Transformers references in other media

[Megatron]

This thread is for posting any Transformers references in other movies, TV shows, books, etc. that you may come across from time to time, however obvious, ambiguous, direct or indirect they may be...

So I found a possible one just now while watching Monday night's Grey's Anatomy (season 9, episode 14, The Face of Change). This was shown for a few seconds, right at the end of the episode:

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc196/Crystine_of_Cybertron/Other/GreysAnatomyS09E14_zpse14bbfad.png

:) It may or may not have been intentional - but I think it was.. :p:D Quite a funny episode, actually.

[Sharky]

there has been a few in family guy

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/Sharkysparky/IMG_0023sm.png

Season 8 - Episode 16
Title: April in Quahog

Trapjaw wants a variance to build an unpermitted structure within 10ft of OPs property line... and destro is the council man....its not a tea party.

some others when i get the time to upload the pics Optimus Prime toy made an appearance in Revolution,

i think there was something in an old episode of las vegas with josh and a car ressembling bumblebee

[griffin]

Mad TV have had a lot of TFs references. Simpsons had a TFs opening once too.

[Megatron]

there has been a few in family guy

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/Sharkysparky/IMG_0023sm.png

Season 8 - Episode 16
Title: April in Quahog

Trapjaw wants a variance to build an unpermitted structure within 10ft of OPs property line... and destro is the council man....its not a tea party.

some others when i get the time to upload the pics Optimus Prime toy made an appearance in Revolution,

i think there was something in an old episode of las vegas with josh and a car ressembling bumblebee

Yep, I also remember OP as a Jew segment on Family Guy, and didn't Soundwave make an appearance as well?

Looking at your screen cap above also had me wondering, why are Transformers and Care Bears often seen together? :p

[5FDP]

The Professional with Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and a very young Natalie Portman. There were several scenes in which Natalie's character was seen watching the G1 cartoon.

Awesome movie BTW :cool:

[1AZRAEL1]

Robot Chicken has in a number of episodes :p

[GoktimusPrime]

This page has a fairly comprehensive list (http://www.angelfire.com/ego/zobovor/pop_culture.html) (last updated 2004)

[ILikeSoundwave]

Found a video on Youtube which shows most of them in Family Guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reiBvowF5z8

[liegeprime]

Episode 8 I think or 9 of the weird (and not for kids) Jap anime - Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt - the whole episode is dedicated to TFs with the two lead taking on the look of Optimus and Megatron - very funny coz some of the "adult items" in their rooms transformed as well :p

[griffin]

I sometimes hear the phrase "more than meets the eye" used on TV or commercials... I wonder if it was a phrase before Transformers, or if it has since become a part of vernacular for being well known and understood as to what it means (something surprisingly unexpected).


In the sitcom Roseanne, in the one of the early seasons, the girls are cleaning up their brother's room, and a Gen1 Metroplex is one of his toys on his bed (plus a Castle Greyskull in the back corner).

[BigTransformerTrev]

In a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon talks about how he likes Transformers.

In Community they start guessing different names and then the names become... "Bluestreak? Optimus Prime?" to which the girl responds "Now even I know some of these are the names of Transformers".

There was an add running for The Colbert Report for ages where he said "And as the President landed in what I can only assume to be a Transformer"

Can't remember the name of the song but on one of my cd's there is a song where the line is "And if not for the Decepticons, they'd rule the f@#king world"

There is another song on Youtube called 'You, me and Optimus Prime'

On the cartoon show 'Frisky Dingo' they talked about needing a bad guy toy for the good one to fight and the guys says "A Decepticon to your Autobot". Also on that show the X-ticles renamed themselves 'The Decpeticles' and their theme song was (same tune as Transformers) 'The Decepticles, more than you bargained for'

In Archer, Pam is coughing from smoking a spliff down the intercom and tried to cover it by saying 'Transform', like she was imitating the noise. Also in another episode she had taken hallucinegons and stared accusing her co-workers of being Decepticons. At the end of the episode she is smashing a toilet yelling 'Must. Kill. Decepticons!'

In Scubs they painted a mural on the baby's wall of Optimus & Megatron fighting.

Interestingly, they used Dreamwave art for Megatron and G1 Powermaster Optimus Prime box art for Prime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6sNTmNf6iI


Heh - Im sure I can think of a few more but that'll do for now :)

[BigTransformerTrev]

Just thought of another one!

(Not for kiddies)






In the DVD Seth McFarlene's Calvalcade of Cartoon Comedy, a running joke throughout the DVD is a short sketch of "Sex with..." (examples - Sex with a midget, Sex with Gilbert Godfried). One of them is Sex with Optimus Prime, which shows a woman naked bent over a bed. Optimus is holding the whole bed up against his crotch, thrusting away going "Almost, almos...t" and at the high point of the act Transforms into a Truck, crushing her and the bed, and blows white smoke from his smokestacks and blood seeps out from under his tires. Nearly died laughing when I saw it (but wont be showing it do my infant son)!

[Megatron]

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In the DVD Seth McFarlene's Calvalcade of Cartoon Comedy, a running joke throughout the DVD is a short sketch of "Sex with..." (examples - Sex with a midget, Sex with Gilbert Godfried). One of them is Sex with Optimus Prime, which shows a woman naked bent over a bed. Optimus is holding the whole bed up against his crotch, thrusting away going "Almost, almos...t" and at the high point of the act Transforms into a Truck, crushing her and the bed, and blows white smoke from his smokestacks and blood seeps out from under his tires. Nearly died laughing when I saw it (but wont be showing it do my infant son)!

:eek: Ohh.. kayy. That's just... ew. :o:p

[BigTransformerTrev]

Episode 8 I think or 9 of the weird (and not for kids) Jap anime - Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt - the whole episode is dedicated to TFs with the two lead taking on the look of Optimus and Megatron - very funny coz some of the "adult items" in their rooms transformed as well :p

Episode 7 - love the quote "Wow, they remind me of that cool 80's show and crappy live movie!". Lots of quotes from both in it :) They even quoted 'Triple Takeover' "Tell me whats on your mind, or I'll splatter it on the wall, and see for myself"

[griffin]

Gen1 Galvatron in the new Doctor Who (http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/889354-g1-galvatron-doctor-who.html)... apparently Andrew Wildman is a storyboard artist, so managed to get the prop snuck in.

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah he's storyboarding the current series except ep2

[The Scream Man]

Oh I didnt know that, how cool :) yeah i thought that was awesome in tonights Ep.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Gen1 Galvatron in the new Doctor Who (http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/889354-g1-galvatron-doctor-who.html)... apparently Andrew Wildman is a storyboard artist, so managed to get the prop snuck in.


Oh I didnt know that, how cool :) yeah i thought that was awesome in tonights Ep.

If I hadn't read Griff's post I woulda missed it. Now lets see the Doc go to a parallel universe where the Transformers are real - a space race between the Tardis and Astrotrain ;)

[GoktimusPrime]

Now lets see the Doc go to a parallel universe where the Transformers are real - a space race between the Tardis and Astrotrain ;)
The Seventh Doctor was the one who removed him from the Transformers' universe (Crossroads in Time). Perhaps the Eleventh Doctor can undo it and put him back, yes? ;) (unlikely unless Marvel, BBC and IDW can come to some sort of agreement on it :p)

Astrotrain IS a TARDIS! (how else can the Constructicons form Devastator inside him if he's not bigger on the inside! :D)

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Also, don't forget the scene about Transformers in Clerks 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YahNhXSD1Zs) (<link not suitable for children)

[1AZRAEL1]

Just thought of another one!

(Not for kiddies)






In the DVD Seth McFarlene's Calvalcade of Cartoon Comedy, a running joke throughout the DVD is a short sketch of "Sex with..." (examples - Sex with a midget, Sex with Gilbert Godfried). One of them is Sex with Optimus Prime, which shows a woman naked bent over a bed. Optimus is holding the whole bed up against his crotch, thrusting away going "Almost, almos...t" and at the high point of the act Transforms into a Truck, crushing her and the bed, and blows white smoke from his smokestacks and blood seeps out from under his tires. Nearly died laughing when I saw it (but wont be showing it do my infant son)!

Bahahaha I nearly died with laughter too when I saw that part too.

[5FDP]

Astrotrain IS a TARDIS! (how else can the Constructicons form Devastator inside him if he's not bigger on the inside! :D)


http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQxEokCeQOlZiryl2xX6axyyUxZe3NKC q7UF9CO0tbcNB42njqM5iwtV905VA

[BigTransformerTrev]

Seems like a lot of Transformers references cropping up in other media is not suitable for children. Most of it seems aimed at males in their 20's and 30's ;)


Just thought of a couple more.


In Drawn Together, Foxy Love is trying to find a surrogate father and ends up in a house with essentially Megatron. The giant robot orders her to transform and when she says she can't he turns into a giant gun and points himself at her face ordering her to transform again.
Also one day Foxy, Captian Hero and the rest are sitting round watching as they describe it 'Transformers Porn' (I'm so thankful they did not show the TV screen). You hear a female robotic voice go 'Not in my hair, I have a date', and Foxy says 'You know that Dinosaur Plane was touched as a child'.

(Note: The other day I put Arcee & Arachnia into a google image search engine, innocently trying to find a pic of them fighting and instead... dear Primus... there are some sad, messed up people out there who have tried to create their own TF porn. Ewwwwwww!)



On 'The Mr Hell Show', a nerdy guy's girlfriend is about to leave him because of his house full of collectables. In a bid to stop her he suddenly seems to grow armor and weapons and says 'Look! I'm megaprime (or something), leader of the Transformibles!' When she pushes past him and leaves his shoulders sag and he says mornfully 'I can turn into a tank as well'

[Paul Agnew]

Foxy, Captian Hero and the rest are sitting round watching as they describe it 'Transformers Porn' (I'm so thankful they did not show the TV screen). You hear a female robotic voice go 'Not in my hair, I have a date', and Foxy says 'You know that Dinosaur Plane was touched as a child'.

Aww man, I forgot about that one! Yeah, saw it when they did the first run on SBS and had a good laugh. If I remember correctly, the closing credit gag was a repeat of the scene with added clanging sounds and the odd "prepare to recieve download" cry.


The other day I put Arcee & Arachnia into a google image search engine, innocently trying to find a pic of them fighting and instead... dear Primus...

Suuuuuuure you were. :rolleyes:

[GoktimusPrime]

Seems like a lot of Transformers references cropping up in other media is not suitable for children. Most of it seems aimed at males in their 20's and 30's ;)

Most likely because they realise that the children of the 80s are now in that age demographic. :) But it's nothing new, we've seen Transformers content 'age' itself gradually as far back as G1.

For example, the Season 3 episode "God Gambit" was an analogy about religion, and what people are willing to do in the name of religion and how religion can be abused to brainwash and mentally enslave people. And of course, Astrotrain takes full advantage of this by making the people worship him and follow his orders without question. In the later G1 comics we saw that there was an underground cult of Cybertronians who worshipped Unicron and were willing to attack the Autobot-Decepticon Alliance in the name of their dark lord. So we can see some of the later G1 stories did touch upon some heavier issues, but presented in a way that was more age-appropriate to the target audience (it's not gonna be quite as 'in your face' as Monty Python's The Life of Brian for example :p ;)).

