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And then he can hang out with a red and blue Optimus Primal with a sky blue chest...

Yeah, even Hot Rod kind of skirts that by being a gorgeous futuristic monstrosity rather than an Earth car that the term would be a more textbook match for. I don't mind the beetle idea. And to head off fan whining about "his name isn't Beetle wah", just paint the beetle up like a bee so it...

Damn, they even took being Poochie from Hot Rod to give to Optimus. At the time I did wonder if they could use the Seed to revive Cybertron somehow. Then when Quintessa became a thing I wondered if she could contribute to that. Nope! Why am I not surprised that fanservice won the day again...

I like a lot about this. I should have gone for something similar (a harder pivot) rather than trying to rehab ROTB and keep as much from it as I could. Although I tend to be of the mind that Charlie should get to ride off into the sunset, this handles re-involving her fairly well (and who am I...

Hopefully the next one also ditches the formula, because there are better formulas. And doesn't try to ape his style anymore (given how tricky it can be to get down), but gets someone with their own. (Or, I guess, bring in other styles and motifs in general.) Part of why Bumblebee was so...

I was saying Boo-urns I loved the name Hot Rod when I first watched the movie as a kid. Had no familiarity with the hot rod genre of cars beyond the term referring to a car, and somehow never connected it to Rowdy Roddy Piper who'd used the name at the time and that I had heard of. But "Hot...

Would any of you be interested in adding to the Personal Canon thread? :)

The setup for the 2007 movie was a good one, I think. One central character, a number of subplots that each contribute something toward discovering this alien arrival/threat. The execution fumbled them some, but the idea was solid -- soldiers discover unstoppable humanoid war-weapons and learn...

Or just Hot Rod Prime; Prime can be a title (as it ended up anyway). In terms of design: I do want to keep the fiery space Winnebago. Maybe change the front a little bit so it's not still basically Hot Rod under a camper shell. This can lead to a slightly different robot mode, maybe one where...

First thing would be to not call him Rodimus. For all my fondness of the character, that's something I'll always be nonplussed at having made it through all the levels of approval to the final product. It parallels forcing him into the role of the next Optimus Prime, right down to forcing the...

Yes, he would always chase red sports cars, including ones she was in.

Japanese site eHobby continues to roll out their exclusive SD Transformers cards, as they've updated their website to show off wave TWELVE of these neat little things, which are sold in pairs for JPY980. The latest additions to the super-deformed-art card lineup give us a nice leader-focused...

And they lived happily ever after. Except Kelly, who had to take the bus. Again.

I agree with a lot of that, UndeadScottsman. Sam isn't terrible in the first film since it's still interested in the Spielbergian "boy and his car" vibe, but he quickly becomes terrible in the next two. And the whole "comedic" angle of having Shia scream a lot -- most gratingly in the DOTM...

If it felt at all like it left any openness for a back and forth I wouldn't have said what I said. I mean, read the responses. "You want Airachnid? I think what you REALLY want is (thing you didn't say) but... you can't have that." is a twofer. "That doesn't work for me." Why does it have to...

I'd probably put 2007 at the top and Bumblebee either tied with it (both good, in different ways) or second. The former is still only partly held down by Bayhem as it's early days yet, and has a handful of indelible moments of spectacle that actually have weight. And it's a full cast on both...

Okay, I've decided against posting the rest of my ideas here. The rest of you can have fun with it. This has quickly turned into a repeat of the first thread where "here's a question, what are your thoughts?" is followed by "see, here's why you're wrong." Discussion is great, but "submit your...

Might come back later and itemize an "idk how any of this would be done, but here's what I want from each post-G1 era or alt-G1 take" list. Just for my own tastes, character names would be changed to avoid reuse, favoring G1. But for now I'd beef up Megatron's Earth crew, adding in characters...

I'd be more okay with painted windows if they actually painted the shapes of folded-up robot pieces you'd see if they were clear.

And this is why we're getting three more incremental Galvatron redecos that year.