God that made me laugh!

Anywho, Nizzi is the shizzy. His work is amazing. A blend of those two tank bots could have easily been a replacement for "Bulldog." He still looked ok at best, but what we got was a transformation with "me bits falleen uff" and Edmund explaining a bit about him, but said clunker of a robot stealthily transforms back to tank form with no fuss or noise. Plus no parts scattered around him! Fucking editors

 

After looking at that Mohawk concept, i would have loved and perfered to have seen a sword dance between Drift & Mohawk

 

MOHAWK looks good ... I wanted a deluxe of him badly /

 

Calling it now: There were, in fact, meant to be two tank bots in the scene at the 'robot retirement home'. One the allied tank, the other the axis one. And they both 'suffered from robot dementia' and believed they were still in WW1, and were fighting with each other.

It'd certainly explain why the hell Bulldog fired at Bumblebee and Mark Wahlberg. Because that makes no sense as is, none whatsoever, but it does if you imagine there was an 'evil' german robot near them.

This movie is starting to feel more and more like it was a mess of ideas.

 

All that money spent on awesome concept art only to get shitted on and left out of the movie... What a waste

 

Crap now I want a Mohawk figure even more than before! Why did they waste such fun characters by putting them on screen for only a few minutes?!

 

It's clear that there's a whole lot of talent going into this concept art. It's a shame the direction is such garbage. I don't blame the artists for making every damn bot a dumb caricature of a human, but I hope to Primus this aspect of Bayformers is on the chopping block for the Bumblebee Movie and all future films. A tank bot should be cool because he turns into a tank and has a tank barrel for a chest - why does he also need to look like a stereotypical Prussian general? This is especially glaring in light of the attempted approach at realism in the first movie. Yes, we still had gangsta Jazz and whatever Frenzy was, but other that the bot designs were all pretty restrained. And then they just tossed that approach away for the sequels and started throwing in shit like the Twins, redneck Wreckers, Einstein Wheeljack, and yellowface Drift.

Enough is enough. I'm sure most of the concept artists that have been hired could come up with a better approach than what they've been forcefed by the higher ups for the last 8 years. How about letting them do their job and design some aesthetically pleasing transformers that you can actually build a franchise out of.

 

Don't forget wheelie and brains, a lot of fan-favorites died so that they could serve as Michael Bays dying need for comedy.

 

Have to agree. DOTM was the last Bay movie that I genuinely enjoyed. The last two efforts were just a boring slog (AOE) and a disjointed mess (TLK). The creative design talent is there with Nizzi's awesome conceptual work but agreed that the robots looking like stereotypical mechanical humans has to stop (as much as I love Hound). A lot of missed opportunities for longer lasting Decepticon characters outside of Megatron and Barricade.

They could've forgone some of these caricature joke scene tank bots by giving us one with actual personality and presenting an actual threat, like a Bayverse Bludgeon (ironically he even received a Voyager figure in the ROTF toy line). Would've even given Drift a good rival to spar against, since both characters have the samurai obsessed with swords motif going on.

 

Is it ok to have typos on the front page?! They've been updated now, but now there's a couple new ones!

Are the news staff so competitive to get the story first that they don't have time to proof read?

 

Bay really wanted to blow up the Eiffel Tower.

 

I think it has a lot to do with the budget catching up to them forcing the need to trim back on so many of these plans.

That and the insistence that a movie with more plots and characters than AOE had to somehow have a way shorter run time, leaving a lot of stuff on the cutting room floor.

 

Drift's face was meant to evoke a gold samurai mask fitting into his theme of looking like a walking samurai armor. Also ironically while the Wreckers look like Rednecks they act and characterized quite the opposite of what they look with them being ship builders and having Scottish accents.

 

I don't mind the Transformers looking like "stereotypical humans". That concept was used to a pretty great effect in Animated and I think it gives a lot of character to the designs and God knows Movie characters need as much of that as they can get. I much prefer Hound, Crosshairs and Drift's designs to, say, Ratchet and Ironhide. I admit the Wreckers and Wheeljack were a bit odd (although I get the joke), but still.

 

Big tank dude is creepy.

Odd when they use a human\'s profession as the design for the robot.
  
For example a cool Copbot is Robocop or Ed209,  but a Bay copbot would be a robot dude wearing a police hat lol

 

*sigh*

If this was like the RotF days we'd have figures of Mohawk and those WWI tanks....

 

I know right, I never thought that the movies would make so few figures.

 

If they make the WWI and II TANKS. Sold! That would be a nice box set or sold separate. ROTF days \"best\" 
HASBRO MAKE THE TANKS 

 

Makes me want more WW1 stuff now.