When Beast Wars was being made, the producers realised that the children of the 80s who grew up with G1 were now in their teens and 20s, so they also significantly matured the way that the stories were written (making Beast Wars the single best written Transformers story on screen IMHO). And the writers loaded the show with carefully masked sexual innuendo! :D As a uni student at the time, I remember watching this show and just laughing my butt off at the plethora of cleverly concealed dirty jokes! ;)

...then we got Michael Bay, where the live action Transformers films gave us toilet humour that was about as subtle as clipping your toenails with a jackhammer. :rolleyes:

[BigTransformerTrev]

Just now on 'The Simpsons' Mr Burns sung a song about how great it is to be the villain. He was doing shadow puppets of famous bad guys while singing their names and Megatron got a mention (and a shadow that kinda resembled Shockwave) ;):D

[BigTransformerTrev]

My wife texted me this morning. Apparently on Sesame Street they have each episode "the word on the street" and this mornings episode the word on the street was 'Transform'.

So some of the puppets were dressed as robots. One of the human actors said "I used to love transforming into a robot when I was a kid! Who are you transforming into? Bumblebee? A Decepticon?"

[rocman12]

I came across this show on foxtel, it's called toy hunters and its about a toy dealer that scouts America looking for toys to buy and sell on, in this episode he came across a lucky draw prize rodimus. Looks a bit staged, link below for anyone that wants to see it


http://www.travelchannel.com/video/hunting-for-toy-gold

[Trent]

My friend put me onto this video on YouTube (http://youtu.be/Hnjdq32u-MU). It is a "documentary" on the occult references found in 80s cartoons by 2 nutjobs. It picks on MOTU, Thundercats, Barbie, D&D, Voltron, Smurfs, My Little Pony, ET and others. Transformers gets a mention at about 1:20 abou the sheer violence of it. Apparently he ranks it and GI Joe as the most violent shows on TV at the time with 80 acts of violence per episode :D

It goes for a while but is great for a laugh.

[GoktimusPrime]

Transformers is probably the most violent kids' cartoon on TV! Always has been. That's what happens when your characters are robots and thus exempt from the same constraints that exist for people and animals. There's NO way they could repeatedly tear up a character like Waspinator over and over again in a regular kids' cartoon! You'd only see it in adult-oriented cartoons like South Park.

"Oh my God, they killed Waspinator!"
"You <people-born-to-unmarried-parents>!"

[UltraMarginal]

Transformers is probably the most violent kids' cartoon on TV! Always has been. That's what happens when your characters are robots and thus exempt from the same constraints that exist for people and animals. There's NO way they could repeatedly tear up a character like Waspinator over and over again in a regular kids' cartoon! You'd only see it in adult-oriented cartoons like South Park.

"Oh my God, they killed Waspinator!"
"You <people-born-to-unmarried-parents>!"

I agree, with one exception, TMNT. the current series is pretty violent. if there were human characters treated in the same way the Krang and other mutants were treated it would be at least MA.

[BigTransformerTrev]

In Episode 6 of the latest series of 'The Venture Brothers', Gary breaks into his old room in The Monarchs Cocoon and goes to his collectables cupboard for an item. Clearly visible on one of the shelves is an Optimus Prime (looks a bit like the 'Cybertron' version without the jetpack).

[Trent]

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc88/Wrxus/6646D4CE-54C1-4DC5-A780-F99AD649C216-230-0000002734E85008.jpg

I wonder if they have permission of Hasbro to use that? :p

In this weeks Illawarra Realtor

[VERT]

Took the kids to see the My little Pony movie today and Pinky Pie made the Transforming sound :eek:

[Hursticon]

*snip*

I wonder if they have permission of Hasbro to use that? :p

In this weeks Illawarra Realtor

Ha! :p:D
A little bit of faith in the Illawarra was restored this day! :D

[Cat]

It's probably fairly easy to optimise your sales result when you're swinging an axe around.

[GoktimusPrime]

I wonder if they have permission of Hasbro to use that? :p
I'm sure they did. Would've only cost 'em $10,000 to do it. ;) :p

[Hursticon]

It's probably fairly easy to optimise your sales result when you're swinging an axe around.

:p:D

[Ae-Evolution]

I just finished Saints Row 4 and in the end they referenced Transformers The Movie......as well as a load of other games and movies.

Spoilers

In the third part of the the final mission you gain some power armour that gives you superpowers to defeat Zinyak in the real world, after opening the blast shield, The boss dives down the tunnel while 'The Touch' plays in the background.

Boss - "One Shall stand, one shall fall"
Zinyak - "Why throw your life away so recklessly, Saint?"
Boss -"That's a question you should ask yourself"

[BigTransformerTrev]

This was on Pawn Stars tonight - he could have gotten MORE than than the $20,000 he asked for if he pieced them out! And they offered him 10 grand?!?! Fools!

Here it is on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEdrs-lFX5M

[griffin]

I remember when that was doing the rounds a couple years ago, and fans were so annoyed at how low the "expert" valued the collection... probably hoping that they could get dibs on it later when the Pawn people offered an amount that the expert knew would be rejected.
I visited the Toy Shack this year (http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc13/bc13jun21.html) (the store the expert was from) and it even has a sign out the front saying that they are featured on the Pawn Stars show... and it is a huge shop, so this guy would have been experienced enough to know that this collection was worth at least $50,000. The owner said there was over 1000 figures, and he could get $20,000 just from the handfull of city-formers he had in the back corner.
I wish I'd remembered this episode when I was at the Toy Shack, so I could see if this guy was there, and probe his mind for his motives.

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/bc13/v95.jpg

[Cat]

So many interesting tales I've heard about that. Pity it's so hard to know what's true and what's just rumour.

I've seen the toy guy make mistakes a few times, and considering he's mainly a Hot Wheels guy, I put some of it down to inexperience.

The way he 'authenticated' some vintage Star Wars figures was laughable.

[BigTransformerTrev]

On 'Unsupervised' tonight the one kid was talking about how his dad has to wear metal leg braces. The second kid said 'Oh cool, it means your dad is like a transformer!'. The first kid said 'Na, he's not as powerful as a Transformer though'

[Omega Metro]

Just watched 'The Neighbours' on 7. It's about some alien family moving in next door to some humans. The humans ask the aliens what they think of the Transformers movies. And Michael Bay is mentioned also. The aliens say that Michael Bay is an alien.:)

[1AZRAEL1]

The Neighbours, I saw the first episode. I thought it was quite funny. And has one of my favourite voice actors in it too :D

[Paul Agnew]

Transformers were mentioned in The Middle, when Brick was ordered to look for a friend. He ultimately found one after they struck up a conversation about Transformers, and how Starscream was cool.

Come Fly With Me name-dropped the first two Live-Action Movies, along with numerous versions of a certain movie involving blue people. :p

[Nevac]

Have you guys ever watched Robot Chicken they have a lot of skits with Transformers figures in them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g0-kTOu0tQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGS62bGmnjY

[fatbot]

right before the final boss battle in Saints Row 4, the quote "one shall rise, one shall fall" is said by the player - the next scenes music is 'the touch' by Stan Bush

[griffin]

Monday night's repeat of Dr Who (Night Terrors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Terrors_(Doctor_Who)) - the one with the kid who wanted help with the monsters in his cupboard), had a Cyber Stomper Optimus toy as one of his robot toys in his room.

[jazzcomp]

Heard transformers reference in Wonderland last night. Transform or something...

[Jetfire in the sky]

Hawaii Five-0 S04E03 Max say's (paraphrase) "Just like Optimus Prime I am more than meets the eye"

Pretty sure this isn't the first time that Transformers have been referenced in this show, they did a few Heroes gags early on too.

[Paul Agnew]

During Housos Vs. Authority, a Movie Bumblebee sticker is visible on the floor of Dazza and Shazza's house.

[Bartrim]

In the latest episode of Family Guy one of Megs friends calls her Megan because that's her name and Meg says "Actually my name is short for something else". They flashback to her birth and Peter changes the name on her birth certificate from Megan to Megatron.

[BigTransformerTrev]

In the latest episode of Family Guy one of Megs friends calls her Megan because that's her name and Meg says "Actually my name is short for something else". They flashback to her birth and Peter changes the name on her birth certificate from Megan to Megatron.

Heh - a mate texted me that last night but I was already in bed. Will have to look it up on youtube

[Megatron]

In the latest episode of Family Guy one of Megs friends calls her Megan because that's her name and Meg says "Actually my name is short for something else". They flashback to her birth and Peter changes the name on her birth certificate from Megan to Megatron.

Now that... is Cool. :cool::D

[Cat]

Sounds similar to the situation of a good friend of mine.

He's had to go through life with a misspelled first name, due to his father spelling it incorrectly when doing the birth certificate paperwork.

[Bartrim]

Sounds similar to the situation of a good friend of mine.

He's had to go through life with a misspelled first name, due to his father spelling it incorrectly when doing the birth certificate paperwork.

I had a similar issue. All my life all my legal documents have Roberto as my given name, it was only about 7-8 years ago when my Mum and Dad did their will the lawyer noticed my birth certificate had my name as Robert. So I had to change my name by deed poll because of an o.

[Deonasis]

Sounds similar to the situation of a good friend of mine.

He's had to go through life with a misspelled first name, due to his father spelling it incorrectly when doing the birth certificate paperwork.Ooh give us the mistake!

[jazzcomp]

My partner has a misspelled/misspelt name as well. The nurse who wrote the name down got it wrong. Never got changed though.

[Cat]

Ooh give us the mistake!

Mathew.

(Even funnier when his father admitted years later that he was just a little bit tipsy while filling out said paperwork. He'd been celebrating his newborn son, and was apparently still celebrating.)

It's caused my friend a lot of trouble, as he always gets asked why it's spelled that way.

[Deonasis]

Mathew.That would be an annoyance but luckily it wasn't completely stuffed up like no 'h' or something. I imagine his mum being furious with dad.

[Cat]

That would be an annoyance but luckily it wasn't completely stuffed up like no 'h' or something. I imagine his mum being furious with dad.

Yes, I belive he slept on the couch for a few days.

She didn't find out until the certificate arrived in the mail.

[DELTAprime]

right before the final boss battle in Saints Row 4, the quote "one shall rise, one shall fall" is said by the player - the next scenes music is 'the touch' by Stan Bush

After listening to today's Giant Bomb game of the year deliberations where Saints Row IV's use of "The Touch" almost got them the "Best use of a licensed song" award I'm going to buy Saints Row IV and play it to the end just to see this Transformers reference.

[BigTransformerTrev]

A new show coming out in 2014 called 'The Toy Hunter' where he goes around finding old rare and valuable toys.

On the commercial it showed him looking at an Optimus Primal, and also in a room with an Optimus Prime on a shelf behind him. Maybe they have FINALLY made a reality show that I will watch :D

[MayzaPrime]

A new show coming out in 2014 called 'The Toy Hunter' where he goes around finding old rare and valuable toys.

On the commercial it showed him looking at an Optimus Primal, and also in a room with an Optimus Prime on a shelf behind him. Maybe they have FINALLY made a reality show that I will watch :D

Just saw the ad as well...

I'm glad I was watching Batman with the kids this morning otherwise I wouldn't have seen it. :D

[DELTAprime]

Just saw the ad as well...

I'm glad I was watching Batman with the kids this morning otherwise I wouldn't have seen it. :D

What channel, time and day is that on?

[MayzaPrime]

What channel, time and day is that on?

