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This Toy Image From Empire Reveals The Soundwave Decepticon From TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN!!
Merrick here...
Empire has posted new images of toys from TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, giving us our first clear look at Soundwave (Decepticon) in both robot and vehicle forms:
I think that's...really...one of the more awkward designs I've ever seen.
Empire also shows us Bumblebee's slightly tweaked robot configuration, and Soundwave in his...jet (!?)...mode. All of which you can find...
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Soundwave used to be Boom Box, didn't he?
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You suck Michael Bay
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Jan 29, 2009 9:05:00 AM CST
Does he turn into an Ipod? An Ipod with a shiny metal penis?
by galactic
He totally looks ready to fuck some eyeballs...
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pretty much the same. So he emits some kind of sound wave from those light blue circles on his chest?
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This'll look awesome in the movie, & he better say that shit.
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Jan 29, 2009 9:09:13 AM CST
yeah soundwave was sparkys magic piano once his balls dropped
by pjvader
no laserbeak transforming into a c-90 tape then this time around then! :(
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actually fits both forms and doesn't look half assed on the engineering. Soundwave should've been a radar plane if a boombox was too lame for MBay.
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which means it's pretty in line with the first film
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So he'll go completely unnoticed when hiding near the Autobot base to spy on them. Spy satellites are so common these days.
What is Shitey The Beef more likely to take into the Autobot base? A boombox or a giant spy satellite that happens to be on the ground near to the Autobot's base?
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That looks awesome. You just dont understand Michael Bay's genius. He wants every fucking robot to look like a goddamn clusterfuck of spikes and shiny things so you literally can not tell what the fuck is ever going on. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. He made every Transformer look like a pro wrestler from the Eighties! YAH!
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is now 30% more Wall-E
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One of the coolest characters in the whole TRANSFORMERS property, and looks like a pinata that's already had the candy beaten out of it! Really? Fringe?!! What is he? Bon Jovi circa 1987? Is he going to be in the Super Bowl Halftime Show? F-A-I-L!
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tformers.com has had dozen of pictures of the TF2 toys for months.
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That is just way too phallic and attention drawing.
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Who is the full retard designing these things? For fuck's SAKE!
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Get it right.
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These images and MUCH more have been on the net for months. Must be very slow news week.
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Maybe if this was done in the steampunk style, the clunkiness and complexity would be attractive.But isn't futuristic technology supposed to look sleeker?Or maybe I'm just not thinking like a kid anymore.
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you raped my child hood damn you damn you
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That shit traumatised me. I heard it on headphones on a plane as a kid.
"Your time is up...SPAR-KY!"
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It can't be easy for that thing to move around. Makes you wonder why they bother "disguising" themselves as vehicles. If they stayed in robot form, they'd probably require less appendages sticking out of their butts
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This is supposedly his Cybertronian mode, before he comes to Earth. Remember, no mass shifting for the Bayformers, so the alt modes have to be big objects to become big robots. Would a tape recorder transformer really go over in this day and age? I think not. I'd like this new Soundwave to have the monotone voice that the old character had, but we'll see. Giant robots are a win for me, I'm looking forward to this.
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...that the black thing on his back is Ravage. That's my guess and you heard it here first.THE POWER OF BAY COMPELS YOU!THE POWER OF BAY COMPELS YOU!THE POWER OF BAY COMPELS YOU!
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the film then.Without your whiny G1 money the movie will make $50 less at the box office.....oh wait..you'll pay to see it anyway. BAY WINS,G1 fags sucks more balls!
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Just joking.
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My eBay won Alternators "Mirage" is being shipped right now. I've never seen more than 2 episodes of Transformers in my life, but simply love those Alternators & Binaltech toys. Any other T.F. toy fans out here ?
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These character designs are why I didn't see the first film, and won't see the next film. I'm glad I still have my old-school Transformers.
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Fucking detail sluts are so all consumed with the "alien" angle that they have, once again, forgotten to give us anything relate-able enough to invest our emotions in. These aren't characters as they are the animated equivalent of artists masturbating on film.
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Jan 29, 2009 9:41:48 AM CST
The first one let me down in the ways that I knew it would befor
by xandar1977
but succeeded in pretty much the only aspect of the movie that I was excited about was giant shiny robots fighting. That's all. And it did that well. In terms of story, dialogue, character development, etc. etc. etc., I knew it would be awful. But I knew that going in. So I don't have to sit here and bitch about it. Same with the second one. If it's got giant shiny robots fighting, I am there.
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"no mass shifting"? So how did the energon cube shrink from the size of an aircraft hangar to something that could be carried under one arm and easily thrown around? Seems to me that stupid fucking script decisions take precedence over good design.
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Just sayin'.
