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A number of pictures have beens sprouting up like wildfire and debate has sprung up just as swiftly regarding the alleged appearances of our favorite Robots in Disguise in the upcoming Michael Bay film, Transformers.
In order to avoid spoilers, I'm providing an LJ cut.
More below the cut.
The big guy himself! Optimus Prime in all of his skeletal, flame-job having glory.
The most recent discovery is official image of this character whose ACTUAL name is still in question in spite of the name listed. This is possibly the best example of the direction Bay and company are taking with the film since the Decepticons appear beastly and terrifying and our saviors thus far appear skeletal and underarmed.
Looks like this is his toy counterpart. Check the addy listed across the image for more.
Scorponok! In his most likely alt mode. :)
THIS is Starscream in toy form. Supposedly this is confirmed, but since the image is handy I thought I'd throw it out there.
This looks like the Bumblebee image that's been on and off websites except his face is very robotic as opposed to the other image that popped us showing Bumblebee with a more human face.
Pictures say a lot. What are these saying to you?
August 20 2006, 15:49:12 UTC 5 years ago
August 20 2006, 19:48:55 UTC 5 years ago
Starscream looks way too much like Waspinator, facially, and the design just looks awkward and clunky. In general, though, I don't like the aesthetics of these designs- there's no way to find the 'humanity' in them, no expressive faces, too much visual clutter. Which tells me someone is more interested in the TFs than shiny, sharp-edged effects than as functional characters.
And given prior reports that the film is biased 70/30 toward the human characters (who I could give a crap less about ALREADY, especially with the franchise's ever increasing tendency to emphasize humans over Transformers as the keystones of the plot) I'm just not that excited so far.
August 26 2006, 20:28:23 UTC 5 years ago
What is a king of Comedy doing in a Sci-Fi movie
Yeah that Bobby Bolivia things is irksome to me.What happened did they run out of other black actors
who have done science-fiction,and decided any black person would do?
August 28 2006, 15:01:15 UTC 5 years ago
Re: What is a king of Comedy doing in a Sci-Fi movie
I was concerned about Bernie Mac as well, but in the script that was leaked, he's only in it a little bit. He's a used car salesman who gets maybe five minutes of screen time towards the beginning. Not anywhere near as bad as it could've been.August 28 2006, 16:18:10 UTC 5 years ago
Re: What is a king of Comedy doing in a Sci-Fi movie
Anyway at this point that is the least of my concernswith the way Megatron and Starscream are showing up in
the "leaked" production designs,they are truly craptastic
August 22 2006, 10:40:51 UTC 5 years ago
Not the best sign
They look to be too based on terran technologyalmost as iff Teletraan-1 was too good at making
them match the form of Terran mecha.
Anonymous
August 26 2006, 02:32:23 UTC 5 years ago
not just yet...
I am not going to be laying any judgement down on the movie just yet. I am going to wait and see if M. Bay is going to do any CGI for the facial features...but they are not bad...Anonymous
August 28 2006, 22:34:48 UTC 5 years ago
new pics
these transformer pics SUCK!!! ....NOTHING LIKE THE OLD TRANSFORMERS AND NOTHING WE CAN RELATE TO WITH A PERSONALITY....THEY JUST RESEMBLE MACHINES WITH NO THOUGHTS OR FEELINGSWHY DID MIKE BAY APPROVE OF THIS CRAP???????????????????
Anonymous
August 29 2006, 14:05:18 UTC 5 years ago
That is Optimus?
Please no! Why they have to CHANGE every thing? I hope this is just a fan art.Deleted comment
August 31 2006, 15:18:39 UTC 5 years ago
Re: STOP BITCHING
So aside from it not being 1986 and Michael Bay being an "Action" director, can you give us something more substantial to argue in the movie's favor? You're trying too hard to aggravate your peers and your cowering behind anonymity doesn't make your argument any more compelling than your awful spelling does.I would love to agree, but things simply are not sitting right in a lot of ways. The car chases will be magnificent, I'm sure. But I remember Pearl Harbor and it still squirms within my gut. I'm going to see it regardless, I always seek to support what I enjoy and I'll ultimately find out how things turn out there, but I'm not going to sugar coat that my excitement is turning into anxiety.
