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Posted by Carnivius_Prime on May 10th, 2017 @ 3:46am CDT
Posted by Emerje on May 10th, 2017 @ 8:00am CDT
"Strawberricade"
Emerje
Posted by galvatron00 on May 10th, 2017 @ 8:59am CDT
Posted by SlyTF1 on May 10th, 2017 @ 9:44am CDT
Carnivius_Prime wrote:I wouldn't drink the stuff (hell I mostly just drink water these days anyways) but I do like the look of the cans!
Same. I'd buy them just for the boxes.
Posted by Kyleor on May 10th, 2017 @ 9:51am CDT
Posted by william-james88 on May 10th, 2017 @ 10:32am CDT
Posted by Deadput on May 10th, 2017 @ 11:30am CDT
That's why I think some of these are only for promotional advertising only.
Posted by Deadput on May 10th, 2017 @ 11:32am CDT
Posted by MaverickPrime on May 10th, 2017 @ 11:32am CDT
I hope we get toys of these designs, Hasbro, if you can read this, now is the time to repaint DOTM Legion Flak! He already has a Bumblebee-esque head!
Posted by SlyTF1 on May 10th, 2017 @ 11:37am CDT
Deadput wrote:Hey Bee heard you like the retro look so you wanna go kill some Nazi's?
This is the first time I've been impressed by something related to Bumblebee. Actually, it might be the second time, but I forgot what the first time was.
Posted by Kurona on May 10th, 2017 @ 11:41am CDT
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on May 10th, 2017 @ 11:48am CDT
Deadput wrote:Hey Bee heard you like the retro look so you wanna go kill some Nazi's?
I want a toy of this. I'm already planning to get the new Deluxe Bee and very likely the Masterpiece but I want WWII Bee too, Hasbro.
Posted by Deadput on May 10th, 2017 @ 11:58am CDT
Of Nazi's
Posted by Barricade.it on May 10th, 2017 @ 12:08pm CDT
Posted by Deadput on May 10th, 2017 @ 12:10pm CDT
Barricade.it wrote:I think this plot is absolutely nonsense. Simply nonsense.
Well what's the plot? I don't think anyone is going to know anything until the movie comes out.
Posted by Bounti76 on May 10th, 2017 @ 12:12pm CDT
I just hope there's a better explanation than "we're ignoring the previous movies to start our own continuity."
Posted by Seibertron on May 10th, 2017 @ 12:16pm CDT
Posted by Deadput on May 10th, 2017 @ 12:17pm CDT
Bounti76 wrote:This would have been way cooler if it didn't contradict everything in the last four movies. 'Bee and Ironhide active during WW II? I guess those were some other 'bots who came to Earth in the first movie. Megatron active in the late 1880s? Guess that was his twin brother frozen in the ice for thousands of years.
I just hope there's a better explanation than "we're ignoring the previous movies to start our own continuity."
I agree about Ironhide and Megatron (Although for Ironhide's case it is never stated it's their first time on Earth but this is just a loose excuse because it's still stupid)
But Bumblebee was already on Earth for some time before he came to Sam we just have not known how long until now so Bee being there does not break continuity.
Posted by Barricade.it on May 10th, 2017 @ 12:18pm CDT
Posted by Deadput on May 10th, 2017 @ 12:23pm CDT
Posted by EvasionModeBumblebee on May 10th, 2017 @ 12:26pm CDT
Posted by Deadput on May 10th, 2017 @ 12:31pm CDT
EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:That new poster is INCREDIBLE! I'm going to be really disappointed if we don't get a WWII Bumblebee figure.
Maybe that's what "voyager" Bumblebee is from the Amazon listing since he is rather "bulky" here.
Posted by william-james88 on May 10th, 2017 @ 12:41pm CDT
Deadput wrote:That's why I think some of these are only for promotional advertising only.
These are for promotional advertising only.
Posted by SlyTF1 on May 10th, 2017 @ 12:54pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:Deadput wrote:That's why I think some of these are only for promotional advertising only.
These are for promotional advertising only.
Exactly. And who even said those are Megatron and Ironhide anyway? They could just share the same mold.
