dubs on the DVDs. I always fall asleep with the subtitles on.
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Post by legios on Jan 19, 2009 21:23:38 GMT
I do miss the dubs on the DVDs. I always fall asleep with the subtitles on. I had that problem with Headmasters, literally at one stage (hence why I no longer own that series). Victory is one of those shows that I don't mind on an episode by episode basis. Watched one episode at a time it is diverting and enjoyable, both with the slightly bizarre dub and in the original language. I do find though that it grates on me if I watch more than one episode at a time. It suffers from having a lot of fairly indistinct and interchangeable characters - especially on the Autobot side where you have the entire Multiforce having trouble assembling a complete personality between them. The Dino Force are the making of any episode they are in though - the very definition of "it's hard to get good help these days", but they try so hard it is difficult not to like them. Victory is a good show to dip in and out of, given its very episodic nature, much more attuned to the casual view than Masterforce is. We should lob an episode into the "Episode of the week" thread at some point perhaps. Karl |
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Post by chrisl on Jan 20, 2009 8:59:27 GMT
I think the reason I like Victory so much is partially the fact the Destrons get the most characterisation and have more complex motivations than in previous incarnations. And partially the fact that there isn't a reliance on "super-powers" like in Masterforce.
That said, there is an awful lot of filler in Victory.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 22, 2009 0:02:45 GMT
In tonight's episode, the Decepticons tried to steal a shuttle computer thingy while the Multiforce were useless twats. The Deceps make this show. Hellbat is splendid in the original audio.
LET'S SAY GO!
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Feb 4, 2009 22:25:30 GMT
Has anyone seen the fan effort to dub Victory? I found the page by accident when looking for Victory images last night. They're up to episode 23 at the moment, which is impressive.
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Post by primenova on Feb 5, 2009 10:40:37 GMT
I'm on the last disc now - but still fall asleep after 3 in a row. But you don't need to read half of it.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 5, 2009 16:54:40 GMT
I must try watching more than 3 in a row then. I could use something to cure my insomnia!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Feb 5, 2009 21:01:55 GMT
the Multiforce were useless twats. The Deceps make this show. -Ralph I'm hard-pressed to remember any time that the Multiforce weren't comprehensively rubbish, and also frighteningly undersupplied with personality. I'd agree that the villians are the real making of Victory - the Cybertrons are a little too standard-issue heroic to be interesting, leaving the Destrons to have the entertaining personality flaws. Karl |
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Post by dyrl on Aug 5, 2009 12:25:02 GMT
I just watched episode 1 of the subs last night and will watch episode 2 tonight. I'm technically watching these interchangeably with the original Transformers episodes from season 1 from Sunbow - just to not go completely insane. I dunno. Transformers Victory so far is very very childish  I guess I've been spoiled by Graham's fanfiction (and not only) wherein Starsaber actually has an interesting personality and an interesting story arc. Although, I do like the Intergalactic Alliance angle and all of that... it's just... well... It seems at this stage that Transformers have little to do with being robots in disguise and more to do with being robots that are capable of changing between things to make life difficult for one another. There's really no reason why the Roadceaser force are cars. I mean... why are they cars? What use are their alternate modes? Heck - I half expected that when Braver got the order to go save the humans (before falling into the ditch) that he'd transform into car mode and zooooom over to the lunar base... But this was probably colored by my memory of that mold being Lightspeed in Europe and having a techspec which boasted that he basically does literally go the speed of light.... unlike a certain Technobot... Er... Anyways... I'm not really sure why Deathzaurus even bothered to show up - and he certainly did himself no favors by coming out even less competent than the Dinosaur Force in battling Star Saber. I mean... he actually did a worse job than the Dinoforce commander, who at least managed to charge or swomething... Well... he got Starsaber to jump around a bit. Deathzaurus was defeated by Starsaber activating a light show... Oh...and what a head ache that light show is...oh boy....ooooooooooohhh how my head hurts from the excessive use of flashing lights...all the time... I guess I find myself atracted to this series due to the character designs and the toys. And from what I recall, there are some episodes in the future worth watching... err...but... Well... Wow. Nobody except Ginrai to even remotely remind us of "G1"...even though this is still...G1... No...there was that junkion on that one planet. Nice to see the Junkions have apparently taken up Christianity - or at least modeled their lives after...a western... This is kind of the sort of series that begs you not to think too much about it, as it is clearly designed to sell cheap stubby robots to children. Pete |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2009 12:28:39 GMT
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Post by dyrl on Aug 5, 2009 13:23:43 GMT
Wheeljack's not dead... I think I remember that he was in...oh wait...
