Movie Megatron Concept Art

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:18 pm

Emphasis on concept - not final...

http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=24276

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:23 pm

Woah.

Goes without saying that that doesn't look like any sort of Megatron in way shape or form. But it's certainly interesting.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:27 pm

It looks like a cross between one of the Cylons off of the new BSG (and maybe the old one, I can't remember) and Swamp Thing.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:28 pm

Ah, but does it know that it's a Cylon?

Scraplet · Post by **Scraplet** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:40 pm

Hmm. If it was for any other film, I'd say 'cool'. Its definitly an interesting design, and obviously original for a TF.

BUT...what is the point in him transforming into a screwed-up, vaugly jet-shaped, spikey-thing. Not much of a disguise, is it! Which hints further to the fact the transforming will just be a wow-factor in this film, rather than any significant contribution to the plot and motivations of the Tfs.

I can understand the cinematic reasons as to why the Decepticons should look monstrous, but to have them being so radically different from the Autobot seems wrong. They are supposed to have a common origin and everything.....

Ah well. They toy will look good. Pointless, but good.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:42 pm

Give it a cannon and I'll be fine with it. Keep it looking like that and...I'll see it anyway.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:50 pm

There's always the chance it's his Cybertronian form...

This:
http://flickr.com/photos/lights/218635246/

looks a bit like the concept art, and is seemingly coated in ice... so there's a chance that it's an early pre-upgrade form... ?

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:54 pm

Professor Smooth wrote: Keep it looking like that and...I'll see it anyway.

That's the spirit!

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:55 pm

I don't think there will be an upgrade.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:17 pm

This is going to be a film about robots that transform - strange aliens that just do anything with cool sliding transforming bits.

the Only thing that will tie it to 'Transformers' TM is some place holder names.

That megatron looks great - what on earth it has to do with megatron, or anything else is beyond me.

rubbish.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:49 pm

huh.

I swear i have kicked this guys ass in Soul Calibre...

I think the thing that i don't quite get is that... well, i just don't see the need to go that far from the original concepts, Don and EJ Su have already proven that you can update these ideas to 'work' without losing too much of the spirit of the original, so this vast departure from what most people think of as TFs just seems unneccessary.

Then again, i wasn't originally a fan of organic web shooters...

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:53 pm

So far, the only thing that even remotely resembles anything specific to Transformers is Prime's head. And that's it.

You could label this the new Gobots movie . You could label it the new Robotix. You could label it the new Gundum.

I was expecting this to not be our Transformers, but to this degree???

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:04 pm

Yeah, I've gotta say, I'm pretty worried about these designs. I don't want to push the panic button, but my finger is hovering.

What Emmerich did to Godzilla Bay is doing to Transformers.

Dead Head · Post by **Dead Head** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:18 pm

Yaya wrote:So far, the only thing that even remotely resembles anything specific to Transformers is Prime's head. And that's it.

I was expecting this to not be our Transformers, but to this degree???

Quoted for truth.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:48 pm

Shanti418 wrote: What Emmerich did to Godzilla Bay is doing to Transformers.

I pray this is not an accurate comparison. Because what they did to Godzilla....I still haven't recovered.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:10 pm

exactly what yaya said.

These robots could be anything, from any sci-fi from any place. Why such a massive departure?

look at that Optimus model - there was loads of talk about the robots looking 'real' - ok no mass changing etc... but these new robots dont even look like thier alt modes, the only way I can work out how they transform is that they have hundreds of tiny sliding panels - im sure that will look really nifty in special effects but it doesnt convey large bulky robots to me.

im thinking all the effects will look like a cross between gundam style bots and Mistques skin 'transformation' from x-men...

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:33 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:
im thinking all the effects will look like a cross between gundam style bots and Mistques skin 'transformation' from x-men...

I think you're on to something there. I mean, the only possible way for that Megatron to transform would be the way Mystique "transformed" in X-men, as you say.

Might as well be called "Morphers".

Autobot 420 · Post by **Autobot 420** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:26 pm

Wow...... just wow. I thought it couldn't get any worse than Starscream, but I was wrong. serously what the F*** is that, that is NOT Megatron!

They want ther TF's to look "real" ok fine, but don't make them look sentinals from the Matrix.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:52 am

That's SO not Megatron! Megatron is a gun! Or a tank! Or a sports car. Or a stealth bomber. Or a T-Rex. Or a robot T-Rex. Or a dragon. Or a fist. Or a jet. Or a batmobile looking racer.

You know what, Megatron's looked so different over the past 20 years, I'm really not in a position to complain.

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:15 am

But you could tell he transformed in all of those things. This crap is more a metamorph or Terminator 4

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:29 am

Action Master Megatron? RiD Megatron? How about Megabolt Megatron?

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 5:41 am

Professor Smooth wrote:Action Master Megatron?

Didnt transform and you know why g1 tfs ended in Usa right?

RiD Megatron?

At least half of the things you could tell.

How about Megabolt Megatron?

Maybe, but he didnt look like badly put Play doh

Here is my suggestion for Megatron:

He transforms to a napkin and to robot and back!

Obvious isnt it?

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:20 am

yes, and here is the movie's current WIP for Devastator

i mean, why the hell not?

don't get me wrong, that's a mighty fine looking alien robot... looks nothing like a transformer at all, in anyway... at all.

Post by **Best First** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:34 am

uh, i quite like Devestator...

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:09 pm

Well guys, you do know that officials from both the movie and Hasbro have both said that this stuff is "early conceptuals that will change a lot before they're finished".

So I'm thinking that it might be a similar phenomenon to Transtech/Armada, whereas all tho some elements where continued into the Armada, they were so heavily modified that they were only barely recognisable from the alien beings of Transtech.

Am I the only one still thinking positive enough to still hope for this?

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:40 pm

I doubt your going to see a complete change tho to be honest, a few extra panels here and there perhaps.

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:27 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:I doubt your going to see a complete change tho to be honest, a few extra panels here and there perhaps.

I would like that those few panels to fall onto the creators of that aberration (and them being a couple of tons heavy).

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:21 pm

I was looking at a street lamp today, and you know what it reminded me of?

You guessed it.

Megatron.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:23 pm

Surely that's an insult to street lamps.

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:18 pm

I dunno, I don't think it's too bad, obviously nothing like any Megatron seen before. Looks more like the Guyver.