See Optimus Prime in truck mode! Quick!

[hafrogman]

I'm fine with the model shift. . . but flames? I think it needs to be solid red

 

[Morrus]

Um . . . it's a truck. How is this news? Seriously, someone just took a digital photo of a truck, posted it online, and said it was a pic of Optimus Prime. I mean, that'd be like going to the zoo, taking a picture of a gorilla, and saying, "Look, they're going to have BeastWars Optimus Prime!"

I am greatly amused.

What on earth makes you think that? Or that movie studios are in the habit of asking major news sites to remove images of random trucks?

It's Optimus Prime. Not just a random truck.

 

[fett527]

I guess (regardless of whether that's a real picture or not) I just don't care, unless they do something really dumb, and decide to make a Transformer in the shape of a boom box, or a dinosaur, or something.

Don't get me wrong, Soundwave will have to be updated, he just better sound the same.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

I'm siding with Ranger on this one - there is nothing about the pic in and of itself to make me think it is the Big O.P. The type of truck is wrong, the coloring is wrong and there are no Autobot logos in sight. It just looks like a big rig truck, not Optimus Prime.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

I'm fine with the model shift. . . but flames? I think it needs to be solid red

My thoughts exactly. And only because the color of the semi is the color of the robot. Optimus is a red-and-blue sort of 'bot, rather than black-with-flames.

Still, even so I'm not really upset. I will be mildly disappointed if he turns up as a fire engine, as I've heard elsewhere (even if I can understand possible reasons why). But an 18-wheeler is an 18-wheeler, IMO.

 

[Morrus]

I'm siding with Ranger on this one - there is nothing about the pic in and of itself to make me think it is the Big O.P. The type of truck is wrong, the coloring is wrong and there are no Autobot logos in sight. It just looks like a big rig truck, not Optimus Prime.

Err, no, not the pic. The articles accompanying the pic, the studio contacting AICN asking him to take down the pic of Optimus... the general words connected to the pic.

 

[Ranger REG]

For comparative purposes, here's the original Optimus Prime (well, the toy of it - I have one of those!)

Does that comes with a chimp named Bear? Or dem blonde Landers twins?



I don't mind the truck that Klaus was trying to post but it looks old. I mean there are newer models with the engine upfront (rather than having the engine below the cabin).

 

[Desdichado]

That's a pretty underwhelming picture. Then again, I'm not a huge Transformers fan, and I'm pretty dubious that the movie will be any good at all unless it takes a self-mocking, tongue in cheek tone, because let's face it: the concept is really, really silly.

 

[Aaron L]

Much sillier than Spider-Man or Superman? I hope they DONT make it touunge in cheek for the same reason I was so glad they didnt make Spidey tounge in cheek. You can take a silly concept and make it work if its obvious that you arent using it as a joke.

Cristian Bale Batman vs Adam West Batman.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

That's a pretty underwhelming picture. Then again, I'm not a huge Transformers fan, and I'm pretty dubious that the movie will be any good at all unless it takes a self-mocking, tongue in cheek tone, because let's face it: the concept is really, really silly.

As silly as metal skeleton death robots from the future coming back in time to assassinate a resistance leader, speaking with a thick Austrian accent.

With good f/x and a good script, this movie will be great. The concept isn't even close to the craziest Hollywood had found a way to make work.