Posted by Deadput on May 10th, 2017 @ 1:02pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:Deadput wrote:That's why I think some of these are only for promotional advertising only.
These are for promotional advertising only.
Agreed although the room with the stuff is in the movie itself since it was in the Imax prview.
I do think the ones with Bee, Hound, Drift, "Bulldog" (Tank guy), Hot Rod and the old knights are actually canon events some of them like Hot Rod are obviously using their obviously non canon at the time modern looks so the general audience can tell who they are.
I can see Hound and Drift being on Earth before the first movie since we don't know when they actually arrived the question is what were they doing I can see Drift being a loner and not participating if he is a former Decepticon like the toy bios state but unless Hound's on some secret missions for Prime I can't see why he never joined up during say ROTF or DOTM.
I remember at the end of the imax event there was a "trailer" that so far has not been released on the net and one of the clips was of Hot Rod also attacking the Nazi's at night although until now I thought that was a scene that took place during the present so it seems that both Bee and Hot Rod were working together for sometime before the two were separated with Bee doing scouting or something and Hot Rod working with The Order of the Witwiccans also since it was a blink or miss it moment I could not tell if Hot Rod had some new military kibble like Bumblebee.
Posted by Deadput on May 10th, 2017 @ 1:05pm CDT
SlyTF1 wrote:william-james88 wrote:Deadput wrote:That's why I think some of these are only for promotional advertising only.
These are for promotional advertising only.
Exactly. And who even said those are Megatron and Ironhide anyway? They could just share the same mold.
They look exactly like them though and while Megatron's new look could be inspired by this "other" guy the Ironhide guy has the exact same look with all the kibble that should not exist at the time which is WW1 you can tell with the soldiers as well as sharing the same black color as him.
I don't see people reusing Ironhide's exact look as another character.
Posted by Kurona on May 10th, 2017 @ 1:33pm CDT
Posted by OptimalOptimus2 on May 10th, 2017 @ 2:22pm CDT
As for me, a Transformers movie taking place entirely on Cybertron with nothing but our favorite robotic characters as the cast is a popcorn movie for me.
Posted by #Sideways# on May 10th, 2017 @ 2:25pm CDT
It's one of the only things that would make sense given all the guys who were protoforms coming to Earth suddenly showing up in the forties.
Meaningless speculative plot that will probably be entirely unlike the movie:
So what if the Allspark was the Matrix of Leadership in this timeline, being the one thing, the only thing to stop Unicron from eating the universe? And, finding out that it's gone, Unicron scoots on over to Earth to have a feast since that seems to be turning into Cybertron Mark II.
So, after the Decepticons find a way to time travel, they figure that if they went back in time to wake Megatron, they could take Earth and the Allspark before the Autobots even caught wind that it even was on Earth to begin with. That way, when they poop on Autobots by establishing a stronghold, they could even use the Energon Harvester and the Allspark-made robots to fight back against Unicron, and after him, the rest of the galaxy.
But, a select few of Autobots catch on and head back in time as well, hijacking the Decepticon's time machine to stop them (likely Bee, Hound and such) and they send word to their past forces that the war has a new battleground, which is why so many Transformers show up in the past, including the ones that are supposed to be dead.
In other words, friggin' Days of Future's Past.
Hopefully.
Things are super convoluted right now.
Posted by Va'al on May 10th, 2017 @ 2:28pm CDT
Kurona wrote:I can't believe Ironhide was the Bayverse seeker all along.
The real Bayverse is the friends we made along the way. And then blew up.
Posted by Dr. Caelus on May 10th, 2017 @ 2:30pm CDT
Odd, though, that he's the only deceased model they've used for this promotion. If they were just throwing out things to look cool, without it having any actual bearing on the movie, you'd expect to see more 'retired' animation models with tweaked details.
Though to be fair I suppose a lot of characters' alternate modes are pretty recognizable. Starscream, Blackout/Grindor, Bonecrusher, Barricade, Soundwave, and the Constructicons... they really have pretty recognizable kibble. Brawl and DotM Megatron are about the only ones among the previous Decepticons I could see getting a vintage face-lift - Maybe Galvatron since he didn't really look like anything. And the Autobots are pretty similar; Ratchet and Jazz's chests would need to be altered pretty heavily to make them look like anything other than a Hummer and a Solstice, respectively.
