They killed Eeyore too!
Transformers the Movie 40th Anniversary Tour
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They killed Eeyore too!
QFT!
The poster's been changed.
Now it resembles foreshadowing to Star Convoy with that tiny Rodimus inside his chest.The poster's been changed.
"You think you got it bad? I'm still alive, only now I'm voiced by Spock!"
Anyway, got tickets for the show, going to see it to report back here on if anything is changed or noteworthy/worth going out of your way for.
Glad they changed the theming, though. That was going to be really awkward.
The gesture and pivot are appreciated.
They probably had this poster and many other pieces on hand just in general, not specifically for this/in case of this, and it's nice work overall -- but the composition is so strange. Not least for how pasted-in Hot Rod/Rodimus looks. There's a quasi-religious iconography vibe to it, between the "wound in his side" and other battle scars and the exposing of the "sacredheart Matrix", that I'm not sure how to feel about.
It IS funny how it avoids minimizing Hot Rod while, uh, minimizing him.
They probably had this poster and many other pieces on hand just in general, not specifically for this/in case of this, and it's nice work overall -- but the composition is so strange. Not least for how pasted-in Hot Rod/Rodimus looks. There's a quasi-religious iconography vibe to it, between the "wound in his side" and other battle scars and the exposing of the "sacred
It IS funny how it avoids minimizing Hot Rod while, uh, minimizing him.
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Chaos-Bringer.
I think it’s a terribly composed poster. Optimus is wearing a silly orange viking helmet and Rodimus looks like he’s a PNG with transparency photoshopped on top of that.
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I mind one of those less than the other. The maw works as a twisted kind of makeshift halo, which combines with the speed(?) lines to form a nimbus -- combining with the other elements to evoke that religious iconography stuff I noted earlier.
Hot Rod/Rodimus just being plopped on there in that way kind of compromises the whole thing. Which is... weirdly on brand for this movie.
Hot Rod/Rodimus just being plopped on there in that way kind of compromises the whole thing. Which is... weirdly on brand for this movie.
Obviously it was put together in a hurry, so I'll cut it some slack. It's better than the last poster at least, and I guess that's all it needs to be.
The Hot Rod IS from the last poster!
(The 35 Anniversary)
It's the art from the cover of the soundtrack rerelease by Matt Ferguson.
I really like it fwiw.
Matt Ferguson has some really good artwork. I bought that Unicron Lobby Card of his a few years back ( https://moorartgallery.com/en-us/pr...JALDZIk0OzQAflu8WwuepEHo8FoHolzcwOxB7Wz6O3SQ6 ), and it is the cherry on top of my Unicron display.
Ferguson does indeed tend to have consistently good art, Transformers and otherwise. It's not always the most striking, but it tends to be solid. This one is too, and there's some good stuff going for it, but also some oddness in the composition.
I like it! They could have drawn Optimus without the battle damage though. Something like this:The poster's been changed.
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Just a Transformers the Movie 40th logo would have sufficed and been respectful. Let's face it, the movie was somewhat marred by death for eighties kids who were lured there to see their favorite characters slaughtered.
So I saw that Target has a huge endcap display with the Apology tour signs all over it.
There is artwork on the sides that isn't visible here.
There is artwork on the sides that isn't visible here.