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Old 05-26-2018, 02:32 PM   #1
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The Toys That Made Us TF episode

What did you guys think of the episode? I enjoyed it, they missed a bunch of the history of G1 passing over Japan, Europe (and by extension Canada), and South America. Cool to see the Microchange VHS.

A shot of part of my collection was also shown at the end of the episode in the credits.

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Old 05-26-2018, 05:41 PM   #2
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Re: The Toys That Made Us TF episode

I liked it. Keeping in mind it is probably targeted towards people that don't know the franchise as well as people who do, I think it covered a lot of the bases. Would it have been nice to see them dive into all the various stuff from from 1987 onwards? Sure, but I don't think it was specifically necessary for the story they were telling. They certainly went a lot further into the pre Diaclone origins than I'd have every expected.
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Old 05-27-2018, 02:00 AM   #3
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Re: The Toys That Made Us TF episode

Cool to see a local connection. Watched the episode tonight with my son. Very interesting for sure. I really like how they put their episodes together.

Brr-icy. Can I ask. How did you end up in the episode?
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Old 05-27-2018, 09:30 AM   #4
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Re: The Toys That Made Us TF episode

They contacted me and asked if i would be ok being on the episode
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Old 05-27-2018, 09:54 AM   #5
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Re: The Toys That Made Us TF episode

I watched it last night, wow it was pretty awesome. I didn't watch the credits, cool to see your collection on there dude

Yeah that vhs tape transformer thing really stood out, I never knew of it's existence before. Also, really cool to see how gijoe of all things helped influence takara to make microman that then turned to influence transformers.

I also really dug the humble beginnings of tf prototypes being made out of wood, I would love to see more of these.

Overall... very cool!
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Old 05-27-2018, 10:41 AM   #6
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Re: The Toys That Made Us TF episode

It was a fun episode.

My favorite part was the Hasbro rep talking about how Gobots were mostly cheap plastic and not as much die cast as Transformers Talk about sone revisionist history
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Old 05-27-2018, 11:07 AM   #7
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Re: The Toys That Made Us TF episode

Great episode. I watched it last night.
I liked hearing the history of the early days and development of the line.

Glad to see a connection here with brr-icy's collection too.

The mention of Go-Bots was fun too. Reminded me of the great debates of my childhood -- one of my friends was always arguing that Go-Bots were better than TransFormers.

The only Go-Bots I ever had were the ones they had as a promotional offer from Shell gas stations. I think I got the white float plane, and blue helicopter from there. Maybe a motrocycle too. I always used them as weak robots that kept getting captured and the Autobots would have to come to save them.
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Old 05-27-2018, 02:53 PM   #8
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Re: The Toys That Made Us TF episode

I enjoyed it. I'm wishing there was more, maybe a part 2 in 3rd party
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Old 05-27-2018, 04:32 PM   #9
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Re: The Toys That Made Us TF episode

Man gotta catch this sounds awesome

Which episode number and what season is it guys?
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Old 05-27-2018, 05:39 PM   #10
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Re: The Toys That Made Us TF episode

It was alright. I was expecting a bit more. I'm happy they mentioned how Beast Wars revitalized Transformers but I mean, as bad as Beast Machines was, you still had Car Robots, Armada, Energon etc that helped push the movies to be made. BW ended in what 1998-99? So from there to 2007 is a lot of missed time.
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