A picture of Jetfire during the Cold War would have been cool, though.
Posted by Deadput on May 10th, 2017 @ 2:30pm CDT
Kurona wrote:I can't believe Ironhide was the Bayverse seeker all along.
He was always a seeker wasn't he?
Anyways Someone must have dug through my computer files since this conveniently kinda resembles a digibash my version of the idea I made a year or two ago they must of borrowed my brilliant talent and ideas!
Just kidding because this was meant to be a G1 version of DOTM Flak even though a g1 Flak already exists but it's kinda funny how much a military Bumblebee works maybe Bee lost his voice to the traumas of war
I can imagine the PTSD already
Posted by Kurona on May 10th, 2017 @ 2:33pm CDT
Deadput wrote:Kurona wrote:I can't believe Ironhide was the Bayverse seeker all along.
He was always a seeker wasn't he?
... dammit. Kind of want that.
Posted by Va'al on May 10th, 2017 @ 2:34pm CDT
Posted by Deadput on May 10th, 2017 @ 2:36pm CDT
#Sideways# wrote:"Post of Ancient Aliens and Time Travel"
It could be time travel maybe Bay and the crew were inspired by the rumors of time travel that like Unicron has been something people keep saying is going to happen since ROTF.
Maybe this "supposed" early draft for TF4 "AOE" had something to do with it? (Still don't know if it was legit or not)
Edit: Can't attach PDF files can someone tell me how I can post the file?
Posted by Dr. Caelus on May 10th, 2017 @ 2:43pm CDT
I imagine that stopping time, and effectively eliminating the concept of "change", would cost Unicron street cred as a god of "chaos" but I always thought his motivation to consume everything in existence ran contrary to that anyway (Primus seems more like chaos, and Unicron order) and if one considers Unicron's general motives, rewinding the universe back to the beginning of time might actually be more practical than eating literally everything.
Posted by Sigma Magnus on May 10th, 2017 @ 2:54pm CDT
Posted by Va'al on May 10th, 2017 @ 3:09pm CDT
You can browse through 400+ images right here, and take a look at a couple of highlights below, while also checking out the trailer again - dudes.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 10th, 2017 @ 3:12pm CDT
Yes! Barricade is on my favorite flavor!
Emerje wrote:"Strawberricade"
I would lie if I said I didn't love that WWII Bee. At least we now seem to know why Bay was blowing up a Churchill home with Nazi flags: Bee was doing it. And he looks really good in WWII kibble. I join the group who like the idea of the voyager toy being his WWII self.
And if he and Hot Rod were both active during WWII, it would make a sort of sense. Hot Rod was a protector of Laura Haddock's character and potentially her family before that, so he could have been around a long time. Bee comes to Earth to track the Allspark and Megatron, and is here for a lot longer than we though he was. He and Hot Rod meet up and bond, hence the brotherhood the 2 share. Rod goes back to being a silent guardian while Bee goes on with his mission.
Also, Seibs said months ago this film would feel like much more of a reboot than the 4th film, and I think we are finally seeing that effect. WWII and other versions of characters would be cool though, and Drift actually had some kibble change for his samurai look, so there is that. And since we never got the story of how Hound, Crosshairs, and Drift came to Earth, that can be played with, what with Hound being a barbarian fighter or something, Drift basically creating the Samurai, and IDK Crosshairs could be the inspiration for the trenchcoat and he worked with Sherlock Holmes himself.
Posted by Va'al on May 10th, 2017 @ 3:42pm CDT
I mean, they look ugly, but call them demons..?
('And demons appeared', says the Latin on the left. The one on the right - 'conior' - means nothing, or is a wrong version of 'to try' - which is ironic really, cos it failed.)
And why is Megatron treating Krakatoa like a British firework display?
Posted by Deadput on May 10th, 2017 @ 3:49pm CDT
Va'al wrote:
I mean, they look ugly, but call them demons..?
('And demons appeared', says the Latin on the left. The one on the right - 'conior' - means nothing, or is a wrong version of 'to try' - which is ironic really, cos it failed.)
And why is Megatron treating Krakatoa like a British firework display?
