GETTING INTO... TRANSFORMERS

Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 1 & 2 in HARDCOVER

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:26:00 +0000

Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 1 - For the first time ever, the entire IDW Transformers Universe is presented in hardcover! Featuring series cover design by EJ Su. Volume 1 contains Megatron Origin #1-4, Spotlight: Blurr, Spotlight: Cliffjumper, Spotlight: Shockwave, Spotlight: Nightbeat, Spotlight: Hot Rod, Spotlight: Soundwave, and Infiltration #0-6.

Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 2 (Transformers: Idw Collection) - The re-presentation of IDW's Transformers Universe continues in volume 2! This volume includes the Transformer series Stormbringer and Escalation, as well as Spotlights: Sixshot, Ultra Magnus, Kup, and Soundwave.

Original Source: www.tfw2005.com

VIDEOS: Stan Bush - "The Touch" - Remix Vs. Original

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:40:00 +0000

REMIX VERSION of "The Touch" by Stan Bush

Stan's new album "Dream the Dream" arrives 09.15.10
LArecords.com to order

Watch and listen to this reinvention of "The Touch" by Stan Bush in this new version of the song (and video) MINUS the rap. This version premiered at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con, and will be available exclusively on Stan's new album "Dream The Dream," arriving on 09.15.10 via iTunes and at LArecords.com.

ORIGINAL VERSION of "The Touch" by Stan Bush

Transformers: War for Cybertron DLC pack two includes Zeta Prime and Dead End

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:00:00 +0000

The Character and Map Pack 2 will add two more playable characters as well as five new maps for the game's online multiplayer modes. Zeta Prime and Dead End are the new characters that will be playable in all multiplayer modes. Transformers: War for Cybertron DLC pack two is available on Xbox Live for 800 points and PSN for $9.99.

original source: http://play.tm

Transformers 3 being filmed in 3D says Michael Bay

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:29:00 +0000

Transformers 3 Director, Michael Bay commented at his Official Forum…

"...People have no idea how hard we have worked to bring 3D filming into live action shooting. We have invented rigs and systems to place 3d cameras like no other live action movie has done before. The proof will be noticed on the final product. - Michael”

Original source: tfw2005.com
Photo by: Nelson Lauren
Sony Pace 3D camera from the Chicago set of Transformers 3

NOVEL - Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:18:00 +0000

For twenty-five years the colossal battle between Megatron and Optimus Prime has captivated Transformers fans around the world. Yet the full story of the conflict between the two most famous Transformers— everything that happened before Optimus and Megatron arrived on planet Earth —has always been a mystery . . . until now. Here, for the first time told in its entirety, is the thrilling saga of Optimus and Megatron before they were enemies, before they even knew each other.

“Freedom is every Cybertronian’s right!” After Megatron utters these immortal words, the caste-bound planet of Cybertron is rocked to its foundations. Megatron, an undefeated gladiator thug, gives voice to the unspoken longings of the oppressed masses—and opens the mind of an insignificant data clerk to possibilities previously unthinkable.

Long before becoming the honorable Optimus Prime, Orion Pax is a mere office underling, an unlikely candidate to answer an outlaw’s call to revolution. But Orion is determined to meet this defiant enemy of all that Cybertron stands for, no matter what he has to do, or how many laws he has to break.

What happens between Orion Pax and Megatron forever changes the destiny of all Transformers.

Transformers: Prime - Actor Steve Blum previews Starscream voice

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:01:00 +0000

Actor Steve Blum previews his different take on Starscream's voice from new Transformers Prime TV series. Thanks to YouTube member ClockworkSteamChild who's posted a video taken from SacAnime Summer 2010.

Original source: http://tformers.com

Transformers: Prime TV series coming October 2010

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:38:00 +0000

A new series Transformers: Prime is currently in the works. It is said that the characters for the series have appearances that are a cross between their live-action movie and Transformers Animated counterparts. Peter Cullen and Frank Welker will reprise their roles as Optimus Prime and Megatron respectively.

Transformers: Prime is set to premiere on October 10, 2010 on The Hub (Hasbro's new joint venture with the Discovery Channel).

Original Source: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Prime

Check out the Transformers Prime Teaser

Tfw2005.com: Images from SDCC Transformers Prime panel

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:14:00 +0000

Images of new Transformers Prime TV series from Hasbro’s Transformers Prime Panel @ San Diego Comic-Con 2010. Original content and more info at: Tfw2005.com

VIDEO: More Real-Life Transformers

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:25:00 +0000

Can you believe there are in fact some Real-Life Transformers out there? Here are more youtube videos of home-made Transformers costumes!!

Walmart Gets Exclusive Transformers Revenge of the Fallen IMAX Blu-ray

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:01:00 +0000

Walmart has exclusive rights to sell the IMAX version of 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' Blu-ray. This version is roughly a minute longer (featuring extended fight sequences) and will "open up" the aspect ratio during IMAX film scenes (similar to 'The Dark Knight' Blu-ray).

source: blu-ray.com

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen- Oct 20th, 2009 on DVD & Blu-Ray!