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Yeah this pic has been on pretty much all the TF sites for weeks, TFW2005, TFormers, etc. Personally I dont care what the toy looks like so long as the bot in the movie looks ok. Initially thoughts were SW was gonna be a satelite, but early pics were mistransformed, and proper transformation looks more like a cybertronian jet
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The decision may well have been, "lets see if the audience will buy it on this cube thing, then we might be able to do it with the bots if we make a second one"
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but is it just me, or do they all look the same? (this is not a veiled racial reference. unless i have subconscious feelings of superiority to talking robots.)
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Just because CGI allows you to make the transformers look more details doesn't mean you should do it. Sometimes simpler is better.
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Far too complicated design. Mind you, great for poor parents as it'll take the kids 20 years just to transform it.
The toy that just keeps em entertained. A modern Rubic's Cube. -
Once again, this film is not surprising me.
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It's one of the new transformer toys that is just a figure and does not transform. Typical shit from a shit director and a shit movie franchise. Look at it. How the fuck would it even transform?????
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Jesus Christ.
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I don't care how many dumb fucks ask me to see it with them. I will not watch crap anymore. If that means not seeing 99% of the movies coming out lately, well, so be it.
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Booooo
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Apparently it does transform. But it's still pretty shitty stuff.
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when he went off his meds.
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He's a fucking tape recorder that turned into a MASSIVE FUCKING ROBOT!!! THAT is gay! THAT is stupid! THAT would be weaksauce if it was in the movie! For that matter, MEGATRON WAS A FUCKING LAZER-LUGER!!!Take a deep breath, and say it with me:
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!Fucking WAH, people. Go cry some more. -
That was an extended "Wah," followed by a broken line break code.
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Jan 29, 2009 10:03:31 AM CST
If they at least give Soundwave his iconic voice
by shut the fuck up donny
then I'll consider it.
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and this toy was spoiled over 4 months ago. here's some more things for ya. Devestator is in this and the cement truck is in his center and the drum can fire at people. Jetfire is in this too and combines with optimus Prime towards the end. you people get with the spoilers...
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KIDS MOVIE. Kids love it, you as a 40 year trying to rekindle your childhood do not. Kids today don't even know what the hell a "tape recorder" is. So just accept that this is simply a new version of a fun idea (just like the many versions in the past), watch it, enjoy it and let it go.
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If the movie was actually good and well written, I would not care how the robots looked. Unfortunately, it's Michael Bay. So there will be nothing good about it. All of the robots look the same so when they fight nobody knows what is going on. If you make a shit movie, at least let the main characters look good. But this movie will be 100% pure shit just like the 1st one. Gee, which robot will piss on a human? Or which robot will sneak around a house for 20 minutes. And I wonder what terrible lines will be given to the actors? Bay is a twit. How does he still get gigs to direct?
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I think all the new interpretations of the original transformer designs are garbage. flames on Optimus, Megatron is a Jet, Bumble Bee looks baked and Soundwave is an Jet? What about Buzzsaw, Laserbeak, Ravage, Rumble, Frenzy, Space Case, Wingthing?? I understand the need for change, but Why did Optimus need lips? If anything, none of the transformers should have mouths.
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I'd hardly call the Allspark cube transforming into a smaller version mass shifting, in the sense of what that means to the Transformers in general. The robots themselves are not capable of transforming into smaller objects in these films, unless they change that for the new movie. It's not a stupid script decision, the Allspark was not a Transformer. The same rules wouldn't apply. Then again, it's a fictional movie about giant transforming robots, so I guess all "rules" should be out the window.
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It's comming. The complete rape of the source material, without lube. This design is fucking gay. Richard Simmons can breathe a sigh of relief, or worry, for he is no longer the gayest thing on the planet.
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$319 mil domestic take. Initial theater run, not including DVD. Not including overseas. That's double what the estimated budget was. Like it or not, he makes money. While films may be art, Hollywood is a business. Fuck, I'd hire him to make a porno of my mom fucking a tentacle monster simply for the return on my investment.
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Just because it's a "kids movie" doesn't mean it should be shitty. Sorry, this design, as well as most of the robot modes SUCKS. If you don't want to adhere to what the Transformers look like, make a different "GIANT F*CKING ROBOT" movie.
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Looks like he transforms into some kind of communications array... not a jet.
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The Head Reminds me of the G1 design... sort of a viking helmet with a cylon face.
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Sorry, just because a movie makes money doesn't make it good. Film 101.
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This guy's voice better be highly vocoded and monotone.
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That may be true for you and me, johnny, but that doesn't mean shit to Hollywood. Which was my entire point.
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I know you're right but it still sucks.
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Check this shit out: http://tinyurl.com/yu6ttr THAT'S how you build a giant robot.
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Now that's AWESOME.
