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Post by Pinwig on May 29, 2021 20:56:17 GMT
X-Brawn is just as mental as Side Burn. He looks cool in robot mode but he's all over the shop! One arm the entire front of the car with both car doors flapping about on it?! A missile made out of an exhaust pipe?!
These car brothers are just nuts. Was the thinking here the priority was accuracy in car mode and the robot was just what would fit inside? X-Brawn's vehicle is like a mini Binaltech - looks more like a toy car than a Transformer.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 29, 2021 22:20:33 GMT
Nail on the head.
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Post by Pinwig on May 29, 2021 22:46:12 GMT
Thinking about Mr Spence and Longrack this evening, there are similarities with the car brothers to the BW Neo philosophy of having a decent animal mode and just shoving the robot bits randomly inside. You can see they're only a year or two apart.
The look is unique though. The two I have look great together. Need Prowl.
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Post by Bogatan on May 29, 2021 23:02:47 GMT
Yeah CR was essentially a continuation of neo but cars
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Post by Toph on May 29, 2021 23:05:48 GMT
This is why CR/RiD is Beast Era. The design philosophy, aesthetics, and engineering are Beast Era. The new molds have more in common with BW than anything else before or since.
I'm so sick of the same ten G1 designs on loop, that I miss the asymmetry of X-Brawn hard.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 30, 2021 6:14:41 GMT
Mumble Groan Winge how did Nick get a RiD Bruticus (BM Cerberus) for £15 ????????????????????
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Post by Llama God on May 30, 2021 9:30:08 GMT
Despite my general dislike of CR/RiD, I do like what they did with the car brothers. I'm not actually much of a fan of how they all actually look, but I do really like that they went for that asymmetry, and that they tried something different. I would have liked to have seen more of that.
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Post by Pinwig on May 30, 2021 17:45:26 GMT
DISlike?
How very dare you.
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Post by The Doctor on May 30, 2021 20:45:56 GMT
BLOOD FUED!
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on May 31, 2021 6:58:10 GMT
Yeah, I know - I am a bitter and twisted individual.
On the plus side, that's one less person to compete against when trying to secure toys from the secondary market.
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Post by Pinwig on May 31, 2021 8:27:00 GMT
Of course! So THAT is why I got those spychangers so cheap.... hmm....
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Post by The Huff on Jun 1, 2021 12:45:11 GMT
I don't like RID that much either. The toys are great, but never been a fan of the dubbed cartoon.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 1, 2021 13:32:08 GMT
It's my favourite TF series by far. Only the joy of dubbed Headmasters comes close.
WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY?
-Ralph
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Post by The Huff on Jun 1, 2021 20:01:36 GMT
HUUUUHH!? WHAT'S THAT YOU ARE SAYING!?
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 1, 2021 20:15:21 GMT
HUH, YOU LOOK FAMILIAR! HAVEN'T I SEEN YOU SOMEWHERE BEFORE?
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Jun 2, 2021 7:26:38 GMT
I always assumed all the slow "Huuuuhhhhhh"s that annoy me so much were an artifact of lazy dubbing, or just trying to fill a gap in dialogue. I was therefore surprised when I watched a couple of anime series with subs to discover that in the original Japanese there were plent of "huhhhh"s. I guess it's just a style thing. RiD may have overdone it, mind you - I've never seen the sub, so I wouldn't know. And I never will, so I'll never know.
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 2, 2021 7:42:53 GMT
I did rewatch a few episodes so I could do my bit for Matt's zine, but I did think at the time I need a proper rewatch of the series, but couldn't decide if I was doing it as Car Robots subbed, or RID.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 2, 2021 8:03:44 GMT
RID!!!!
SKYBYTE SAVES THE DAY!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 16, 2021 20:06:02 GMT
Grabbed a Super Sideburn from Nick on the call the other week, been meaning to reacquire for some while.
This has naturally led to me chasing the other Super Car Brothers
Tonight I found a cheap Super Prowl. OK it's one launcher down but I can always borrow them from CR Mach Alert
X-Brawn to go and there's one of those on eBay finishing Saturday lunch
The Car Brothers are seemingly inspired by original 84/5 Diaclone cars, in vehicle mode and colours at least: Sideburn (Speedbreaker) is Tracks and Prowl (Mach Alert) is a Sideswipe/Prowl Hybrid, effectively Clampdown. So who's X-Brawn (Wildride)?
Similarly it's pretty obvious Super Sideburn takes his inspiration from Hot Rod. And Super X-Brawn's colours seemingly come from Wheeljack. But Super Prowl? The existing Sideswipe/Prowl hybrid with some Blue Bluestreak thrown in?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 17, 2021 7:10:14 GMT
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Post by Benn on Jun 17, 2021 7:26:03 GMT
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Post by Toph on Jun 17, 2021 7:26:12 GMT
On us ebay, they're expensive but not unreasonably so. I don't remember how much, but my general reaction is "yikes, glad I have him" but also a fair few less notable toys are comparatively way worse.
I'm have a migraine and just talked myself out of calling a famous astrophysicist at 2am (as if I even have her number), so I doubt any of this makes sense.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 20, 2021 11:52:16 GMT
RiD Super Prowl arrived yesterday and I just won an Auction for Super X-Brawn. All 3 Super Car Brothers are mine again :-)
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 20, 2021 21:54:05 GMT
I don't know why but somehow winning Super X-Brawn feels like a real big moment for me.
Very happy, looking forward to it arriving.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 20, 2021 22:24:15 GMT
It is tempting to reacquire RID.
-Ralph
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Post by Stomski on Jun 21, 2021 9:53:52 GMT
What... even Ultra Magnus?
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 21, 2021 12:13:15 GMT
Oh my no.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 21, 2021 12:33:49 GMT
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Post by Stomski on Jun 21, 2021 12:58:38 GMT
I feel Phil needs some kind of forfeit if it doesn't.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 30, 2021 21:12:45 GMT
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