I'm pretty sure it will be on GO, all that was said that it will be 'new in 2014' so it could be any time

[BigTransformerTrev]

Saw in the background of Bart visiting the movies on The Simpsons a poster for 'Transformers of the Carribean'. Had a picture of a robot with a car chest but with a 'Jack Sparrow' type head :D

[griffin]

The parody movie "Meet the Spartans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Spartans)" (mostly parodying the movie 300) was on tonight, and I don't recommend it at all (it was just playing while I was on the computer)... but I was surprised (and laughed) at the Transformers Movie reference near the end.
The king Xerxes was running from the Spartan king and trips over a cube half buried in the dirt. He grabs it and refers to it as the "Transformers Cube", hops into a car with it, and promptly "transforms" into a robot (him inside it like an exosuit). As he advances on the Spartans he pulls out his extension cord and falls over dead. :rolleyes:

Do not subject yourself to this movie just to see what I'm talking about, it is that bad... fortunately there is a clip of the scene on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkInPAWjtPg) (which is less than a minute long).

[Lint]

The parody movie "Meet the Spartans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Spartans)" (mostly parodying the movie 300) was on tonight, and I don't recommend it at all (it was just playing while I was on the computer)... but I was surprised (and laughed) at the Transformers Movie reference near the end.
The king Xerxes was running from the Spartan king and trips over a cube half buried in the dirt. He grabs it and refers to it as the "Transformers Cube", hops into a car with it, and promptly "transforms" into a robot (him inside it like an exosuit). As he advances on the Spartans he pulls out his extension cord and falls over dead. :rolleyes:

Do not subject yourself to this movie just to see what I'm talking about, it is that bad... fortunately there is a clip of the scene on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkInPAWjtPg) (which is less than a minute long).

This movie was horrible. As I recall it was released at around the height of the first live action film's popularity and that particular scene was extremely exploitative and cringeworthy.

I have to admit I did laugh at the Britney Spears bits though :rolleyes:

[Megatran]

I thought Carmen Electra did a decent job. :D That's all I remember of this movie.

[GoktimusPrime]

IIRC it's from the same mob who made Epic Movie, which is also horrifically bad. Can't believe I wasted my time/money watching Epic Movie in the cinema. :( I find when it comes to their movies, all the funny stuff is in the trailer (and maybe some excerpts you can find later on YouTube). None of their actual movies are worth watching in their entirety.

[griffin]

I've been expecting to see something TFs related in the many parody movies in the last 8 years, due to the Billion Dollar impact of the Live Action Movies to mainstream society... but this was the only one I've come across so far, and it wasn't funny at all.

[GoktimusPrime]

I quite like the Simpsons parody where Marge tells the Transformers to put aside their differences and work together. Which is exactly what they do... and enslave humanity. ;) :D

[Ravagecat]

People may or may not remember (or have realised ;)) the transformers reference in the movie Spaceballs (80's :o) Lord dark helmet wants to steal the air from planet Druidia and transforms his ship into a maid with a vacuum cleaner :D
One of the good guys says "it's a transformer"..."No! It's Megamaid!" :eek:

[griffin]

Yep that's a classic reference to the 1980s Transformers (and one of my favourite movies)... I was just wondering if there has been any parody references to the live action movies (aside from Meet the Spartans), as I've seen other recent multi-movie series featured more significantly in parody movies. (for example, Xmen, Lord of the Rings, Spiderman, Matrix, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Carribean).

[Ultra Mackness]

People may or may not remember (or have realised ;)) the transformers reference in the movie Spaceballs (80's :o) Lord dark helmet wants to steal the air from planet Druidia and transforms his ship into a maid with a vacuum cleaner :D
One of the good guys says "it's a transformer"..."No! It's Megamaid!" :eek:

I watched Spaceballs yesterday (great movie!) - when Yoghurt is showing Lone Starr et al the "moichandise" shop, Spaceballs the coloring book is actually a TF coloring book with a pic of Optimus Prime on the front and Spaceballs the lunchbox is a TF lunchbox!

[DELTAprime]

I just watched "I Know That Voice" on Netflix. It's a documentary about voice actors and includes Transformers voice actors Steve Blume, Nolan North, Jess Harnell, David Kaye Tara Strong and John DiMaggio. It's really great and features tons of voice actors from many shows from many decades. Well worth watching.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Apparently a whole episode of 'The Goldbergs' is going to be about the animated TF movie as the show is set in the 80's and about a kid. Ive never seen the show, is it any good?


http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/the-goldbergs-tackle-the-death-of-optimus-prime-on-this-weeks-episode/32001/

[Paulbot]

That reminds me, sometimes even the Doctor can't figure out how to transform an Optimus Prime toy

http://40.media.tumblr.com/dbc1e2b4b81ab3cb65dcbaef12225d10/tumblr_niifrqPahx1qbguy1o1_1280.jpg (http://paulbot.tumblr.com/image/108708545692)

From the British show "The Politician's Husband". This Prime-era Optimus Prime appeared in all three episodes, although usually in the hands of this character's son.

[UltraMarginal]

Apparently a whole episode of 'The Goldbergs' is going to be about the animated TF movie as the show is set in the 80's and about a kid. Ive never seen the show, is it any good?


http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/the-goldbergs-tackle-the-death-of-optimus-prime-on-this-weeks-episode/32001/

I quite like it, I don't watch it religiously but it has a lot of 80's references either in the script or on the screen that make it very enjoyable.
I would really like to watch this episode but given the number of times this is repeated here and who knows how far behind the US we are, I'll probably get around to watching it sometime in the next 5 years.


That reminds me, sometimes even the Doctor can't figure out how to transform an Optimus Prime toy

http://40.media.tumblr.com/dbc1e2b4b81ab3cb65dcbaef12225d10/tumblr_niifrqPahx1qbguy1o1_1280.jpg (http://paulbot.tumblr.com/image/108708545692)

From the British show "The Politician's Husband". This Prime-era Optimus Prime appeared in all three episodes, although usually in the hands of this character's son.

That's pretty cool, from many respects.

[Bidoofdude]

Just watched Aliens yesterday and I noticed the Shockwaves mentioned previously. I didn't know which movie they were in and it caught me off guard.

[Handsprime]

In the 2014 video game "The Crew":


Nectar - drive 8.05 km in a yellow Chevrolet Camaro SS

I bet you already know what it means ;)

[griffin]

Channel 32 (SBS2) has been screening episodes of Robot Chicken after their Wednesday 80s double feature, which ends up being around midnight.
Their episodes are only about 10 minutes long, but feature a lot of 80s references and toys.
One episode last night had a "where are they now" type of skit of 80s action figure characters, and Soundwave was a port-a-loo at a rock event.

I think this is the first time Robot Chicken has been on free-to-air TV here?

[BigTransformerTrev]

Channel 32 (SBS2) has been screening episodes of Robot Chicken after their Wednesday 80s double feature, which ends up being around midnight.
Their episodes are only about 10 minutes long, but feature a lot of 80s references and toys.
One episode last night had a "where are they now" type of skit of 80s action figure characters, and Soundwave was a port-a-loo at a rock event.

I think this is the first time Robot Chicken has been on free-to-air TV here?

Dude - you are just discovering Robot Chicken now?!?! :eek:

You have A LOT of Transformers related sketches to catch up on! Everything from Optimus getting prostate cancer to Megatron attending a self-help seminar to Bumblebee jacking it while watching two girls soap up a sports car - they freakin LOVE the TF's! :D

[griffin]

Its never been on free TV before that I know of, so never seen more than a few clips on youtube of TFs ones.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Its never been on free TV before that I know of, so never seen more than a few clips on youtube of TFs ones.

Optimus replacing the tin man in the nerds Alice in Wonderland dream is quite good. I've got all 6 seasons on DVD - hop in the car for 18 hours and drop by and we can watch'em ;)

[griffin]

MAD TV (some nights on Channel 99 GO! after midnight) also has a lot of 80s references and toy characters... which I have caught a few of.

[prjkt]

After listening to today's Giant Bomb game of the year deliberations where Saints Row IV's use of "The Touch" almost got them the "Best use of a licensed song" award I'm going to buy Saints Row IV and play it to the end just to see this Transformers reference.

I'm only just finding this out now!?

I've been playing the game the last week or so, currently in "ignore missions, collect collectibles" mode

[BigTransformerTrev]

Just watching Season 6 Ep 02 of Archer. A guy they battled in an early season who got his hand ripped off is back and just had a big fight with Sterling and Lana.

Conway (paraphrasing) "No hell hath fury like a woman scorned"
Lana: You are definitely concussed
Archer: Not to mention a Decepticon (a reference to the fact he is evil and is part robot)

[Bidoofdude]

Not sure if anyone has posted this, but in Community S1E12 "Comparative Religion", Pierce says that because Britta asked if he was in a cult, she owes him 2000 energon cubes.

[Paulbot]

There are Transformers in the most controversial of yesterday's Super Bowl ads, the Nationwide insurance one (http://youtu.be/dKUy-tfrIHY)

(Well not really 'Transformers', some of those licensed non-converting figures of Optimus, Shockwave and Nemesis Prime.)

[griffin]

There are Transformers in the most controversial of yesterday's Super Bowl ads, the Nationwide insurance one (http://youtu.be/dKUy-tfrIHY)

(Well not really 'Transformers', some of those licensed non-converting figures of Optimus, Shockwave and Nemesis Prime.)

Loyal Subjects.


I think those ads can be useful and challenge the thought process of people to not be so dismissive and negligent about the dangers around the house... but the ad should have had parents talking about what their kids were missing, and not show children, as the start draws in children's attention and has adults tuning out... missing the whole point of educating the parents.

[Starscream77]

Episode 12 in the new season of Robot Chicken has a sweet little skit with MP's

[BigTransformerTrev]

I didn't realise that when Afro Man did the song "Because I got high" he was wearing a Decepticon T-shirt (and one I own - what does that say about what I was doing back when that was released :eek::p).


The only reason I know this is because they showed clips about him on the news tonight and him completely decking a female fan that had come up on stage because he thought is was a male heckler. Guessing he hasn't changed his smoking habits much :rolleyes:

[griffin]

The TV show in Canada called "Storage Wars Canada" had someone find a bag of original series Transformers toys, which they took to a recent TFCon convention to get appraised. The clip is on Youtube and can be seen here (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/generation-1-1/tfw2005-member-protoman-on-storage-wars-canada-182155/) with some details of the person and the toys in the bag.
(the voice at the end sounds like Peter Cullen... so I wonder if the show's producers commissioned him for it - maybe he was a guest at TFCon that year)

[Bidoofdude]

The TV show in Canada called "Storage Wars Canada" had someone find a bag of original series Transformers toys, which they took to a recent TFCon convention to get appraised. The clip is on Youtube and can be seen here (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/generation-1-1/tfw2005-member-protoman-on-storage-wars-canada-182155/) with some details of the person and the toys in the bag.
(the voice at the end sounds like Peter Cullen... so I wonder if the show's producers commissioned him for it - maybe he was a guest at TFCon that year)

The voice does sound a bit off though. It very well could be Cullen.

[griffin]

One of the recent episodes of My Kitchen Rules had among the MANY music bits they use each episode, about 5 seconds from the start of the Rise of the Dark Spark game music.
(yes, I played the game often enough to recognise it... and yes, I sometimes watch MKR... which is more embarrassing? :p )

[ILikeSoundwave]

One of the recent episodes of My Kitchen Rules had among there MANY music bits they use each episode, about 5 seconds from the start of the Rise of the Dark Spark game music.
(yes, I played the game often enough to recognise it... and yes, I sometimes watch MKR... which is more embarrassing. :p )

I heard it too!:D Awhile back last year I also heard a section of 'Punch hold slide repeat' from the Age of Extinction score on a 60 minutes commercial multiple times.

