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| Luisinan 382th Post
 
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|  "San Diego Con small bits of info"
, posted Thu 24 Jul 22:10
Hey All,
So I went to the con last weekend and did some sleuthing and snooping. I found out some details about the Street Fighter comic and the Street Fighter Alpha 2 OVA. If you don't want to be spoiled, read no further.
At the con Udon was selling a "Street Fighter #0" issue for $2. It contains a 9 page story and the character bios of the original SF2 cast plus Akuma. Want to know what happened in the story? Okay, this is what happened, stop reading if you don't want to be spoiled. Anyway, the first half of the story has Ryu contemplating about being a warrior with the usual meditative/Buddhist blah blah and he's walking around in a forest. Then suddenly he's attacked by Evil Ryu and he's all shocked. Finally, he hears some noise and he goes back to the dojo where he finds Gouken all beaten up and posted up against a wall with the "Ten" symbol painted on the wall above Gouken. And that's it.
Udon had a panel and they said that the first year of the series will be about the various SF characters and their preperation for the SF2 tournament. They said they would include everyone but not force them into the story. That is, some characters will just make cameos because they don't fit very well into the story.
Now, about Street Fighter Alpha 2 OVA. Well, Manga Entertainment was as the con. And I asked one of their reps when the movie would come out. He said in the fall. I asked for a more specific date and he said November. The representative seemed a bit unsure in his answers but that's what he told me. I hope it's true caues I really look forward to the OVA.
Sorry for taking so long on posting these bits of info but I didn't think anyone would really care or be interested. I have a bit more info on Transformers related materials but I don't think there are that many TF fans here. Anyway, that is it!
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| "Re(1):San Diego Con small bits of info" , posted Thu 24 Jul 22:26
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Hey All,
So I went to the con last weekend and did some sleuthing and snooping. I found out some details about the Street Fighter comic and the Street Fighter Alpha 2 OVA. If you don't want to be spoiled, read no further.
I went too. Fun.
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At the con Udon was selling a "Street Fighter #0" issue for $2. It contains a 9 page story and the character bios of the original SF2 cast plus Akuma. Want to know what happened in the story? Okay, this is what happened, stop reading if you don't want to be spoiled. Anyway, the first half of the story has Ryu contemplating about being a warrior with the usual meditative/Buddhist blah blah and he's walking around in a forest. Then suddenly he's attacked by Evil Ryu and he's all shocked. Finally, he hears some noise and he goes back to the dojo where he finds Gouken all beaten up and posted up against a wall with the "Ten" symbol painted on the wall above Gouken. And that's it.
Udon had a panel and they said that the first year of the series will be about the various SF characters and their preperation for the SF2 tournament.
I thought I read that they were going to do the entire SF story, so, did they mention the first SF and Zero?
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They said they would include everyone but not force them into the story. That is, some characters will just make cameos because they don't fit very well into the story.
like half of them hehehoho.
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Now, about Street Fighter Alpha 2 OVA. Well, Manga Entertainment was as the con. And I asked one of their reps when the movie would come out. He said in the fall. I asked for a more specific date and he said November. The representative seemed a bit unsure in his answers but that's what he told me. I hope it's true caues I really look forward to the OVA.
Sorry for taking so long on posting these bits of info but I didn't think anyone would really care or be interested. I have a bit more info on Transformers related materials but I don't think there are that many TF fans here. Anyway, that is it!
No problem! Yeah tell us about Transformers. I saw the new Transformers game. It was 3D behind the character view... You could...transform.
Transformer's for the few seconds I saw it didn't look "cel shaded"..
A lot of the games I saw there were "cel shaded". Cel shading is the new black.
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| Luisinan 383th Post
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| "Now with Transformer Goodness!" , posted Fri 25 Jul 10:36
Below is a cut and paste copy of the write up I wrote for tfw2005.com. It's a Transformers newsite. Enjoy the bits of Transformers info!
