NationStates Jolt Archive

Okay, there are way too many to list 'em all, so I'm just going to pick a few at random.

EDIT: Please don't bother posting stuff like, "OMGooses! You left so-and-so out! J00 R TEH SUCK!!!1one" There's a maximum of 10 poll options. Get over it.

Megatron FTW!
In b'fo da poll!

Starscream was totally his bitch.

Clearly Soundwave is the best. Ever.

He did have all those cool cassette tapes. :cool:

Clearly Soundwave is the best. Ever.

Tremble before Soundwave, carbon-based unit!

Megatron or DoubleDealer

Skywarp. Totally.

are the deceptocons the evil transformers?

Starscream, but only because he didn't suck in the last series I saw. In the other series (read: first series) they were all awesome.

Yay let's do the timewarp again!

What's odd is, that this time, it was actually fine the first time I looked at it. It must've timewarped while I was off viewing another thread. Weird...

Oh, and while Soundwave did have those cool cassettes, Ruffytron's got a giant cigarette lighter.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/Dragonkirby/Non-Kirby/Photos/ruffy.jpg

Ruffytron and his Lighter of Doom FTW! :D

are the deceptocons the evil transformers?

Um...yeeeeeeesssss...

Yay let's do the timewarp again!

Ugh. It happened again. It's starting to hurt my brain.

EDIT: And it keeps happening to that one post of yours, Khadgar. It's all your fault! :p

He did have all those cool cassette tapes. :cool:

Yay let's do the timewarp again!

Um...yeeeeeeesssss...



oh

I warp the space time continuum when I get bored. Fear my awesome power!

I fear only Ruffy's Lighter of DOOM! :p

Skywarp. Totally.

What an odd choice. Skywarp was a throw-away addition to the poll really.

Um...yeeeeeeesssss...



Ugh. It happened again. It's starting to hurt my brain.

EDIT: And it keeps happening to that one post of yours, Khadgar. It's all your fault! :p

I warp the space time continuum when I get bored. Fear my awesome power!

What an odd choice. Skywarp was a throw-away addition to the poll really.

Is he a new one? I only remember Transformers from the mid/late '80s. I take it they've came back?
Has Galvatron disappeared? He's not on the poll, and he is (was?) the New Boss.

What? Dude...

He could teleport, he looked awesome, he wasn't an asswipe like Starscream, and he wasn't a shallow nobody like Thundercracker.

Actually, if you hadn't added him, I would have :P

If it makes you feel any better, Thundercracker was definitely a throw-away. :p

EDIT: I'm gonna have to stop posting here for a while if these timewarps continue. :mad:

What an odd choice. Skywarp was a throw-away addition to the poll really.What? Dude...

He could teleport, he looked awesome, he wasn't an asswipe like Starscream, and he wasn't a shallow nobody like Thundercracker.

Actually, if you hadn't added him, I would have :P

Is he a new one? I only remember Transformers from the mid/late '80s. I take it they've came back?
Has Galvatron disappeared? He's not on the poll, and he is (was?) the New Boss.


I only used the ones from the pre-Galvatron era.

Is he a new one? I only remember Transformers from the mid/late '80s.Um... Skywarp was one of the original Decepticons. He was the black and purple badass.

If it makes you feel any better, Thundercracker was definitely a throw-away.Well, that counts for something.

Um... Skywarp was one of the original Decepticons. He was the black and purple badass.

Yeah, he, Starscream, and Thundercracker all turned into fighter jets (F-15s, if I remember correctly).

Yeah, he, Starscream, and Thundercracker all turned into fighter jets (F-15s, if I remember correctly).

Ah, right. I remember Starscream, who was a wuss, but forgot the other two's names. I think I actually had a toy Skywarp too :s
Just looked him up. It's all flooding back...

I just came across a frighteningly exhaustive list of Decepticons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Decepticons) on wiki. :eek:

Hm. Actually, my brother owned the original Shockwave toy. It was pretty badass, too.

Although I watched the cartoons religiously, I never actually had any of the toys.

The cartoons were on so early here that it was really hard to see them (for me, anyway), but Arrival from Cybertron and the toys were ace.

I really coveted my friend's Soundwave, even though it was quite battered. Still do, to be honest :(

When I was growing up, they were on, along with G.I. Joe, right after I got home from school. :)

Runabout and Runamuck, baby!

Of those listed, Shockwave. Easily the least prone to failure, arguably the most intelligent, likely the coldest and most calculating, and definitely the most purple.

Purple is good, but Megatron wins, cos I had a Megatron toy that always pwned my Starcream toy.

