Hasbro Officially Reveals Wheeljack's look in Transformers Rise of the Beasts Film

Ah Lorenzo the man who continues to be the sewer that drains the life out of the IP, it's gonna be like GI Joe soon enough as far as the films go, burning good will away till the casual audience doesn't want to see these films anymore, nobody needed "yet another Transformers film" especially not after 16 years.

Wheeljack's lips are whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, the rest of the head is passible ignoring that it's Wheeljack who got the unique treatment of being drastically different from his Bumblebee film counterpart compared to other returning characters but those lips are just ugly, imagine turning a guy with a faceplate who could easily save some budget on synching lines with lip movement into this film's big WTF face design.

Also it just stands out as inconsistent with the other character faces, literally compare him with Prime (even without his faceplate in the trailer), Bee, Arcee and Mirage and he looks drastically different aesthetic wise.

Regardless if the film and the character are good or not I will never not critique the design decisions regarding this, why did we need Steve Urkel as a robot? Hell why do we need to humanize any Transformer's face after a specific irl actor? That crap doesn't age well and it's uncreative stop doing it.

morganprime wrote:How hard is it to make a movie about transforming robots that fight each other? No one is here for humans and their problems.

I mean did you see the trailer and marketing for this movie? Humans are barely focused upon and there's only like 2 main humans in this film as well with no military at all in a major role.

That doesn't mean the movie isn't going to be Not-shit, more robot screentime has not nor will ever automatically mean it's a good film.

2007 was a better film than ROTF despite the latter having more robots and a bit more screentime for them.

What does "Transforming robots that fight each other" mean anyways? There needs to be context that makes it matter that isn't just the equivalent of watching video game fights on youtube, we've had enough mindless robot action a good film needs to for once focus on the Transformers as characters.

You can call that "Wheeljack" anything but that head is just awful looking. I love Arcee's head. Bee, I just do not care anymore about him.

I have very little hope that this movie will be good.

The BB movie is my favorite.

I really love Arcee's design. This might be my favorite version of her Movie iteration by far. Also happy to see Pablo lives on and Bee keeps buzzing

Real talk, straight rocket man.

Arcee looks AMAZING, exactly how I always envisioned a Bayversed Arcee based on G1. Maintains the mechanical while being full of life and expression.

Bumblebee looks like Bumblebee.

But Wheeljack. I just have to say, what the actual fuck? Sure, a good portion of the live action head designs have always been unconventional or "ugly", but his face? The worst of all worlds. How do we have Arcee and Mirage with coherent faces, and then end up with that? I was never a big fan of the head redesign, but seeing it up close, yikes. I don't care about the rest of his body, a van makes more sense as an alt-mode for a scientist/engineer than a race car anyway, but this will bother me forever.

All of this of course being a relatively small gripe about a movie I am very much looking forward to.

smart people, even ones that are my fellow nerds and geeks, do not generally look like the guys from revenge of the nerds. neck beards sure, but not the over the top stereotype nerd. Wheeljack just feels like a flagrant insult rather then a genuine design choice. why does he even need glasses? I mean, I guess that fall in line with the old "how do robots have genders" argument.

anyway, the rest all look good. hopefully his character and story will be good enough to make me ignore what they did to jacky.

Sabrblade wrote:Keep in mind, the movie is set during the time when Family Matters was at the height of its popularity.

I was just wondering about that...

As good as Arcee may look, she ain't good enough to make me go see this and endure Urkel-bot. Gonna save my money and wait for highlights to show up on Youtube.

morganprime wrote:How hard is it to make a movie about transforming robots that fight each other? No one is here for humans and their problems.

When the objective is one-sided human social commentary driven by a narrow-minded agenda instead of being faithful to the supposed source material, this is what you get.

I'm just glad we're finding all this out through the producers and director's loud mouths so it saves time and money to those of us who want to see an actual Transformers story.

[quote="Burn"]I'm glad they didn't change the look of Wheeljack. I like it.[/size]

It's creative and different. And I'm good with that.

[quote="Burn"]Plus it pisses off a lot of people and seeing their anger filled posts on the interwebs gives me movement in my nether regions.[/size]

I agree with the sentiment, but damn dude...TMI...