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Transformed. And Not For The Better

Hmmm. I have been watching over the last year as various bits get released from The Transformers and I can no longer kid myself. No matter how cool, transforming robots from another planet are, they are not The Transformers of my youth. The only relation is both the collective term and the characters names. Well some of them anyway. (Blackout anyone?)

Don't get me wrong, as alien robots go they look, as my limited experience on alien invaders go, ok. Personally, I'm yet to be convinced an artificial mechanical life form, presumably powered by something moderately more powerful than a Pentium, would design so many sticky out points to break off, but hey. Anyway, How To Destroy A Childhood Memory In Four Pictures.

Looking at other pics, its bad when all you can say is 'at least Jazz still has his visor....'. And to be fair he still is roughly the same shape. Check out what they did to poor Frenzy who doesn't look quite like he used to. And for the Transformers fans outthere, notice how by using that particular image I carefully avoid the whole FIBRIR / FIRRIB debate, which coincidentally Michael bay has also avoided, although he chose to do so making the robot nothing like the original in any way shape or form, let alone colour.

Hopefully by the time I see it, my childhood memories will be safely locked away, and won't sink like Pearl Harbour.

Fuckin arse. And don't get me started on X-Men 3. Please don't let Bay, Brett Ratner or Joel Schumacher get their hands on Thundercats, or if there is a God, a camera ever again.

14 May 2007 22:24 | (3) comments | Thoughts

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