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Is this a movie site or a toy site? How important is TRANSFORMERS in a year that's releasing WATCHMEN, HARRY POTTER 6, a TERMINATOR film starring Christina Bale, a Michael Mann gangster film starring Bale and Depp, a Paul Greengrass war film starring Matt Damon, new films by Scorsese, Ang Lee and Tarantino... YET ALL YOU IDIOTS SEEM TO BE INTERESTED IN IS A TOY RELATING TO A FILM BY MICHAEL FUCKING BAY, a director that Matt and Trey TOOK THEIR SWEET TIME to slag off in the brilliant song 'I miss you more than MIchael Bay missed the mark, when he made Pearl Harbor'.
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why are empire, superherohype and aintitcool late to the party.
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Maybe it is the Cybertron version of Soundwave, you know before it gets to Earth
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... should have their head examined.
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Ummm...you wouldn't call a GIANT cube transforming into a cube you can carry undewr one arm mass-shifting? What the hell are you talking about? The cube is what gives the Transformers life. Why wouldn't it's mass-shifting properties be transferable to them?
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I love Christina Bale.
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That the toys should actually be able to TRANSFORM. That was so crazy when you'd see little kids having to buy the robot and the car seperately because the robot designs were so preposterous last time that they COULDN'T ACTUALLY MAKE TOYS THAT TRANSFORMED. Hilarious.
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Damn you Michael Bay. And for all you Bay-o-philes who are knocking the old tape deck design, there are plenty of ways to bring Soundwave into the 21st century with an awesome alternate mode that doesn't look like shit, and plenty of fans have done it. Like this http://tinyurl.com/c3c9ck (No, not mine) Retains the boxy original shape, retains the communications officer feel of Soundwave, and has options for Ravage and Laserbeak. Bay and his people just don't give a shit, they just want to make a movie about big robots blowing shit up and looking as alien and weird and over CGI'd to get the hipster crowds. I didn't pay to see the first, I won't pay to see this one either, and it'll still make unholy millions to be a big piece of shit. And there's no way it's just the Cybertron version of Soundwave, that line was fed to people when Megatron's designs came out and proved to be bull.
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The toy looks great. And I can't wait for the sequel this summer to see 40 transformers on screen FUCKING MY EYEBALLS OUT!!!
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All the flames on optimus prime and michael bay haters, still in their momma's basement. I think the design looks cool as hell, AND I liked the first movie AND I think Bay makes pretty decent films.That being said, while the design is cool, I can't tell what it transforms into. But maybe it'll make sense when I see the flick.
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Hipsters don't give a shite about CGI. If it ain't JUNO, they ain't talking about it.
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That part between his legs should have gone up his back or something. I love how they kept his colors similar to the G1 model. Now all I ask is that I get to hear "Raaaavage....attaaaack..."
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totally missing the point of the soundwave character.Soundwave was the EASIEST character to recreate. He should have been BLOCKY. (i'll take an X-Wing fighter of princess amadalas ship anyday)
The next most important thing is that heshrunk into a smaller object. next would be him ejecting his little tapes, data storage, RAVAGE, EJECT.... etc...SIGH SIGH SIGH -
Ugly as sin and not in a good way
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But the movie basically established that the TF's can take almost any secondary from that they want. So, none of them really have a single thing they turn into, like in the old days. So now they can have multiple forms and not "official" vehicle mode or whatever.
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Jan 29, 2009 10:55:56 AM CST
I appreciate that the parts "fit", thanks to time & effort.
by jdanielp
The parts have to go somewhere, right? These are "Transformers"...and I appreciate all the time and effort that's put into making these things...work, in the visual sense. It just wouldn't be convincing enough if the parts didn't have some consistency. (I'll be having popcorn with this summer flick.)
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You're so right. Do think Christina Bale would have the same gruff Batman voice as her male counterpart. Either way, I fancy her. Hang on, why am I joking - I'm ANGRY - - ANGRY about this waste of space article. WHY IS AICN DEVOTING SO MUCH SPACE TO THE MOST SUCCESSFUL BAD FILM-MAKER IN HISTORY???
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I didn't say the Allspark cube's downsizing wasn't mass shifting... although it's not the same to me. The Allspark was a relic, capable of giving life to mechanized objects, not a sentient being from Cybertron. As I said before, it's just a movie and real world rules don't apply, so it could be used to explain mass shifting in future films...
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You guys are extremely late with this news. The TFW2005 Forums broke this yesterday, and other pics of the Soundwave toy have already leaked to the net months ago. But thanks for tryin'. And yes, all Decepticons are jets, except Devastator. This is extremely OLD NEWS.
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Geez guys, TFW2005 has had this posted in their forums for months. As for the Toy, I'll wait until I see the Trailer or Movie before I render my verdict on the design. I'm estatic that the face resembles G-1 Soundwave.
