Early Reactions to Transformers One Deem it as Better than any Live Action Transformers Film

I'll probably wind up seeing it eventually, and everyone knows - the Reaper's judgement is what REALLY matters! . Though saying that it's 'better than the live action movies' isn't exactly shooting for the moon, is it? The Bayverse films aren't what you'd call shining examples of quality cinema....

I would love to have a Megatron statue that big, but my wife would object heavily about it. XD

>article says the reactions deem.it as better than any live-action movie
>Reactions don't even mention prior movies unless you count 86 for that one article.

Okay then.

The second trailer was even better than the first. Something tells me the last few minutes of this movie are going to be a real heartbreaker.

Yeah by the looks of it they're rushing the story a bit. I was hoping they wouldn't cram everything into one movie and save Megatron's full turn until the sequel. But I guess they thought a Prime vs. Megs fight was obligatory.

I'm also kinda hoping they throw a little extra in there and have them fight over Elita as much as leadership.

Quantum Surge wrote:>article says the reactions deem.it as better than any live-action movie
>Reactions don't even mention prior movies unless you count 86 for that one article.

Okay then.

They want the clicks!

Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah by the looks of it they're rushing the story a bit. I was hoping they wouldn't cram everything into one movie and save Megatron's full turn until the sequel. But I guess they thought a Prime vs. Megs fight was obligatory.

I'm also kinda hoping they throw a little extra in there and have them fight over Elita as much as leadership.

The pre-war story on Cybertron could fit in multiple movies, but I understand why they made the decision to make it like this.
While the Transformers franchise is overall doing well, making movies and counting on sequels before the current one is released and gauging the reaction to it, has hurted The Last Knight and to a certain extent, Rise of The Beasts.

Transformers One had a pretty big panel at SDCC 2024. Brian Tyree Henry, Keegan-Michael Key, Josh Cooley and Chris Hemsworth were there getting interviewed by pretty much everyone. We have a slew of videos for you below so you can get all that content in one spot, including their big panel. There's even a fun video of them doing their version of the Transformation Sound Effect. Enjoy!

From the Chris Hemsworth chanel, here's the trailer #2:



This looks freaking EPIC.

-Kanrabat- wrote:From the Chris Hemsworth chanel, here's the trailer #2:

Yeah, I saw that, too. I don't know why Hemsworth recently uploaded the same trailer from three weeks ago.

While it made sense for Peter Cullen not to voice Orion Pax in the upcoming Transformers One movie, as he didn't voice Orion Pax in G1 either, it would have been fun to at least have him voice a different character. That's the route the Japanese dub of the movie has gone with making Tesshō Genda, the original voice of Convoy and Orion Pax (in Japan), be Alpha Trion. We also have Ryohei Kimura in the cast as B-127, who has been playing Bumblebee in all of the recent cartoons in Japan, as well as Yuichi Nakamura and Subaru Kimura from Jujutsu Kaisen. Those two will be playing Optimus and Megatron respectively.

You can check the full voice cast below, which was revealed on the official Japanese movie site.

Elita-1: Riho Yoshioka
Sentinel Prime: Junichi Suwabe
Airachnid: Ryoka Yuzuki
Darkwing: Toru Inada
Starscream: Setsuji Sato
Soundwave: Masataka Yamamoto
Shockwave: Takanori Hoshino
Jazz: Tomokazu Sugita
Yuichi Nakamura: Optimus Prime/Orion Pax
Subaru Kimura: D-16/Megatron
Ryohei Kimura: B-127/Bumblebee
Tesshō Genda: Alpha Trion

And Speaking of voice actors, Paramount released a featurette with the English voice actors, which you can see below. Enjoy!

william-james88 wrote:Subaru Kimura

Oof, not thrilled about this. He's guilty of mocking Africans through Blackface.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Subaru Kimura

Oof, not thrilled about this. He's guilty of mocking Africans through Blackface.

Completely and utterly insignificant.

That first season of JJK was so fun, movie was too. I dropped season two after ~3 episodes. It was like being dropped into the middle of another series altogether, and not a particularly interesting one.

I am going to watch the Japanese version. I am not a Hemsworth fan at all. I also prefer professional voice actors. My biggest reason is Nakamura Yuuichi is voicing Prime, He is my favorite Japanese voice actor.

Brazilian preview clip with more new footage and new reveals for characters named in the movie:

Paramount's international campaign for the Transformers One film is revealing a lot. So, consider anything going forth a possible spoiler.


