The Energon Pub

[william-james88]

I would say in total, so domestic and international.

Yes that is what I meant when I wrote total. 400 million total.

[ZeroWolf]

Although I wonder how much they're spending on the marketing side of things?

[Aimless Misfire]

Transformers fans

You do NOT speak for all the fans, so don't presume you know what us "Transformers fans" do and don't want.

I'm with 1984forever. Transformers is plural. As in a crap ton of characters. We don't need a stupid movie that revolves around just 1 Transformer. We all have our favorite characters but they've been shoving this little yellow jerk down our throats for 11 years now. It needs to STOP!

And this movie has Bumblebee totally out of character. The Autobot Bumblebee would not be cowering the corner like a friggin Care Bear who's scared of a little human girl. What is that about??? Who's the idiot that thought that was a good idea? This looks like a preschool Rescue Bots movie aimed at little girls. They won't be getting any money from me.

[ZeroWolf]

But there is multiple tfs in the movie...Barricade and Prime to name two. Also why should hasbro stop marketing a character in a child's toy franchise that actually sells to kids. Plus we don't know what happened to bee before thus film as all other times we've seen him is set after this one so this movie will show him turning into the one we see in tf 2007.

Until we see what happens in the time gap between him working with mi6 in the 1960s till the movie, he may have a good reason to shy from human contact. Plus I wouldn't call the main character a little girl...or are you saying in relation to the size of the two characters?

[Ironhidensh]

Transformers fans

You do NOT speak for all the fans, so don't presume you know what us "Transformers fans" do and don't want.

I'm with 1984forever. Transformers is plural. As in a crap ton of characters. We don't need a stupid movie that revolves around just 1 Transformer. We all have our favorite characters but they've been shoving this little yellow jerk down our throats for 11 years now. It needs to STOP!

And this movie has Bumblebee totally out of character. The Autobot Bumblebee would not be cowering the corner like a friggin Care Bear who's scared of a little human girl. What is that about??? Who's the idiot that thought that was a good idea? This looks like a preschool Rescue Bots movie aimed at little girls. They won't be getting any money from me.

It's very much in character with the original Bumblebee.

[Michael Alex Kawa]

I don't know why there is so much bellyaching about a movie that has not come out yet.
What I see in the trailer is a the closest I have seen in live action of the source material, and I am not talking about the animated show, but the very first piece of Transformers fiction to ever be released........the very first Marvel Comic issue. Sure Charlie is nothing like Buster, but that scene in her garage reminds me so much of when Bumblebee is injured in the Witwicky's garage. Sure it is not "exact", but it has that feel.....at least to me it does.
I have been collecting Transformers since 1985, and I am excited for this movie, and I know some others are and some definitely are not....which is fine because I am not disillusioned enough to believe that I speak for "every fan", I just speak for this one.

[william-james88]

NOTE: This story has been updated to retract the identity of the Decepticon.

The Bumblebee trailer took the community by storm not only due to its departure in tone from previous films but also due to the new robot designs. The one that stoo out was the Transformer who turned into a jet. Now that Transformer being a jet coloured grey and red with a seeker head made us all assume in was **********, and for good reason. If anyone still had any doubts, an official description of the film published on the website of Paramount's parent company, Viacom, confirms that the ********** looking bot is indeed **********.

This confirmation does bring a lot into question such as just how embedded this film is with the Michael Bay continuity since while Bumblebee retains certain features of his previous movie looks, ********** does not. This further adds to the notion that Hasbro and Paramount are distancing themselves from the Bayverse we know and that this film was already doing that before we heard news of a possible reboot.

Here is the description where you can see the confirmation:

Before The Last Knight or the Age of Extinction, before Decepticons started leveling American cities and destroying military bases, a yellow Volkswagen Beetle sits forgotten in a California junkyard. It’s been neglected long enough that a honeycomb of bees buzzes beneath its wheel well. Seventeen-year-old Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), takes it home.

She gets more than a car. As Charlie slides beneath her new ride to inspect it, the bug erupts in an intricate flipping puzzle of zinging metal parts, rearranging itself into beloved Autobot Bumblebee.

“Let me tell you something, the driver don’t pick the car, the car pick the driver,” a hauntingly familiar voice-over – it’s the late Bernie Mac, warning Sam Wtiwicky (Shia LaBeouf) in 2007’s Transformers – announces at the trailer’s opening moments. “It’s a mystical bond between man and machine.”

In this case, it’s woman and machine (and a woman, Christina Hodson, wrote the script), but the bond between Charlie and Bumblebee looks as strong as any.

The two become great pals. They go to the beach. They go swimming. Charlie goes no-hands through the sunroof down the Pacific Coast Highway, perhaps pioneering the self-driving car in the film’s 1987 setting.

But things get hectic. The military lurks. So does a dreaded Decepticon. Charlie gets banged up. Helicopters fall from the sky.

