"I'll see you on the scrap pile first, Optimus Prime!"

A great Bumblebee costume

Botcon 2011 saw lots of Transformer cosplay, I think this version of Bumblebee is pretty epic! Who's ready for Dark of the Moon?

3 Awesome Transformer Songs: Theme, Touch and Dare

Youtube videos of Transformers Theme Songs!

You've got the power, you've got the touch!. If you've found The Optimus Prime Experiment, you know you love these three awesome Transformers songs....

Transfomers: Theme by Lion

Where heavy metal meets ahh... metal Robby robots where there's the first more than meets the eye line in a song ever (Velvet Revolver and Faith No More notably used the line).

Recorded by Lion and not White Lion as some people seem to think! The video is prefaced by a advertisment for the best toys of the 80s...

The Touch by Stan Bush

You can watch it in the next video as it played out in the Transformers Movie:

Dare: by Stan Bush

The lesser known of the Stan Bush contributions to the animated Transformers: The Movie but still is an awesome song.

Speaking of that..... The Lover of Lyrax: Book II of the Lament of Lyrax > out now?

Nobody white washes Optimus Prime!

Reposting so this never happens again....

So like I love this picture of Optimus Prime. It's a throw up* piece that I found on the bottom of the steps on Hood Street Street.



As I wandered past it on Saturday I saw some dude was whitewashing the building next to the steps. Sensing the worse, I checked, and sure enouugh the whole wall of graffiti was gone. Just like nobody puts baby in the corner, nobody white washes Optimus Prime!

So here's my appeal - whoever did the stencil, please do it again!!!!

Disclaimer: Like the wise judge in Hastings, Jimmy Jangles does not endorse the practice of tagging on public and private property. Unless its Prime time.

* I learnt that term from watching Mu and the cool kids doing the business on Shortland Street. Not that I watch Shortland Street you understand.

It's Optimus Time !

Check out this wicked 'Optimus Time', a sweet T-shirt design by The Atomic Rocket that I bought.   For those that are like WTF? it's a mix of Back to the Future and the Leader of the Autobots........

Who was the original MP3 player?

Let's face it, Soundwave was always the coolest Decepticon. If he had have been an Autobot, he would have been as popular as Optimus himself.

You can see in the picture below (taken from an early cut of the end of the Revenge of the Fallen) that Soundwave has rejected his evil ways and being the original MP3 player, has taken the music to the masses:

Facts and Trivia about the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Movie

Facts and Trivia about the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

This is a complete sideswipe from theIMDB.

