After starting to feel so much good vibe the past few weeks about Transformers coming out next month, only to find this… thing.
It’s a 2007 update to the “Transformers” theme song (MP3 file in .zip format) on the Sector Seven promo website for Transformers.
This doesn’t raise my hopes any about the movie, y’all…...
Don’t have Quicktime handily installed on whatever ‘puter you’re on? Here’s the new Transformers trailer (found on Michael Bay’s website):
And here’s the original link to the Quicktime version on Yahoo!
The more I watch this trailer, the more stoked I’m getting to see this movie. I keep thinking about how much I started looking forward to Independence Day after that now-legendary commercial during the 1996 Super Bowl. Transformers is going to be that kind of outrageous good fun too, I hope.
Something also that I first realized with the movie’s teaser, and this trailer reinforces the notion for me, that I hadn’t thought of ever since the Transformers hit the scene in 1984: the Transformers are not “robots”. They are living alien organisms from a world far removed from Earth. They just happen to be living organisms that are composed of metal and not carbon molecules. And ...
In spite of the problems that I’ve heard this movie has had/will have, I must say that this trailer rocks the house. ‘Course, I’ve seen plenty of awesome trailers for movies that when they finally arrived in theaters, were total letdowns (I would even say that the “teaser” a year ago for Spider-Man 3 promised a lot more than what that movie actually yielded). So this could go either way… but for what it’s worth, I really am hoping to be more than pleasantly surprised with Transformers. Watching this tidbit of it does give me a feeling of some optimism (or should that be “Optimus”? :-).
The government of Australia has banned the import of the Transformers Masterpiece Megatron collector’s toy into the country (click here for the story).
This is Megatron as he originally appeared when the Transformers line was first introduced in the early 1980s… but this one has a much better sculpt, is greatly articulated, is made of die-cast metal and is a lot sturdier than the ’83/’84 model (how many of us cried when the original Megatron’s arm came off?).
He also transforms into a life-sized Walther P-38 semi-automatic pistol… which is the problem. Masterpiece Megatron is now considered a public health threat by the authorities in Sydney. Yup, 20 years ago this was a perfectly okay child’s toy. In 2007, at $100 a pop and marketed primarily to adult collector’s, you need permission from the Australian government before you can import one from there. So far they’ve impounded about ...
Whoa. Never saw THAT one coming.I don’t think anyone can ever really replace Frank Welker’s long stretch as the Decepticon’s leader. For those of us who grew up in the 80s, well… Welker’s and Chris Latta’s were the voices of pure diabolical evil. Sadly both are no longer with us. We will still have Peter Cullen as the voice of Optimus Prime though.
But the more I think about it, the more I’m liking the idea of Hugo Weaving doing speech for the Megster.
EDIT 6:17 PM EST: Geoff Gentry just told me that Frank Welker has NOT gone to the great beyond, as was previously reported. Bad, bad mistake on my part. Guess it was late and I was thinking too much about how it’s Chris Latta who has passed on (he was the voice of Starscream, as well as Cobra Commander on the G.I. Joe cartoon). Nice ...