Movie Ratchet and Ironhide vehicles spotted!

I wonder when will Bumblebee be spotted

Please let this mean that they won't change their vehicle modes

Please let this mean that they won't change their vehicle modes

Please let this mean that they won't change their vehicle modes

Please let this mean that they won't change their vehicle modes

Please let this mean that they won't change their vehicle modes...

Quite a good level of news on TFM2. Glad to hear about the characters returning. Maybe with new paint apps?

Caelus wrote:

Fananga wrote:Hmm...interesting that all the old ones are coming back though does seem a little wierd if hasbro have anything to do with it.
I mean sure they can still release repaint after repaint and give it some new slogan but if all the old vehicles are coming back then it means 3 things....

1. Hasbro have taken a step back and simply provided source material

2. Theres gonna be a whole lot more new guys to make new moulds for.

3. These vehicles only get used for the first 10 min before everyone gets a re-format

Just because the characters will be unchanged in the movies doesn't mean there won't be new molds for them. Look at how many Darth Vader action figures have been created in the past 30 years!


They may create new figures that have more movie-accurate transformations or new gimmicks to match things they do in the movie. Give Ratchet a retractable circular saw and laser scalpel, Ironhide a pair of electronic light-up cannons. Or heck, their TF2 figures might be Deluxes instead of Voyagers depending on how important they are in the movie.

Exactly.

If anything, the returning characters are the ones who need new molds the most. If I remember correctly, weren't fans clamoring for a Leader-class Starscream?

And really, how movie-accurate is the deluxe-class Barricade? Not very. Ironhide toy is way to tall and thin, and Ratchet is way to stocky - these toys could be improved, especially now that the Hasbro designers have probably gotten used to the movie esthetic. Only Optimus Prime and Bumblebee could remain unchanged.

I'm really surprised by this fandom's reactions. For fans who freak the hell out every time some little thing is changed, you sure are all of a sudden wanting alot of useless change. Changing alt modes and bot designs of existing characters just to sell more toys is the equivalent of getting different actors to play the X-Men in each movie.

Sure, the TFs do change between series, but each movie is not its own respective series, the live-action film franchise, collectively, is ONE series. How would fans have felt if G1 Optimus Prime changed design and alt mode each season?

Put things in perspective, people.

I've said it before,and i'll say it again,either they're taking them away for storage,or these are the hoaxes Bay warned us for,isn't it a little TOO coincident that the two autobots who shared a mold in G1 are being transported together?

Autobot Jazz wrote:This is good news, but I'm not sure this means Scorponok will be in TF2 like some people are saying, after all, Ironhide killed him in one of the comics which could be taken into the movie's canon.

Except the comics aren't cannon. They're their own continuity, much like MTV's crappy Spider-man cartoon was supposed to take place after the first Spidey movie but had nothing to do with 2 and 3. The Decepticons won't try anything until Starscream returns with reinforcements or Megatron is revived. By all accounts form the Special ops, Scorponok was killed. They never saw him burrow underground since his retreat was masked by the smoke and dirt.

As for it being a hoax and the two of them being transported together. It'd be a waste of money to make that a hoax. Not to mention both vehicles are considerably large to put multi's up. I think they're actually going to be used. It saves money using characters they've sued before so they can use that money towards newer chars and special effects. So we know they're in. Bay doens't care about that. He expects us to know they're in. It's a given to him since they survived/we never saw them die. Would be a big continuity error if they didn't appear without explanation. It's the newer TF's and any new form for Megatron that he's gonna go out of his way with to keep secret, as well as the story.

leakin' lubricant wrote:Is that Ultra Magnus carrying them

That would be interesting, but that truck is a little plain and the trailer should be blue. To tell you the truth I wouldn't be suprised if they just repainted the Optimus mold to be Ultra Magnus for the TF2 toy line!

The team is reuniting...(hears "Arrival to Earth" in the background)...

Break a leg guys!....er...an axle...uh...whatever

Man If I lived out that way I'd take a week off work and stake out a near by highway and just wait for the movie vehicles to come by. I'd then try to follow them. I've got Autobot badges and decals on my truck, maybe they'd think I was suppose to be there

Cheetron wrote:it might just be me or this monitor but doesn't Ratchet look a little more yellow than he did in the movie. I swear he was green, not yellow.

Well keep in mind that whomever took these photos was not using a high end industrial movie camera to take them and we also have to consider the lighting conditions and effects that may have been used at the time of shooting or in post production.