Welcome Mr. Roberto Orci, you may ask him questions

Originally Posted by Buzzbeak

Please to not restate questions

Originally Posted by Smasher

Is it wrong that I ask my wife to be more like Poho?

Originally Posted by Fit For natalie

For the love of God, don't man! Most fan-made characters by writers who aren't professional (and even some pro writers for officially licensed stories) tend to be self-insertiony, all-powerful mary sues or brooding loner stereotypes.

Plus, fanfic is never well-known enough amongst our broad and scattered fandom for the inclusion of such a fan-made character to even register in the minds of an entire forum of people. It would be a wasted gesture on a handful of people, and of course, the fan author.

Transformers has plenty of characters and character archetypes (and importantly, trademarked names Hasbro holds and can use for merchandise) that you guys can pick from, or hell, create a new character and give them an existing name. Hasbro has been doing that for years.

Originally Posted by Nevermore

Are those working names, or are you working with them under the assumption that they will remain the final names in the actual movie?



I agree with this. Fan-made characters are, for the most part, ill-defined "characters" that fall AT LEAST into one of the following categories:
1) The writer, as he views himself, as a robot
2) Super awesome hardcore unbeatable badass motherf***er (read: Wolverine)
3) Both of the above.

With literally HUNDREDS of established Transformers characters, there's not exactly a need to reach for fan-made characters for lack of other options.

And if you insert a character created by fan X, rest assured that fans Y, Z and DOZENS of other fans will complain that you used that one fan's character instead of theirs.

Not Worth It.

Originally Posted by Buzzbeak

I agree. Fan made characters and character original to the comic are not recognizable to the passive fan or the guy who had Transformers as a kid and is now bringing his kids to the movie. I say focus on established characters there are loads of them.

We don’t know exactly who the title Revenge of The Fallen is referring to exactly yet. Personally I’m hoping it’s a metaphor and not the character.

Originally Posted by Sso02V

Man, you guys really hate fan characters. Like, screaming it from the rooftops hate. If they throw some fan a bone by including a bot they made doing some menial task in the background, is it really that bad? Like I said earlier, it's not like they're going to be saving the day and becoming the new Allspark and wielding a keyblade and going out with Sweeny Todd.

Originally Posted by Smasher

Is it wrong that I ask my wife to be more like Poho?

Originally Posted by Poho

i see what you did there.

Originally Posted by DragonCrash

Unfortunately I'm a n00b to the site...but not to the franchise! Mr. Orci, I'm hoping if you have sufficient time/amount of peace this may possibly be answered. Maybe.

Allright, here's my bit: Do you already have names for the vehicles you're using during the shooting? Say, the infamous ice cream truck. If you want it to be taken from Point A to Point B, do you just call out, "Bring the ice cream truck over here!" or does it have its own Autobot or Decepticon name that you call it by? Or even a codename?

Thanks for reading/answering/whatever you have time to do.

Originally Posted by FreddyGruesum

1 - maybe they coulda felt the need to transform into dinosaur robots to defend themselves against other dinosaurs or sumthing. Just a thought!

2 - any more car chases? and longer too! cuz I remember Bay mentionning his car chases in the TF movie were gonna be more memorable than that one in Bad BOys 2 and although it was in terms of visual effects considering it contained transforming robots, the chase part seemed very short. Any car chase involving vehicles transforming to robots then merging back to vehicle in a matter of sseconds to avoid cars and shit like that?

Originally Posted by Veloxiraptor

More than one person has asked here if we'll find out about Barricade's fate in the second movie, but that's been covered in the Reign of Starscream comics (which I'd imagine are intended to be canonical).

Though Arcee is the major Autobot in those comics, and it doesn't show her going to Earth...