Movie Megatron Concept Art

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:47 pm

Michael Bay will make that thing rumbling with Optimus Prime in the middle of a city street spectaculr!

Post by **Kaylee** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:02 am

Professor Smooth wrote:Michael Bay will make that thing rumbling with Optimus Prime in the middle of a city street spectaculr!

True. Sadly however it's also likely to have no justification in the plot and make absolutely no sense.

"Wha? The previous scene was about Bumblebee tapdancing in a nightclub trying to understand humans- why have we cut to the middle of New York to find Prime and Megatron fighting?? Prime was having a custard pie fight with Jazz a few minutes ago and Megatron was on holiday in the Bahamas!"

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:48 am

Karl Lynch wrote: True. Sadly however it's also likely to have no justification in the plot and make absolutely no sense.

"Wha? The previous scene was about Bumblebee tapdancing in a nightclub trying to understand humans- why have we cut to the middle of New York to find Prime and Megatron fighting?? Prime was having a custard pie fight with Jazz a few minutes ago and Megatron was on holiday in the Bahamas!"

I wish that was the plot of the movie - it'd be more preferable to what has been leaked so far. That way we could call this 'Michael Bay's TF parody" and wait a few more years until I win the lottery and hire Furman and George Lucas to do a REAL TF movie...

(should really start buying those lottery tickets...)

OK. I understand they want REAL looks, and robot faces that can show emotions. Then they make Megs have a face like THIS?!? I can accept the alt mode (heck as many pointed out, Megs was even a big head once) I can even swallow the loss of his trademark cannon... but the face, just looks more like "Alien meets Predator meets Terminator and Jaws drops by to say hello".

When BW came, no wonder that most of the characters' faces were changed on the show (Primal, Dinobot, even Waspinator a bit) , some of the toy's faces were so monstrous you could hardly accept them as transformers (and are part of the reason why I don't collect BW). Judging by the laughably low prices of BW toys everywhere, and the fact that Hasbro quickly brought back the more 'robotic' designed faces, you could see most of the fandom preferred the 'old-style' faces, which even some robots like BW Megs had.

With today's technique, why can't they explain it - if they so badly want it to be real - that TFs have some hard but bendable polymer 'skin' on their face that is moved by machinery underneath? We saw how that machinery works when Jhiaxus ripped off half of Prime's face, or Razorclaw Megatron's.

This, this 'lotsa plates' and the teeth, is just silly. And more so, too scary. Megatron can be scary with his G1 face too... a good writer can make even Rumble scary. I guess they are missing in that department...

So far I hoped that while the story would be crap, at least the CGI action will be cool... now I guess we'll see lots of plates moving, and that's that.

Did you read what Murphy said? Guy makes me laugh, he's simply patethic as he still tries to assure as that 'we listen to fans'. After Seibertron (quite understandibly) made their front page a montage about what Megs SHOULD look like, Murphy made a post on his forum.

http://www.seibertron.com/news/view.php?id=8218

And umm, all the talk that 'these are in early phases, they will evolve"?

Suuure. Like we haven't seen the actual statues they use for the movie... or Hasbro just starts working on toy models of movie characters that are in early phases of design? Suuure.

They can't change this back to look even remotlely like Transformers. Heck, I'm not a G1 purist, I buy any TF I like, but these don't remotely look like any of the newest toys like Cybertron. Even the new fans will have a hard time accepting Megs...

Btw, this is funny... in a sad way. Ah whatever...:

http://www.seibertron.com/news/view.php?id=8271

Autobot 420 · Post by **Autobot 420** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:08 am

I really think that the way they have designed the cons' is beacuse the're evil. and in there eyes evil means they have to look like alien monsters that will EAT YOUR BRAINS!!!

On a slightly differen't note did any one read the discription of what Jazz is going to look like? personally I think he will be the best looking of them all, but I won't hold my breath on that.
aaahh.... I can see it now:
artist- "sir i finished the design for Jazz I think it's really good"
movie exec "ok let's see here...... WHAT this looks just like the real Jazz burn this picture and start over and when I come back I want to see a BAYformer not a Transformer damn it!"
artist "yes sir and thank you for not using the fire hose on me again"
movie exec "oh that reminds me guards! get the hose!"

Post by **snarl** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:57 am

Megatron looks like ****.

This is going to be ****.

[composite word including 'f*ck'] them up their stupid ******* asses.

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:27 pm

Yes, Megatron is c***. balls. ass. pants. stupid. bad.

80% of me wants to go cry in the corner that we're still a year away, and they're alreaady screwing up the movie.

but 20% of me still holds out slight hope. They may have dropped the ball, set it on fire, and kicked it into the dirt when it comes to Megatron, but......

You know who I think designed that Megatron? It's staring at us right in front of our faces, but no one wants to mention it. Who stands to benefit most from Megatron's deformtiy?

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:35 pm

I like what Josh has done with it tho.

http://forums.idwpublishing.com/cgi-bin ... =21;t=1682

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:24 pm

War Within Movie Megatron. Nice!

I hate this Megatron design as much as the next fan, but I can see where the concept probably comes from, and it's something that hasn't been explored in the past.

I'd say that what they've done is taken the basic concept of two warring sides that have been fighting for millions of years to a conclusion where they would have developed technologies that would differ, to the point where they themselves would develop differences in their behaviour and appearance: Decepticons into all-out war machines and Autobots into maybe more defensive or protective forms.

Or maybe I'm just reading far too much into it and the Decepticons are just "scary=bad"

Post by **snarl** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:44 pm

They've made it like this because they are clueless mug *****.

Simple as.

I will avoid this **** like the plague, it's not TF, it is bad AIDS.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:34 am

Josh - amazing work as usuall, and then u hit it my head with it.... I can see Bay at work now...

"so whats the idea behind the bad,dark megatron?"

- " Not sure boss, weve been looking at other movies and stuff for insperation, and essentially whats been making the $"

"Oh good show, dont worry about them looking like TF concentrate on the $"

- "ok I got it"

*looks* "i like it, Batman returns meets Transformers!" - perfect...

- "No Mr.B, thats actually Batmans new battle suit for the BR.2 - thats not Mega..."

"this is brillant, the kids will love it, the TF fans wont know what hit em, and if they dont go crabby ill just stick that fat cu** on them, to 'explain they havent seen anything'...when they have..."

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:25 am

Shanti418 wrote: You know who I think designed that Megatron? It's staring at us right in front of our faces, but no one wants to mention it. Who stands to benefit most from Megatron's deformtiy?

BB Shockwave · Post by **BB Shockwave** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:49 pm

Your logic is sound... I admit it. I did it!