Ark Addendum: Autobot City concept art (double-sized edition)

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 12:42PM CDT

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Jim Sorenson was kind enough to drop us another note regarding the newest offerings on his blog.

Hey, fellas! Just wanted to let you know that the latest Ark Addendum is up on my blog, Disciples of Boltax. (http://boltax.blogspot.com) It's a double-sized edition, some unused Floro Dery concept artwork for Autobot City.

Cheers!
Jim

As Jim graciously allows us to do, we have posted a smaller portion of the image as a sneak preview, but to see the rest of the sketch you'll need to head on over to Jim's blog.

As always, for the latest Transformers news (and fun), be sure to keep visiting Seibertron.com, the ultimate Transformers resource!

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Re: Ark Addendum: Autobot City concept art (double-sized edition) (1066306)
Posted by Black Bumblebee on April 20th, 2010 @ 3:01pm CDT

Now that's pretty cool. I love seeing these behind the scenes looks into "what might have been."

Re: Ark Addendum: Autobot City concept art (double-sized edition) (1073547)
Posted by Diem on May 12th, 2010 @ 6:49am CDT

Jim Sorenson has posted the third part of the Autobot City concept art at his blog which can be seen here. The art reveals some very intriguing details about the design of Autobot City.

To see the full update and the rest of his posts you can visit his blog, Disciples of Boltax, here.

For the latest in Transformers news, stick with Seibertron!

Re: Ark Addendum: Autobot City concept art (double-sized edition) (1073551)
Posted by wolverinetodd on May 12th, 2010 @ 7:00am CDT

Is the date correct on this artwork? 1985? This was drawn back when the original Transformers toyline was conquering toy stores worldwide.

Re: Ark Addendum: Autobot City concept art (double-sized edition) (1073571)
Posted by JediJerseyJoe on May 12th, 2010 @ 8:15am CDT

LOL

for christ sakes look at all those guns!

two things still TO THIS DAY amaze me about "the" transformers movie

1) how in the F*c* did 2 dozen deceptions take out an entire city full of autobots PLUS that freaking city itself! i mean christ, SHOOT THE GROUND PLEASE WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T HIT ANY DECEPTIONS WITH THE 1000 LASERS WE HAVE!!!!!

2) why for gods sakes didn't they transform him into metroplex, was his "cog" gone or something?!

Re: Ark Addendum: Autobot City concept art (double-sized edition) (1073605)
Posted by Spectral Dragon on May 12th, 2010 @ 10:22am CDT

<Geekgasm>

Metroplex wasn't made into a transformer until after when they decided it would be a good time to rebuild it. So they couldn't have had him transform.

Though IMO not having the two biggest molds for that catalog in the movie itself was a big mistake. Unicron launching Trypticon to wipe out the incoming hordes of TFs would have looked rather cool on the big screen.

As for your other point, the movie was supposed to clear out the number of characters so that Hasbro could sell more toys. Hence why none of the Autobots could hit the broadside of a barn and why Prime somehow managed to take down half the invading Decepticons by himself.

Re: Ark Addendum: Autobot City concept art (double-sized edition) (1073896)
Posted by snavej on May 13th, 2010 @ 4:55am CDT

This is pretty mediaeval, isn't it? Knights and castles and all that. I think that it was better in the actual movie because there was more roof armour to guard against aerial bombardment.

Re: Ark Addendum: Autobot City concept art (double-sized edition) (1073948)
Posted by tmthor on May 13th, 2010 @ 8:53am CDT

looks a little like the Comet Empire from Starblazers (Yamato).

Re: Ark Addendum: Autobot City concept art (double-sized edition) (1074849)
Posted by trence5 on May 15th, 2010 @ 8:53pm CDT

JediJerseyJoe wrote:LOL

for christ sakes look at all those guns!

two things still TO THIS DAY amaze me about "the" transformers movie

1) how in the F*c* did 2 dozen deceptions take out an entire city full of autobots PLUS that freaking city itself! i mean christ, SHOOT THE GROUND PLEASE WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T HIT ANY DECEPTIONS WITH THE 1000 LASERS WE HAVE!!!!!

About 8 yrs ago back in college when me and my high school friends were watching it - we wondered that ourselves

Re: Ark Addendum: Autobot City concept art (double-sized edition) (1075344)
Posted by Tigertrack on May 17th, 2010 @ 12:53pm CDT

Jim Sorenson hits the triple as he makes a third update of four to the Autobot City concept pages.

This time a shuttle bay is featured, as well as, 'The Control Center'.

Check out the whole HUGE concept for Autobot city in all of the separate pieces at Jim's blog.

Throw a kind word his way also as he is working on completing the second Allspark Almanac for IDW, the follow up to his first edition with more information than you could ever want about the Animated TV show, and designs.