The Energon Pub

[Hellscream9999]

Two questions here. Will he retain his triple changer ability? Will they acknowledge the change in alt modes or ignore it. Most likely the latter.

I hope not, he'll just get a re-colored aoe helicopter release; if they wanted to, they should have upgraded him into a gen springer-style design, then they could re-shell that amazing figure and we could all be happy, but that's clearly not happening with this film

[KapikoArt]

Cool! Just don't make him Japanese again with German car mode! Who came with idea that Drift will be Japanese samurai with French Bugatti car alt mode?
I love transformers but seeing Bay butcher the culture of the characters makes me cry!

[Sabrblade]

Cool! Just don't make him Japanese again with German car mode! Who came with idea that Drift will be Japanese samurai with French Bugatti car alt mode?
I love transformers but seeing Bay butcher the culture of the characters makes me cry!

The Tweet said he's still a Samurai.

[LE0KING]

Great now I'll have a red driftranger to go with the powerdrifters.
With deadlock filling in the black driftranger slot, I'm only missing yellow and green.

[Deadput]

Cool! Just don't make him Japanese again with German car mode! Who came with idea that Drift will be Japanese samurai with French Bugatti car alt mode?
I love transformers but seeing Bay butcher the culture of the characters makes me cry!

Seriously dude?

When was the last time you have seen a Japanese car in an American Blockbuster film?


the latest thing I can think of is Tokyo Drift which was 2006.




Butchering please...

[SlyTF1]

Cool! Just don't make him Japanese again with German car mode! Who came with idea that Drift will be Japanese samurai with French Bugatti car alt mode?
I love transformers but seeing Bay butcher the culture of the characters makes me cry!

The culture of the characters? The culture of the characters is Cybertronian. Drift has no heritage or culture in Japan aside from the fact that he takes a liking to the culture. That's like saying an American person obsessed with Japanese culture is only ever allowed to wear clothes produced in Japan. That's the stupidest thing ever.

[OptimalOptimus2]

Probably trying to bring it closer to both the IDW Drift and RiD Drift in that he now has a warmer red colour rather than a cold blue.

AOE Drift was originally going to be orange and black, but they had to go with blue and black, due to the fact they couldn't find enough orange and black Bugatti's for filming.

Glad to see they finally got their wish.

They couldn't just painted it on? Or is that too expensive? And ZeroWolf, what do you mean by English culture is a little horrifying?

[Kurona]

what do you mean by English culture is a little horrifying?

Everyone tends to be a dick, basically

[Deadput]

Epps is a pointless character, and the dude is a lousy actor........wait thats exactly the actors Bay hires! my bad all is right in the world of Bayformers

Yep it's not like Bay has hired any good actors ever!



Oh wait...




Plus Epps was like one of the best humans in the films like seriously it's not like you have to be a popular actor to have a good role I mean look at the new Star Wars movies and it's main actors that weren't returning character.

[ZeroWolf]

what do you mean by English culture is a little horrifying?

Everyone tends to be a dick, basically

This ^

Even before this brexit nonsense the stereotype of the polite, well spoken, stiff upperlip British gentle man was already in tatters. Especially out of London.

[Va'al]

Cool! Just don't make him Japanese again with German car mode! Who came with idea that Drift will be Japanese samurai with French Bugatti car alt mode?
I love transformers but seeing Bay butcher the culture of the characters makes me cry!

The culture of the characters? The culture of the characters is Cybertronian. Drift has no heritage or culture in Japan aside from the fact that he takes a liking to the culture. That's like saying an American person obsessed with Japanese culture is only ever allowed to wear clothes produced in Japan. That's the stupidest thing ever.

Your regular reminder to knock it off with the insulting comments.

[KapikoArt]

Cool! Just don't make him Japanese again with German car mode! Who came with idea that Drift will be Japanese samurai with French Bugatti car alt mode?
I love transformers but seeing Bay butcher the culture of the characters makes me cry!

The culture of the characters? The culture of the characters is Cybertronian. Drift has no heritage or culture in Japan aside from the fact that he takes a liking to the culture. That's like saying an American person obsessed with Japanese culture is only ever allowed to wear clothes produced in Japan. That's the stupidest thing ever.

