I'm hoping the get the little guys on their own too. I'd be willing to buy one of the smaller sets too, for sure. Big ones are just too much.

I sure hope the dopey swat guys don't come with them if they do sell blind packs.

Can read the DOTM story summary (spoilers and all) if you want: Darrk Of The Moon Novel Summary - Transformers News - TFW2005 (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-movie-toys--products-30/darrk-of-the-moon-novel-summary-172277/)

I always wondered what major Earth-centric thing that'd been hidden around or near here but ignored the first two movies would drive this one's plot. Yeah. That's not getting silly at all.

It sounds lame to me. Surprise. I'm probably really biased though.

I'm probably really biased though.

I doubt it. I think it is probably just lame.

Found a nice place to display them.

I need a new tv :( The decent one I had is being held captive by my father. When I tried to get it back he was like BUT I WATCH MOVIES ON IT

Grumblegrumble

Does he know you need it too to watch tv and/or movies?

Really wish I had Crystal Convoy and SG Optimus

Re: Television. Man, he doesn't care about anything like that.

I sold my universe Prime on ebay. I needed the money.

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I had to make it.

donno which I like better.

Shuki said Optibotimus was a respected figure in the TF reviewing community. I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything, because I would have spit it the fuck out, over that.

Also Baltmatrix has a #TeamOptibotimus slide, now.

Oh neckbeard~

My feelings. They are mixed.

My feelings, they are solid as a rock.

Buy the Protector Armor, Mark ^^

I love the new flame decal, but I don't like the new legs, lack of yellow and orange paint in the forearms and typical Hasbro to use flat silver paint rather than the chrome paint on the exhaust pipes. I wouldn't pay more than $40 for that.

More stuff to track down one day, Botcon attendee figure:



Ironfist - Transformers Wiki (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ironfist)

Many of mah TF bros are hanging out in da hotels and what not right now. Last day of last Botcon we got a bunch of cool figure news. I hope this year will be similarly cool, and not just DOTM centric

I only saw bunches of Sentinel Prime, Optimus, and Voyager Ironhide.

No Laserbeak. I am disappoint.

Laserbeak is wave 3 so I wouldn't sweat it

Someone at HJU already has it, so I figured I GO HUNTIN'

Leader Ironhide is Wave 2, right? Roughly when should I expect to see it?

Yeah. I'm not sure, but I don't think there have been any sightings yet. I know in some places wave 2 deluxes and voyagers were available on the first day, but not around here.

Everyone's favorite vehicle mode

Lol, never was impressed with that mold. Ironhide looked perfectly good in bot mode, but ehhhhh on whatever that was supposed to be.

One of the new human alliance basics has the same general design. Tread legs?

:seriously:

That one has lame articulation too

I saw deluxe laserbeak a few days ago at Target. I really want Leader Ironhide but I'm gonna be broke for a while. :/

TFCC is going to be selling Windchargers at Botcon. Now to figure out how I can get someone to grab one for me without being a bother :(

Those are some huge jugs he's gotta lug around.

THAT'S A STOMACH

These were almost done right.

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/7778810-original.html)

Not bad looking as far as Star Wars Transformers go

Vader's all "I can't get through doors, you guys!"

Hasbro MP Rodimus will be 50 bucks

.......ummm......erggg........ghhhhr........money better spent on Leader Ironhide.

COME AT ME, HASBRO.

.......ummm......erggg........ghhhhr........money better spent on Leader Ironhide.

COME AT ME, HASBRO.

Amen

At least they did use chrome paint on the exhaust pipes.

Very strange. Usually I appreciate Rodimus the least of everyone around here.

ANYWAY: Look at this unused Warpath design from the DOTM game:



Nice mix of movie/G1 aesthetics imo. He looks nothing like that in the trailer however.

Now that's a robot I can get behind!

here's live pictures of Lego Prime. parts work with lego guys.
(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/7803648-original.html)

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/7803638-original.html)

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/7803651-original.html)

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/7803653-original.html)

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/7803650-original.html)

man optimus I don't know if it's really such a good idea for you to be walking around with your matrix hanging out like that all the time =/

Hasbro panel is going on now. Although it seemed obvious with their remaining peg space - Generations will indeed run throughout the rest of the year. The hard to find RtS stuff "will find a way to retail" as well. IMO - Throw those toys into DOTM packaging and offer it to Wal Mart or Target as an exclusive and you know they'd order tons.

Vangelus's Macho Man sounds like Scott McNeil doing Macho Man.

Pretty much 100% win.

Takara's re-did-ed Armada Unicron is going to get a Hasbro release, in new colors, exclusive to Amazon :o



60 bucks.

And deluxe Prime-Prime gets a funky matrix package exclusive to SDCC:

Still haven't gotten past the second ep of Prime.

Blame Ryuki.

They showed a bunch of Prime toys at the panel, stuff looks really good according to those in attendance. Cliffjumper is going to have a certain variant~ Voyager Optimus and Starscream were confirmed as well, plus an Ironhide that apparently has movie-like cannons. Wheeljack is getting a toy as well, so the guys with smaller roles will be represented.

In other Ironhide news, the Bay version is finally getting a red color scheme for a later DOTM redeco of (what I assume is) the new voyager.

Finally got a good look at this guy:



Easily the most exciting of the store exclusive stuff so far. The rest are things like redecos of ROTF motorcycles, movie 1 Jazz, and endless Bumblebees.

Takara's re-did-ed Armada Unicron is going to get a Hasbro release, in new colors, exclusive to Amazon :o



60 bucks.

And deluxe Prime-Prime gets a funky matrix package exclusive to SDCC:



i want unicron.i would build planets out of Styrofoam and smash them to peices with him. together we would rule the galaxy!

I wouldnt mind having the Prime Matrix, just in case, for our darkest hour.

They showed a bunch of Prime toys at the panel, stuff looks really good according to those in attendance. Cliffjumper is going to have a certain variant~ Voyager Optimus and Starscream were confirmed as well, plus an Ironhide that apparently has movie-like cannons. Wheeljack is getting a toy as well, so the guys with smaller roles will be represented.

In other Ironhide news, the Bay version is finally getting a red color scheme for a later DOTM redeco of (what I assume is) the new voyager.

Finally got a good look at this guy:



Easily the most exciting of the store exclusive stuff so far. The rest are things like redecos of ROTF motorcycles, movie 1 Jazz, and endless Bumblebees.

I lol'd at SPEAR CONVERTS TO TRIDENT!

Truly, the most amazing transformation in this line of toys to date

Takara's re-did-ed Armada Unicron is going to get a Hasbro release, in new colors, exclusive to Amazon :o



60 bucks.

And deluxe Prime-Prime gets a funky matrix package exclusive to SDCC:



So are you meant to wear an unopened toy around your neck?

Every day.

Lawl:

Every day.

Lawl:



I got a bunch of random play doh stuff but I hardly was ever allowed to use it. I know I'ma keeping the return of the jedi stuff but everything else is taking up a bunch of room.


(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/7845988-original.html)

Oh shits. RtS Grapple and Windcharger found at Ross (DRESS FOR LESS) in California. Hope I can spot them at the one here sometime soon.

WENT TO ROSS AS SOON AS THEY OPENED LOL

No dice. YET.

