Comments on: Oh, Drift-chan

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 07:46:47 +0000

At least MTMTE fixed him. With religion.

…JJOYCE WOULD APPROVE, AT LEAST.

By: Shortpacked! by David Willis - Peerless!

Shortpacked! by David Willis - Peerless! — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:13:56 +0000

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By: BD

BD — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:09:23 +0000

Bought mine today. Yeah, the character concept seems hellishly out of place, but done right it might work. I might be wrong, but I can’t immediately recall another Transformer with a single-edged sword. And I’m a Abarenbo Shogun fan.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:14:42 +0000

It probably makes sense in context, but out of it like that, it looks like Drift’s a bit…daft. What with apparently addressing Megatron while shoving Screamer, and all…

By: Mike P.

Mike P. — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:28:07 +0000

Awesome toy. Hilariously-awful character concept.

By: David Willis

David Willis — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:10:50 +0000

And he’s awesome.

By: Derik

Derik — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:03:33 +0000

Just say that he’s from some Primax universal stream that didn’t get his backstory all fluffed up by IDW, or something
IIRC, Drift exists in Robot Heroes continuity (despite not having a RH toy.)

By: Derik

Derik — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:28:18 +0000

Drift is remarkably inoffensive in terms of what he’s actually DONE thus far.
The eye-rolling comes from how horribly contrived the character is– while the writers seemed to believe they were doing something new and original– and IDW actually referring to him as “our wolverine.”
Is giving a spotlight to a new character undermining the concept of Spotlight? Sure, a little. But it was a decent 1-issue tale. The 6-issue story I reserve judgment on; he hasn’t done anything to deserve it, fans don’t particularly want it… it’s all IDW ego-tripping about “we got to create a new character!” Doesn’t mean it’ll be bad.

(I forgot Drift teaching Prowl ‘Go.’ That was mildly rage-inducing.)

By: Andrusi

Andrusi — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:28:01 +0000

And what do you know? This comment apparently summoned him.

Holy hell this toy is awesome. I guess I’m getting Blurr too.

By: emeraldbeacon

emeraldbeacon — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:58:08 +0000

Say what you will about the CHARACTER for Drift… the toy is freakin’ awesome. Just say that he’s from some Primax universal stream that didn’t get his backstory all fluffed up by IDW, or something… the toy is DEFINITELY worth getting.

I’d pass on the WFC figs, though… glorified shellformers with very difficult and generally uninspired transformations.