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There's Still Hope for Transformers Movie

Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:47 am
by Halo
According to rumor, this is a model for Bumblebee . . .

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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:52 pm
by Nomad Soul
Neato, although I don't think being a Camero suits him. He's not a sports car kind of character.

Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:54 pm
by Halo
Then the big question is, what car should he be? Can't be a VW Bug as long as Disney has exclusive movie rights with them (for the Herbie movies).

And still better than Starscream being a Police Car IMHO.

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:58 am
by Blue Phoenix
May I suggest a gremlin?

Ooh, oh my lord I have just the perfect vehicle!

The short yellow bus..
This would prove to give him quite a few quirks to work out...like...

If an enemy comes by, he can not transform right away....as the children inside would become quite squishified.

~And no, I don't know much about this topic. All I know, is a little about Optimus prime, and then the beast wars show that came in the mornings. Mew, I did love the old transformers.

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:28 am
by roy_vf1s
Halo wrote:Then the big question is, what car should he be? Can't be a VW Bug as long as Disney has exclusive movie rights with them (for the Herbie movies).

And still better than Starscream being a Police Car IMHO.
But the question is... does Disney own the rights to the 'old' style bug, or both it and the new style?

And, as far as I'm concerned, Bumblebee should be a Yugo or Trabant or some other little tiny foreign car. :-P

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:24 am
by Sparky
I dunno, I see him as more of a "boat" or some four-door Sudan... maybe even a Bronco.

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:08 am
by Nomad Soul
Actually the reason he's not a bug is because Volkswagon is very weary of being associated with anything warlike. (E.G. Transformers with guns)

Some sort of thing about being worried that people will be reminded about their involvment in helping Germany during WW 2.

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:43 pm
by roy_vf1s
Nomad Soul wrote:Actually the reason he's not a bug is because Volkswagon is very weary of being associated with anything warlike. (E.G. Transformers with guns)

Some sort of thing about being worried that people will be reminded about their involvment in helping Germany during WW 2.
What? They're worried people will be offended by their gaining a government contract to design and produce Der Kubelwagen? Realistically, the only way a civilian company can survive in such circumstances in a dictatorship IS to work for the government, no matter how vile that feels.

And why a big boat of a car, or a Bronco? Bumblebee just doesn't strike me as being a "big" name, you know?

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:42 pm
by Nomad Soul
As stupid as it sounds, that's thier reason.

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:58 pm
by camk4evr
Here's a CG of Optimus Prime tranforming (not from the movie though)

Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:23 pm
by Halo
The official teaser trailer has been posted to their official site here: http://www.transformersmovie.com/

It was down last time I checked (big shock), but there is a lower quality version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFsjxPkw0Qk


Don't get too excited . . . it's just a teaser.

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:27 am
by Nefaris
Well... looks good. Steven Spielberg is backing it so it will be good when it shows for real. Can hardly wait, I have the original transformers in a box somewhere.

Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:10 pm
by roy_vf1s
Oooh... me likey...

Wait, Halo... is that Cthulhu in a leisure suit and fro? :lol:

Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:40 pm
by Halo
Wait, Halo... is that Cthulhu in a leisure suit and fro? :lol:

LOL - No, my friend, it is a Cactuar from Final Fantasy in a liesure suit and fro.

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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:13 pm
by roy_vf1s
So I see, now... but when it's down to avatar size, the philum begin to look more like Cthulhu's tentacles:

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