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News Credits: 23 · Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:03 pm

Anybody else think it was really weird that Lockdown had his weak-but-cool soldiers, the Steeljaws of death, floaty shooty drones, and rolling balls of kill-ness, but in the middle of all this, we have one of the most stupid looking robots I've ever seen.

I'm sorry, but aside from not caring for the live-action films in general, I thought AoE was the best of the lot. But those googly eyed Trash Drones... They just really bug me.

Am I alone in this?

News Credits: 7 · Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:09 pm

Yeah, those guys looked really out of place, even considering a lot of the other stuff on the ship were recycled from elsewhere (the floaty drones were the same ones used by the humans in DotM, the rolling ball thing was taken from Battleship, the "regular" minions seemed like they could've been just tweaks of LD himself). The trash drones literally looked like a skinned muppet with plastic vampire fangs -- the kind of thing you'd make to prank somebody but not put in a multi-million dollar blockbuster...

News Credits: 23 · Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:13 pm

That 's my point. Michael Bay's Transformers, for all their faults, and there are a LOT of them, have ALWAYS looked fantastic. Perhaps their appearance of being made of mashed up car-parts has never appealed to me. But the graphics are stunningly well done. I really dislike the movies, but I love the CGI.

Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:31 pm

I see your point. The minions were fairly useless and the trash compactor thingy was odd.I liked the Steeljaws wolves,though. I think either Lockdown or the creators modified these organic creatures to help with the hunt.It may be the same for the minions.

Sat Aug 02, 2014 7:30 am

I wish the mercenaries had names or something so we could learn more about them. But Michael Bay says that Lockdowns ship is key to the rest of the trilogy

News Credits: 23 · Sat Aug 02, 2014 11:20 am

chivesbot20 wrote:I wish the mercenaries had names or something so we could learn more about them. But Michael Bay says that Lockdowns ship is key to the rest of the trilogy

Probably just my imagination, but didn't the ship look kinda like a giant inhuman claw/hand? I wouldn't but it past them to establish it as a piece of Unicron

Sun Aug 03, 2014 9:13 am

Look at RSDADDIMUS2's thread about where he thinks the movies are headed its really good

News Credits: 23 · Sun Aug 03, 2014 10:44 am

chivesbot20 wrote:Look at RSDADDIMUS2's thread about where he thinks the movies are headed its really good

Not to be rude, since you're new, but it's not considered proper form to advertise another persons thread in a discussion that is unrelated.

News Credits: 7 · Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:36 pm

I think they looking so radically different from everything else on the ship(including the TRansformers) is to emphasize to Lockdown has been all over the universe and collected a lot of different thing on the way.So, yeah the looking silly is kinda intended/on purpose.

They look kinda goffy.

Sun Aug 03, 2014 10:42 pm

Was anyone under the impression that Lockdown's ship could look like the inside of Unicron? With all it's passageways and stuff?It reminded me of the battle inside Unicron at the end of the movie from '86.

Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:21 am

Hey Madem prime or whatever your name is, i was giving a link to something. And why should my " advertising" ( which is a strong word) have any means for you to write that its rude. I thought i was going to help someone based on the oner thread that does have relation to this one.

News Credits: 23 · Mon Aug 04, 2014 11:07 am

chivesbot20 wrote:Hey Madem prime or whatever your name is, i was giving a link to something. And why should my " advertising" ( which is a strong word) have any means for you to write that its rude. I thought i was going to help someone based on the oner thread that does have relation to this one.

I didn't mean to be rude, but this is a simple thread about something that bugged me in AoE. Now I've given RSDADDIMUS2's a thread a proper good look, and while I admit he has got some brilliant points regarding the future of the movies, it does not have any context in my little complaint thread.

Again, no offence was intended.