Everyone seemed to have free tickets to the Transformers Premier Screening yesterday. I was at home feeling like Cinderella while the ball went on. But I scoped a few of the new toy offerings by Hasbro online and I think I'll get myself Barricade, Starscream or Optimus.
My brother came home from the movie last night happy to report that it's not another Masters of the Universe, so yay.
People on imdb.com are having the same argument when 2 shows with huge followings are released within 2 weeks of each other. So it's Harry Potter vs. the Robots in Disguise. It's stupid really. I mean cmon, everyone knows Transformers is going to trump Pothead at the box office.
At first I was apprehensive about the show when it was announced that Micheal Bay (eeyer) was going to direct and not Steven Spielberg (who took the mantle of producer instead). I'm not one of those who wants the movie to be an exact replica of the G1 cartoon but I'm not a huge fan of Bumblebee. What a loser. A loser fashioned after the world's most over-rated classic car in the world, ever, in G1.
I wanted to have Grimlock ("ME GRIMLOCK KING!") and Devastator. Instead we get Bumblebee and a bunch of C-list Decepticons. Barricade and Blackout were never even featured in G1. No Dinobots grrr. I have always been partial towards the G1 Transformers that had mecha-beast modes, you know, Laserbeak, Ravage, the Dinos, the Insecticons etc.
No, I think it's ok that the Autobots and Decepticons are designed the way they are and Optimus is a long-nosed cab etc. He's been changed in almost every incarnation of the series, a bat, an ape and various makes of trucks. The original series was just a hurried mash of tv programming to sell the toys which came first. Subsequently, almost every other Transformers cartoon and even the original movie were written to add new toys to entice boys like me to collect them all. The new movie, is no different.
The fact that they kept the Autobots as civilian vehicles and the Decepticons as military ones is enough to make me happy.
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