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:03:00 +0000

A reminder to all Transformers fans - Transformers Revenge of the Fallen is out Oct 20th, 2009 on DVD and Blu-Ray! Be sure to check out all the different versions and deals available, including the Wal-Mart exclusive IMAX Edition and the Target Exclusive Bumblebee transforming case.

source: tfw2005.com

Revenge Of The Fallen: The Score

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:32:00 +0000

Tomb Of The PrimesComposer: Steve Jablonsky

Transformers Spoof: MORE Optimus Prime vs Cereal Commercial

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:13:00 +0000

MORE Optimus Prime cereal commercial videos!! Randomusprime is a Professional 3D Animator and Modeler. It’s a “WHAT IF” Optimus Prime started doing commercials video. DISCLAIMER: These videos are uncensored and contain real life language. All videos by: Randomusprime

Twin Transformers raise race issues (AP)

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:53:00 +0000

Harmless comic characters or racist robots?

LOS ANGELES - The buzz over the summer blockbuster "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" only grew Wednesday as some said two jive-talking Chevy characters were racial caricatures.
Skids and Mudflap, twin robots disguised as compact hatchbacks, constantly brawl and bicker in rap-inspired street slang. They're forced to acknowledge that they can't read. One has a gold tooth.

As good guys, they fight alongside the Autobots and are intended to provide comic relief. But their traits raise the specter of stereotypes most notably seen when Jar Jar Binks, the clumsy, broken-English speaking alien from "Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace," was criticized as a caricature.

One fan called the Transformers twins "Jar Jar Bots" in a blog post online.
Todd Herrold, who watched the movie in New York City, called the characters "outrageous."
"It's one thing when robot cars are racial stereotypes," he said, "but the movie also had a bucktoothed black guy who is briefly in one scene who's also a stereotype."
"They're like the fools," said 18-year-old Nicholas Govede, also of New York City. "The comic relief in a degrading way."

Not all fans were offended. Twin brothers Jason and William Garcia, 18, who saw the movie in Miami, said they related to the characters — not their illiteracy, but their bickering.
"They were hilarious," Jason said. "Every movie has their standout character, and I think they were the ones for this movie."

In Atlanta, Rico Lawson said people were reading too much into the characters. "It was actually funny," said Lawson, 25, who saw the movie with his girlfriend in Atlanta.
That was the aim, director Michael Bay said in an interview.

"It's done in fun," he said. "I don't know if it's stereotypes — they are robots, by the way. These are the voice actors. This is kind of the direction they were taking the characters and we went with it."

Bay said the twins' parts "were kind of written but not really written, so the voice actors is when we started to really kind of come up with their characters."

Actor Reno Wilson, who is black, voices Mudflap. Tom Kenny, the white actor behind SpongeBob SquarePants, voices Skids.

Wilson said Wednesday that he never imagined viewers might consider the twins to be racial caricatures. When he took the role, he was told that the alien robots learned about human culture through the Web and that the twins were "wannabe gangster types."

"It's an alien who uploaded information from the Internet and put together the conglomeration and formed this cadence, way of speaking and body language that was accumulated over X amount of years of information and that's what came out," the 40-year-old actor said. "If he had uploaded country music, he would have come out like that."

It's not fair to assume the characters are black, he said.

"It could easily be a Transformer that uploaded Kevin Federline data," Wilson said. "They were just like posers to me."

Kenny did not respond to an interview request Wednesday.

"I purely did it for kids," the director said. "Young kids love these robots, because it makes it more accessible to them."

Screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman said they followed Bay's lead in creating the twins. Still, the characters aren't integral to the story, and when the action gets serious, they disappear entirely, notes Tasha Robinson, associate entertainment editor at The Onion.
"They don't really have any positive effect on the film," she said. "They only exist to talk in bad ebonics, beat each other up and talk about how stupid each other is."

Hollywood has a track record of using negative stereotypes of black characters for comic relief, said Todd Boyd, a professor of popular culture at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, who has not seen the "Transformers" sequel.

"There's a history of people getting laughs at the expense of African-Americans and African-American culture," Boyd said. "These images are not completely divorced from history even though it's a new movie and even though they're robots and not humans."

American cinema also has a tendency to deal with race indirectly, said Allyson Nadia Field, an assistant professor of cinema and media studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"There's a persistent dehumanization of African-Americans throughout Hollywood that displaces issues of race onto non-human entities," said Field, who also hasn't seen the film. "It's not about skin color or robot color. It's about how their actions and language are coded racially."

If these characters weren't animated and instead played by real black actors, "then you might have to admit that it's racist," Robinson said. "But stick it into a robot's mouth, and it's just a robot, it's OK."

But if they're alien robots, she continued, "why do they talk like bad black stereotypes?"
Bay brushes off any whiff of controversy.

