Talk:Mixmaster (ROTF)

Toy Image Joke

"That's the second biggest Decepticon insignia i've ever seen!"

Could the author enlighten us as to which was the largest by turning "biggest" into a link? Drmick 11:07, 8 June 2009 (EDT)

This one, maybe? - Starfield 11:16, 8 June 2009 (EDT)

I think between that, and Astrotrain, and Dropkick, the joke pretty much fails. -- Repowers 11:51, 8 June 2009 (EDT)

Yep! Though I think the joke starts working again if we can get it up to "That's the fifteenth biggest Decepticon insignia I've ever seen!" So let's get crackin'. --ItsWalky 12:00, 8 June 2009 (EDT)

Perhaps we should change the caption to "I've seen bigger Decepticon insignias" with links to toys with larger ones. - Zadok Rox 12:20, 8 June 2009 (EDT)

*pulls out sarcasm-o-meter* ...I'm sitting here trying to figure out how many of the people in this discussion actually did or didn't get the reference. --Jeysie 12:43, 8 June 2009 (EDT)

Category: Giant insignia? -Derik 12:40, 8 June 2009 (EDT)

Seconded :) 212.74.27.55 09:24, 11 June 2009 (EDT)

Beast Wars Reference?

Perhaps I am in folly here, but during the final battle, right after he shields himself from enemy fire and before Jetfire Slaughters him, he seems to pull a triple-barreled cannon from his nethers, which he fires once. It might be just me, but the image really made me think of Beast Wars Rampage. Does this qualiffy as trivia? Mischa 06:10, 3 July 2009 (EDT)

No, not at all. And Barricade wasn't in ROTF at all. --FFN 06:25, 3 July 2009 (EDT)

he said rampage not barricade (Manmcmanman 05:56, 18 February 2011 (EST))

Misassembled

I actually got the cab-hinge working without having to flip any pieces, but has anyone tried swapping the figure's hips? They look like they should be on the opposite legs--that'd put the "finished" parts forward, hide the screw holes, and may even improve the range of motion. Is this worth adding to the article? 68.38.201.101 16:19, 3 July 2009 (EDT)

It's just the stock photography that shows the legs that way: it's not really clear, but steps 14, 15 and 16 in the instructions show you the proper way to work the hips. I would be interested in hearing how you fixed the cab without switching anything, though. --Buttbutt 18:01, 3 July 2009 (EDT)

How exactly do you drive the pin out?24.89.74.34 13:58, 9 July 2009 (EDT)

Okay, this whole misassembly thing has been questioned on at least one toy review website who didn't have any problems whatsoever. Is it actually true or not? Normally, if it had been one of our staff members who wrote... well, I'd question it anyway, but this time it's somebody who doesn't often edit on the wiki who asserts this. --FFN 08:34, 14 July 2009 (EDT)

It's actually the instructions that are wrong about the cab's shaft being partially misassembled. If you bend the shaft so the cab's hinged tab can go into the gun, you'll notice the slot is perfectly angled for that. Also, according to the instructions, the shaft is a LOT less hidden.

Voyager toy

Am i the only one here who thinks the entire thing is just noting the toys many flows without actually talking about it?--Sunjumper 09:39, 14 July 2009 (EDT)

Yeah, that's just a LITTLE BIT OVERKILL. Jesus, just say where he's misassembled. Can anyone more familiar with the toy cut that down to a sentence or two? --ItsWalky 10:12, 14 July 2009 (EDT)

As I've said above, a toy review site questioned our assertion in this article (and apparently our Myspace thing which I can't access) that Mixmaster is misassembled. --FFN 09:40, 15 July 2009 (EDT)

Can't someone add more info about the actual toy instead of the ranting about the messed up stuff? 220.134.30.107 21:38, 17 July 2009 (EDT)

Evidently nobody here who owns it cares to talk about the actual toy, and the only person to wrote about the toy only did so to complain about it. Since nobody has given me a good explanation about the whole misassembly thing, I'm ditching the lot of it. --FFN 13:55, 18 July 2009 (EDT)

I own him! Too lazy to actually write about it, though, beyond the review I did for TFViews, and oh God I'm not logged in, well, it's Onslaught Six, anyway. 71.60.161.100 11:56, 20 July 2009 (EDT)

The toy isn't miss assembled in most cases. The instructions are wrong, just like they were for Voyager Star Scream, concerning the hinged hands and guns.

