Transformers

Alrightly, long time been nowhere and I feel the urge to express myself.

Transformers new movie – much better and mind-blowing than I ever thought and the robots were so real, they look alive and really love that about this movie. Gotta say I enjoyed the plot line better than the animated movie from 20 years ago... tis true. I grew up with Transformers, watched the series as a kid and the animated movie was one of my favourites, but it wasn't until recently when I saw the animated movie again that I realised how many awesome Autobots died in the movie. Yes, I was rather vague as a child (still am) and those details never hit home with me until now... <_<

For those who haven't seen the animated movie I won't say who dies, but all I'll say is 'what the..?' How could they kill off, in my opinion, some of the best characters so early in the movie? I am watching the original series at the moment in drips and drabs and not sure whether the series will hold my interest once series 3 begins – as these are the events after the movie has taken place. I honestly thought the animated movie was a once off and didn't tie into the series directly, much like many of the DBZ movies, okay not counting Dead Zone.

I have been thinking too of when the new Transformers movie was made, (yes, my mind changes often and in other directions) why the studio didn't get Peter Cullen (THE voice of Optimus Prime from the cartoon and movie) to do the voice for Ironhide as well? The studio spent something like 40 million on making the robots and GM sponsored 3 million for having their cars featured, so why not spend abit extra and get Ironhide to be voiced how he originally was? Seeing as the studio already have the voice actor for Optimus on board… wouldn’t it be simpler to have Peter do more recording (which I have read the voice actors have spent extra studio time for additional material for the dvd release - this coming from Mark Ryan who did Bumblebee, shame he didn't have more lines but he did make cute sounds) for Ironhide than pay an additional person to do him? Or perhaps they wanted a more gruff/tough image for Ironhide and thought Peter’s voice wouldn’t suit, I don’t know but I think it’s sad. But holy hand grenades! I watched a short interview of Peter Cullen talking about his role in the new game and it is so cool to see Optimus’ voice coming out of a older gentlemen and of course he said ‘Autobots, transform and roll out’ hehe.

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Okay, I guess I’m whinging about Ironhide, but I do have a soft spot for him (especially the cartoon version of him..?) even though I love Bumblebee and must say he is awesome as a Camaro... couldn’t really imagine a bug going against Barricade hehe.. but I think the Camaro suits; I know it was just a way to get publicity for the new Camaro release but eh, still love Bumblebee… and I do fancy one of those new Camaros <-- publicity doesn’t work on me :-p

I must say I have really gotten into the whole Transformer hype and have bought a copy of the prequel from ebay – just paid for it so I expect it in around 14 days (overseas shipping to Australia from US), apparently the prequel explains how Bumblebee lost his voice and that there was some big fight between him and Megatron? I don’t really know, just going on what I have read online, but I am looking forward to it.

For now, I am content to watch me series, reminisce the movie through watching the trailers and waiting for the dvd release to come out – there better be a special edition dvd *shakes fist* Have heard that it should be out around Chrissy time here for us and then a new wave of merchandising with ensure. BTW in regards to the series, in the 2nd series there’s an episode called ‘Auto bop’ and it’s officially one of my top fave episodes – main characters are Tracks and Blaster who investigate a series of hypnotised humans doing strange things...