I have two near me. I'll check them for you, tomorrow, after work.

Aw shit. Thanks

I can probobly check for you later today or tomorrow. I'm less than a mile away from a Ross.

Ya know what would be cool?

An RTS TF game...sort of like 'Star Wars: Empire At War' story mode where you could do space AND ground battles...

Long ago, I dreamed of a G1 2d fighter, lawl. Transformations could be special/super moves, like an Optimus truck ram or Starscream aerial assault


I can probobly check for you later today or tomorrow. I'm less than a mile away from a Ross.

Very kind, sir.

I'd play a TF fighter that was like MvC2.

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Or maybe like MSG: Battlefront 2.

Flickr: Lu_awaken's Photostream (http://www.flickr.com/photos/60761155@N03/)
I like the robopuppy.

Found it!

Whoa nelly~

The box is a little beat up. I'm thinking of checking other Ross stores for more.

My Rosses are bullshit. Nothing remotely like TF. Cheap dollar store toys.

However, would you like one of these?

The Ross I went to was pretty crap too. They had two GI Joe toys, but otherwise it was all quite meh.

I got Jazz when he popped up on Amazon for 14 bucks, but can help you find homes for those if you want!

Sure, find me someone who wants one. I's keeping one, yo.

Cuz Jazz.

A guy had that in his "wants" thread at TFW, sent him a PM

Aside from the G1 Legends (whom I'm confident I will be able to track down if I visit Ross/Marshalls enough), now the only RtS I need (want) are Windcharger and Perceptor~

Found it!



Fuck son, that's half off!

I've only opened Roadbuster, so far. He's a bit meh. Transformation is fun, but so much of the bot mode is unpainted and just sad because of it. Suffers from Twins Back Syndrome. A better color than white should have been used on it because it makes it more panel-y than it really is. Plus the paint is a bit chewed up (especially the white). Oh American toys~

Backfire has behind-the-knee kibble :mad::mad::mad:

But, much like Ratchet, I still like him as a static piece. Just has that TRY TO MOVE ME look. They easily could have given him two back wheels that fold up on the sides of his legs.

Hear you me, Hasbro, aesthetics do not justify bad engineering and I will not stand for it, even if I like two figures suffering from it http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb1/ConstantMnemonic/shakefist.gifhttp://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb1/ConstantMnemonic/shakefist.gifhttp://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb1/ConstantMnemonic/shakefist.gif

So yeah, I like the look of his bot mode, like his alt mode pretty much wholesale (even if I'm not sure it would actually drive), and I love his weapon mode. If there's a Backfire at the store I finally find Ironhide in, he's probably going to get to dual wield. Because I'm crazy, and I like the idea of Ironhide & the Backfire brothers.

Looks like he should have been a Decepticon to me.

THE SUMBITCH THAT HAD JAZZ IN HIS WANTS THREAD WAS LIKE LOLNO I ALREADY HAVE ONE

SO UPDATE YOUR THREAD, FUCKER

I'M NOT REALLY THAT MAD

Mark, you can have it for free.

No lie. No lie.

He's pretty great except for the poorly locking chest. The car roof is supposed to hold it all together, but it's iffy.

I do remember BaltMatrix bitching about that. But, it was THERE. Two of them were RIGHT THERE. I'll like it. It's Jazz.

I probably do have the memory of you saying you got one somewhere in back of my head.

.....holy shit Peaugh is acting like he's fucking drunk XD

Back on topic. Yeah, I probably would have remembered that if I wasn't so tweeked up and excited about work being done. Only went down hill from there when I found the Mega Blade and was like I'm SPENDING MONEY LET'S DO THIS SHIT.

I've been futzing around with Roadbuster most of the day. Besides the paint he's pretty okay. I'm liking him more for whatever reason. Maybe because he's a stock car, even though I don't actually like Nascar and really hate its fans. I dunno. Thumbs up for robo mullet. The human alliance version looks like it's wrecked, which is appropriate! I don't want it.

I'M TALKING RANDOMLY. RAMBLE RAMBLE RAMBLE

Holy crap on a stick Botcon Motormaster is epic ;; Of course, I'm biased, considering how much I like the G1. Best repaint/remold of Animated Prime I've seen.

Again, biased.

Yeah, Motormaster looks awesome. Luckily, it looks like the resell value on this year's Botcon stuff is pretty low, so as soon as I get a heap of cash I'm going to hunt 'em down.

I'd buy Roadbuster for the AMP logo too, really. He has decent looking proportions, a fairly normal head, actual colors, etc. Pretty far removed from some of the other movie designs thus far.

I'm the type of guy to find the positives, so the Jazz chest issue doesn't even bother me, it's just something of note. Some people claim the roof trick totally solves it but I haven't gotten it to work on mine.

I might inquire about this roof trick, if I can't work it out, myself. Opened Laserbeak. Stunning. I doubt getting him in hand would change anyone's mind who disliked him on sight, but if you can dig what he is he's a fantastic purchase. I expected him to be Ejector's size for whatever reason, so he's kinda big to me and this makes for even better times.

I'm not sure how much overlap there is in the Venn diagram of Skarmory and S.I.C. fans, but for those people I would suggest finding something hard to put in your mouth, such that you don't bite your tongue off in excitement.

I've been wanting G1 Laserbeak and Ravage forever. I'd like to eBay or TFSource them but I has no fun-spending fedy, mang.

NEG LOOK AT IRONHIDE WITH HIS WEAPON MANS

Now THAT'S a bot you don't want to mess with! on Twitpic (http://twitpic.com/5aot82)

http://twitpic.com/5aozmv

NEG LOOK AT IRONHIDE WITH HIS WEAPON MANS

Now THAT'S a bot you don't want to mess with! on Twitpic (http://twitpic.com/5aot82)

Backfire/Whirl COMBO CANNON! on Twitpic (http://twitpic.com/5aozmv)

So all of the T3 toys have a 3rd weapon form and are modular so they can hook up with the bigger guys?

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I've been wanting G1 Laserbeak and Ravage forever. I'd like to eBay or TFSource them but I has no fun-spending fedy, mang.

Have you decided on Grimlock & Mari yet?

The 10 dollar human alliance guys are the ones with weapon modes, and they can clip onto or be held by the larger "MechTech" figures (deluxe, voyager, leader)

I saw a vid of Whirl, last night. I'm just not impressed. He seems like a mess. Not risking buying him to combine with a Backfire.

Pics are pretty epic, though. I wants my Ironhide ;;

So all of the T3 toys have a 3rd weapon form and are modular so they can hook up with the bigger guys?

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Have you decided on Grimlock & Mari yet?

My medication and medical bills are kinda leaving me broke right now so no new toys for me anytime soon. *sad face*

Found mah receipt. Aw shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

Roadbuster needs guns. They look way too big on Laserbeak. Easy solution.



DAT WINGSPAN



He looks so happy ;;

The missile pods look so much more tidy just folded up in bot mode. I figure the extensions are so you can use them in alt mode. That's probably the case in the instructions. I don't know. I didn't use them.

I just checked a second Ross. They only had sea spray. Lame.

Too bad.