I see you "understood " my comment. Never mind....
What I meant is that why not give him "matching" car mode. How about Nissan GT-R It's almost like creating Dino with Lamborghini mode and give him Russian accent.
Hope you get me this time...

[KapikoArt]

Cool! Just don't make him Japanese again with German car mode! Who came with idea that Drift will be Japanese samurai with French Bugatti car alt mode?
I love transformers but seeing Bay butcher the culture of the characters makes me cry!

Seriously dude?

When was the last time you have seen a Japanese car in an American Blockbuster film?


the latest thing I can think of is Tokyo Drift which was 2006.




Butchering please...

Exactly! How about giving him Nissan GT-R mode and for the sake of Soundwave character (who was awesome btw) leave the Benz be?
Just a thought...

[Emerje]

I see you "understood " my comment. Never mind....
What I meant is that why not give him "matching" car mode. How about Nissan GT-R It's almost like creating Dino with Lamborghini mode and give him Russian accent.
Hope you get me this time...

That actually brings up a very good question. If Drift is such a Japanophile that he acts Japanese then isn't he more likely to choose a Japanese car as his alt mode over something else? A guy that's absorbing that much of their culture would certainly see Japanese cars as superior, especially when they're just taking on the appearance, not the performance of the car. Seems like a major disconnect in his character.

Emerje

[Hellscream9999]

I see you "understood " my comment. Never mind....
What I meant is that why not give him "matching" car mode. How about Nissan GT-R It's almost like creating Dino with Lamborghini mode and give him Russian accent.
Hope you get me this time...

That actually brings up a very good question. If Drift is such a Japanophile that he acts Japanese then isn't he more likely to choose a Japanese car as his alt mode over something else? A guy that's absorbing that much of their culture would certainly see Japanese cars as superior, especially when their just taking on the appearance, not the performance of the car. Seems like a major disconnect in his character.

Emerje

Yeah, but did any high-end Japanese cars get offered to the movie crew and beat out the nicer European cars? I'm guessing 'no', and at that point, that's really all that matters to them

But I definitely agree with both opinions, it was sloppy character building

[Burn]

It all comes down to the licensing agreement. These movies generate a lot of exposure, so car companies will be climbing over each other to get their cars featured.

[Va'al]

Seibertronian Bronzewolf has shared another image from Michael Bay's Instagram account (or his good marketing team, at least) showing what looks to be a set image from the Detroit location of Transformers: The Last Knight, and posters of OPtimus Prime and Bumblebee - it looks like the status quo is still one where Cybertronians are not exactly everyone's favourite thing. Check it out mirrored below, and sound off in the comments about what you think this means for the movie so far!

[SW's SilverHammer]

Well props for the movie not %100 hitting the retcon button. Maybe there'll be some continuity bridging that happens exclusively in non-cannon promotional material. Like all of the other movies.

[Rainmaker]

Interesting, do they hate Bumblebee though? Or he just an alien?

[TurboMMaster]

Well props for the movie not %100 hitting the retcon button. Maybe there'll be some continuity bridging that happens exclusively in non-cannon promotional material. Like all of the other movies.

I think it's to late for trying estabilishing something "for certain". Bayverse timeline is already illogical in too many places.

[Carnivius_Prime]

Bayverse timeline is already illogical in too many places.

The entire Transformers franchise is already illogical in too many places right from day one back in 1984...

[ZeroWolf]

Bayverse timeline is already illogical in too many places.

The entire Transformers franchise is already illogical in too many places right from day one back in 1984...

This is very true plus till the movie comes out we won't know what needs explaining from AoE.

Though in my opinion the area where most questions will be centred on is the dinobots, as I'm where are they now.

[Emerje]

Though in my opinion the area where most questions will be centred on is the dinobots, as I'm where are they now.

The person that first leaked Squeaks the Vespa long before he(?) was officially announced said the Dinobots will be back in this movie along with smaller Dinobots.

Emerje

[Kurona]

Is this just like, gonna be a thing now? Just everyone hate the Transformers in every movie?

[Burn]

Is this just like, gonna be a thing now? Just everyone hate the Transformers in every movie?

Given how much death and destruction they've caused, why would they be welcomed with open arms?