New Transformers trailer

[Justice41]

Just follow the instructions on ssh. Make sure when you access the site to double click the red hard drive image. Some kick ass stuff in there.
http://www.superherohype.com/news/topnews.php?id=5423

[DoctorWHO]

Still not transformers to me.

[Jason Powell]

They made a live action Robotchicken? :blink:

-SIN-
Jason

[DemolitionSamurai]

It doesn't look like Transformers at all, but I'm at least kind of interested in seeing it now.

[BIGROD]

Some pretty cool Starscream scenes.

[Calloway]

That trailers not new.

yeah, not really transformers. The autobots are the closest thing to the originals.

[Justice41]

If you aint seen it it's new to you.

[Calloway]

someone posted it here two months ago...I wanna see more transforming cars, not guyvers..and their not really transforming their just robots crouched down with the fenders and what not just being cosmetic where in G1 they were part of the robot.

[Justice41]

You may have seen the wrong trailer. I've never seen that Starscream transformation scene or even the Optimus beginning to transform shot ever.

[Jasen Smith]

I wanna watch it but it may be a let down...the good thing is I'm expecting it to be a let down and after I watch it may be better than my expectations.

[rummblestrips]

Effects look really nice

[Calloway]

You may have seen the wrong trailer. I've never seen that Starscream transformation scene or even the Optimus beginning to transform shot ever.


really, never saw the pool scene? I remember everyone making comments on both before. I think Marv posted it from the apple site.

[BIGROD]

This trailer was completely different than the one released months ago. I saw it again on television last night during the Florida/UCLA game.

[ponyrl]

Still not transformers to me.
ditto.

[Calloway]

ditto.

xerox.

[ponyrl]

xerox.
parkay?

Como oo sta oo stay.

:laugh:

The comic version based off it sucks.

And I bet you THIS......

There will be too many scenes with humans.

raise your hand if you watched G1 for spike and his dad?

[Calloway]

Well the book is out.

The thing is they aren't really transforming. They are either crouching or standing. Prime is about the only one I've seen transform.

Spike did become an intergal part of tf after the first movie...but then again, almost everything after the movie kinda sucked. Rodimus prime sucked.

[JamieRoberts]

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/clippings/photos/bdo/crowd/hands.jpg
WIT-WICK-Y!
WIT-WICK-Y!

[JamieRoberts]

Well the book is out.

The thing is they aren't really transforming. They are either crouching or standing. Prime is about the only one I've seen transform.

Spike did become an intergal part of tf after the first movie...but then again, almost everything after the movie kinda sucked. Rodimus prime sucked.
The third season was a real letdown. There were some decent moments ('Fight or Flee' and 'Return of Optimus Prime' were good), but overall the production values were a step down, the colours were gaudy, and in the case of episodes like 'Big Broadcast of 2006' (fuck, that was last year), parts were nonsensical.

Rodimus was a bad idea, because Hot Rod was awesome. Everyone loved Hot Rod. Then they turned him into a wagon. What? He was a shit-hot car! Jesus, turning Kup into a wagon would have been okay. Turning Ultra Magnus into an aubergine would have been fine, but the best design of the new Autobots gets an hour of looking cool before turning into Self-Doubtimus Prime? Pfshaw.

[Calloway]

It wasn't just the wagon but rodimus was so weak. he whined about everything. RC was a big upset too. They never made her a toy. Or unicorn (til 2 years ago anyway).

[Calloway]

hmm, I musta been linked to an older trailer..I just saw the new one on tv...starscream was kinda cool but oddly enough..HE DIDN'T LOOK LIKE A JET!

[ChrisK]

It wasn't just the wagon but rodimus was so weak. he whined about everything. RC was a big upset too. They never made her a toy. Or unicorn (til 2 years ago anyway).

Unicron.

They had a prototype Unicron, it was huge, Hot Rod (robot mode) came to about mid-calf. I just recent, they made an arcee toy, although it was a bike I think.
http://www.unicron.com/mainpage/unicron/g1unicronprototype1.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c4/Arcee-energon.jpg/240px-Arcee-energon.jpg

[Calloway]

I heard of the prototype from years ago but the new one looks just like him:

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0828/6.jpg

[fluxchild]

The third season was a real letdown. There were some decent moments ('Fight or Flee' and 'Return of Optimus Prime' were good), but overall the production values were a step down, the colours were gaudy, and in the case of episodes like 'Big Broadcast of 2006' (fuck, that was last year), parts were nonsensical.