Marshalls or TJ Maxx is apparently the place if anyone is hoping to find the second wave of RtS deluxes, i.e. Wreck-Gar and Perceptor. There's no TJ Maxx here but we do have a Marshalls. Went the other day, didn't see any of those, sadly since I do need Perceptor. They did have a ROTF leader Prime with hooks and no face faceplate for like 20 bucks. Also had a handful of 25th anniversary GI Joes, oddly

A loss prevention guy said they'd have some tomorrow and would hold one for me.

TJ Maxx and A.J. Wright are just like Ross, here. Shitty toys.

Except there was that Dragvisor.... You don't think it'd still be there, would you?

I'm guessing with all of the hard-to-find TF sightings, collectors and scalpers alike are gonna be frequenting those places more. If you didn't feel like you needed it the first time though.............

....

......dots

It's cool. I love Shinji, but his system is meh, to me.

Resell value is low this year, my ass XD

There was a Motormaster up this morning, he was pricey, but not any more than I've paid for exclusive figuarts. Now some cunt has actually bid on him.

BUY IT OR WALK AWAY. EBAY IS NOT FOR AUCTIONS, ANYMORE. You shame us all with your shenanigans.

Well some past sets were flipped for double the cost, especially right after the convention. Completed listings search shows the Stunticon sets aren't even hitting 400. Original cost for club members to get them was 315

I've seen single Shattered Glass Primes go for 800 :(

$315 o_O

I thought it was part of their registration fee? Well, whatever, I'll let this particular prey go. I haven't even spent that much on a single Rider item!

Not even the Garren Rouzer!

There were various packages, you could go on the cheap - but with no toys. The ones that got the toys had to pay the 300 whateverwhatever price, and of course, that was only for the set of 5. The add-ons were additional fees, and the customizing class that had Minerva was another fee as well

Ah, yes, Minerva. I probably will end up grabbing an Arcee, at some point. Dragstrip looks fantastic. Probably the only other Stunticon that does much for me.

Shipping Grappel in the morning.


On another note, I think I found a good G1 Laserbeak on eBay for $38 with shipping. I want him so I can do this...




http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Transformers-G1-Laserbeak-complete_W0QQitemZ160603908473QQcategoryZ4696QQvar ZQQcmdZViewItem

And

http://cgi.ebay.com/Laserbeak-MINT-Vintage-G1-Transformers-FREE-SHIPPING_W0QQitemZ140561508618QQcategoryZ4696QQvar ZQQcmdZViewItem

My medication and medical bills are kinda leaving me broke right now so no new toys for me anytime soon. *sad face*

I'm sorry to hear you're ill and stuff :( I hate when I've planned stuff and been a good boy to achieve but shit fucks me up anyway.

A loss prevention guy said they'd have some tomorrow and would hold one for me.

Loss prevention guy? Is that what TJ Maxx calls their stock boys?

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/7953043-original.html)

Oh, iths thsize comparithson time!



Big Kre-O bots are big.

Photo STOLEN from the P funk

Went to a new comic store today and they had a Fort Max. First time I'd seen one in person! Pretty sweet. Even with horribly damaged stickers, it was impressive to behold. I didn't see a price however. Lots of old huge ass G.I. Joe playsets in there as well.

Also saw a Reveal the Shield Perceptor! It was pretty overpriced though, so I decided to be patient.

This was a post

Could have owned one a long time ago~

Bah

You and your pride. Fine, he'll stay in the corner, like a bad bad bot.

I was able to scrounge up a few bucks. Rather than getting Masterpiece Grimlock or Mari Makinami, I got the commemorative issue Soundwave with Laserbeak and Ravage off ebay for $53.99, including shipping.

Killing several birds with one stone.

Good job, grasshopper.

oh, thank you. thank you very much. ^_^

I was able to scrounge up a few bucks. Rather than getting Masterpiece Grimlock or Mari Makinami, I got the commemorative issue Soundwave with Laserbeak and Ravage off ebay for $53.99, including shipping.

Well as long as you're happy I'm happy :)

*happy*

Eventually I'll get Mari or Grimmy. Eventually.

OMG, WANT!

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/generation-1-1/devastor-reissue-coming-in-japan-172508/

Computron re-release, imo.

How come no one told me about the Strafe repaint of Mindwipe?

Oh, I see why. He looks really bad in package compared to the promo shots :(

The Autobot symbol pattern on the wings is a neat idea though. Still, second time "Strafe" has been a redeco of a Decepticon that looks nothing like him in a fairly short amount of time. Really weird.

Speaking of RtS voyagers - went to Ross again and spotted the Seaspray repaint, meaning...other cool shit might have made it there as well. If GrappEls and Windchargers were stocked as well, someone else got 'em.

Hadn't seen the wings very well til just now. Pretty bitchin'. The blades kinda harken back to his yellow tip-thingees. Plus, I did always kinda want a Mindwipe, back inside the crevices of my mind. Cyclonus repaint was indeed derptastic.

Not willing to pay shipping, and he's not as pretty as the promo shots. Letting it go, barring seeing it in person.

*happy*

Eventually I'll get Mari or Grimmy. Eventually.

I'm sure there will be re-releases of Mari in some form, there's still 2 movies left after all.

I'm waiting to find out if I qualify for financial assistance with my medical stuff. If so everything will get paid for and I'll be retroactively paid. If that happens then Mari is mine

I'm waiting to find out if I qualify for financial assistance with my medical stuff. If so everything will get paid for and I'll be retroactively paid. If that happens then Mari is mine

financial assistance? Is it real serous?

Good luck broseidon

financial assistance? Is it real serous?

My insurance premium is $293 a month, I have 2 medications that cost over $1,000 a month plus my co-pay from my week in the hospital and other doctor visits. It's taking up all of my unemployment money and finding a job and getting the college classes I need is not easy. Health wise I feel fine, as long as I continue on my meds.

My insurance premium is $293 a month, I have 2 medications that cost over $1,000 a month plus my co-pay from my week in the hospital and other doctor visits. It's taking up all of my unemployment money and finding a job and getting the college classes I need is not easy. Health wise I feel fine, as long as I continue on my meds.

Have you looked up the prescriptions themselves? One of mine has it's own program which covers all but $14 of it through the company itself. Or something like that. All I know is I have to call a bunch of people to ensure I get the stuff refilled and paid for.

I have. There's a discount program with the manufacturer that can save me about $110 a month, the problem is it's when i pay outside of Kaiser, where my insurance is through. The financial help I applied for could cover everything, including reembursments, but not premiums, but I would have to pay through the Kaiser pharmacy. It's a gamble either way.

Listening to this guy is torture.

YouTube - ‪PART 1 MASTERPIECE TAKARA TOMY TRANSFORMERS UNOPENED COLLECTION SEE ALL EVER MADE‬‏ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBCetsIi7ls)

You motherfucker. Got me excited that someone had actually said something in here and it's you again.

You goddamn bot.

Neg, I might have to hit up another target tomorrow morning for leader ironhide.

You do that, brohiem. Mine might get here, tomorrow.

Cleaned up Prime, so he'd be ready for his photoshoot (tomorrow, hopefully, was expecting it today...)

You know what the best part of this toy is? Doesn't say 'I am Optimus Prime.'

BECAUSE I KNOW WHO THE FUCK HE IS.

hopfully my G1 Soundwave arrives tomorrow too.

