I'm kinda surprised that they made Arcee a Magnus that quickly. Felt kinda rushed to me. Also terrible name, should've gone with Arcana Magnus. Makes more sense, otherwise UM's old name would just be "Ultra."
You ended up somehow reminding me how a bunch of transformers stuff used to imply magnus was Optimus' friend Dion from the flashback segment in g1 that also got shot even if it never got brought up or hinted at in the original cartoon which would kinda make sense given he's implied to have known magnus really closely and how his gf got repaired into a more powerful form too. IIRC they "deconfirmed" it sometime during the IDW era of things and haven't treated them as the same guy in anything since that but I'm too lazy to check.
The writer intended for Dion and Ariel to die. The story editors added the dialogue about Ariel becoming Elita, and it made sense.
Yes and it'd also make sense by that logic that dion would end up being magnus due to visual similarities. Some versions of magnus he's literally optimus prime's twin brother but I can't remember if those versions had the whole orion pax origin for optimus or if he was just always optimus in those.
I figured the forcefield was just him not activating it which is why I was talking about creative ways to get rid of a dude who has a personal forcefield he can turn on. The way earlier post I was reacting to read it made me think he just didn't use it because writers didn't know about it or didn't care, but the ambush thing would be another obvious exploit to kill a forcefield bitch.
My honest opinion would be yes, but as with many things, Transformers will once again need to evolve. What worked for Takara in the 1980's, 90's and early 2000's wouldn't be a repeated success since anime is a hyper competitive industry and Transformers seriously needs to capitalize on its massive mythos through the various comics, mangas, old shows, printed text stories and even games. There's a lot you could do with a new Transformers anime that caters to a more older audience and i think that would be the proper direction for success if Takara were to pursue a new Transformers anime. I genuinely like Takara's catalog of Transformers media with Victory being my favorite anime and since Hasbro apparently has plans for a new Skybound show, i think Takara should absolutely try once again for a Transformers anime and create a story that's more enjoyed by older fans, it could even be a great chance to represent characters that haven't had a great animated incarnation yet, like Bludgeon and Spinister
I have zero confidence in any western studio giving us a good storyline, at least nowadays. No one wants cartoons that aren't some fruity Steven Universe knock-off, or Optimus Prime and His Super Pals. And the showrunners are just as bad. Get these kids some stock footage and impact frames and make it super robot as fuck.
It's more beast wars did that in the 90s but then the Armada-Cybertron anime times definitely boosted it even further. I've said it before in other threads about how it's fucking weird how since mid 2010s internet talk amidst media people about anime shit is "oh anime just became mainstream right now for the first time ever!" Every fucking time some popular anime comes out, but this weirdness extends to Transformers thanks to the 2000s transformers anime somehow.
That's because people with phones started watching anime.
My point was it was popular int he US as well. Still though, even before beast wars and the anime reboots happened g1 had several asian exclusive seasons which kind of makes the odd lull in transformers stuff way back when a hasbro market exclusive thing.
Acceptable terms. They can jihad. I want kino back.
What made armada cool was you didn't need to collect parts from other sets to get functions, that's more a modern hasbro thing with how they wall off shit like the ion blaster for devastation prime or minicons to an exclusive upmarked box set.
Kiss players was trying to be the first specifically teen/adult oriented transformers which would be fine but then they also like tried chasing every media trend that was popular with those groups at the time leading to absolute schizophrenia combo of moeblob character art, extremely vile grotesque looking type edgy yet kinda cool concepts like the zombie megatron clones, and extremely unfortunate pervy shit slapped in there too in places it don't belong. it's one of those things where you can see what they were trying to do but they fucked up the execution really fucking bad though the figures were cool. Despite being alternators repaints/retools they were also pretty much proto-human alliance in that they came with a human that could fit in the seats and shit.
Also these exact same people will complain that everything is G1, that Hasbro prioritizes that universe too much and it's starting to ruin modern day fiction. Then they turn around and want to recycle the same fucking character archetypes over and over again with barely any differentiation. Makes me appreciate the Takara shows just that much more because characters there are legitimately distinct and entertaining to see