The Montreal/Quebec Local Fans Banter Thread

[Buhawi]

Originally Posted by Pascal

FREDNZY, RUMBLUE. Easy cliss.

Apparently, it wasn't that easy with some people. Arguments about preference since the 90's. Through BBS. Ama fucking zing.

[SMOG]

Originally Posted by Buhawi

That FIBRIR/FIRRIB thread I just revived in TheFanboyWorld2005 is a gold mine.



Also found tons of info. Win-win.

Still. Rumble will always be blue.

It doesn't take much, really. The RIR/RIB debate is always bubbling just below the surface of our fandom.

And it just boils down to what you give more authority. The cartoon (with all of it's screwiness) or the toys (and pretty much everything else). I started with the toys. I know what colour my Rumble was. And you know what? He came packaged with Ravage and was the same colour as every other Rumble owned by a kid in the 80's, whatever they called him.

zmog

[FreedomGundam]

I've always followed that Rumble is Red, and Frenzy's the other color.

[Buhawi]

Originally Posted by SMOG

It doesn't take much, really. The RIR/RIB debate is always bubbling just below the surface of our fandom.

And it just boils down to what you give more authority. The cartoon (with all of it's screwiness) or the toys (and pretty much everything else). I started with the toys. I know what colour my Rumble was. And you know what? He came packaged with Ravage and was the same colour as every other Rumble owned by a kid in the 80's, whatever they called him.

zmog

But the arguments, the constant throwing of insults...



Too much.

That pic of runble with the colour red on teletran 1 says it all. Sadly, even if let's say I paint one myself, it will be blue.

[Buhawi]

I saw the cartoon first then got toys years later...

[Protoman]

I always find it odd that while people always argue the toy flub of Rumble/Frenzy.

No one mentions how Skywarp and Starscreams bios are swaped as well as Sunstreaker and Sideswipe.

[Buhawi]

Mind blown.

No fanboy arguments over that?

[FreedomGundam]

Originally Posted by Protoman

I always find it odd that while people always argue the toy flub of Rumble/Frenzy.

No one mentions how Skywarp and Starscreams bios are swaped as well as Sunstreaker and Sideswipe.

I would presume that it's because with Skywarp/Starscream and Sunstreaker/Sideswipe, that one swap was more or less the only real mistake, and subsequent toy/fiction has set things straight.

Which, unfortunately, isn't the case with Rumble/Frenzy, where, like you pointed out, we're constantly being trolled with variations.

My suggestion is to scrap using the two red/blue guys completely. Give us a yellow and green one, and call them "Fumble" and "Renzy" or something.

[stovokor2000]

Originally Posted by SMOG

What the hell? Sto? You turn up at weird times and places! Good to see you!

zmog

thanks bud

[SMOG]

Originally Posted by Pascal

FREDNZY, RUMBLUE. Easy cliss.

Sadly, that's about the most compelling argument the FIRRIB camp has come up with yet.

Originally Posted by FreedomGundam

I've always followed that Rumble is Red, and Frenzy's the other color.

That's because you were paying attention.

Originally Posted by Buhawi

But the arguments, the constant throwing of insults...
Too much.

I generally consider the RIR/RIB debate to be one of those topics that fans will always jump into for the heck of it, and for the fun of trash-talking each other. I mean, it's so obvious that it's pretty hard to take too seriously. But I mean... stick to the facts, right?

That pic of runble with the colour red on teletran 1 says it all. Sadly, even if let's say I paint one myself, it will be blue.

That recycled model sheet image on the Teletran screen from Heavy Metal War is actually a pretty recent development. I guess that before the recent DVD editions, nobody had really noticed that small print. It confirms that Rumble was always supposed to be red... but somewhere along the line for the cartoon, they decided to go purple instead.

I saw the cartoon first then got toys years later...

So where's your PURPLE Rumble?

Originally Posted by Protoman

I always find it odd that while people always argue the toy flub of Rumble/Frenzy.

No one mentions how Skywarp and Starscreams bios are swaped as well as Sunstreaker and Sideswipe.

I mention it. Often.

But nobody really paid that much attention to the Tech Specs numbers anyway, so "The Great Seeker Swap" is relatively unknown, even among bigtime fans. And, on that topic, Starscream and Skywarp ARE NOT even swapped... it's actually a 3-way swap with Thundercracker. T-cracker's stats are the ones on Starscream's card. The easy giveaway is that out of the three, Skywarp is the least intelligent and Starscream has the highest rank (and highest pretty much everything else).

The Sideswipe/Sunstreaker things bothers me to this day. The discrepancies in their bios makes it clear that they got swapped (always confused me as a kid). The descriptions of each one fits the other toy so much better... but that error is REALLY too far gone. There's pretty much no way anybody would insist on re-assigning those two.

Another thing that bothered me... that in 1984, the Autobots had a BlueSTREAK and a SunSTREAKer. It seemed kind of... odd. Again, it made more sense to me when I later heard that Sunstreaker was supposed to be named "Spin Out".

Originally Posted by stovokor2000

thanks bud

Glad to see you're still online occasionally! Hope you're hanging in there!

zmog