Red Knight Concept Art from Transformers: The Last Knight

Nexus Knight wrote:So, finally finally saw the Last Knight. And...

#barricade from #transformersthelastknight. ILM ended up putting a different head on him later on.

IAPETUS_PRIME wrote:This is the third time my name was spelled wrong.

We have incurred losses for the first months of the current year. These are not trivial losses; they are huge losses.

Viacom needs to explain a better plan for how it spends [our] investment money

The company was particularly incensed that the most recent “Transformers” did not perform better in China. The film made nearly $230 million in the Middle Kingdom, but that was a significant drop-off from the $320 million earned by its predecessor, “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” in 2014.

SnoopDawg wrote:Am I the only one who thinks that Barricade concept art looks bad*ss? I definitely prefer the concept over the actual.

Kurona wrote:Damn, that's surprising. Maybe this'll prompt Paramount into giving the movies a different approach?

Kurona wrote:Damn, that's surprising. Maybe this'll prompt Paramount into giving the movies a different approach?

WreckerJack wrote:

Kurona wrote:Damn, that's surprising. Maybe this'll prompt Paramount into giving the movies a different approach?

Let's certainly hope so. You'd think they would listen to the fans or the declining interest in the movies.

Clockwork Animations wrote:

Bronzewolf wrote:Coming hot off the heels of the Red Knight piece reported on earlier today, we now have a gallery's worth of concept art for Transformers The Last Knight, coming from three artists

Anyone else notice galvatron sittin on the ship next to prime?

https://mobile.twitter.com/thomaspringle1

Deadput wrote:

WreckerJack wrote:

Kurona wrote:Damn, that's surprising. Maybe this'll prompt Paramount into giving the movies a different approach?

Let's certainly hope so. You'd think they would listen to the fans or the declining interest in the movies.

It's franchise fatigue...the movies being mediocre just sped up the process that's finally starting to catch up with marvel films like look how Spiderman is doing.

Blackstreak wrote:Poor, Chinese! A business venture is a risk for all partners involved. Bunch of whiney children.

o.supreme wrote:There is one thing that saddens me about all of this. Are the movies good...No they are not. Well I probably give them more credit than most, but I cant deny they are a mess, especially this latest one...

Still there are internet trolls everywhere celebrating the *death* of this franchise. Its not that they want a fresh take on Transformers, they legitimately want it to go away, forever, and sad to say, I can see this happening.

Most fans hope, maybe this will get Paramount to rethink things and start over. But remember, this film franchise is only a decade old. Its more likely to cease completely, which makes me sad.

DeathReviews wrote:And what's the deal with having the actors either screaming at the top of their lungs, or mumbling/muttering so low under their breath, that you can't understand a word they're saying? It isn't just Transformers doing that either, it's in lots of films and TV shows. It's like the writers gave up on having the characters actually saying anything and just have them mumble to cover up the fact that what they're saying really isn't very interesting.

Deadput wrote:The Pringles man has uploaded a couple more pieces of art.

The Talisman which is...a uh talisman nothing else to really say about it.


https://www.instagram.com/p/BXZBwykjMA2/?taken-by=pringleart


Megatron in jet form flying across the desert which is presumably based off the scene where Megatron meets Lennox and the Trf.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BXZDbR4DxJ5/?taken-by=pringleart


Hopefully this doesn't come across as me telling you guys on how to do your job but instead of making a post everyday about a couple bits of art I would wait about a week and then make a big post with everything in it that way more people will notice the post and it won't clutter up the main page and it will be easier for people to find these in the future instead of going through post after post to find a couple of specific pieces.

I talked to Josh Nizzi briefly and I know he is going to upload other stuff like for example the prison Decepticons and Josh seems to be going on a "upload one a day" schedule...I did suggest for him to do that in the comments for the WW2 Bumblebee post so it would generate hype.

User897 wrote:Good. Hopefully it puts a nail in the Bay coffin. HasBLO should get their fingers slammed in the door too on their way out.

