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 Grimtuff wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
I thought Megatron was dead (again).

And then he'll be reborn as Galvatron.

You forgot the evil cackling

Coronation Starscream? This is bad comedy...

They got on well as room mates...
NSFW language
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kEAC7pEPLI

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
I thought Megatron was dead (again).

And then he'll be reborn as Galvatron.

Or Megacron/Unitron.

 Medium of Death wrote:
Wonder what that could be at the start? A ship or a giant transformer?

Pretty standard Bay it seems.

He'll never live up to the greatness of the 1986 movie, but he can keep trying.

When I moved to the US I brought 2 DVDs with me, and the animated Transformers film was one of them (Heat was the other).

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

When I moved to the US I brought 2 DVDs with me, and the animated Transformers film was one of them (Heat was the other).

Glad to see you have your priorities straight.

Ugh....what can possibly make these movies any worse?

Robo T-rex Eyebrow Horns.

 whitedragon wrote:
Ugh....what can possibly make these movies any worse?

Robo T-rex Eyebrow Horns.

Just roll with it man...

I'm mean... C'mon, TRANSAFORMER ON SCREEN!!!!

At least Shia isn't in it.

I'm down with Marky Mark as an actor. (and he's been really busy as of late... just a feth ton of flicks lately).

It is Optimus riding Grimock in T-Rex form in China in I-MAX 3D
That alone make it worth it!

Actually, that alone makes me not want to see it. Grimlock, the Mighty suffers not riders.

this was my first time seeing the trailer....I hoped the thread title was a joke...i has a sad

I'd watch this movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4_r27TNOLQ

 Frazzled wrote:
Actually, that alone makes me not want to see it. Grimlock, the Mighty suffers not riders.

Me thinks you haven't seen the classic cartoons.

 whembly wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Actually, that alone makes me not want to see it. Grimlock, the Mighty suffers not riders.

Me thinks you haven't seen the classic cartoons.

Me Grimlock agree. Can tell from thread those puny humans who were not born in 80's.

 Grimtuff wrote:
OP does not know who Grimlock is. Me Grimlock disappointed.

I hope Swoop, Snarl, Slag and Sludge are in there too.

Swoop is in, I think SlagSlug too, the others are replaced by a velociraptor and spinosaurus that we don't know the official names of.

Villains we know so far: Galvatron, Lockdown, and Stunticons rumoured/alt modes seen.


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 loki old fart wrote:
As someone who as all the original series and movies. These films annoy me, so much of the story changed.

Different universal continuity stream. Movies have nothing to do with G1, just like Aligned(Prime and the newer video games), Animated, and Unicron Trilogy.

You say all, do you have Headmasters, Masterforce, Victory, and Zone?


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Also, Optimus is far from the only robot T-Rex riding Autobot:

Grimlock not horse. Grimlock king!!!

There is a larger question floating around these kinds of films about how much respect should be given to the source material. As a huge TF one of my largest complaints would be that I simply don't recognise many characters and those I do are often only by process of elimination. There are changes that need to be made when you go to live action, no doubt but Bay has made numerous changes simply for changes sake. There's no good reason Ironhide couldn't be red or couldn't have been Trailbreaker (who actually is a black 4x4 with guns all over him). Simple stuff like that there's a couple examples of where respecting the source material and pleasing fans was downright easy. By the third film it almost appears Bay is trying to mess with fans.

As to Grimlock with a rider... well we've already seen Wheelie (or something called Wheelie) but then Grimlock has, historically not really gotten along with Prime (as opposed to Wheelie- him friend!) so being Prime's mount does seem out of character. It's also worth noting that while the dinobots were large, this makes Grimlock absurdly large. Prime is 32 feet tall and looks small on Grimlocks back there. Grimlock's robot form must be staggeringly tall.

 Kojiro wrote:
There is a larger question floating around these kinds of films about how much respect should be given to the source material. As a huge TF one of my largest complaints would be that I simply don't recognise many characters and those I do are often only by process of elimination. There are changes that need to be made when you go to live action, no doubt but Bay has made numerous changes simply for changes sake. There's no good reason Ironhide couldn't be red or couldn't have been Trailbreaker (who actually is a black 4x4 with guns all over him). Simple stuff like that there's a couple examples of where respecting the source material and pleasing fans was downright easy. By the third film it almost appears Bay is trying to mess with fans.

As to Grimlock with a rider... well we've already seen Wheelie (or something called Wheelie) but then Grimlock has, historically not really gotten along with Prime (as opposed to Wheelie- him friend!) so being Prime's mount does seem out of character. It's also worth noting that while the dinobots were large, this makes Grimlock absurdly large. Prime is 32 feet tall and looks small on Grimlocks back there. Grimlock's robot form must be staggeringly tall.

There are lots of thiings that cause changes. One maybe Iron hide was suposed to be red, but it did not look right on film or it showed up black and after two or three shots in someone point out the error and it was to costly to change things.
Look back at Star Treck 3, those Kingons were suposed to be Romulans, but a change was made after the Space Sceens had already been filmed, changing Star Treck History forever.

