Yes wishful thinking for megatron to look like TF Prime Megatron... can't wait to see him in action

 

No thank you

 

The last kight megatron has elements from tfp megatron

 

i agree, and it reported that Megatron will transform into a fighter jet.

 

I do prefer that design, but it looks more like a gladiator, while in TLK, they're going for more of a knight look.

 

I actually feel like the TLK design is everything the TFPrime design tried to be but btter.

 

Personally, no thanks. I absolutely hate that kind of caricature-ish and exaggerated look that is so prevalent in cartoons nowadays. The unrealistically wide upper torso on a very slender middle torso, unbalanced limbs, etc. Just like Buzz Lightyear with his obscenely large chin.

To me, that style does not reflect what a mechanical alien lifeform (if one hypothetically exists) could possibly look like. More like what a caricaturist in a theme park would draw for you for 5 bucks.

I'm not saying the movie aesthetic is the best ever, but out of all the Transformers aesthetics, I find it the most believable in its setting. Of course, this is all personal taste, and others are free to disagree.

 

If anything he does look the most like that...

 

I think he does ... more than people realize actually ...

I have noticed similarities not just in the chest, like everyone already pointed out, but also in the shoulders, the abdomen and the arms

 

I never was a big fan of the Transformer Prime Megatron design. Of course I wasn't a fan of the Transformers Prime designs in general, I watched for the story and the characters.

 

What's you're preference Ash?

 

I've seen some modern art work where the G1 designs have been pimped out and updated that look really nice. I also liked that War for Cybertron look as well.

But I'm also open to new looks so I sort of have to test drive a look before I can say hey I really like this look or darn this isn't exactly my cup of tea. Sort of how I open to giving the Transformers Prime look a chance before making up my mind. I didn't hate the Transformers Prime look it's just that it really didn't click for me like I would have hoped and for some reason I kept getting distracted by the lack of noses. So the Transformers Prime look was somewhere in the middle between I don't hate it but I don't really love it either.

 

While I don't agree with... almost everything said here and find it very hyperbolic, I do agree that a more sylized, cartoony design wouldn't work in live-action.

In fact, that's one of the reasons I'm so over the TFPrime aesthtic as this TFA-lite, kinda-movies-but-not take. Cartoony deisgns belong in a cartoony reality where the laws of physics become rubbery and the mundane becomes dynamic. Prime's designs never sit well with me in motion because they're designed with animated-like proportions, exaggerated features and sweeping, curved postures, but rendered far too rigid. They look like super expressive, bendy cartoons, but move like awkward, clunky robots. (no pun intended) In TFA, when Prime bends his arm, the entire thing bends to go from straight arm to curved flexing arm. Unless you're Disney/Pixar (and even then, they're not immune to this) CGI models drawn to look like cartoons rarely feel like cartoons, or even look all that great. Sometimes it can look downright awful. (RIP 2016 Berserk anime)

It's funny, because the movies actually do give their robots very unrealistic, inhuman proportions. The original Movie Prime is rockin' borderline Hajime Katoki legs that go on forever compared to his relatively short and wide torso. Starscream is... Starscream of course, but even Bumblebee has inhumanly stout proportions. But this is where the polarizing complexity of the designs helps, since they are anything but rigid in their movements. Everything shifts and slides out of the way, though. The lack of solid body parts actually helps.

And this brings us back to Megatron, who is practically the TFPrime design in all but low surface detail and tiny head. And for the better. It evokes the same strongman proportions, as well as the gladitorial curved and pointy armour, but reigns in the stylization just enough to feel appropriate, if not very realistic. It's one of the reasons it's one of my favourite movie designs. It's classy in its balance of stylized and gritty chunk. Plus, thanks to the complexity, this Megatron can bend his arm without it really obviously clipping through his bicep.   They kinda looked like giant toys.

tl;dr, the movie aesthetic, current and OT, may not be for everyone, but it is at least a functional one, which I don't feel like the TFPrime one really was.

My condolences.

Well, when they include virtually every other aspect of a face, not having anything that approximates a nose to fill in that blank space right smack in the center of the face is bound to be distracting. Even TFA gave them little cat noses/helmet things to have something there for the majority of them.

 

I prefer to see his old self again, with proper hands and a cannon too.

 

The irony is that TFP's design seems to draw from the movieverse designs.

 

Yea that is one of the big leaps that movies or even TV has to do when they make the leap from a cartoon to live action. What looks great in the cartoon isn't always going to look good in live action. That's why we see so many changes to the superhero costumes in the movies even when the studio wants a design that is going to be instantly recognizable and invokes the classic elements of a design.

It makes it hard to know what sort of changes they would have to make if they wanted something from a cartoon. Even when Hasbro wanted a movie looking Lugnut we don't know if that is how the designers on the movie would have gone with Lugnut.

 

He actually kinda does with the concept art we've seen. . .

 

Megatron should look like this

 

and Lockdown head should look like this

 

This I like! It looks real and believable as a sentient robot that transformed from a vehicle.

And I would have preferred this too over the movie Lockdown we got. While still a human face, the splintered nature breaks up the silhouette and makes it less obvious.