Rumor has it the next "new" masterpiece is Soundwave, who will come with ravage, energon cubes and something else I can't remember.

How do you improve on the original?

Articulation, I guess.

Original knee joint bends forward, not backwards.

Articulation, I guess.

:smug:

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/8082979-original.html)

Stickering stuff sucks da ass.

That story does not ;;

Local theater is going to show DOTM tomorrow night at 11-ish. Probably going to go ahead. I saw the other two on their first showings as well...lawl. They've had 3d screenings listed for a while, but unless they just screened it regularly I wasn't going to bother.

"does have heavy chrome wear which is common with Mexican Transformers." I did not know this. Thanks Kapow Toys!

Chris, did you ever get your Grapple, mang?

Also, I already have my 11am ticket for wednesday morning so oh well. :/

Mike, where's da leader Ironhide?? I want to know how awesome it is!

Still not here :(

Yeah I got the Grappeeeeel. A most lovely mans. It had a tracking label on it so I thought you'd already know! Sorry for not mentioning it before. I've had some thangs goin' on. Thangs, man.

I rewatched most of ROTF. God, it's going to be hard to drag myself to DOTM ;;

Fo sho

I saw this trailer someone made like "Shut up and eat your awesome."

Um.....fuck you.

ROTF is terrible. I dont wanna buy it on blu-ray :(

But Bay has promised he's changed his ways since that movie and says DOTM will be different.
There's no twins (thank god).
I've been watching the trailers popup and liking them.
60% of the movie is filmed in 3D with an additional 15% in CG-3D.
I think those were the numbers.
Even James Cameron likes what Bay did with the 3D.
I don't think I'm going opening night though.
And certainly not IMAX 3D, just RealD for me.
I don't know if our IMAX theater here is legit or just some crap with a sticker on the side :erm:
Plus if it's over 2 hours, Im so not going to IMAX (I want the 3D magic to last longer)

Twins were the only good thing about ROTF. I love them so ;;

Why would you believe Bay for a nanosecond?

Because i liked part 1 a lot.
although...i still wish there were less humans in it and more bots jumping in slow motion.

Because i liked part 1 a lot.
although...i still wish there were less humans in it and more bots jumping in slow motion with robot boobs.

If the twins in robot mode are indeed cut - but the shot from the trailer with their vehicle modes in the background is left in...lawl

Not that I have a problem with the twins, I'm neither for or against them, but bay should have killed them off and not Arcee.

If the twins in robot mode are indeed cut - but the shot from the trailer with their vehicle modes in the background is left in...lawl

lol yeah they are cut from the movie but not from the trailers.

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Not that I have a problem with the twins, I'm neither for or against them, but bay should have killed them off and not Arcee.

also this.

Arcee dying would have been ok if they'd given some characterization to make that death feel like anything more than "oh." Isn't it just done in a really quick shot with little weight at all? (lolol didn't I just describe every scene?)

I spotted voyager Sentinel Prime tonight. Really shitty looking compared to the leader class imo.

Yeah, ROTF had too many fast scenes in there.
The action in ROTF really makes me think of a shooting range with cardboard cutouts of robots popping up everywhere and going down as quickly as they popped up.

The only slow deaths were Ravage and the Fallen leader (which looks exactly like the terminator's death in T:Salvation with the decapitation).

I'm going all grape drank on wednesday.

Movie Arcee looked abysmal, and you know I tend to like movie designs. Like Ktulu said, no weight. No character.

Sideswipe, Sideways, Jolt, Demolishor. Like everyone, except Optimus, and even then EH. Spouting reworked dialogue from the 86 movie. Know more about THE BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEF'S parents. Goddamn.

Let this movie franchise die.

You tell me how it takes 8 days for something to get from PA to MD.

Jeebus. About damn time they updated the tracking.

The hell? Did they ship it fucking pony express?

Seriously. Guy at another forum found his at Costco, so you can check there, Mark.

I don't even know if you want Ironmang, Ktulu.

Leader Ironhide? Not sure really. I loves my plastic and if I had reams of cash I'd probably get everything just for the sheer unbridled fuck of it, but as that isn't the case....dots.

Hmm, $50 Costco membership for a $40 Transformer. ithinki'mok.

TFW2005 DotM review. Sounds pretty solid.


I had the opportunity to attend an advance screening of Transformers Dark of the Moon last night in Toronto thanks to the fine folks at Paramount. While I will keep the front page here spoiler free I do want everyone to know it is so much better than Revenge of the Fallen and worth seeing in 3D. I came out of ROTF disappointed with so many aspects of that film, to the degree that it gave me a long lasting disinterest in Transformers collecting after 10 years. DOTM made me care about the Movieverse again. It was a solid movie. Not because it was about Transformers, but because it was well done. Read on for a quick review by clicking the title bar.

The first Transformers movie left a feeling of awe for many of us in seeing our childhood brought to life in the live action movie environment. The sequel disappointed alot of people including myself. This third film in the trilogy does a great job of finishing the story in a way that left me satisfied.

One of the things that jumped out at me while I was watching Dark of the Moon was the contrasts in some of the aspects of this film and Revenge of the Fallen. Take Sam's new love interest Carly for example. Her personality is so much more positive than Mikaela was, and I thought it helped reflect a change in the direction of this movie. (It doesn't hurt that she is better looking, sorry Brad) The new human characters had excellent character development, and the inclusion of Buzz Aldrin, JFK and Nixon into the film was a nice touch. Patrick Dempsey's character was a good plot twist; come on, you know no one is that nice unless they want something from you. Sam's parents once again had some well delivered one liners that will make you laugh out loud. John Malkovich's character steals the scene in his introduction. Former Agent Seymour Simmons's charcter wasn't as annoying this time around, and Frances McDormand was believable as the Secretary of Defence. Alan Tudyk was great, he delivered some great scenes. Shia LaBeouf once again did a good job keeping us involved in the story.

Leonard Nimoy was a great casting voice for Sentinel Prime. His distinctive voice returning to the Transformers franchise after 25 years was great timing and felt right.

If you want to remain spoiler free stop reading now.

There is no Silverbolt. If there is he is a background character that has no impact in the film.

Barricade is back! He is clearly fighting along with the Decepticon invasion.

There are no twins. Thank god. Skids and Mudflap are no where to be found.

Q went out like a bitch.

The Wreckers were decent.

Ironhide had a flash back to 2005.

Optimus Prime's final battle with Megatron was even better than last time. And seeing his trailer on screen made me feel like a kid again for a second.

The Decepticons were brutal in their assault of the humans, executing them as they run for their lives.

Shockwave should have had more character development or lines. Only Boba Fett can get away with just standing there and being the fan favorite villian. Although his snakes were cool.

The CGI was amazing; at no point did I think, wow, that looks fake.

Plot wise we are looking at the combination of elements from 2 G1 episodes: Megatron's Master Plan where the Autobots are exiled from Earth and primarily The Ultimate Doom where the Deceticons use space bridge technology to try and bring Cybertron to Earth. I'm not going to tell you how the entire movie plays out but I have a feeling Ehren Kruger took inspiration from G1.

If you don't take anything else from this article let me tell you this. I'm a G1 collector, and lost interest in anything movie related following ROTF. You owe it to yourself to see this movie, in 3D. I still have a grin on my face today. 9/10.

