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Soundwave1979 wrote:Absolutely 100% agree with SlyTF1.

It HAS to be Sentinel Prime. Like he said, just look at the similarities with the G1 version of Sentinel...and Optimus Prime. The colour, the shape of the head, the mouth, the long wing-like shoulder parts...and the fact that this robot has the same kind of "horns" on the side of his head like Optimus is also a total give-away that this could only be a prime! Speculate all you like, but i think it's pretty damn obvious.

Wreck-Gar? No way in hell, sorry...
Alpha Trion? Not similar enough, except for the moustache.

FINALLY, some one notices.

ubertenorman wrote:What I don't understand is why they have all the ships to begin with. I thought Bay said he didn't see the point in "aliens who moonlight as vehicles needing other vehicles to get around" or something like that. On the other hand, wouldn't be the first time a continuity has contradicted itself...

What if the TFs can't fly? In G1 they all could fly, trucks, cars, and all, and they needed a space ship. IMO, I think on Cybertron, if they where carrying a heavy load or somthing they would possibly use other vehicles, if their vehicle mode isn't big enough.

T-Macksimus wrote:

Energon Is My Drug wrote:

TypeRProwl wrote:
When you mouse over the picture it indicates that it is Shockwave (at least with my browser) therefore, regardless of how it looks or what anyones previous notions of Shockwave may be, we are not getting our favorite one-eyed, purple, monotoned bad-ass in TF3. The beat-to-hell, almost-Gundam-like bot with the funky coloring may actually be Shockwave.

The only thing that ruins your theory though, my friend, is the fact that we've all already seen Shockwave's head on a pole on photos of the Chicago set...and he is indeed purple and has one eye, just how we remember him...

So i'm sticking by what i said, that it's Sentinel Prime, who probably crash-landed whilst chasing Shockwave, who can be found elsewhere on the moon...

SlyTF1 wrote:

Soundwave1979 wrote:Absolutely 100% agree with SlyTF1.

It HAS to be Sentinel Prime. Like he said, just look at the similarities with the G1 version of Sentinel...and Optimus Prime. The colour, the shape of the head, the mouth, the long wing-like shoulder parts...and the fact that this robot has the same kind of "horns" on the side of his head like Optimus is also a total give-away that this could only be a prime! Speculate all you like, but i think it's pretty damn obvious.

Wreck-Gar? No way in hell, sorry...
Alpha Trion? Not similar enough, except for the moustache.

FINALLY, some one notices.

HEY! I noticed, I mean really, doesn't look like Alpha at all, Sentinel and The Last Autobot yes...but not Alpha Trion.

Soundwave1979 wrote:

T-Macksimus wrote:

Energon Is My Drug wrote:

TypeRProwl wrote:
When you mouse over the picture it indicates that it is Shockwave (at least with my browser) therefore, regardless of how it looks or what anyones previous notions of Shockwave may be, we are not getting our favorite one-eyed, purple, monotoned bad-ass in TF3. The beat-to-hell, almost-Gundam-like bot with the funky coloring may actually be Shockwave.

The only thing that ruins your theory though, my friend, is the fact that we've all already seen Shockwave's head on a pole on photos of the Chicago set...and he is indeed purple and has one eye, just how we remember him...

So i'm sticking by what i said, that it's Sentinel Prime, who probably crash-landed whilst chasing Shockwave, who can be found elsewhere on the moon...

Whatever way you tried to quote it's screwed up as you make it look like I said he's Shockwave!!!
You just quoted the bit I was referring to and not my reply which stated it's not Shockwave, because as we both mentioned we have seen his head already on a stick.

That Shockwave-looking head we saw during filming could really be anyone. This could be anyone too, including Shockwave. (I'm not saying I want him to be, I'm on board with Sentinel.)

99% that's Shockwave on that stick, but who knows?

TypeRProwl wrote:Whatever way you tried to quote it's screwed up as you make it look like I said he's Shockwave!!!
You just quoted the bit I was referring to and not my reply which stated it's not Shockwave, because as we both mentioned we have seen his head already on a stick.

Hahahaha...my bad, fam. I quoted the wrong post by mistake. Sorry!

SlyTF1 wrote:

ubertenorman wrote:What I don't understand is why they have all the ships to begin with. I thought Bay said he didn't see the point in "aliens who moonlight as vehicles needing other vehicles to get around" or something like that. On the other hand, wouldn't be the first time a continuity has contradicted itself...