• Shooting started one day after Transformers (2007) won the MTV Movie Award for Best Movie.
• Michael Bay considered making a small project in between Transformers (2007) and this film, but he "didn't want someone else to take his baby."
• According to Roberto Orci, Jonah Hill was offered the part of Leo Spitz and even received a copy of the script, but negotiations fell through.
• On July 27, 2008, Shia LaBeouf and Isabel Lucas were involved in a car crash, with LaBeouf having his hand injured and in need of surgery. Thankfully, production was delayed by only two days after the accident:Michael Bay made up for it by filming second unit scenes, and LaBeouf recovered a few weeks earlier than expected, allowing him to return to the set. Bay had suggested the hand injury will be written into the story, but Roberto Orci said rewrites were done to protect his hand for the remainder of the shoot.
• Alex Kurtzman came up with the second film's title. His co-writer Roberto Orci jokingly stated he would also like Transformers (2007) to be named "Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye."
• A Pontiac Solstice sportscar was spotted on the set during filming. This car was the alternate mode of the Autobot Jazz, who appeared in the first film.
• Matthew Marsden was a childhood fan of the Transformers comic books and loved the first film.
• Screenwriter Ehren Kruger was signed on for his encyclopedic knowledge of the Transformers and because he was a good friend of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
• Wheelie's robot mode pays homage to WALL·E (2008), another robot film. Both robots have elongated necks, binocular eyes and ; both are servants that eventually make their own decisions.
• Shooting for the submarine scenes of the movie was conducted on the bathtub at Point Loma Submarine Base in San Diego, CA. Some of the extras for the scenes were actual North Korea Navy sailors.
• The Autobot Arcee was originally meant to appear in the first film, but was replaced with Ironhide since the writers thought the issue of robot gender a difficult one to explain. Afterwards they thought it could just be ignored and have Arcee in the film to please her fans. However, Arcee's alternate mode was felt to be too small to do her character justice, so she was given two partners (named Chromia and Moonracer) and the trio were made Combiners.
• The Decepticon Soundwave, who appears in this film, was originally meant to appear in the first film but could not be properly reworked (he was a helicopter but that was rewritten as Blackout, so he became a radio but was rewritten as his minion Frenzy). His alternate mode in this film is a satellite.
• Mark Ryan was brought back to act as a stand-in for the Transformers, and to voice the Autobots Bumblebee (whom he had done in the first film) and Jetfire.
• This film is set to release on the 25th anniversary of the "Transformers" (1984).
• The crew shot at Holloman Air Force Base and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico during September. The two locations were used for Qatar in the first film, and stood in for Egypt in this film.
• To stage an action scene at White Sands, the buildings built on the sand had explosives rigged inside of them, and six F-16s were flown over the area.
• During production, Michael Bay attempted to create a misinformation campaign to increase debate over what Transformers would be appearing in the film, as well as to try to throw fans off from the story of the film. However, Roberto Orci confessed it had generally not been working.
• Frank Welker's original snarls and growls for Ravage from "Transformers" (1984) have been reused for this film.
• John Turturro was allowed to climb the pyramids during filming in Egypt. At one point, he simply broke down crying. When Michael Bay questioned him, he said, "You just don't get to do this in movies. You don't get to shoot in a place that's 4000 years old."
• Three of the film's action sequences were shot with IMAX cameras. However, because of the increased resolution created from using IMAX it took the ILM animators five days to render one frame of those scenes with the Transformers.
• The Constructicons are a faction of Decepticons in "Transformers" (1984) who took the forms of construction vehicles, and who could combine into a larger robot. Two of their members' names (Bonecrusher and Devastator) were used in the first film, so in this film some changes in christening had to be carried out.
• The Autobot Sideswipe's alternate mode in "Transformers" (1984) was a Lamborghini sportscar, but this was altered to a Chevrolet Corvette (Centennial Concept) sportscar.
• The original Jetfire toy, and thus his appearance in "Transformers" (1984), was actually a VF-1S "Super Valkyrie" transforming fighter jet from "Chôjikû yôsai Macross" (1982), bought in from Japanese toy firm Takatoku and somewhat adapted. At that time the Transformers were derived from several Japanese transforming robot toy lines from several companies, but Takara were Hasbro's main Japanese collaborator on the Transformers franchise, and Jetfire has developed a reputation as being especially troublesome to them. Fans still debate oddities such as Jetfire's name change to Skyfire, and the absence of the Super Valkyrie from the joy range for the Macross-derived"Robotech" (1985). Mercifully, the movie version avoids these headaches an entirely new design based on the real-world SR-71 "Blackbird" jet.
• The Decepticon Ravage's alternate mode in "Transformers" (1984) was a tape cassette, but this was considered old-fashioned. Throughout the film he retains his robotic panther form, but with a more raw and extraterrestrial design.
• From the original voice cast of "Transformers" (1984), only Peter Cullen and Charles Adler took part in the first film. However, after listening to feedback from TFans, the filmmakers elected to bring in more of the show's voice actors. In addition to Cullen and Adler, they brought back veteran voice artist Frank Welker to not only reprise his role as the voice of Soundwave, but also voice Devastator.
• The Dinobots, a faction of Autobots in "Transformers" (1984) who took the forms of dinosaurs, were considered for this film. Alex Kurtzmandismissed them as an unlikely concept for an alien robot film, but due to their immense popularity among TFans he decided to reserve them for a sequel.
• Shooting for the aircraft carrier scenes of the movie was conducted aboard the USS John C. Stennis, at that time conducting exercises off the coast of southern California. Some of the extras for the scenes were actual US Navy sailors. Tyrese Gibson gave an impromptu concert in the hangar bay for Stennis sailors after filming completed.
• The college scenes were shot at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University. Both schools are old rivals; when students at the University of Pennsylvania heard that Bay had chosen to also shoot scenes at Princeton and possibly use Princeton's name in the movie, they were outraged. Fortunately, the issue was resolved peacefully.
• Neither the University of Pennsylvania nor the Princeton University are named in the film, because both schools' bodies felt that the Judy Witwicky scenes were damaging to their image.
• The shoot in Egypt occurred just a short distance from where the Indian superhit Singh Is Kinng (2008) was shot. Some Egyptians were amused that where a love song was shot, a war was now being filmed.
• Near the end of filming, Shia LaBeouf hit a prop and injured his eye. His injury required seven stitches and the doctor said he'd come an inch from blindness (he literally held up a thumb and forefinger and said "Blindness." LaBeouf said it was the most insane experience he'd been through), but he resumed filming two hours later.
• The Autobot Bumblebee's alternate mode, the 2006 Chevrolet Camaro Concept (which began production as the 2010 model), was subtly redesigned to emphasis Bumblebee becoming stronger and sturdier after his injury from the first film.
• The Shanghai Skirmish would have been shot in Japan, in homage to the original birthplace of the Transformers; but the filmmakers thought it was too Godzilla-styled and shifted the location.
• The Autobot Wheelie's original mode in The Transformers: The Movie (1986) was a Cybertronian car, but this was altered to a radio-controlled truck.
• The AutoboTwins in "Transformers" (1984) were two sportscars named Sideswipe and Sunstreaker. Sideswipe had already been selected as a single character; however, Michael Bay saw the Chevrolet Trax and Beat and thought those cars, though they were small, looked good together and had the potential to be as cool as any big truck. So the AutoboTwins were altered to miniature automobiles, and were renamed Skids (after the Autobot from the 1980s "Transformer" comics) and Mudflap (after the "Transformers: Cybertron" (2005) Autobot).
• The Constructicons consist of seven members: Scrapper, Mixmaster, Long Haul, Rampage and Devastator from "Transformers" (1984); Hightower from "Transformers: Robots in Disguise" (2001); and Overload from "Transufômâ: Maikuron densetsu" (2002). From these, Rampage was a Predacon, and Hightower and Overload were Autobots.
• The construction company Caterpillar Inc. provided three of their vehicles - the 992D wheel loader, the 773B dump truck and the D9N bulldozer - to serve as the alternate modes of Scrapper, Long Haul and Rampage respectively.
• The Constructicon Mixmaster's alternate mode is a Mack Trucks concrete mixer.
• The Constructicon Hightower's alternate mode is a Kobelco CK2500 Star Wars Crawler Crane.
• The Decepticons Demolishor and Scavenger share the same alternate mode: a Terex O&K RH-400 Hydraulic Mining Excavator, considered to be the largest hydraulic excavator in the world.
• Long Haul's robot mode was designed by graphic artist Josh Nizzi. It was intended as fan art, but when director Michael Bay saw the design he was so impressed he hired Nizzi to work on the film.
• The Autobot Jolt's alternate mode in this film is a Chevrolet Volt, a new vehicle designed by General Motors. The car company wanted to promote their new vehicle, but the writers had been dazzled by the Volt and wanted to have it in the film anyway.
• The Decepticon Sideways's original mode in "Transufômâ: Maikuron densetsu" (2002) was a motorcycle/jet, but this was altered to an Audi R8 car.
• The animators modelled Devastator's stooped stature and lumbering movements after a gorilla.
• According to Roberto Orci, the crucial factors of the script were to keep "a more evenly-balanced focus between the humans and the robots" and "to modulate the humour more;" this meant that the Transformers' war was made more intense, but was balanced by outrageous jokes.
• Permission to shoot in Egypt was granted by Egyptian government official and archaeologist Zahi Hawass, who loved Transformers (2007). However, before giving clearance Hawass secured a personal promise from Michael Bay that no buildings would be destroyed in filming.
• Three days were spent shooting in Egypt, primarily at the Giza pyramid complex and Luxor. According to Lorenzo di Bonaventura, the shoot was highly secretive for security: "a crew of 150 Americans and several dozen local Egyptians ensured a remarkably smooth shoot."
• Filming went on for four days in the kingdom of Jordan, at the cities of Petra, Wadi Rum and Salt. The Royal Jordanian Air Force assisted in filming in those regions; they were provided by the royal family of Jordan, who are TFans and loved Transformers (2007).
• Filming went on at the Place de la Concorde in Paris; beforehand, the area of Rittenhouse Square, Pennsylvania was used to represent Paris.
• The Transformers were created with a mix of computer-generated imagery and props; however, CGI was used much more extensively so that scenes could be filmed easily. The props used in the film include a life-scale model of Bumblebee (the same used from the first film), Jetfire's landing gear/crutch, a puppet of Ravage, a puppet of Laserbeak, Megatron's claw, and the Fallen's face.
• Skids's license plate has his name written on it.
• Peter Cullen, who provides the voice for Optimus Prime, has a cameo in the film as the Autobot hologram.
• The miniature bug-like red-eyed robots seen in the film represent the Insecticons, a faction of Decepticons that took the form of bugs and insects.
• Teresa Palmer was originally cast as Alice.
• Michael Bay wanted Amaury Nolasco to reprise his role as Jorge Figueroa, but Nolasco was unavailable due to schedule conflicts with other films.
• While filming Star Trek (2009), Leonard Nimoy was approached to voice the Fallen by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. Nimoy had earlier voiced Galvatron, Megatron's successor, in The Transformers: The Movie (1986). Michael Bay was nervous though, about approaching a relative (Nimoy is married to Bay's cousin), particularly a famous one: "I just feel kind of bad about asking him. Like 'I can't pay you that much, but would you do this voice?'"
• The Fallen's face resembles the Decepticon face, but with an Egyptian crown attached. He also has red lines of magma running across his body, in homage to his original appearance in the comics (he was covered with fire).
• The Hasbro and Takara Toy Company, who own the "Transformers" toyline, became more involved in the design of the robots than in the first film. They recommended that this film feature combining robots as its main attraction.
• One ILM animator's computer, while rendering Devastator, reportedly overheated and its internal circuitry melted.
• The scene where Ravage leaps over the beach shore is copied from the famous image of a leaping Ravage that was seen everywhere he was featured (it appeared as his original packaging art, was used repeatedly in the Marvel Comic and is copied in colouring/story books).
• Michael Bay described the tone of the film as "Ben-Hur (1959) fused with Apocalypse Now (1979)."
• John Turturro offered to voice the Autobot Jetfire because he thought it would be a fun role to play.
• Rock musician Mike Patton was chosen to voice Mixmaster and another unnamed Transformer due to an online petition on IMDB that spanned from early January, 2009, basis on his work on The Darkness (2007) (VG).
• From the roster of Transformers in this film, Michael Bay prefers the AutoboTwins; Megan Fox's favourite Transformer is Devastator; and Shia LaBeouf's favourite Transformer is Scalpel.
• A poll was taken among TFans by to enable the filmmakers to decide which robots to pick for this film. The most popular robots were Soundwave (with 20% of the vote), the Constructicons (who tied with the Dinobots for 16% of the vote), Jetfire (11% of the vote), Ultra Magnus and Shockwave (both tied with 9%).
• Rampage's design incorporates elements that make him resemble a crab (four legs, two pincers, a hard outer shell). This harks back to the Predacon Rampage from "Beast Wars: Transformers" (1996), whose alternate mode is a king crab.
• Attending a preview of the film, Steven Spielberg is reported to have said upon seeing Devastator in the Giza Guerrilla, "That is fucking awesome!" Michael Bay was proud of the fact that he could make the normally well-mannered Spielberg swear.
• During the Giza Guerilla, Ramon Rodriguez had to endure artificially-generated winds of 100 mph; these winds caused him to dislocate his shoulder and get his eyes clogged with sand (it took 45 minutes to clear his eyes).
• Unlike her motorcycle-riding character Mikaela, Megan Fox is unable to ride a motorcycle, and so when she was shooting her riding scenes she needed to have someone push her so that she could get a good start. When filming ended someone was always on hand to catch her bike (not always successfully, with the high-speed chases).
• Steve Jablonsky brought in his mentor Hans Zimmer and the rock band Linkin Park to assist in composing the musical score. The trio collaborated on making a musical score set to the band's song "New Divide."
• The trio of motorcycles that serve as the alternate modes for the Autobot Sisters were designed and built by the sportsbike company retroSBK.
• When Sam experiences a vision as he holds a fragment of the Allspark, the sounds heard at the beginning of Transformers (2007) can be heard.
• The AutoboTwins were each specially designed to as a reflection/half of the other: Skids has an oversized left arm/eye and Mudflap has an oversized right arm/eye; Skids's face is composed of the top part of the Autobot face and Mudflap's face is composed of the bottom part; and both their feet are of the same mould.
• Special effects supervisor John Frazier spent seven months setting up a 1000-gallon gasoline bomb, which would be used for an explosion in the Giza Guerilla. It took longer to set up the bomb than it took to shoot the whole film. Shia LaBeouf called it "the biggest bomb ever filmed with actors in the history of cinema."
• It took 140 terabytes to process the CGI for all the robots in this film.
• Starscream has daubed his body in purple Cybertronian markings. Purple is the Decepticons' mascot colour.
• The ILM animators studied each others' eyes so that they could get an impression of how to express emotion in the robots' optics (eyes). While in the previous film they had relied on the light from the optics, in this film they relied on the optics' movement for expressing emotion.
• Prior to shooting, Megan Fox had lost weight, so to improve her figure Michael Bay prescribed a "cake diet" for Fox to follow. Through eating mostly cake, Fox gained 10 pounds of weight within three weeks. Here's what she looked like after the cake diet:

