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-Soundwave (with at least an attempt to alter his voice with a vocoder) on earth with more of his "cassette" minions like Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Rumble, etc. Nothing over the top. At least his alterneate mode in ROTF was, well, somewhat of a common sense modernist approach to the original source material.

-More of the "Seekers" like: Skywarp, Thundercracker, Dirge, Thrust, and Ramjet. Maybe not all of them, but at least a few; plus, and I beg them, at least try to give them color schemes similar to the source material so as to at least make them somewhat identifiable. Same thing with all the characters, autobots and decepticons alike. Like, fine, Megatron's silver. Cool. Soundwave was blue. Ok. Optiums Prime was red and blue. Great. But why's Ironhide black? Ratchet green? I mean, if OP is the right color harkening back to G1 and Bumblebee was yellow, why wouldn't Ratchet be white and Ironhide be red? Simple concept that escaped me.

-Someone else said that introducing un-named made up for the movie with no need or place in the plot robots (like that little blue remote controlled blue toy monster truck) needs to stop. Focus on the original main characters that people actually give a crap about. The twins? Not funny, and borderline racist, and how about refraining from introducing or bringing back characters so obscure in place of bringing in known characters. That black helicopter and police car from the first one... entertaining action scenes and very clearly decepticons, which was cool. But who the hell were they? Seriously? I had to look them both up and they were minute, little known characters no one would have ever asked to have introducted. Instead of Blackout and that cop car Mustang, Thundercracker and Skywarp would have been much better choices.

-More interaction between Starscream and Megs.


-Fewer jokes. Most were too often and too often unfunny.

WIll.I.Am82 wrote:
-Someone else said that introducing un-named made up for the movie with no need or place in the plot robots (like that little blue remote controlled blue toy monster truck) needs to stop. Focus on the original main characters that people actually give a crap about. The twins? Not funny, and borderline racist, and how about refraining from introducing or bringing back characters so obscure in place of bringing in known characters. That black helicopter and police car from the first one... entertaining action scenes and very clearly decepticons, which was cool. But who the hell were they? Seriously? I had to look them both up and they were minute, little known characters no one would have ever asked to have introducted. Instead of Blackout and that cop car Mustang, Thundercracker and Skywarp would have been much better choices.

Agree with ya, save for some stuff in this paragraph. The blue R/C truck was 'Wheelie.' Albeit, he should've been orange and an autobot the whole time. But they changed a lot for the sake of the story, my only gripe is the orange -woulda been a great nod to G1. Barricade was very cool, don't know much about his backstory or if he relates to G1, thus he may be entirely new. A seeker, if properly done, would've been ok, too, but the cop car worked better for hunting down Sam. Blackout was supposed to be Vortex (of Combaticon fame), but Hasbro no longer has the rights to that name so it couldn't be used. A cool throwback to G1, although I wish H retained the name so it could've been used in the movie.

I probably already said this before, but some triple changers in the movie would be nice, Astrotrain, blitzwing, octane, springer etc. H is just bein lazy, they don't want to make the toy

Yeah, I'm all for Triplechangers, but it would be tough. BUT, what about *Drumroll* BROADSIDE! But, seriously, it might work. Like, he is this FRIKKIN HUGE BOT who turns into an aircraft carrier and also a FRIKKIN HUGE SPACESHIP! C'mon!

WIll.I.Am82 wrote:
-Someone else said that introducing un-named made up for the movie with no need or place in the plot robots (like that little blue remote controlled blue toy monster truck) needs to stop. Focus on the original main characters that people actually give a crap about. The twins? Not funny, and borderline racist, and how about refraining from introducing or bringing back characters so obscure in place of bringing in known characters. That black helicopter and police car from the first one... entertaining action scenes and very clearly decepticons, which was cool. But who the hell were they? Seriously? I had to look them both up and they were minute, little known characters no one would have ever asked to have introducted. Instead of Blackout and that cop car Mustang, Thundercracker and Skywarp would have been much better choices.

I agree with mostly everything except this paragraph but one of the things is that it is NOT G1, the characters aren't supposed to be all the same. Who wants to see a movie with all of the exact same characters? It would be repetitive and boring. And the twins...well I didn't see them racist at all, and neither did anyone I know. Noone complained when Jazz talked like them(although he could read) and..they were SUPPOSED to be stupid anyways. I actually like them adding new characters, it makes it less boring. Blackout was very awesome, as was Barricade, Skywarp and ThunderCracker are the generic jet Decepticons, I don't see how they would've been so much better for Blackout and barricade's parts.



Ok, enough rambling, who I want to see is mostly....
---ShockWave:One of the most awesome G1 characters, he strikes me as the big backup type guy(like Blackout) and he's just awesome. I'd like to see him as an Osprey though.
---Overkill, Rumble, and Laserbeak. They have Ravage(and to a degree:Frenzy) so why not a few more cassete-icons? Overkill is a Dinosaur, which is awesome, Laserbeak could be a sort of skeletal bird thing, and Rumble could be a blue....or red...frenzy(with some sort of shockwave generating powers).
To keep them all semi uniform, they could all have one eye(Like Ravage, and all turn into missiles).
---Skywarp. Basically, his game model is awesome, and if he had a better form in the movie, he'd get a better toy.
---SunStreaker. Basically, this is why SideSwipe hates the twins...because they remind him of himself muahahahah...uh moving on.
---WheelJack. Possibly my favorite autobot after the Dinobots, he's just awesome.
---Dinobots(sorta). I think they could fit into the movie verse(like Wheeljack had come to earth a long time ago searching for the allspark as well, but he had some assistants with him that had their memories damaged in a crash so they took dinosaur forms believing those to be the intelligent species of the planet or something). Maybe not the movies so well bu the movieverse sure.

All the Dinobots and Mini Cons

I was half tempted to put this in a topic of it's own but decided not to since it is inevitable someone would start one like this. Here's something I came up with that would be interesting for me to see play out.

Optimus Prime (or any Autobot really) comes upon some children playing with Transformer action figures. One of the boys says while holding articulating his Optimus Prime figure "I am Optimus and today I will stand, you Megatron will fall. Defend yourself."
The real Optimus looks at another Autobot and states "These human mini-cons don't understand the reality of our war."
Sergeant Epps (or an Autobot or Major Lennox) replies, "Those boys will grow up one day to save this planet."