I'm hearing things like "best of the three" but with remarks that a lot of what has bugged me about them so far are still in, so I don't imagine I'll be gaga over it. Willing to give it a shot though.

Good lawd Heavy/Scratch: New progress - TFW2005 - The 2005 Boards (http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radicons-customs/423599-new-progress.html)

HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

Good thing they don't have the 5 tries to log in thing going on. Cuz I had to work on figuring out what my password was XD

Watching Spoony's rant. I'll probably turn it off before he starts talking about the movie itself.

I'll probably try for an early morning screening this weekend. God help me.

Saw it. Liked it a lot but also dissapointes with some parts.

*Stuck Head Problem = Sad Ironhide who can't look where he's aiming
*Can't hold Backfire up, arm slams down and he falls out
*Does the splits
*Weaker balljoints than Gills' feet
*Ratcheted joints have no business being this loose

Oh my :(

As for the movie - I don't know if I want to say anything. I'm toying with whether or not I'll give it another chance. I have a social thang to go to in a moment and the location is really close to the theater. I could always catch the last screening tonight to make sure I've got the best sense of everything before I really make up my mind...but, "ok, I'll give it another shot!" only hurt how I felt about the first two. Decisions, decisions.

First world problems.

Right now it looks like I'm going to the 10 am showing on Friday. I was going to go with my aunt tomorrow night, but I feel like if I was with someone else who is as irreverent as me that I'd be willing to yell out more than I'm probably going to yell out, anyway =/

I'm an asshole. Sometimes I don't want to be, but I am ;;

Someone said he's getting rid of his movie toys because of DOTM

XD

Oh teh lols.

The movie did help renew my love for Transformers. Went out and bought Laserbeak right after.

That wasn't a bad idea, considering Laserbeak is fuggen awesome.

Movie Optimus Prime is one angry mother fucker.

I like how he's basically worse than any of the Decepticons he's fighting, too (Decepticons actually take prisoners, Optimus, however, does not).

No joke. There had to be about 20 other people watching the movie in the theater I was in.

To what do we owe the pleasure, Odin?

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FIXED DA HEAD. ROTATED DA SHOULDERS. DOIN' THE HYPOCRITE DANCE. JUST ANOTHER NIGHT IN NEG LAND.

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Ever notice how other people only show up right after a movie comes out?

Glad you got him sorted!

I went to Ross again. I saw the scouts Windcharger ships with. Windcharger was not with them.

I missed him :(

I'm stuck with my voyager Ironhide until I can find leader.

Wait, wasn't Prime the last prime?

Where did Sentinel come from...............

I don't give a fuck about spoilers, just tell me. I know about a lot of STUFF, already. Just ask Mark.

Indeed. Like I felt with ROTF, the plot doesn't gel super well with the other movies. There's that little issue, and related to that, some major TF technology comes into the picture as if from nowhere and it just happened to be lost on/near the Earth. There's ALWAYS been the most giant of giant plans concerning this - even though it was never mentioned before. Again.

Remember Megatron being brought back to life with an allspark shard and some spare Constructicon parts? Interesting seeing as DOTM explicitly tells us the only thing that can restore their sparks is the matrix.

I think Film Brain mentioned that problem with Meg's resurrection, too. Must have been said in one form or another in the original or ROTF.

Or he used simple logic to ferret it out of what is said therein.

I don't think I watched the original besides in the threatre. I think that's what they were banking on. People not trying to follow the plot.

I think they care so little that they probably don't give it a thought themselves.

Wait, wasn't Prime the last prime?

Where did Sentinel come from...............

I don't give a fuck about spoilers, just tell me. I know about a lot of STUFF, already. Just ask Mark.

Sentinel Prime is featured pretty heavily in the War for Cyberton video game. In that continuity or whatever, he's Optimus's predecessor (where Optimus plays a reluctant leader, as if he helped win the original war against Megatron or something, but didn't actually want to be the leader of the Autobots; the game also covers the origin of The Matrix in that continuity and the reason for why everyone is bailing the fuck off of Cybertron). I think Bay just liked the concept and borrowed it without bothering to tie the backstory together properly.

I played the game. Didn't really pay attention to the story.

All I remember is DARK ENERGON, BLAH BLAH, DARK ENERGON.

How close is Cybertron to earth that the ship ended up on our moon after being shot down inside Cybertron's atmosphere?

Fanservice. I need robots, not ass.

Optimus says "In the year since we arrived..." but Shia has started and finished college in that time?

Shia getting all self-righteous about being a hero REALLY pissed me off. Fuck you Shia, you stuck a cube in someone's chest. Then you stuck a cybernetic dildo in someone else's.

They said "Operation in the middle east." Chernobyl is in Ukraine/Russia. Does that count as the middle east? I'm honestly asking. Not exactly A#1 Geography buff.

Shia bitches about Bumblebee never seeing him. WHAT ABOUT WHEN YOU SAID YOU WEREN'T TAKING HIM TO COLLEGE, FUCK HEAD.

Holy fuck was that Ankor Wat?!?!? Mad Illusion of Gaia rep if it was.

I hate that John Tuturro makes me laugh. I fucking hate myself for it.

Why didn't Megs kill her? Shia is still a jobless schmuck.

The action was slowed, but too little, too late, mir?

Meg's alt mode looks FANTASTIC, but the toy isn't like that. Now I'm kinda bummed :( Are they going to do a premium line this time, too? Since these toys don't really HAVE ANY PAINT :mad:

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Why are the bots assigned to watch the.....stuff.......stock cars? Why is one of them Irish/British....

WHY IS THE DELUXE TOY OF HIM SO INACCURATE!?!?!?

I figured there was going to be a scene at a Nascar race.....what?

I wish they'd have used some of those crazy stereotypical voices for a Decepticon or two, for variety. When the Decepticons are talking to each other it's unintentionally hilarious since they all have 12-pack-a-day voices

Most of the time when bots talk I'm like, oh wait, I think he said something.

HOPE IT WASN'T IMPORTANT BECAUSE I DIDN'T CATCH IT.

Yeah. I can't even remember Optimus' final narration. Not a single word. I was probably too busy stewing in how put off I was :( I left in a bad mood, lawl

But we all remember Nimoy retreading that Star Trek line.

I'm entirely convinced that Bay just blendered Optimus dialogue from 86 for this trilogy. And, threw in I WANT YOUR FACE and YOU DIE, for good measure.

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I was texting to log my complaints as it went along. I have a big gap from the middle to the end. Not because it was good, but because I was numb.

I'm waiting for a decent cam-upload to turn up to see if I can feel any better about the things that really got to me, or make sense of parts that didn't seem to add up very well. I'm wondering a few things, but I doubt another viewing will really make it any better for me. I'm not paying again.

I'm still flabbergasted over the lack of a Nascar race. How the fuck did he get Nascar to sign on without promising them an entire race scene?

WHY USE STOCK CARS AT ALL!?!?!?!? THEY'RE AT FUCKING CAPE CANAVERAL OR SOME SHIT!!!!!

Laserbeak is DOTM's twins. Only thing worth a damn.