Deadput wrote:I talked to Josh Nizzi briefly and I know he is going to upload other stuff like for example the prison Decepticons and Josh seems to be going on a "upload one a day" schedule...I did suggest for him to do that in the comments for the WW2 Bumblebee post so it would generate hype.

william-james88 wrote:

Deadput wrote:I talked to Josh Nizzi briefly and I know he is going to upload other stuff like for example the prison Decepticons and Josh seems to be going on a "upload one a day" schedule...I did suggest for him to do that in the comments for the WW2 Bumblebee post so it would generate hype.

Hype, sure but that will definitely cause a strain on newsing stuff. If thats what he is dead set on, then I might just wait a week and do a weekly "what new stuff has he posted?" article.

DeathReviews wrote:I like hearing good news about Transformers, but I make no secret of the fact that I don't think much of the 'Bayverse' films. They're too formulaic for my taste, too predictable. Bay has a number of gimmicks that he's known for in his movies, and for Transformers in particular he seems to be going through a playbook step by step. And in the most recent movie, they put more emphasis on camera movement and rotation than on good writing. Just being in an IMAX theater doesn't mean people will like it...

ricemazter wrote:What always got me about these films is that nobody involved in the production seemed to have an appreciation for or even like the source material. Bay's artistic merits are debatable, but it's always been apparent to me that he doesn't care about the Transformers part of the Transformers. More often than not the robots are disposable set pieces in these movies. For example, in any other transformers media, it would be a big deal for Soundwave or any other major Decepticon to die. In Dorm, though, whatever.

Donald Glut wrote:"No one, not even the story editors, looked at these scripts very carefully. I seem to remember the show being on a really tight schedule, and we had to crank these scripts out fast. I wrote some of them in a single day, first draft, and they went almost immediately to the storyboard artists after Bryce or an assistant gave them a rather cursory read. We were not trying to create art, just get them done fast, and get paid... None of the writing on this series, in my opinion, was good or passionate or, sometimes (my own included, like The Autobot Run) even adequate. But we got paid well for writing them fast.... I was never a fan of any of the characters."

ricemazter wrote:The other thing that always bothered me was just who are these movies made for? It isn't kids, certainly. There's too much sexual content, crass humor, and over the top violence. Tonally they seemed to be teen and young adult males who,correct me if I'm wrong, aren't the market that will be buying these toys in the numbers to generate a real profit, especially the simple versions.

ricemazter wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:I like hearing good news about Transformers, but I make no secret of the fact that I don't think much of the 'Bayverse' films. They're too formulaic for my taste, too predictable. Bay has a number of gimmicks that he's known for in his movies, and for Transformers in particular he seems to be going through a playbook step by step. And in the most recent movie, they put more emphasis on camera movement and rotation than on good writing. Just being in an IMAX theater doesn't mean people will like it...

What always got me about these films is that nobody involved in the production seemed to have an appreciation for or even like the source material. Bay's artistic merits are debatable, but it's always been apparent to me that he doesn't care about the Transformers part of the Transformers. More often than not the robots are disposable set pieces in these movies. For example, in any other transformers media, it would be a big deal for Soundwave or any other major Decepticon to die. In Dorm, though, whatever.

The other thing that always bothered me was just who are these movies made for? It isn't kids, certainly. There's too much sexual content, crass humor, and over the top violence. Tonally they seemed to be teen and young adult males who,correct me if I'm wrong, aren't the market that will be buying these toys in the numbers to generate a real profit, especially the simple versions.


Are kids really buying movie toys? Is there anyway to tell? They seem to be constantly in stock at my local stores, while generations are sold out.

Stealth Claw wrote:

ricemazter wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:I like hearing good news about Transformers, but I make no secret of the fact that I don't think much of the 'Bayverse' films. They're too formulaic for my taste, too predictable. Bay has a number of gimmicks that he's known for in his movies, and for Transformers in particular he seems to be going through a playbook step by step. And in the most recent movie, they put more emphasis on camera movement and rotation than on good writing. Just being in an IMAX theater doesn't mean people will like it...

