Hrmmmm

 

My sentiments exactly. I still praise the Decepticons in that movie and the fight scenes during it all, but yeah. It was an amazing olive branch to older fans who were so burnt out from the movies.

 

The fact that they quietly tossed Travis Knight away after expressing that he had ideas for future movies tells us there is probably a deliberate reason why he's not in charge this time around. Maybe Paramount execs didn't feel like they had much control with Travis around.

 

So...some of you guys wanna Wheeljack be like this ?

 

Depends on the ass.
I’ve checked out some nice asses in my time.
This ain’t one of them.

 

Here's something no one wants to see

Sexy Urkle

 

10/10, would smash.

 

You notice they kept him out of the trailer, always obscured

 

Respect

 

maybe with enough complaints we can get them to atleast gives us a proper head, like how there were enough complaints to change sonics look from that horrible looking creature...

 

kind of gives me perceptor vibes

 

PREACH.

yeah man, Bay is a right villain and just a real all-around asshole (especially from watching interviews of him… side tangent: been watching all James Cameron’s interviews this week, now that man may swear a lot and be brash too, but damn if he isn’t an upstanding guy with respect for film/his peers/and fiction as a whole) but I think Lorenzo has been the Palpatine here all along…

I have little doubt he’s probably sitting there in meetings cackling like a f***ing maniac: “bwahaha put the glasses on it! Omg that’s so dumb, and funny!!11!! I love it! These dumb ass Transformers fans will eat whatever we serve them”  

 

I honestly love Wheeljack’s design. Nightbird is a little disappointing, I was hoping her Alt mode would be colored better.
My question is, is gold plastic syndrome still a thing to be worried about?

 

WELL FUCK THAT DUDE.

 

And I am here for it  

 

Lorenzo's presumably still pissed his attempts to thwart the Nolan Batman movies failed, and's been living off the feeling of absolute control over the Transformers film IP since then....

 

God i hope so, otherwise im gonna be upset because HEY this is a sequel to the BB movie

 

it really isn't a thing anymore.

also this is just the simple deluxe, not the studio series toy if that matters to you.

 

Smash

 

So...

Here's the thing.

Directors are gonna direct. Lorenzo is going to be Lorenzo.

Hasbro is not like DC Comics or Marvel Comics here, a beholden little subsidiary with no budget and no cashflow outside of big entertainment and licensing to other people. And Transformers is not a brand that needs a movie to justify its retail footprint.

Hasbro could say no. Hasbro could make demands. These demands don't have to be nostalgia-based. They could simply be rooted in characters from the last movie looking like characters from the last movie because this is a sequel.

And demands don't have to be dictatorial. You can have quid pro quo and play here.

Kevin Feige was brought in because James Gunn wanted Ego the Living Planet for Guardians 2. Ego's rights were with Fox. Fox wanted to change Negasonic Teenage Warhead's powers in Deadpool. They needed Feige's approval. He signed off but only in exchange for Ego's rights. "Give me this or I won't sign off."

Another time, Sony wanted to set Venom and Morbius in the same universe as their Spider-Man movies. Feige told them they couldn't have Marvel Studios characters appear in Spider-Man movies anymore if they did that. "You can do this but we won't cooperate."

Paramount had demands on every Star Trek movie. And the head of CBS Consumer Products brokered all kinds of deals between CBS and Paramount when Star Trek's rights were split. For all three Chris Pine movies, Paramount had rights to the past movies but not the shows. So every little cameo by a TV series-only character like one Admiral at the end of the 2009 movie or reference to Harry Mudd had to be approved by CBS Consumer Products. And he made demands in exchange for allowing those: how they were done, that they made sense, and if CBS wanted something as a tradeoff.

I guarantee you if Paramount signed off on Ninja Turtles or Star Trek characters showing up on Power Rangers that they'd have terms about how it's done and how they keep the tone right and how they all benefit beyond a check being cut. And Paramount would have a lifelong Trekkie in the room negotiating that stuff for them as a licensor dealing with a licensee.

So why doesn't Hasbro essentially have a Transformers forum poster on staff whose job it is to rein in Lorenzo and keep the brand consistent? Someone who can say, "Wheeljack can't look like that" or "You can have a character who looks like that and here's a list of names you can call him based on my research of the 900 characters in our portfolio."

I don't blame the director. Those guys can be finger painters when it comes to brand integrity. I don't blame the producer. He's doing what he's done for decades.

But Hasbro could say, "We're not going to sign off on this." The licensor's job is to me the grownup who makes rules for the kids during recess.