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Post by Benn on Mar 13, 2021 12:12:03 GMT
Everything's G1 if you squint hard enough. Beast Wars, Beast Machines, RID if you live in Japan, Alternators...
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 13, 2021 12:15:35 GMT
On the other hand, the new Generation 2 characters should perhaps have been called Generation 3, as TFUK stories like 'Second Generation' and 'The Gift' had established that the Earth-born Jetfire and Special Teams were to be considered the second generation (first non-Cybertronian generation) of TFs. Which means... the G2 Aerialbots and Combaticons have more right to call themselves G2 than the likes of G2 Sideswipe, who is a recoloured G1 (Cybertronian) TF. Silverbolt and co. were hailed as second generation when they first appeared in 1986. Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 13, 2021 12:19:01 GMT
Everything's G1 if you squint hard enough. Beast Wars, Beast Machines, RID if you live in Japan, Alternators... Yes, everything except G2. Because however hard you squint, 2 is not 1. Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 13, 2021 13:05:17 GMT
The Spice Girls sang about 2 becoming 1.
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Mar 13, 2021 13:10:06 GMT
Must be true then.
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Post by The Huff on Mar 13, 2021 13:55:41 GMT
That's sort of why I don't like the term Generation 1 as G2 is more G1 than most things after it.
Fiction wise, to me, Generation 1 is the original comics, cartoon, Jspanese vartons, G2 comics and Beast Wars and ended with Beast Machines.
I think of RID, Armada, Bayverse, Animated, IDW etc as the next Generation where the story gets rebooted every few years.
Toy wise (to me) Generation 1 is the original toy line up to G2.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 13, 2021 23:15:33 GMT
The Spice Girls sang about 2 becoming 1. -Ralph I need some love like I've never needed love before.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 13, 2021 23:16:21 GMT
Gonna make love to ya, baby.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 13, 2021 23:18:08 GMT
I've had a little love. But now I'm back for more.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 13, 2021 23:19:05 GMT
Gonna make love to ya... baby.
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 14, 2021 0:11:27 GMT
Someone's happy...
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 14, 2021 0:36:48 GMT
...when 2 become 1.
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Mar 14, 2021 9:18:16 GMT
Damn, looks like I should've been online late last night.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 18, 2021 7:36:23 GMT
One day left and then we'll have a big fight on our hands.
Cracked a major problem with the start of the new version of this feature last night. In retrospect the answer was blinking obvious!
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Post by Llama God on Mar 18, 2021 9:18:46 GMT
ILLEGAL SOLUTION!
Probably.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 18, 2021 10:37:28 GMT
NEW...
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 18, 2021 11:10:49 GMT
Oh it'll be a completely legal move for the new poll format.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 18, 2021 11:12:24 GMT
We will have long since run out of full catalogues by that point. And at the end of G2 subgroups go away and size classes come in.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 18, 2021 12:05:26 GMT
#Excited.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 18, 2021 12:36:57 GMT
16th July if all is well
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 19, 2021 7:25:36 GMT
Blue Silverbolt with bonus missile launchers wins!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 19, 2021 7:27:19 GMT
Week 161: What is the best G2 Combaticon on the 1994 US catalogue?Like the Aerialbots, the Combaticons also get a 1994 makeover: This page is the other half of a 2 page spread in the 1994 US Toyfair catalogue showing both Special Team combiners Unlike their opposite numbers these toys never reached UK retail by official means or otherwise :-( OnslaughtVortexBrawlBlast OffSwindleThey combine to form Generation 2 Bruticus
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 19, 2021 8:45:48 GMT
Was this Brawl meant to look like G2 Megatron on purpose?
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Post by Llama God on Mar 19, 2021 8:51:22 GMT
Tempted as I am to vote for G2 Megatron, Swindle there has the best looking colour scheme. Although he's probably the least interesting of the toys in terms of his vehicle mode. But that's fitting, because on choosing that one and coming to play with it you'd certainly feel swindled...
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 19, 2021 8:56:53 GMT
Was this Brawl meant to look like G2 Megatron on purpose? The pictures do not do it justice. In hand it looks AMAZING and so G2 Megatron. I have one in my Brawl collection. Physically Onslaught, which we had the G1 version of, is the better toy, especially now with the extra launcher and hole for it.... is this the point the ramp gets it's post too? But we also had Brawl and this is an AMAZING colour scheme ev en if it wasn't for the G2 Megatron homage. G2 Brawn for me.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 19, 2021 9:55:41 GMT
I'm struggling to think of a circumstance where some of those camouflage schemes would have any practical benefit.
Edit: I like blue Vortex.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 19, 2021 10:01:42 GMT
#BlueVortex
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 19, 2021 10:11:05 GMT
I'm struggling to think of a circumstance where some of those camouflage schemes would have any practical benefit. Edit: I like blue Vortex. Martin Yes, we call upon legios to comment on the Helicopter camo!
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 19, 2021 18:56:13 GMT
Was this Brawl meant to look like G2 Megatron on purpose? The pictures do not do it justice. In hand it looks AMAZING and so G2 Megatron. I have one in my Brawl collection. Your Brawl collection?Remind me again what the blue coloured one was about that I randomly had for ages and that you've explained to me before a dozen times?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 19, 2021 19:36:51 GMT
The pictures do not do it justice. In hand it looks AMAZING and so G2 Megatron. I have one in my Brawl collection. Your Brawl collection?Yup. I already had Car Robots Baldigus so had Dangar, the sandy coloured Brawl. Another one, possibly the original, turned up in a lot and I thought "I could make an all Brawl limbed combiner!" so I tracked the other two down: Remind me again what the blue coloured one was about that I randomly had for ages and that you've explained to me before a dozen times? RiD Armorhide, part of Ruination tfwiki.net/wiki/Armorhide_(RID)#Toys
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