5mm Peg Transformers Cybertron Cyber Planet keys. Redesigned and scaled for modern TFs, with a 5mm peg that lets it plug into/be carried by any TF with 5mm ports. Each also has a 5mm port in the back. Available as a set or individually through the Shapeways store:
We’ve now added Prime Master/Titan Master faceplates and Power of the Primes Fist/Foot cover plates following the key themes, now up on the shop:
I love Laios from Delicious in Dungeon, because he looks like an extremely boring Human Knight Man but he’s actually a giant goddamn biology nerd who gets excited about discovering a new species of mollusc and thinks giant murderous plants and hermit crabs are cute
This is not a counterpoint it’s an addition
Ye gods, he’s like the good-aligned version of Tarantulas
edit: I got to this chapter and I feel bad now, because this fascination with the edibility of armor seems to be a reaction to trauma.
A diagram interior of the Gobot command center in Gobots Magazine.
Detail worth noting: the cafeteria. Here’s the sticker on the finished product. Remember: unlike the Transformers, the Gobots were bionic and required food for their organic components.
The Guardian Command Center was not a one of a kind; in the animated series, we saw sections on Gobotron that had dozens. Our Gobot Guardian heroes on earth were just cogs in a much larger, universal machine.
I almost wish Gobots beat Transformers in the marketplace because this has Theme Park Ride all over it.
So I actually wrote my dissertation about this and it’s not just that the Department of Defence (there’s an office in the Pentagon dedicated to liaising with Hollywood productions), but they effectively have a strangle-hold on how Hollywood portrays the US military since the DoD give permission for producers to use military hardware, without that permission the cost of filming sharply goes up and films end up extremely over-budget. So the producers can either drop any critical elements at the DoD’s discretion, or continue with a film which will barely be released at all and will never make its budget back.
Any American film which involves the military, know that the DoD probably signed off on it, or were directly involved with. Films like American Sniper and Zero Dark Thirty had a heavy government influence, the latter to falsely justify the methods the CIA used in finding and killing Osama bin Laden, which included torture.
It’s why the military figures are always the heros and there will never be a Hollywood film which is critical of the US military because of this. Just remember, whenever you see the US military in a Hollywood movie, it’s exactly what the Department of Defence want you to see. It’s not being hyperbolic when these types of films are called propaganda.
While it makes for some cool fight scenes, it’s definitely been something that’s been to the detriment of the narrative in the Transformers movies. The military should NOT be capable of taking on the Decepticons. They should be tremendously outclassed. Because that’s what the Autobots are there for.
The military should not be making your heroes superfluous.
On the other hand, I think the Decepticon’s should be vulnerable to the point of being taken out of fighting condition by human arms; I think the advantage of the autobots is that they can take on the cons out with less collateral damage.
Disagree completely. I think humans should be able to maybe take down say Frenzy or Alice, maybe drones like Ravage or Scorponok.
Anything bigger than that, nothing we have should be able to scratch them (excepting the nuclear option)
But I’m probably a little off the far end of “humanity is useless, we need the Autobots” in that opinion.
There are non-nuclear options which I’m pretty sure could scratch them, but like I said collateral damage. I don’t think anything that a single human can hold in their arms should dent a large decepticon in vehicle mode (where they are most armored).
Anyway, the bigger problem is the decepticons are smart and won’t give you time to set up a trap, and will be listening in.
I’m firmly in the “Humans shouldn’t be able to take down Transformers” camp as a general rule. I mean, part of that I guess comes from growing up watching the G1 cartoon where most transformers seemed virtually indestructible. Dip them in lava? Sure, why not? Re-entering the Earth’s Atmosphere from Orbit? No problem! And lets give the Decepticon leader a low-yield nuclear weapon strapped to his arm and have him shoot at everyone every single episode with 0 casualties (until the movie at least…)
But yeah, watching them get blown up by regular modern army tech just made them seem weak to me, like watching Godzilla getting blasted to death by jet fighters in the 1998 American version. If you’re doing a big budget sci-fi movie with an otherworldly or supernatural threat, and the threat can be handled by the normal authorities without some special trick (Oh, look! The Blob is vulnerable to cold! Maybe these alien marauders who have mastered interstellar travel are vulnerable to a virus I cooked up on my 1996 Mac!) then at the very least you’re seriously lowering the stakes quite a bit.
I said nothing about blowing them up, but making them unable to walk or move. Sorta the same tone as how it took two days of nonstop bombardment to kill a kaiju in Pacific Rim. Killing a transformer with human tools should require really powerful cutters and such that aren’t very good to use on a battlefield. All the humans would be able to do is hack apart a wounded Decepticon in a lab they managed to drag away.
I dislike the idea of Transformers, a diverse race, having a single easily exploited weakness by humans.
Also G1 cartoon had Megatron get taken out by spraypaint into an open wound.
Basically , my way of thinking humans can only hope to wear a non-flying or grounded single Decepticon cut off from supply lines down slowly. If there’s more than one Decepticon they are pretty much screwed.
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