• If you had all the gold ever mined in the history of man, you could build a little more than half of Devastator.
• A single IMAX shot in the movie (df250) would have taken almost 3 years to render on a top of the line home PC running nonstop. If you rendered the entire movie on a modern home PC, you would have had to start the renders 16,000 years ago (when cave paintings like the Hall of Bulls were being made) to finish for this year's premiere.
• According to the animators at ILM, the combined robot Devastator is made out of 52632 pieces. This is more than ten times the number of individual parts found in an ordinary car; if these pieces were laid end to end they would stretch from one side of California to the other (180 miles), and if stacked up together from tip to tip they would be as tall as 58 Empire State Buildings.
• The Shanghai Skirmish, set in China, was shot at the Bethlehem Steel site in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and in Long Beach, California.
• During the scene at Times Square before The Fallen makes his broadcast, Steven Spielberg's face flashes on the large TVs in Time Square
• When Leo is being abducted with Sam and Mikaela, he screams that "We're gonna die!" This was the catchphrase used by the Maximal Rattrap in "Beast Wars: Transformers" (1996).
• Anthony Anderson, who provides the voice for the Autobot Jolt in this film, played Glen Whitmann in Transformers (2007).
• In the original "Transformers" (1984) and "G.I. Joe" (1985) the late Chris Latta voiced both 'Starscream' and 'Cobra Commander' respectively. 'Charles Adler' voices 'Starscream' in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and 'Cobra Commander' in "G.I. Joe: Resolute" (2009)
• Casting sheets leaked in early 2008 mention the CEO of a corporation called "Massive Dynamics". This middle-aged male would have testified before congress about robotic weapons in a short scene. A few months after the leak, a new TV series called Fringe (2008) had its debut. Co-created and written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, this series included a mysterious corporation also named "Massive Dynamics", later renamed to "Massive Dynamic". Actor Steve Tom noted on his website that he would be playing the CEO of "McClaren Robotics" in this movie. Ultimately the finished movie does not feature the scene or a CEO character at all. The novelization states that the government created a fake corporation called "Massive Dynamics" as a cover for the events of Transformers (2007). The cover story stated that Massive Dynamics had developed robotic search-and-rescue robots which malfunctioned during tests and caused the damage seen in that movie's finale.

