USA Today Article on Transformers Movie, Sequel and Fan Influence

Post you Transformers you would like to see in the next film here!

Mine:Prime, Ironhide, Hound, Dinobots, Cliffjumper, Hot Rod, and Inferno or Bluestreak or Sunstreaker

Megatron or Galvatron, Starscream, Astrotrain, Ravage, Soundwave, Shrapnel, Constructicons, and Shockwave

Listening to the fans is a double edged sword. One guy is sensible enough to want more characters like Jetfire, another loon wants Pretenders.

I think the human bits were necessary here. But now that the introductions are out of the way, shift to the robots. And please do SOMETHING with Starscream.

I pray to all that is holy that we the fans have a bigger say in the next movie.

Seibertron wrote:One of the things I really liked about the movie is that they really played up the "hiding in plain sight" aspect of the Transformers. That's something we really haven't seen since the very beginning of the Transformers ... it's an aspect that I've felt got lost somewhere down the road and it was really great to see the movie folks embrace that so much.

I agree with you, to an extent. However, one of my big gripes with the movie was that they made it too obvious when a vehicle/aircraft/whatever was a transformer before it transformed. The only time they didn't was Frenzy, and he was on screen for about two seconds before he transformed. I guess to a lesser extent they did it with Barricade, but that wasn't a terribly surprising transformation.

And I don't mean to say that we, the ubergeeks... uh, fans, should have been surprised by a transformation. I realize that we knew all of the transformers and alt modes before the movie was ever released. But for Joe Moviegoer, he was never totally shocked or surprised by a transformation. I would have liked to see an unexpected transformer or transformation.

well i doubt people expected that car steering wheel to transform..lol

i mean i figured the whole car would change but nope...just the wheel..lol

listning to the fans inst a bad idea but not all of the fans just a small amount of the fans will be good for the sequel too many fans opinions might be bad 10% say they wany galvatron another 10 will say megatron be back in a differnt form, 20 dinobots, 40 constructicons, 20 omega supreme, metroplex, or unicron.

if they gave the fans to much power half the fans will like the sequel they will see they favorite robot in the film and the other half will be unhappy there are too many autobots, and only 5 decpticons fighting 9 autobots so they would aloso have to make some deciosions on there own as well on what they think will be good for the sequesl to just my opionion.

Optimus's screent tiem had nothing to do with how many pieces he had, and nobody has ever said it did. What they DID say was that it was expensive to create the original Optimus model in the first place, and now that that's done they can send that budget elsewhere. Screentime wasn't involved in that equation at all.

Incidentally, for the movie that they did (which was amazing) they did a better job of introducing us to the Autobots' personalities than the series did, at least until more than halfway through the first season.

YAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY for the mention Ryan!

Agree with the character development and need for less sector-seven type cheese.

Oh, off topic, one is using the word "IT" as possessive, it is spelled "ITS". For example, "Seibertron.com and its owner, Ryan." "IT'S" refers to a contraction of IT and IS. It is a common typo but is grating nonetheless.