Paramount has released two clips, one for Brazil and one for Taiwan. The one for Taiwan is a trailer showing lots of new shots of Megatron (in his final form) fighting Optimus. The clip for Brazil is an uninterrupted sequence of the Iacon race. In it we see a lot fo cameos including Brawn, Red Alert, Ratchet, Arcee and Ironhide.

Enjoy!

Ah, nice to see the race position readout take name dropping into high gear.

"Speedstream just ran through a deluge of warm liquid that seems to have changed his coloration somehow...and Override has just hit the nitros and...switched gender?"

With the second trailer, I've seen enough.

I don't want the whole damn movie to be spoiled before I see it.

MY BOI RED ALERT -

Yeah, I think I'm sold on this one.

-Kanrabat- wrote:With the second trailer, I've seen enough.

I don't want the whole damn movie to be spoiled before I see it.

LOL I don't mind getting a free movie now and then with a bit of a video splicing effort. Shouldn't all Transformers media be free since they exist to sell toys anyway!? Why not release the whole thing on YouTube already!

cloudballoon wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:With the second trailer, I've seen enough.

I don't want the whole damn movie to be spoiled before I see it.

LOL I don't mind getting a free movie now and then with a bit of a video splicing effort. Shouldn't all Transformers media be free since they exist to sell toys anyway!? Why not release the whole thing on YouTube already!

You jest, but they released Cyberverse via YouTube and the wider fandom at large still didn't watch it

ScottyP wrote:

cloudballoon wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:With the second trailer, I've seen enough.

I don't want the whole damn movie to be spoiled before I see it.

LOL I don't mind getting a free movie now and then with a bit of a video splicing effort. Shouldn't all Transformers media be free since they exist to sell toys anyway!? Why not release the whole thing on YouTube already!

You jest, but they released Cyberverse via YouTube and the wider fandom at large still didn't watch it

And they're poorer for it. The show was different, yes, but it's also good if you stick with it.

Going by this YT Playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... puNa1deWjV) quite a few of them got millions of views. But as long as the toy sales are meeting Hasbro's target, it's a success? (I don't know though. Did Hasbro make/lose money on Cyberverse? It got 4 seasons so can't be bad?)

I personally found the series a fun watch - better than RID'15 - I just don't like (not hating though) some of the designs, but it also brought Tarn to the mainstream and one of the best Volcanicus/Dinobots designs so mad credits to the series.

I'm ever an optimist. Even when a movie or series are legit "bad" (and there are many) it still carry the franchise forward. So as long as I see there are new/upcoming TF media to keep the franchise alive & relevant and the figures keep on coming, I'm happy even if some of them are not for me (I'm still on my 3rd attempt to read through IDW, but urgh it's tough for me).

ScottyP wrote:

cloudballoon wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:With the second trailer, I've seen enough.

I don't want the whole damn movie to be spoiled before I see it.

LOL I don't mind getting a free movie now and then with a bit of a video splicing effort. Shouldn't all Transformers media be free since they exist to sell toys anyway!? Why not release the whole thing on YouTube already!

You jest, but they released Cyberverse via YouTube and the wider fandom at large still didn't watch it

Shame too, best TF show since Prime and Animated, and I would contest it can stand with both of them, especially seasons 3 and 4. That was some good TV.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

cloudballoon wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:With the second trailer, I've seen enough.

I don't want the whole damn movie to be spoiled before I see it.

LOL I don't mind getting a free movie now and then with a bit of a video splicing effort. Shouldn't all Transformers media be free since they exist to sell toys anyway!? Why not release the whole thing on YouTube already!

You jest, but they released Cyberverse via YouTube and the wider fandom at large still didn't watch it

Shame too, best TF show since Prime and Animated, and I would contest it can stand with both of them, especially seasons 3 and 4. That was some good TV.

And plus I feel it also works as the G1 reboot so many had asked for.

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

ScottyP wrote:

cloudballoon wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:With the second trailer, I've seen enough.

I don't want the whole damn movie to be spoiled before I see it.

LOL I don't mind getting a free movie now and then with a bit of a video splicing effort. Shouldn't all Transformers media be free since they exist to sell toys anyway!? Why not release the whole thing on YouTube already!

You jest, but they released Cyberverse via YouTube and the wider fandom at large still didn't watch it

Shame too, best TF show since Prime and Animated, and I would contest it can stand with both of them, especially seasons 3 and 4. That was some good TV.

And plus I feel it also works as the G1 reboot so many had asked for.

Unless, of course, what those "so many" were asking for was just the Autobot/Decepticon war on Earth animated in the hand-drawn "Captain Planet" art style again.