Wheeljack will fix Ginrai and make him into Victory Leo right?
But that wouldn't surprise me. I mean, most of the "dead" characters from the movie appeared in Headmasters and onwards. I think they were just repaired. Or, it might have had something to do with them being alive during Scramble City (which explained the appearance of Magnus et company) and then the Movie coming out in Japan like two years after it was made?
Whatever.
In any event, I now watched episode 2 - it was better than episode 1, although only towards the beginning.
I'm not really sure what the destruction of that space station served?
I mean - it seems to me that it gave the Cybertrons the perfect excuse to "move" to Earth...
"Oh hey - our space station is destroyed, so let's go to earth."
By leaving the space station in tact, the Destrons would have compelled the Cybertrons to split their forces...although..I guess we don't..umm...actually know how many of either there are...
Also... why did Deathsaurus decide to plunder Earth's resources and conquer the galaxy like this was some novel idea?
Haven't the Decepticons been trying to do thi for years now?
What happened at the end of Masterforce? Where did everyone else go? Where's Rodimus Prime?
I mean... in Headmasters, Rodimus Prime went off to look for another world for the Cybertrons to live on...and...that's it? Never heard of him again?
Is he out there looking for another world along with the cast from season 3?
I kind of enjoyed the exchange between Liozak, Goyru and Deathzaurus - anything where the light show stops and there is some meek attempt at character building or contextual exchange is nice...
But...
I don't get it. Why do these Decepticons fear their Emperor when Deathzaurus himself was defeated by Starsaber? Why does Leozack, who aparnently has been charged with "taking care of" Starsaber and seems to think he can do it, therefore not conclude that he can first "take care of " Deathzaurus and become leader himself?
I do like the Dinosaur force, sleaping as their leader gives order and what not. That was fun.
And given that 'Flame' had a technician's bio in the European 'Motorvators' release, it's nice to see that his Japanese original counterpart is an engineer who builds things too...
Speaking of which...
Is it EVER explained what the Brainmaster power is? Who are those little robots? Do we actually ever see them? Does anybody care?
At least with Masterforce and Headmasters and even Pretenders there was an attempt to kind of create a story around the gimmick...
But....here...what gives?
I mean... what is the point of Brainmasters?
And Breastforce for that matter?
Is is just "transform, combine, power up" ?? And kind of like...that's what they do and there it is?
Pete
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2009 13:35:48 GMT
Wheeljack rebuilds Ginrai into Victory Leo along with Minerva and Perceptor The reason he's still alive is pretty simple, Japan didnt get the movie til after Victory came out, and on the storyboards for the movie, Smokescreen was in Wheeljack's place, next to Windcharger either that or.... ZOMBIES!!!!! (I have the DVD set of Victory and the other Takara stuff, so I've seen those episodes ) |
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Post by dyrl on Aug 5, 2009 13:57:56 GMT
This has always bugged me - this rebuilding of Ginrai into Victory Leo because... what ever happens to the human Ginrai?
I mean - God Ginrai is just a transtector right? And God Bomber is the actual Cybertron.
So... when they rebuild him...what happens to God Bomber and Ginrai?
Pete
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I guess I've been spoiled by Graham's fanfiction (and not only) wherein Starsaber actually has an interesting personality and an interesting story arc.