What if the TFs can't fly? In G1 they all could fly, trucks, cars, and all, and they needed a space ship. IMO, I think on Cybertron, if they where carrying a heavy load or somthing they would possibly use other vehicles, if their vehicle mode isn't big enough.

Only the Decepticons can fly, Autobots can't with the exception of the dinobots, superion, skylynx and any other plane/helicopter autobots like springer. Prime etc can't fly without rocket powered help lol

We can't base our speculation on what the bot looks like.
Let us not forget.
Ironhide is black
Sideswipe is silver
Ratchet is yellowy green
Arcee is three different bots
Jetfire is old and british.

But the discussion is fun.

TypeRProwl wrote:
Only the Decepticons can fly, Autobots can't with the exception of the dinobots, superion, skylynx and any other plane/helicopter autobots like springer. Prime etc can't fly without rocket powered help lol

I seem to remember Ironhide flying in one of the first episodes. Not any time after, however...

Another Armada reference! That ship on the moon looks JUST like the 'cons ship did!

Hmmm, very interesting trailer indeed. One can only hope this will be the best of the trilogy.

aaannddd a big fat meh.
Pretty boring teaser actually, other than the ending shot of some bot. I liked how the ship looks like Megatrons crashed ship on Beast Wars.
But yea, It looks alright I guess... nothing amazing to me so far. Ugh, i'm just so sick of the over use of jagged objects everywhere, it makes everything come off as being flimsy and generic. Nothing stands out except for the occasional circles (I really watched it over and scrutinized every few frames). But I remain optimistic it will be the best of them all.... hopefully.

Energon Is My Drug wrote:

TypeRProwl wrote:
Only the Decepticons can fly, Autobots can't with the exception of the dinobots, superion, skylynx and any other plane/helicopter autobots like springer. Prime etc can't fly without rocket powered help lol

I seem to remember Ironhide flying in one of the first episodes. Not any time after, however...

I was more referring to them needing vehicles to space travel. Which they seem to not need since they can "meteor" from somewhere in space to earth.

Also, am I the only one hoping that the spaceship is really part of the moon and it's one big Beast Wars deathray?

(I'm kidding, by the way)

Its quite patchy canon wise in G1 as well. In MTMTE Pt 2, when the Autobots get to Sherman Dam, the Autobots split up. Hound goes underwater to stop Rumble from making the tidal waves. Ironhide goes to vehicle mode, lowers his back revealing a cannon, and Bumblebee mans it and they make a new path for the water preventing it from flooding the nearby houses.

The rest of the Autobots, under Prime's orders, fly up and hover over a landing at the Sherman Dam facility and fire upon the Decepticons. This was the second situation of the Autobots flying. The first was them coming to the oil rig in MTMTE Pt 1 facing off against the Decepticons for their first skirmish on Earth. IN MTMTE Pt 3, Prime uses Sideswipe's jet pack to fly up and try and bring down the Decepticon cruiser (though Mirage ultimately succeeded in doing so). After that, I recall no instances except one of Autobots flying that didn't have aerial based alt modes. The Dinobots did it twice in Season 1 if I recall correctly, and then again in Dinobot Island with the four land based DBs following Swoop, who's following Powerglide (though in that episode, Bumblebee and Powerglide discover the island, only cause Bumblebee's jet pack was damaged by a pteranodon and he's forced to make a landing).

The rest of the time, the only Autobots who could fly were ones with aerial based alternate modes. And in "The Return of Optimus Prime", Galvatron states that Autobots cannot fly indicating that it was a solely Decepticon ability.

Guys, that gold robot doesnt look anything like Optimus. They're completly different.
But have you considered that that gold robot ccould very well be Rodimus Prime? In the Bayverse anything could happen.

TypeRProwl wrote:

Soundwave1979 wrote:

T-Macksimus wrote:

Energon Is My Drug wrote:

TypeRProwl wrote:
When you mouse over the picture it indicates that it is Shockwave (at least with my browser) therefore, regardless of how it looks or what anyones previous notions of Shockwave may be, we are not getting our favorite one-eyed, purple, monotoned bad-ass in TF3. The beat-to-hell, almost-Gundam-like bot with the funky coloring may actually be Shockwave.

The only thing that ruins your theory though, my friend, is the fact that we've all already seen Shockwave's head on a pole on photos of the Chicago set...and he is indeed purple and has one eye, just how we remember him...

So i'm sticking by what i said, that it's Sentinel Prime, who probably crash-landed whilst chasing Shockwave, who can be found elsewhere on the moon...