[GoktimusPrime]

In the Power/Rangers fan film --- the cell where Kimberley is being held, we see a lot of alien script popping up. A lot of that is actually Decepticon! Here's just one example:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/Transformers/mmpr1_zpsuf1ippwr.jpg
The highlighted text says "Prisoner" in Decepticon.

[MayzaPrime]

In the Power/Rangers fan film --- the cell where Kimberley is being held, we see a lot of alien script popping up. A lot of that is actually Decepticon! Here's just one example:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/Transformers/mmpr1_zpsuf1ippwr.jpg
The highlighted text says "Prisoner" in Decepticon.

Power Rangers fan film...Why haven't I heard about this?

Must be hiding under a rock

[Bidoofdude]

It's pretty recent, IIRC. It's darker than regular Power Rangers, from what I've seen.

[griffin]

On the last page or two of the Power Rangers topic here (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=5553), has the link and discussion... but be warned, it isn't for the eyes of children.

[tinyJazz]

On the virtual pets website Neopets.com, you can buy or make a steampunk/robot petpet (it's a pet, for your pet) called Raverge.
It looks like this:
http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww93/tinyJazz/image.jpg1_zps6zx68zxn.jpg
The Raverge tends to be a bit dirty and noisy, but playing with it can be quite fun.

[Golden Phoenix]

On the virtual pets website Neopets.com, you can buy or make a steampunk/robot petpet (it's a pet, for your pet) called Raverge.
It looks like this:
http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww93/tinyJazz/image.jpg1_zps6zx68zxn.jpg
The Raverge tends to be a bit dirty and noisy, but playing with it can be quite fun.

Yes he does look a bit "special"

[griffin]

Last night's episode of "The Chaser" (UK quiz show on channel 7), had the question - what 80s toyline had the tagline of Robots in Disguise. The chaser took a moment, but answered correctly.

[BigTransformerTrev]

On the latest episode of The Big Bang Theory Howard makes a couple of references to the fact all he used his ping pong table for as a kid was to set up battles between his Transformers and his Thundercats.

Think its only the second time I've heard a Transformers reference on Big Bang over all 8 seasons - odd considering what a sci-fi referencing show it is

[jazzcomp]

It's mostly about comic books, cosplay, tv shows and related collectibles. I don't think they have really touched much on robot animation.

[griffin]

Demonac showed me an episode of The Goldbergs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goldbergs_(TV_series)), that heavily featured Transformers... because the youngest kid in the show gets so upset about Optimus dying in the 1986 movie, that he tries to make his own home movie with Optimus surviving (remember, in America they didn't get the epilogue that we got here, to reassure us that Optimus would return).

It was season 2, episode 11 (https://youtu.be/f6xDPirAqxc?t=3m15s) (that's a youtube clip, starting at the good part, as half the episode is about his older brother trying to get a girlfriend... so just jump past those scenes if you want, or watch the whole episode from the beginning). Just don't miss the end bit, which includes the show's creator playing the actual home video he made as a kid in the 80s. (this TV show is based on the childhood of its creator)

This particular episode is so funny, because when the kid is talking about things in the 1986 movie, you know as a fan what is about to happen.

The first season has been showing late night on one of the 7 channels, so this episode might show up in a few months time here.

Apparently there is another second season episode with a small Transformers reference in it somewhere too. (according to Demonac)

[MayzaPrime]

I enjoy the Goldbergs, and that episode was great...

I remember the first time that I saw the 80s TF movie... I pretty much the same but with alot more tears... I was 3 :p

[griffin]

Looks like Bumblebee will make a cameo in the TMNT 2 Movie.... sort of. As a costume at a costume party (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-movie-just-movie-31/bumblebee-will-cameo-in-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-2-182950/).


Something more local, the other night on TV was the Melbourne Comedy Festival 2015, and one of the comedians talked about his family and his Aboriginal community as Transformers... with things like the "Kurri-Bots", the "Decepti-boges" and "Mega-yob".
It's on youtube (at the 1 hour 19 minute mark), but there is a too much coarse language to post the link here.

[GoktimusPrime]

I mentioned this in the Movie reviews thread, but there are two Transformers references that I spotted in Tomorrowland:
* A police officer played by Garry Chalk
* A TF Prime Beast Hunters Voyager Shockwave toy which appears in the background of at least two scenes.

[Handsprime]

Latest Toon Hole comic:

http://toonhole.com/2015/06/autobots-roll-out/

[Handsprime]

In Ted 2 some Transformers can be seen around. I would mention them, but it would be a spoiler

[Bladestorm]

In Terminator Genisys there is a Transformers reference. I won't mention it explicitly as I don't want to spoil. But you'll know it when you hear it. ;)

[BigTransformerTrev]

Shawn Micalleff makes a reference to Transformers in the Errata at at the end of his book "The President's Desk" (a weird but funny read by the way)

[Megatran]

There's an Audi tv ad with the slogan: More than meets the eye.

[Starscream77]

There's an Audi tv ad with the slogan: More than meets the eye.

Hasbro better a lawyer son, better get a real good one :p

[BigTransformerTrev]

In the new Missy Elliot song WTF you can hear this lyric just before the two minute mark

Lyrically I'm
Optimus Prime


Also they made a reference to Transformers in the season finale of Gruen on the ABC on Wednesday night

[Paulbot]

In Ted 2 some Transformers can be seen around. I would mention them, but it would be a spoiler

Just watched this film on DVD. Honestly got a bit distracted by all the Transformers product placement in a few scenes. :)

[Krayt]

Demonac showed me an episode of The Goldbergs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goldbergs_(TV_series)), that heavily featured Transformers... because the youngest kid in the show gets so upset about Optimus dying in the 1986 movie, that he tries to make his own home movie with Optimus surviving (remember, in America they didn't get the epilogue that we got here, to reassure us that Optimus would return).

It was season 2, episode 11 (https://youtu.be/f6xDPirAqxc?t=3m15s) (that's a youtube clip, starting at the good part, as half the episode is about his older brother trying to get a girlfriend... so just jump past those scenes if you want, or watch the whole episode from the beginning). Just don't miss the end bit, which includes the show's creator playing the actual home video he made as a kid in the 80s. (this TV show is based on the childhood of its creator)

This particular episode is so funny, because when the kid is talking about things in the 1986 movie, you know as a fan what is about to happen.

The first season has been showing late night on one of the 7 channels, so this episode might show up in a few months time here.

Apparently there is another second season episode with a small Transformers reference in it somewhere too. (according to Demonac)


This gold bergs episode should be on channel 7 tonight

[Krayt]

Whoops..... Will be next week.... Damn crappy episode guide on my stupid tv

[griffin]

I hate them doing this double episode format, because they make it into one long episode, cutting out the closing scene of the first episode and the opening scene of the second one.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Whoops..... Will be next week.... Damn crappy episode guide on my stupid tv

That's ok, my wife and I tuned into the show to see the TF stuff and ended up quite liking the show anyway :) - we may end up watching it regularly (if our kids ever let us watch TV of an evening properly :rolleyes:)

[griffin]

Tonight on SBS is the "Transformers" episode of Mythbusters. Unfortunately it would have already started down south... as I only saw it on the guide just now.
From reviews on TFs fansites don't expect anything specifically related to Transformers... I think all they do is just modify a vehicle to make it transform.

[griffin]

That's ok, my wife and I tuned into the show to see the TF stuff and ended up quite liking the show anyway :) - we may end up watching it regularly (if our kids ever let us watch TV of an evening properly :rolleyes:)

Sign of a sad super-geek spotting an "inaccurate" prop for an 80s TV show... by freeze-framing a scene at the start of that episode to see what version of Optimus Prime Adam is holding onto while talking to his dad, and noticing that it is not an original 1980s Optimus toy, but must be one of the 2004/2009 Hasbro reissues because of the small smokestacks. :o:o:o

(I actually laughed out aloud when I saw it, because I then imagined being one of those obsessive people for details, complaining about the TV show being cheap/lazy by not using a real 1980s Optimus toy... :p )

[griffin]

How weird is this... two episodes of the Simpsons in the last two weeks had Transformers references.
One was on last week, called the Treehouse of Horror 19, which had a bit about an alien transforming robot race destroying Springfield while battling, until Marge convinces them to stop fighting each other... only to have them team up to enslave the Humans of Springfield. It was actually very funny because two were very much homages to Optimus and Megatron... and there was a transforming Malibu Stacy car (their homage to Barbie), making it look like a Barbie Transformers crossover toy.

The second episode that was on this week was just a regular episode, but for some reason, a random guy showed up with "Transformers The Ride" on the back of his work gear, but there was nothing said or done about it or about that guy... so it was just product placement, which is really odd for The Simpsons (who only do fake product placements to make fun of how bad they can be done - and this didn't relate to anything in the episode that I could tell, so just didn't make sense).

[Megatran]

In the movie The Professional, starring Jean Reno & a very young Natalie Portman, a brief showing of Sludge in the TF cartoon on the tv kinda spooked the killer & saved Natalie's character's life.

[griffin]

In the movie The Professional, starring Jean Reno & a very young Natalie Portman, a brief showing of Sludge in the TF cartoon on the tv kinda spooked the killer & saved Natalie's character's life.

I was watching it on SBS on the weekend. When it first came out I think a lot of fans watched it just to see all the Transformers cartoon bits in it.

[5FDP]

In the movie The Professional, starring Jean Reno & a very young Natalie Portman, a brief showing of Sludge in the TF cartoon on the tv kinda spooked the killer & saved Natalie's character's life.

You don't say...


The Professional with Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and a very young Natalie Portman. There were several scenes in which Natalie's character was seen watching the G1 cartoon.

:p

[Megatran]

Well played good sir.
(I'm only a few year's late to the party)

[Megatran]

On tonight's 7:30 Report, there was a segment on Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) with a case involving Goldie Marketing Pty Ltd who incidentally manufacture & distribute the licensed Transformers 30th Anniversary mini-figurines (among other toys). The owner of the company was facing financial hardship.

[philby]

really the other way around, but i just noticed in this clip of jazz doing his 'musical sonic boom' that when he goes outside onto jetfire, jetfire says 'watch out for that first step, it's a doozy!' reckon it's a reference to groundhog day? :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KULYI_atD6g

[griffin]

really the other way around, but i just noticed in this clip of jazz doing his 'musical sonic boom' that when he goes outside onto jetfire, jetfire says 'watch out for that first step, it's a doozy!' reckon it's a reference to groundhog day? :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KULYI_atD6g

Groundhog Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_%28film%29) probably took it from Transformers if one copied the other, as that movie was released in 1993... almost 10 years later.

[Metallikato]

really the other way around, but i just noticed in this clip of jazz doing his 'musical sonic boom' that when he goes outside onto jetfire, jetfire says 'watch out for that first step, it's a doozy!' reckon it's a reference to groundhog day? :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KULYI_atD6g


Side note: of all the eps Soundwave was in, I believe that scene was one of only two times he ever uses his shoulder cannon.

[philby]

Groundhog Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_%28film%29) probably took it from Transformers if one copied the other, as that movie was released in 1993... almost 10 years later.

oh, i thought it said 1983 when i looked it up to check!

[griffin]

oh, i thought it said 1983 when i looked it up to check!

Seems that musical directors are running out of ideas by turning movies into stage productions - I just saw on the wiki page that they are doing a musical version of Groundhog Day this year...

