• And yet he's still going strong, and TR garnered even more fame after those FAQs he wrote. Say, how does that egg on your face taste like?

• If you know anything about filming at all, you would know that the director does not have much control except telling the actors where to be and what they should do.  The writer writes the dialogue.  The director just chooses what the characters are doing when they speak.

• I didn't see either of them in 3

• In the end they never were really in the third Transformers movie...

• one was irish and the other was a scott

• I saw the movie a couple days ago, They were not in the movie, I promise

• I think its hilarious that anyone cares. Why do you want to know details of a movie before you see it? Love that people filled in the gaps of what "race" these robots were on their own. Who's racist?

• hey thats right! Jazz sounded black but not gansta black (micheal bay word) so had to kill jazz and bring in the two most offense robots on tv today! Jus lik jar jar binks!

• remember jazz in the 1st movie? he sounded black and he got killed by megatron!

• They weren't even in the movie. Their car modes were in for mere seconds, but other than that they were never seen. Big whoop, he lied about Megatron, maybe Megatron wasn't gonna be in the movie, maybe he was gonna be Galvatron, is it really that big of a deal? What would Transformers be without a badass villain like Megatron? He's just as important as Optimus.

• The real douchbag is the guy who wrote this article.  Since when does Michael Bay owe you anything, Rob Bricken?

• Apparently this comments section hates Opera...

•  I'm surprised more Yahoo'ers haven't commented on the story lol.They usually love pointing out others inadequacies.

•  Err, it seems like Bay is truly trying to prove to us that the twins aren't in TF3. http://www.shootfortheedit.com/forum/showthread.php?9072-25-000-Reward He promises 25,000 for anyone who can prove they are in the film when it opens July 1st.

• angry nerd rage lol. I love how its offensive to make black stereotypes, but hillbilly/hick stereotypes are A okay!

• It's "parodies" not possessive. And you're wrong.

• That is the craziest idea I've ever heard, that a director had no control over content of in his movie. So he didn't look at design sketches and say, "Boy, these look like horribly racist characters" and when he heard the sound mixing, he thought, "Well, this seems pretty bad, but my hands are tied!"  

• So many bad movies released over the years... and yet when THIS ONE comes under well deserved scrutiny, you grab your pitchforks and torches. It just proves that many of you will watch anything. And the fact that you're not defending all the OTHER bad movies out there makes you all just a little hypocritical...

•  I always thought TR wouldn't get on Yahoo unless it was a story about FFF inspired mass suicides.

• It's funny how people get upset about how they made "fake ghetto wannabe gangster white boy" transformers and call them racist.  Racist against stupid white folk and people getting upset, hilarious.

• Well, Rob, it looks like even the regular news has called you a liar yourself: http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/1322-those-idiotic-jive-talkin-robots-wont-be-back-in-transformers-3-after-all?nc There.  See what blind, irrational nerdrage will get you? (Particularly that for Michael Bay)  You'd better quit it for your own good; I see you getting an anyeurism over this in the near future at the very least.  And some things just aren't worth it.

• I still don't think they're racist... I however DO still think THEY'RE FUCKING STUPID LOOKING UNFUNNY STEREOTYPES. In the comment section, someone suggested that these were just high res pics for upcoming toy packages. Whether this is true or not, we'll all know when the movie comes out. ... and yes, it was ME.[/Captain Obvious] Incidentally, my brother came up with better names for them... Turdz 'n Squirtz...

•  @d4c81395a590a707712207b8422bdf41:disqus Saw the first one, not planning to see DSotM :B

• I didn't mean that, I meant not seeing the movie was good. Which seems to be the general consensus well... everywhere. 

• An astoundingly poorly written and researched article, I might add.

• Don't post open spoilers.  It's incredibly rude. ...but yes, if you're reading this far, this is known by spoiler-whores like me.  I suspect Bay was just trying to cover up that instead of dropping them, he's murdering them.

•  http://blog.movies.yahoo.com/blog/1322-those-idiotic-jive-talkin-robots-wont-be-back-in-transformers-3-after-all?nc You made yahoo news

• You should check the article again, the pictures were posted a year ago...

