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by **lilcarus** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:03 am

bb had a holo driver just like barricade did....he was there just like he was written in the script....you can see him driving when bb is parking himself next to the bug....i think the other autobots didnt have them in the movie because it was already crunch time when they landed.....poof

News Credits: 5 · by **decepticonjon** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:32 am

lilcarus wrote:bb had a holo driver just like barricade did....he was there just like he was written in the script....you can see him driving when bb is parking himself next to the bug....i think the other autobots didnt have them in the movie because it was already crunch time when they landed.....poof

bb was empty driving into the used car dealership.

by **Jordi S3** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:21 pm

Darth Bombshell wrote:Did anyone happen to notice how all three of those hologram pilots happened to look like that Banacheck Sector Seven guy?

Am I wrong or all three holos were the same actor...?

by **DesalationReborn** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:29 pm

If they include the Dinobots in the next film, I could definitely see them using a holograhic 'skin' similar to the drivers...

And Grimlock's responce to how this actually disguises him...

"Me Grimlock no understand...me still Earth creature..."

News Credits: 4 · by **Briggs** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:49 pm

The comics had holo-drivers!

Perhaps they didnt give the autobots holo drivers because they didnt want people to equate human faces to the autobot heroes who were gona be around awhile.

by **DesalationReborn** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:52 pm

briggs wrote:The comics had holo-drivers!

Perhaps they didnt give the autobots holo drivers because they didnt want people to equate human faces to the autobot heroes who were gona be around awhile.

Though a Peter Cullen one would have worked...

Like Evolution Prime on Facebook · by **Evolution Prime** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:14 pm

Loki120 wrote:
Joseph Kerr wrote:
decepticonjon wrote:not to sound off gaurd or anything, but did you ever see any autobots with hologram drivers? even when sam and his lady were sitting shotgun? i don't think i ever saw one.. that was kinda weird.. i liked the idea in general though

Yes.

I'm almost 98% sure they used holographic drivers in G1. I'll have to check my DVD collection to be sure, but I remember a situation where Sam jumps into one of them and sees the driver disappear and is then explained why the Autobots use them to blend in.

Maybe it was a different series, but i'm almost positive it happened in G1.

Huzah for first post!

In the second episode, MTMTE Part 2, Hound transforms into a jeep, then uses his holographic projector to create a hologram of a driver. Spike asks "Who's he?"
Hound responds, "Nobody, Spike, he doesn't really exist. He's a hologram."

There was an issue of the original Marvel series that the Autobots use mechanical human facsimiles to impersonate drivers which poped up from their seats.

So in essense, it was the opposite. The Autobots wanted to blend in, the Decepticons couldn't have cared less if the humans seen them without drivers.

The idea isn't without previous sources.

lol yous aid it, that would be classic, kinda like how they put kirby in all thoise random roles on marvel films

Ummmm, that's Stan Lee. Jack Kirby has been dead for quite some time now.

Or the hologram the Hound used to trick Devastator at Autobot HQ.

by **shadowsama** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:15 am

Omnus wrote:Anybody know who that mustached man is that plays the holograms the Con's use?

Came by this during a Google search for exactly the same question.

He's Air Force Maj. Brian Reece. Just a random officer who happened to be on base while they were filming the Qatar scene. Bay liked his 'piercing stare', so they glued a fake moustache on him, and voila, Deceptistache, or 'Mustache Man', as he's apparently credited.

Lucky guy. Seems like a nice chap, too.