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/fp1.jpg

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

Seems that musical directors are running out of ideas by turning movies into stage productions - I just saw on the wiki page that they are doing a musical version of Groundhog Day this year...

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/fp1.jpg

I wouldn't mind a Planet of the Apes musical so long as it's a close match to the excerpt we saw in The Simpsons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlmzUEQxOvA

[Paulbot]

Seems that musical directors are running out of ideas by turning movies into stage productions - I just saw on the wiki page that they are doing a musical version of Groundhog Day this year...


It's the exact same thing as is happening in cinema. There's plenty of new and original musicals being created (just like there's plenty of original movies being made) but musical and movie producers know that if they use an existing property the brand recognition will sell more tickets.

So there's a steady flow of both new musicals and movies that are adaptations of existing movies/books and sometimes the movie producers will look at musicals based on movies and turn them into new musical movies! (Hairspray, The Producers). And there's a couple of musicals based on movies that I love much more than the original films (Legally Blonde, Shrek, Priscilla, and Billy Eliot are in my top ten musicals of all time).

[GoktimusPrime]

Meanwhile, in Bollywood... ;)
There's just something about watching a musical horror movie that makes it less scary

[Handsprime]

in a few weeks I'm seeing this dnb DJ known as Cyantific and his debut album is this:
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/hos-static-shop/image/114/medium

[tinyJazz]

Henkei Grimlock makes an appearance in the music video of Alex Lahey's You Don't Think You Like People Like Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z32tgLHEEBc&t=1m46s)

[Megatran]

Tonight's episode of Family Guy. Chris Griffin (the son) wears an Optimus Prime costume to a dress up party. Hooks up with a girl in a closet, who turns out to be Meg (his sister). Ewwww.

[High_Q]

In the animated film Hulk Vs., there is a fight scene between Loki (in Hulk's body) and Thor, where Loki said, "I have waited an eternity for this, to crush you with my bare hands ...", and Thor responded, "Never!"

I think the screenwriter might have seen TF:TM too many times.

[Paulbot]

I'm watching the aussie comedy movie Downunder (about the aftermath of the Cronulla Riots) and playing on the stoner video store clerk's car stereo is Stan Bush's The Touch. Was not expecting that.

[FatalityPitt]

I'm watching the aussie comedy movie Downunder (about the aftermath of the Cronulla Riots) and playing on the stoner video store clerk's car stereo is Stan Bush's The Touch. Was not expecting that.

Speaking of The Touch, I don't know if people here know this (it's probably common knowledge by now I suppose); but Mark Walberg sang butchered the song in Boogie Nights about 18-19 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYAAbbuEpnw

[BigTransformerTrev]

From Episode 5 of Season 8 of Robot Chicken


Narrator: This spring, the Transformers gain a new ally.
Optimus: Autobots, transform and roll out.
Narrator: From Amazon's hit show "Transparent," Jeffrey Tambor is the Trans Transformer.
Jeffry: Uh, guys, hold on. (uses phone) Hi, I'd like to schedule gender reassignment surgery. Man to woman.
Optimus: Oh, for god's sake, Pfefferman, transform and roll out!
Jeffry: This isn't a quick process.

[BigTransformerTrev]

From Episode 5 of Season 8 of Robot Chicken



And from Episode 18 it showed Soundwave chilling out to really bad music (think it was 'Do you realize') and all his cassettes (in this case Rumble, Frenzy, Ratbat & Ravage) evacuating his chest so they didn't have to listen.

[Firestorm]

A pair of references in anime.

In the English dub of the anime Sgt. Frog, the second story of episode 34 called "Frog on the run" there is a scene where the Characters Fuyuki and Keroro find a construction vehicle demolishing a building and have this (slightly erroneous) exchange

Fuyuki: It kinda looks like a Constructicon.
Keroro: Oh my frog god, I hadn't thought of that. I might just be looking at an actual, real life Transformer.
Fuyuki: Yeah, it's too bad though. It's gotta tear down that old building.
Keroro: Kero? he should be fighting Decepticons, leave the Pekopon destruction to Agol Mois. Heehee, yeah. I should really get around to conquering this place.

The series (a comedy about a group of Frog-like aliens coming to conquer earth, but mostly just goofing off) was always full of referential humor, but the English dub really goes all out making pop-culture references and trying to be as "funny" as possible. personally, I really enjoy it.

in another anime I enjoy that is full of pop-culture references. Hayate the Combat Butler (Hayate no Gotoku) during the first opening theme song of the series. there is a moment where the shadows of 3 giant robots loom over the protagonists. one of which is clearly G1 Optimus Prime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUlCbewOEHc (about 49 seconds in)

[Raider]

The Goldbergs did it again with some more awesome Transformers in the show. I am going from memory but it is Season 4 Episode 10, "Han Ukkah Solo". Adam is looking at a toy catalog and there are some Transformer he is circling whist also shots of Metroplex and I think the Contructicons in the scene.

[BigTransformerTrev]

South Park - Season 20 - Episode - 5

One of the Trolls has an Optimus Prime figure on his desk

[Megatran]

Last night's episode of Family Guy titled Ocean's Three & A Half had Megatron in it.

Short YouTube clip of it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDeEHpnUU_Y

[Megatron]

Last night's episode of Family Guy titled Ocean's Three & A Half had Megatron in it.

Short YouTube clip of it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDeEHpnUU_Y

That was nice. I appreciate that it's Frank's voice. Thanks for sharing!

[Megatran]

This still shot (from the net) was taken from an episode of Family Guy titled Tiegs for Two. Who's the Con standing in front of Shockwave?

http://www.cybertron.ca/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=9921&d=1302491613

From left to right:
Skywarp, Starscream, Shockwave, ??? (green, yellow & orange Con), Megatron, Scrapper, Astrotrain, Hook, Negatron, Rumble, Soundwave & Frenzy.

[Megatron]

This still shot (from the net) was taken from an episode of Family Guy titled Tiegs for Two. Who's the Con standing in front of Shockwave?

http://www.cybertron.ca/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=9921&d=1302491613

From left to right:
Skywarp, Starscream, Shockwave, ??? (green, yellow & orange Con), Megatron, Scrapper, Astrotrain, Hook, Negatron, Rumble, Soundwave & Frenzy.
After a little bit of research I found out that it's Barrage: http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Barrage_(Insecticon)

A very funny Family Guy DC cutaway and here it is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1n0SVjZ_d8

:cool::)

[griffin]

Last night's episode of Family Guy titled Ocean's Three & A Half had Megatron in it.

Short YouTube clip of it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDeEHpnUU_Y



A very funny Family Guy DC cutaway and here it is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1n0SVjZ_d8

:cool::)

Hehehe, those were funny. :D

[GoktimusPrime]

This clip from Family Guy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNEkBPAArus) (1:32-2:12) there's a calendar on the wall with a car that looks a lot like G1 Tracks.

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

Forgot that Faith No More's We Care A Lot has a reference to Transformers in it:

https://youtu.be/LQhX8PbNUWI?t=2m50s

[griffin]

When you see a momentary flash of a yellow toy on a Mitsubishi Outlander commercial and recognise it as a Transformers toy.... that's when you realise you know way too much about these things. :p

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/d581.jpg
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http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/d582.jpg

(the commercial must have only been filmed in the last 2-3 months, as this toy has only been out since the beginning of this year)

[griffin]

For those who watch a bit of SBS, you may have seen the "Baking Month" promos recently that have a new show on during June, called Cake Wars, with some commercials showing an Optimus Prime cake.
The cooking contest show "Cake Wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake_Wars#Episode_guide)" has had five seasons in the last two years, with each episode being themed for the contestants, and during the fourth season (late 2016), they had a Transformers episode.
It aired in America on October 31st, 2016, and if scheduling holds up, it should be on channel 33 (SBS's food channel) next Saturday (June 10th) at 7.30pm.
They are showing season 4 episodes on Saturday and Sunday (2 episodes per day), while showing season 3 episodes on Monday to Friday (one episode per day). Since the Transformers episode is the sixth one in season 4, it should be on next Saturday.

The official website only shows the winning cake (http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/cake-wars/photos/the-winning-creations-from-cake-wars-season-4), which is photo 17 & 18 on their slideshow, so to see how it is created, and the other cakes that didn't win, tune in next weekend. (if my estimate is out, I will post up a correction as soon as it shows up on the tvguide)

While looking to see if this was posted up here last year when it was mentioned on the American fansites (we didn't), I did come across this Transforming cake posting from 2015 (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=21495)... which is worth mentioning again.

[griffin]

Okay... yesterday they played episode 13 of season four (between episodes 2 and 3)... so the Transformers episode (number 6) will now be on Sunday 11th June at 6.30pm.

[griffin]

For anyone curious, the cake wars Transformers episode is on tonight in a few minutes... I have no idea what it will be like, but could be amusing.

Don't watch it if you are likely to get a craving for cake later. :p

[griffin]

Well that was... interesting.

Their guest of this episode was a "Senior VP Global Brand Licensing Manager" at Hasbro by the name of Simon Waters.... someone I've never heard of before, so is either new (this episode was produced late 2016), or someone who isn't involved with Transformers enough to appear at Conventions or Product videos.
The Hasbro guest judge noted that he loved the Autobot symbol on the front of one of the Blurr cakes, but it was not very well done, so maybe he doesn't have much to with Transformers at all to even know what an Autobot symbol actually looks like.

Unless all of these bakers were long time fans of Transformers, I think they must have been given guides on the different series over the years or allowed to do some internet researching, because a number of ideas were a bit obscure (like Animated Blurr and Combiner Wars Leader Megatron) or a mix of different series together on the one cake.

The first round of four teams had to create in 75 minutes, a cake that represented their "all time favourite Transformers character", but I didn't realise Blurr was that popular, as these were the four cakes...
- a mid-transformation Blurr cake (looks like it was based on the GEN-2010 redeco of the first Generations Drift toy)
- an Animated Blurr cake (just the car mode on top and a 2D face on the side of the cake)
- "Gen1" Optimus Prime on top of a round building (Optimus looked more like Softimus Prime, being very rounded and cuddly like a plush toy)
- Gen1 Soundwave breaking out of the street (the person painting it called it Optimus at one point)

The team that did the Animated Blurr cake was eliminated, and the last three teams moved onto round two, which gave them 4 hours to make an "epic battle" themed cake.

- a city battle with Combiner Wars Optimus vs CW Megatron, and a lenticular Autobot/Decepticon symbol on the top.
- layers of several cakes that represent Cybertron to Earth with several characters all over it, from different eras (probably not intentional though).
- a giant Optimus Prime (time ran out before the head was painted, leaving it completely white - this was the same team that did Soundwave in the first round, and it's head was white too).

From that second round, one team was eliminated (the giant Optimus), and the remaining two teams go on (to a final or to the next episode), with the Optimus Vs Megatron cake being announced the winner, earning that team $10,000 and having their cake taken to a party somewhere unknown (briefly shown, with probably only a dozen people and kids - other end of episode parties are usually huge with a hundred plus people).

Various commercials for this "baked month" on SBS had a transforming Optimus truck that looked like a cake, which I thought was from this episode... but it wasn't, and must be from another TV show on this month, or just a clip they pulled from youtube.

[griffin]

Did anyone else watch it... or was I the only one with nothing better to do on a Sunday night? :p

[ComradeRenko]

NSW Police Force posting on Facebook about a truck lodged under a low bridge: "Optimus isn't looking so prime..."