•  This article hasn't been corrected yet? Seriously? In case you've somehow missed every other post on this, the article about the twins on set was A YEAR AGO. The twins have supposedly been DROPPED ENTIRELY, and the prequel comic shows them DYING. They are NOT IN THE MOVIE. And if you do know about this and are just ignoring it to get people up in arms, way to play Fox News, Rob. I hate the twins too, but facts are facts.

• Careful, The Topless Roboteers don't like being called out as the Smithers to Bricken's "Mr. Burns"

• If you don't watch the movies, how can you criticize them?   

•  Why do you care what I spend my money on?  I do not mind Bayformers as much as most.  I wish it was better, but I am not going to lament about my childhood being raped or some other ridiculous hyperbole.  Transformers will probably survive without Bay, of course.  But, even assuming Bay is as bad as stated, I think that he has helped the property more than hurt it.  Perhaps G1 would still be in the public eye as it is without the live action movies.  Correlation does not imply causation after all.  I am willing to take the bad with the good.

•  Michael Bay is just a part of keeping the Transformers properties in the public eye right now.  That is how he figures into this.  You are viewing my point too narrowly, as if it was a statement in which Bay is central.  He is only incidental to it.  Take out Michael Bay and replace it with Uwe Boll and I would say the same thing.  If transformers movies are successful,  there is a greater chance that transformers properties will continue to be made.  There is also a decent chance that it will not be that good because it remains so successful.  Why change something that is making so much money? Regardless, if Hasbro thinks that there is money to be made, we will continue seeing movies, tv series, comics, toys and other properties.  You are right, that it may be closer to 6 years than 8 though.

• This thread.... holy fuck. HOLY... FUCK. Its like listening to a bunch of Fox News Experts mashed with the View. This thread proves that most of you have no clue what you are talking about AND you just come here to write snide remarks, hoping you'll get quoted or offered a job similar to what Rob "I hate fighting games because they are button mashers but I love Soul Calibur" Bricken. You guys aren't nerds, you are douchebags.

• holy balls that is an Autobot logo on his tooth, what the fuck

• I resent that! For all his hackery, Liefeld occasionaly comes across as a decent human being! Bay does not.

• @ Matt Wells I'm pretty sure he likes to Ram the Buns. ;)

• They can be in the movie and not be intrusive or have any lines. Remember Jolt? Of course you don't. Because he didn't have any lines and how only notable moment was using his lightning whips to help resurrect Prime. Bay could well be lying, but if he is, his lie was sussed months ago. Both toys and spy pics have confirmed that the Twins will be seen in some fashion for some time now.

• It´s official, im not paying to watch this crap. ill borrow the dvd from a friend someday, or download it trom torrents. Bay´s crap doesnt deserve my money

• *SPOILERS*  according to the comic book movie adaptation of "Dark of the moon" the twins each take a big ol'  fatal laser blast to the face. So

• Skids and Mudflap weren't on screen lomg enough to play into those troprs. 

•  ...Huh?

• Word. 

• fuck.

•  Who told you RotF was good? That person is a secret Hitler

•  I still still all this racism all you you are talking about.  They're robots.

• Michael Bay is like the Rob Liefeld of movies. 

• Why does anybody care ? LOL! -_^

• I don't think Michael Bay knows the "taste" of anything aside from his own vomit, which in his mind probably has the aroma of chocolate strawberries. I think his personality also makes people dislike him, in that he tends to call people out when he's quite blatantly wrong and insult them when it doesn't suit him. He's not as bad as, say, Uwe Boll in that regard, but he's more well funded and therefore more irritating.

• That son of a--- *censored for extremely long and violent cussing* Say it with me kids: *face palm*

• The only place these characters belong is in Fan Fiction where Michael Bay showers in their piss while singing "God Bless America!" Please, don't make me write it.

• I'm not paying money to find out.

• "ragan" ?

• Saying that we only see racist images because we ARE racist is ridiculous. Just because these characters aren't in overt fucking blackface, or whatever other racial caricature makeup you prefer, doesn't make them any less irritating and offensive.

