Great interview. I'd have liked to hear more about his "Spock Screams" credit in Star Trek III: The Search For Spock that was alluded to here. Why does he have to do screams for Leonard Nimoy & Michael Jackson? Are they too busy to do it?

 

Off-Topic: Speaking of old VAs and Spider-man's Amazing Friends, does anyone else think that bay should have contacted Dan Gilvezan for Movie Bumblebee?

Or anyone else, actually. Movie Bumblebee sounds like an old man, which doesn't fit for being the youthful Autobot sidekick to Spik--err, Sam...

 

TFW:
Also, have you succeeded in making Mr. Cullen squirt water from his nose yet?

Welker:
Yes, and I am damn proud of it!!

CAN... DIE... HAPPY...

 

This was an email interview, and as such, most spelling, wording and grammar has been left unchanged.

 

The perfect answer to these types of questions. No offence, but I've never understood why fans like to ask this, given that for pretty much all voice actors, these sorts of roles were among hundreds of roles on various shows they would have performed on at the time. What could they possibly say?

"Yes, 25 years ago, I totally foresaw that by the year 2009, Transformers would become a successful multi-billion dollar franchise."

 

Awesome interview. Great job Aernaroth, and many thanks to Frank for taking the time to speak with us.

 

Just reading Part 2 of the interview thats why I like Frank he's funny and being a professional at the same time. Awesome interview.

 

  I can so agree with that!  

 

Great interveiw, great stuff. Looking forward to the next one.

 

A very pleasant read. He seems like a real class act.

 

that was it only two parts

 

Well who knows, with all the stories we heard about how great and fun the recording sessions were, maybe some of these VAs got the feeling that it was more than just another job, you know, something that would endure a little longer than Inhumanoids or Silverhawks.

 

It's not that they're "too busy" but that they don't want to do it. They know it will blow their voice out.

It's the same reason that stand-ins are hired for movie/TV shoots so the "celebrities" don't have to stand there for an hour or two for all the technical stuff.

 

I figured as such, but unless it was asked in advance by the agent/mgr to leave it unchanged journalists are normally allowed to make changes and corrections for the sake of clarity as long as it's noted properly.

Either that, or if you do need to make those kind of corrections you can always clear them with the agent/mgr/interviewee. It's fairly standard media protocol for email interviews.

So, no follow-up on Welker's hint ("more on that later") that he was still involved in the TF franchise?

 

I'm afraid that was all he said, so we'll all have to wait.

Some minor edits, including a few typos, were made. Mr. Paulsen's name was missed, however, as I did not realize his name was spelt differently. I chose to leave as much as I could unchanged to try and preserve what I could of the "character" of the email, for lack of a better term.

 

Great second half. Thank you to everyone who was involved with the interview (Good questions  ) and Thank you Frank Welker for participating.

 

Great review, Aernaroth! Thanks to you and Frank for doing this for us.

And I hope Bay really is persuing Welker for ROTF Soundwave. It shouldn't even matter if his voice has aged, since it will be run through some kind of processing and they can always "tweak" it then.

 

This bit alone made my day. It's just such a perfect answer to everything behind that voice.
But it relieves me to know Frank is still well connected to megatron; despite the hundreds or thousands of other roles he's done. Granted he's had to do it lately for the Seth Mcfarlene shows and the movie game.

Here's hoping Frank Welker makes the movie game sequel (as Megatron) and Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen: movie (as Soundwave) *cheers*

Great review, Aernaroth! It's not easy to keep your cool in front of a living legend.
I'd just be to nerdy to get that job done.

 

It's a little easier when you can hide behind a computer, but between you, me, and the rest of the internet, I'd be lying if I didn't say I felt it was a privilege to do this, and that I wasn't just as nerdy as you'd be.