[GoktimusPrime]

It reminds me of the scene in MTMTE Pt2/3 where Optimus Prime is seriously wounded after rolling down a hill when Wheeljack's bomb went off inside the ruby crystal mine. We all remember that scene - when all the Autobots had to carefully upright Prime and he struggled to transform to robot mode. Yet later in MTMTE Pt 3 we see Optimus Prime fall to the earth from the stratosphere, after chasing the Decepticon ship with Sideswipe's rocket pack -- and Prime is perfectly fine. :eek: :o

[griffin]

It says something about how often BotCon was at Pasadena, when the Auditorium building next to the Convention centre that hosted four BotCons, becomes immediately recognisable in just the opening seconds of a recent episode of NCIS.

Last week's episode (in Australia) was episode 19 of season 14 (The Wall), and it started out (before the credits) with a tour-group of war veterans at a "Washington DC" museum, but the front of the building caught my eye as being very familiar.

Since I've never been to DC, I knew it had to be Pasadena (in Los Angeles)... and looking through my thousands of BotCon photos, sure enough, it was what I thought it was.

From the episode (screenshots from tenplay website)...
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/e539.jpg
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http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/e540.jpg
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http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/e541.jpg.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/e542.jpg

My photos from 2011 and 2014...
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/e543.jpg
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http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/e544.jpg



It was really hard to look through those photos too (from BotCon 2004, 2009, 2011, 2014), with so many great memories, and the sad thought that I may never end up going back there, even if BotCon is revived by a new business. It was a great location, with LA being the easiest/cheapest city to fly to from Australia, and has so many tourist options, including themeparks and Hollywood studios.

It was the same feeling I had after FunPub took over BotCon in 2005, realising that I'd probably never go back to Fort Wayne in Indiana, which was my favourite BotCon city until Pasadena started to get used.

Maybe one day I'll return to America. I miss all those familiar faces, friends and places I met over the 17 years of trips to America since BotCon 1999.

[griffin]

Various commercials for this "baked month" on SBS had a transforming Optimus truck that looked like a cake, which I thought was from this episode... but it wasn't, and must be from another TV show on this month, or just a clip they pulled from youtube.

I noticed the other day another themed cake show had started, taking the place of the Cake Wars program on Channel 33... and checking the TV guide on Wednesday night, I saw that the episode that evening had Transformers mentioned, so I figured that this might be where the transforming Optimus cake was from in those commercials a few weeks back.
I set the recorder for the midnight repeat screening, and sure enough, this was the one... and it was so much more interesting than the Cake Wars episode.
This one featured research and clips from Transformers, and ended with an actual party at the Universal Studios, with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen as featured guests.

The episode had three projects throughout the hour, but someone has posted up a youtube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBEqZhV8zyo) of just the Transformers portions, which goes for 29 minutes. (definitely watch it if you have a chance, especially if you've never seen Peter or Frank use their Transformers voices in public before)

Doing a little research on this, the party at the end of the episode was back in February 2nd 2015 (http://forums.insideuniversal.net/threads/transformers-the-ride-3d.11015/page-20#post-538003), but the episode didn't air in America until May 3rd 2016 (http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/cakemasters-on-food-network-make-a-transforming-optimus-prime-cake.1066215/).

[Ace]

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, apologies if it has.

The recent Power Rangers movie made reference to a certain Bayverse transformer. It's very brief, but I had a chuckle when I was watching it.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Episode 1 of Season 11 of Big Bang Theory.

Sheldon: ‘It’s like having Optimus Prime over and not asking him to turn into a truck’

[griffin]

The Goldbergs has already been mentioned having heaps of Transformers references, toys and a lot of Stan Bush music, and in a recent episode, one of the toys in the background in Adam's room was a Gen1 Jetfire.... a very yellowed Gen1 Jetfire. It seems that the props department acquired some vintage Transformers toys for the 1980s bedroom, but ended up with a Jetfire that didn't look like it was "new" for that time. (I don't think the yellowing was noticeable until at least into the 1990s... and this one was very yellowed, so was either out in the sun every day, or it was a 30 year old toy.

An episode in this season of Family Guy, has a nod to Transformers, as the theme of the episode is how a particular event would have been interpreted by three different directors, with one being Michael Bay. (none of the actual directors were involved)
One scene has some "Transformers", and some screenshots can be seen here (https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/michael-bays-transformers-movies-parodied-by-family-guy/39971/).

[Paulbot]

An episode in this season of Family Guy, has a nod to Transformers, as the theme of the episode is how a particular event would have been interpreted by three different directors, with one being Michael Bay. (none of the actual directors were involved)
One scene has some "Transformers", and some screenshots can be seen here (https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/michael-bays-transformers-movies-parodied-by-family-guy/39971/).

This episode is on 7Mate right now

[griffin]

Dammit... I didn't think we'd get it so soon, so I wasn't keeping an eye out on the tv guide.

[Paulbot]

It came on after Capt Anerica which I was watching, but by that time it was too late to let people know in advance. It was not a great episode of the show.

[philby]

This is really stretching it...but I'm sure in one of the new episodes of Stranger Things you can see the Nissan van which Ironhide is based on parked out the front of a building 😂

[griffin]

Thursday November 30th, the movie Ted 2 is on channel 99 from 9.30pm... which is supposed to have a scene at ComicCon... which includes the Hasbro exhibit, and you can see their Transformers display from that year.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Just as they had a little girl was carrying a MLP toy in the first live action TF flick, in the My Little Pony movie (http://www.bigangrytrev.com/movie-review-little-pony/) they slip in the classic Transforming sound near the start of the movie :)

[GoktimusPrime]

Just watched it for the first time. Absolutely terrible movie. :o
Anyway, enjoyed the Hasbro/TF references (possibly the only enjoyable parts of the film). For me...

* I've never seen Hasbro's US head office, but the shots of Hasbro in the film look very similar in style to Hasbro Australia's old office in Epping (I haven't been to their new office)

* There sure was a lot of Transformers product placement in the film, which is funny given that Marky Mark is in this film. I was hoping to see a fourth wall break with him walking past an AoE poster showing Cade Yeager (did that happen? I must say that I struggled to pay attention to this train wreck of a movie).

* The rogue Hasbro guy saying that he's from Mattel.

...man... suddenly Bayformers doesn't look so bad.

[griffin]

Thursday November 30th, the movie Ted 2 is on channel 99 from 9.30pm... which is supposed to have a scene at ComicCon... which includes the Hasbro exhibit, and you can see their Transformers display from that year.

I was not a fan of the first Ted movie, so fortunately I taped this one to watch later in the night and fast-forward past all the bits that were just too boring or too crude to be funny. I managed to get it down to about 30 minutes.
It actually had a lot more to do with Hasbro than I thought... and I forgot that the Ted toy was apparently a Hasbro toy (within the universe of the Ted movie) in the first Ted movie. As such, I was too busy looking for all of the random Transformers toys that were in the Hasbro office and at the NYCC (you could tell that Hasbro must have paid a fair bit to be in this movie, as there were Transformers props and signage everywhere during the NYCC scenes. It was funny to see them destroying the displays that had TF4 Movie toys in them... and you could even see the SDCC exclusive Knights of Unicron rockband set in one of the display cases.

As noted by Goktimus, I actually got a laugh from the Hasbro executive (character, not an actual Hasbro employee) claiming to be from Mattel after he got busted at the end.
(I was surprised that they actually name dropped the CEO of Hasbro in the movie - Brian Goldner - when it wasn't even necessary... he didn't have to be named, or a fake name could have been said - he did get named in the credits though, in the "thanks" section.)

Speaking of credits - both the New Zealand government and Australian government gave grants to the Ted 2 movie... even though it was filmed in America (because some of the digital effects were done in Melbourne).

[Paulbot]

Watching a random episode of the British sitcom Not Going Out and was surprised by this bit:

"Are they steriods?"
"Yeah I got them from a bloke at the gym. They're going to be like Energon to the Terrorsaur"
"What?"
"Transformers, from the original TV series, not the film that was a disappointment."

[FatalityPitt]

Watching a random episode of the British sitcom Not Going Out and was surprised by this bit:

"Are they steriods?"
"Yeah I got them from a bloke at the gym. They're going to be like Energon to the Terrorsaur"
"What?"
"Transformers, from the original TV series, not the film that was a disappointment."

There's a Beast Wars character named Terrorsaur. My first BW toy actually.

[Omega Metro]

Watching season 2 of The Windsors on Netflix. It’s a spoof comedy about the British Royal Family and Princess Eugene or Beatrice (can’t remember which one) was wearing a gold Autobot logo hat.:)

[BigTransformerTrev]

In The Daily Telegraph today an article talked about baby names that are becoming more popular and one of the ones listed was ‘Orion’

Looks like I’m not the only nutter who names their son after an up & coming Autobot leader :D

[griffin]

Not an actual Transformers reference, but the timing is coincidental.
Kia have a new sports car out this year called the Stinger and the marketing images on TV and online are of a red version.
It is said to have been in development since 2014... but I didn't see when the name was officially given to it though.
But would there really be any cashing in on a one off movie character from 4 years ago.... probably not.
Now if they did a yellow hatchback and called it the Bumblebee, that would probably work.

[Bladestorm]

Not an actual Transformers reference, but the timing is coincidental.
Kia have a new sports car out this year called the Stinger and the marketing images on TV and online are of a red version.
It is said to have been in development since 2014... but I didn't see when the name was officially given to it though.
But would there really be any cashing in on a one off movie character from 4 years ago.... probably not.
Now if they did a yellow hatchback and called it the Bumblebee, that would probably work.

What's even funnier about this is the Hasbro head office in Sydney is above a Kia dealership that has their windows plastered with their Stinger branding. I quietly chuckle every day when I drive past it.

[Paulbot]

The last two episodes of The Good Place (Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, on Netflix, highly recommended) have had Transformers jokes.

No clips because both include big spoilers for the show, but the references were:

When told there would be a special vehicle one character asked if it would be Optimus Prime, and then called "Right nipple" which he explained is calling Shotgun when riding in Optimus Prime.

In last week episodes we learnt about a body spray that makes you smell like watching Transformers movies make you feel. Asks one character "why do you smell loud and confusing?"

[DELTAprime]

I'd like to think the "Goldbug" item in Monster Hunter World is a TF reference, which is highly unlikely, but at least in my headcanon it's a TF reference.

[griffin]

The new Volkswagen commercial playing on TV here in the last week... with a boy in a party costume that transforms into a yellow VW sedan... is just the right yellow to make me think of Bumblebee - which might not be a coincidence, as there was probably some cross-promotional agreements with their involvement in the Bumblebee movie. So even though there is no mention of Transformers or the Movie in the commercial, the concept and colours were probably intentional so that it was in people's minds when the Bumblebee movie comes out later this year.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Was listening to a very old Jimeoin CD yesterday when doing the home brew and he did a skit I had completely forgotten.

We had a shower in our house and a bath but it wasn't a bath. You would hook up this thing and it would turn the shower into a bath. It was a transformer.

(Singing)Transformers, showers in disguise.

Imagine getting one of those for your kid for Christmas "But you said you wanted a Transformer"


:D

[snaketales]

Couple of contestants around the table in MKR said they liked Transformers. It was a general discussion about movies and was along the line of "Transformers". "Yeahhhhhh".