What always got me about these films is that nobody involved in the production seemed to have an appreciation for or even like the source material. Bay's artistic merits are debatable, but it's always been apparent to me that he doesn't care about the Transformers part of the Transformers. More often than not the robots are disposable set pieces in these movies. For example, in any other transformers media, it would be a big deal for Soundwave or any other major Decepticon to die. In Dorm, though, whatever.

The other thing that always bothered me was just who are these movies made for? It isn't kids, certainly. There's too much sexual content, crass humor, and over the top violence. Tonally they seemed to be teen and young adult males who,correct me if I'm wrong, aren't the market that will be buying these toys in the numbers to generate a real profit, especially the simple versions.


Are kids really buying movie toys? Is there anyway to tell? They seem to be constantly in stock at my local stores, while generations are sold out.

Well most kids I know who are transformers fans are fans due to the movies. and of course the movies are for kids, like most parents from what iv gathered and seen don't care what games or movies their kids play/watch. so even if the tf movies don't seem like their safe for kids. their parents will most likely still bring them to see the movies. again from what I gathered and seen and younger tf fans I met love the movies. Also I do notice the bayformer toys are shelf-warmers, but do you know who is not a shelf-warmer and I never seem to be able to find in Wal-Mart is bumblebee...

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Stealth Claw wrote:

ricemazter wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:I like hearing good news about Transformers, but I make no secret of the fact that I don't think much of the 'Bayverse' films. They're too formulaic for my taste, too predictable. Bay has a number of gimmicks that he's known for in his movies, and for Transformers in particular he seems to be going through a playbook step by step. And in the most recent movie, they put more emphasis on camera movement and rotation than on good writing. Just being in an IMAX theater doesn't mean people will like it...

What always got me about these films is that nobody involved in the production seemed to have an appreciation for or even like the source material. Bay's artistic merits are debatable, but it's always been apparent to me that he doesn't care about the Transformers part of the Transformers. More often than not the robots are disposable set pieces in these movies. For example, in any other transformers media, it would be a big deal for Soundwave or any other major Decepticon to die. In Dorm, though, whatever.

The other thing that always bothered me was just who are these movies made for? It isn't kids, certainly. There's too much sexual content, crass humor, and over the top violence. Tonally they seemed to be teen and young adult males who,correct me if I'm wrong, aren't the market that will be buying these toys in the numbers to generate a real profit, especially the simple versions.


Are kids really buying movie toys? Is there anyway to tell? They seem to be constantly in stock at my local stores, while generations are sold out.

Well most kids I know who are transformers fans are fans due to the movies. and of course the movies are for kids, like most parents from what iv gathered and seen don't care what games or movies their kids play/watch. so even if the tf movies don't seem like their safe for kids. their parents will most likely still bring them to see the movies. again from what I gathered and seen and younger tf fans I met love the movies. Also I do notice the bayformer toys are shelf-warmers, but do you know who is not a shelf-warmer and I never seem to be able to find in Wal-Mart is bumblebee...

All Transformers lines have their heavy shelfwarmers not just movie. As stated elsewhere there's TONS of Titans Returns stuff clogging up shelves including those at my nearest toy stores. So many Wave 3 deluxe TR figures (mostly Hot Rod, Twinferno and Triggerhappy), still a lot of Blurr and Scourge from earlier waves and lots of Broadsides, Megatrons and Optimus Primes and small Legends stuff lke Bumblebee, Wheelie (so many Wheelies) and Stripes. A lot of RID stuff such as Deployers on shelves too. And until recently a crapload of Combiner Wars figures were shelfwarming like crazy too (particularly the Deluxes like Wheeljack, Prowl and Smokescreen and Voyagers such as Cyclonus, Scattershot and Onslaught and a lot of Legends class Wreck Gars and Skywarps)

Stealth Claw wrote: CW Devy didn't even show in Wal-Mart, so sad (ps. im looking for a cw devy haha)

william-james88 wrote:An exclusive article from Variety tells that Paramount's film financing partner Huahua, a media company based in China, is angry at "losing tens of millions of dollars on a $1 billion slate-financing deal with Paramount Pictures".

noctorro wrote:I hope they learn, kick Bay of the team, start anew years later.