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...thanx for the new desktop background! Fucking great! perfect example of showing what COULD have been done w/ the character designs.
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I think you could reasonably argue Michael Bay had little to no influence in Transformers making that much money. Transformers already had huge fanbase. The subject matter of the story is giant robots fighting. Any director could have made that movie and been a hit. In fact you could argue a better directed movie would have even made more money. I mean if they were going ot make a star wars sequal about the further adventures of Luke, Leia, and Han. Given a big enough budget, anyone could make a movie that would take in 300 million plus in the domestic b.o.
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Soundwave was not a tape recorder. He was a Walkman type cassette player that used mini cassettes. Since he was the espionage officer he did all kinds of things that a tape deck can't do like broadcast and receive signals and record information on to tape. Most of the time it was Laserbeak who actually did the recording for play back in Soundwave later. If you look at the original Micromaster toy he actually came with fake headphones. If you're going to proclaim nerd outrage at least know what you're talking about.
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I felt this way when you were covering INDIANA JONES toys last year. Please stop doing it. Or, at the most, give each movie no more than ONE toy story, then leave it at that. HELP ME HARRY, YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE!
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...disguised as what? a mass of spikes folded around a shitty robotic face and torso.
Seriously kids want robots that Transform (please take note of that word Bay) into cars, tanks and planes, not satelites and whatever the fuck that was in the Empire picture.
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...that's just ugly.
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You guys are losing sleep and whining about a TOY!, That's not how the CGI robot will look, it's a fracking TOY! I've seen the other pictures of the Toy in Spacecraft transformation mode but at the end of the day its just a colorful, featureless toy! Why do AICN post these things just to let the die-hards loose their bloody minds!
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AICN posts thise things because we love to have a good rant about shit to break up a day at work. Its the people who whine about the posters whining about a film who need to have a word with themselves.
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They even got the color scheme exactly right. Those geniuses working for Michael Bay sure know how to pay honor to time honored character designs. It's looks so cool, like a scrap metal yard exploded all over my computer screen. Can't wait to see da badass movie cgi version- ooo pointy. Can anyone even guess what he is supposed to turn into? With original Transformers they were so cool because they actually looked like the vehicles or objects that they transformed into- with these designs, no such luck. Please someone try to actually figure out what this is supposed to transform into.
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and grey all over again????? at least respect the original colors...fuck
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Here's to Bill Brasky!!!
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I think you can see his taint!
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Jan 29, 2009 11:39:12 AM CST
Can't wait for the AICN-exclusive GI JOE toy designs!
by fuckmichaelbay
HASBRO must be so excited too!
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I stopped caring after the first film. When a film exchanges character for a special effect it's time to stop watching. Fucking hell I hate Bay. Cunt.
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All the Transformers had Cybertronian vehicle modes, until they adopted earth vehicles as their facade. The exception would be Megatron.
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I believe he transforms into a Cybertronian Spy Satellite which has to be one of the shittest idea's ever. Kids want cool alt modes to play with like cars and jets. I always remember as a kid going in toy shops wanting to buy a transformer and just finding fucking loads of Cosmos figures. Nobody wanted a transformer that turns into a shite green saucer... Now we have a shite blue... thing.
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I think old MCMLCCVV's 'transformed' into FuckMichaelBay. Who knew.
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Jan 29, 2009 11:51:00 AM CST
He went from a tape player to a 3 pronged tuning fork
by s-mart shopper
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Not all of us have allday to wank off to transformers sites. Most of us busy people come here to get a round up of the movie news and do our wanking here. So can it!
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Looks like a Guyver bot. Here is another question why do all the Transformers' mouths look like a gang banged Vagina? I am a G1 loyalist however if Soundwave is a Sattelite I could dig it. If he is another Jet that would be Gay!
Oh to you folks who think that Megatron has to be a Jet because turning into a Gun doesnt make sense. that just shows that you are as creatively bankrupt as some of the people involved in making these pictures! Why couldnt Megs turn into a Howitzer cannon or something like Galvatron used to? -
had better be that echo like thing! that was the other iconic voice other than Prime!
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maybe since the Constructicons are gonna be in it. we can get the line.. "Soundwave Superior, Constructicons Inferior"
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Jan 29, 2009 12:00:49 PM CST
The problem with Bay is he thinks too obviously
by most excellent ninja
I mean in the sense that his mind says "no one is going to accept these transformers the way they were in G1" but he never thought to ask "why?" or "what if they do" or if answering that question meant changing so much of what made them transformers in the first place. The reason I say this is because there was a movie called The Dark Knight and hey it looked like Batman, he had just about everything that was Batman, and the movie was great and it was acclaimed. If it was Bay he'd say "nah audiences will think the ears and the cape look stupid". He's not a very smart director is he? Not in relation to filmmaking just in relation to life. That said - Steve Jablonsky's score is incredible, Iconic.
