RUMOR: Transformers: The Last Knight - Beginning of Hasbro Shared Universe with ROM the Spaceknight

MegaDump wrote: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?

MegaDump wrote: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 wrote:

MegaDump wrote: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 wrote: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?

Deadput wrote:

MegaDump wrote: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.

partholon wrote: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.

Deadput wrote:

MegaDump wrote: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.

dragons wrote:

Deadput wrote:

MegaDump wrote: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

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Ravage XK wrote:Remember in the old 80s Knight Rider when they gave KITT that super pursuit mode and things got a bit silly? BB seems to be going the same way.

kriksix wrote:

huh. well it's all about subjectivity and taste I guess. Transformers:Prime is my perfect incarnation of Transformers lore. conversely, Beast Wars does nothing for me, and I haven't managed to get into RID, but I know it's not my place to judge those that like them. Paths are different.

Did you watch TFP through? I'm on my like 10th run through the series and it's an absolute pleasure. imhmfo nothing else comes close to the development of the characters and stories we know and love, and it's so well written, in both its darkness and humour, regardless of it effectively being a show for kids. I even like the role of humans in it, there's a lot of love. I can't think of a better representation of Shockwave, Soundwave, Magnus, Arcee etc. To me it even trumps the comics, even the G1 Uk ones, which is saying something.

omega666 wrote:I actually never heard of ROM.

omega666 wrote:I actually never heard of ROM.

Zeek99g wrote:I wonder, is the Megatron picture for TF5 actually Megatron? He does not have Megatron's usual look in the movies and he did change his name to Galvatron.

And with the whole thing about ROM and this expanded universe? As a writer I would not continually return to Megatron as the big bad guy, especially with Optimus off Earth and the rest of the Autobots on Earth. It would make more since if Optimus encountered something in his journey and it has came back to Earth, or something along those lines.

So who is this character that they show the picture of?

Dr Va'al wrote:

Zeek99g wrote:I wonder, is the Megatron picture for TF5 actually Megatron? He does not have Megatron's usual look in the movies and he did change his name to Galvatron.

And with the whole thing about ROM and this expanded universe? As a writer I would not continually return to Megatron as the big bad guy, especially with Optimus off Earth and the rest of the Autobots on Earth. It would make more since if Optimus encountered something in his journey and it has came back to Earth, or something along those lines.

So who is this character that they show the picture of?

We don't know for sure, but we do know that Megatron will return!

Kurona wrote:If they're worrying that megsy being the villain all the time would be boring there's a ton of alternate routes they could go, especially when they've shown they were willing to go as obscure as Sentinel and The Fallen. Scorponok, Overlord; they could even go with Ratbat if they're feeling crazy.
And then there was that one other guy... He's on the tip of my tongue. Big monster guy with the horns, beginning with U? Something to do with horses...

Dr Va'al wrote:

Kurona wrote:If they're worrying that megsy being the villain all the time would be boring there's a ton of alternate routes they could go, especially when they've shown they were willing to go as obscure as Sentinel and The Fallen. Scorponok, Overlord; they could even go with Ratbat if they're feeling crazy.
And then there was that one other guy... He's on the tip of my tongue. Big monster guy with the horns, beginning with U? Something to do with horses...

My Little Pony universe crossover..?

Deadput wrote:

kriksix wrote:

huh. well it's all about subjectivity and taste I guess. Transformers:Prime is my perfect incarnation of Transformers lore. conversely, Beast Wars does nothing for me, and I haven't managed to get into RID, but I know it's not my place to judge those that like them. Paths are different.

Did you watch TFP through? I'm on my like 10th run through the series and it's an absolute pleasure. imhmfo nothing else comes close to the development of the characters and stories we know and love, and it's so well written, in both its darkness and humour, regardless of it effectively being a show for kids. I even like the role of humans in it, there's a lot of love. I can't think of a better representation of Shockwave, Soundwave, Magnus, Arcee etc. To me it even trumps the comics, even the G1 Uk ones, which is saying something.

Transformers Prime and development do not belong in the same sentence together especially not in that bore fest relic hunt show that turned out to be meaningless in the end.

Only Ratchet, Smokescreen and Knock Out had any sort of development everyone else started and ended the series the exact same, killed off when they showed signs of change or were void of personality especially Ultra Magnus who wasn't even a character I can think of many versions of him and others that are better like Idw for example.

Seibertron wrote:So this whole thing with ROM The Space Knight got me thinking last night. I don't know much of anything about ROM, so I did a bunch of reading and researching and was looking for some ROM toys that I could buy so that I'd have one on hand depending on where things went with all of this craziness between the live action movies and the IDW comics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom_(comics)

After checking out Wikipedia, I discovered there was only one ROM toy originally (plus an SDCC Mighty Muggs figure), that was apparently a failure, but his comic appearances were successful oddly.

Apparently ROM has had as much legal fun over the years when it comes to reprints as our friend Death's Head. Which got me thinking ... why in the world didn't Hasbro trade ROM for Marvel's Death's Head??? Death's Head is a Transformers character, I don't care how you dish or slice it. As far as it looks to me, ROM is a Marvel character despite the opposite companies owning them. Hasbro and Marvel should've swapped them and made some agreement that any past publications that those characters appeared in are fine to reprint going forward. Heck, toss in Circuit Breaker as well and call it a day since ROM is probably a bigger issue than Death's Head and Circuit Breaker.

But that probably made way too much sense. Or maybe no one has ever considered that before. Seems like a big missed opportunity to me.

ZeroWolf wrote:Wouldn't there be another obstacle in the path of reprinting deaths head stuff being the strips involving Doctor Who (who is know owned by titan comics)

Kurona wrote:Plus, Hasbro's still a toy company first and foremost, hence why they wanted ROM. Death's Head, as far as I know, was a Marvel Character with no toy history. Same for Circuit Breaker.

Seibertron wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Wouldn't there be another obstacle in the path of reprinting deaths head stuff being the strips involving Doctor Who (who is know owned by titan comics)

Not sure ... some of these dealings come and go between these companies. Doctor Who is owned by BBC I believe, not Titan Comics who just licenses the character(s). The Doctor Who / Death's Head crossover was reprinted in a Marvel US trade paperback at some point (which I own) so I don't know how all of that comes into play. I'm OK with that because I just want Death's Head to be a part of the ongoing Transformers Universe, much like how ROM The Space Knight was at one point part of the mainstream Marvel Universe including various crossovers with other Marvel characters and with ROM appearing in the books of those other characters as well.

Deadput wrote:Only Ratchet, Smokescreen and Knock Out had any sort of development everyone else started and ended the series the exact same,

ZeroWolf wrote:

partholon wrote: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.

SlyTF1 wrote:Probably all the Decepticons he's helped lock up since the Autobot's reinstatement. Attanger said there were fewer than 12 Decepticons still active in AOE. Looks like they've caught most of them.

JIRRMan wrote:Ah, I didn't need the news credit anyway. Just glad to help!