Are there any TF themes you think should be capitalized on?
Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 9:52 am
Transformers is thirty years old. A lot has happened in those thirty years. We got robot samurai, robot dragons, robot pirates, robot rapists, robot rock... it's a pretty diverse franchise all things considered. Still, there are some themes and ideas I've always wanted for characters.
O6 may know what I'm talking about, but I've been hip-deep in a kind of retro 80s synth music revival and there's even a pretty popular song called "Transformers" out there. And Transformers, along with things like pogs and side-ponytails are often used as references to quintessential 80s-ness (for me, this is really important because as many of you know, I was born in 1992 and my knowledge of the 80s is limited almost entirely to pop culture). And it hit me like a sack of bricks.
There's no TF character that I know of that embraces the franchise's legacy as an icon of the 80s. While there are a few TFs that turn into classic "80s" cars like a Ferrari Testarossa or a DeLorean DMC-12, as far as I'm aware, they were made during G1 back when such things were thought of as just "cool cars", not "80s cars." I think this needs to be rectified. We have plenty of TFs who show a fascination with different aspects of Earth culture... but why not one who's fascinated with the specific expression of earth culture in the 80s?
Bonus points if in-universe this character is a fan of transforming robot toys like Go-Bots or Machine Robo.
I also still want a transformer that turns into the Popemobile.
O6 may know what I'm talking about, but I've been hip-deep in a kind of retro 80s synth music revival and there's even a pretty popular song called "Transformers" out there. And Transformers, along with things like pogs and side-ponytails are often used as references to quintessential 80s-ness (for me, this is really important because as many of you know, I was born in 1992 and my knowledge of the 80s is limited almost entirely to pop culture). And it hit me like a sack of bricks.
There's no TF character that I know of that embraces the franchise's legacy as an icon of the 80s. While there are a few TFs that turn into classic "80s" cars like a Ferrari Testarossa or a DeLorean DMC-12, as far as I'm aware, they were made during G1 back when such things were thought of as just "cool cars", not "80s cars." I think this needs to be rectified. We have plenty of TFs who show a fascination with different aspects of Earth culture... but why not one who's fascinated with the specific expression of earth culture in the 80s?
Bonus points if in-universe this character is a fan of transforming robot toys like Go-Bots or Machine Robo.
I also still want a transformer that turns into the Popemobile.
That's a funny idea, and tragically we don't have a Testarossa or Delorean DMC-12 bot, but we do have bots watching Back to the Future 2 (1989) in MTMTE. I can't picture a toy line based on this though.