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News Credits: 15 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:32 pm

Wait, are those the minifigure blind packs? They look horribly painted compared to this:

Anyway, yeah, Lockdown looks badass. Very Destro-esque. This will piss off some Animated fans.

GOOD

Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:37 pm

Now THAT is a TF face I can get behind. Unlike Hound, with his...trappers...trappings.

Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:37 pm

Looks like a step down from how awesome the rotf toy head looked like.

News Credits: 6188 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:41 pm

PrymeStriker wrote:Wait, are those the minifigure blind packs? They look horribly painted compared to this:

Anyway, yeah, Lockdown looks badass. Very Destro-esque. This will piss off some Animated fans.

GOOD

No no, those are MashEms! Squishy throwing things with very little paint.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:42 pm

I don't know, what I should think on the next movie though. When I see all the newest pictures, my first idea is that the movie will totally suck visually... Because Optimus Prime doesn't really looks great, Drift looks like sh.. and Lockdown isn't that great, too...And Bumblebee, well it's Bumblebee...

News Credits: 8 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:42 pm

so lockdown had a kick ass looking figure in ROTF but instead of using that as a basis they go with this crap, i have the feeling that this is just hasbro slapping the name on a bot to keep the copy right.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:47 pm

Megatron Wolf wrote:so lockdown had a kick ass looking figure in ROTF but instead of using that as a basis they go with this crap, i have the feeling that this is just hasbro slapping the name on a bot to keep the copy right.

Yeah, also my feeling. But the hole movie is too much eastern orientated, I mean Optimus Prime and Drift looks like Samurais, well I haven't a problem with Samurais movies, but to combine this with Transformers will suck, the best example is Transformers Go in my eyes...

Well I know one who don't collect the Transformers Age of Extiction toys. :-?

News Credits: 462 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:51 pm

Jazz813 wrote:But the hole movie is too much eastern orientated, I mean Optimus Prime and Drift looks like Samurais, well I haven't a problem with Samurais movies, but to combine this with Transformers will suck, the best example is Transformers Go in my eyes...

Optimus is more based on a medieval knight than a samurai, which would be more western than eastern.

And, there have been tons of samurai Transformers in the past.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:54 pm

That's true, but they looks much better than AOE Drift for exemple...

News Credits: 21 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 3:59 pm

Jazz813 wrote:I don't know, what I should think on the next movie though. When I see all the newest pictures, my first idea is that the movie will totally suck visually... Because Optimus Prime doesn't really looks great, Drift looks like sh.. and Lockdown isn't that great, too...And Bumblebee, well it's Bumblebee...

I look forward to samurai bot prowl was samurai in animated, would have prefer ninja oh well bumblebee everyone feel same way about bumblebee from legend to leader class with bee IF Hasbro could just dumb it down with bees there wouldn't be much hate for him on trans sites out there,.

who ever said it he does close resemble to destro like to see whole face in color be better judge of this character

News Credits: 3 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:04 pm

Yeah, I wasn't a really big fan of Animated Samurai Prowl either, but he looked better than AOE Drift. Yeah, AOE Lockdown looks really a little bit like Destro, and his smile remembers also a little bit of the Joker. :-?

News Credits: 1 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:08 pm

He looks very human... maybe he actually is part human and part robot :-?

News Credits: 251 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:10 pm

So am I the only one that thinks Lockdown looks like a mechanical Martin Luther King? Or am I just weird? :-s

Normally, I'd disown this guy as Lockdown, but 1) I'm too lazy to do so today, 2) I'm to the point where I sigh and think, "This is exactly what I should expect from Michael Bay", and 3) I actually kinda dig this look. Sure, I would've like to at least seen a splash of green on him just to have a small homage to his Animated roots, but the complete badassery that his car mode completely overrules every argument I can give.

Admittedly, Age of Extinction is beginning to have me interested (with the exception of that Leader/First Edition Optimus Prime). If the toys don't suck like Dark of the Moon's did, I may get back into getting movie toys.

News Credits: 462 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:10 pm

Lockdown looks like an albino version of Darkseid. Scary. :twisted:

News Credits: 1 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:13 pm

Is it just me or are the faces getting more human looking.

News Credits: 462 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:14 pm

njb902 wrote:Is it just me or are the faces getting more human looking.

Yeah, and isn't that what this fandom has been begging for since the first movie? Less insectoid faces and more discernible humanoid faces?

News Credits: 1 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:16 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
njb902 wrote:Is it just me or are the faces getting more human looking.
Yeah, and isn't that what this fandom has been begging for since the first movie? Less insectoid faces and more discernible humanoid faces?

I know I have been.

News Credits: 462 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:25 pm

njb902 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
njb902 wrote:Is it just me or are the faces getting more human looking.
Yeah, and isn't that what this fandom has been begging for since the first movie? Less insectoid faces and more discernible humanoid faces?

I know I have been.

And now the reverse is in effect, with folks complaining that it's not like the faces in the first three films.

This fandom, I swear! :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 37 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 4:56 pm

When I first saw the picture of that Lockdown toy, I said to myself, "Holy damn, that dude who was on here months ago was right," and I kind of believed him, too. With that said, I liked the insect faces on the TFs. But, whatever. Change is fine.

Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:27 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
njb902 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
njb902 wrote:Is it just me or are the faces getting more human looking.
Yeah, and isn't that what this fandom has been begging for since the first movie? Less insectoid faces and more discernible humanoid faces?

I know I have been.
And now the reverse is in effect, with folks complaining that it's not like the faces in the first three films.

This fandom, I swear!

Waita generalize. Rotf Lockdown didnt have anything near an insect face. He actually had quite the opposite compared to bonecrusher or starscream. You guys need to stop attacking your fellow fans just for having opinions.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:29 pm

MINDVVIPE wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
njb902 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
njb902 wrote:Is it just me or are the faces getting more human looking.
Yeah, and isn't that what this fandom has been begging for since the first movie? Less insectoid faces and more discernible humanoid faces?

I know I have been.
And now the reverse is in effect, with folks complaining that it's not like the faces in the first three films.

This fandom, I swear!

Waita generalize. Rotf Lockdown didnt have anything near an insect face. He actually had quite the opposite compared to bonecrusher or starscream. You guys need to stop attacking your fellow fans just for having opinions.

You guys?

News Credits: 1 · Thu Jan 23, 2014 8:59 pm

Back off Bay! Back off! I mean this looks Hideous no.... He's ruined the movie for me [-(

Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:09 pm

It's not hideous, there has been far worse. This has definitely got its cool factor, it also somewhat looks like a T-800. It's just that when it looked so much more wicked and badass in the ROTF toy form and the CGI packaging, this just feels meh in comparison.

Sorry that last one is so huge.

Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:19 pm

With all these new aoe designs iv'e realized that most robots we've seen so far have human like faces.....Think Drift and Hound now Lockdown? Lets hope Slingshot or Crosshairs has a more transformery like head.

Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:19 pm

With all these new aoe designs iv'e realized that most robots we've seen so far have human like faces.....Think Drift and Hound now Lockdown? Lets hope Slingshot or Crosshairs has a more transformery like head.