• "Ladies on the internet waving their titties at me is like the scarf in the hand of the rodeo clown, and I'm the bull. All it does is buy the target of my rage about forty five minutes to scramble out of the way."

• Giving homeless people money does absolutely nothing to help the homeless problem - and what does that have to do with fucking anything?

• Tommy -- I agree that some people on here might be a bit out of line if they want to say Michael Bay as a person is himself racist. The man's personal opinions on racial matters are not within my ability to discern. What most people here mean by "racist" here is, I think, a kind of shorthand to express how the characters of Skids and Mudflap reiterate a series of jokes, humor, and spectacle that draw from a long tradition of racially insulting humor originating in 19th Century minstrel shows. It's hard to write that out every time, so people reduce it to "racist." But you are right to remind us to be careful about labeling individuals as racist. There are, in fact, many conventions of American comedy and cartoons that descend from this tradition, and it can often be hard to draw a line between which traditions are offensive and which have become so obscure or so overused as to have lost their racial value. It seems fairly clear to many people how Skids and Mudflap embody more of the offensive than not, which makes it quite perplexing that Bay somehow missed this. I highly doubt Bay intended to offend audience members with this depiction, but it does raise questions as to his taste and seriousness as a director that he gave these characters the green light.

• I guess nobody should technically be surprised that Michael Bay is a pathological liar.

• I'm pretty sure the majority hate him for taking what could be potentially good franchise property and making some really fucking bad movies. Also the fact that he tends to disrespect the fans of the franchise doesn't really help.

• It's only racist if you are. I know plenty of White, Asian , and Hispanic people that talk and act like these two. And why do you assume they're black, because they say they can't read an ancient language. Sounds like someone is projecting. Look hating Bay because you're panties are in a bunch over a cartoon, that's one thing, but throwing around the word racist is serious. When you use it in a case like this, you take away from how bad a thing it is.

• @c0379ae6b8826f3d2d4c6ae2848ce6a2:disqus He must be a real champ and limbo.

• i'm truly sorry, but Michael Bay only does this because he knows America is stupid and racist. He poops these turds out, and you all stand behind him and lap it up like a bunch of hungry bloodhounds. so stop complaining and shut up, or just stop giving him your money that none of you want to share with one another, yet keep complaining about the homeless problem.

• I'll never understand people insisting on making themselves look stupid by defending anything whatsoever having to do with Michael Bay's Transformers films.

• there was a sweet rendering someone had done of Shockwave as the Twins' combined form. it was really sweet. similar to how he shapeshifts in Animated. http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-fan-art/249192-movie-shockwave-truth-about-autobot-twins.html

• "Blatant subculture parody"... Who the fuck actually thinks that Michael Bay understands what any of those words mean? I'll help you out, he doesn't. The man is a fucking imbecile.

• Yeah that comic panel is just as big of a mess as the films are.

• Do you often defend really awful movies?

• You know, that's even MORE racist. "The black guy's gonna die!"

• You lie. There's no way Michael bay cut them out of the movie. He probably disseminated false info just to get our hopes up. You KNOW the movie is going to star the racist twins.

• Where does it say I did?

• Which one was which? These Bayformers look like metallic shambling mounds,I can't tell the apart even in slow motion/or a still as the case may be.

• Oh that nutty Abraxas! He feasts on our nightmares you know! Rambunctious little scamp!

• Touche!

• Just to cut in between all the butthurt ragan and what not, here's a page from the comic adaptation. http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8692/20110511191135.jpg Yeah no need to worry about the twins. Also, spoilers ahead if you care about the movie of course.

• Be grateful for every aspect that is under-explained, for the Bay does not concern Logic or Canon. I just wanted to say that *blackfaceing* the Twins, is a Mayor Brick , the bay saved to drop until last. (I'm in predicting mood, dr.abraxas will also leave a comment stating" that it is semen, definitly semen.")

• If he is somewhat telling the truth, the the same thing is happening here. They most likely are just in the background for the movie, fulfilling the roles the other robots that weren't Optimus, Bee, or Megs like in the last movie.

• Beyond the lying, why would he or the studio want to bring back the most universally reviled part of the franchise? At least Lucas had the sense to keep Jar-Jar in the background for the rest of the prequels.

