Transformers: One - New Animated Prequel coming September 20th, 2024 - New Toy Official Images!

[lastmaximal]

Yeah, 3D movies going 2D for subsequent adaptations/series is not unheard of, and frees up resources that can go to design and writing. It's succeeded more often than not.

I'm just hoping it gets a robust toyline that's more than the kid mainline style we've gotten for the last few years where it's all one-steps and gimmicky sublines and some token Warrior class molds of four characters. (Er, aka the One movie toyline as it is... Drat.) It would be frustrating to never see, or only see in trickles over years, a lot of these great designs. And I don't want this to take over Studio Series either, although it makes sense for it to step up as one of the line's running sources.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

If they do expand the toyline, I hope they go all in on Warriors, because they've gotten good.

 

[Sabrblade]

Who wants to see IGN's terrible review of the movie get completely torn to shreds?

(Language warning, btw. So many f-bombs)

 

[Rhinox]

He makes strong points. I'm curious as to any response from IGN.

 

[Sabrblade]

He makes strong points. I'm curious as to any response from IGN.

I doubt IGN really cares that much, given how little they cared about the movie itself or about accurately reviewing it.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

If they do expand the toyline, I hope they go all in on Warriors, because they've gotten good.

Turns out Hasbro CAN make decent, cost effective, converting toys when they aren’t compelled by marketing to shove in some compromising action gimmick.

 

[Rhinox]

I doubt IGN really cares that much, given how little they cared about the movie itself or about accurately reviewing it.

Fair point.

 

[RichardT519]

Finally saw the movie today, then did the requisite look-ups on TV Tropes and TFWiki. Nice to see I wasn't the only one...

Spoiler

who saw similarities between the publi personas of Sentinel Prime and Homelander.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

More images from the Chinese card set which gives some good looks at other characters from the film, including both cogged and uncogged iterations. I particularly appreciate a meaningful attempt to create some variation between the seekers, even though they all come from the same “body type”.
Like I said before, Hasbro could mine this film for stuff for YEARS between the Seeker variations, stylistic variations on the likes of Soundwave and Shockwave, and even giving some of the cameo Autobots some love.

Kayou Transformers One Trading Cards Additional Images

Via Twitter/X user @Csbiaoo we have some additional images of the officially licensed Transformers One Trading Cards made by Chinese company Kayou. These trading cards show some new CGI art of several Transformers One characters, and even the 13 Primes. Now we have a look a several Seekers like...

news.tfw2005.com

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

Oh dear...

Why Transformers One Bombed At The Box Office - Looper

There are so many reason why the prequel film "Transformers One," despite solid reviews and critical reception, was a box office flop upon its release.

www.looper.com

Is the New Transformers Movie Already a Box Office Flop? What Happened?

Transformers One isn't doing huge numbers at the box office, and there are various reasons as to why the animated prequel might end up flopping.

www.cbr.com

 

[RichardT519]

Wait what?

 

[Superomegaprime]

The movie is a failure in terms of financal results, I get the feeling that ROTB did more harm than good, I mean it wasn't exactly a great movie in hindsight but I honestly expect TF One to find more of a audience on streaming, but then I think the film title is also apart of the problem as it seems more like a production title than anything else, plus the timing of release is bad, here in the UK it comes out next week, which is still two weeks before half term, its also being overshadowed by Beatlejuice 2 and Wild Robot, which isn't helping matters.

 

[Tuxedo Prime]

I had a feeling that Wild Robot (emotion-stirring film based on a junior novel, with DreamWorks funding and baked-in sequel hooks) would probably get more buzz -- though the showing I went to was pretty sparsely attended.

I don't think they designed the film to be Oscar bait, but it's more likely to be considered by the Academy for the Animated category than TF:One, For Reasons.

 

[lastmaximal]

I get the feeling that ROTB did more harm than good

How so?

 

[Donocropolis]

I do feel like maybe it didn't hit at quite the right time. I wonder if an earlier theatrical release and then at-home streaming roundabout now would have helped push the toys for the Christmas buying season. Because, really, toy sales are going to be what Hasbro is interested in.

 

[LordGigaIce]

Coffeehorse is right. It should have been a summer release when kids had more free time, and it should have had a more robust marketing campaign.

 

[Glitch]

ROTB felt like three films in one: Beast Wars, Bumblebee 2, Unicron.

 

[LordGigaIce]

Nothing about RotB feels like a dedicated Bumblebee sequel. He's in it, they make a vague reference to the Bumblebee movie, and Prime and Bumblebee's designs carry over but...

It's not like Bumblebee is the focus. We don't get a follow up on Charlie or Memo. It's a movie in continuity to Bumblebee and it follows it chronologically but it's not like it's a follow-up story about Bumblebee, if that makes sense.

RotB didn't suffer from all the sins of the Bay films but it suffered from enough of them to kind of sour my experience. Too many robots who were just there to fill a roster while not getting any character. An over-wrought CGI battle in a DBZ wasteland at the end. A McGuffin hunt. A plot that seems all over the place just tossing in concepts from the franchise. Maximals! Unicron! Scourge!
It wasn't RotF or TLK levels of bad, in fact it has its strong points. It still felt like a sad return to (poor) form though, after Bumblebee gave me hope the live action movies were trending in the right direction.

And to top it off they ended it by trying to make "fetch" happen again with GI G-ddamn Joe

 

[Sabrblade]

It seems they went with September to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the G1 cartoon. But a May release would have better coincided with the actual 40th anniversary of the whole brand.

The only real competition it would have faced had it been released in May would have been Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and IF. Which, admittedly, is some pretty steep competition, but we'll never know what might have happened, alas.

 

[Undead Scottsman]

It wasn't a competition issue. TF One should have handily beaten a 40 years later sequel that nobody was really asking for and that was reviewing "all right". Had it done well last weekend, you could make a case for the Wild Robot eating its lunch, but it's clear with or without that a competing animated robot film, TF One wasn't doing well.

That said, despite appearing to be a more heartful and critically acclaimed film than TF One, The Wild Robot didn't do gangbusters either, earning about 30% more than TF One's meager earnings. It'll probably do fine, but it's not any kind of big success, which makes me think the rot in the film industry is just that deep.

Checking the top-ten for the year, only two films have grossed over a billion worldwide (Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine) and no film has grossed over a billion domestically.

Certainly Hasbro shouldn't be left off the hook for the terrible marketing, and also shouldn't have marketed to kids and then put the film out during the school year, but the industry is kind of floundering as a whole at this moment.

Like, I loved Godzilla x Kong because it's exactly my speed of silly nonsense, but in a healthy industry, that movie should not be the fifth highest grossing movie of the year, yet here we are.