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Re: TimeLines (BotCon) 2013 discussion

Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 11:48 am
by Onslaught Six
'Cause...shoulders are a part of the arm, and...!

Hey, look, it's *that* kind of fan!

Re: TimeLines (BotCon) 2013 discussion

Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:36 pm
by JediTricks
Onslaught Six wrote:That was my point, with the robot mode thing--Powerdive (or Highbrow, whichever) had spinny rotor hands, which makes him good for Obs.
I understood, I was trying to express that his robot mode overall isn't very similar to Obsidian, and he has regular hands, his spinny rotors are his forearms. Incinerator would have been a better, and less used, choice.

BWprowl wrote:
JT wrote:And here I thought they chose him because he had spinny rotor hands.
Onslaught Six wrote:That was my point, with the robot mode thing--Powerdive (or Highbrow, whichever) had spinny rotor hands, which makes him good for Obs.
Um, can I be the one to ask why? Obsidian never had spinny rotor hands, the rotors were on his shoulders.
You and your damned logic! ;) Good point. I guess that makes Powerdive a better choice since his rotors aren't actually his hands. But Incinerator is a better choice IMO because of the alt mode. Also Obsidian didn't have any hands at all.

Re: TimeLines (BotCon) 2013 discussion

Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:49 pm
by BWprowl
JediTricks wrote:You and your damned logic! ;) Good point. I guess that makes Powerdive a better choice since his rotors aren't actually his hands. But Incinerator is a better choice IMO because of the alt mode. Also Obsidian didn't have any hands at all.
The toy didn't, but in the show he had cool spindly fingers that could pop out of his gun barrels when he wasn't using them. I kinda get what you mean though.

And I do agree that Incinerator deserves a repaint and it's a crime that he hasn't gotten one.

Re: TimeLines (BotCon) 2013 discussion

Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:54 pm
by Sparky Prime
I can't really see Incinerator as Obsidian personally. Sure he's an Osprey, but that mold just seems a bit too bulky for Obsidian to me.

Although it would be cool to see Incinerator get a repaint of some sort.

Re: TimeLines (BotCon) 2013 discussion

Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 3:28 pm
by JediTricks
BWprowl wrote:The toy didn't, but in the show he had cool spindly fingers that could pop out of his gun barrels when he wasn't using them. I kinda get what you mean though.

And I do agree that Incinerator deserves a repaint and it's a crime that he hasn't gotten one.
Yeah, his long fingers on the show is what inspired my idea of Incinerator's rotor blades being hinged to fold forward.

Re: TimeLines (BotCon) 2013 discussion

Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:34 pm
by Tigermegatron
I just saw a few pics of generations Powerdive & THE TOY HAS A EXTREMELY CLOSE COLOR SCHEME TO BOTCON 2013 OBSIDIAN.

Re: TimeLines (BotCon) 2013 discussion

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:13 pm
by Onslaught Six
Nah, Powerdive was a lighter blue with a lot of grey on him. Besides, either way you'd be screwed, because Highbrow was green.

Re: TimeLines (BotCon) 2013 discussion

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 7:56 am
by Dominic
And, a preview of the comic has been releases. (Actually, it seems to be more of a preview page, as I cannot see any of the previous pages.)


http://www.botcon.com/BotCon2013/bc13comic.cfm


Putting aside reasonable expectations, it is hard to judge the writing based on one page. The art though....ugh. It looks like a bastardization of Senior and Roche.


Dom
-admits that Stryka and Obsidian "sound" okay.

Re: TimeLines (BotCon) 2013 discussion

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 9:27 am
by andersonh1
I think Josh Burcham is drawing the book this year. I'm not really familiar with his work, but half the posters on the IDW forums have a signature picture with "Josh Burcham: to Draw Transformers" in their picture, so he seems to be well-known over there.

Re: TimeLines (BotCon) 2013 discussion

Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 11:39 am
by Onslaught Six
Burcham is primarily a colourist for IDW:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Josh_Burcham