An auction on chinese website Taobao gives us our first look at two new Legends sized figures for the new Dark of the Moon toyline. What we get are representations of one of the Nascar trio and a black Suburban in vehicle and robot modes. Click above to view all images.
Hooper_X
It's not that stereotypes are just poor taste, they're also lazy, lazy, writing. It's a copout. "Oh, this robot has a mullet and turns into a NASCAR, he must be a redneck!" "Oh, this robot has a big gold buck tooth and is ignorant!" I guess it's marginally better than having no personality whatsoever (like, say, every Decepticon except maybe Starscream), but it's not great, either.
Prime82
Dreadlocks, mullet, predator, whatever it is…..it's pretty silly. It's another stereotype and it shows very poor taste. The wreckers are depicted as commandos, I get it but do they really need to look like Rambo? I'm calling it. One voice of the wreckers will be Michael Clarke Duncan.
bny888
^Well, when I first saw that episode I really found it hard to believe a woman would fall in love with a huge robot that's barely humanoid in shape.
With regard to robophilia, it's not as uncommon as I once thought it was. I know for a fact that some of my gradeschool classmates fantasized about Aphrodite from the Mazinger Z anime.
Feralstorm
Is NOW the time to bring up 'Alice' from ROTF?
(though that was more forced seduction than attraction)
Soundwave_FSD
He worked closely with the wreckers, but nothing ever stated him as a wrecker. But this NASCAR bit does have shoulders that are reminiscent of G2 Blurr's shoulders. NASCAR is also associated with you know… Speed.
Wow, haha! FF5. Crazy stuff right thurr.
figsdad
I swear that Nascar is Mirage looks the same a pic i took from my figure shelf..
Hooper_X
If by "rednecks" you mean "rural southern whites" then yeah, pretty much. They meet the textbook definition. Unique culture, distinct identity, etc.
Sso02V
Rednecks are an ethnic minority?
nazgul777
Maaan can't wait to get five of these dreads to circle Ironhide like a bull moose.
Lurkertron
True. True.
It's mostly loved for nostalgia though, and because of the comics (plus the cartoon movie) and the imagination of the people who played with the G1 toys.
I thought the cartoon was mostly garbage and a lot of the toys after the early batches too. Awful.
The only thing Bay has got wrong with the new movies is too much human bullshit and ROTF was a mess, story wise, which probably isnt even his fault.
But let me get this straight. Are you saying a girl can't have genuine feelings for a Tankbusting fighter bomber that transforms into a warrior robot? What are you, crazy?
If you didn't like "The Girl who loved Powerglide" then you should DEFINITELY avoid "Club Dinobar: Grimlock's cocktails and dreams" and "Fortress Maximus in Paris in the Springtime".
Edgcracker
It's called interspecies erotica!
Notice how Powerglide was as big (like 20+ ft) as the Seekers and the other Autobots in many scenes, but barely bigger (like 10 feet max) than the chick? And then the LiteBrite heart in his chest? WTF?!
In all seriousness, I have also been watching G1 on the Hub every day (or TIVOing it to watch in the mornings). While I am loving the show all over again, it is quite inferior to what Bay has done – even considering the differences in time and technology. So much stuff in G1 is just absurd. Even for a cartoon made in the 1980s.
Opticron Primal
Wow…….probably the same guy who took those horribly mistransformed Ironhide pics….
Fort Max
Managed to mistransform a legends figure…
Lurkertron
What script?
Ultrawave
Well, the script said Mirage had dreadlocks. I'm not too surprised, glad they came out looking good.
Josh
My mama raised me in the durty south
A Kountry Gentleman
So you best watch ur mouth
My mama raised me in the durty south
A Kountry Gentleman
That's what it's all about
CommanderPrime
I think that that could happen too! Maybe in each pack. You could have a different Autobot/Wrecker and a SUV Decepticon in each pack so it would be easier to army build the SUV Con.
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Hooper_X
Those aren't dreadlocks. It's absolutely a robo-mullet.
Another sterling portrayal of ethnic minorities by Bay & Co.!
(Also, I'd be willing to bet money this is how the NASCAR trio sees release: the 48 first comes out at Legends scale. The 88 gets a Deluxe, because anything with DALE JUNIOR!!!! on it is a license to print money. The 88 gets a repaint at Legends scale, and the 48 gets a Deluxe repaint if the line runs long enough. The 42 only gets a Deluxe as part of a Target exclusive set.)