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I made this for a thread in the Toy Discussion Forum called, "Let's see your '86 Movie Classics Autobots and Decepticons line up," but thought I'd share it here, as well. Anyway, I'd thought to myself, "Well, what better way to show some of them off then by remaking the movie poster using the toys?"

Here is what resulted:



In order to make it... Well, first I found an image of the poster and downloaded it. Then, I started taking some photographs, trying to match the poses in the poster. I started with the five main Autobots:



In retrospect, I wish I'd had Kup and Blurr a bit closer to the camera, but I suppose it still works.

Then everybody else was photographed separately:








Then I had to paint out the backgrounds on the photographs, replacing them with a transparency.

Wheelie and Rodimus were just pasted directly over their illustrated images on the original poster. Everyone else, I had to (crudely) paint out their original images, and paste the photographs roughly over where they'd have been. I tried to keep Ultra Magnus's laser blast from the original, and used that as a guide in placing the photograph of the five Autobots, so that Ultra Magnus's gun lined up with the beam. Everyone else had new lasers (crudely) drawn in. (Springer got an extra one, as his toy has a double barreled gun!) I smoothed out the background as much as my meager talent would allow (to get rid of some of the larger artifacts left over from my removal of the original character art), and retyped in the words over Unicron (I made them a bit larger then on the original, but I'm fine with it). I threw a lens flair on Ultra Magnus's laser beam and applied a light canvas effect over the whole image, both done to help cover up some rough edges in the image. Finally, I stuck a watermark of my avatar in the corner, and called it a day! The result was the image I presented above.

Hope you like it!

LIKE!!

this is completely awesome.. such a cool idea.

imagine this done with all masterpiece figures.. what a dream come true that'd be.. but hey, we've got magnus coming and already have hot rod.. hopefully galvatron, cyclonus, and springer are next.

but, again, this is awesome.

edit.. i posted prematurely..

i just checked out the actual poster again, compared.. and wow.. it just makes this even more awesome.

TimothyR wrote:imagine this done with all masterpiece figures.. what a dream come true that'd be..

That would be great, I agree. But I will be (happily) amazed if we ever get Masterpiece Arcee or Wheelie.

Great work dude! I wanted to do this, but have been too lazy. It came out really well, well done!

That is awesome ! You are very talented. I would have loved to see delicate warrior in the pic. Hopefully when generations arcee comes out, you update it. Great work !

Thanks to everyone who has (or who will) complement me on what I've done here!

Rated X wrote:I would have loved to see delicate warrior in the pic. Hopefully when generations arcee comes out, you update it.

Well, I don't have Delicate Warrior, so that wouldn't have been an option. I just have an Animated Arcee with a custom head and guns, a few Reprolabels of some Autobot logos, and some silver Sharpie work. But at least this way, for those who care about such things, it can be said that this is a poster recreation that uses all official Hasbro toys! (Even if a few of them are augmented...)

As for updating it when Generations Arcee comes out... If I had photographed the five main Autobots all as separate elements, and if I had been smart enough to save a copy of the background after I'd painted out the art that was originally there and before I pasted the toy photographs on top of it, that would certainly be an easy task. Alas, I was not so forward thinking. Maybe, if Generations Arcee is a supremely kick-arse toy, I may revisit the idea in the future. But alas 'tis only a maybe.

Yotsuyasan wrote:Thanks to everyone who has (or who will) complement me on what I've done here!

Rated X wrote:I would have loved to see delicate warrior in the pic. Hopefully when generations arcee comes out, you update it.

Well, I don't have Delicate Warrior, so that wouldn't have been an option. I just have an Animated Arcee with a custom head and guns, a few Reprolabels of some Autobot logos, and some silver Sharpie work. But at least this way, for those who care about such things, it can be said that this is a poster recreation that uses all official Hasbro toys! (Even if a few of them are augmented...)

As for updating it when Generations Arcee comes out... If I had photographed the five main Autobots all as separate elements, and if I had been smart enough to save a copy of the background after I'd painted out the art that was originally there and before I pasted the toy photographs on top of it, that would certainly be an easy task. Alas, I was not so forward thinking. Maybe, if Generations Arcee is a supremely kick-arse toy, I may revisit the idea in the future. But alas 'tis only a maybe.

Well you did kind of venture out of official territory with the city commander and protector sets so I didnt even consider the official theme. All and all, it looks good either way. If better figures come out or you get hold of the more cartoon accurate decos of the decepticons, you can always revisit it in the future.

Rated X wrote:Well you did kind of venture out of official territory with the city
commander and protector sets...

...which are both useless without a Hasbro figure as their core.

Yotsuyasan wrote:

Rated X wrote:Well you did kind of venture out of official territory with the city
commander and protector sets...

...which are both useless without a Hasbro figure as their core.

My city commander covered up a KO ultra magnus for years until I found a good deal on a legit one that was missing the roof part of the truck. Fortunately, the plastic color and paint apps were a perfect match on the KO roof part. But ill be the first to admit the legit version has way tighter joints and better paint apps.