Or the instructions were not updated to reflect the change to the hands and guns in starscreams case Optimusprimerotfrocks (talk) 16:02, 7 March 2019 (EST)

Main Image

What would you put as a main image for the page?

second biggest?

Not that i don't appreciate a good Monkey Island homage from time to time, but with all those links in that text, isn't it kinda conflicting with the word "second"? --86.87.28.191 17:13, 28 July 2009 (EDT)

Autobot Mixmaster?

Okay, so in this image from Ben Procter, the early head design is made to resemble an actor. Looks to be Brendan Gleeson. Anyone ever hear any rumbles of him being cast for ROTF? Also, note the Autobot symbol on the concept art. Explains the "friendlier" face with the nose and big eyes.--MCRG Again 01:16, 18 September 2009 (EDT)

Scratch that. It IS Brendan Gleeson. Huh.--MCRG Again 01:17, 18 September 2009 (EDT)

"Listen UP"

Mixmaster actually says listen up, it's just very garbled. 69.230.74.60 00:25, 6 February 2010 (EST)

Yes, he does. I wonder if it was a voice acotr?--24.69.64.254 19:50, 24 February 2010 (EST)

Well mixmaster was originally listed as mike patton being his voice. It's possible they cut out his lines, but forgot this one--24.69.64.254 23:30, 20 August 2010 (EDT)

Re: Mixmaster's voice. I was highly skeptical about this, given how many people claimed to hear English dialogue for Bonecrusher in the first movie that was never substantiated (I wish someone could get ahold of Jimmie Wood), so I went back to listen and re-listen to it. When Mixmaster transforms into his cannon mode, he definitely has some loud, heavily garbled dialogue which, at least if you're primed to hear it, sounds something like "Listen up" - but it's followed by some unintelligible syllables nobody ever seems to have tried to translate.

However, the DVD's subtitles actually display "Listen up..." during this bit, although they make no effort to translate the noises after it. Even more curiously, a few seconds later, when there's no obvious human dialogue and Mixmaster says something that sounds to my ear like "Ooo-ta-DOOOO", the subtitles pop up with "Okay". So it's actually possible that Mixmaster has TWO unintelligible, nonsensical lines in ROTF. -LV 11:07, 11 March 2011 (EST)

He says something like "Listen up, will you?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub82JeqhYH8--Primestar3 (talk) 08:59, 19 March 2015 (EDT)

Plural

"Mixmaster is a Decepticon Triple Changer from the Revenge of the Fallen franchise in the live-action film continuity family." This should be changed. You know there are other Mixmasters. We saw three Mixmasters in Movie contunity.
1.) The one that formed Devastator. (Killed by Rail gun)
2.) The one that fought with other Decepticons in Egypt war. (Killed by Jetfire)
3.) The one that was featured in the DOTM game. (Killed by Ironhide)
So that tag or something (I don't know how to call it correctly) should be changed to "Mixmaster are a bunch of Decepticon Triple Changers with same body-type and same name from the Revenge of the Fallen franchise in the live-action film continuity family."--Primestar3 (talk) 07:46, 19 March 2015 (EDT)

We already have a note about this in the intro: "There are at least two 'bots of his model; the other may or may not be also named "Mixmaster"." The first individual you list is Mixmaster, the second is a robot of unknown name that looks like Mixmaster, and the third is Mixmaster in another timeline. Just as the G1 comic and cartoon Mixmasters can have different events happen to them, so can the movie and video game Mixmasters from the Movie-verse. Therefore, I don't see the need for what you are proposing. --Khajidha (talk) 10:07, 19 March 2015 (EDT)

Wait a minute, I thought DOTM video game is canon to movieverse. They even foreshadowed (If that's the correct way to reffer it) DOTM movie's plot.--Primestar3 (talk) 11:33, 19 March 2015 (EDT)

All TF fiction is canon, but not all TF fiction is canon in the same timeline.

From the notes on the video game's page: "Several of the game's plot points make very little sense when taken together with the Decepticons' actual plan in the film. For instance, Megatron leaves Optimus to be killed by the awakening Shockwave, despite requiring him and his Matrix to reactivate Sentinel Prime, and in the game's epilogue Shockwave is instructed to retrieve an object from Chernobyl, despite Megatron actually intending for it to fall into the Autobots' hands. Additionally, the game depicts said object as a space bridge pillar, whilst in the film it is an engine component from the Ark."

So, even ignoring Mixmaster, there is no way that game can be in the same timeline as the movie. --Khajidha (talk) 11:52, 19 March 2015 (EDT)