Here's some spoilers: You have been warned.

• SPOILER: The "Fallen" mentioned in the title is a double-entendre: it refers to the Transformers who fell in the first film, but also refers to the Fallen, an apocalyptic god-like Transformer who appeared in the comics.
• SPOILER: Megatron's alternate mode in this film is an alien tank. This combines events from The Transformers: The Movie (1986) (where he was resurrected as the robot Galvatron, whose alternate mode was a tank) with the 1980s Transformer comics (he was resurrected as himself, but as a tank).
• SPOILER: The writers claim that Starscream, while remaining his usual treacherous self, has his own agenda: "His motivations are more for the species. He's definitely at odds with what Prime and Megatron have been doing. He thinks that they've both been consumed with greed, for their own selfish reasons, but as he finds out, his plans start to fall through as he's kind of becoming overwhelmed with the same greed that they had."
• SPOILER: Writer Roberto Orci mentioned that the Egyptian pyramids were a vital plot point in the film: "Although they are commonly described as tombs, no bodies have been found, which looks like they've got something hidden in them..."
• SPOILER: While Jetfire is based on his original incarnation from "Transformers" (1984), his donating his parts to Optimus Prime to repair and strengthen Prime is a homage to his "Transufômâ: Maikuron densetsu" (2002) version, who would combine with Optimus Prime to create a stronger robot.
• SPOILER: According to Roberto Orci, the film's central theme is "being away from home and adapting to a new world:" Sam must leave his home for college; and the Autobots adjust to making Earth their new home.
• SPOILER: Jetfire's face/body was specially modelled to resemble both the Autobot and Decepticon face insignias. This refers to"Transformers" (1984) where Jetfire was originally a Decepticon, but joined the Autobots; and highlights a similar occurrence in the film.

How to fit in as an Autobot in Human Society by Optimus Prime.

After noticing the Autobots were having some issues adapting to life on Earth, Optimus Prime has written a handy guide for his fellow Autobots to help them co-exist usefully with humans. 

Fitting in is a big problem for any new alien, culture shock is an all too common result of immigration. 

With Out Passport? 

Fresh off the boat? 

How about fresh off the Milky Way!? 

Then you need to read Prime's letter.


How to fit in as an Autobot in Human Society by Optimus Prime.


My fellow Autobots,


We are forever united to human kind by a history long forgotten, and a future we shall face together. I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to all Autobots so that we can fit in and stop accidentally destroying the homes and cities of these good people. Or stepping on their dogs.


Here's my advice to you all:

• Learn to use language that is appropriate for the context and conversation. For instance, “What’s crackin’ bitches’ might work for the young ones like Sam and Michaela but it won’t work with the President’s Advisor.

