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[Va'al]

I feel like at this point its a running gag that Barricade just survives each movie by just randomly disappearing at the end

But...didn't he get shot onscreen in DOTM? I thought he was dead!

He got better

The IDWronhide effect.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I feel like at this point its a running gag that Barricade just survives each movie by just randomly disappearing at the end

But...didn't he get shot onscreen in DOTM? I thought he was dead!

He got better

The IDWronhide effect.

Ha, Classic. Well, as long as he got new eyes, a new leg, and maybe a total makeover, he should be fine

[Tyrannacon]

Definitely going to echo the same sentiment here. Didn't he get shot in the head?

I need to watch DOTM again possibly. Kind of glad though he's back.

[Hellscream9999]

THAT TOW TRUCKS A DECEPTICON....




F&%K YEAH!!!!!




Hope it's a lean, mean, murdering

[Va'al]

Have some not-news-at-all: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... ers/35533/

[Kurona]

With something like this, when the answer is not straight out "no" it says to me they're hiding something the question may have caught onto. But even then the answer is just... Weird.

[Va'al]

Yup.

[ZeroWolf]

That's. ..interesting, when I first mentioned the possibility of a Rom tie in, I was only joking, but now...

[DedicatedGhostArt]

I called it! Barricade shall return!

[conbot3]

Definitely going to echo the same sentiment here. Didn't he get shot in the head?

I need to watch DOTM again possibly. Kind of glad though he's back.

Nope, they took his eyes out and blew his foot off but you didn't see him killed!
and I still think that motorcycle is going to be Rumble!
Could the tow truck be Breakdown?

[Va'al]

Since posting a very small news story in the Comics section - about the role of ROM the Spaceknight in IDW's REVOLUTION crossover event - we've been mulling over this piece from Forbes, in which the author links the new The Last Knight font with ROM's traditional one in the Marvel comics.

Several Seibertronians have thrown around a comment about ROM being the titular Last Knight in jest, but thinking about it - is it not possible that this is indeed the beginning of the wider Hasbro universe? Why the sudden change in fonts? Why does Galvatron/Megatron look like a Dire Wraith - ROM's main antagonists in the comics - made out of metal?

While we're at it, compare the tagline in the image below, with the one used for the Morse code teaser, 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'. And remember the creators?

As the author of the Forbes piece says, there are some parallels in the visual - but is that where it stops? According to Chris Ryall, definitely maybe. Check out more below, and rev your speculation engines in the Energon Pub!

As I said before: “we know Hasbro has movie plans for Rom, the old Parker Brothers toy that was one of the first action figures to include electronic lights and sounds. He’s slated to be part of a shared cinematic universe that will also include the Micronauts, G.I. Joe, M.A.S.K., and the Visionaries. It was assumed that Transformers would stay out of it, having previously announced plans for a spin-off universe of their own, and generally not needing the help. Even Age of Extinction, the lowest-grossing Transformers movie domestically (besides the animated one from the ’80s), raked in $1.1 billion worldwide, while the last G.I. Joe movie pulled in a ‘mere’ $375 million internationally. And yet: isn’t that how Marvel launched their cinematic universe? Using the popular character to segue into the riskier ones?”

Even if Rom isn’t happening, his iconography is being used. And as Rom is the least-known to the casual toy collector – aside from some convention exclusives, he hasn’t had a proper action figure of his own in decades – he is the one who needs the biggest push.

It’s time to transform him for the modern world…and roll out.

[Decepticon Stryker]

Linkara is going to have a field day with this.

[Sir Soundwave42]

I'm I gonna be able to watch tf5 without knowing about everything else in this new expanded universe?

[BumbleDouche]

Any other childhood heroes you'd like to sodomize, Mr. Bay? How long before he introduces some souped up, steroid-pumped, machine gun toting My Little Ponies into the Transformers universe?

[Deadput]

Any other childhood heroes you'd like to sodomize, Mr. Bay? How long before he introduces some souped up, steroid-pumped, machine gun toting My Little Ponies into the Transformers universe?

Seriously you act like he has made Transformers into trash when all he has done is have a few bad stories and lack of fake expensive cgi robots is it any worse then the recent cartoons and some of the comics?

I would rather watch the bad moments of the movies then watch Transformers Prime ever again at least the movies are entertaining in its badness.

Never change silly fandom.

[Deadput]

Any other childhood heroes you'd like to sodomize, Mr. Bay? How long before he introduces some souped up, steroid-pumped, machine gun toting My Little Ponies into the Transformers universe?

Also who really cares about Rom the space Knight I mean really you expect him to get his own movie that people are going to pack into the theatre for?

[Va'al]

Any other childhood heroes you'd like to sodomize, Mr. Bay? How long before he introduces some souped up, steroid-pumped, machine gun toting My Little Ponies into the Transformers universe?