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Soundwave turns into the glaive from "Krull." Huh.
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is his pre-earth alt mode. Word is he will be some type of supersonic jet in his alt Earth mode
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It looks like a pile of scissors with the head of Sauron.
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That was one thing that always bugged me too. Megatron turning into a gun. Nothing about size, but the fact that a gun is a tool, fired by someone else... something that doesn't fit the leader of Decepticons.
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going to have more big ass robots fighting and blowing shit up really good.Can't wait. .....G1 fans can wait though..for GAYFORMERS 2 stacked washing machines in disguise.
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why are you obsessed with Homo-erotic imagery? hmmm..I wonder?
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Although I must say he still looks a lot better than most of the later designs in the G1 era of Transformers toys. G1 started out so well but ended just pathetic.
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have to ask my boy friend...I mean your dad ;)
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Why do these transformers all need to have so much going on in their design????
TOO busy!!!!
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It's probably already been mentioned, but the Transformers toy community is all over this already.
Soundwave's alternate form is not a jet...
(Spoiler?)
It's a communications satellite.
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I love Transformers cartoon the movie toys lets get facts their almost 5 cartoons after the first soundwave was a boombox which now would be dumb sorry but would be most of ya just hatin cos it cool as me first in line this summer
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What a mess.
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People keep saying "lolz you fanboys a tape recorder would be retarded". Yes it would, I agree, and so do other "fanboys". The criticisms are the same as the ones from the first film. That the design looks pretty shit and all over the place.
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I didn't have a problem with not making Megatron into a gun - that was stupid even as a cartoon - and for the same reason I'm okay with not making Soundwave a boom box. But some of these robot designs are just friggin' sad. I mean, for Christ's sakes, we're talking about giant robots from outer space; does the design really have to make sense, the whole transformation from vehicle to robot? Clean that shit up. Who cares if vehicular parts just vanish, or if there are elements of the robot that didn't exist in/on the vehicle? Just make it look cool, for fuck's sake.
And that's why people fucking hate Michael Bay. That, and his need to insert a lame-ass teenage love story in what should have been badass robots pummeling and blasting the shit out of each other while completely devastating the environment around them like some old school Godzilla shlock. Fuck's sake, if there's one thing Bay should have been able to handle, it was a goddamn big, loud, intellectually void action movie.
ATTENTION MICHAEL BAY: Stop trying to aim for plot and character and other storytelling elements that are beyond your grasp, you soulless dickwad, and just go back to slick-shit explosions and non-stop nonsensical action. And maybe throw in a titty or two. That's all you'll ever have to offer the movie-going public. Fucking accept it and stick to the goddamn program or look into a career as a fry cook or janitor or a similar position that requires no creativity or imagination. -
Jan 29, 2009 1:16:22 PM CST
nope, fool me once, shame on you, but not a second time bay.
by warcraft
you won't fool me a second time, bay. fuck these designs, fuck your stupid plot, fuck the humans in these movies, fuck the stupid sountrack, fuck everything.
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if you say otherwise, I fucked your mother.
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nude preferably,and having sex with a beautiful blond girl would be a nice bonus.
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The cool thing about Soundwave was he LOOKED COOL!so why change it?same as with Megatron.
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good reviewer, but what the fuck was he thinking on this one?
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AVATARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ARRGHHHHhhhhHHHHHH
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Actually Bish any eyeball fucking will occur Dec 18th 2009...
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Soundwave does not exist in this dojo.
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a VW, we have to put up with a Soundwave jet.
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crossover. Bill "Radio Rahim" Nunn toting that big ghetto blaster of his. Instead of beating the Puerto Ricans on whose is louder, he pushes a button, it transforms, and smashes theirs to a pulp.
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Jan 29, 2009 1:59:59 PM CST
lol...hey fork your money over for this shit get more of it
by somashine
You guys are the idiots that gave Micheal Bay and Company your money in droves for them to make a sequel..why does this shit shock you?
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"Rumble, Frenzy,...Ravage, Ratbat....eject...operation interference!"
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You will never find a more wretched hive of piss n' vinegar. But you guys better get cracking. This TB is far below the normal 1,000 post count!
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http://www.drgw.net/~nnthayer/soundwave.html
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AICN used to have spies to reveal to them movie secrets that they then proceed to post exclusively as news. Now we have info revealed to us thanks to toy advertising from other news media. How steep has AICN decline been.
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...that ought to get things going. Care to throw on the old gloves again and spar? THE POWERE OF BAY COMPELS YOU...TO EAT POO!Was that enough to start a brouhaha? Oh well.
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http://soundboard.com/sb/Cylon_sound_effects.aspx
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Nevermind Soundwave was a tape recorder that turned into a 20 ft tall robot in the series, what the hell is he in this? The Mountain Dew machine looked meaner. BTW, why did every machine hit with the cube turn automatically evil?