Starcream? Wasn't that his porn pseudonym?

What's odd is, that this time, it was actually fine the first time I looked at it. It must've timewarped while I was off viewing another thread. Weird...

Oh, and while Soundwave did have those cool cassettes, Ruffytron's got a giant cigarette lighter.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/Dragonkirby/Non-Kirby/Photos/ruffy.jpg

Ruffytron and his Lighter of Doom FTW! :D

This picture wins.

Runabout and Runamuck, baby!

Of those listed, Shockwave. Easily the least prone to failure, arguably the most intelligent, likely the coldest and most calculating, and definitely the most purple.

Purple is good, but Megatron wins, cos I had a Megatron toy that always pwned my Starcream toy.

The original Megatron toy is abysmal. Trigger crotch, anyone?


http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/lol.jpg

Purple is good, but Megatron wins, cos I had a Megatron toy that always pwned my Starcream toy.

The original Megatron toy is abysmal. Trigger crotch, anyone?

Thank goodness that there's a Masterpiece Megatron coming out to compliment the Masterpiece Optimus Prime.

http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/lol.jpg

This picture makes me *shudders*.

My favourite Decepticon? George W Bush. :D

G.W. Transforms? Coooooool.....

*increase respect level one point*

My favourite Decepticon? George W Bush. :D

http://www.toadking.com/6x9=42/gtfo.jpg

Let's not turn this into a thread for your political rants.

The original Megatron toy is abysmal. Trigger crotch, anyone?
Not the original, one that turned into a tank. It was teh shiz.
He can't be a Decepticon because he doesn't know how to retreat at the end of an episode.
And he doesn't transform into anything.

My favourite Decepticon? George W Bush. :D

My favourite Decepticon? George W Bush. :D

He can't be a Decepticon because he doesn't know how to retreat at the end of an episode.

Not the original, one that turned into a tank. It was teh shiz.


When did Megatron turn into a tank? :confused:

This picture makes me hot-n-bothered.

Fixed for accuracy. :p

When did Megatron turn into a tank? :confused:

I don't tihnk it ever did during the cartoons.

I don't tihnk it ever did during the cartoons.

I'm guessing you're thinking of Galvatron.

At least they've gotten over the mass-shifting problem and realised that a vehicle of just about any sort is more dangerous than a pistol.

I always thought that pistol thing was retarded.

I'm guessing you're thinking of Galvatron.

No, Galvatron was an artillery piece.

In the Armada series, Megatron was a tank. He's also been a jet, a car, and a few other less iconic incarnation. The tank is probably the best of the bunch, at least impression-wise. At least they've gotten over the mass-shifting problem and realised that a vehicle of just about any sort is more dangerous than a pistol.

Intangelon: Blitzwing?!? Why Blitzwing?

Blitzwing was pretty awesome. Competent, too, which is a rare trait for a Decepticon.

Not really one of the major players, though.

Intangelon: Blitzwing?!? Why Blitzwing?

Blitzwing was pretty awesome. Competent, too, which is a rare trait for a Decepticon.

The sho jumped the shark with the continued need for new 'bots instead of decent storylines. I mean, come on: animals, insects, DINOSAURS?!?

Awww, c'mon...Grimlock was funny! :D

http://www.tfans.com/midnight/grimlock3.jpg

No, Galvatron was an artillery piece.

In the Armada series, Megatron was a tank. He's also been a jet, a car, and a few other less iconic incarnation. The tank is probably the best of the bunch, at least impression-wise. At least they've gotten over the mass-shifting problem and realised that a vehicle of just about any sort is more dangerous than a pistol.

Yeah. Even as a kid watching the show, I thought it was dumb that Megatron was taller than Starscreech (as I called him because the voice on that guy was annoying -- same voice actor as G.I. Joe's Cobra Commander from the same mid-80s era), and yet when he transformed, he fit into other untransformed robots' hands. Same thing with Soundwave's cassettes. The show jumped the shark with the continued need for new 'bots instead of decent storylines. I mean, come on: animals, insects, DINOSAURS?!? Could we mix our fantasy icons a little more? What was next, Elf-bots?

I voted Blitzwing 'cause he was the only one I ever owned.

Aaaand I'm suddenly having a Clerks 2 flashback.

I love that, according to the poll so far, Ruffytron is tied with Megatron and only a hair behind Soundwave for coolness. http://209.85.48.8/9854/48/emo/roflma.gif

I think when you're a kid it's easy to get over the whole change-in-scale-when-transforming issue. Megatron was highly badasstic on the show and in the original Marvel comic.