We had posted a clip of the Iacon race from Transformers One but it was in Portugese. Now, Paramount has released it in English. This lets us hear what Jon Hamm sounds like as Sentinel Prime. For those who had not seen it yet, there are TONS of cameos here both in the visuals and as callouts, like Brawn, Red Alert, Ratchet, Arcee and Ironhide.

Looks like a great movie. Wish we could watch it when it comes out.

I want to see him in another Fletch movie.

-Kanrabat- wrote:With the second trailer, I've seen enough.

I don't want the whole damn movie to be spoiled before I see it.

Same here. I refuse to watch anything else until September 19th. I haven't been this excited for a TF movie since RoTF. I hope I won't be let down as bad.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:With the second trailer, I've seen enough.

I don't want the whole damn movie to be spoiled before I see it.

Same here. I refuse to watch anything else until September 19th. I haven't been this excited for a TF movie since RoTF. I hope I won't be let down as bad.

For me, the most disappointing movie was AoE.
The Dinobots were wasted and the "shredded" transformation were dumb and lazy.

I think that for TF1 to be worse than any Bay movies, it would have to be done on purpose.

william-james88 wrote:

Paramount has released two clips, one for Brazil and one for Taiwan. The one for Taiwan is a trailer showing lots of new shots of Megatron (in his final form) fighting Optimus. The clip for Brazil is an uninterrupted sequence of the Iacon race. In it we see a lot fo cameos including Brawn, Red Alert, Ratchet, Arcee and Ironhide.

Enjoy!

Sideways would be an great character for these kind of cameos!

We have casting news our own Jon Bailey is in Transformers One. He’ll be voicing Soundwave, who he voiced in the Bumblebee film. Jason Konopisos Will be voicing Shockwave and Evan Michael Lee will be voicing Jazz. They each revealed this on their respective social media.



We also have a clip of Shockwave talking if any are interested as to what that sounds like.

Congrats, Jon!

Emerje

I've never seen Shockwave so.....emotive. Does not compute!

LOL, I'm not against it though. I'm not sure whether the VAs get to see the CG (even a rough "stickman" form, but still show enough of the motions of the characters) when recording the lines, but the emotive voiceworks match the movement on screen.

william-james88 wrote:We have casting news our own Jon Bailey is in Transformers One. He’ll be voicing Soundwave, who he voiced in the Bumblebee film. Jason Konopisos Will be voicing Shockwave and Evan Michael Lee will be voicing Jazz. They each revealed this on their respective social media.



We also have a clip of Shockwave talking if any are interested as to what that sounds like.

Thanks so much! Appreciate the post! Glad I can finally stop avoiding the boards to not risk breaking NDA! Haha!

Emerje wrote:Congrats, Jon!

Emerje

Very much appreciated!

cloudballoon wrote:I've never seen Shockwave so.....emotive. Does not compute!

LOL, I'm not against it though. I'm not sure whether the VAs get to see the CG (even a rough "stickman" form, but still show enough of the motions of the characters) when recording the lines, but the emotive voiceworks match the movement on screen.

Idk about Shockwave but for what I worked on I got to see the film from early stages to finished animation. The original sessions there was nothing on screen or just animatics, all just recording the lines of the script with direction. I didn’t have to act to picture til the last session.

jON3.0 wrote:

cloudballoon wrote:I've never seen Shockwave so.....emotive. Does not compute!

LOL, I'm not against it though. I'm not sure whether the VAs get to see the CG (even a rough "stickman" form, but still show enough of the motions of the characters) when recording the lines, but the emotive voiceworks match the movement on screen.

Idk about Shockwave but for what I worked on I got to see the film from early stages to finished animation. The original sessions there was nothing on screen or just animatics, all just recording the lines of the script with direction. I didn’t have to act to picture til the last session.

So you had to redo all your lines over and over to different versions of the movie, depending where in the production process it was?

As for Shockwave being emotive, I like it as well. He's my favorite Decepticon ever, and I always liked the G1 comic version. He was very active and engaging in that, unlike the "computer on legs" persona he was always given in animation media.

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Hasbro is gearing up for a special celebration of the Transformers franchise on September 17th with the launch of Transformers Day, marking the 40th anniversary of this iconic brand. As part of this celebration, Hasbro is unveiling a brand-new figure: the Studio Series Deluxe Class Bumblebee (B-127), inspired by the upcoming Transformers One animated film.



Here's the official reveal of the upcoming Transformers Studio Series Deluxe Class Bumblebee (B-127) action figure. This 4.5-inch figure is a detailed representation of Bumblebee as seen in the upcoming Transformers One movie. It transforms between robot and Cybertronian car mode in 18 steps and comes with an array of accessories, including two Energon knives, two forearm blasters, and one blaster accessory. These accessories can be combined to create "knife hands," offering fans versatile display options.





