Talk:Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise)
CR vs MB
That section sure is... black and white. There are a lot of other reasons Beast Machines went the way of eek, but they're not addressed here. (For example, the final folding of Kenner into Hasbro.) Also, all US fans rejoiced when RiD was announced? Like hell. Scores of people were pissed that now everything they imported for twice US retail was now going to be brought over domestically. Another group of peoplwere were pissed it was nothing but "repaints" for a year. And then they were pissed even more when the cartoon turned out to be not exactly Babylon Five. "The US fandom rejoiced" is way oversimplified. I think that section needs some heavy moderation. --ItsWalky 15:24, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
RID rox, BM sux!!!1
"Many fans were paying hand over foot for imports of the Japanese line, all the while complaining about the poor quality of the Beast Machines line and show"
"Couple that with an all new 10-changer, Beast oriented, Gigatron and you had the making of the first new millenium Transformers series, one that combined the best from everything before it into one."
I think those two statements of opinion also need to be edited or eliminated.
Shellspark 16:49, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
- Indeed. The fandom complaining about the quality of the current line and buying imports from Japan is not a phenomenon exclusive to Beast Machines. It is merely the status quo. --ItsWalky 16:52, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
- It seems that most of the opinion-laden statements were made by a single anonymous poster. I'd actually advocate just reverting back to MSipher's last version.--G.B. Blackrock 17:01, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
"yuk yuks"
I edited out the part that said the DVDs don't play in "real DVD players". Some of these jokes are dumb and misleading. I'm all for fun, but why litter this encyclopedia with it? It there a rule with this wiki that says writers have to put jokes in? Crockalley 14:37, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
- Crockalley -- actually, yes. It's unwritten but it's the way things are done around here, especially in photo captions. Take out the funny and we've got nothing over any other TF resource. Well, we do tend to specialize in absolutely obscure arcana too. But seriously, read the wiki for a while to get the feel for the place; you'll find that the jokes don't interfere--there's simply so much built-in ludicrousness in the Transformers universe/fiction/toyline! And sure, some jokes are nerdy. Learn to embrace your inner nerd. :) One of us...One of us... But it's also true that it must be possible to distinguish a joke from legit info, so you do have be somewhat careful. Autobus Prime 14:44, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
- Then you might want to change this page Introduction
- "Teletraan-1 does not contain opinionated reviews, only facts."
- I'm not going to run around making wild changes here, but this humorous slant goes against my understanding of what a wiki should be. Plus I'm grumpy this morning. Sorry. Gooble gobble Crockalley 14:59, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
- Eh, i wrote the 'real dvd players' crack, I expected someoen (probably McFeely) would remove it. It was a gentle poke at Region-2, nto really much of a tf joke at all. I shall not mixx it. -Derik 18:40, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
- Personally, I contemplated replacing it with "lame Yank DVD players," but I thought yours was funnier. :) - Chris McFeely 19:13, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
- Eh, i wrote the 'real dvd players' crack, I expected someoen (probably McFeely) would remove it. It was a gentle poke at Region-2, nto really much of a tf joke at all. I shall not mixx it. -Derik 18:40, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
I object to Autobus Prime's assertions on the purpose of region encoding. IIt has nothign to do with piracy, it has everythign to do with allowing copyright holders to sell the rights multiple times. (This is, mind a good thing. If the regions were not broken down, a production company wishing to produce a version of The Soudn of Music subbed in, say, Tagalog, would have to purchae worldwide rights to do so, which is ten kinds of stupid. Breaking the rights down into smaller regional chunks makes those rights affortable for amll markets-- an overall benefit to customers.) I admit I find region encoding aannoyign as hell, but there's also clear benefits to it. (I try not to hold unconsidered opinions.) -Derik 03:15, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
Sideways
Curiosity: How does "Takara asserts that CR is RID" connect to "RID Sideways is UT Sideways"? I'm not doubting that they are the same character, I just don't understand what Takara has to do with it. --Crockalley 00:59, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Takara produced some nifty bio's for their Robotmasters characters, saying both who they are, and where they first appeared. Robotmasters Doubleface said he was ARM Doubleface- and listed his first appearance as Car Robots. This is a reference to RiD sideways. -Derik 01:03, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Ah, thank you. --Crockalley 12:30, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
Logo placement
I'm fine if everyone likes this better than the last way, but I think the big white space above the reletively small logo is really rather ugly and awkward looking. At least with the logo off to the left we loose the big white nothing at the top and things are symetrical. Anyone have any other ideas to make things work better?--ZacWilliam 15:17, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
