V. Barbarino Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 Independence Day for Transformers By Joal RyanWed Jul 13, 8:35 PM ETOptimus Prime has a prime release date: The Fourth of July.Transformers, the long-planned, live-action movie based on the robot-morphing cartoon, comic and toy franchise, will roll into theaters July 4, 2007, DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures announced Wednesday. Michael Bay (The Island, The Rock) will direct; Steven Spielberg will executive produce.Children of the 1980s likely will be champing at the tie-in lunchbox."The diehard fans will like it as long as it stays true to Transformers roots and doesn't stray too far from the ideals that we grew up with," Brendan Reilly, co-Webmaster of The Transformers Archive (www.tfarchive.com), said in an email interview about the movie announcement. "The casual or un-familar fan will need to see something awesome to win them over, although a 40-foot robot is usually pretty cool."Cool-looking robots who convert themselves into battle tanks and other vehicles in order blow up things real good are at the mechanical heart of the Transformers, the classic tale of good automaton (the Autobots) versus evil automaton (the Decepticons) in a battle for control of Earth. Optimus Prime is the leader of the Autobots; Megatron, the dark lord of the Decepticons. Both Autobots and Decepticons hail from the planet Cybertron. All this backstory and more was revealed in Transformers, the syndicated cartoon series launched in 1984 with the help of toy-maker Hasbro, which simultaneously--and savvily--launched a still-thriving merchandise line.No less savvy today, the makers of the new Transformers movie have already begun a full-scale offensive. The new official Website (www.transformers.com) went up Tuesday. Transformers: Cybertron, the latest animated series, launched this month on Cartoon Network. Burger King cooks up a monthlong action-figure promotion beginning in August. And this weekend in San Diego, on the occasion of Comic-Con International, the geek world's largest annual gawkfest, an 18-wheel truck touting the franchise's considerable wares will be beached in the convention hall.In theory then, this thing ain't going to be Transformers: The Movie.Transformers: The Movie was the little-loved 1986 animated feature that gave Optimus Prime, Megatron, et al., their first crack at the silver screen. Much as Fox is planning to right past cinematic wrongs with an all-new, A-list take on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, another 1980s cartoon/toy phenomenon that spawned a cheeseball 1980s film, the new Transformers crew is looking to take its property upscale.In a message board Monday post on his personal Website (www.donmurphy.net), Don Murphy, a Transformers co-executive producer, said Spielberg, DreamWorks and Hasbro are committed to making a film that is no less than "GREAT" (the capital letters are all his)."It will be GREAT," Murphy continued, "and then we will make sequel after sequel. There is no doubt that this is true."With excellence promised, the powers that be now need only to lock in actors and writers--none were announced Wednesday--and start cameras rolling. Time, after all, is of the essence. In publicly staking claim to July 4, 2007, DreamWorks and Paramount become the first studios to reserve that holiday date for their own. Currently, the only other release on the 2007 calendar is Spider-Man 3, set for May 4 of that year.Until Transformers debuts in theaters, and after Comic-Con wraps, its considerable fandom can busy itself with BotCon (www.transformersclub.com/conventions/frisco/), described by organizer Brian Savage as being "like a giant group hug for everyone who enjoys Transformers."Scheduled for Sept. 22-25 in Frisco, Texas, the latest edition of BotCon--the event is more than 10 years old--is expected to draw as many as 5,000 devotees of the shape-changing robots. "The whole movie announcement just adds more fire and fuel," said Savage, director of Hasbro's official Transformers Collectors Club.The way Savage sees it, the unlikely secret to the Transformers' success is: Personality. Anyone, he said, can make a transforming robot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LeVeL Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 You know I have alwasy Loved Transformers..just the Transformation sound bite is priceless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest durrtylexx Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 http://students.washington.edu/colin2/breakformers/Video_player_06.html ;D ;D ;D ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ddg Posted July 16 Report Share Posted July 16 AWESOME!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest swirlundergrounder Posted July 18 Report Share Posted July 18 StarScream was the shit!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xbbdc Posted August 1 Report Share Posted August 1 have you guys ever seen transformers the movie? where optimus is dying and has to go back to the 'core'?? Wachowski brothers stole the concept from transformers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LeVeL Posted August 3 Report Share Posted August 3 StarScream was the shit!!!Starscream is really something...but as long as megatron is around he will remain his bitch.But definetely the baddest Transformer of them all is Unicron...My all time favorite Transformer has always been Shockwave.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LeVeL Posted August 3 Report Share Posted August 3 The thing that confuses me is that they have soo many Megatrons.They have the Beastwars Megatron...The Regular Megatron...Are they suppose to be all the same Megatron or are they different prototypes of him.I am even confused with Galvatron, they say in the comics that Galvatron is Megatron but rebuilt as Galvatron by Unicron. But then again at the same time they say that Megatron was redone by Unicron and he's badder,more powerful than the regular Megatron before he was destroyed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JMT Posted August 3 Report Share Posted August 3 after "Transformers: The Movie", they started to suck. they all became futuristic, wacky, hybrid transformers. i preferred the old school characters much better.now they have all this crazy stuff, like Level said. i went to go buy my little cousin a birthday present, he is 5 and likes the new transformers. there are 3 friggin different versions of megatron and optimus prime. makes no sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest swirlundergrounder Posted August 3 Report Share Posted August 3 after "Transformers: The Movie", they started to suck. they all became futuristic, wacky, hybrid transformers. i preferred the old school characters much better.now they have all this crazy stuff, like Level said. i went to go buy my little cousin a birthday present, he is 5 and likes the new transformers. there are 3 friggin different versions of megatron and optimus prime. makes no sense. I used have a bunch of those old transformers figures at my parents old house. But I think I threw them away when I helped them move out of their house a couple of years ago. I kept the Star Wars figs but I didn't think I'd want the transformers anymore. Shit I had Sooundwave and all the tapes, the Insecticons, A couple of the dinobots and a bunch of the Autobot vehicles... :'( :'( :'(maybe I didn't trash them....and I put them in storage soemwhere? I dunno ??? :'( :'( :'( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JMT Posted August 3 Report Share Posted August 3 i have no idea what happened to all of mine. sold in a yard sale i think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xmuzik Posted August 5 Report Share Posted August 5 the new transformers movie is gonna be off the hook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan2772 Posted August 6 Report Share Posted August 6 i have no idea what happened to all of mine. sold in a yard sale i think. mine all ended up in the bottom of my lake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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