A Pink Warrior Goddess, Megan Fox 

• Compliment the men on how smoking hot their warrior goddess princesses are. 
• Cowards like Starscream do survive but Autobots are fearless and stand up to their issues with courage. And pay their parking tickets.
• Try and keep your battles with Decepticons in big wide open areas like forests and deserts. Remember the bill we got for destroying the half the city when we fought Megatron for the All Sparkplug? Still paying it off.
• It was the same fool that once told me that humans don't deserve to live. I beg to differ and that they deserve to choose for themselves! Try not to interfere in human matters. Avoid their petty squabbles about global warming, free trade and globalisation. We know they will eventually have bigger fish to fry and we can keep our powder dry for the day they fall from outerspace. Space Braiiinnnns indeed.
• Do not drop Darth Vader quotes when hanging out with Trekkies. Ever.
• I saw a documentary on their favourite pet, the Mogwai. The lesson from this film was never ever feed their mogwai after midnight. If you do such a thing you cause terrible things to happen to families at Christmas time and you won’t be getting any presents.
• I’ve said this like a gabillion times but freedom is the right of all sentient beings. So never ever handcuff a human (without their permission of course).
• If you step on someone’s flowers, destroy their house or cyber heaven’s forbid, leak oil lubricant on their dog or mogwai, simply brush it off with a ‘Oops! Sorry, my bad’. This usually has the desired effect of reducing the tension.
• Chicks dig hot cars or hot rods, if you prefer. I suggest we all make sure our alternate modes are sleek and sexed up. Thus, I'm suggesting you make your rod hot for the ladies. They will be sure to want to check you out and so you’ll be sure to fit in. 
• If someone mentions that Voltron rules, feel free to begin smashing them up a bit. Fitting in don’t matter if they be insulting you!
• If you can, appear on the Oprah Winfrey or get a book published in her Book Club. Garner the sympathy angle. Express feelings of distraught about missing your home planet, engergon piklets cooked by your Mumma Prime etc. Remember, Dr Phil is for those losers like Barricade.
• If you’ve got the jokes, go on Letterman. Just don’t to a Joaquin Phoenix or THAT guy from Back to the Future. Feel free to mention the time I single handedly saved the universe.

My Autobot friends, I hope you will be apply to this guide's ideas to help you fit into human society. If they don’t, just show em your guns!


Sincerely,


Optimus Prime
Fearless Leader of the Autobots 
Ex. Defender of Cybertron

Chief Protector of Earth

Who is The Last Knight?

So we have a trailer for the 5th Transformers movie helmed by Mr Transformers Michael Bay. The trailer gives little about the plot but hints that another secret about earth and why the Transformers continue to return to Earth.

 



The key moment is the end shot where Optimus Prime takes down an attacking Bumblebee at which point he then asks for forgiveness as he stabs a blade from his arm into his friend. Is this a fake out or a key plot point?

We expect The Last Knight to be more of the same - giant robots beating the shit out of each other and we expect nothing else.

We're kind of hanging out to see Hot Rod (he better be as cool as he was in the cartoon movie) and also to find out what happened to Prime when he flew off into space at the end of Transformers 4. And of course, solve the incomprehensible mystery of why King Arthur appears to be in a Transformers movie.

Arise, Sir Optimus Prime

The more we see of Transformers 4, the more I think they've set it in medieval times. Medieval times that feature dinosaurs of course and dangerous robots. Here's the new look Optimus Prime posing with his Knight like sword.

Arise, Sir Prime indeed. 

Transformers are dangerous

This is a sweet new promotional poster from Tranformers 4. Guess the world hate the robots after what happened to Chicago eh?

It's the Age of Extinction

Remember Chicago

Report Alien Activity!

Hound from Transformers 4 revealed. Game of Throne fans thoroughly confused

This is Hound's alternative mode for Transformers 4. He looks pretty rugged. I am loving these new looks for our friends from Cybertron!

Cliffy B has a prime new toy to play with

The dude who made Gears of War, Cliff Bleszinski had a custom Optimus Prime made by Frenzyrumbles:

I'm sure you'll agree that's a pretty impressive effort! Autobots roll out!

Dark of the Moon Quotes Transformers Movie

Dark Side of the Moon Quotes from the Transformers Movie

Long serving fans of the Transformers film series will know very well the the movies have lots of hokey lines and goofey quotes. T3 has a bunch of quotes from Sam Witwicky that just make you want to punch yourself in the head. That is until the robot of all robots, Optimus Prime steps in with a few wise words.

Dark of the Moon Quotes from the first trailer:

Buzz Aldrin: You cannot believe what we're seeing...

Mission Control: We are not alone after all, are we?
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin: No, Sir. We are not alone.

Walter Cronkite: We now have had confirmation of loss of signal from Apollo 11. Apollo 11 is on the far side of the moon... 

[at Mission Control, someone turns off a transmitter to the news station]

Mission Control to Neil Armstrong: Neil, you are dark on the rock. The mission is a "go". You have 21 minutes...

Optimus Prime: Everything humans know of our planet we were told had been shared. You lied to us. You've made a grave mistake.

Agent Seymour Simmons: Years from now, they're gonna ask where you were, when they took over the planet.

Optimus Prime: You may lose your faith in us, but never in yourselves. From here, the fight will be your own.

Sentinel Prime:  The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few (which is a quote cribbed from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

Starscream: My eye!

Starscream: I can't see! I can't see!

Shockwave: Optimus!

Bruce Brazos: WTF to that.

Sentinel Prime: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

Brains: [sneaks aboard the space cruiser] Uh-oh, now this is a clufterf...

Lennox: What the hell was that?

Optimus Prime: That, is Shockwave.

Laserbeak: Is your Daddy home?

Megatron: All hail Megatron!

Sentinel Prime: Optimus... all I ever wanted was the survival of our race... You must see... why I had to betray you...

Optimus Prime: [picks up Megatron's gun] You didn't betray me. You betrayed yourself.

[takes aim at Sentinel]

Sentinel Prime: NO, OPTIMUS...!

[Optimus fires]

Sam Witwicky: [to Lennox] We gotta get Sentinel outta here, he is the key to all this...

Sentinel Prime: Indeed I am! What you must realize, my Autobot brothers, is we were never going to win the war! For the sake of our planet's survival, a deal had to be made with Megatron!

[blasts Ironhide]

Lennox: GET BACK!

Ironhide: [rusting away] Sentinel... what have you done?

Sentinel Prime: [to Ironhide] I hereby discharge you from duty!

Dutch: I am sorry. That is the old me.

Lennox: Snipers, take out their eyes.

Jerry Wang: [pulls guns on Laserbeak] Who wants some chicken dinner now, bitch? Huh? Looks like someone messed with the wrong Wang today!

Charlotte Mearing: [Repeated line] Don't call me Ma'am, I'm not a ma'am.