"Listen, you're going to have your naysayers on anything," he said. "It's like is everything going to be melba toast? It takes all forms and shapes and sizes."
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Associated Press writers Damian Grass in Miami, Ginny Byrne in New York City and Jonathan Landrum Jr. in Atlanta contributed to this report.

Frank Welker as Soundwave for Transformers 2 : Revenge of the Fallen!

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:42:00 +0000

As originally reported on tfw2005.com …In an interview with Ugo Movie Blog, Roberto Orci has officially confirmed that Frank Welker, the voice of many 80s villains including Generation 1 Soundwave, will be reprising his role as Soundwave for Transformers Revenge of the Fallen! Frank Welker's other classic roles span a wide range of 80's cartoons and include Megatron, Dr Claw on Inspector Gadget, and Freddy on Scooby-Doo.

About photo below: The logical progression would have been to turn him into an MP3 player, but Bay and his team have instead turned Soundwave into a jet. (empireonline.com)

ORIGINAL SOURCE: tfw2005.com

25th Anniversary Generation One: Season 1 DVD Box Set

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:39:00 +0000

TVShowsOnDVD.com has posted a new story regarding the release of the 25th Anniversary Generation One: Season 1 DVD Box Set, in which it is revealed that the episodes will be "restored to the original broadcast verisons with a new stereo soundtrack created from the original audio" and will not contain the audio from the widely panned Rhino verions.

source: tfw2005.com

VIDEO: Watch the new vehicles from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:15:00 +0000

Here is a special look at the vehicles that will be featured on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. This exclusive footage was edited together by Michael Bay for Chevrolet.

SOURCE: Originally posted on www.transformersclub.com

Deleted scenes from Transformers movie

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:33:00 +0000

An extended scene cut from the end of the Transformers movie?… could it make it’s way into this year's Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (or at least make it to the alternative /special features section on the DVD)

Check out more of Matt Moylan’s awesome Generation 1 Artwork at www.lilformers.com

Transformers Spoof: Optimus Prime vs Cereal Commercial

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:16:00 +0000

I stumbled upon these videos about a week ago; I think they very creatively made. Randomusprime is a Professional 3D Animator and Modeler. It’s a “WHAT IF” Optimus Prime started doing commercials video. DISCLAIMER: These videos are uncensored and contain real life language. All videos by: Randomusprime

Transformers Spoof: The Rude Awakening of Optimus Prime

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:06:00 +0000

DRSMOOV has been around for a while and has been doing Transformers spoofs since 2006. He does some amazing voice-over work. We share with you here some of his most famous videos circulating the internet. DISCLAIMER: These videos are uncensored and contain real life language. All videos by: DRSMOOV

COMEDY: Even more Transformers YTP (YouTube Poop)

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:48:00 +0000

These are classic 80's Transformers episodes as you have never seen them before. This "art-form" brings new life to fan-favorite clips as sort of an abstract homage to them. These remixed videos are the work of YouTube Channel: GuySafari

Teletraan-1 Wikia Moves to TFWIKI.net

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:03:00 +0000

In response to the changing needs of the community, the Teletraan-1 Transformers Wiki has broken ties with the Wikia, Inc. hosting service to strike out on its own. The newly independent wiki now goes by the name TFWIKI.NET, bringing its previous content and its most devoted and accurate contributors and admin staff to its new location, with a fresh new look and features as well.

TFWIKI.NET staff have cited increasingly obstructive advertising, forced format and design changes as the primary reasons for the move to a independently hosted wiki solution. "One day I came to the wiki, looking for Rorza, the Rocket-cycle Racer from Rigel III, but his image was no longer there! Instead, there was a block selling Pop-tarts," said David Willis, the founder of the new TFWIKI.net.

TFWIKI.NET’s independence from Wikia, Inc. will allow the wiki to continue bringing “the perfect mix of retentive detail and irreverence” (Pablo Hidalgo, Lucasfilm website content manager, ) to the public while limiting advertising to unobtrusive, directed content of interest to the Transformers fan community. The move was hailed as a coup for producers of user-created content by mainstream press in an article in the July 31st online edition of the Guardian newspaper.

SOURCE: TFWIKI.NET

COMEDY VIDEOS: Happy Halloween with Transformers REMIXED style!

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:35:00 +0000

In the spirit of all that is odd, weird, while at the same time fascinating and fun.. here are not two but three new videos by the musically talented rakninja ....straight from the depths of YouTube.

Megan Fox & Shia LaBeouf, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:27:00 +0000

Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Exclusive photos by Daniel Mayer: DanielMayerPhoto@yahoo.com & www.megan-fox.net

Arcee will be part of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

luisgm@gmail.com (LuisMoreno.Net) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:35:00 +0000

The TFW TF2 Insider has provided another piece of information regarding a robot from the upcoming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie.

Arcee's robot mode is confirmed to consist of the combination of the three motorcycles seen in the On the Set: Day 1 Video at the Walmart Take Home a Hero promotional site.

This note was originally posted by Tim Formas on tfw2005.com