Whatever way you tried to quote it's screwed up as you make it look like I said he's Shockwave!!!
You just quoted the bit I was referring to and not my reply which stated it's not Shockwave, because as we both mentioned we have seen his head already on a stick.

After re-reading 12 pages of posts and viewing the trailer 4 times, the only thing that I can say with any degree of certainty is that somewhere, somehow there is a bot with a mustache that crash landed on the Dark side of Chicago and is running around with a stick up his arse terrorizing Sentinel Trion. Does that sound about right?

Michael Bay's whole Transformers trilogy has been a stick up the arse... REBOOT THIS MOVIE FRANCHISE HUMAN FREE!!!

T-Macksimus wrote:
After re-reading 12 pages of posts and viewing the trailer 4 times, the only thing that I can say with any degree of certainty is that somewhere, somehow there is a bot with a mustache that crash landed on the Dark side of Chicago and is running around with a stick up his arse terrorizing Sentinel Trion. Does that sound about right?

That sounds about right. Aren't you excited for TF3 now?

Skyfire-5 wrote:Michael Bay's whole Transformers trilogy has been a stick up the arse... REBOOT THIS MOVIE FRANCHISE HUMAN FREE!!!

Yes...... yes.....

T-Macksimus wrote:

TypeRProwl wrote:

Soundwave1979 wrote:

T-Macksimus wrote:

Energon Is My Drug wrote:

TypeRProwl wrote:
When you mouse over the picture it indicates that it is Shockwave (at least with my browser) therefore, regardless of how it looks or what anyones previous notions of Shockwave may be, we are not getting our favorite one-eyed, purple, monotoned bad-ass in TF3. The beat-to-hell, almost-Gundam-like bot with the funky coloring may actually be Shockwave.

The only thing that ruins your theory though, my friend, is the fact that we've all already seen Shockwave's head on a pole on photos of the Chicago set...and he is indeed purple and has one eye, just how we remember him...

So i'm sticking by what i said, that it's Sentinel Prime, who probably crash-landed whilst chasing Shockwave, who can be found elsewhere on the moon...

Whatever way you tried to quote it's screwed up as you make it look like I said he's Shockwave!!!
You just quoted the bit I was referring to and not my reply which stated it's not Shockwave, because as we both mentioned we have seen his head already on a stick.

After re-reading 12 pages of posts and viewing the trailer 4 times, the only thing that I can say with any degree of certainty is that somewhere, somehow there is a bot with a mustache that crash landed on the Dark side of Chicago and is running around with a stick up his arse terrorizing Sentinel Trion. Does that sound about right?

Sounds like a Michael bay sequel to me.

Energon Is My Drug wrote:

TypeRProwl wrote:
Only the Decepticons can fly, Autobots can't with the exception of the dinobots, superion, skylynx and any other plane/helicopter autobots like springer. Prime etc can't fly without rocket powered help lol

I seem to remember Ironhide flying in one of the first episodes. Not any time after, however...

He was seen flying in the movie after Megatron blew his head off. Yes I know it was an animation glitch.

My first thought was Alpha Trion just because of the beard. We'll have to wait and see though.

JeffX wrote:

Energon Is My Drug wrote:

TypeRProwl wrote:
Only the Decepticons can fly, Autobots can't with the exception of the dinobots, superion, skylynx and any other plane/helicopter autobots like springer. Prime etc can't fly without rocket powered help lol

I seem to remember Ironhide flying in one of the first episodes. Not any time after, however...

He was seen flying in the movie after Megatron blew his head off. Yes I know it was an animation glitch.

Nah, I was talking about one of the first 3-4 G1 episodes. There's a scene where Ironhide flips out and flies off after the Decepticons. Skywarp asks for permission to teleport, then does, and shoots him down from behind. I gotta go watch those now to find it...

My first impression was Alpha Trion, not Sentinal Prime. Going by movie continuity, Optimus Prime is the last of the Prime's. Who ever it is, I quite like the designs of that bot.

Watercut wrote:Guys, that gold robot doesnt look anything like Optimus. They're completly different.
But have you considered that that gold robot ccould very well be Rodimus Prime? In the Bayverse anything could happen.

That's the exact thought that went through my head!

I thought the trailer was interesting - some of the dead bots looked Decepticon, while others appeared to be Autobot - including the "Alpha Trion Wreckgar Sentinal Prime Shockwave Unicron" bot. I figured that last one to be Autobot just because his eyes were blue and he didn't have the sharp features the Decepticons sport in the Bayvers. Maybe the wrecked ship is supposed to be a battle site since there's a hull breach and a variety of different bots scattered around? Am I stating the obvious again...