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Date Posted: 18:17:12 12/31/03 Wed
Author: Defiant
Subject: Happy Birthday Fawndoo!!
In reply to: FawnDoo 's message, "Pictures" on 16:52:43 12/29/03 Mon

I had no idea you were that young! I'm 28.

Well I can see whay you mean as far as playability going up cause the toys were so sturdy, but however for me playability went down for two major reasons.

1) The toys while more sturdy, at the same time were far less posable. That took away much of the fun and playability for me and made them seem far more like statues to me than RID did.

2) Playability went down cause the bulk of the toys were so ugly that I didn't even want to play with them.

As far as Energon not looking as Playschool as Armada, IMO it's not. The cars do not look as real as RID cars looked, but not nearly as Playschool as Armada. Kinda a cross between. Take this comparison of Hotshot for example.

http://www.bwtf.com/energon/toys/hotshot/bothvm.jpg

We don't have the detail or nice color schemes of RID or the rubber tires, but we do have see through windows and head lights again. We also have doors and a hood that open and close.

http://www.bwtf.com/energon/toys/hotshot/vm3.jpg

As far as hoping Energon does well, I am kinda upset that Armada did so well. For me a big part of the TF experience for me has always been the show we got with the line. Armada has been the most successful TF toyline since the original, and it was sold using one of the worst cartoons ever made. This showed Hasbro that the best way to sell toys is a very low budget cartoon with awful kiddie writing. It seems that we will never get a CGI cartoon on par with Beast Wars ever again at this point, and my interest in Transformers is bareley alive anymore. I do enjoy these Energon toys, but not nearly as much as I would had I cared about the characters the toys represent.

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Replies:

Armada & Energon -- Goktimus Prime, 01:35:39 01/17/04 Sat
- Having seen the first episode... -- Perceptor II, 04:52:30 01/17/04 Sat
- re: Armada & Energon -- Defiant, 03:25:27 02/07/04 Sat
  - The Hasbro Factor -- Goktimus Prime, 22:49:38 02/07/04 Sat