Honestly if we were being attacked by big transformers in real life I'm sure quite a few people would call or think of them as demons.
Plus Demon doesn't have to be literal for example in the Halo games the Master Chief was called Demon by the Covenant both as an insult and as a sign of respect.
Posted by Dr. Caelus on May 10th, 2017 @ 3:52pm CDT
The collection seems to be confined to western civilizations, aside from the picture of Drift in Japan, and that's a photograph, so it was presumably taken after the intervention of European interests in Japanese culture.
Posted by Va'al on May 10th, 2017 @ 3:58pm CDT
Deadput wrote:Va'al wrote:
I mean, they look ugly, but call them demons..?
('And demons appeared', says the Latin on the left. The one on the right - 'conior' - means nothing, or is a wrong version of 'to try' - which is ironic really, cos it failed.)
And why is Megatron treating Krakatoa like a British firework display?
Honestly if we were being attacked by big transformers in real life I'm sure quite a few people would call or think of them as demons.
Plus Demon doesn't have to be literal for example in the Halo games the Master Chief was called Demon by the Covenant both as an insult and as a sign of respect.
Posted by Va'al on May 10th, 2017 @ 4:02pm CDT
Caelus wrote:Am I right in thinking there's no native American art in any of the promos? Or African?
The collection seems to be confined to western civilizations, aside from the picture of Drift in Japan, and that's a photograph, so it was presumably taken after the intervention of European interests in Japanese culture.
I was looking for the same thing as I was choosing the images for the story, and you appear to be correct. Other than Krakatoa (in Western accounts) and the pyramids from ROTF, there has been very little contact with US/European civilisations in the story told so far.
China comes in during modern times, and as you point out, Japan may be more during colonial times too.
EDIT: There is one shot of Frederick Douglass, but that's it!
Posted by Prowl4 on May 10th, 2017 @ 4:04pm CDT
They've kept the plot guarded but I wouldn't be surprised if excalibur is a cybertronian relic that can either go back in time or if it is a portal device to step through history.
Posted by transformnerd114 on May 10th, 2017 @ 4:04pm CDT
He "had a roll" in DOTM as Que.Prowl4 wrote: Wheeljack hasn't appeared in the movies.
Posted by crazyfist on May 10th, 2017 @ 4:10pm CDT
Posted by Deadput on May 10th, 2017 @ 4:18pm CDT
Prowl4 wrote:These movies have done the ridiculous and people are complaining about the bots being involved through history lol.
They've kept the plot guarded but I wouldn't be surprised if excalibur is a cybertronian relic that can either go back in time or if it is a portal device to step through history.
Excalibur being a Cybertronian weapon is granted at this point most likely especially with the gun sword from AOE.
I do enjoy the "twist" that Merlin wasn't an actual wizard or used real magic but he had connections with Cybertronians like how Sam Witwicky and Cade Yeager did and that those events were retold as a story or folk tale with magic and other exaggerations.
I wonder if the Lady of the Lake or the sword in the stone will be retold in the movie too I hope so I also like how the movie has a bunch of the different Knights of the Round table including some of the more obscure ones.
I really love the old Knights tales so this Transformer movie is already the best one to me even if they go all retcon on events or reset the movies with time travel.
Posted by Deadput on May 10th, 2017 @ 4:22pm CDT
crazyfist wrote:I wonder if they'll somehow tie in Sam Witwicky's family because there is a newspaper article in the background with Sam's Great-Grandfather Archibald and the photo with Hot Rod, the plaque says 'The Order of the Witwiccans 1901'. Plus, in one of the original teasers, Anthony Hopkins says 'No sacrifice, no victory' to some extent. I wonder if he is related somehow?
In the imax preview event that some people including myself saw when Cade, Bee and Cogman arrive at Hopkin's castle Hopkin's character states that he recognizes Bumblebee from when he was a kid.
So chances are that he is a relative to the Witwicky family or more likely the Witwickys split off from the Witwiccans at some point maybe by someone who no longer wanted to be part of the order but that last bit is just speculation and guessing on my part.
Posted by cruizerdave on May 10th, 2017 @ 4:24pm CDT
Unless you count the previous four Bayformers movies.