Transformers: One - New Animated Prequel coming September 20th, 2024 - New Toy Official Images!

Undead Scottsman

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Oh, yeah, I forgot about needing robots...it was hard for me to see them due to all the shaking cameras. I guess there were some humans in the movie too. I mistook them for cardboard standups, which wouldn't be free either...

Edit: Point of annoyance, why for the anniversary didn't they take the absolute cheapest possible way out and just return the original animated movie to theaters in limited showings? It's already made, DECADES old, and has a built in fan base that will show up to watch it anyway even if they/we CAN recite almost all of it from memory including the nearly unintelligible Junkion bits? Heck, make a double feature with Transformers One, and call it 'Anniversary Bookending' or something...You can see the rise, death, rebirth, and death again of Optimus Prime in one go! Or take the original movie and make a bonus by showing The Return of Optimus Prime right after. No matter how, it's guaranteed money for almost no 'new' outlay.

The original film is returning to theaters later this year. Isn't the first time, either.
 

LBD "Nytetrayn"

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The original film is returning to theaters later this year. Isn't the first time, either.
For some reason, I read that as "The original film is threatening to return to theaters later this year."

...don't know where that came from.
 

Sabrblade

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Optimus's death really must have been that traumatizing.
 
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LBD "Nytetrayn"

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Honestly, I thought it was talking about the first Bay movie.

I think the mainstream has tainted my mind with regards to what "the original Transformers" movie means when people say it.

Or I just need to learn how to read.

Yeah, you'd think I'd have that knocked before becoming a moderator on one of these things, wouldn't you?
 

Steevy Maximus

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Yeah, you'd think I'd have that knocked before becoming a moderator on one of these things, wouldn't you?
Or maybe they saw a big sucker who’ll do free work :p


Sadly, “the original Transformers movie” is probably more apt to be the first Bay one depending on how the next one goes as time goes on. It HAS been TWENTY YEARS since that film came out…
 

NovaSaber

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Calling the 1989 Batman movie "the first one" became a lot less common after Batman Begins came out.
And I don't just mean the Tim Burton ones became less remembered, I mean I think the 1966 one actually gets more acknowledgment now than it did 30 years ago.

Maybe if Bumblebee had actually been fully acknowledged as the reboot that it works better as (IE if Lorenzo di Bonaventura would just answer story questions with "I don't decide that, so stop asking me" instead of saying jive the writers and directors probably wouldn't agree with), nobody would consider the 2007 Transformers movie to be "the first" of anything other than the Michael Bay series.
 

Sabrblade

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To casual movie-going audiences, no theatrical Transformers movie ever existed before 2007.

To us fans, the first theatrical Transformers movie came out in 1986.

But what both have in common is that they so often overlook what was the actual second Transformers movie ever released theatrically:
BeastWarsSpecialJapanesePosterArt01.jpg
 

CoffeeHorse

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Calling the 1989 Batman movie "the first one" became a lot less common after Batman Begins came out.
And I don't just mean the Tim Burton ones became less remembered, I mean I think the 1966 one actually gets more acknowledgment now than it did 30 years ago.

I swear the Tim Burton ones aged poorly but then at some point they started aging really well. They're kinda great.
 

LordGigaIce

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'89 is still great but I think Forever laps Returns, myself.

As far as Transformers go, it's all contextual. If I'm talking to Transformers fans and someone says "the first one," I can reasonably assume they mean TFTM from 1986 (unless the convo is Bayverse specific).

If I'm talking to someone who's not a fan of this stuff, however, and they say "the first Transformers movie," then I can reasonably assume they mean '07.
 

Superomegaprime

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The art in that video beats a lot of today's art, but then the 1950s & 60s along with the 70s were trying to present a optmistic future full of hope and joy, from the 90s onwards it was pretty much presenting dark bleak futures, for the most part
 


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