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Good point. How come the cube just makes Decepticons. Oh yeah...because Michael Bay is a douchebag.
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I'm very disappointed in the Internet
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WORSE THAN FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES!!!!
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and everything about Bayformers will be forgiven!
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It was either this or an iPod.
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... he'll be scanning an earth disguise when he arrives.
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It's going to take more than a personal attack on you to get this TB going like in the old days. I guess today's TRANSFORMERS haters can't hold a candle to the TFers Flame Wars of old.Good times...
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Yeah, no kidding. Do you know what the internet has been saying? He's a satellite. Duh!
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...his wife he met in a Christian chat room? (God, I love "Family Guy".)
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Seriously, that guy disturbed me. All he did was sit with his old man knees so far spread apart that I thought he either had a prostrate the size of a beach ball or that his seat had been equipped with a toilet and he suffered irritable asshole syndrome.Is he in mid-pee? And will it be on a small yappy dog on pain meds wearing an obviously fake cast?
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indysbastardson, don't.
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He still has a somewhat recognizable faceplate / head design. Everyone hated the Transformer movie stills when they first came out, myself included, but they simply work better once ILM makes them all move and shit. So this'll most likely look better in the movie. Same design, but more moving parts and so forth.
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Looks like a pile of junk and we won't be able to tell who the hell is who during fight scenes.
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"What the Fuck does that turn into." Then I clicked the Link And it turns into one of Micheal Bay's Turds.
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Cock Gobbling Indie
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so ellen page's forehead isn't that big?
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As long as they slow down the fight scenes so they aren't so frantic I won't have any complaints. I still don't get all the negativity regarding the first movie. I guess the cool things these days is to hate everything no matter what.
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Should have been given to Transformers instead of Golden Compass. They was robbed! ROBBED! I tell yoooooo!
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Should play The Powerpuff Girls in a live action movie. Them foreheads are HUGE!!!!! I TELL YOOOOOOO!!
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I TELL YOOOOOOO!....alright that's enough.
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I thought his whole shit was to transform into something that blends into the surroundings. You know, for espionage. Not to stand out like an airplane with wings that look the same as the nose.
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I was thinking it would be really funny if Steven Chu invented energon cubes to preserve a livable climate while maintaining our standard of living.
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Jan 29, 2009 4:40:42 PM CST
Yeh, that's fucking orrible...as bad as the Cloverfield 'monster
by quantize
What a fuckin mess...and to think some jerkoff designer was paid to do work on that...This is another side-effect of the whole 'remake' trend...remake and redesign..often much worse..
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Does he have a brother named Dick?
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It can't be a fucking boombox. Not every part of this can be as silly as the fucking cartoon.
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Its a preview figure being released well in advance of the movie. Before the first film was released, Hasbro released a Optimus Prime and Starscream preview figuress (their protoform before they crashed to Earth modes). This is the same thing. I expect Soundwave to look VERY different once we see him in the film.
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If the headline wasn't about this being Soundwave I wouldn't have guessed who it was or even gave a shit. I still haven't paid to see the First Transformers nor will i pay for this piece of shit as well. To the ones who told me I'll see it the day it comes out, Go fuck yourselves.
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mention that one of the funniest comedies of all time is on TCM tonight at 10 pm Eastern. Albert Brooks' Modern Romance is airing with Mr. Brooks at his best, and the late great Bruno Kirby. Watch it just for the answering machine scene and you'll wet your pants...
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Who came up with this idea? Are ALL THE DECEPTICONS JETS? WTF?
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...is this some quaint 1980's technology, perhaps?
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Megatron never chose an Earth form in the first film...he stayed in his Cybertronian form the entire time.
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he could be a transforming metal dildo, for all I care.
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Transformers Animated is vastly superior to this dreck.
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...where's the real venom? You young whippersnappers should have been here, er, two years ago when the Transformers talkback hate fu was strong.
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It looked more like one of the old Warner Brothers Tasmanian Devil fights.
So, about 90% of the people here thinks these designs suck and look like add. About 80% of those people know that Bay is a visionless ass face. Yet, about 70% of those people will go see the movie anyway so it will top +$300 mil. That is why I hate people.
If you think it's going to suck, then please DO NOT GO. Go see an indie film or that "not as good as everyone says, but still o.k." Swedish vampire movie or something else instead. -
stupid typos...
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Jan 29, 2009 6:06:46 PM CST
That's probably gonna look all kinds of badass in the movie
by el mamerro
And if you fags have trouble dealing with complex visuals, stick to color-by-numbers books.
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RIP Soundwave.
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Fuck these eyesores. Fuck them right in the taint.
