Hasbro's focus on movie toys seems haphazard... they allowed Dreamworks to develop Mirage/Dino, but didn't bother to develop a proper action figure for that toy themselves. They also never bothered to release Deluxe Leadfoot, Quejack and Soundwave for their markets either. :/

I can deal with Megatron in flashbacks... that's fine. Then Megatron could pump out repaints of existing moulds and call them, "Shadow Command Old Timey Megatron" etc. (hey, it wouldn't be any weirder than some of the other repaint concepts they've come up with before!)


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Also to be fair, Bay is very good at what he does, it's just that what he does isn't character and/or plot depth/development. If you want a mindless, explosion-filled action flick with some nice lead-female butt shots then aside from being overly long his TF movies fit the bill quite well
In other words... a story I agree that his movies are loaded with lots of "WHHOOOAA!!" cool bells and whistles, but strip that all away and what do you have? The Christopher Nolan Batman movies have lots of cool bells and whistles too - but beneath that lies great stories that would still be great without them. Ditto The Lord of the Rings (indeed they started off as novels, which many would argue are still better than the films anyway).

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- much like Star Wars Episode 3 is actually quite an entertaining movie when you skip all the boring plot and romance bits.
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IMO there's a place for popcorn flicks that you can just turn your brain off and enjoy watching as well as sweeping narratives, it is nice to just zone out for a while and enjoy watching things blow up sometimes - case in point, I'm playing Just Cause 2 atm and absolutely loving it. When Bay gets around to making Bikini Babe Explosion Squad - Trampolines of Terror I'll probably check it out, but when it comes to character and plot depth I'll look to filmmakers who worry about that sort of thing, and/or replay the Thief series.
Yeah but from a Transformers fan's POV it sucks how Transformers can't be elevated to something better than just a popcorn flick/rollercoaster ride style film. Because we know that Transformers can be so much more than meets the eye.