The more I see that design, the greater it pisses me off. I mean, the character speaks to the Bay awesomeness hard on. The name alone is what you would think a Michael Bay character would be. This thing basically looks like a bad representation of G2 Sideswipe. Most of the other character design interpretations (sans for Prime flames) I didn’t really mind. For a character named Hot Rod, this looks rather tepid.
Terrible… looks a mess… even this would be miles better:
Bay don’t give a fuck about this fanbase.
I thought everyone would have realized it long before now.
wtf is that abomination???
Meh. I’m kinda used to the movie bayverse TFers looking ugly as sin. There have only been a handful of the total bayverse designs that i ever liked. Everybody else looked like a walking pile of scrapmetal.
Blackout from the first movie is one of the few examples i can think of, that i really liked.
^^ Nope! Looks like an insecticon cos-playing as Hotrod lol.
I want a fucking Winnebago Rodimus Prime. Cool hot looking Winnebago or riot.
bay can have all my money as long as hot rod leads to optimus’s death and thousands of 8 year olds crying.
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By god. Some of these new designs!
It’s almost as if “ugly as sin”, is a requirement for any new bots they cook up.
First off, that card was used(wasted) in ROTF. The WORST of all the Bay movies.
Secondly, Bay’s Optimus just doesn’t have the level of charisma or other endearing elements that G1 Prime had.
The designs from AOE I didn’t find terrible. They had a lot more character than some of the others from the previous movie. I think the problem is that these designs don’t translate in any way to a toy design. All of the toys from AOE (sans Hound, Evasion Prime, and Bumblebee) just had chunks of car hanging off. ROTF Prime (love of hate) was an impressive movie design and they found a way for the mainline figure to transform in an almost 1:1 replication. The new design is cool, but there is no possible way for that to become a toy. Other than the pipes, you really can’t tell what the alt mode is.
I have a huge problem with Drift. Why would a character that is engrossed in Japanese culture have an alt mode that is of German design? They couldn’t have used a GTR?
Image of Barricade’s robot mode:
Other than the head, I can get down with that.
Took them 10 years to finally give Megs his goddamn arm cannon.
Fuck off, Bay.
I thought his name changed to Galvatron now.
Really good? It’s hideous.
Either one of two things.
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[] Galvatron reverts back to Megatron over time
[] Some new entity recreates Megatron
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To be honest I kinda dig it also. Reminds me of a mashup of TF Prime version of Megatron and Ultron. They have redesigned the battle mask as its a lot smoother now (doesn’t look like a vagina anymore).
Also, why does Megs dwarf all the other revealed bots? Not talking by like 5-10’, but he’s nearly twice as tall as everyone else.
Optimus has been ~32’ or so since TF2007, and the leaders of factions in Transformers tend to have a height advantage in most continuities. Also, I think Megs is actually a bit shorter now than he was before.
I know canonically Optimus and Megatron have always been among the larger bots to designate their leader status, but I don’t recall the height discrepancies being that large, even in the previous films.
Although that may be because the camera never stands still long enough for anyone to get an accurate idea of how tall anyone is, let alone specific details of their designs.
Yeah, it’s always been like that. Here is the scale guide from ROTF. The height has remained pretty consistent.
G1 Scale guide for reference
Oh, Optimus is 28`? Then Megs really IS still a bit taller.