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FUCK YOU MICHAEL BAY!!! You deserve to be in eternal damnation for the rest of time!!!!
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who said that the toys fail to be as streamlined or compact as they appear on screen. Hasbro and the developers have to make them as close to screen accurate as possible while at the same time make a toy that actually transforms. I don't hate this design and agree that the body is a bit "too busy" but the G1 inspired head is a great nod. I'd love to see some actual studio character designs or perhaps he'll make an appearance in the Super Bowl trailer. (which I am hoping is a trailer and not a teaser)
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It was confirmed by consultant Simon Furman. Read Here: http://tinyurl.com/adpsm2
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I want that to happen!
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Always transform into abstract mutant spacecraft. For obvious reasons. They can't transform into anything else with a robot form with jagged metal areas all over the place. Honestly, I really couldn't be less excited for this piece of shit.
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It always makes me smile how the fans of Bayformers always come across a million times more angry and irrational then the critics who they feud with.
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Why won't you make Bad Boys 3!?!?
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But you know you won't, you'll all see it. I'll see it eventually, I'm sure, but a year from now on dvd works for me too. Enough with this medicocre shit. Somebody make a good Giant Robot movie please? Like Takashi Miike doing a live action Mazinger Z on a hollywood sized budget. Could you imagine? Totally surreal and totally olde skool anime feel. That would make me flip my geek lid. Or, of course Evangelion; again I bet Miike would do something completely insanely awesome with that.
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Maybe that toy is his alien vehicle and he will adopt an earth vehicle transformation at some point in the movie.
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Yep.
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What the HELL happened to his FACE??? At least give the guy the same Cyclopean look he had in the cartoon, so he's recognizable to the fans! I think they're TRYING to tick people off with these ugly designs.
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I saw some of it on HBO today. It was the part where all this stuff is turning into killer robots. When I saw it in the theater, I kinda rolled with it, but if you tune in right at that part, it comes off as so fucking idiotic, I had to turn it off. I mean, this girl's steering wheel attacks her face, then a Mountain Dew machine starts shooting missiles. It's terrible. Without the first-time novelty, and the spectacle at 100% in a theater, the movie is useless.
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the cock sucking, pole dancing, director fucking, teen aged runaway trailer trash disguised as an untalented actress? That one might be fun to play with.
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I mean..look at it? Or are we going to get some kinda Hard R brutal robot on Megan torture/rape scene since Soundwave can obviously can now do more than just eject a cassette? Bay just sucks...and so does his little Dog Orci too.
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Okay: so most of the robots from the first movie looked and sounded almost exactly the same. Big disappointment. But for the love of Bruckheimer, can they at least make the action scenes semi-comprehensible this time? So I'll know stupid stuff like which robots are fighting each other? Or am I still supposed to take in the big tight-shot blurs of fighting robots and say, "Oh, look, fighting robots!"
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Soundwave doesn't have to be a tape player, but the robot mode should... kinda' look like Soundwave. The face (of the toy) leans toward him, but the rest could be any kewl-robot-with-crap-hanging-off-it. Transformers are big, solid, hulking robots.
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Dark Knight didn't nod to fans, the whole thing was actually a batman movie, it didn't have to 'nod'. It'd be like Chris Nolan having some dude called Batman in all black jumpsuit and then having little ears saying it's a nod to fans. No, he was ok enough to have Batman show up. Looking like Batman.
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about the new design because if G1 never existed and Bay came out with, instead of a Cybertonian jet, a mass shifting Sony Walkman that hasn't been made for 20 years but could turn into a 40' tall robot, these same people would go on and on about how that is the stupidist thing they've ever seen. Get a life people. It's a rediculous movie for crying out loud.
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There was another character that was a bit like Soundwave & it's driving me crazy trying to remember! Not Blaster. Another character, which didn't look like Soundwave, but was essentially the same guy/possibly a rip off. As I recall he was purple or brown & had a cyclops eye & two panel ears sticking up. Maybe from Transformers or possibly Go-bots or something? Oh & Micheal Bay is shit.
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SURVIVAL...RESEARCH...LABS!!!!!!!
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You're dead right! The Dark Knight worked for everybody because it pleased the non-fans but also had Batman in it, not just in looks but also in personality, hence the storyline dealing with him having a rule against killing bad guys. Unlike the Burton movies where he'd throw people down manholes with a bomb strapped to them. Like Optimus Prime having a mouth, flames & saying "My bad."
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I showed my 4 year old nephew the flick today and he said it was more fun to watch than the live action movie he's been loving the last years. Fuckin kid was glued. He awoke and saw greatness. Not this Bay/Hollywood shit we are subjected to.