[philby]

Couple of contestants around the table in MKR said they liked Transformers. It was a general discussion about movies and was along the line of "Transformers". "Yeahhhhhh".

they were talking about Petra in Jordan and someone mentioned Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade as the cliff face was in that and then the others mentioned Transformers as well.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Was listening to a very old Jimeoin CD yesterday when doing the home brew and he did a skit I had completely forgotten.

We had a shower in our house and a bath but it wasn't a bath. You would hook up this thing and it would turn the shower into a bath. It was a transformer.

(Singing)Transformers, showers in disguise.

Imagine getting one of those for your kid for Christmas "But you said you wanted a Transformer"


:D

Oh, that reminded me that Robin Williams once did a skit about Transformers too, when he was discussing how you can't get intoxicated anymore when you become a parent:

You can't be stonned because they have toys that will mess your head up! If your stonned with a Transformer:

"It's a Truck, It's a Robot, It's a Truck - WHAT THE F**K IS IT!?"

:D

[CHILENO20]

Oh, that reminded me that Robin Williams once did a skit about Transformers too, when he was discussing how you can't get intoxicated anymore when you become a parent:

You can't be stonned because they have toys that will mess your head up! If your stonned with a Transformer:

"It's a Truck, It's a Robot, It's a Truck - WHAT THE F**K IS IT!?"

:D

Live @ the Met! BUAHAHAHAHA!!!!! My favorite Robin Williams special! :D:D:D

[griffin]

It sounds like David Kaye could be voicing BW Megatron in a skit on Robot Chichen this weekend (in America), and a portion (or the entire skit) has been posted up on facebook (https://www.facebook.com/adultswim/videos/10155961882886745/).

[GoktimusPrime]

^Parental Advisory for younger members (or members thinking about watching this at work or in front of family): contains some coarse language.

[Lint]

Transformers just got a bad rap in this article about loot boxes ruining lives:

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/gamers-call-for-action-on-loot-boxes/9485856

[griffin]

Transformers just got a bad rap in this article about loot boxes ruining lives:

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/gamers-call-for-action-on-loot-boxes/9485856

How can someone spend $50,000 on a game app (which gives them nothing in return to show for it)... and not think that they have a problem after just $100.

[UltraMarginal]

I agree that loot boxes in games are designed to be addictive and are an attractive form of 'gambling' available to whoever plays. but I also agree that these people clearly have a problem and should have stopped long before they got in the spot they are in, regardless of the other traumas in their lives at the time.

Whether it's something that needs to be legislated is up for debate. I'm pretty sure you can set locks on these games that don't allow the user to automatically spend money on in game purchases so that parents don't have kids blow out their cards.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Transformers just got a bad rap in this article about loot boxes ruining lives:

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/gamers-call-for-action-on-loot-boxes/9485856


How can someone spend $50,000 on a game app (which gives them nothing in return to show for it)... and not think that they have a problem after just $100.

Hey, I can understand, the game they are discussing (Earth Wars) is the game app I have spent more on than any other.

Of course that equals a whopping $7.99 :p

And even then the only reason I did it was I pressed the wrong button one day and wasted 6 months worth of cyber coins I’d hoarded, so in a once-off shelled out a whopping eight bucks and replaced them.

I have been a member of Alliances where the top players bitch about how they spend so much each event on recharges (often up to $150) and the rest of us don’t - but it’s their choice, and frankly a silly one

[DELTAprime]

For anyone not up with the latest in gaming, loot boxes are a big issue in games right now. Star Wars Battlefront II (the one from EA released last November not the one from a decade ago) has predatory loot boxes and subsequently various governments and groups have woken up to their use in games.

Some people argue that they are a form of gambling and need to be regulated (note that nobody with half a brain is banned but rather "regulated").

Others argue that because you get an in game item not money they are not gambling and totally ok.:rolleyes:

America will probably have a hard time regulating them because of the supreme court ruling in Schwarzenegger V EMA in which video games were declared protected speech which means the government can't regulate them.

However in parts of Europe and here in Australia things look more positive with government bodies recognising loot boxes as gambling and beginning the slow process of updating laws.

[BigTransformerTrev]

For anyone not up with the latest in gaming, loot boxes are a big issue in games right now. Star Wars Battlefront II (the one from EA released last November not the one from a decade ago) has predatory loot boxes and subsequently various governments and groups have woken up to their use in games.

Some people argue that they are a form of gambling and need to be regulated (note that nobody with half a brain is banned but rather "regulated").

Others argue that because you get an in game item not money they are not gambling and totally ok.:rolleyes:

America will probably have a hard time regulating them because of the supreme court ruling in Schwarzenegger V EMA in which video games were declared protected speech which means the government can't regulate them.

However in parts of Europe and here in Australia things look more positive with government bodies recognising loot boxes as gambling and beginning the slow process of updating laws.


There was a South Park episode about it all many years ago, as Stan got addicted and kept doing all these little transactions which added up to thousands of dollars.

Sadly though, its these addicted people that make the games possible for the rest of us. The game designers need the money to make them and keep going with the updates, and if people aren't playing the games die, much like a few previous TF app games have done.

I think I've heard it said that 95% of the profits from these app games only comes from 5% of the players. Again, sad for them but if they were not doing so then people that never spend money on their apps like me wouldn't get to keep playing.

It's one of the very few cases where instead of the minority spoiling things for the majority, the minority actually make it possible for the majority to have their fun.

[Lint]

Sadly though, its these addicted people that make the games possible for the rest of us.

I think the gaming world was acceptable prior to the microtransaction phenomenon. If anything the addicted people have created a glut of mediocre games and have lured a fair few quality development houses towards mediocrity.

[UltraMarginal]

I'd much rather have a great game that I pay a set amount for that comes with all it's features and elements enabled, or at least enablable by playing the game.
Happy to buy expansion packs that actually contain more gameplay but this microtrasaction rubbish has got to slow down, it's becoming the core of so many games it's not funny anymore.

[BigTransformerTrev]

I think the gaming world was acceptable prior to the microtransaction phenomenon. If anything the addicted people have created a glut of mediocre games and have lured a fair few quality development houses towards mediocrity.

Oh I agree, but it seems to be the price of being able to download a game for free on your phone or ipad - that somewhere along the line they are going to figure out a way to get people to shell out some moula


I'd much rather have a great game that I pay a set amount for that comes with all it's features and elements enabled, or at least enablable by playing the game.
Happy to buy expansion packs that actually contain more gameplay but this microtrasaction rubbish has got to slow down, it's becoming the core of so many games it's not funny anymore.

That's why I like console games, and I've never been one for DLC purchases.
The exception and annoying thing for me is you can purchase DLC for DOAX3 on the PS4 in other countries but it doesn't work here - I'd buy some of the extras for that just to skip the grinding :rolleyes:

The Sims 2 & 3 on PC had a lot of good expansion packs, but most didn't rate purchase until they dropped in price after a year

[DELTAprime]

I have a set rule for myself when buying microtransactions.

If I know what I'm going to get for my money (ie: buying a new car in Forza with real world money) then it's ok as long as it's reasonably priced and within budget. But if it's got randomised items inside (like loot boxes) then don't buy it cause you likely will not get what you want.

The people that spend thousands on a game and account for most of the profits are called "whales". These people spend so much money in the game that often have special contact with the developer of the game and buy their in game items direct from the developer not the console/devices store. They basically call up the developer and say "hey I want to buy another $1000 of gems" and the developer charges their card themselves.

If you're Warren Buffett and can blow $1000 on a game then hey that's no big deal. The issue are people that can't afford it getting sucked in. Loot boxes are basically pokies that you never get any cash back.

Also be aware that if you ever buy a loot box or currency in a game many games especially the free to play ones will then modify the difficulty to make it harder for you to progress without giving them more money. It really is predatory.

On phones people are not willing to spend even a dollar up front on a game to own it and never deal with microtransactions. Yet for whatever stupid reason they will instead download it for free and then give the developer huge amounts of money over time.

It's unfortunate Hasbro has allowed their partners to use loot boxes and microtransactions with Transformers IP but there's not much they can do other than decide not to make a game.

[Galvatran]

(Drawing a very, very longbow) There's a Volkswagen tv ad with a kid in cosplay of a transforming yellow VW car.

[griffin]

(Drawing a very, very longbow) There's a Volkswagen tv ad with a kid in cosplay of a transforming yellow VW car.

Scroll up to post #187.

I still can't find a copy of it online or youtube yet.

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

Scroll up to post #187.

I still can't find a copy of it online or youtube yet.

Any of these? (or similar as they're not in English):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlzQhm6Zlx4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReiSFeK7f_s

[griffin]

Any of these? (or similar as they're not in English):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlzQhm6Zlx4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReiSFeK7f_s

That's them... sort of.
The first one is an extended version (with a flipped image when they are in the car, so that the steering wheel is on the correct side for that market)... while the second one is a completely different edit, promoting the auto-breaking feature (the first video, and our Australian version, features the auto-parking feature).

It's interesting to see that those two versions, have the boy trying to impress the girl at the party, but it is totally absent or unnoticed in the Australian version. (and I also don't think he transforms from car mode in the Australian commercial)

[Kranix]

The new Volkswagen commercial playing on TV here in the last week... with a boy in a party costume that transforms into a yellow VW sedan... is just the right yellow to make me think of Bumblebee - which might not be a coincidence, as there was probably some cross-promotional agreements with their involvement in the Bumblebee movie. So even though there is no mention of Transformers or the Movie in the commercial, the concept and colours were probably intentional so that it was in people's minds when the Bumblebee movie comes out later this year.

I only just saw this ad, I thought it was great (especially when the kid "transforms") and it immediately made me think of Bumblebee. Very cool and shows how far VW have come from the "no war toys" stuff regarding Transformers.

Sorry if slightly OT but If only Porsche would also come on board like VW have. Seeing the post on TFW2005 makes me think we won't see an MP Jazz which would make my collection feel incomplete.

From poster oku:

Someone above asked for a direct source about Jazz's licensing was an issue. Hope this is direct enough. Here's a report from 2016 convention where Yuki and Hasui mentioned about Jazz during Q&A session:


31号是老幸和莲井访谈，谈到了比如偷胶和第三方的一些问题，另外关于莲井在社内“Mr.红蜘蛛”的外号， 其实好像没有很多人这么叫他，倒是老幸打趣的称莲井为“Mr.MP”关于红蜘蛛先生这个外号的说法，主要是 莲井负责了众多的红蜘蛛玩具，有新的红蜘蛛玩具要出如果不让莲井来做社内也感觉做不好。
然后谈了关于MP的一些问题，比如爵士，在TT社内出爵士的的想法早就有，无奈车商并不给版权，双方协商了 多次也没有谈下来，老幸打趣说要是在座的各位能帮忙谈下车商版权就好了，另外台下有人喊探长，老幸说探长的 版权应该可以谈下来没有问题；另外关于史达和狮王的问题，老幸说只要公司一点头，随时开始准备MP狮王的工 作；
主持人提问说如果没有预算的限制，2位最想做什么样的作品，老幸是说希望做应该全新的角色，而莲井倒是希望 出所有角色的MP
二人分别推荐自己最满意的作品，老幸选择的是BWN的猛犸（提到了是首次能够拿出能源宝的司令官），莲井则 是推荐了真人世的L级红蜘蛛（类似于睁眼的联动机构）


There was discussion about challenges of the MP line like Jazz . The team always wanted to do Jazz in the very beginning. Sadly the car company would not grant their wish. The two parties had gone back-and-forth many times over the past and still no deal.