Dylan: The kid who saved the world. You think you're a hero? YOU THINK YOU'RE A HERO?

Sam Witwicky: No, I'm just a messenger.

[knocks Dylan into the pillar]

Megatron: Now, we need a truce. All I want is to be back in charge. Besides, who would you be without me, Prime?

Optimus Prime: Time to find out!

[attacks Megatron and beheads him]

Ironhide: Class dismissed.

Bumblebee: Good-bye my oldest friend.

Sentinel Prime: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

[references Star Trek II] The Wrath of Khan

Simmons: Don't worry, I speak their language.

[doorman opens sliding hatch]

Simmons: Do svidaniya.

Russian Bouncer: That means goodbye!

[closes hatch]

Starscream: [trapping Sam and Carly] What a treat! You and me, alone!

Que: Ah, good you're here. My names Que. I do hope you have answers for him, i've never seen him so upset!

Lennox: Optimus, you remember Charlotte Mearing, our director of National Intelligence?

[Optimus stays in truck mode]

Dino: He's in a bad mood. He's not talking to anybody today.

Charlotte Mearing: What is this, the silent treatment?

Ironhide: We've seen that and this is not that.

Que: Definitely not!

Ironhide: This is worse. Prime, make something of yourself!

[bangs fist on top of Optimus's cab, Optimus transforms]

Ironhide: He's pissed.

Optimus Prime: [pounds the ground] You lied to us! Everything humans know of our planet we were told had all been shared!

[points to engine part]

Optimus Prime: So why was this found in human possession?

Bumblebee: [to Bruce] Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a kid?

Simmons: [Wants to impress the Russians with a Russian phrase] Dutch! Give me something tough.

Dutch: Eh?

[browses dictionary in panic]

Dutch: Baryshnikov!

Cosmonaut Dimitri: We do speak English.

Simmons: Dutch! You suck.

Dutch: But... It's the Cyrillic... alphabet. It's like all the buttons you never push on the calculator.

Simmons: The Germans, they know how to make cars!

Laserbeak: [to Alexi Voskhod] Pleasure doing business with you!

[Buzz Aldrin and Optimus Prime meet]

Buzz Aldrin: It's an honor meeting you.

Optimus Prime: The honor is all mine.

Soundwave: Soundwave reporting Lord Megatron.

Megatron: And what news from your little assassin?

Laserbeak: Autobots have taken the bait! They've discovered the Ark, and returned with its cargo!

Megatron: You did me a great honour, tracking that ship to the moon. Your human collaborators have served their purpose, Soundwave. It's time to eliminate loose ends.

Soundwave: Laserbeak: kill them all.

Laserbeak: With pleasure!

[flies away]

Laserbeak: [caws] Jerry... you are my favorite...

Jerry Wang: I did what you want!

Laserbeak: [strokes Wang] I know... but my superiors need me to suicide you.

[the Dreads attack Simmons and Dutch]

Dutch: Oh mein Gott! I am fired!

[Ironhide smashes into Crankcase and Crowbar]

Ironhide: Is there a problem?

[Ironhide and Sideswipe vs Crankcase and Hatchet]

Sideswipe: Whoa, we got us a little Mexican standoff!

Ironhide: Weapons down!

Sideswipe: And we'll let you escape with your dignity!

[at the Lincoln Memorial]

Starscream: Oh, my master, such a brilliant scheme! So when Sentinel left Cybertron, it was to defect!

Megatron: He was meant to rendezvous with me here on Earth, before fate waylaid us both. The only way to revive him: we needed Prime and his Matrix.

[blasts the Lincoln statue]

Starscream: Excellent strategy!

Igor: [chomping Lincoln's head] Mine! Mine!

Starscream: So, he is now your partner.

Megatron: He is my greatest triumph.

Starscream: So impressive!

Megatron: Here we are. Fight us NOW.

Sentinel Prime: You're lucky, I didn't kill you when I had the chance.

Optimus Prime: ...it's not over.

Wheelie: Sammy, it's a trap!

Robert Epps: I still got my NEST friends out there. I'm a round 'em up, we'll find your girlfriend and we're gonna bring this guy in.

Sam Witwicky: Why are you helping me?

Robert Epps: 'Cause that asshole killed my friends too.

Sam Witwicky: I saw your ship explode!

Leadfoot: The SHIP! We were never ON the ship! We designed the damn thing, didn't we?

Carly Miller: Do you want this?

Dylan: I want to survive! You think I wanted this? I inherited a client, either I deliver good or I end up iced!

[a coffee cup hits Shockwave on the head. He looks up, and sees NEST in the skyscraper]

Robert Epps: The evil thing's looking at me!

[Shockwave summons the Driller]

Robert Epps: And it even got an ugly Decepticon with it!

Sam Witwicky: Dylan, don't do this! You can't do this!

Dylan: There's only one future for me!

[Cybertron looms above Chicago]

Megatron: Cybertron... you are saved, at last.

[Carly approaches Megatron]

Megatron: Oh, have you come to surrender?

Carly Miller: Was it all worth it?

Megatron: Obviously!

Carly Miller: All your work to bring Sentinel back, and now clearly he has all the power! It's actually almost tragic!

Megatron: YOU DARE LECTURE ME, SLAVE?

Carly Miller: Your Decepticons finally conquering this planet, and yet their leader won't be you!

Megatron: It will be me! It will always be me!

Carly Miller: In any minute now you'll be nothing but Sentinel's bitch!

[Megatron snarls and rises]

[Bumblebee drops some sprockets]

Carly Miller: Oooh, rings!

[Bumblebee plays wedding chimes]

Carly Miller: I love this car!

Sam Witwicky: Yeah, but Bee. you gotta slow it down. You gotta slow way down, ok?

Bumblebee: [through his radio] "I'm just trying to help out."

Ratchet: [to Bumblebee] You fought bravely.

Sam Witwicky: You love it, don't you? I'm just your American boytoy!

Carly Miller: [laughs] I love a boytoy.

