Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS - More Pics!

[Darth K'Trava]

*interrupts* Cartoonish?

Maybe not "cartoonish" but not changing the characters appearance or personalities drastically. Keeping them as close to the originals in those aspects.

 

[D.Shaffer]

Maybe not "cartoonish" but not changing the characters appearance or personalities drastically. Keeping them as close to the originals in those aspects.

Keep in mind the Transformers brand has been around for a long time. If you asked a kid who grew up on Beast Wars or one of the later Transformers line (Armada, Cybertron, ETC), you'd get a very different responce to 'How should Megatron look). Megs has been one of the more...varied transformers around. Gun, tank, T-rex, alligator, car, fighter, space ship, giant hand, etc

 

[Acid_crash]

Umm, are you disappointed they're using the original cartoon for inspiration in the upcoming film, or that they're not the same? :\

Because I'm a fan of the original cartoon, where Optimus Prime is a trailer truck ... not the most recent series where he's a flying firetruck.

I'm a BIG fan of the original, not none of this new anime influenced crap cartoons that we are seeing nowadays. The original is awesome, but after seeing the new megatron it's not really based on the original, is it?

Perhaps they are going for something totally different for most of the transformers in the new film. I don't know.

 

[Klaus]

IMHO, Megatron's form should be a weapon, reflecting his own character. Since it'd be silly to have him be a Walther PPK (as he was in G1) or a tripod space cannon (as Galvatron), the form that works best for him would be a tank.

I´d like to see the CGI models for Optimus and Megatron used in recreating the awesome brawl those two had in the Transformers movie. That'd go a long way in dissuading the fears of G1 fans. Specially since they got the original voice actor to be Optimus again.

 

[Ranger REG]

Maybe not "cartoonish" but not changing the characters appearance or personalities drastically. Keeping them as close to the originals in those aspects.

For now, I prefer they edit Megatron's face. I like his face to resemble an iconic "Moriarty" type villain, not some horror film reject. Give that "ass-face" to one of his enforcer assassin mook-bots.

 

[frankthedm]

Done and done! Crash and Burn!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099313/
ironically this little "gem" is written by the same hack who wrote the just released "Covenent" movie.

Really? This means the borrowing goes back a long way...

C&B: Btech
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Underworld: V:tm W:tA
Covenent: M:tA

 

[Klaus]

Bumping this up to post the concept art for Autobot Jazz.

When did Jazz

turn into Shockwave?

Hope he can bust a move like this Citroen C4...

 

[Ranger REG]

Hope he can bust a move like this Citroen C4...

I knew that is going to bite us in the ass when comparing Citroen to Optimus.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

IMHO, Megatron's form should be a weapon, reflecting his own character. Since it'd be silly to have him be a Walther PPK (as he was in G1) or a tripod space cannon (as Galvatron), the form that works best for him would be a tank.

I suspect the reason he seems to be a plane is so that he can be shown flying with the other Decepticons, and not just as a flying robot like he was in the cartoon.

Not saying I'm a fan of the change (I'd prefer a tank, myself), but that's probably the rationale.

Maybe they should have made him some type of gunship? Some kind of helicopter? Or else just have some other Decepticons that are land vehicles as well (such as the Stunticons or Constructicons) and have the aerial Decepticons serve as air support. There's not really any reason to have all the Decepticons be some type of planes, after all.