Since all they do is look after their ship, it doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense for them to have those car modes at all. If that's their function on Earth, wouldn't they be construction vehicles or some shit? I don't know. None of it makes sense. They're the movie-verse Wreckers, they're the tough guys - but they get to sit around a base working on a ship. What?

There are way too many instances where I was wondering why someone or even a group just gave up. Early on, Shockwave shows up - dramatically, sees Optimus, and the next shot we see is the driller's tendrils slithering away. WOO, CHILLS. Laserbeak just stops chasing Sam at his new job because what...he hit a file cabinet? The Wreckers fire on Shockwave and just...stop. Optimus gets hung up in some wires, and despite having bladed weapons and god-damn wings to fly away with, he doesn't even try to cut himself down. The other Autobots apparently let themselves get captured without a fight. Would have been nice to see how that even happened. Starscream gets a bomb that takes forever to explode stuck in his eye - and doesn't just pull it out. Sentinel yells at Megatron, and despite Megatron obviously being able to beat the shit out of him, he just goes to sulk in the alley.

Man. I really think they're portrayed awfully.

I couldn't make a whole lot of sense of how Laserbeak bought it. I saw his head come off, but not how it happened. Did Sam pull it off? Fucking lawl if so

WHY AM I FUCKING WATCHING SHIA AND CO. FALL AROUND A BUILDING WHEN I COULD BE WATCHING OPTIMUS GET HIS TRAILER BACK.

GODDAMMIT!

I think Bumblebee shot Laserbeak. MAYBE HE DIDN'T SLOW DOWN THE ACTION AS MUCH AS I THOUGHT.

You ninja'd while I was adding more, I think.

I don't recall that. I have to watch it again :(

Some of the action was indeed a bit easier to follow, but it wasn't a 100 percent improvement. A lot of the time I wondered if the projectionist was off, because there seemed to be some bits where they didn't fit the frame very well. I noticed another shot where fighting was going on in the background, and all you really saw was Bumblebee's legs.

Shockwave was so much wasted potential. Yeah, okay, you got your spacebridge, you brought in Shockwave. 1 + 1 = 2.

But then he didn't do much of ANYTHING. Pops up at Chernobyl, has his penis euphemism wreck that building (hello 15 minutes we didn't fucking need), and then gets shot in the eye and sliced by Optimus. Whoopty dan do.

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I remember Bee being in the flying thing and then shooting Laserbeak. I could be 100% wrong.

I hate sounding like a doof by saying flying thing and not knowing exactly what happened when I was 100% clearheaded, but that's Bay cinematography for ya.

I can always use the excuse that I was tired and had a headache, both true at the time, but yeah, things should have made more sense. People aren't even sure of what happened to Cybertron. Did it go boom, or did it simply not warp?

One of the go-to arguments for these is "what did you expect? it's just a popcorn movie!" In that case, it ought to be easy enough to make all the why's/how's/what's clear at some basic level

Spoony made a fair point, which I noticed in a completely different way. Said Bay was exploiting tragedies. 9-11, The Challenger Explosion, Chernobyl.

Shia's little I'M A HERO, NO ONE APPRECIATES THAT moment just ENRAGED me. My instantaneous thought was about like our real troops, not even these N.E.S.T. fucks. Just that he had the audacity to take that tone over himself when he's a shit character in a hella shit movie.

Damn that moment pissed me off. Somehow he reached through space-time and reality. Fucking Shia. Fucking Bay.

Was there anything with Sam during the credits? I saw an extra scene with Simmons come on as I was leaving. Just kept on.

Same here. Saw Simmons kiss whatserface and hightailed it.

Love how Wheelie and the new guy were like "Yep, we're dead." And, they are (barring some stupid fucking credit scene I didn't have the patience to see), but no closure on that. Comedy before death, by gawd.

Just like ROTF. Are the twins alive? Who fucking knows.

Shockwave did a great job of striking a pose. That's all he really did.

One of the go-to arguments for these is "what did you expect? it's just a popcorn movie!" In that case, it ought to be easy enough to make all the why's/how's/what's clear at some basic level

This is what drives me crazy the most about all this. Look at superhero movies! They're just popcorn movies, but a pretty good percentage of them manage to be well reviewed and well liked in spite of that.

All Transformers really needs is good, well filmed action, a simple and coherent plot (a plot you can somewhat summarize in a sentence would actually be pretty good here), likable, decently written characters on both the human and the bot side and some fun humor that's more dialog or character based than about peeing on or humping things. THAT IS NOT THAT MUCH TO ASK FOR. Maybe not even from Michael Bay, because if memory serves, he managed to pull off most of this stuff with The Rock.

A no humans movie is probably not going to happen on the live action front, and that's fine. I'm not a big fan of most of the Bayformers designs, but that's fine too. The aesthetic appeals to a lot of people and there's no way they're going to please everyone with this. I just want to be able to watch a movie about giant robots and have fun, and the Transformers franchise has not succeeded in this.

Since reboot chances seem slim, my big hope is that the success of Transformers will cause more mech movies to be made and at least one of them will be good.

This is the best post I've seen talking about this movie (from another forum):



What a strange little film.

The first two movies were a direct assault on narrative cinema, but number three ups the game considerably by attempting to redefine the narrative. It's the cinematic equivalent of Ebonics.

As has been mentioned Bay's swiftly edited action scenes are replaced by a fixed camera but the narrative structure remains the same as before, which has an oddly nauseating effect. Characters appear and disappear, both geographically and chronologically, and their motivation are equally fluid, often doing complete 180s within the same scene. This approach worked in time with the editing before, creating an elegant, chaotic rhythm designed to entrance and sooth the mind into accepting the impossible. In Transformers 1 and 2 we were shown a series of disjointed images and left to combine them in our heads. Film logic became dream logic.

This time, with the camera fixed in place and the editing slowed down, we are told to accept what is presented to us as persistent reality. The world, laid out across a clear, 3D stage is solid and unquestionable; it denies the audience a chance to interpret it any other way.

This means that while we see characters fly, jump, crawl, run, skip, fall, walk and wheel across open spaces. As soon as they are out of frame, they drop into the same nightmarish abstract reality that existed THROUGHOUT the first two movies. Every single time that any character re-appears in frame the viewer is forced to re-evaluate where they came from, why there are there now and what they are doing there; because the movies GIVES US NO FUCKING INDICATION. Scenes begin and end with no real resolution, characters appear to be doing something with some intent, but we don't really know what it is. This is particularly apparent during the supposedly "exciting" finale in Chigago, where the characters seem to be doing little more than running round in circles waiting for MORE people to appear.

The entire finale is defined not by what characters DO (they do very little other than run and scream) but when they appear, at one point some people appear from under the water and this is supposed to be good, but we don't really know why it's supposed to be good and we're never really shown why it's good afterwards. It's just a thing that happens. Meanwhile the Autobots run around (mostly off camera) doing something that we're not told about for reasons we're not clear on and suddenly they are back in frame captured. Their capture was more significant than anything they did previously because their escape is more solid and real than what it was they were doing when they were captured. Of course, this escape is signaled by someone else APPEARING IN THE FRAME, which is their cue to do more things. As soon as this happens they all disappear again.