Rodimus was a bad idea, because Hot Rod was awesome. Everyone loved Hot Rod. Then they turned him into a wagon. What? He was a shit-hot car! Jesus, turning Kup into a wagon would have been okay. Turning Ultra Magnus into an aubergine would have been fine, but the best design of the new Autobots gets an hour of looking cool before turning into Self-Doubtimus Prime? Pfshaw.


i used to love Rodimus Prime...but maybe that's because my name is Rod....hmm...I dunno....the third season wasn't that bad imo...i thought that turning him into the futuristic truck was a good idea...it was kinda like what an el dorado is....with a campe...ok ok...it could have been better, and they turned him into a doubter because he wasn't supposed to be a leader yet...optimus was supposed to come back...

[Calloway]

Not originally. He was a sissy boy. He wanted to play and not lead.

They did release a new hot rod toy that looks just like the original. At wal mart...same with star scream and the rest..very nice.

[Calloway]

http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/default.cfm?page=News/Item&newsID=A368F4E4-D56F-E112-4603602417141C66

[Calloway]

optimus in protoform:

http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/ProductsByBrand.htm?BR=496&SBR=493&ST=SO&ID=19504&PG=1

[TheMadPierrot]

For some reason the movie designs remind me of those little saucers from "Batteries Not Included" on steroids. I have no idea why.

[fluxchild]

that's funny they kinda do to me too. I'm pretty excited about the movie though. You have to be crazy to think they're gonna look like the g1 cartoon, although I wish Megatron looked the part...

[GigaLeo]

I figure I'll go see it, enjoy the pretty effects, maybe laugh at a scene or two, and try to leave it at that. From what I've seen so far this movie is to Transformers what the Tristar "Godzilla" was to, well, the real Godzilla. It was a giant monster movie, but it wasn't Godzilla. This film is about big robot aliens fighting each other, but it isn't Transformers. I wonder if people will start referring to them as TINO(Transformers In Name Only)?

[Biofungus]

Unicron.

They had a prototype Unicron, it was huge, Hot Rod (robot mode) came to about mid-calf. I just recent, they made an arcee toy, although it was a bike I think.
http://www.unicron.com/mainpage/unicron/g1unicronprototype1.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c4/Arcee-energon.jpg/240px-Arcee-energon.jpg

The Arcee bike doesn't look bad (if you see the image name, you'll see it's based on the TF: Energon design).

I have to laugh at the Unicron prototype though, because he looks just like a robotic Orson Welles! :p

[Calloway]

that's funny they kinda do to me too. I'm pretty excited about the movie though. You have to be crazy to think they're gonna look like the g1 cartoon, although I wish Megatron looked the part...


why? More people were excited by the prime and sideswipe g1 animations out there then they are about this super sized Johnny 5 is alive fest.

[Justice41]

Dude if you want a buncha stacked up boxes pretending to be robots then watch the cartoons or better yet Voltron. These designs are what any robot, machine would look like. Can't just design away the bulk that makes up a Helicopter or a car or tank just to satisfy fanboys.
This aint Superman's costume

[Cat]

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http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/transformers.html

[Spacious Interior]

Starscream's little manuever in the new trailer is pretty sweet.

[Justice41]

Optimus looks badass.
http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/paramount_pictures/transformers/big_fight.jpg

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/paramount_pictures/transformers/big_run.jpg

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/paramount_pictures/transformers/big_police.jpg

[MatthewMonster]

WOW.

Optimus fighting looks AWESOME.

I'm Won Over.

[ChrisK]

I am so hard for this movie. If this movie were a vagina, I'd be screwing it right now.

[ChrisK]

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/b0ogie/big_fight.jpg

[The Dag]

i want to see this now..

[Calloway]

WOW.

Optimus fighting looks AWESOME.

I'm Won Over.