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August 31 2006, 19:30:00 UTC 5 years ago
Re: STOP BITCHING
And you aren't any better. Your inflammatory blathering is just as bad as his and your post reads like a list of crimes against the english language. The both of you are welcome to troll elsewhere and are heavily encouraged to do so together. :)Anonymous
August 31 2006, 19:59:02 UTC 5 years ago
Re: STOP BITCHING
"And you aren't any better. Your inflammatory blathering is just as bad as his and your post reads like a list of crimes against the english language. The both of you are welcome to troll elsewhere and are heavily encouraged to do so together." :)Man, forget all that "intellectual" yak you're talking about. Just face the fact that Michael Bay is doing the fans and the film an injustice!!!!! He sucks and so will the film!!!! Nuff said!!!!
Anonymous
August 31 2006, 20:08:57 UTC 5 years ago
Re: STOP BITCHING
Oops. I got my Michaels mixed up!!!!! I was thinking about Michael Mann instead. MM has nothing but a list of failed films, MB has one failure and that was "The Island". MB is still bad for this film, he's no fan just like Sam Ramni's no Spidey fan, even though he claims to be. :(Anonymous
September 10 2006, 06:20:26 UTC 5 years ago
Re: STOP BITCHING
Micheal Mann has a list of sucky movies? Heat? Collateral? Man Hunter? Yeah man those really suck. Oh wait they were hailed as instant classics. More so the first two since the Hannible trilogy was taken over by Hopkins and Manhunter was remade as Red Dragon. And also, the Island is possibly Bay's best movie...outside of the Rock that is. I dont care what anyone says, The Rocks is just a great Hollywood action movie that anyone can enjoy. As for Transformers, I pray for it everynight, also the bots are a little overdone but they still look cool and probably cooler in motion. Lets face it, some fan boys cant be pleased ever no matter what and they just need to stop. I love transformers, I live for it. I've loved it since I was three. I am a TF nut and I am so excited about this movie and it would realy really have to suck for me not to enjoy it.September 1 2006, 03:35:38 UTC 5 years ago
Re: STOP BITCHING
I can't "face" anything until there's a movie to confront anymore than you can. I'm not for or against anything I cannot neither physically face nor observe. judge and your flailing about over leaked designs is as baseless as the other fellow's notion that it's an impending masterpiece.I encourage people to voice their reaction and their speculations and for those problems to generate discussion and debate so that we as a fandom don't self-destruct. Are you trying to tell me that I hope for too much for people or respect transfans too greatly?
Anonymous
September 2 2006, 05:00:57 UTC 5 years ago
Re: STOP BITCHING
Man, you sound like you're already in denial. This movie will be good for the kids, but bad for us who have enjoyed, cherished a classic show such as this!September 2 2006, 08:15:36 UTC 5 years ago
Re: STOP BITCHING
You don't even have the spine to post with an account, that's really compelling. ;) Please learn to , as I truly hate repeating myself.You need to face facts. I agree that the designs are definitely not what I expect, but if that's all Transformers were, a single unchanging image, then they wouldn't TRANSFORM. Quite simply, they wouldn't be the versatile race that has spawned such a rich and magnificent mythos. I agree that the designs are too skeletal and mostly look like somebody glued a million razor blades together, not the best choice in my opinion, and that the last Michael Bay movie I recall after I saw Pearl Harbor was The Island hardly prompts me to be thrilled. So what? Should I wave a chicken over my collection? Should I run screaming into the night "WE DIDN'T LISTEN!!!!"
Snap out of it! The movie's a little less than a year from release and while there's nothing we can do to change the designs at this point, that's a cosmetic concern that could easily be seen to in the second movie and might even make and interesting plot device. If you're going to try to bury the franchise and leave Transformers for dead as a result then please, by all means, enjoy yourself. But I've loved these things too long not to give the movie at least ONE shot at my $8 because I support what I love and boycotting a movie that casts Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime will send a message that I will not be a part of.
As Transfans, all we can do is transform this potential misery and transcend our anxiety as we theorize and debate what might turn out to be an amazing movie or might end up another franchise tie-in flop. We don't know what tomorrow may bring, but if you're giving up then please don't let the door hit you where the dog should have bit you.
Anonymous
September 10 2006, 06:23:41 UTC 5 years ago
Re: STOP BITCHING
You are an F-ing genious, Tekyu. Seriously we need more of you on forum and less of wannabe fanboys who actually gets pissed when their "favorite" franchise gets another chance. Idiots, they don't deserve to watch transformers.