Fans can pre-order the Bumblebee (B-127) figure on September 17 at 1 PM EST on Hasbro Pulse and participating retailers. The figure is priced at approximately $24.99 and will be available in Spring 2025.

Transformers Day will take place on September 17th, a day filled with announcements and content celebrating the franchise's 40th anniversary. The event leads up to the release of Transformers One, which hits theaters on September 20, 2024.

This celebration is a major event for Transformers fans, offering a first look at exciting new products and content. The Studio Series Deluxe Class Bumblebee (B-127) figure is a must-have for collectors, capturing the essence of Bumblebee in the new film. Transformers One promises to be a landmark moment in the franchise, as it explores the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron. The film, featuring a star-studded voice cast including Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, and Scarlett Johansson, delves into the deep bond between these iconic characters before they became sworn enemies.

Be sure to follow the event with the hashtag #transformersday2024 for all the latest updates and reveals. Mark your calendars for both September 17th and September 20th, as the world of Transformers gears up for a monumental celebration!

I'm assuming some of this copy came from the Has Bros, therefore I must post an important link: https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/iconic

Transformers Day will take place on September 17th, a day filled with announcements and content celebrating the franchise's 40th anniversary.

Should have been May 8, the actual anniversary of the brand.

There's also an Elita-One. Hopefully also going up that day.

Wow, TWO blasters and TWO daggers with Bee AND a rifle? Hasbro is going big with the accessories now.

Sabrblade wrote:

Transformers Day will take place on September 17th, a day filled with announcements and content celebrating the franchise's 40th anniversary.

Should have been May 8, the actual anniversary of the brand.

Yeah... Hasbro probably thought they can't compete w/ May 4th, afraid of the Star Wars fans' wailing drowning out a TF celebration.

The fact that TT seems to be the real company celebrating the franchise with a ton of fans focused releases, projects & toylines. TT came out with hits after hits like Missing-Link, T-Spark, Synergenex, TF x Studio Trigger PV, premium niche products like Karakuri transforming OP statue, the Manju Netsuke OP, and even an exhibition shows/museum and more (Godzilla, Monster Hunter, Macross, etc.) What does Hasbro have!?

I'm not too mad, I love my TFxTMNT Party Wallop (the joy this product gives me more than justify it over most Leader class figures), and there's the Knight Rider crossover coming soon too, but each are just celebrating their "coincidental" 40th anniversary, so each was more of a no-brainer collab than Hasbro really thought of something special for us fans or the TF franchise's own 40th anniversary.

So, hopefully Sept 17th can prove me an idiot and make me (and my wallet) cry with joy!

Well its good Transformers gets a day and its so close to the new movie's premier where they can do a tie-in with it. I'm still celebrating October 15th as Decepticon Day because of the original cartoon though.

Gelatissimo, an Australian gelato chain, is bringing out 4 Transformers themed flavors and also giving out free scoops. The promotion starts today. Read on below for the details.




Our biggest collaboration of the year is set to launch September 6. To celebrate the release of Transformers ONE in cinemas September 19, optimise your flavour obsession with one of our four limited edition flavours inspired by beloved Transformers Optimus Prime (Orion Pax), Megatron (D-16), Bumblebee (B-127) and Elita (Elita – 1).

Introducing:

Optimus Prime’s Red Velvet Matrix.

Megatron’s Mega Cookie Explosion

Bumblebee’s Honeycomb Hero

Elita’s Bubblegum Blast

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Transformers One is just a few weeks away and Paramount has releases a new clip. This one is more on the humorous side with us seeing that Bee will be saying his Badassitron joke a lot more.

Check it out with the link to Twitter below.

https://x.com/IMDb/status/1831769411360817266

I know I've heard positive buzz about this, but all these years of waiting for a new animated film to hit the heights of the original series or beyond, and this is the BEST they can come up with?

For one thing, the designs are very chibi and unappealing, and the humor is complete slapstick and very meta / will not age well.


I just don't see who this is targeted at? You can make something appealing to all age groups without completely aiming for the little little kids. If the characters in the storyline is good, kids will get it. X-Men 97 was a prime example of bringing back a series and making it appealing to modern audiences. This is just pandering to the demographic. I'll support it just because it's a transformers property in some form, whether I rent it off Amazon or go to a theater, but I'm tremendously disappointed with the end result. I don't think we're ever going to get a worthy follow up to G1.