excellent interview!
I enjoyed every minute of it!

 

I am disapointed he wont be voiceing Soundwave, but as long as he has the vocorder voice, I'll live.

 

ROTF

"Seriously, this makes me not want to see the 2nd movie even more. I know I'll be blasted for being a "Geewunner" but Everytime I see Megs or read a comic with a G1 Megs in it, in my head it's Frank Welker talking. He's the original and everyone else needs to respect that."

I agree and disagree with this statement. As far as the G1 style comics go and what not, absolutely, and the same for Soundwave as well. However, the movie version of Megatron was appropriately voiced by Weaving in my opinion simply because it is a different kind of Megs for a different generation of viewers. Sure, there are certain villainous archetypes that echo of G1 Megatron, but this new one is more of a beastly, grisly, in your face type of baddie than the former.

As for Soundwave, I hope he's voiced by Welker, but by the same token if he isn't I'm sure there's a damn good reason for it.

G1 may be over, but there's no reason to fault anyone for being nostalgic

 

Right, we need to start the TFW2005 Frank Welker and Peter Cullen donation pool to raise money for Masterpiece figures for them and perhaps some others. They can't go on without Transformers!  

 

Sad indeed.

 

Another fabulous interview with the legendary voice actor of Megatron the First himself!

 

Best interview tfw has done in a long time...can't wait for part 2.

 

You're right, Ray Stanz hadn't been voiced in a cartoon before Mr. Welker did it. Still, he was a character that was previously established (as you said, by Dan Aykroyd) who Mr. Welker brought his own personal touch to, as he said. The question was slightly general, so as to include voice roles Mr. Welker has "covered" as well, such as Barney Rubble, Droopy, Dumbo, etc.

Whoa whoa whoa. Hugo Weaving is a perfectly fine actor, and his voicework is top notch, but I wouldn't go as far as to say he's a better voice actor than Frank Welker. Weaving was chosen because Bay wanted to go with a different voice, not because one was better than the other. With posts like this, don't you need to be under a bridge somewhere?

 

You are indeed correct sir,thank you for the response.

 

Very cool interview, looking forward to part two.

 

Lulz.

 

Wow thats just not true. Just honestly most people in VA have unique qualities to there voice that mostly anyone dont have other wise you dont last as long as he did.

on topic though its not a suprise that soundwave is not voiced by him when Hasbro practically forced the hand of Bay to let Cullen voice prime.

He seems to have a personal distaste for anything that came before with his movies. He tries to hard to put his stamp on the material like he is its creator.

That might be why every movie says "By Michael Bay" in big letters next to the title. Keep in mind thats not just this or the first movie.

Not to mention if there is one specific Generation they were to make into a movie its been said already it would be G1 hence why the new movies include G1 characters galore.

But im sure that most will miss that point even though points like yours are absolutely right G1 set the stage for all this.

The funny thing about that quote stating Hugo is a better VA notice welker basically points out that the voice was heavily processed and it could be anybody. And IMO because it was so generic.

 

Without G1 there is nothing else. No movies, no toys, no games, no bedsheets. If G1 is over then why are there so many reissues being made? Then there are classics/universe figures, another reissue of season 1, toothbrushes tshirts and many more products. G1 is far from ever being over

 

It certainly wasn't an effort to replicate Nimoy's Galvatron (as would be consistent with another item in Welker's interview)....

 

This was a nice interview! I'll be looking forward to reading the rest!  

 

Woah. Don't limit Frank Welker to just Transformers. He is admired by people because there is nothing he can't voice. Who else can claim to have voiced Megatron, Soundwave, Rumble, the Gremlins, Nibbler, Santa's Little Helper, Freddy Jones, Scooby-Doo, and Curious George? Not to mention countless animals in The Simpsons series.

 

Cartoonist golf tounament FTW

 

Read my second post, I'm more than aware of his impressive list of roles in TV, I (for the sake of not HAVING to write a two-page report on why I like and dislike what I do) simply said I was not a fan of his voices, and said I think that the voices he's done for TFs are not exactly hard to duplicate. I simply took it as a given that everybody knew that I knew what he's done outside TFs.

Not quite. Half that stuff only came back because the Movie brought back old fans, and so they felt the need to 'bridge the gap" in some way shape or form. (next to none of this stuff was around during, say, Beast Warsm RID or AEC) G1 is over, but over like Beast wars is over. No more cartoon or new toys, but there or homages, reissues, etc. In fact, G1 actually almost killed TFs. Back near and around when Machine Wars was just trying to keep fans around, G1, and at that time, TFs in general, were rapidly fading in the publics intrest. Only the bold new reboot of Beast Wars and other reboots afterwards kept TFs fresh. Think of "G1" as the canvas and art. The art has been washed away to make way for a new picture. The base is still there, but all the dressings, plots and designs get revamped almost completely each time it's time to move on.

 

Yup. I was surprised on both counts.

 

I think that was actually a fairly decent interview. It doesn't have any of that "aww man he's telling it like it is, he's such a badass" feel to it, and I'm glad. He has been doing this for so long, there's few people who should be so seasoned and professional in the field. There wasn't exactly any startling revalations, but it isn't like he even seems in the loop for anything TF related at the moment.

A point of interest, for me, anyways, was how he never actually auditioned. I could have sworn everyone said he auditioned and they just didn't think he was fit for the job. It's also always interesting to hear how someone who was so involved with something we all care about a lot DOESN'T care about it. I mean, he liked the job, but couldn't care less about the state of TF's if a paycheck wasn't involved. I'm not saying that's wrong because that's the way it is with a lot of people, but interesting just the same.