[Galvatran]

Scroll up to post #187.
Oh that guy.
:p

[DELTAprime]

There was discussion about challenges of the MP line like Jazz . The team always wanted to do Jazz in the very beginning. Sadly the car company would not grant their wish. The two parties had gone back-and-forth many times over the past and still no deal.

Yep, car licensing is crazy thing that makes zero sense.

[griffin]

Sorry if slightly OT but If only Porsche would also come on board like VW have. Seeing the post on TFW2005 makes me think we won't see an MP Jazz which would make my collection feel incomplete.


Volkswagen own Porsche... and now that Hasbro/TakaraTomy were allowed to do MP Bumblebee as a VW Beetle, it should be possible now to do Jazz.
VW/Porsche weren't interested before the Movies started (for the Alternators & early MP lines), but dollars will always speak loudest, and the billions in global marketing that GM got with their partnership with Transformers Movies, would have any car company begging to cash in, and do anything in return, like allow for their cars to be done as toys.
Something that was probably the case for the Bumblebee Movie. Hasbro and Paramount wouldn't have done anything or paid anything to have access to the VW Beetle design (for the movie and for the toys). If VW had said no, it would have been another car model used, and the nod to the 80s fans just would have been absent (without too much complaint).

[DELTAprime]

Volkswagen own Porsche... and now that Hasbro/TakaraTomy were allowed to do MP Bumblebee as a VW Beetle, it should be possible now to do Jazz.

If you want to licence a Porsche you deal with Porsche not VW. Most car brands deal with licensing in house not handling it through a parent, hence why we had licenced Lamborghinis a long time before VW.

Porsche is loosening up a bit as of late with their licensing, but they have been notoriously hard to deal with or charging extraordinarily high prices. There are only two toy companies I know of in the Australian market with Porsche licenses, Lego and Hot Wheels.

The way they worked the videogame licenses for ages was Porsche licensed only the Need For Speed games and then EA had option in their license to sub license to Microsoft so only two companies had licensed Porches for the better part of a decade.

[snaketales]

I saw a seacon on the dashboard of Tommy’s car in The Disaster Artist

[Galvatran]

Cake Masters episode with Optimus Prime & Megatron cake is currently screening (again) on free-to-air channel 33 Food Network.

[DELTAprime]

There's a new game called Radical Heights in extremely early access that has an 80's motief. There are yellow VW Beetles spread around the map, 'caues yeah, nothing says 80's like a Bumblebee reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doKzLVKhgQs

[BigTransformerTrev]

Death's Head (well a LMD based on him) has shown up in Spiderman/Deadpool #31


http://i66.tinypic.com/2me926c.jpg

http://i64.tinypic.com/14l7m88.jpg

[FatalityPitt]

Found an Adult Swim Robot Chicken parody with Beast Wars Megatron. I wonder if David Kaye did the voice. It sounds so much like him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJBqLy45mMo

[BigTransformerTrev]

On Teen Titans this morning:

Cyborg: music can transform you
Raven: it can transform you? So I can be Optimus Prime?!
Cyborg: You can’t be Optime Prime! I’m Optimus Prime! But you can be Bumbebee
Raven: grumble

[MayzaPrime]

On Teen Titans this morning:

Cyborg: music can transform you
Raven: it can transform you? So I can be Optimus Prime?!
Cyborg: You can’t be Optime Prime! I’m Optimus Prime! But you can be Bumbebee
Raven: grumble

The night begins to shine!!!!!!!!

Best episode ever :D

[griffin]

I'm hearing and seeing the phrase "Beast Mode" a fair bit in recent years, mostly as a teen tag, pertaining to them being active or hyper-active... and a bit like saying that they are awesome.
It might have taken 10 or so years, but is this just the young kids of the late 90s Beast Wars era using a phrase in their teens from their childhood, like us old farts might say "roll out" instead of "let's go". (okay, maybe just in my head then :p )

[Galvatran]

I say "roll out" after I've had a big meal. Better still if there's a downward slope from the pub to the next destination.

[Galvatran]

On Bell Street, Preston(?) there's an apartment advertising billboard for selling apartments with the phrase in super large fonts: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE.

Metroplex perhaps?
:p

[BigTransformerTrev]

On the show ‘Gabriel Inglesies Presents Stand Up Revolution’:

G: So you’re the quite the aficionado here, what can people do to spice up their life?
BL: Toys. Eh, you can only go so far with what you’ve got
G: (to audience) You know when he says toys he doesn’t mean Transformers. He means...

[philby]

I'm hearing and seeing the phrase "Beast Mode" a fair bit in recent years, mostly as a teen tag, pertaining to them being active or hyper-active... and a bit like saying that they are awesome.
It might have taken 10 or so years, but is this just the young kids of the late 90s Beast Wars era using a phrase in their teens from their childhood, like us old farts might say "roll out" instead of "let's go". (okay, maybe just in my head then :p )

I would guess it is more likely in reference to NFL player Marshawn Lynch who was nicknamed 'beast mode', rather than the BW series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyVfrwwEwgA

The 'Beast Quake'...the stadium shook so much after this touchdown that it registered as an earthquake with the USGS....

[BigTransformerTrev]

On Teen Titans this morning:

Cyborg: music can transform you
Raven: it can transform you? So I can be Optimus Prime?!
Cyborg: You can’t be Optime Prime! I’m Optimus Prime! But you can be Bumbebee
Raven: grumble


The night begins to shine!!!!!!!!

Best episode ever :D

I hadn’t even realised when initially posting that Cyborg actually transforms into Primes truck mode! :eek: I only saw that part when my son rewatched the episode today.

[snaketales]

Heard “Dare” while the missus was watching Glow on netflix

[Galvatran]

Deception Bay (QLD) made the news a few days ago for all the wrong reasons. Pretty sure that's a typo for Decepticon Bay. :D

[FatalityPitt]

G1 Optimus Prime fights Gundam on ScrewAttack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyh2iO0rCh4

[Galvatran]

Mike Larkan, the weatherman on channel 10's News at Five (Melbourne) told a joke during his weather segment today. It went something along these lines.

The girlfriend tells her boyfriend she wants to break up cos of his Transformers. The boyfriend replies: I can change.

[CHILENO20]

*facepalm*

[Ravagecat]

Not sure if this has been mentioned before but thought it would be nice to revisit anyway.

A picture of ALF reading a Transformers Comic came up in my Instagram Feed the other day so I did some digging and found an article about it. :cool:

http://i1152.photobucket.com/albums/p498/ravagecat/ozformers/th_AlfReadsTF_zps3va51euz.jpg (http://s1152.photobucket.com/user/ravagecat/media/ozformers/AlfReadsTF_zps3va51euz.jpg.html)

Credits to the Retroist (https://www.retroist.com/2014/06/30/a-couple-of-easter-eggs-from-alf-you-might-have-missed/)

[GoktimusPrime]

Gah, can't work out which issue that is!

[BigTransformerTrev]

Mike Larkan, the weatherman on channel 10's News at Five (Melbourne) told a joke during his weather segment today. It went something along these lines.

The girlfriend tells her boyfriend she wants to break up cos of his Transformers. The boyfriend replies: I can change.

He stole that from the Arrgh!! It’s the Mr Hell show!

Scene - a couples apartment and the walls are covered in action figures.

Guy: Sandra, don’t leave!
Girl: it’s over Greg, I can’t take these nerdy obsessions of your any more.
Guy: But Sandra, I can change!

Guy grits his teeth and armour starts to envelop him until you can only see his face but otherwise he looks like a giant robot with rockets on his shoulders

Guy: Look! I’m Optitron, leader of the Transformibles!
Girl: That’s it, I’m out.

She leaves. His shoulders sag.

Guy: (sadly) I can turn into a tank as well.

[griffin]

Gah, can't work out which issue that is!


Issue 41 (https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Totaled!).

[Ravagecat]

Gah, can't work out which issue that is!


Issue 41 (https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Totaled!).

Yep Issue 41

I linked to the article I found under the image ;)

[griffin]

Yep Issue 41

I linked to the article I found under the image ;)


Ah... I didn't see your link there. :o


(It didn't take long to figure out though, from the Font used for the comic title which changed after issue 50, and it being in yellow... plus Fort Max ripping off his head in the top corner which was started from issue 38.)

[BigTransformerTrev]

Robot Chicken: Optimus Prime Jury Duty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXishzUX8eQ) :D

[Paulbot]

This week’s episode of The Good Place had a very brief reference where Jason suggested some Transformer names as nicknames.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Apparently the new Anime TV Show SSSS Gridman has a plethora of Shattered Glass references (https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/a-shattered-glass-anime-ssss-gridman-piles-on-transformers-references/42231/) in it.


Comedian Russell Howard did the following joke in his stand-up 'Do Transformers get car or life insurance?' :D

[Galvatran]

There was a TV News segment on regional WIN News a few days ago. Asked what would you do with the extra money from lower childcare cost, the mother replied 'Buy Transformers'.

[BigTransformerTrev]

There was a TV News segment on regional WIN News a few days ago. Asked what would you do with the extra money from lower childcare cost, the mother replied 'Buy Transformers'.

Ha! That’s great! :D

Wonder if she’s a member here

[Galvatran]

Ha! That’s great! :D

Wonder if she’s a member here
I'm guessing she was thinking of Transformers for her kid(s). Still awesome it went to air.

[Omega Metro]

‘Transformers’ was the only pointless answer on Pointless on channel 10 tonight. The question was Hugo Weaving movies. He only voiced Megatron and was never actually in it though.:confused:

[GoktimusPrime]

‘Transformers’ was the only pointless answer on Pointless on channel 10 tonight. The question was Hugo Weaving movies. He only voiced Megatron and was never actually in it though.:confused:
You could say the same thing about Peter Cullen. ;) Many voice actors will advocate that voice acting is as much a valid form of craft as screen or stage acting and that it should be seen as anything less than actual acting. I've heard many of them say that they're not "voice actors," but merely "actors."

[Omega Metro]

You could say the same thing about Peter Cullen. ;) Many voice actors will advocate that voice acting is as much a valid form of craft as screen or stage acting and that it should be seen as anything less than actual acting. I've heard many of them say that they're not "voice actors," but merely "actors."

Yeah, I was more comparing that to the other answers on the screen in which Hugo was actually IN the movie. Which is why Transformers was a pointless answer as he was only voicing the part. Nothing against voice actors.

[GoktimusPrime]

So if the question were about say Garry Chalk, would "Transformers" be a less valid answer against say Godzilla? Would Star Trek be a better answer than Transformers for Leonard Nimoy? What about Flying High against TFTM for Robert Stack?

(sorry, don't mean to sound aggressive as this post may be coming across :p Just questions for thought :))

[UltraMarginal]

Muse released a new album recently 'Simulation Theory'
I really like it, some of the singles have been available for months on youtube.

several of the videos feature a red Lamborghini Countache. I know its a stretch but it's also a really pretty car.

thought contagion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ_3S-IQm38) wait for it.

Something Human (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azAEHCQgcUI)

The Dark side (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0UWT0dFSQE)

[BigTransformerTrev]

One of the coolest ads ever with famous cars such as The Batmobile and Ecto-1 has been made by Walmart. One of the cars is Bumblebee from the new movie.

https://youtu.be/oGrSw7wK4no

[Paulbot]

I saw the musical School of Rock tonight, and I’m sure there were (at least) two Transformers as part of a set. One looked like a Shockwave. From the dress circle I couldn’t see them well enough but the shapes and size stood out from some other action figures along side them.