Being a child of the 80's, and a transformers collector, this is very exciting!

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=23545

http://www.transformersmovie.com/ (note: countdown is until trailer)

From filming location @ white sands:

http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/05/...ansformers-mov ie/

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Unfortunately it's being directed by Michael Bay - the man responsible for such craptacular films as Armaggedon and Pearl Harbor.

I'm in a dilemma. I love transformers, but can't stand Michael Bay!

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And a transformers movie will be good because? do u think it will matter who directs a film for 7 year old boys?

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I don't know about you guys, but I am intrigued... =) the current transformers cartoons are a joke.. I hope this movie redeems them.

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http://www.blackfilm.com/20060512/fe...st_video.shtml

Plot schmot. I wanna see this thing.

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As a seven year old, I had a small army of those toys. I WANT THIS MOVIE!

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Doodler, I'm with you. I still have a few of my old collection. (Somewhere.) I also want this movie, only done well.

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To their credit, the first dibs chances on the voice acting roles for the lead characters is going to those who voiced them in the original cartoon series. The only concern is how different they might sound with some 20 years between them and the last cartoon.

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As if we need yet another "Let's see how many kids we can get addicted to this junk" movie.

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This is just a much a "Let's make money from nostalgia" movie, which is exactly why I want to see it.

I'm not so sure this is going to be a kids' movie. How many kids' movies have the tagline "Their war. Our world."?

The evil robots had this device that they could point at coal, oil, diamonds, etc. and turn them into energy cubes. So why didn't they just like use it on people? I mean carbon is carbon, isnt' it?

And will the new movie be ecologically sensitive? Will the robots transform into hybrid cars? (I hope so, that way they might turn less of us into energy cubes.)

Optimus didn't look particularly streamlined in that clip. I am also not sure how comfortable I am with optimus being white and not red, but that may be temporary.

I am seeing this movie, whether it is good or not. There are certain movies I am simply obliged to see whether they are actually worth seeing or not. This is one of those movies.

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Keep in mind that was a technical audition reel done by a company that wants to get the contract for the CGI work for the film. They wouldn't have had the license to create footage of a red Optimus Prime (yet). Doing so would have been a mite too risky in terms of liability.

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I was never really a Transformers fan, and I'm even less of a Michael Bay fan, so I don't know whether I'll be seeing it; however that FX test was surprisingly realistic, and makes me think they might be going for a less hokey tone than those (I'm sorry) silly cartoons.

To be honest, I never got the idea behind the Transformers. I mean, so they're aliens from the planet Cybertron. OK, then who built them? And why would they change? Surely it would be more efficient to have one form capable of performing both body and vehicle actions simultaneously?

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Do we build fighter craft that can repair and rearm themselves? Transport vehicles that can also double as electricians?

Vehicles have their uses in transportation, but are ill suited to other tasks. Wouldn't it be spiffy if, instead of having to own a car and find a parking space for it every day, we could simply turn into some form better suited to rapid transportation, then transform back to our original shape when we'd completed our commute?

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Apparently they were built by some uber-aliens to defeat a giant uber-transformer thing. I am pretty sure they were not originally designed to transform, their ship decided it was a good idea to retro-fit them while they were unconcious after crash-landing on Earth. The ship figured they wouldn't fit in with the other machines on the planet so it modified them. Unfortunately it couldn't tell the difference between friend and foe so everybody got modified (this after the decepticons managed to get on board the ship).

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Actually, no, they could transform before as well. First ep of Transformers had several autobots transform into alien vehicle thingys when they were scavenging energon (bars, not cubes) for the trip. They loaded it up in the closed cargo-bed of the autobot that later turned into a red 80s toyota-like van.

The ship decided to alter their vehicle transformation forms to stuff it found by scanning, as you say, to allow the transformers to blend in with the locals. And you're right about the computer not disginguishing between the autobots or decepticons.

Man, every time I think about it, I'm a bit more stoked for this movie.

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And to be nitpicky: That "ship" is called "Ark" and that "Toyota Van" must have been Ironhide. The über-Aliens are the Quintessons and the über-Transformer was Unicron.

/geek

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Unicron? Wasn't that Orson Welles? Man that guy fell hard.

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I'd forgotten the Ark. It's been a long, long time since I'd seen the original Transformers. My first thought had been that the van was Ironhide, but I'd second-guessed myself into (somehow) thinking it was Jazz, the white sports car.

Ah well. Thanks for the nitpicks.

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There's even the rumor that Welles died during the production and Leonard Nimoy took over and completed all of Unicrons lines. But it's just a rumor.

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A bit like these are used? Read link and next three days to see what I mean.

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*grin* Yeah, pretty much.

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I think it was Jazz. He had a more buslike appearance on Cybertron.

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And to be even more nitpicky, (from what I recall of the show) they weren't built to battle Unicron, they were built as merchandise. The Decepticons started life as the military line, and the Autobots started life as the labor line. Whoever was responsible for configuring the computer that actually programmed them botched the job, and they didn't get a "no harming thy creator" setting, or proper caps on their learning abilities. A few millenia later, they've developed sufficient emotions to object to being slave labor. One uprising later, and the Quintessons have gotten a lesson in programming proper subservience that cost them a factory-planet.

...uhh, yeah, so I'm SO going to be seeing this movie.

There is at least as many origin storied for the transformers as there are incarnations of the original tv show.

Instead of complaining that something is stupid when your failing memory or lack of knowledge means you dont know anything about it, you could research it. Google provides a wealth of information, or specifically you could try wikipedia.

I for one am looking forward to this movie and hope it will be as truthful and consistant with G1 as possible. I dont want it to be based of the awefull japanese transformers that exist today, like the computer game that came out recently.

My personal belief, considering what I've seen coming out of Hollywood lately, whatever does emerge will only superficially resemble anything we know about the series.

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Too true. And Optimus will probably have a giant Pepsi sign on the side of his trailer.

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