TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on METALHAWK
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2023
- As we await the release of "Rise of the Beasts," and its introduction of a new team of Transformers who have been living in secret on Earth for centuries, The Basics looks at the Autobot who did it before it was cool! It's Earth's original secret protector, METALHAWK!
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The japanese pretender premise make so much more sense. It almost feels like a full evolution of transformers. Using Mass shifting and Bio-techology to literally become robots in disguise.
The world needs to know if Metalhawk really is Cyclonus!
The concept of the Autobot Pretenders infiltrating and defending humanity would fit incredibly well with Transformers Animated. Especially since Sari feels like a character that takes direct inspiration from the Pretenders.
For some reason, the Japanese side of Transformers has the cooler way of portraying the concepts of the Pretenders, Headmasters, etc. I respect those who enjoy the western concepts, but the Japanese version is less complicated (smaller robot controlling a mecha body, shape-shifting) and are more practical (not needing to worry about the pretender shell being injured and causing a mental link injury)
I still find it hilarious how Masterforce used mass-shifting as part of the Pretender process while the US pretended it didn't exist.
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Would have loved to see that Animated version. Metalhawk has universally great designs.
It's always weird to watch a basics and not hear offlined by a cosmically powered starscream
Oddly enough, the first time I saw Metalhawk was the original toy. I came from a military family and grew up on a Navy base. My neighbor and good friend was born on Atsugi Naval Air Base in Japan, so his family had alot of Japanese swag when they transferred back to the States. When we first met, we bonded over the differences in our respective stashes of action figures.
Those japanese writers really have a wide imagination to be able to conceptualize the Metalhawk and the Pretenders in the '80s
Extremely obscure fun fact: There's an old issue of the Marvel UK TF comic where a young reader from Malaysia who was watching the English dub of Masterforce mails in to ask about Metalhawk and why the show's Pretenders are different from the comics, a question that letter answerer Dreadwind wrote off, not knowing what he was referring to.
"Who would want to watch a transformers the basics video at two in the morning?"
It's humoring that in Prime Wars; Metalhawk get two set of toys, one based on his inner robots and second based on his Pretender.
I loved Master Force! Just like this series, Metal Hawk deserves more chances!
A little random, but I always thought of Neil Patrick Harris’ voice for Metalhawk when I read his words in the IDW comics.
1st rodimus primal and now mcfeely! Its a good day to be a supergod masterforce fan
Despite how different the Masterforce anime is, I think it's really dope honestly. The Pretender concept really shined here especially the Decepticons. Autobots disguising themselves as humans while the Cons use their monstrous forms to terrorize the humans was a cool concept. I'll definitely pick up Metalhawk's legacy toy eventually.
I was actually sad when IDW Metalhawk Died. He was a Cool Character
I hope Metalhawk becomes a more prominent Transformers character in western Transformers media, since he is one of the best characters created for the Pretenders subline.
Fun fact: Metalhawk was an Autobot in the IDW continuity! You can see Sunstreaker carrying him in the drift mini series.