 Kojiro wrote:
There is a larger question floating around these kinds of films about how much respect should be given to the source material. As a huge TF one of my largest complaints would be that I simply don't recognise many characters and those I do are often only by process of elimination. There are changes that need to be made when you go to live action, no doubt but Bay has made numerous changes simply for changes sake. There's no good reason Ironhide couldn't be red or couldn't have been Trailbreaker (who actually is a black 4x4 with guns all over him). Simple stuff like that there's a couple examples of where respecting the source material and pleasing fans was downright easy. By the third film it almost appears Bay is trying to mess with fans.

As to Grimlock with a rider... well we've already seen Wheelie (or something called Wheelie) but then Grimlock has, historically not really gotten along with Prime (as opposed to Wheelie- him friend!) so being Prime's mount does seem out of character. It's also worth noting that while the dinobots were large, this makes Grimlock absurdly large. Prime is 32 feet tall and looks small on Grimlocks back there. Grimlock's robot form must be staggeringly tall.

We have no idea what's in character for this Grimlock, as he's never been seen in any media.

These aren't the G1 characters. Please stop demanding that they must look and act like they're from that time and universal conitnuity.

Also, here's Ironhide from various continuities not including G1:













So let's see, that 3 continuities where he's red, 4 where he's not(5 if you count Shattered Glass, where he's black), and 1 where he's red and blue.


I love G1, but I'm tired of this need people have for things needing to be GEEWUN all the time.

Guys, everyone knows that Michael Bay is only capable of making one good movie every 20 years. And 2013 gave us Pain and Gain. We might get a good Transformers film in 2033.

I thought Transformers was pretty bad. I decided to see Transformers 2 after a friend liked it, and left the theater after 20 minutes. I obviously did not watch Transformers 3, but did briefly flip through it and thought it looked truly awful.

That being said, oh man, Grimlock?

Also for IDW fans:

Drift's in, have a robot mode.



And a couple more from over the last 2 years or so.

The interior toy packaging, showing the Dinobot dino modes



Stunticons probably



Motormaster maybe



Hound



Slingshot perhaps

 Platuan4th wrote:
We have no idea what's in character for this Grimlock, as he's never been seen in any media.

And what, it's absurd to think that a transformer called Grimlock might have some of the characteristics of the iconic character Grimlock?

These aren't the G1 characters. Please stop demanding that they must look and act like they're from that time and universal conitnuity.

Hold your horses there son. No one is demanding anything- artists (loosely as the definition applies to Bay) are free to create whatever content they want and we are free to criticise it as our appreciation of it suits us. Bay's free to make black Ironhides and I'm free to criticise it.That said Ironhide is but one example of such things that could have pleased fans without any real cost.

I personally think the source material should be respected whenever it doesn't detract from the work- you may disagree. Tell me, would you be happy with a 40K film where the Ravenwing wore red? Or would you be fine with Game of Thrones making The Red Viper some foppish noble scared of combat?

 Kojiro wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:
We have no idea what's in character for this Grimlock, as he's never been seen in any media.

And what, it's absurd to think that a transformer called Grimlock might have some of the characteristics of the iconic character Grimlock?

RiD Grimlock. Just saying.

 Kojiro wrote:
I personally think the source material should be respected whenever it doesn't detract from the work- you may disagree. Tell me, would you be happy with a 40K film where the Ravenwing wore red? Or would you be fine with Game of Thrones making The Red Viper some foppish noble scared of combat?

Meh, not really bothered with a 40K film. GW doesn't care about what they write, I'd expect another film to feel the same.

I actually haven't read or seen Games of Thrones, so your second example means nothing to me.

 Platuan4th wrote:
RiD Grimlock. Just saying.

I'd say that's another example of a poorly named character. Note also RiD is an American dubbing onf a Japanese cartoon where the character was originally called Build Hurricane. It's literally a case of 'slap a name on it' with no good reason to call it Grimlock. If you can't see any compelling reason why Grimlock is an inappropriate name- of all the possibly names to steal (let alone simply translate!) for an upbeat green robot that turns into a crane you're just not seeing reason. Aside from the fact the character HAS an actual name there is already a green Autobot whose schtick is lifting things called Hoist this is Grimlock- an absolutely ICONIC character- a freaking T-REX. Grimlocks popularity and the reason he's in this film- like Ironhide- is because of that classic G1 version (and it's close mirrors) and it's disingenuous to suggest the RiD one is the possible 'source' material. By your rational expecting Grimlock to even be a dinosaur- let alone t-rex- is too much.

 Platuan4th wrote:
Meh, not really bothered with a 40K film. GW doesn't care about what they write, I'd expect another film to feel the same.

Right- so skipping right past the examples you're fine with change to the source material simply for the same of change?

 Kojiro wrote:
Right- so skipping right past the examples you're fine with change to the source material simply for the same of change?

No, I'm saying that I'm not adverse to change just because something was a certain way in the past.

 whitedragon wrote:
I'd watch this movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4_r27TNOLQ

I enjoyed these games much more than I did any of the movies.

side note, do the transformers look a bit sportier in this trailer?

Seriously? Prime get's badly mauled......again?!?

With the exception of maybe the toys, Transformers has been gak since the beginning it's all just one big ad to sell toys, there's no depth to any if it and the animation is god awful.

shia ladouche isn't in it. While I don't expect the plot to be any less foul smelling than the others, the fact that shia isn't in it makes me want to see how much better the film is without him.

My prediction? A whole lot better.