The toy sucked donkeynutz tho. Triggercrotch, yeah but all the gun transformers had that. (The original Japanese Shockwave actually looked like a trigger/phallus. The one released as a Decepticon had that flat little step-trigger jobbie.) My biggest problem with the toy was it loosened up real fast and couldn't stand up in robot mode after only a few transformations.

That said, Megatron had the coolest lines.

"I shall reduce you to a bubbling puddle of protoplasm!" (Comic Book)
"Such Heroic nonsense..." *BOOM* (Movie)

For me, he and Prime made the series. no matter what foolishness went on around them, the dynamic between the characters was generally much more well done than the rest.

The only reason later incarnations of Megatron were a tank was because the original toy looked REAL. It looked absolutely like a Walther 9mm from even a small distance. Ejection port and everything. Looked like maybe the original Japanese toy (most Transformers were just re-dresses of Japanese toys) had some kind of actual firing mechanism for plastic pellets or something.

The only reason later incarnations of Megatron were a tank was because the original toy looked REAL. It looked absolutely like a Walther 9mm from even a small distance. Ejection port and everything. Looked like maybe the original Japanese toy (most Transformers were just re-dresses of Japanese toys) had some kind of actual firing mechanism for plastic pellets or something.

A Walther P-38, if memory serves.

Voted for Devastator, even though it's misspelled on the poll!

"Constructicons, UNITE!!!" :D

Voted for Devastator, even though it's misspelled on the poll!


Fuck. I hate it when I do that. :(

I have no idea why I'm posting seriously on this, but Astrotrain. He's a fricken train!

And a space shuttle.

Okay, there are way too many to list 'em all, so I'm just going to pick a few at random.

EDIT: Please don't bother posting stuff like, "OMGooses! You left so-and-so out! J00 R TEH SUCK!!!1one" There's a maximum of 10 poll options. Get over it.

I have no idea why I'm posting seriously on this, but Astrotrain. He's a fricken train!

A Walther P-38, if memory serves.

I stand corrected. Quite right.

I stand corrected. Quite right.

Not corrected, just made more specific. The P-38's a 9mm. ;)

Starscream, but only because he didn't suck in the last series I saw. In the other series (read: first series) they were all awesome.

Starscream was always a whiney ass bitch.

I liked omega supreme and the dinobots the best but for decepticons I would have to say the constructabots.

The toy sucked donkeynutz tho. Triggercrotch, yeah but all the gun transformers had that.I don't know about you guys, but my Megatron toy was never in robot form. Gun form was pretty badass, especially with the scope, stock, and all the other stuff it came with.

Man... if they had made it so he could fire caps he would have utterly kicked ass.

are the deceptocons the evil transformers?
Sorry but do you fail at life?
Megatron FTW!
In b'fo da poll!

Starscream was totally his bitch.
Incorrect assumption. terminate terminate...

I've got Hotrod, Optimus Prime and one of the Construtorcons(All from the original series, not the crapy new ones), my cusin had Soundwave and a guy across the road from me had Starscream as well as many others.

I always enjoyed Starscreams personality, the whole traitor thing but Soundwave and his pets trump all.

I think his name was Thrust. I can't remember any of them very well.

I'm guessing you're thinking of Galvatron.
Nope, see:
No, Galvatron was an artillery piece.

In the Armada series, Megatron was a tank. He's also been a jet, a car, and a few other less iconic incarnation. The tank is probably the best of the bunch, at least impression-wise. At least they've gotten over the mass-shifting problem and realised that a vehicle of just about any sort is more dangerous than a pistol.

tank>pistol. Always.

I stand firmly by Soundwave. Just watch him dance!

http://students.washington.edu/colin2/breakformers/Video_player_06.html

Okay, there are way too many to list 'em all, so I'm just going to pick a few at random.

EDIT: Please don't bother posting stuff like, "OMGooses! You left so-and-so out! J00 R TEH SUCK!!!1one" There's a maximum of 10 poll options. Get over it.

It depends on the series.
Classic: Soundwave, he WAS a one man army
Classic 2nd wave: Blitzwing
Classic 3rd wave: Dreadwind and Darkwing (they combined to form one super jet.)
Generation 2: Dreadwing and Smokescreen

Energon: Tidal Blast
Beast Wars: Black Arachina
Armada: Tidal Blast
Cybertron: haven't decided yet.

Soundwave clearly PWNE5 them all.

As a kid, I could never understand why Megatron didn't smoke Starscream's ass. He was always screwing up or trying to take over.

Soundwave clearly PWNE5 them all.

As a kid, I could never understand why Megatron didn't smoke Starscream's ass. He was always screwing up or trying to take over.

