Transformers One Trailer is OUT!

Sabrblade wrote:See, Michael Bay? This is how you do robot characters who are likable, genuine, and aren’t defaulted to being murderous psychopaths.

As much as I like this trailer, and as much as I (used to) enjoy Bumblebee and (thankfully still enjoy) Rise of the Beasts, I pray for the day when I stop seeing these comments. I’m just tired on them.

Well, that was pretty cool actually! Not what I was expecting, I got quite a James Gunn GotG vibe out of it with Hemsworth putting a bit of late-MCU Thor into Optimus. Megs’ voice will take a little longer to get used to, but I suspect what we’ve seen so far as D-16 will be quite different from how he eventually sounds as Megatron. (And that shot early on of Megs and the red-hot Decepticon brand? That was cool.)

A lot of the animation & design looks gorgeous, hitting somewhere between Evergreen and the Bumblebee movie for me. Some of the character animation looked maybe a little lower-budget than you might expect? Cybertron looks great though, both underground and topside, and it looks like it’s packing so many little nods to bits of TF lore from all over the past 40 years that it’s going to demand a close watch on home release.

In short, this is looking like a lot more fun than I was expecting!

Sabrblade wrote:See, Michael Bay? This is how you do robot characters who are likable, genuine, and aren’t defaulted to being murderous psychopaths.

That bumblebee killcount though…

Amen.

I literally sat here and watched this with my mouth hanging open. The trailer is beautiful, well polished animation. The interactions are amazing. All of my nurses and MAs also watched the trailer. None of them are even fans of Transformers, but they ALL plan on seeing this movie now.

That’s exactly what a trailer is supposed to do. Well done.

So based on the background song, this is set back when Cybertronian tech ran on Windows 95? My, it IS the primitive past!

Beyond Airachnid’s cameo, the whole aesthetic strikes me as ‘Prime with a bigger budget’ more than any other single past CG TF rendering, especially the Vehicons, and it works surprisingly well. I could see this getting all the attention that Rise of the Beasts didn’t last summer.

zko wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:See, Michael Bay? This is how you do robot characters who are likable, genuine, and aren’t defaulted to being murderous psychopaths.

That bumblebee killcount though…

Seconded. Are you saying accidental homicide is OK Sabr? It’s all comic relief until someone unintentionally enters the nuclear codes…

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:See, Michael Bay? This is how you do robot characters who are likable, genuine, and aren’t defaulted to being murderous psychopaths.

As much as I like this trailer, and as much as I (used to) enjoy Bumblebee and (thankfully still enjoy) Rise of the Beasts, I pray for the day when I stop seeing these comments. I’m just tired on them.

Agreed, Transformers (2007) was almost 20 years ago. It’s time to let things go. There is no good that can come from dredging up the past. Michael Bay certainly doesn’t care so there’s no need for people to cling to that.

Anyway, onto the trailer itself. It honestly looks like a fun little movie. While I probably will be waiting till a home media release, I’ll still be watching it.

Bumblevivisector wrote:Seconded. Are you saying accidental homicide is OK Sabr? It’s all comic relief until someone unintentionally enters the nuclear codes…

There’s a difference between an accident and a bunch of gun-toting maniacs who relish and revel in their obsessive desire to main, mutilate, and massacre the first things that look at them funny (lookin’ at you, Crosshairs and Hound).

ZeroWolf wrote:Agreed, Transformers (2007) was almost 20 years ago.

Ah, but TLK was only a mere seven years ago.

I dont know……I just dont know… I mean the animation looks good and fluid. I guess I’m just not “wired” into thinking that Mechanical organisms can grow and mature physically. I mean originally Orion Pax body was literally destroyed and he was ReBuilt into Optimus Prime. Call it hoaky, or whatever; but the idea of bots looking “young” and then maturing is just so foreign to my concepts of Transformers. Sure we saw little kiddies on Lithone, but that was a different race of Robots.

I mean I get that Optimus wasn’t always the stalwart, confident leader we see in the OG series. each character should be able to grow in a sense mentally, but to have them look “youthful” just doesn’t make sense, unless again, their bodies are literally going to be broken, and rebuilt into something closer to what we know. I mean Elita is already “Elita” (not Aeiral), and Megatron was “Born”(built) as is. (Physically, not mentally).

Yeah I know this isn’t OG Transformers, and it certainly shows. I still plan on seeing it and giving it a chance, but man, It definitely didn’t overwhelm me with positivity, lets just put it that way.

Also, can we officially STOP with inserting classical Rock songs in trailers? It was cool in Guardians of the Galaxy, and its sequels, and dozens of other film trailers that have done it in the past 10 years. But it can stop now. I mean I know Transformers is an original product of the 80’s, but “Start Me Up” even predates it.

My nostalgia bias probably would have given a pass to any song from the TF:TM soundtrack, even though this film hasn’t earned it yet (maybe they’ll play “The Touch”, or a rendition of the OF TF theme at the end of the film), but yeah, Rolling Stones and TF doesn’t mesh well here.

Looks fun, but there’s one thing I just can’t get over: KID MEGATRON!

I am pleasantly surprised. I’m definitely planning on seeing this, looks like a lot of fun.

Is it supposed to be a prequel to the live action films? Felt like the vibe was more toward Prime and the WFC games.

o.supreme wrote:I dont know……I just dont know… I mean the animation looks good and fluid. I guess I’m just not “wired” into thinking that Mechanical organisms can grow and mature physically. I mean originally Orion Pax body was literally destroyed and he was ReBuilt into Optimus Prime. Call it hoaky, or whatever; but the idea of bots looking “young” and then maturing is just so foreign to my concepts of Transformers. Sure we saw little kiddies on Lithone, but that was a different race of Robots.

