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News Credits: 5749 · Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:41 am

behind the thrills has posted a brief preview article covering Universal Studios Hollywood's upcoming Transformers: The Ride 3D. Overall they give the attraction very high marks with one the best queue they've ever seen and a speedy loading area to rival Disneyland's Space Mountain. The ride promises to fully immerse guests into the world of Transformers. Click here to view their preview. Transformers: The Ride 3D officially opens on May 25th.

Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:32 pm

I went on it yesterday and it was awesome.

News Credits: 5749 · Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:30 am

Video from the "soft" opening for Universal Studios Hollywood's Transformers: The Ride 3D has made it's way to YouTube. If you want to remain unspoiled you will definitely want to avoid the video embedded below. Transformers: The Ride 3D officially opens on May 25th at Universal Studios Hollywood.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:01 am

Dat look kool!!!! :KREMZEEK:

But:
1. It feels weird hearing Frank Welker instead of Hugo Weaving voicing Movieverse Megatron.

2. All these dead guys suddenly alive with no explanation = out of continuity with the movies.

Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:15 pm

Man that looks like a lot of fun! I'd like to go someday... I guess Hugo Weaving cost too much to voice Megatron again, oh well Welker is just fine! He's doing a great job on TF Prime.

News Credits: 5 · Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:05 pm

Sabrblade wrote:All these dead guys suddenly alive with no explanation = out of continuity with the movies.

Well, with the fatality rate that Michael Bay likes to put into his movies, it'd be hard to find a place where it truly fits. It's pretty clearly after the first film, since the entire ride is built around the concept of protecting a shard of the Allspark. If you allow for the survival of Devastator and a 'replacement' for Ravage in RotF, this could follow the second movie (and it looks like Megatron did have the head/face wound he got in RotF). It's clearly not after DotM, since, well, nearly everyone died in that one!

Also not sure how I feel about that wrecked yellow VW Beetle near the end of the film... :-(

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:06 pm

emeraldbeacon wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:All these dead guys suddenly alive with no explanation = out of continuity with the movies.

Well, with the fatality rate that Michael Bay likes to put into his movies, it'd be hard to find a place where it truly fits. It's pretty clearly after the first film, since the entire ride is built around the concept of protecting a shard of the Allspark. If you allow for the survival of Devastator and a 'replacement' for Ravage in RotF, this could follow the second movie (and it looks like Megatron did have the head/face wound he got in RotF). It's clearly not after DotM, since, well, nearly everyone died in that one!

Also not sure how I feel about that wrecked yellow VW Beetle near the end of the film...

Bonecrusher's alive in this ride, yet died in Movie 1 (the Buffalo MPV Decepticon in ROTF was never confirmed to be him).

Though, Ravage was indeed rebuilt post-ROTF, but his fate remains unknown.

And Megatron is killed here in this ride, yet alive in DOTM.

News Credits: 5 · Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:16 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Bonecrusher's alive in this ride, yet died in Movie 1...

We don't know that! Decapitation doesn't equate to deactivation! Right? :???:

And Megatron is killed here in this ride, yet alive in DOTM.

Megatron tends to 'get better', as I think we all know... :-B

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:28 pm

emeraldbeacon wrote:Megatron tends to 'get better', as I think we all know...

He only "got better" once, in ROTF. He dies in this ride in his DOTM body. There's no confirmed method for him to have be revived again between ROTF and DOTM, as this is the very last shard and, as we saw in the first two films, the AllSpark material burns up and disintegrates upon contact with living Cybertronians. So the shard wouldn't have survived this ride's events to bring back Megs again.

And Optimus wouldn't use the Matrix on Megs since he was happy that Evac killed Megs in this ride, and was fully willing to kill Megatron in both the second and third films.

Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:43 am

Sabrblade wrote:
emeraldbeacon wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:All these dead guys suddenly alive with no explanation = out of continuity with the movies.

Well, with the fatality rate that Michael Bay likes to put into his movies, it'd be hard to find a place where it truly fits. It's pretty clearly after the first film, since the entire ride is built around the concept of protecting a shard of the Allspark. If you allow for the survival of Devastator and a 'replacement' for Ravage in RotF, this could follow the second movie (and it looks like Megatron did have the head/face wound he got in RotF). It's clearly not after DotM, since, well, nearly everyone died in that one!

Also not sure how I feel about that wrecked yellow VW Beetle near the end of the film...
Bonecrusher's alive in this ride, yet died in Movie 1 (the Buffalo MPV Decepticon in ROTF was never confirmed to be him).

Though, Ravage was indeed rebuilt post-ROTF, but his fate remains unknown.

And Megatron is killed here in this ride, yet alive in DOTM.

Actually, when you look at it frame-by-frame, it looks like a Bonecrusher-type Decepticon gets sliced in half during Optimus' killing spree in DOTM on his way to take out Shockwave. This is that big slashing kill that was repeated in a lot of the trailers, after Optimus has already discarded his wings and most of his larger weaponry.

It's very hard to tell, but judging by the design of the legs of that Decepticon, it looks a lot like Bonecrusher's.

News Credits: 462 · Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:34 am

The Variable wrote:Actually, when you look at it frame-by-frame, it looks like a Bonecrusher-type Decepticon gets sliced in half during Optimus' killing spree in DOTM on his way to take out Shockwave. This is that big slashing kill that was repeated in a lot of the trailers, after Optimus has already discarded his wings and most of his larger weaponry.

It's very hard to tell, but judging by the design of the legs of that Decepticon, it looks a lot like Bonecrusher's.

If you could pull up a clear screenshot of said bot getting slaughtered, as that scene is very hard to examine, that would be great.