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[First Gen]

In a recent report, Reel Movies got some insight on the production experience with Director Michael Bay from Transformers Revenge of the Fallen's visual effects supervisor Matthew Butler.

In the report Butler stated:"He's brilliant, but he's a challenge....he's incredibly fast-paced. He's a whirlwind to keep up with, both on the set and in post... [Bay] took the production value up many, many notches. Just the backgrounds alone are huge. It's a combination of Apocalypse Now and Ben-Hur, in regards to fantastic backgrounds and the unbelievable sets we worked at around the world."

Aside from Mr. Butlers descriptions of the great detail the filming backdrops contain another interesting note was added to the end of the report. According to Reel Movies, there are over 60 robot characters in the movie. A substantial amount more than the projected 20 bots we reported here.

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[Mr. Autoboto]

...And more than half of these will be cannon fodder, nothing more (besides a reason to make toys, of course).

[Mkall]

Well, this means that this line is going to last forever (1 figure per character, and then at least 2 repaints of that figure.)

[Megatron Wolf]

jump the shark any one? Yeah this movie is going to suck and pretty damn sure be hard to follow.

[Mykltron]

We already knew this. One of the cast said in an interview that there are 4 times as many robots in this film. As the original had 13, 13 x 4 = very nearly 60. So this news is not a surprise.

jump the shark any one? Yeah this movie is going to suck and pretty damn sure be hard to follow.

Why do you think it'll suck? The toyline will, cos they'll all be rushed through the design process but I think they spent long enough writing the script to make it good. After winning awards for the CGI they won't skimp on this one.

[Serpent O - R]

Jump the Shark? It's only season 2... If they do that now how will they convince the world that a boy can put on armor that will power the super weapon that will destroy the TF equivalent of god?

C'mon, in part 3 we have to 'suspend disbelief' long enough to accept that Megatron is actually Primes step brother and the reason for their conflict emerges from an energon dispute in deepest darkest seibertron because unicron ordered the death of all tf's for not turning over the location of the sacred matrix location. but unicron found it anyway and tricked prime into having the matrix installed to defeat megatron for killing the other members of the council, when in actuality megs was following the orders of unicron to steal spark fragments from the council to create the ultimate tf, lockdown...

or something like that, i think... i don't know where i heard that...

[edit- i'm such an a-hole]

[Doubledealer93]

well i am not going to be able to save any money. only for TFs i am not buying any repaints in this line. too many not worth the money.

[Uber Galvatron]

Oh good.
More robots = More figures = More annoying repaints = EVEN MORE repaints = An even LONGER lasting toyline = Good-Bye Animated

Whose wanting to bet that most of these characters will just be generic people in the backround with no resemblance to the plot?

[Autobot Firestorm]

...And more than half of these will be cannon fodder, nothing more (besides a reason to make toys, of course).

If this is true, hopefully those character that are killed off aren't ones that would have made for cool characters in future movies. With 'Swipe in this one, I had been hoping 'Streaker would be in TF3. I also thought Hound, Mirage, Ramjet, Thundercracker, Laserbeak, etc. would be cool to see on the big screen as well.

[omega666]

AWESOME! The more robots the better. Of course they'll be canon fodder. What part of robots fighting a WAR is hard to understand? As for the toys, I think I will only buy a select few this time around.