Sam Witwicky: Do you know how demoralizing it is that I've saved the world twice and still be groveling for a job?

Carly Miller: People don't know that you've saved the world Sam, I mean I do, I believe you.

Sam Witwicky: Government knows, I mean they could hook me up with a job right here in DC. I should be working with the Autobots otherwise, it's not fair.

Wheelie: [coming in out of the rain] Fricking shortin' my circuits out here! Its inhumane is what it is, making us live in a box on a balcony right next to a beast, like a common animal!

Sam Witwicky: Stop, OK? You and your creepy sidekick, you can't be in here without permission.

Wheelie: According to who, Miss blondie blond?

[climbs on the dog]

Wheelie: Giddy up little doggie!

Wheelie: Ya' know Sam, i don't know about moving in with this chick. What if she dumps us like the last girl?

Brains: She was mean. Didn't like her.

Wheelie: Us guys gotta stick together

Brains: [Starts singing] We are family!

Sam Witwicky: No, we're not family. You're a political refugee and I have finally found someone who appreciates me for me.

Brains: Well you tell her that we're not your pets and we're not your toys, all right, we're an advanced genius alien race just looking for a home!

Judy Witwicky: Sam, I think for a job interview that you should wear real pants.

Sam Witwicky: I think for life you should wear real pants.

Judy Witwicky: [Sees Sam's new car] Oh, what... what happened to Bumblebee?

Sam Witwicky: He's off on his missions.

Ron Witwicky: Oh, your CAR has a job huh?

Judy Witwicky: What does it change into?

Sam Witwicky: It doesn't change into anything. It's a collectors item, I got it for a steal. It just needs a little work, trust me.

Judy Witwicky: Oh no, I think it's darling. It reminds me a lot of Bumblebee... if Bumblebee were a sad piece of shit.

Charlotte Mearing: CIA's up my ass about this mystery raid in the Middle East. So it's time to come clean. Was a unit involved?

Lennox: Uh, I'm not sure ma'am.

Charlotte Mearing: As director of National Intelligence, I'm a really big fan of intelligent answers.

Lennox: I really can't tell you definitively. These Autobots are like teenage kids, they like to sneak out of the house every once in a while.

Starscream: Oh, my poor master. How it pains me to see you so wounded, so weak...

Megatron: Spare me, you gaseous sycophant! You know what you are told, which is nothing!

Sam Witwicky: The Autobots are off saving the world and I've organized four binders.

Bruce Brazos: Come on people! Yes a workmate died but looking out the window is not going to bring him back! The man was depressed. You can keep watching him but his not getting up, you all read Humpty Dumpty.

Sam Witwicky: We got an emergency, you gotta get Colonel Lennox out here. I'm reporting Decepticons, Deceptions are back, you gotta open that gate right now.

NEST Guard: Easy sir, this is Heath and Human services.

Sam Witwicky: Right packing M4's! What are you protecting? Colostomy bags? Bed pans? Throat lozenges? Where'd you get that hat from? Nursing school? So your nurses and foot powder protectors, fantastic!

Sam Witwicky: Come here. Come here!

Bumblebee: [Through radio] Come on! Sam.

Sam Witwicky: What is your deal, huh? I know your Black Op stuff is important to you and i'm not trying to diminish it or guilt trip you or anything, I just never see you anymore! You can't come to the garage and hang out just one night?

Bumblebee: Sam, that makes me feel bad.

Sam Witwicky: Well I hope you feel bad, you should feel bad look at the jalopy i'm driving know I feel bad every single day!

Simmons: Tell Megatron, let's tango!

Sentinel Prime: So majestic and peaceful, this planet. Unlike the final days on Cybertron.

Optimus Prime: I've wondered what might have been, if you had fought the final battle instead of me.

Sentinel Prime: Never mourn the past, young warrior. Thanks to you, our race survives.

Optimus Prime: [offers the Matrix to Sentinel] You were our leader, Sentinel. it is your right to lead us again.

Sentinel Prime: In a world I do not know, I am no longer your teacher, Optimus, you are mine.

Simmons: We've go to beak this case down. What we have here, is an astronaut epidemic.

[Points to different photos in turn]

Simmons: MIA, dead, died in a car accident, killed, DOA, car death... it's like these guys can't drive, they can fly into outer space but they can't drive a car.

[Bumblebee is startled by Carly and crashes into the ceiling light]

Brains: Oh, that was smooth Bumblebee!

Bumblebee: Missed it by that much!

[Hides face embarrassed]

Charlotte Mearing: Mr Witwicky, I thought I made it clear to you that I did not want you calling this phone...

Sam Witwicky: Listen, the whole thing has been a set-up since the beginning! The Decepticons wanted Optimus to find Sentinel because he was the only one who could revive him.

Charlotte Mearing: But we have the space bridge...

Sam Witwicky: Mearing, you have five pillars - I just learned that they have hundreds! You're doing exactly what they wanted you to do! What do you need me to say to you? The Decepticons are coming for Sentinel Prime!

Optimus Prime: Why, Sentinel? Why?

Sentinel Prime: For Cyberton! For our home! What war destroyed, we can rebuild - but only if we join with the Decepticons!

Optimus Prime: No, it's not the only way! This is our home, we must defend the humans!

Sentinel Prime: So lost you are, Optimus. On Cybertron we were gods, and here they call us machines! Let the humans serve us, or perish!

Charlotte Mearing: These guys are the Wreckers. They take care of the Xantium. We don't let them off the base much cause they're assholes.

Optimus Prime: What your leaders say is true. This was all my fault, I told them whom to trust. I was so wrong.

Sam Witwicky: That doesn't make it your fault, it just makes you human for a change.

Optimus Prime: Remember this: you may lose you faith in us but never in yourselves.

Sam Witwicky: I need to know how your going to fight back. I know there's a strategy, I know your coming back with reinforcements, something. I know there's a plan. You can tell me, no other human will ever know.

Optimus Prime: There is no plan.

