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News Credits: 337 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:43 pm

TFW2005.com has put up a image that is suposedly the first draft of Transformers Movie Ratchet. In this form he is a more traditonal Red smaller firetruck. The picture shows both Alternate and Robot form of the figure. To see the image please click here.

Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:52 pm

It still looks silly but much better than the one produced, a less alien insect looking face and actual hands.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:59 pm

Yep, I too like the head and hands on this one much better than the actual movie Ratchet.

News Credits: 25 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:03 pm

looks rather fan made.

News Credits: 23 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:10 pm

Glad they didn't use that.

News Credits: 8 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:33 pm

To everyone who said it couldn't get worse...

I like the head though :-?

Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:33 pm

Too bad that can't be Ironhide.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:38 pm

I think it looks spiffy, in a "level guardian from Megaman" kind of way. Emerald Twilight over on the 2005 boards (who I gather is in the know about such things) said that the second Ratchet voyager in the new set of movie toy listings was in "G1 Inferno colours". Could it be this? Passed off as a "previous form" or suchlike? I'd buy it.

Post 23, if anyone's wondering:
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=121720&page=3

-Nick[/url]

Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:41 pm

Looks more appealing than Birdie-Canary Ratchet.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:46 pm

Wow. That looks pretty cool. Make it a van and it could be Ironhide. A little slim, though.

I give it a 7/10.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:47 pm

Looks like design cues from Bubblegum Crisis, or Ghost in the Shell.

I rather like it!

News Credits: 1093 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:18 pm

It's not great, not by a long chalk, but it does retain more of Ratchets orignial colours and a head sculpt that bears a passing resemblance to G1 Ratchet. This design appears to more along the same lines as the Bumblebee and Prime designs, a radical update and redesign but retaining features of the original character. I'd have been more comfortable with this Ratchet than the one chosen.

Yours AK

News Credits: 38 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:20 pm

Looks horrid compared to the one we actually got.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:27 pm

Much better....

One a second thought, this could do a good Red Alert! Dunno why, but Brawl is the Police car so....

News Credits: 21 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:29 pm

this is much better looking has some g1 style to it head and hands are good decent now if only the others looked more like this it really be a big hit it really is sad on how things turn out for the worse maybe if they were smart they would have had true transformer fan on the set designs would be better than the ones we have now its ironic two americans created transformers and now transformers might be trashed by one american.

Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:31 pm

one word fugly.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:31 pm

Alex Kingdom wrote:It's not great, not by a long chalk, but it does retain more of Ratchets orignial colours and a head sculpt that bears a passing resemblance to G1 Ratchet. This design appears to more along the same lines as the Bumblebee and Prime designs, a radical update and redesign but retaining features of the original character. I'd have been more comfortable with this Ratchet than the one chosen.

Yours AK

My sentiments exactly.

Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:47 pm

I think he looks a lot better than the design they went with but then again, it doesn't take much to look better than a pukey green/yellow rescue hummer that turns into a giant bird-headed monster.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:52 pm

I like it, the head is still throwing me off though...

Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:06 pm

it's like a mix between power rangers, gundam and something else :shock:

News Credits: 5 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:43 pm

Alex Kingdom wrote:It's not great, not by a long chalk, but it does retain more of Ratchets orignial colours and a head sculpt that bears a passing resemblance to G1 Ratchet. This design appears to more along the same lines as the Bumblebee and Prime designs, a radical update and redesign but retaining features of the original character. I'd have been more comfortable with this Ratchet than the one chosen.

Yours AK

I completely agree, i felt the Movie Ratchet was too brawny and bulky and not like the original.. I wish this was the design chosen

News Credits: 23 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:48 pm

83457W422102 wrote:Glad they didn't use that.

I'm a dumbass. When I had posted my quoted comment, I had forgotten just how bad the Ratchet design they ended up using is.

News Credits: 665 · Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:25 pm

The only things I like better with this one is the colour scheme and the head.

The filmmakers probably thought another red autobot would clash with Prime...