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02-28-2007, 12:37 PM
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#1 | | More cowbell, dammit! Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 34 Location: Winnipeg - yes, THAT Winnipeg Collection Count: How many do you want me to have? | Is 5FOD really TFTM2?
On the latest release of TFTM, Flint Dille says that a lot of the ideas that wouldn't fit in TFTM ended up in Five Faces of Darkness. That said, I remember hearing the following rumour many years ago and was wondering if anyone else remembers it as well.
Basically, the story I heard was this: while TFTM was in the final stages of production, plans were already being drawn up for a sequel. A plot was developed and a story written. When TFTM didn't perform to expectations at the box office, the idea of a sequel was quickly shelved. But rather than waste the script that had been (or was being) written, the powers that be hacked it into five pieces and turned it into the first five episodes of Season 3.
Does that ring a bell with anyone? | 
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02-28-2007, 02:05 PM
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#2 | | Addicted to candy canes. Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 6,962 Location: Cleveland Collection Count: Not a lot and getting smaller. | FFOD is definitely a sequel, but I don't really recall hearing that rumour. Could be, though. | |
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02-28-2007, 02:06 PM
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#3 | | Combaticon Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,330 News Credits: 4 | No, that can't be right. The time frame is totally wrong - that would mean that the movie (released in August) was deemed a failure, the sequel's script re-written and five whole episodes recorded and animated in... one month, since FFoD premiered in September of that year.
Also, it's been documented in a few actor interviews that FFoD had already begun recording before the recording for the movie itself began. Chris McFeely on Twitter - - Chris McFeely on YouTube
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02-28-2007, 02:14 PM
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#4 | | I ♥ Juri Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 6,020 Location: Dallas Collection Count: 200+ | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Chris McFeely ...and five whole episodes recorded and animated in... one month, since FFoD premiered in September of that year. | Based on the quality of the animation in FFoD, I think it was animated in less than a month. Xbox Live :Adam Smasher | |
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02-28-2007, 03:32 PM
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#5 | | Maximal Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 359 Location: NorCal Collection Count: I lost count a long time ago... | I heard that it was "The Return of Optimus Prime" that was supposed to be the sequel.
Kind of makes more sense to me.
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02-28-2007, 03:48 PM
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#6 | | Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 21,687 Collection Count: 634, excluding test shots & KOs News Credits: 4 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Smasher Based on the quality of the animation in FFoD, I think it was animated in less than a day. | Quoted and corrected for apparent truth.  | |
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02-28-2007, 03:53 PM
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#7 | | Animated tops it all! Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 19,395 Location: Somewhere beyond the sea... Collection Count: ...Somewhere waiting for me... News Credits: 1 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by AutobotSDG I heard that it was "The Return of Optimus Prime" that was supposed to be the sequel.
Kind of makes more sense to me. | It does fit with the feeling left after the movie...
Also Draven, you couldn't be more right.  XBL GT: SPLITTLIP
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02-28-2007, 03:56 PM
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#8 | | One shall stand,... Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2,136 Location: In a van down by the river... Toronto, Canada Collection Count: Too many... News Credits: 1 | Quote: |
Originally Posted by AutobotSDG I heard that it was "The Return of Optimus Prime" that was supposed to be the sequel.
Kind of makes more sense to me. | That would also make more sense to me. On a personal level, I always felt that More than Meets the Eye, Ultimate Doom, and Five Faces of Darkness would have worked well as full length movie features ( not for the theatres - but more for today's direct-to-dvd era) - especially Ultimate Doom.  | |
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02-28-2007, 04:41 PM
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#9 | | I voted for Super_Megatron and all I got was this stupid user title. Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 11,732 Location: Lansing Michigan Collection Count: 486 News Credits: 2 | Quote: |
I heard that it was "The Return of Optimus Prime" that was supposed to be the sequel.
| It is. in fact, the VHS release of it flat out says so on the back of the box. "in this action packed sequel to transformers the movie!" or something like that. | |
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02-28-2007, 05:25 PM
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#10 | | More cowbell, dammit! Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 34 Location: Winnipeg - yes, THAT Winnipeg Collection Count: How many do you want me to have? | Quote: |
Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP It does fit with the feeling left after the movie...
Also Draven, you couldn't be more right. | Yeah, I always thought that FFOD had the same kind of feel and "epic" quality as TFTM (animation notwithstanding). The only minor nitpick I have is that the fifth and final episode seemed a little anticlimactic when compared to the Movie. But you have to keep things in perspective - how do you top a planet that eats other planets? A galaxy that eats other galaxies? | |
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