Giant Cut Outs of Megatron, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee from Transformers: The Last Knight

The horns on Megatron's helmet are making me think of a ram.

ricemazter wrote:Looking at these more simplified versions of th movie designs, I think, really highlights the worsening flaws in the bayformers visual philosophy. NO CAR PARTS. STREAMLINE, STREAMLINE, STREAMLINE.

Optimus and megstron don't look capable of transforming into anything, and the effects on bumblebee are starting to show.

THIS.

...I don't hate these designs, they're growing on me but...they don't look like they transform anymore. Almost like they got turned into Action Masters or something...it's not really a deal-breaker (yet), but it's getting annoying...

I don't hate them, and really I want to see how they look in the final film before I develop an opinion totally. I know I liked Megatron's RotF design the most, but his jet/spaceship design in the 07 movie was what I preferred until RotF came out. DotM design was...well... it was a truck and I feel like Optimus Prime should always be a truck or so. It was an interesting change though I guess.

Sabrblade wrote:The horns on Megatron's helmet are making me think of a ram.

He does have a very "Ultron-esque" look in my opinion. Doesn't make it instantly terrible and ruined forever. I'd kind of like if they gave him a more G1 inspired look now though, but that's wishful thinking at this point.

....*sigh*....so i take it Megs still turns into his cybertronian jet/tank thing then? by the looks of it

btw what happened to Galvatron? coz didn't he survive in the last movie?

Kurona wrote:Everyone complains about the AOE Leader Optimus toy for being an absolutely notorious shellformer - and rightly so - but it's designs like this that make me realise why. How would you have done a non-shellformer toy of the AOE Optimus design? Or this Optimus design? He has the smokestacks at the back, but... that's it.
Say what you will about the previous movie Primes - and I can say a lot - but at least you could get a toy that turned into a truck out of them. I don't think we're in for a good time toys-wise here.

I didn't even buy any of the toys from the last movie, save for a marked-down Snarl at Ross and that was just because it was my favorite dinosaur in my favorite color. A couple others were gifted to me, but they were all disappointments in the transformation area. All those figures just left me with a weird hollow feeling, they hardly felt like Transformers at all.

Kurona wrote:Everyone complains about the AOE Leader Optimus toy for being an absolutely notorious shellformer - and rightly so - but it's designs like this that make me realise why. How would you have done a non-shellformer toy of the AOE Optimus design? Or this Optimus design? He has the smokestacks at the back, but... that's it.
Say what you will about the previous movie Primes - and I can say a lot - but at least you could get a toy that turned into a truck out of them. I don't think we're in for a good time toys-wise here.

ROTF Optimus only has some actual truck parts on his chest and lower legs and they found a way. Of course, it was a different time, but more recent example of achieving this look would be AOE Hound. He has totally different detail in Robot mode than Truck mode with only the arm panels left from the truck. Everything else is new. They did it hrough the genius idea of transforming him nside out where every detail comes from the oposite side of a panel. And thats great because it gives a good interpretation of these designs where all that robot detail is found inside the vehicle where the robot is disguised. And the robot is made from all the truck innards.

What I am trying to say is that there is a way, we just havent seen it yet for this Optimus.

Also, I think Hasbro gathered that we preffer seeing car parts since they gave Bumblebee back his car part chest.

Given the new character's appearances, I think they struck a fine balance between the two different movie looks. Prime only looks the same because he's in space and can't find an alt-mode to scan.

Megatron Wolf wrote:If i didnt know that was megatron id think it was from some random anime, they really need to start making these guys look like transformers and less like megaman/gundam characters. Bumblebees back to his old generic self but at least it has some resemblance to a transformer.

But has Megatron ever really looked like himself in the movie verse?

i know the same can be said for most of em, but Megatron was always the one I felt worst about since it didnt look like a transformer. The others had alt mode parts on them even though they had odd headsculpts and pistons everywhere. But Megatron was just a big alien dude right from the begining and his main characteristic was that he looked like a giant metal skeleton, which always seemed odd to me. At least here he looks filled out. It's not as good as the Prime Megatron design which merged the movie aesthetic with G1 but I prefer it to the first film.

While I was never a G1 fanatic, I must say it pains me that movie megatron is the look kids attribute to the character and keeps being propogated:

I like that Bee got his wings back. His AoE self looked weird without them. But I'm happy they're back.

I love Megatron's look. I like the movie designs, and even if it looks like nothing it still looks cool

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a blue repaint of whatever decent Last Knight megatron figure there is, to homage Straxus. Something about the silhouette of this megatron reminds me of the generations darmount/straxus figure.