He had other uses for Starcsream's ass.

I stand firmly by Soundwave. Just watch him dance!

http://students.washington.edu/colin2/breakformers/Video_player_06.html

Someone emailed me that link a while back. Fuckin' hysterical! :D

I think his name was Thrust. I can't remember any of them very well.


Yeah, Thrust was the VTOL jet.

I saw the thread title and I said aloud:

"Starscream"

There's no way Starscream isn't the best. Little power-hungry lunatic like him - what's not to love?

And a space shuttle.

Yeah, but the train's cooler.

I still have no idea why I'm posting seriously.

Soundwave. He was hella cold, and he had a posse. And posses are cool.

For those who don't know... skywarp
http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Cels/Skywarp1a.jpg

If it makes you feel any better, Thundercracker was definitely a throw-away. :p
Thundercracker used Sonic Booms as his weapon. Skywarp teleports and starscream... screams.

Not the original, one that turned into a tank. It was teh shiz.

And he doesn't transform into anything.the original Megatron turned into a gun
http://www.funkyzilla.com/acatalog/megatron-hr.jpg
second gen megatron was a green tank.
http://www.collectiondx.com/node/963
tho this appears to be done without takara's permission.

I can't believe people like transformers.

it's a cool toy line.

oh and the Movie has some... interesting changes on the transformer figures here (http://www.tfw2005.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1404).

it's a cool toy line.

oh and the Movie has some... interesting changes on the transformer figures here (http://www.tfw2005.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1404).

Nooooo! What have they done to Jazz? He was a cool Porsche 935. Now he's arse-ugly & I've no idea what that car even is. :mad:

Ruffytron FTW!

it's a cool toy line.

oh and the Movie has some... interesting changes on the transformer figures here (http://www.tfw2005.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1404).
JuNii darling, how old are you and did you ever watch Armada, Beastwars or Energon?
Cause i thought they were poop, i don't know if you had spare time on your hands so you could or because you enjoyed it.
Explain please.

and a direct sequel to Beast Wars was some thing called Beast Machines

JuNii darling, how old are you and did you ever watch Armada, Beastwars or Energon?
Cause i thought they were poop, i don't know if you had spare time on your hands so you could or because you enjoyed it.
Explain please.

I only experienced the original Transformers when I was very very young. When I was a little older, in late elementary school, they came out with Beast Wars, and I thought that was a pretty cool series, albeit, not the original transformers. I still have fond memories of watching that. Beast Machines (the weird sequel to the series) sucked though.

Transformers was/is cool, especially the old one. All these people who say "megs sucked 'cos how could he be a gun and a giant robot" or "Soundwave couldn't be a tape player 'cos that's impossible" are talking out of their arse.
They're giant freaking robots from out of space, what's not to like?!

Megatron kicks ass!!!:D

I only experienced the original Transformers when I was very very young. When I was a little older, in late elementary school, they came out with Beast Wars, and I thought that was a pretty cool series, albeit, not the original transformers. I still have fond memories of watching that. Beast Machines (the weird sequel to the series) sucked though.
I never took the time or interest in the newer versions for the reason that they added 3D into the show trying to improve it and make it more interesting to the new age child but it just seemed corny to me the new characters weren't as exciting as the 'originals'.

I never took the time or interest in the newer versions for the reason that they added 3D into the show trying to improve it and make it more interesting to the new age child but it just seemed corny to me the new characters weren't as exciting as the 'originals'.

I actually thought the 3D ones looked better. Though I sometimes thought maybe they should just go back and redo the gen1 series in the 3D style. I actually liked the characters from BW more than gen1, since there were fewer of them, more attention was focused on each one. However, an unfortunate aspect of this was the lack of giant robot armies clashing like in gen1. I guess maybe it's just the nostalgia of growing up with it.

JuNii darling, how old are you and did you ever watch Armada, Beastwars or Energon?
Cause i thought they were poop, i don't know if you had spare time on your hands so you could or because you enjoyed it.
Explain please.I grew up with the Original. Actually I grew up with the robots that brought forth the Transformers.

Raideen (transforms from God Robot to Pheonix.)
Danguard Ace (Robot to StarFighter)
Combatra V (5 vehicles combine to one robot.)
DanCougar (3 tanks + 1 Fighter transforms to 1) individual Robots, 2) Individual Animals, and 3) combines for one mega robot.
Gundam (some models transformed, Zeta, Psycho, etc...)
And many more.

then the Original Transformers were shown just as I was starting High School, so it was nostalgia for me.

then they brought about the second Gen, with Rodimus Prime and those stories didn't fare well with me, but some of the designs were impressive.
then they got silly with the Headmasters, Power Masters, Target Masters, etc...

