TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
POSTED BY: Connorflynn
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 01:26
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Originally posted by Opus:
I'm sorry, I can't let that slip by, TRANSFORMERS...you're kidding, you poor deprived child.
I'm sorry, but you can't try to tell me that your giant, non-articulating G.I. Joe dolls were up to par with transforming robots, some that combined to form even larger robots. As for them being tiny, I still have one that's nearly 2 feet tall.
Also, Tranformers was a wonderful show and movie. How many Autobots died in the movie? Not to mention watching the leader, my hero at the time, die on screen. Heart-breaking.
My Joe was fully articul...articuler...moveable. The particular guy I had even had red fuzzy hair and a beard. Let's talk accessories, mine hunting gear, bomb disposel equipment, frogman suit and gear, the list is endless. You could even get an authentic G.I. Joe footlocker.
And hey...we're talking real life here, Joe was an imaginary man, they can really die, blood, guts and brain matter spewing every where,(at least in a demented kids imagination)...the Autobots, glorified soda machines. One breaks, just send to Japan for a new one;)
Some good tv robots? The fembots from the Six Million Dollar Man.
Opus
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My rational for Transformer loving:
-They're cars/jets/spaceships/tanks/animals. What boy (of any age 
) doesn't love fast/powerful/good-lookin' vehicles?
-They turn into robots. What boy doesn't love big stompy robots?
-They're puzzles, requiring increasing levels of hand-eye coordination, fine motor control, and mechanical aptitude. I have friends who've gone into engineering and design because they were inspired by these carefully-tooled bits of plastic in their childhoods.
-Unlike every other mecha franchise out there, Transformers are characters, not just piloted hardware. They feel, think, grieve, hope, fear, love, hate, and joke just like any human. Any story that can be told about humans can be told about Transformers.
"After the Great War, many of the Autobots who had fought and lost drifted to the edges of the Empire, far from Decepticon control. . ."
-This one has been only lightly touched on in the franchise, but Transformers as a story device open up such huge SFnal doors that I'm amazed there isn't more "serious" TF fiction on the market. Souls (What's the difference between a TF with an actual "spark" and one with a turing-capable AI that thinks it's a person? If sparks are souls, and humans don't have sparks, what does this say about humanity?), gender/sex (TFs are created male and female, but they don't reproduce sexually. Why do they "choose" to be female or male?), love/sex (scientists would tell us that "love" is a subconscious manifestation of the mating drive. Again, TFs don't have sex, but they do fall in love), faith/truth/hope (were TFs created by God to stand against Evil [the comics] or by aliens as consumer products which malfunctioned/rebelled [the cartoon]? What do either of these possibilities mean to individual TFs? What would you do if you sought the face of God and found an automated factory?), racism (Autobots and Decepticons slaughtering each other because of what symbols they have stamped onto their hulls), etc.
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Yeah, what Cybersnark said.
"Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!"
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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
My rational for Transformer loving:
My rational for not liking the whole robot thing.
I've never been a fan of Japanimation, going back to speed racer and astroboy, and manga..grrr don't get me started.
So just from that stand point I'm biased against the robots, be it Transformers or Zolton or any of the others.
The concept of an intelligent machine choosing it's own gender and why, as well as other things, I'll agree is intriguing and would be better handled in either a different medium, or not in a toy franchise.
Call me old fashion but I long for the days when toys were derived from popular cartoons, not cartoons derived from popular toys.
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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
My rational for Transformer loving:
My rational for not liking the whole robot thing.
I've never been a fan of Japanimation, going back to speed racer and astroboy, and manga..grrr don't get me started.
So just from that stand point I'm biased against the robots, be it Transformers or Zolton or any of the others.
The concept of an intelligent machine choosing it's own gender and why, as well as other things, I'll agree is intriguing and would be better handled in either a different medium, or not in a toy franchise.
Call me old fashion but I long for the days when toys were derived from popular cartoons, not cartoons derived from popular toys.
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