scoured some transformers forums and found these pics. some are toy prototypes, others are movie concepts. they may or may not reflect the final product, but they are certainly not fan-made.
Man I havent posted in here for a while but.... "For Feck's sake" was a more conservative version of my reaction when I saw these.
And after the misleading build up (Speilberg making all his G1 noises, the flatnose G1-Optimus like truck under the tarp at that show etc )
the descision to turn this into a superficial looking new whole concept at the expense of all G1 lore is a total choker.
It may as well be a gobots movie.
Prime: Looking so vulnerable compared to the original Prime. The original TFs at least looked solid and soulful in their design.
This "Prime" looks totally off to me. He looks like one good twatting would send his armour all over the shop.. Also the Truck looking inconspicous is out too by the looks of it. A COE truck wouldnt have been impossible to do now, would it...?
Starscream: WTF....?!?? Plenty of F-15s in the world. Why did they have to do this blasphemy of turning the 2nd most known decepticon, who is known for being sleek in robot mode(Granted, not as a G1 toy so much though) and as a Jet..? If Starscream was human, I could see him being a seething Kevin Spacey type. THIS design looks more like a "The Rock" or.... or.... nope. To put names of people to this shit would only insult people.
Now we get this Turkey/Monkey thing with virtually no Starscream charicteristics to bare to the eye.
Garbage. Total fecking garbage IMO.
Bumblebee: May as well have just called him Bluestreak or Smokescreen and given his a paint job for all the similarity to Bumblebee that that thing has. Way to pick the right size/class of car, Bay.
Fundimentally.... Were these new characters I could go "mehhh" and take em or leave em.
But to attempt to appeal to our our memories hearts and wallets and then hitting us suddenly with this bionacle looking trash by naming the characters "Prime" "Bumblebee" "Ratchet" "Megatron" etc without acknowledging what made the originals so cool visually or otherwise: unforgivable to me.
Not to mention the backhanders from GM that influenced the inappropriate allocation of characters forms. Kind of a "Highest bidder gets to dictate the forms" mentality made literal. Suckage.
'Course its all open to interpretation.
Well. I hate this interpretation.
Very generic and souless And the recent Alternators/ Masterpiece lines are the an excellent reworking. Why...?
Because they stayed true to the characters while updating the look.
This is just like making Batman with Batman's costume Pink and instead of pairing him with Robin, it could be poodlefish.
Just to be 'different and creative'.
How well would that be recieved by Batfans raised on Batlore...?
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I think the transformed Optimus looks cool. but the 'vehicle' mode is UGH, he's a regular truck...with flames? FLAMES?!!! the original colour scheme was great. and the 'flat' face truck was what i expected from optimus, but since you dont see those kind of trucks around anymore i guess they went with the times.
the others are meh too, hopefully the movie will be good enough that we can get pass the look of the transformers
oh and how the heck are kids going to transform a transformer that looks THAT complicated, looking at prime and bumblebee they have so many little parts and stuff...
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To me, that is one of THE absolute worst Transformer design I have ever seen. It looks like a DIGIMON, for Goodness sakes! Man. Spielberg and Bay may have already ruined it. But, we can't be that sure for now.
i think it looks ace. i've already seen this pic but forgot to post it. i also saw some v close ups of optimus. i also saw some cars on set that had the decepticon badge on it. it was a police car
haha thanks for the diagram. i could see his mouth and facial features i guess. but that starscream has a fcked up face and that helicopter guy Incinerator.
however im still looking forward to this movie.
i wanna see what Frenzy looks like, wikipedia lists him as an mp3 player and an allie of Soundwave(who will not be in the movie cuz they agreed they could not get him right)
lol no problem. i really like the new look of them. i agree the originals were ace. they had more personality. but this makes them look more threatening and realistic for todays audiences. ok i understand that giants robots in disguise from space isnt believable. but i think it is more believable this way than if they were to have a pretty face.
also i like your new style of sigs. however i prefer your previous one to this
the originals are great ofcourse yeah. But they were overdue for a new look i guess. I guess i see where Michael Bay and co are coming from, cuz if they used the original look, the transformation would be sort of lazy.
thanks, hmm i just felt like changing my sig but i liked it more than the current one i have heh.
pic below, lazy transformation fanart i think
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