Beast wars I couldn't get into... an ape transforming to a robot seemed redundant to me. so I didn't get into the whole beast wars saga.

Armada brought the powerlink system... intersting but limiting.
that and Armada, Energon and now Cybertron are just re-tellings of the same tale. Robots come to earth, need to hide, fight Decepitcons... They should make it different, keep Optimus Prime out of it, and have new leaders for both sides. keeps it intersting as well as not so redundant.

But those are the stories. the Toy line however, can be hours of fun... especially when you hide the instructions and try to figure it out by yourself, and expeically when you try that binaltech ones.

I watched Cybertron. I wasn't a regular watcher at the time of Energon and Armada (caught sporadic bits) Most of my knowledge of G1 comes from Wikipedia. Yes, Wikipedia. You can all laugh at me now.

I grew up with the Original. Actually I grew up with the robots that brought forth the Transformers.

Raideen (transforms from God Robot to Pheonix.)
Danguard Ace (Robot to StarFighter)
Combatra V (5 vehicles combine to one robot.)
DanCougar (3 tanks + 1 Fighter transforms to 1) individual Robots, 2) Individual Animals, and 3) combines for one mega robot.
Gundam (some models transformed, Zeta, Psycho, etc...)
And many more.

then the Original Transformers were shown just as I was starting High School, so it was nostalgia for me.

then they brought about the second Gen, with Rodimus Prime and those stories didn't fare well with me, but some of the designs were impressive.
then they got silly with the Headmasters, Power Masters, Target Masters, etc...

Beast wars I couldn't get into... an ape transforming to a robot seemed redundant to me. so I didn't get into the whole beast wars saga.

Armada brought the powerlink system... intersting but limiting.
that and Armada, Energon and now Cybertron are just re-tellings of the same tale. Robots come to earth, need to hide, fight Decepitcons... They should make it different, keep Optimus Prime out of it, and have new leaders for both sides. keeps it intersting as well as not so redundant.

But those are the stories. the Toy line however, can be hours of fun... especially when you hide the instructions and try to figure it out by yourself, and expeically when you try that binaltech ones.
When the Dinosaurs got rereleased i got one of them for my birthday, i never liked the shiny metallic colouored plastic and Beastwars did just seem lame.
i'm so gonna get the first 5 series of Gen1.

oh and the Movie has some... interesting changes on the transformer figures here (http://www.tfw2005.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1404).

They're horrible :(
Especially Megatron :(

They're horrible :(
Especially Megatron :(I was hoping they would use the tank version of Meggie... :(

Ruffytron FTW!

You haven't noticed that I always include some sort of Ruffy option in my polls?

Oh, and wait for my next one... *snicker*

I only experienced the original Transformers when I was very very young. When I was a little older, in late elementary school, they came out with Beast Wars, and I thought that was a pretty cool series, albeit, not the original transformers. I still have fond memories of watching that. Beast Machines (the weird sequel to the series) sucked though.

Damn kids. I was at uni when Beast Wars came out. :p

I never took the time or interest in the newer versions for the reason that they added 3D into the show trying to improve it and make it more interesting to the new age child but it just seemed corny to me the new characters weren't as exciting as the 'originals'.

The 3D was crap. Even worse was that they yelled out whatever power they were about to use, like some crap Japanese anime based on a game or toy line. Oh, wait...that's exactly what it was.

You haven't noticed that I always include some sort of Ruffy option in my polls?

Oh, and wait for my next one... *snicker*



Damn kids. I was at uni when Beast Wars came out. :p



The 3D was crap. Even worse was that they yelled out whatever power they were about to use, like some crap Japanese anime based on a game or toy line. Oh, wait...that's exactly what it was.
The Movie Trailer looks shit awful IMO.
I feel happy in the knowledge i was at school or working while the new shows were on.

The Movie Trailer looks shit awful IMO.
I feel happy in the knowledge i was at school or working while the new shows were on.

The only ones worth anything were the early ones.

Megatron is my favorite Decepticon.

I liked the good guys better overall though.

I liked the good guys better overall though.

Wuss. :p

The only ones worth anything were the early ones.
And this one (http://fuhrerchan.be/b/src/1150302520829.jpg).;)

[snip]

careful about the ratings thing.

Quick... A distraction (http://www.supermegatopia.com/tmbgr/gallery/powerlinx.htm)is needed!

I don't have the faintest idea what this is about. So I chose the Ruffy option :)

I don't have the faintest idea what this is about. So I chose the Ruffy option :)

Never a bad call. ;)