IN A YARD! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!!!!

i for one am glad the robots in the transformers movies dont look like this. nostalgically awesome but i prefer bayformers in the present time.

Give this guy 75 Mil! Now!

I don't see why they didn't just make the entire movie CG. I mean, 98% of what we'll be seeing (including Megan Fox) isn't real anyway, so what's the difference?

i'm with hopoff...if THIS is what crazy t-fans actually want their live action transformers to look like, then my god you are living in a fantasy world.

@ stuntdouble: if the whole movie was cg, the human characters would look like those creepy uncanny valley types you see in polar express and beowulf. regardless of what robert zemeckis thinks, we're not that close to having CG human characters that can mimic real ones. also, it would cost a crapload of money to render cgi humans when you could just, you know, hire actors.

i get that maybe your comment was kind of in jest, but it's an absurd observation nonetheless that just because our giant 50 foot tall transforming robots with thousands of individually rendered parts are CGI, the whole movie might as well be CGI.

but whatever, you live action haters can go ahead and drool over this guy's nostalgia wet dream bumblebee (with bowlegged rickets action feature!). us sane people will go enjoy our explosions now. for the record, expecting that something like that would pass on screen in a big budget movie is a hell of a lot more ridiculous then some wrecking balls hanging in the general vicinity of where a robot's testicles would be.

as far as urinating on john turturro...with his robo-package and wide-legged stance, this guy's BB sure LOOKS like he wants to urinate on SOMETHING.

kudos to the guy who made it. he did a good job and it's a great piece of fan-sculpture. as for something like that being preferable to bayformers...sorry, totally unrealistic.

that statue shows the guy is such a fan of transformers and had too much time and his creative outlet was taken to the max. and this version would proably be able to avoid using john as a toilet. nice sculpture the guy has talent

Well, the face is certainly better than the Bayformer equivalent. And it's certainly less painfully "busy" than the CGI models - nice clean lines.

Sure, it's amateur work. But, again, you think with $200 million they'd have come up with designs that at least have some sort of visual appeal to them. No, they wouldn't make "sense" when they transformer if they looked like this... but it's a freaking movie about giant transforming robots! Who cares if they'd look a bit Romita-ized?

Re: monkey boy

if the whole movie was cg, the human characters would look like those creepy uncanny valley types you see in polar express and beowulf.

Megan Fox already hits the floor of the uncanny valley without the help of GGI.

Pfft...the original GEE WUN Bumblebee toy didn't come with a gun FUKKIN N00B EPIC FAIL PISS RAPE SHIT FUCK.

Like that, right? That's rational Transformer fan reaction to something they don't like?

still love the tutankhamun face.

If Bumblebee looked like this in the movies, I would have been happy. I could easily identify the character, point him out of a line-up and look at his face.
This guy is cool!

Why oh why does anyone feel the need to defend the current train-wreak by Bay by pointing at this as an example? None of you apologists felt the need to comment on the 60 foot Gundam - blocky and GI-ised as it is and try the same tactic. I wonder why?

As an illustration of something with about a million times the personality of the Bayonicles this is about 20% of the way there on the face alone.

The fact is that $200mill spent on the CGI of the G1 Bots would have made just as much money, caused about a 100th of the bitching and probably sucked a fuck-sight less than TF2 (which has had my money so I know what I'm insulting now - i took my Son to see it, and he was bored after the first hour) does.

Nothing would improve the Beef and that Dead-eyed skank though......not even $400M.

G1 designs look terrible in 3D, we've known that since the end of Beast Wars season 2...

i really like the term michael bay apologist, as if instead of being someone who merely enjoyed the first film, i have to be someone who is a crazy person, like a holocaust denier.

i'm not a super huge transfan. i watched the cartoon as a kid and had shit loads of TF toys, but as an adult collector, TF was one thing that i solidly outgrew. i never kept up with the different universes and comics and all that jazz.

but if a transfan would rather see bumblebee looking like the above picture rather than what is present in the films...well i'm glad to be an "apologist".

i'm sorry, the first film just didn't offend me the way it did the rest of you. i don't expect my live action movie robots to have faces that look like human faces painted silver.

i didn't say anything about tokyo's sixty foot gundam for a lot of reasons:
ONE: anime, traditionally, respects the design and animation process in its cartoons a lot more than american animation, particularly if we're talking about the 1980s. gundams have always been more complex in their design to begin with, so it made sense as it was already more at home in a live action world from a design standpoint.
TWO: i'm not a gundam fan, so i didn't really care.
THREE: gundams aren't transformers, and there is no live action gundam film i've seen that i can compare to the statue. honestly it's just a poor analogy.

i'm not saying this guy doesn't have great skills. he's made a fine sculpture of a real life, life sized animated bumblebee. i just don't think that's the direction the live action film should have gone in.

I love how Bayformer fans lack any reading comprehension.

Looks great, but why is he squatting?

Monkey Boy. You wrote all that, you obviously know what an analogy is and yet you either: 1. Didn't read and actually understand anything in my post - at all or: 2. aw...screw it.....Whip Cracka is right so I'm not going to bother. I couldn't reproduce the right concept in crayon anyway.

This is vastly superior than Bayformers ever could have been on it's worst day.

Well... anything is.

Excepting, of course, Dragonball Evolution.

But that movie has already taken up permanent residence in Webster's dictionary as a synonym for "Excrement". Bayformers will just have to settle for the dictionary entry of "Vomit"

Whip Cracka said:
"I love how Bayformer fans lack any reading comprehension."

Yes, but technically it's not fair to laugh at them. They can't help the severe mental disadvantages they were born with. They aren't as lucky as you or I.

Oh well, at least it's proven that they do have the basic capacity to react to lights, movement and sound. I guess why they are Bayformer fans, after all.

Because Bay's movies don't talk down to them. They speak to them on an equal level.

Isn't it obvious by now that the reason for the hatred isn't simply because Bayformer 1&2 wasn't true to the original stories or characters, such as they were, but that they are realy awful movies. Seriously, even as summer blockbusters go, these movies are dumb on a whole new level. So you can stop defending the Bayster. Instead try to concentrate on defending your bad taste in movies and why you feel the need to be treated as intellectually inferior.
And to be clear, I watched the old cartoons again recently, and I thought they sucked. Sucked bad..