• [/celebratory exclamations]

• A god who keeps Uwe Boll the hell away from ever touching a major hollywood film.

• what

• Distract me till i can't hate no more. :D

• One: Michael Bay screened the first Transformer at our school and I know you already know this, but everyone who was at that screening confirmed him for being a giant prick asshole. Two: I'm sad that Tom Kenny does the racist twins. Why Tom, why?! Well, I know why, but still...

• Or what if they've just reformed... you know, more racially aware?

• If the toys are anything like the movie designs, what is there to look forward too? By the way sir, I am fan of your work on WTFIWWY. Hillarious stuff! I wasn't aware you frequented this site.

• So wait, is oil Transformer blood or semen in these films? I know cleaning fluid is their piss, but the biology of Transforming robots is sorely under-explaind in Mister Bay's Magnum Opus!

• Hate to rain on the "Fuck Bay" parade(and believe me, I LOVE the "Fuck Bay" Parade), but story reporting on the twins being filmed on set was from May 11, 2010. Yep, 2010. Supposedly, the twins have been cut out of the final film completely to avoid controversey.

• The internet is for Hate. Porn is merely a distraction!

• The saddest thing? Follow that link to Seibertron.com No one in the comments is mentioning the twins. Some folks remarked that the designs on the faces of all the rest look silly. They're completely in denial . . . all they're looking forward to are the toys.

• When was that? The longest gap of media I can think of was the period between the end of Marvel G1 and Generation 2. After that we had Beast Wars, Beast Machines, Robots in Disguise, Armada, Energon, Cybertron, Movie 1, Animated, Movie 2, and now Prime. Transformers survived fine before Bay, and it will survive fine after Bay. Please don't throw away your money.

• "Yesterday morning"? Rob, that post was May 11, 2010, not '11.

• Bay was the director. It was his job to look at the material, say "no" to this minstrel garbage, and tell them to do it all over again. If he couldn't recognize it, then it was the producer's job to flag it. No director is forced to use the takes that the actors give them. That's why we have directors. You could steampunk these bots, give them a musical number, and put them on a 19th Century American stage--they'd fit right in. Just like Jar Jar Binks.

• No Transformers for eight years? There was Beast Wars, Beast Machines, RID, the Unicron Saga, Animated, and now Prime. If you're talking about between 1987 and 1993 . . . how does Michael Bay figure into that? That was almost 20 years ago.

• Someone calling micheal bay a douchebag, and calling out these obnoxious, terrible characters as the shit they are? NOT ON MY WATCH!!! The internet is crazy. They defend the powerful and shit on the nobodies. Micheal Bay doesn't need anyone to defend him. He has his huge piles of money to keep him happy.

• I'm pretty sure there will be a scene where they get oil spilled over their faces.

• Maybe he meant the racist twins will not appear in any TF3 ads, because he wants people to go see it. Of course, he will still claim that this movie is good, so....yeah. liar.

• LOL, that TFW news post is from *exactly* a year ago. Bay routinely says that he offers misinformation in comments and interviews. So sure he's a douche, but he literally told you he was a douche like that, so it seems a bit odd to be REALLY SURPRISED that he's a douche like that.

• I'll do it. He's making movies. That is all. If you don't like them, don't fucking watch them.

• Here we go again with this "Michael Bay is racist" shit. Bay had nothing to do with Skids' and Mudflap's dialogue. The lion share of their dialogue and mannerisms were improvised in studio by Tom Kenny and Reno Wilson (who, BTW, is black). I'll admit, a bit of their schtick got annoying, but not enough to make me want to stick dynamite in Bay's pants. To me, they were no more irritating than Jar Jar Binks. And like Jar Jar in episodes 2 and 3, I think it's safe to say that the twins personalities will be dialed back a bit.

• Well, another word springs to my mind which i also never use. ... ... naaa, i can't say it.

• Yes! Now all you insecure idiots can call MB racist when its your own fears projected on quite blatant subculture parody's. Also why should MB care about you(the "fans" he hates) when you will just shit on this anyway on principle. Its the Third movie, he wont change anything that will save the film for the wolf criers out there.

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