Sabrblade wrote:The following warranted being in its own post.In addition to what all Burn said, this is not the first time that characters with G1 names had looks and altmodes not based on those of their G1 namesakes.Darkman20xx wrote:My problem with Bay is he has a habit of changing things that don't need to be changed in a franchise's history. Of course all movie adaptations have differences but he changes major things. I believe that stems from Bay never being a true fan in the first place. I remember when TF1 first came out and we would see scenes filming with the new cars and we would guess what car was what character? Like a red sports car would have to be Sideswipe or Rodimus. The Silver Corvette would have to be Bluestreak "or Silverstreak". That all stopped when we saw that Bay had no type of reasoning of who he made who? Could Hound not have been a military Jeep? Hound in AOE has Bulkhead's body and Kup's Personality.
Look at the Unicron Trilogy, for crying out loud. All three of those series had characters who looked and acted nothing like the characters who shared their names. Take a look at the following examples:
Harldy anything different from what the movies do.Shockwave?! That guy was a total nobody in the DOTM movie.Darkman20xx wrote:Let's not begin to talk about how the Ruthless Megatron from G1 and Comics has been redueced to a lower level villain who since the first movie has taken a back seat to The Fallen, Sentinel Prime and Shockwave, and now Lockdown.Yeah, sure. The guy who built the Giant Purple Griffin is certainly a menace to us all.[/sarcasm]Darkman20xx wrote:Megatron is nothing more than a Lackey when he has always been portrayed as one of the most dangerous beings in the entire universe.They're taller than her in the awesome current cartoon.Darkman20xx wrote:Now the same thing is happening with the Turtles where they're huge when in no fiction I've seen have the Turtles be taller than April.
It is supposedly different from the movies because the main purpose of any other Transformers series was to move the toys. It would make sense to keep changing those up because how many Optimus Primes is someone going to buy unless he gets changed into something else like a fire truck?
It's funny how you take one of the most random non factored episodes in all of Tranformers history to back up your point on Megatron's ruthlessness. I guess you never saw him slaughther a whole crew of Autobots aboard a shuttle. Let's not even dwell into the comics version of him.
A "True" fan is someone who followed the franchise before they were paid to do so. Do you have to be a fan to make a faithful adaptation to movie? No...but it would be nice to have someone directing that would have said "your going to piss a lot of people off if you make Devastator a big ape."
And depending on when shown on screen the new Nick cartoon has most of the Turtles Shorter or the same size as April except for Donnie who seems to be the tallest turtle. Again your reaching because it's nothing like the size difference being shown in the trailers. This will have to be settled once the Movie is released obviously and we get to them on screen together more.