Holy crap! Talk about tricking people...You were won over with the first trailer because, and I paraphrase here "It's a big robot movie and I love me some big robots I don't care if it's true to source...it's BIG ROBOTS!"


Anyway, Justice, you were what? 30 when transformers came out? Real robots are blocky, sorry.

[Moonrider]

Anyway, Justice, you were what? 30 when transformers came out? Real robots are blocky, sorry.

Uh...dude, what are you? A 9 years old? Real robots aren't blocky. Super robots are.

Those categorized as 'real robots' are:
- Mass produced
- Proportional in strength
- Mostly no higher than a tall building
- Bound to several laws of real physics and mechanics
- Maneuverable. Blocky robots aren't in any way maneuverable.
- Other examples: Gundams, Patlabor, Armored Core

Those categorized as 'super robots' are:
- One of a kind
- Ridiculously all-powerful
- Frickin' huge.
- Not bound to any real physics or mechanics
- Blocky, unrealistic, or just downright impossible to be maneuverable in real life.
- Examples: Shin Getter Robo (with a tomahawk as large as the moon!), Mazinger Z, Voltron

[Calloway]

read robot magazine...look up japanese robots...look at factory robots (which we have two of at work).

hello?

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k13/BlogPictures1/2005/Robots%20Premiere/robotspremiere3.jpg

and that would cover what us robot nerds call bipedal. Now if your talking simple robots like line sensor or light sensor bots or maybe even the hexes then yes...but they lack a protective covering and all the hardware is exposed.

[Moonrider]

read robot magazine...look up japanese robots...look at factory robots (which we have two of at work).

and that would cover what us robot nerds call bipedal. Now if your talking simple robots like line sensor or light sensor bots or maybe even the hexes then yes...but they lack a protective covering and all the hardware is exposed.

You just don't have any imagination in you, huh?
I'm not talking about real robots as in 'robots that our current technology can allow to make', and I believe none of us did except you. We're talking about transforming robots. Toy robots. Cartoon robots. Something that has been going around in our pop culture for generations. These kinds of robots are what Transformers are all about and you give me an Asimo crap.

The robots we're talking about are a staple of kids entertainment here and in Japan where it thrives the most, and there these kinds of robots have already been made into a genre all its own. In this genre there are two types of robots, which I have already stated. You can tell the difference between them too if you are really into them, which I see that you're not.

And I'm not talking about these kinds of robots either.
http://gallery.hd.org/_tn/std/mechanoids/Robot-Olympics-Sept1990-ZIGZAG-AJHD.jpg

[MatthewMonster]

Holy crap! Talk about tricking people...You were won over with the first trailer because, and I paraphrase here "It's a big robot movie and I love me some big robots I don't care if it's true to source...it's BIG ROBOTS!"



:laugh:

Its Micheal Bay so I've had a few nerves, but your right I'm more on board for this movie then you are...Sure flames are silly...but its still a big red and blue truck. You dont seem to get that.

Heres a lesson about Transformers. If you want add tsi to wkipedia. It will help people.

Transformers are cool giant robots that turn into cars/vehicles. There are good guys call Autobots and bad guys called Decepticons.

Bad guys have a leader called Megatron, He was a gun...then he died and turned into some spaceship/gun thing and had Spocks voice, he also got a shiney new name I think...and he was Purple and ORange YUCK ! I think he turned into a Dinosaur when Transformers morphed into animals...but that is so far off my radar it dosent even matter....but I was too old to follow any of that anyway.

Good Guys have a leader called Optimus Prime. He tends to be a truck. It tends to be Blue and Red. Hes got a big gun. His voice is cool. I think he died too..but then came back.

They have this planet called Cybertron, and they eat food called Energon cubes.

Beyond that theres a whole host of different good guys and bad guys with cool names. Som are even things called Sharkticons !

..when they transform theres this cool " weh-wah-wah-wah" noise thats great !

They are WAY cooler then Go - Bots

See...now even YOU can enjoy this movie ! :carrot:

[Spacious Interior]

Who can argue with that?

[Justice41]

I was 18 Lil and I watched the toons and even had the Optimus and Megatron figures. Still wish I had them, haven't a clue where and what I did with them.

[Calloway]

Uh...dude, what are you? A 9 years old? Real robots aren't blocky. Super robots are.