Pretend those last two are in reverse order.

Also,

What a mess. I guess I’ll be sittnig this one out, just like the Bay movies. Origin story? G1 seasons 2 and 3 (the five faces of darkness part 4 in particular) are being completely disregarded. I’d take that any day over what is seen in the trailer. The original story is much darker with much more death. The trailer shows the autobots and decepticons learning to transform together? No. The autobots used that tactic to win their civil war against the decepticons after cybertrons ‘golden age.’

Count me out.

Hot Rod was “matured” by the Matrix into Rodimus Prime, not physical growth. (similar to Optimus although his Pax body was mortally wounded).

The story of A3 “maturation” is not exactly known, but I seriously doubt it was physical growth.

o.supreme wrote:Hot Rod was “matured” by the Matrix into Rodimus Prime, not physical growth. (similar to Optimus although his Pax body was mortally wounded).

The story of A3 “maturation” is not exactly known, but I seriously doubt it was physical growth.

There’s also Kup. A flashback in “Chaos” showed a younger version of him.

Perceptor1996 wrote:Was pretty cool to see Skywarrp in the trailer and what I think Sentinel Prime looking a lot like Deathsaurus.

Looks to me like Sentinel is actually being held by something else. His legs appear bound.

blackeyedprime wrote:Well it has to be better than rise of the dullest film to feature a science museum (yes I know WW84 is a worse movie but probably still less dull than rise of the beasts, with Eternals being the best of the three).

Looks like it’ll be a lot more fun that RoTB was. This might have a well-paced and interesting story in the hands of a good director. And I thought WW84 was pretty fun, way above RoTB.

Megatrons voice is pretty jarring but some of the designs look good. I can take it or leave it though, not something I’m too fussed about seeing or not seeing

Yeah that was the only thing really out of place for me as well. I’m looking forward to finding out why it changes eventually.

Okay, now that I’ve seen some stills…

Starscream! Soundwave! Shockwave! Skywarp! And they look amazing!

o.supreme wrote:Hot Rod was “matured” by the Matrix into Rodimus Prime, not physical growth. (similar to Optimus although his Pax body was mortally wounded).

The story of A3 “maturation” is not exactly known, but I seriously doubt it was physical growth.

So they kept rebuilding A3 just to change his facial hair?

Reading some of these comments and. You guys realize how many backstories and various canons there’s been right? This is something new, like how all previous iterations were themselves new in their time. I just don’t understand why this movie HAS to follow all that came before, why it has to specifically stick with one set of origin stories. It’s already so based on what’s come before, but it being not exact to one particular continuity is an issue?

This franchise might be in need of some Beast Machines level risks. I’m talking a whole series with almost zero characters that have come before.

Of course I’m still excited, and of course I get someone just not wanting to see it, but some of the reasoning here is a bit confusing.

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Reading some of these comments and. You guys realize how many backstories and various canons there’s been right? This is something new, like how all previous iterations were themselves new in their time. I just don’t understand why this movie HAS to follow all that came before, why it has to specifically stick with one set of origin stories. It’s already so based on what’s come before, but it being not exact to one particular continuity is an issue?

I wouldn’t call it completely new and different. It seems to take a heavy amount of influence from the Aligned backstory.

Stormshot_Prime wrote:This franchise might be in need of some Beast Machines level risks. I’m talking a whole series with almost zero characters that have come before.

We got one as recent as two years ago:

And it’s really good.

Sabrblade wrote:

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Reading some of these comments and. You guys realize how many backstories and various canons there’s been right? This is something new, like how all previous iterations were themselves new in their time. I just don’t understand why this movie HAS to follow all that came before, why it has to specifically stick with one set of origin stories. It’s already so based on what’s come before, but it being not exact to one particular continuity is an issue?

I wouldn’t call it completely new and different. It seems to take a heavy amount of influence from the Aligned backstory.

Stormshot_Prime wrote:This franchise might be in need of some Beast Machines level risks. I’m talking a whole series with almost zero characters that have come before.

We got one as recent as two years ago:

And it’s really good.

Well I could never forget Botbots, ending on that S7 cliffhanger!

All that being said, what you said is exactly my point, it’s really not that different after all! The Thirteen to Quintesson occupation timeline had become the go to, for better or worse (Earthspark is doing fun things).

Here’s to season 2 of both ES and Botbots! And the success of this film.

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Here’s to season 2 of both ES and Botbots! And the success of this film.

Sadly, BotBots seems to have not been renewed for a second season.

Sabrblade wrote:

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Here’s to season 2 of both ES and Botbots! And the success of this film.

Sadly, BotBots seems to have not been renewed for a second season.

That’s a shame, especially considering the introduction of Sector 7 implied it was going to possibly attempt to assert continuity with the live-action universe, making it even more relevant to this thread.

They’re quite far from Bayverse and IMHO it’s not bad, not bad at all.

They’re moving the franchise to an easier audience, it’s a much less dark and more relaxed product (though We’ve to see the entire movie, of course). It’s a good decision, as the Bayverse was in dead end by all points of view.

So, comparing TFOne (but also BBee and ROTB) to the TF1/5 it’s a complete mistake.

I think We can enjoy this movie for what it is and not for different movies are.

I’m just not feeling the hype for this. More like mixed feelings. Speaking purely out of personal preference, I’m not so much a fan of Megatron and Optimus being friends before the war. It makes the world feel so much smaller.I don’t WANT to see a younger, more naive Megatron. I don’t care for Bumblebee being their contemporaries and not the young kid character–though I know at this point Hasbro will never NOT have Bumblebee in a movie.

Ultimately, this is just going to be another continuity for the pile. I’ll go see it, but I can already tell it won’t be my favorite Transformers story.