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News Credits: 1 · Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:03 pm

Oh look it still looks like a jumbled mess. #-o

Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:27 pm

hmm she still has only wheels for feet weird

Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:38 pm

OH my good gravy!

This only further proves how little the designers and filmmakers cared about their product- as it appears to be that a "combined mode" consists of three robots rolled into into a ball like unwanted pieces of play-doh.

Her head is on her shoulder for crying out loud!

I'd say by not including it in the movie, the filmmakers were showing restraint, but I prefer to think they just forgot because all three of them were insufficient in the breast department, and thus not worth their time.

News Credits: 387 · Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:45 pm

Jacob P. Galvatron wrote:Wait, I posted this yesterday.
http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=58830

Darn, I checked and still missed it! You've been credited on the news post though. Thanks for alerting me.

News Credits: 8 · Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:15 pm

I can see why they didnt use it

Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:52 pm

i was really hoping this wouldn't happen. i figured the 3 individual bikes/bots looked so odd in robot mode to accomodate for them to have a cool combined mode. but combined they just look like a bigger weirder version of their individual bot modes! huge dissapointment!!

News Credits: 4 · Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:34 pm

Looks like there are only two bikes in that artwork...

Couldn't they create a bipedal combination that could also move around on wheels? :???:

News Credits: 241 · Sat Sep 19, 2009 4:18 pm

Swiftknife24 wrote:Looks like there are only two bikes in that artwork...

The blue one is in the back, forming the backbone.

By the way, did anybody notice the title? "Arcee (Motorcycle Gang Combo Mode 03" Does that mean there are three configurations, one for each bike? :-B

Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:10 pm

I saw that too, it looks like they might have a rotating gimmick similar to Land Fill.

News Credits: 4 · Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:25 pm

cool!

Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:26 pm

I would have made Chromia the head, & upper body and some how make the Cannon arm extendable for a combined left arm. then make Arcee a leg and part of the lower body. then make Flareup the other leg and right arm.

This all can change based on how Flareup's deluxe figure is going to be.

then by what is in the art work, i would keep Flareup about the same, make arcee's wheel that is in the air the right leg, then make Chromia the left arm

Sat Sep 19, 2009 10:29 pm

It's quite ugly, but I don't understand why they didn't use it in the movie... I mean, what's the point on having three robots that look the same if they don't end combining in some way? they could just have arcee, because they didn't gave the robots to much of a role in the movie so it wouldn't have been too much different...

or they could have used the cgi time and money of those two extra bike robots to do two more autobots

Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:34 pm

The problem here is that all of this particular designer's work seems to be very early (though gorgeous) and quite far from what was used. Thus, this combined form seems to be a combination of three bikes that are quite different from the 3 bikes we got in the movie, meaning that the combined form may be nothing like this in the end.

Disappointing. Was kind of foolishly hoping to see the combined form and think "Aha, now I get it!"

News Credits: 1 · Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:34 pm

Have we actually heard more-or-less definitively that there will be a Flareup figure?

I'm kind of halvsies on this myself--the cyclebots got VERY little screentime/development save as I guess triplets. Don't know why I'd need three unless they could actually combine. Kind of.

Still, it's a weird combine. Like they went out of their way to make not just the individual figures but the combination pretty darn hideous. Devastator's at least kind of *cute*, in a big suck-up-the-world way. This combination is 'send straight men screaming into the night'.

HK, not that I'd know anything about that.

News Credits: 1452 · Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:50 pm

Sigh. I don't really know what that is anymore. The original movie had weird concepts, but they felt original. The RotF concepts are just not my taste anymore. Sigh.

Sun Sep 20, 2009 1:13 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Swiftknife24 wrote:Looks like there are only two bikes in that artwork...

The blue one is in the back, forming the backbone.

By the way, did anybody notice the title? "Arcee (Motorcycle Gang Combo Mode 03" Does that mean there are three configurations, one for each bike?

I doubt it, in the world of concept art when things are labeled numerically or in A's and B's its because there were previous versions of this concept already rendered, and the Art Directors want to see still more. Not different combinations, just different artist takes on this one concept.

God knows I would luv to see these other concepts, only because of all the concept artist to work on this film, Jung is by far my least favorite. Proctor and Nizzi and others just set a high bar in terms of their character design, Jung strikes me more of a environment painter or Promotional art being he seems to have worked on the Poster.

Still looking around hopeful for that Movie Concept book to pop out of the blue.
*Sigh*

Sun Sep 20, 2009 2:16 am

they all look like Demolishor... and how come one of the heads looks like it's on a shoulder rather than on a neck

Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:40 am

Like hpfabe said; I was waiting for the "Aha-moment".
But I really lost it.
She really looked messed up :-(

Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:57 am

Really don't like it. Such a mess.

Some of the other stuff was cool though.

Sun Sep 20, 2009 1:07 pm

I'm a fan of Bayformer designs, but that picture for all I know depicts a mangled mess. I mean, the head of the combiner is located on a trunk of a right shoulder? A single wheel holding up the weight of 3 bikes? Thank goodness it was just one of many concept arts, can't wait to see the others.