Those categorized as 'real robots' are:
- Mass produced
- Proportional in strength
- Mostly no higher than a tall building
- Bound to several laws of real physics and mechanics
- Maneuverable. Blocky robots aren't in any way maneuverable.
- Other examples: Gundams, Patlabor, Armored Core

Those categorized as 'super robots' are:
- One of a kind
- Ridiculously all-powerful
- Frickin' huge.
- Not bound to any real physics or mechanics
- Blocky, unrealistic, or just downright impossible to be maneuverable in real life.
- Examples: Shin Getter Robo (with a tomahawk as large as the moon!), Mazinger Z, Voltron

I've never thought of cel drawn robots as real. We should draw some to help in iraq woohoo!

[Calloway]

I was 18 Lil and I watched the toons and even had the Optimus and Megatron figures. Still wish I had them, haven't a clue where and what I did with them.

That's cool...kinda evens out the other stuff you've said. Cause at 18 I was not into toys at all...not even into cartoons. I grew outta the transformers at about 14...grew back into them at 24 haha.

[ChrisK]

<--- has original Optimus and Megatron, along with about a hundred more.

[DoctorWHO]

:laugh:

Its Micheal Bay so I've had a few nerves, but your right I'm more on board for this movie then you are...Sure flames are silly...but its still a big red and blue truck. You dont seem to get that.

Heres a lesson about Transformers. If you want add tsi to wkipedia. It will help people.

Transformers are cool giant robots that turn into cars/vehicles. There are good guys call Autobots and bad guys called Decepticons.

Bad guys have a leader called Megatron, He was a gun...then he died and turned into some spaceship/gun thing and had Spocks voice, he also got a shiney new name I think...and he was Purple and ORange YUCK ! I think he turned into a Dinosaur when Transformers morphed into animals...but that is so far off my radar it dosent even matter....but I was too old to follow any of that anyway.

Good Guys have a leader called Optimus Prime. He tends to be a truck. It tends to be Blue and Red. Hes got a big gun. His voice is cool. I think he died too..but then came back.

They have this planet called Cybertron, and they eat food called Energon cubes.

Beyond that theres a whole host of different good guys and bad guys with cool names. Som are even things called Sharkticons !

..when they transform theres this cool " weh-wah-wah-wah" noise thats great !

They are WAY cooler then Go - Bots

See...now even YOU can enjoy this movie ! :carrot:


Weh wah wah wha? What sissy Transformer made that f'n noise? Oh...these ones.

[Moonrider]

I've never thought of cel drawn robots as real. We should draw some to help in iraq woohoo!

Like I said, I'm not talking about real life robotics. I'm talking about genres in robot movies, cartoons and pop culture. It's not called 'real robots' because it's real, it's called that because marketing guys in Japan needed to distinguish their products from the '70s giant robot cartoon shows. God, I hate to repeat myself. Do you hear that? I hate to repeat myself!

Let me just ask you one thing then. Would you prefer to get in line at the ticket booth for a 90 minute movie about Asimo rather than watching (Michael Bay's) Transformers? Somehow I don't think so but you'd probably say you would just to spite me.

[ponyrl]

<--- has original Optimus and Megatron, along with about a hundred more.
<--------still has ALL of his ALSO


ENVY ME, PUNKS!

:)

[Calloway]

Like I said, I'm not talking about real life robotics. I'm talking about genres in robot movies, cartoons and pop culture. It's not called 'real robots' because it's real, it's called that because marketing guys in Japan needed to distinguish their products from the '70s giant robot cartoon shows. God, I hate to repeat myself. Do you hear that? I hate to repeat myself!

Let me just ask you one thing then. Would you prefer to get in line at the ticket booth for a 90 minute movie about Asimo rather than watching (Michael Bay's) Transformers? Somehow I don't think so but you'd probably say you would just to spite me.

I got ya. I was just jabbing.

Gundams seem to fit into the blocky catergory. Did you ever see that transforming sideswipe?

