Sentinel Prime & Optimus Prime Featured on the Cover of EMPIRE Magazine

sentinel looks like a complete psycopath with that look on his face and the 20+ ft blade with metal spikes for brass knuckles.
i smell complete OWNAGE!!

Megatron Wolf wrote:So why is Alpha Trion called Sentinel Prime? You cant tell me that sentinel does not look a lot like trion. We finally get an Alpha Trion and bay **** up the name, wait why am i surprised about that? Took a look at the spoilers and still not going to waste 15 bucks to see this movie, but i am more inclined to maybe check out a bootleg or see it on HBO. And i have the feeling Trypticon is in the movie.

Are you freaking kidding me, that looks nothing like Alpha Trion! I swear, people just make up crap to complain!

SlyTF1 wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:So why is Alpha Trion called Sentinel Prime? You cant tell me that sentinel does not look a lot like trion. We finally get an Alpha Trion and bay **** up the name, wait why am i surprised about that? Took a look at the spoilers and still not going to waste 15 bucks to see this movie, but i am more inclined to maybe check out a bootleg or see it on HBO. And i have the feeling Trypticon is in the movie.

Are you freaking kidding me, that looks nothing like Alpha Trion! I swear, people just make up crap to complain!

I think it does bear a great deal of resemblance to Alpha Trion, BUT I don't necessarily think Bay intentionally named him Sentinel Prime to spite the fans. I suspect that since Alpha Trion may or may not be a multiverse singularity (akin to Primus, Unicron, or the Fallen) and thus would be one of the 13 Original Transformers, Hasbro may have chosen to not allow the use of the name until they sort all that out to avoid any confusion brought about by having multiple, contrasting Alpha Trions.

SlyTF1 wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:So why is Alpha Trion called Sentinel Prime? You cant tell me that sentinel does not look a lot like trion. We finally get an Alpha Trion and bay **** up the name, wait why am i surprised about that? Took a look at the spoilers and still not going to waste 15 bucks to see this movie, but i am more inclined to maybe check out a bootleg or see it on HBO. And i have the feeling Trypticon is in the movie.

Are you freaking kidding me, that looks nothing like Alpha Trion! I swear, people just make up crap to complain!

I'm with Joker's Requium. I don't think anybody would be remiss for stating an opinion that Sentinel Prime looks like Alpha Trion. There was a story that had some comparisons based on the teaser trailer. (Not sure if I should mirror the pic here.)

http://toomuchnews.com/headline/teaser-trailer-%E2%80%98transformers-dark-of-the-moon%E2%80%99/

I mean, it's not a spot on rendition, but a lot closer than say Megatron, Starscream, or Soundwave, in my opinion. To say they look nothing alike, to me, is not at all accurate. In my opinion, I think he looks a lot like Alpha Trion.

Windsweeper wrote:If anything, it's not Sentinel Prime messing Alpha Trion, it's Alpha Trion messing up Sentinel. IDW and Animated Sentinel Prime were cool. Alpha Trion was a terrible cliche. Apart from Scourge and Unicron, I think TF's with facial hair look silly.

However, I will admit that this new Sentinel Prime does carry it well. Be nice if he were less similarly coloured to Optimus. He seemed more gold in the trailer.

What about Wreck-Gar's facial hair?

Also, I think the teaser was Sentinel in his ship, pre-earth mode. Still, a yellowish-green firetruck would have worked too, methinks.

SlyTF1 wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:So why is Alpha Trion called Sentinel Prime? You cant tell me that sentinel does not look a lot like trion. We finally get an Alpha Trion and bay **** up the name, wait why am i surprised about that? Took a look at the spoilers and still not going to waste 15 bucks to see this movie, but i am more inclined to maybe check out a bootleg or see it on HBO. And i have the feeling Trypticon is in the movie.

Are you freaking kidding me, that looks nothing like Alpha Trion! I swear, people just make up crap to complain!

Sly, take a chill pill my friend. Regadless whether or not you agree with him, your taking all this way to seriously. personally, I do think he bares a simular look to Alpha Trion compared to the 80's cartoon. But using him as Sentinel Prime works as well.

Megatron Wolf-
We've only seen two 30 second clips and a 2 minute teaser that really just showed SP. And the second clips didn't show that much more than the first. So lets call it about 45 sec. of footage. So why not go see the movie based on this? And if your answer is because of past movies, stop living in the past and be alittle open minded.

I like what i see with the Screen shots of both Optimus and Sentinel. Both look great, and the weapons look fantastic! Teasers are getting better and better each time!

SlyTF1 wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:So why is Alpha Trion called Sentinel Prime? You cant tell me that sentinel does not look a lot like trion. We finally get an Alpha Trion and bay **** up the name, wait why am i surprised about that? Took a look at the spoilers and still not going to waste 15 bucks to see this movie, but i am more inclined to maybe check out a bootleg or see it on HBO. And i have the feeling Trypticon is in the movie.

Are you freaking kidding me, that looks nothing like Alpha Trion! I swear, people just make up crap to complain!

I'm with Joker's Requium. I don't think anybody would be remiss for stating an opinion that Sentinel Prime looks like Alpha Trion. There was a story that had some comparisons based on the teaser trailer. (Not sure if I should mirror the pic here.)

http://toomuchnews.com/headline/teaser-trailer-%E2%80%98transformers-dark-of-the-moon%E2%80%99/

I mean, it's not a spot on rendition, but a lot closer than say Megatron, Starscream, or Soundwave, in my opinion. To say they look nothing alike, to me, is not at all accurate. In my opinion, I think he looks a lot like Alpha Trion.

Well, it looks more like Sentinel Prime to me. The gold one from the trailer anyway.

That's because those are both the same Sentinel Prime. And that Sentinel Prime does bear a more than passing resemblance to this guy: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Alpha_Trion_%28disambiguation%29 and not so much to this guy: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sentinel_Prime in any of their continuity forms...

HELL YEAH! I CANT WAIT TO SEE IT! XD

El Duque wrote:I can see the Alpha Trion resemblance, but I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing. This isn't G1, this is an entirely different universe. If anything it's a nice little G1 nod. I can't wait to see the movie and own the Sentinel Prime figure.

I couldn't agree more. There's definitely a resemblance. But the name is really unimportant to me. I think naming him a previous Prime makes more sense, especially for the film going community at large. It doesn't make much sense for a "Trion" to precede Optimus as "Prime"

The face looks different than the toys I saw at Toy Fair and photographed for this site and from the announcement trailer. Not too much, just looks like they cleaned up the shapes on his face, primarily the nose and the upper lip/mustache area.