Throughout this sequence I was utterly baffled. The object in view were solid and clearly laid out, but the landscape, like the characters seem to exist only when the camera is pointing at them. We are shown countless wide views of the area they are supposed to be moving across, but as soon as the camera goes in for a closer look we have no idea where they are and they don't seem to be getting any closer to whatever it was they were trying to get to. Every frame in Chicago is full of non euclidean, broken, tumbling buildings - even at ground level. With no clear causal chain of events, both in terms of plotting and BASIC SCENE CONSTRUCTION, the film becomes an abstract series of concrete scenes that become mentally painful to watch, as your brain tries to work out how they relate to the preceding scene.

We are TOLD that this is an epic movie from the wide shots, but because nothing exists in relation to anything else everything becomes tiny and disconnected. It's like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube for the first time, you are so focused on on particular set of colours that everything else becomes insubstantial and inconsequential. In contrast to the original two films, dream logic is now forced into shape as film logic and it just doesn't work at all. The only way I can think to describe it would be that each scene change is like a jump cut, only everything is different after each jump. We know things are supposed to make sense but we don't, and after a while you start to feel like you're being kicked in the head. It's the cinematic equivalent of a schizophrenic breakdown.

Transformers is a movie about objects, in which everyone is an object, from the blonde's ass-first 3D introduction, Patrick Dempsy's bizarre exit from the movie (tumbling head first past a fallen, horizontal piece of architecture) Great significance is put on the appearance and disappearance of these objects. Shockwave's ability is to literally appear out of nowhere from the ground, to the flying suited people are able to surgically plant themselves out of nowhere. The Autobots are supposed to disappear with the space shuttle but then appear again at the correct moment. And, most tellingly of all, the whole story is about using a series of object to activate another object to make an object appear so that the bad objects can turn the people into objects to give their home object a new coat of paint..

I'm sorry, that's not the clearest assessment of the movie but I've just got back and I think it broke my brain. I wasn't expecting a good movie, but I was hoping that there would be some kind of cohesive structure to it that would allow me to enjoy the action scenes. I'm not joking when I say that Coleman Francis's THE CREEPING TERROR was a more complete movie than this.




Since reboot chances seem slim, my big hope is that the success of Transformers will cause more mech movies to be made and at least one of them will be good.

Well, we do have Real Steel to look forward to (actually nothing like Robot Jox and more like that Twilight Zone episode).

Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots has Hugh. I'll have some eye candy, at least.

Seriously, how did Bay find a woman who looks worse than Megan Fox? HOW DID HE DO THAT SHIT??!?

Sentinel Prime originally called Ultra Magnus?

Sentinel Prime originally called Ultra Magnus? - Transformers News - TFW2005 (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-movie-just-movie-31/sentinel-prime-originally-called-ultra-magnus-172732/)

Kinda makes sense. The whole time I thought to myself, "Sentinel Prime is acting like a dick!"

And we all know there's no bigger dick in the transformers universe than Ultra Magnus.

First time I ever saw a Sentinel Prime was in Animated. No way I was going to be butthurt over him being a villain, like that one dude....

You make a marvelous point, though, Mark.

Thanks Mandi! That's my new wallpaper.

Pretty swankin

So:



eHobby BLACK RODIMUS. Knew it had to happen at some point.

Reminds me of...

Fuck yeah

And fuck yeah at Space Case (http://www.tfw2005.com/resources/tf3-dotm-decepticons-454/space-case-5654/) being found in the US

So so tempting...



$109 with shipping through bbts.

I saw Hasbro's HFTD version at Marshalls for 25 bucks the other day. Still didn't get it.

Instead of cool things that other people find, like RtS stuff, they had old ROTF deluxes like Blazemaster. What the flerp :(

I would have hella swooped up on it for $25.

As much as I like movie aesthetics, movie Starscream has never been, and will never be a Starscream to me.

Feels too different.

Probably the only character I feel this way about. Alas~

I have a weird relationship with the movie characters. I generally wondered why anyone would get excited when certain names would pop up as new additions to the robot cast along the way (Sideswipe, Mirage, whoever) since they didn't end up looking or acting like any older versions of the characters most of the time. However, those names helped attribute them to the characters and the history regardless. As such, I really hated seeing it whenever they were poorly portrayed or cast aside insignificantly.

Of course, the original cartoon shoved characters aside left and right, but that was when Transformers was nothing but a low-budget cartoon to sell toys. They had no idea it would be a 20+ year phenomenon that people would genuinely care about. By now, the excuses aren't so hot.

Man, it feels silly to be bothered about such things.

Guy at HJU got butthurt over Sentinel Prime being a "villain," yeah. There's probably a lot of Jazz's history making up my love for movie Jazz. Because, brother, that deluxe mold is shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. Alt mode is awesome, but good lord, they gave up on the arms. Gave up completely.

Plus he's around for a couple minutes total, really.

I don't think I've ever let myself get overly emotional about the characters getting fucked over, in specific. Pissed as hell at the omnibus character raping that goes on, obviously. I probably went on about Jazz dying, but I think it was more of the WHY DA BROTHER GOTTA DIE FIRST?!? variety than OH NOES HOW CAN I GO ON!!?!??

I like movie Ironhide's look and I'm glad I never bothered to do anything about not having one until the leader rolled around, but I didn't bat an eye when I read that he died, before I even saw the movie. I so wholesale despise the story of these movies that I can't be emotionally invested other than to be disappointed and pissed off.

They gave me some cool toys and reinforced the fact that most people are idiots. I think that counts as a win, on a cynical level? Maybe?

Ugh, I hate how incoherent and back and forth we sound talking about this. IT'S THESE MOVIES' FAULT. WE'RE JUST TRYING TO KEEP OUR SANITY ;;

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ok, so this is a question about transformers the game:

have you guy played it? was it any good? ive read countless reviews that describe it from average to "a horrible sin".
im asking because i want to buy the cybertron edition i saw in blockbuster that has been sitting there since the game came out 9so im talking about a lot of time).
i want to colect a gallery of special editions and this one is pretty cheap.
i will buy it regardless what you guys say, but like many other games, i like to ask around about them. its mostly protocol, for your answers will determine if it will be placed in the special edition gallery along the force unleashed USE and the godfather CE (xbox) or the horror gallery along kasumi ninja and pacman 2600.

Horror gallery. Especially if it's the Wii version.

If it was War for Cybertron, you'd want to put it in the good collection.

So I'm watching it again. You know how.

Reached a moment so lulz, I have to point it out. At one point, Sentinel is facing off against Optimus, Bumblebee, and Sideswipe, and the humans are helping them fire on him. Of everyone, who is the first to knock Sentinel down in a big fiery explosion? Some random military dude, that even gets a closeup to scream "YEAH!!!"

Haha.

I was able to figure out what happened with Laserbeak this time, but only because of the dialogue. That isn't even clear either, but Sam screams something to Bumblebee about shooting him, then off his head goes. For a split second, you see the tiniest little gun barrel right where his head was. It happens soooo fast.

Holy jeebus, Matrix_Prime is still alive. Recorded a review of DOTM with BaltMatrix.

LIKE SO

or was it....