The film, helmed by Oscar-nominated Kubo and the Two Strings director Travis Knight, promises to wrap this action in a powerful story informed by the Transformers’ heritage. “I wanted to return to the essences of what made the Transformers franchise so impactful right from the beginning: character, emotion, spectacle,” Knight told attendees at April’s CinemaCon.

Which is not to say that echoes of Paramount Pictures’ five previous Transformers films won’t ricochet off the screen. “… and explosions,” Knight continued, “lots and lots of explosions.”

[Seibertron]

They had me until

“… and explosions,” Knight continued, “lots and lots of explosions.”

[Shuttershock]

They had me until

“… and explosions,” Knight continued, “lots and lots of explosions.”

Well, as long as it’s not more fireworks-burst explosions. For some reason those really annoyed me in the past. Like, it just LOOKS like a cheap effect at a stunt show.

[Fires_Of_Inferno]

Being honest, the explosions don't bother me at all. It's a movie about giant robots, afterall. Other than the Iron Giant, ALL giant robot movies need explosions!

Besides, if the writing is better, the explosions won't matter. So long as we get Nitro Zeus back.

[Sabrblade]

So long as we get Nitro Zeus back.

He's not in this movie.

[Seibertron]

They had me until

“… and explosions,” Knight continued, “lots and lots of explosions.”

Well, as long as it’s not more fireworks-burst explosions. For some reason those really annoyed me in the past. Like, it just LOOKS like a cheap effect at a stunt show.

Thank goodness someone else thought the same thing. Here I was thinking that those fireworks looked really cheesy and hadn't read anyone online talking about that (not that people weren't talking about ... just that I hadn't seen anyone talking about it).

[EvasionModeBumblebee]

Now that I’m looking at it, the mouth area does kinda resemble our established movie Starscream’s mouth.

[Fires_Of_Inferno]

So long as we get Nitro Zeus back.

He's not in this movie.

SSSHHHHHHHHHHH!

[Seibertron]

Now that I’m looking at it, the mouth area does kinda resemble our established movie Starscream’s mouth.

It does? I don't see it at all.

[dragons]

Being honest, the explosions don't bother me at all. It's a movie about giant robots, afterall. Other than the Iron Giant, ALL giant robot movies need explosions!

Besides, if the writing is better, the explosions won't matter. So long as we get Nitro Zeus back.

If that’s all you will be looking for in movies from now on you should be sticking with books for better writing Shakespeare’s , transformers books, you want to be entertained for two hours forget about real world watch movie if your going to be picky about movies from now stick with books,

[Fires_Of_Inferno]

Being honest, the explosions don't bother me at all. It's a movie about giant robots, afterall. Other than the Iron Giant, ALL giant robot movies need explosions!

Besides, if the writing is better, the explosions won't matter. So long as we get Nitro Zeus back.

If that’s all you will be looking for in movies from now on you should be sticking with books for better writing Shakespeare’s , transformers books, you want to be entertained for two hours forget about real world watch movie if your going to be picky about movies from now stick with books,

Wow, calm down buddy. Didn't mean to personally offend you.

[william-james88]

Now that I’m looking at it, the mouth area does kinda resemble our established movie Starscream’s mouth.

It does? I don't see it at all.

Neither do I but regardless, we never see his face fully transformed since it keeps moving before they cut to something else. I am guessing it will be a more streamlined mouth and face.

[Michael Alex Kawa]

Now that I’m looking at it, the mouth area does kinda resemble our established movie Starscream’s mouth.

It does? I don't see it at all.

Neither do I but regardless, we never see his face fully transformed since it keeps moving before they cut to something else. I am guessing it will be a more streamlined mouth and face.

I kind of see it, but now I don't if I do because it was mentioned.
I do have a slight theory, perhaps appearances of the Transformers change according to what they have scanned. Characters like Megatron and Barricade have had completely different face designs during the Bay movies they have been in. Even when Optimus got his new alt mode in AOE, parts of his face design changed. Sure it is an easy excuse/out to explain how this is Starscrem and still connected to the Bay-verse, but it is the best I can think of.

[vadertime]

As much as I enjoyed the Michael Bay Transformers movie back in 2007, I am glad to see the franchise return to it's roots. I fondly remember watching the cartoon on Saturday mornings back in the mid-1980s. I remember rushing out to Toys-R-Us to get my latest Transformers. I had almost all of the Autobots along with Megatron, Starscream and Soundscream. Ahh, those were the halcyon days.posting.php?mode=reply&f=44&t=108176#

[ZeroWolf]

That's odd, when I looked at this from the article link there was more comments here...

[Sabrblade]

Starscream's name has been scrubbed from the original Viacom article.

[ZeroWolf]

Starscream's name has been scrubbed from the original Viacom article.

Then doest his mean it is or isn't him then? Also why have it as a suprise? The toy listing some will no doubt be revealed soon enough mind, we'll know then for sure

[babylon queen]

Only one that was really good was the first one. I hope this one is improvement. They will have problems like Disney is with the Solo movie.

[Starman99]

I hope this new film will be a good reboot for Transformers, Although i do hope they show other Autobots at the end of the film like Wheeljack or Cliffjumper