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Youre thinking of Blaster
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Jan 30, 2009 12:46:06 AM CST
Who the fuck cares when AVATAR is fucking our eyeballs in 2009?
by motoko kusanagi
nobody
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I thought Blaster looked like soundwave? I thought it was another guy, who sounded & acted like him, but looked different. Ah fuck it! I'm too old for this shit.
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You are thinking of Shockwave: http://tinyurl.com/l5k2x
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boombox who was the Autobot's answer to Soundwave.
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Jan 30, 2009 1:07:09 AM CST
Blaster didn't look like soundwave but was a boombox
by most excellent ninja
however he was into hip-hop and was like flavor flav as a transformer. as opposed to the very robotic soundwave.
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Soundwave starts out as a tiny, music playing toy robot, that gets larger and larger as the allspark is applied to it (and has the alternate form as a boxy Scion with features that hearken back to his G1 cassette-player form). He eventually is blown to bits at the end of the episode, and the remaining part looks like the classic form.Using a boxy Scion was far more ingenious than a satellite. but there was no reason not to use mass shifting for the robots, as the all-spark cube mass shifts in the Bay movie.Here is a pic of the Transformers Animated toy: http://tinyurl.com/c846sa and his vehicle form: http://tinyurl.com/cw3lwx
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That's the guy I was thinking of! It was gonna drive me crazy. To quote the mighty Celine Dion (praise be upon her) it's all coming back to me now.
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debate already occurred above.
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me of the scene from Big when the Josh character isn't impressed with the skyscraper robot.
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Don't say that! If Micheal Bay reads that we're screwed. Next stop, skyscraper robots. I can just see it now, robot buildings & Optimus Prime playing "chopsticks" on a giant piano with Indy's mentally deficient love child. Cue the hysterical laughter as he falls over & says "Oops, my bad." Comedy gold.
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Here is a hilarious video dub regarding Shockwave created by a guy who goes by the moniker DR SMOOV that you simply must see. DR SMOOV does an uncanny impression of most of the original voice actors: http://tinyurl.com/buqcps
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That's really funny! Especially the "I can hear him perfectly" line:-). Mind you, he was significantly understaffed.
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I want a jacket with car doors for epaulets.
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DAMN YOU FUCK MICHAEL YOUR EYEBALLS BAY
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Damn You Michael Bay
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called "The Rude Awakening of Optimus Prime" that is also a hoot and a half.
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the one from this months empire cover, with prime all beaten and smashed? instead we're lookin at toys!
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Sigh....at least I have my old 80's toon DVD set to enjoy. Bay can't take that from me.
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Michael Bay could have made his last Bayformers movie almost exactly as it was while just changing the main character names and been a just fine Bay movie. Little Timmy and the changing robots of doom from outer space. The problem is that G1 and about 20 years of Transformers history is there and Bay continues to spit on it, change it, ignore it, etc. These are not Transformer movies beyond the most basic of character names and who the good guys and bad guys are. Besides, wasn't there already a radio bayformer in the last movie? People didn't complain about his alternate form, updated as it was, just the fact that he was basically a robot gremlin.
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It's enough to make me wish I was 8 yrs old again. That's the annoying thing! I used to dream of making a Transformers movie as a kid. If I had the money & ability to do it now, I'd probably do it exactly as I would have then. In other words, it would be Transformers. Fuck, maybe I'd do a trilogy! Start with the originals, maybe next do Ultra Magnus, Galvatron etc, then have a big fuck off finale set in the future. It's easy AND the kids they're so desperate to sell it to at the expense of old fans, would probably like it a hell of a lot more.
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My last statement, before anybody points out the contradiction is saying "IF I had the ability" etc then saying it's "easy"..what I mean is, if I was someone like Micheal Bay, it would be easy to make an epic trilogy, purely by sticking to the existing story, using characters that have been established for years, keeping them as they are looks-wise & maybe following a few of their own personal stories mixed in with the big stuff & actually showing their personalities & motives instead of quick "Hi, I'm Jazz & I'm a funky motherfucker from outer space" style soundbites.
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Why even call him Soundwave if he's not a boom box or some approximation thereof?
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by NYSCO6390 Jan 30th, 2009
06:47:29 AM The problem is that G1 and about 20 years of Transformers history is there and Bay continues to spit on it, change it, ignore it, etc.
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So if I hear you right you think a mass shifting cassette playing Sony Walkman that turns into a 40' tall robot would make sense in a live action movie? I hate to break the news but that would look completely retarded.
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And that makes it a pretty good update from a boombox IMO. He's Comms. Hope he has the voice.
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... that AIN'T.
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The Hasbro "Deluxe" class transformers Soundwave was a Scion looking van... http://tinyurl.com/dlfqyo
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yeah it'd look just as retarded as a giant cube turning into a small cube. idiot. and why do you think everyone just wants him to turn into a boombox? i'm fine with the satellite idea but his robot mode could of been the same as the cartoon.
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