THUSLY

"Popcorn movie with fighting robots." asdf;lkasdf;jklasdflkjjklasajklsdgjlkasdgjlsadgjkl sdg;jlasdgajlsdgjlasdjlk


ALWAYS WITH THESE FUCKING HUMANS :mad::mad::mad:

I still don't undertand the mexican shoot out. SHOOT THEM, SHOOT THEM YOU DUMB BASTARDS.

SOME MORE COmments would be nice.
cant base my desicion on a single opinion

You person: I haven't played the TF games so I have no opinion. All I know is War for Cybertron is the only one with real acclaim. If you need more, there are only a handful of people that post in here. Chill out and be patient. Oh wait - you said you're gonna buy it regardless of what we say anyway.

NEGALICIOUS: That whole scene felt really sloppy. At one point the Dreads are riiiiight behind Sentinel, then they're suddenly a good ways behind the other Autobots and Sentinel isn't even shown in most shots from there. Despite everyone seemingly splitting up once they get off the highway - with Sideswipe/Ironhide staying back to fight those two, they all get back to the base at the exact same time, and Ironhide is right behind Sentinel to set up the OMGWUT scene. Crazy fucking editing.

Anyway. Done. Guess Cybertron does go splat. What's there seems to be asploding. No real dialogue about it. Next scene is Megatron asking for a truce and then, wee, Homicide Prime goes to work. Ending narration I couldn't remember is nothing amazing, just him saying they won't forsake Earth. Hooray. As I figured, watching again didn't help me feel much better about it, but I'd like to say I'm done going on about it. We'll see :(

i already know WFC is awesome, i played it and loved it.

Stock sandbox action game, uninspired missions, meh graphics. Nice, quick transformations, but have been done better since. Wiimote controls camera, wrist-breaking nightmare.

I can has sexy shot of Meg's alt-mode from when he enters the city (iirc)? Please.

so, already bought it.
first impressions: some of the music is good.
the graphics are good (for 2007), except in the movie sequences. they look like ps2 videos. hell, ive seen wii games with better video quality.
the controls are somewhat clunky, but not unplayable.
i didnt have a problem with the driving, must be cuz im acostumed to sega rally 2 (which has an insane sensitivity.

the prequel comic has a very good artstyle, might be inclined to puchase some comics.
havent touched the bonus dvd.
as for the button mashing, it seems the long range weapons are useless because 99% of the time, the enemies block them, even when knocked down.

the cybertron mission is PATHETIC, destroy 35 bots? WTF.

this goes straight into the horror gallery.

:smug:

hur

Space Case get:







Absolutely shocked it showed up around here so quickly

Why is space case such a holy grail?

Homages a popular G2 toy (http://www.tfu.info/1995/Decepticon/SpaceCase/spacecase.htm) and the base mold is well liked. It can fit in with Classics well enough. I wouldn't say it's a total grail but since it's a Target exclusive it's definitely scalper fodder. Creates added impetus.

Don Murphy on the future of the movies:


What happens next? Certainly not a reboot. We haven't lost the Transformers. They didn't grow up or become expensive like Toby Maguire. I don't know what happens next. I'm pretty sure there will be a second trilogy. I am pretty sure it will kick ass. And I am pretty sure some of you will hate it because it wasn't all bots.

:disgust:

Who the fuck is Don Murphy?

An idiot, that's who, mir?

:smug:

Okay, this son of a bitch, ROCKS. I can expect paint, but I can't really expect chains. Still, this is pretty nice for what it is. Loving the cloak. Gives off a Dracula from Simon's Quest vibe, in person. I also like him without it, just NOT GIVING A FUCK. If there was ever a bot to connect TF and Silent Hill, this is the one. Sgt. Recon?!? Fuck no, give me a Human Alliance Travis Grady for this guy, goddammit.

If someone can get behind the Sulk/Cape aesthetic and roll with that, I say do it. I've always tried to salvage the gold in the dung heap of these movies, and this is a great example. Obviously most of the people who'll buy him will be Megs fans, and that's perfectly logical. I speak to another potential fandom of this dude, however. Lurker brothers and sisters, if you like what you see, BITE, and BITE HARD.





Pretend the ladder being on the wrong end of the tank is Megs emulating Animated Starscream. Or, ya know, NOT GIVING A FUCK.

Yes, this IS a different not giving a fuck than his head being visible on the ROTF figure. That was just kinda.....let's be PC and say 'not my taste.'

but...but the Bayformers are just so damn ugly.

I'd be perfectly happy with having these bots in movies with actual plots and 1 human. 1. I WILL ALLOW YOU 1 HUMAN.

Bonus points if it's an Indian girl who is actually a robot, anyway ;)

Still haven't watched Ep. 3 of Prime. Does this say something about the show, or me?

nah, Prime is...well its not terrible, but its not something i look forward to watching.

Can I be that one human?

I'd be perfectly happy with having these bots in movies with actual plots and 1 human. 1. I WILL ALLOW YOU 1 HUMAN.

Bonus points if it's an Indian girl who is actually a robot anyway and is like 7 but becomes 18ish physically due to an upgrade and is thus legal;)

:disgust:

Sexual Predacons, Terrorize!

Watching a review for Battle Ops Bumblebee, and it occurs to me that movie Bumblebee has even less than ZERO personality because he talks in sound clips and I can only really make out what Optimus, Starscream and Megs say.

I never catch what the hell he's saying. He's a big dumb automaton who follows around THE BEEEEEEEEEEEF.

Inexcusable.

I like to pretend that he was seriously getting aggravated and was about to blow John Malkovich's head off, especially given how damn brutal the Autobots were in these movies.

is that a polish movie poster?
because it looks like a polish movie poster

Look what flew in the mail!

When I was watching that I was wondering if it was offensive or not.

Probably not, but that was the mindset I was in, at the time.

Gave up quickly and thought about how creepy it was.

If this mooooves you in some way, I actually do recommend Megs over Ironhide. He's easier and a ton more fun to transform. Plus he's a far more consistent toy, in my experience. I think he does a lot more worthwhile things for his price point as compared to DA HIDE.

I do recommend Ironhide if you're the patient sort and are feeling lucky about winning the QC lottery. If I saw them both sitting on the shelf (hypothetically) again I'd definitely grab Megs, though.

YMMV.

I want leader megs nao!

Dear Neg:

ilu <3

I actually don't want a leader Megs. It would have better paint aps, but I think I'm becoming disenchanted with leaders. Movie 1 Prime and Bulkhead are okay, but the movieverse stuff seems to be pushing it. Feels like they're inching closer to masterpiece level and that's probably pushing too far into TOO FIDDLY AND INTRICATE territory for Neg's tastes.

3RD PERSON.

God dammit Neg.

Plus, even though they have the articulation it's hard to get much out of it because of how precisely they have to be balanced. Then Ironhide can't really look anywhere because his chest is in the way.

I almost got voyager Shockwave an hour ago just because.

Seems cool from what I've seen. Don't think that would have been a bad idea, per se.

Concepts for Bayformer Prime Trailer.

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/8380364-original.html)

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/8380354-original.html)

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/8380340-original.html)

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/8380347-original.html)

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/8380326-original.html)

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/8380317-original.html)

This is just silly. He turns form a truck onto a guy who then rides the back end of his truck.
(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/8380311-original.html)

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/8380303-original.html)

(http://www.pimpandhost.com/image/8380309-original.html)

Heh