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Hey All. I went to the San Diego Comic-con last week and I did some investigative work on the various TF toy lines, comics and video game. Below is a write up of the information I was told by various Hasbro representatives, an Atari employee and Pat Lee himself. If any of the info in the write up has already been reported please excuse me- I haven't been able to keep up with the TF news sites lately. I also took a few pictures of the Hasbro display cases and uploaded them. Click here for the pics. I apologize for the large file sizes.
Anyway, this is the order of the write up:
Transformers Commemorative Series
Transformers Armada the video game
Transformers Universe toy line
Transformers Energon comic book
Bonus Surprise J
Transformers Commemorative Series. I asked a Hasbro Toy rep what would come next after Series 5, the representative said he really wasn't unsure but he guessed that probably Dirge, and the rest of the 'Con jets (he knew the names of the remaining 'Con seekers!) I asked him if he had any idea what Takara was going to release after Soundwave, and he said that he didn't think Takara would release Soundwave cause they couldn't find the mold. Well I guess that last comment kinda ruined his credibility. Oh and Hoist, Tracks and Inferno have an October 2003 release date.
Transformers Universe line. I took pictures of the Armada, Universe and Commemorative Series display cases that Hasbro put up. In the Universe display case I saw something interesting. They had RiD Ultra Magnus (in his original colors) as a Universe toy. They also had RiD Prime in a yellow color scheme as a Universe toy. Both RiD Magnus and RiD Prime were Sam's Club exclusives. There release date is October 2003. Tankor and Obsedian use Dreamwave-esque box art.
Transformers RiD. A yellow Build Team gift set was there too and it was a Walmart exclusive with a release date of October 2003.
Transformers Armada the video game. I talked to an Atari representative and this is what he had to tell me about the game.
-Optimus Prime, Red Alert and Hot Shot are the only playable characters.
-The rest of the Autobots will make cameos. An example of this is when you use a minicon to call out Jetfire to commit an air strike. This was the only example he gave.
-There will be at least 60 minicons in the game for you to get and use.
-All the Decepticons will be in the game.
-How do you use the minicons? You will always have your minicon partner, but you can carry six additional minicons along with you. The minicons will give you special powers, like flight, extra weapons, invisibility (camouflage). In the demo (which was at the Dreamwave booth) Hotshot used a minicon which gave him flight (the minicon formed wings on his back).
-The game will be released in April 2004 on the Playstation 2. And of course Atari will make more Transformer games if this one is successful.
-The game looks SHARP. The gameplay looks smooth. The transformations are smooth. It looks like a finished game but they have 10 more months to finish it.
-Your thinking, Armada will be long over by the time of it's release. Well I asked the representative if they were also making an Energon game because the Dreamwave poster has the Atari logo on it. He said that this game will act as a bridge between the Armada series and the new Energon series!
-The rep wouldn't let me play the game. He wouldn't let anyone play the game! Boooooooooooooooo! Other then that, the rep was pretty knowledgeable about TFs, Armada and the whole concept. Some Hasbro toy reps were pretty clueless about TFs. Booooo!
Transformers Energon the comic book. I talked to Pat Lee about it.
-I ask him if they had already started making a Transformers Energon comic (because of the poster), he said that Energon was a continuation of Armada.
-I asked him if he thought that Energon was a better toyline then Armada. He said it was "different." I joked, saying that "different" is just another word for "sucks." He said, no, that he did think it was different, that Armada was more kid oriented and Energon was a little older.
Bonus Surprise J. Hasbro was also showing clips of a new G.I. Joe CGI movie at their booth. I forget what the name of the movie is. All I know is that it will appear on the Cartoon Network and will be 45 minutes long. The movie will be -immediately- released after it is shown on CN and will sell as a DVD with a Stormshadow and Snakeeyes set for something around $20. The movie will be shown in late August. They are planning on making more movies. I get the feeling that it'll be like 45 minute movie-serials or something like that.
Anyway, that's it. I just saw Alternators Smokescreen at BBTS and my jaw dropped.
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