Seriously you act like he has made Transformers into trash when all he has done is have a few bad stories and lack of fake expensive cgi robots is it any worse then the recent cartoons and some of the comics?

I would rather watch the bad moments of the movies then watch Transformers Prime ever again at least the movies are entertaining in its badness.

Never change silly fandom.

I'd suggest you all read the news we've been painstakingly posting, reporting and covering, before commenting in this manner.

The shared universe is not Bay's idea, it's Paramount and Hasbro's. The person in charge is Akiva Goldsman, and the various scripts that were suggested come from a team of writers. Bay has nothing to do with it until we know FOR CERTAIN that he's attached to a shared universe script.

Want to react superficially? Blame Goldsman. Not Bay.

Also who really cares about Rom the space Knight I mean really you expect him to get his own movie that people are going to pack into the theatre for?

A lot of people actually do. But not as much as the Transformers brand, which is why the piece suggested that ROM might be riding the coat-tails of TF until he's an established character.

[ZeroWolf]

So I was right? Awesome. I have no connection to Rom, so it will be cool to see how this pans out on the big screen.

@sirsoundwave this is likely the first of the hasbro expanded universe so all you need is general knowledge of the tf movies.

[partholon]

ive posted earlier in the thread that ive becomce completely jaded with the movieverse and TBH i was actually mulling on not going to see this one as i REALLY want a reboot to get the franchise sorted ala what happened with burtons batman.

but i gotta say THIS would get me in the door.

i really liked ROMs comic back in the day and the notion of autobots fighting someone that ISNT decepticons/humans ?

at least its new.

first time ive been actually excited in a good while.

[BumbleDouche]

Any other childhood heroes you'd like to sodomize, Mr. Bay? How long before he introduces some souped up, steroid-pumped, machine gun toting My Little Ponies into the Transformers universe?

Seriously you act like he has made Transformers into trash when all he has done is have a few bad stories and lack of fake expensive cgi robots is it any worse then the recent cartoons and some of the comics?

I would rather watch the bad moments of the movies then watch Transformers Prime ever again at least the movies are entertaining in its badness.

Never change silly fandom.

IT'S RUINED! RUINED FOREVER! TRUKK NOT MUNKY! .... ETC!

[Rodimus Prime]

With all the times they have resurrected Megatron, including apparently in TLK, I hope they bring back Shockwave and give him a proper story. He was so mistreated in DoTM it was criminal. I'm waiting for them to say something like "Oh, that wasn't really Shockwave, just an advanced clone. Shockwave can make those, y'know, being a scientist and all."

As for this deal with Rom, I have no idea who the character is so I won't say anything about it, but I think the writers should focus on putting out a quality Transformers script first, before they involve any characters from anywhere else.

[ZeroWolf]

ive posted earlier in the thread that ive becomce completely jaded with the movieverse and TBH i was actually mulling on not going to see this one as i REALLY want a reboot to get the franchise sorted ala what happened with burtons batman.

but i gotta say THIS would get me in the door.

i really liked ROMs comic back in the day and the notion of autobots fighting someone that ISNT decepticons/humans ?

at least its new.

first time ive been actually excited in a good while.

To be fair the Burton movies didn't need a reboot (talking about the first two here, as for the other two, there was far too much meddling involved from outside sources), I never cared about the Nolan movies and i can't muster up any feeling about the new batman. There's not enough fun there.

That being said, if the hasbro universe is coming with the last knight then I think we can kiss any idea of a reboot away. Best we can get is if the movie designs started to change into what forms we like to see them in.

[dragons]

Any other childhood heroes you'd like to sodomize, Mr. Bay? How long before he introduces some souped up, steroid-pumped, machine gun toting My Little Ponies into the Transformers universe?

Seriously you act like he has made Transformers into trash when all he has done is have a few bad stories and lack of fake expensive cgi robots is it any worse then the recent cartoons and some of the comics?

I would rather watch the bad moments of the movies then watch Transformers Prime ever again at least the movies are entertaining in its badness.

Never change silly fandom.

I take movies over animated series and comics any day in movies transformers are realistic looking and transform realistic unlike cartoon giant alien robot transforms into tape deck sound wave I'm naming and transformers going back in time dark ages frenzy riding one of seekers in jousting match , gridlock dressed as waiter serving spike, Carly , ultra Magnus and others with stupid looking mustache on his face in Dino mode, same can be said about comics there faces looking more human than robot most of time I feel reading Star Trek and Star Wars comics with characters transform in things

[Sabrblade]

So, what we're saying here is that the Dire Wraiths are the Transformers' Creators?

[Va'al]

This GIF is so relevant right now.