First let's get a real transformer:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TISM-sozU_A&mode=related&search=

Then a generic one used on a commercial(which looks like g-1..which wasn't as blocky as some may think):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=P4ckJFNkra8

an optimus fake:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tx0XxL8VFxM

and the sideswipe:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OBY1nxEP3ds

all in the style of the original and to me, look nothing like crap.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OBY1nxEP3ds


I wouldn't have one problem with this movie as a giant alien machine movie BUT the moment they say primes name, bumblebees name, megatrons name my mind will automatically associate it with the originals and be totally unsatiesfied if that makes sense.

[Moonrider]

I got ya. I was just jabbing.


Oh okay. Although it wouldn't hurt to let me in on the joke instead of thinking I was the joke next time, you hear? :p

By the way I think 'blocky' is not quite the right word, but rather 'geometrical'. Gundams are in some parts blocky but in many parts mimic real human limbs with organic shapes. Recent Japanese Transformers designs have shown some Gundam-ish traits, though. Probably to appease more Gundam fans/Bandai fanatics.

Well if this movie suck at least I can try to find a Tetsujin 28 (Gigantor) live action movie on ebay. That there looks exactly like the cartoon.

[MatthewMonster]

DINOBOTS !?

http://kungfurodeo.com/2007/04/03/dinobots-in-the-transformers-movie/

http://kungfurodeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/dinobot_1.jpg

http://kungfurodeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/dinobot_2.jpg

FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. Unless my eyes are wrong thats Grimlock.

On the website theres an Insecticon clip as well.

[DoctorWHO]

DINOBOTS !?

http://kungfurodeo.com/2007/04/03/dinobots-in-the-transformers-movie/

http://kungfurodeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/dinobot_1.jpg

http://kungfurodeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/dinobot_2.jpg

FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. Unless my eyes are wrong thats Grimlock.

On the website theres an Insecticon clip as well.

Fan made stuff...been posted a long time ago. Still very impressive though.

[MatthewMonster]

you sure ?

Its on that sector seven site...which is official

[DoctorWHO]

you sure ?

Its on that sector seven site...which is official

Very sure....it's on YouTube.com...and it was posted on other TF fan forums well before the movie was being filmed.

[KenKRK]

I got ya. I was just jabbing.

Gundams seem to fit into the blocky catergory. Did you ever see that transforming sideswipe?

First let's get a real transformer:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TISM-sozU_A&mode=related&search=

Then a generic one used on a commercial(which looks like g-1..which wasn't as blocky as some may think):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=P4ckJFNkra8

an optimus fake:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tx0XxL8VFxM

and the sideswipe:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OBY1nxEP3ds

all in the style of the original and to me, look nothing like crap.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OBY1nxEP3ds


I wouldn't have one problem with this movie as a giant alien machine movie BUT the moment they say primes name, bumblebees name, megatrons name my mind will automatically associate it with the originals and be totally unsatiesfied if that makes sense.

Okay, the fisrt video, aside from looking nothing like a Transformer, G1 or otherwise, the vehicle form doesn't even look like any vehicle in existence! This is the last think you should be using in argument of how removed the movie designs of the Transformers are from the original cartoons and toys.

In the second video, you're right, the Transformer doesn't look blocky. Although the legs look like they'd snap like twigs before the end of one fight.

All things considered, seeing such close representations of the original characters is nice, but only briefly. There's a novelty to it, but nothing I would take seriously in a two-hour action movie. Especially since none of the videos show the characters in any real action, besides walking briefly. And the car commercial, that figure movied like it weighed all of five pounds.

[DoctorWHO]

Okay, the fisrt video, aside from looking nothing like a Transformer, G1 or otherwise, the vehicle form doesn't even look like any vehicle in existence! This is the last think you should be using in argument of how removed the movie designs of the Transformers are from the original cartoons and toys.

In the second video, you're right, the Transformer doesn't look blocky. Although the legs look like they'd snap like twigs before the end of one fight.

All things considered, seeing such close representations of the original characters is nice, but only briefly. There's a novelty to it, but nothing I would take seriously in a two-hour action movie. Especially since none of the videos show the characters in any real action, besides walking briefly. And the car commercial, that figure movied like it weighed all of five pounds.

I still love the Sideswipe one....you know that looked more like TF then anything else. If it was tweeked abit more with CGI...It would have worked perfectly.