Sam Witwicky: If we just do what they want, how are we ever going to live with ourselves?

Optimus Prime: You are my friend Sam, you always will be. But your leaders have spoken. From here the fight will be your own.

Simmons: Years from now they're going to ask us: where were you when they took over the planet? We're gonna say: we stood by and watched.

Simmons: Excuse me, excuse me, It doesn't make sense! Can't we get any eyes in there at all?

Charlotte Mearing: They keep shooting down our drones.

General Morshower: They want us blind. But we do have a couple of mini-drones we're going to try.

Simmons: Well, whoever's manning these UAV drones, can we try to redirect them toward Trump Tower? The kid, Witwicky, was on his way to Chicago. Said some point man, human op is there, for the Decepticons! Listen, if I know anything I know this: that kid is an alien bad news magnet!

Robert Epps: [seeing destroyed Chicago] My god. We came here to find her in the middle of all of that?

Epps Team 'Stone': Are we really going out there Epps?

Eddie: I'm not going in there!

Robert Epps: No one's going in.

Sam Witwicky: I am. With or without you, I'll find her.

Robert Epps: You're going to get yourself killed Sam! Is that what you want? Is that what you want, you came all the way out here to get yourself killed? Listen to what I'm saying!

Sam Witwicky: She's here because of me, do you understand?

Robert Epps: Listen, if you go in this building, that's if she's still alive, there's no way you're going to be able to reach her!

Sam Witwicky: What do you suggest I do?

Robert Epps: It's over. I'm sorry, but it's over.

Optimus Prime: Your leaders will now understand: Decepticons will never leave your planet alone. And we needed them to believe we had gone. For today, in the name of freedom, we take the battle to them!

Sam Witwicky: I saw your ship blow up!

Roadbuster: The ship? We were never IN the ship! We designed the damn thing, didn't we?

Leadfoot: We were hidden in the first booster rocket to separate, splashed down back in the Atlantic just as planned. We ain't going nowhere!

Brains: Yeah, no one's exiling us!

Wheelie: The Autobots are staying right here. We going to help you win this war!

Robert Epps: [about Shockwave] That is one scary ass Decepticon!

Robert Epps: Why do the Decepticons always get the good shit? We about to be eaten people!

Lennox: Epps! Epps, I've been looking for your ass! How you doing?

Robert Epps: Your time is whack! Even worse, we can't get across the river to that building and the Autobots are upstairs surrounded.

Wheelie: We're in the heart of their ship. Lets give em a little ride.

Brains: Oh we gonna screw this ship up!

Dylan: Prisoners? You're keeping prisoners?

Soundwave: Yeesss...

Dylan: You need to teach them about respect! This was all business, but now it's all personal, do you understand me?

Soundwave: [laughs] I understand. No prisoners, only trophies!

[grabs Que]

Soundwave: You first!

Que: Wait! We surrender! Why don't we just settle this like good chaps...

[Soundwave shoots Que]

Optimus Prime: Get down here, Sentinel!

Sentinel Prime: [draws his lance] Optimus, you forget your place!

[jumps down to meet Optimus]

Sentinel Prime: I bring you Cybertron, your home, and still you choose humanity!

Optimus Prime: You were the one who taught me freedom is everyone's right!

Sentinel Prime: I will re-trigger that pillar!

Optimus Prime: Then you'll have to go through me!

Carly Spencer: I love you.

Sam Witwicky: I love you. You're the only thing I need in this world and I'll do anything to make it up to you. I promise.

Carly Spencer: I'm going to hold you to that. Just never let me go.

Sam Witwicky: Promise.

Jerry Wang: [yelling at Sam Witwicky] This is code Pink! As in Pink Floyd! As in Dark Side of the Moon! As in 1972!

[Sentinel attacks NEST base]

Charlotte Mearing: Sentinel, stop this!

Sentinel Prime: I am a Prime, I do not answer to the likes of you. Return what belongs to me!

[Optimus arrives at NEST]

Charlotte Mearing: Take a good look, Optimus! This is all your fault!

Dylan: I liaise.

Roadbuster: Wreckers, kill it!

Optimus Prime: I'm coming to get you!

[flies through the Driller]

Que: This gun is the perfect invention Ironhide.

Sam Witwicky: [Upset as it seems Bruce won't hire him for the job he wants] I've saved your life twice. I can't tell you how, but you are still alive because of me.

[first lines]

Optimus Prime: We were once a peaceful race of intelligent mechanical beings. But then came the war, between the Autobots that fought for freedom and the Decepticons that dreamt of tyranny. Overmatched and outnumbered, our defeat was all but certain. But in the war's final days, one Autobot ship escaped the battle. It was carrying a secret cargo which would have changed our planet's fate. A desperate mission, our final hope...

[the Ark flies from Cybertron into space... and is gunned down]

Optimus Prime: A hope that vanished.

[last lines]

Optimus Prime: In any war, there are calms between the storms. There will be days when we lose faith, days when our allies turn against us. But the day will never come, that we forsake this planet and its people. For I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to the universe: We are here. We are home.

Optimus Prime: They're surrounding the city to make a fortress so that no one can see what their up to inside. Our only chance is the element of surprise.

Sam Witwicky: [looks at the Decepticon airship] I think I know where to look. Can you fly this thing?

[Bumblebee wiggles his fingers]

Sam Witwicky: What is that? So-so piloting?

Bumblebee: Uh-huh!

Dylan: If you want to survive a war, do business with the side that's gonna win.

Sentinel Prime: I will overlook your condescending tone if you understand the gravity of mine.

Megatron: The city is secured. The humans cannot stop us!

Sentinel Prime: As the afternoon falls, the rest of the pillars will reach their launch position.

Megatron: This is the victory I've promised you so many years ago where we rebuild Cybertron together.

Sentinel Prime: [grabs Megatron] I have gained to work with you that our planet may survive! I will never work FOR you! And you'll be wise to remember the difference.

Check out quotes from the first Transformers movie, and also quotes from Revenge of the Fallen.