All posts by Primestar3
Time travel? I hope they go to pre-war Cybertron. (Though it's probably only King Arthur stuff)
There was an earlier concept art for Hot Rod in TF3, I think it was better. http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-movie-discussion/780353-unseen-tf2-3-concept-art-massive-black.html (SI'm talking about the first image.)
Now that I saw the Primus page, this doesnt look so bad.
(Sorry for the double posting)
AeD wrote: Yeah, alright, but, consider:
- "Optimus Prime (Primax)/984.17 Alpha" looks and reads like complete indecipherable (and unguessable) garbage to anyone who isn't deeply steeped in, or has memorised, all this junk.
The Marvel/DC "Earth-616," "Earth-Twelve" system works 'cuz all the important stuff happens in 616 and One, and the other relevant universes are either just called "Earth-One" through "Earth-Fifty-Two" (DC) or have relatively straight forward 2-to-5 digit numbers (Marvel), and once you're in complicated numbers like "Earth-604829," you're talking about the 1981 Spider-Man cartoon, and higher than that gets you any number of weird "What If?" stories, or in-universe cartoons. "Spider-Man (Earth-616)" is probably a little dense to a complete newbie, but you grasp that pretty quickly.
By contrast, "Optimus Prime (Primax)/984.17 Alpha" would be the page for a main character from one of the founding fictions of this franchise, and though you, steeped in it, might have no issue with it, it makes this site look like it's for robots. Nobody's ever gonna type "(Primax)/984.17 Alpha" into an address bar by themselves.
While I agree that this new disambiguation thing is a little bit too complicated and obscure, I think users can access G1 cartoon Optimus Prime's page with ease via "Optimus Prime (Primax)" page.
Also you talked about Marvel's complicated numbers. But not every number is for obscure realities, some of them are for better known versions of characters such as Tobey Maguire Spider-Man's Earth-96283. Users can access his page through Spider-Man disambiguation page, the same logic with Optimus Prime (Primax).
Although it is an interesting approach, I think this would be too complex. This universal stream thing is too obscure to be used as a disambiguation.
I mean I like this universal stream stuff, so I wouldn't mind it but think of a guy that comes to this site to learn more about Transformers, then he sees these numbers and stuff.
Also @AED, are you David Willis?