Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS - More Pics!

[D.Shaffer]

For those at all interested, the TFW2005 site now has pics of the full scale Bumblebee prop.
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/imagehosting/441824504a1ef2cfd4.jpg

 

[David Howery]

Meh. It wouldn't be the same without LAMs.

Besides, they're undergoing some non-digital makeover with the original 'Mechs in order to avoid further lawsuits from Harmony Gold.

eh... LAMS? What be them? Harmony Gold? What are these strange words you say?

 

[Taelorn76]

For those at all interested, the TFW2005 site now has pics of the full scale Bumblebee prop.
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/imagehosting/441824504a1ef2cfd4.jpg

The pic doesn't seem to bad. The body style does correspond to the pics of prime. the parts seem to flow, they are not boxy or blocky

 

[Roudi]

The new designs to make sense, form a certain point of view. Robots require lots of little parts to acquire the same kind of articulation and range of motion as human beings (unless they develop a synthetic system that mimicks muscles, but that would make them less distinguishable from humans to begin with). The blocky transformers of yore contained a great deal of handwaivium ore; any real machine constructed like G1 Optimus Prime would never be able to move as the cartoon portrayed.

Besides, this new look is more alien, which is kind of the point. I wouldn't expect any other sentient race to look particularly like anything found on Earth (even encountering another bipedal alien species is a stretch).

 

[Ranger REG]

eh... LAMS? What be them? Harmony Gold? What are these strange words you say?

???

For a guy who wants to see a BattleTech movie, you sure don't know much about the BattleTech game (the classic version, not the Wizkids "clickymechs"), huh?

LAM = Land-Air 'Mech. You take something like a Phoenix Hawk or a Stinger (BT version of Robotech Veritech fighters) and add aerospace flight and VTOL capabilities.

 

[David Howery]

???

For a guy who wants to see a BattleTech movie, you sure don't know much about the BattleTech game (the classic version, not the Wizkids "clickymechs"), huh?

LAM = Land-Air 'Mech. You take something like a Phoenix Hawk or a Stinger (BT version of Robotech Veritech fighters) and add aerospace flight and VTOL capabilities.

no, I don't know much about the game... did read a couple of the novels... but I do get the basic idea behind it all, and it's pretty neat.... and it would certainly make a better big budget CGI laden movie than Transformers....

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

...think it's obvious that "anime" in this case is shorthand for "spiky weird looking stuff", which, to non-anime buffs, is pretty much waht the word means.

And big eyes. Don't forget big eyes. Like abnormally big eyes. Like if you saw someone on the street with eye sizes (ratio of eye size to skull size) the way they are in the cartoons, it would be alarming and gross.

Any way, aside from Megatron's bung-hole-with-fangs mouth, the designs don't bother me. I'm not the 12 year old fan I once was. I'm 33 and mildy intrested. The look of the 'Formers worries me much less than the story. Granted, I did not watch the cartoon when I was 12 for high quality story. But now I don't want to shell out chash to see a movie for 12 year olds. It doesn't have to be high art, just so long as it doesn't make me want to go all MST3k on it.

 

[Ranger REG]

no, I don't know much about the game... did read a couple of the novels... but I do get the basic idea behind it all, and it's pretty neat.... and it would certainly make a better big budget CGI laden movie than Transformers....

Yet a strong case why each game setting needs to be supported with a series of tie-in novels.

 

[Ranger REG]

And big eyes. Don't forget big eyes. Like abnormally big eyes. Like if you saw someone on the street with eye sizes (ratio of eye size to skull size) the way they are in the cartoons, it would be alarming and gross.

One can only hope that none of the Transformers have groping tentacle. Of course, I won't object to having girls in short, tight sailor outfits like in Austin Powers 3.

 

[full_moon_draw]

Hmm,
I'm not the 12 year old fan I once was either - I'm interested cos it reminds me of the days when . . . But that aside -

Yeah - see what you all mean! Prime, yeah, very nice, very modern, but still Prime, an update, but recognisable as the character that we used to know!

But Meagatron, would someone tell me WHAT that has to do with the original? Answer - not a lot! You could call the character Megashark & no one would know the difference!! I mean - it's not even a gun! I mean, with those gangly old arms it looks part Gibbon!!

I hope that the treatment of the charcaters isn't indicitive of the treatment of the film?
I simply don't know why hollywood does it! They see a concept they like. Then throw the ideas & the story behind the original concept away when the film is made! Makes little sense to me peoples!

Transformers is alien robots that change into stuff, fighting a war for domination of their planet on our turf! If it aint that in the film then I wonder why they bothered to use the TF trademark at all?

Starting to sound like straight to DVD to me ladies & gents.

Cheers - FMD