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In the first movie, the feet seem to come from beneath the truck, but in ROTF, the feet seem to unfold from the cab just like the voyager class movie Optimus. Watch him transform in the military hangar after the Shanghai mission and you can see the front wheels retract to the back of the cab, then the cab unfolds into legs. In the first movie, watch Optimus transform right before the battle with Megatron and you can see his feet shoot into the ground from beneath the truck.

I will in a week when I get the movie.

O_o

As long as all the parts wind up in the right places, who cares?

jaws wrote:As long as all the parts wind up in the right places, who cares?

Because they even bothered to change it, assuming it WAS changed, meant that there was a problem with the first transformation. Bay had said that he wanted no morphing/bullsh*t transformation (like Megatron transforming from a large robot into a small Walther PPK), so if they changed Optimus' transformation it may have been bullsh*t in the first movie.

The real issue I am trying to raise is that the second transformation, assuming it HAS been changed, would provide a better template from which to create an even BETTER leader class Optimus toy. The 2007 leader class Optimus had the back wheels retract onto the thighs poorly, trying to imitate what happened on screen in the first movie. The second leader class toy abandons the idea of trying to copy the movie's transformation in that area, but now 2009 leader class Optimus has no waist joint and still a lot of back kibble. If Optimus DOES have a new transformation in ROTF, which to me it looks like it does, I think this new transformation would be a better model for the final leader class Bayformer Optimus of the third movie. And you KNOW they'll release a new one.

I just wish we could see Optimus transform without any obstructions or awkward camera angles. They always zoom in on him or rotate around him with things between the camera and Optimus when he transforms. Probably to hide the fact that his transformation is bullsh*t, and Bay lied.

the black convoy wrote:In the first movie, the feet seem to come from beneath the truck, but in ROTF, the feet seem to unfold from the cab just like the voyager class movie Optimus. Watch him transform in the military hangar after the Shanghai mission and you can see the front wheels retract to the back of the cab, then the cab unfolds into legs. In the first movie, watch Optimus transform right before the battle with Megatron and you can see his feet shoot into the ground from beneath the truck.

I never payed attension to that. I thought you meant power up prime lol

I noticed that it is different, but its so AWSUM when he transforms, it gives me chills for some reason.