The Early Marketing of Transformers (2007)

[@cookimaus1]

As someone who's first exposure to the franchise was these movies, even though i'm not a huge fan of transformers I still really think these designs are iconic and great in their own right. They have more of a alien and incomprehensible look to them, how they are intentionally made to look otherworldly. There is an appeal to the goofy, blocky designs of G1, but this is arguably more interesting and fitting to their backstories. At least thats how i see it as someone with only a passing interest in this series. Idk its hard to explain but the bayverse designs feel more organic while being more robotic at the same time.

[@WarpingFist]

Yeah, the whole point behind the designs in the first Bay film was to make them look "grounded." They wanted the looks to make sense in the context of a more realistic world, so they moved away from the more cartoony aspects of cartoons and comics.

[@cookimaus1]

@ i think it's one of the few instances of that sort of approach that works really naturally imo.

[@Skaiser_Wilhelm7938]

It's a perfect balance. I definitely liked that they were more alien in design and looks. A design choice that makes sense since they're from another planet. These films will always be near and dear to me.

[@ishguy524]

I'm glad there was some change, seeing the g1 cartoon for the first time was odd and weird compared to the movies but I get why they were a thing

[@Transformers_nerd_stop_motions]

SAMEEE

[@Skaiser_Wilhelm7938]

I still remember the teaser for the first film. It followed a NASA mission to Mars, where a drone was to be landed and search the planet, and it did find something. Just something.... different. All of the old Transformers trailers knew how to get an audience excited. They would either have this ominous terror, or this operatic guns blazing action or sometimes even both. Modern Paramount marketing teams should take a look at those trailers, and learn how to market a film.

[@JoeChillton]

@Skaiser_Wilhelm7938 the way they didn't do Transformers One justice is.....frustrating to say the least

[@Skaiser_Wilhelm7938]

@@JoeChillton It seemed like whoever made the trailers just wanted to get them edited and released so he could get that paycheck. The trailers made no attempt to distinguish themselves from all the other big blockbusters coming out around the same time.

[@eeveeofalltrades4780]

Imagine they partnered up with NASA so that instead of showing the real footage of the mission (if it was a real mission from around the same time) they showed the teaser as if it was the real thing.

[@MrCat-zz5eo]

@@eeveeofalltrades4780 Since they released the JAXA (Japanese NASA) Optimus Prime recently, part of me wishes they'd have done that as part of a tie-in promo for his release.

[@BestOneEver247]

@@eeveeofalltrades4780Cool idea but I don't think they had the budget to be able to afford that level of marketing perhaps even today

[@Tony_Kim_]

you have to admit : despite so many wrong things happened with Bayformers, the CGI and Marketing efforts were surprisingly good for it's time Wish Transformers One got as much as marketing effort to acheive massive success...😢

[@WarpingFist]

Transformers One was done so dirty fw

[@MrCat-zz5eo]

@@WarpingFist Transformers One Hype Guy is the one major pillar of support keeping it alive and inspiring everyone to keep it alive. He's already a Prime in his own right.

[@LeonLego]

Transformers One failed to attract the casual viewers or general audience due to cartoonish CGI animation. It was marketed only for kids and real transformers fans. Despite the good reviews from the fans and those who watched it by popular youtubers such Chris Stuckman, Angry Joe, Penguinz and etc. It still failed attract the said audiences. In contrary to BayFormers films back in the day, 2007 to 2011, the BayFormers trilogy were advertised only in T.Vs, billboards and the people who saw it. These films were limited in advertising but managed to grossed billions in theaters, DVDs and digital copies. BayFormers saved the franchise despite the massive flaws but the general audience ignored it as they enjoyed blockbuster real life CGI robot fighting (The trilogy only and not the AOE and TLK). Most of these audiences are not fans of the franchise, but they enjoyed and rewatched many times the BayFormers especially the real blockbuster finale DOTM. Sad to say, Michael Bay's transformers attracted the general audience or casual viewers because of the real life CGI blockbuster films and not the real transformers films such Bumblebee (2018), ROTB and the recent film Transformers One.

[@Teeheehee093]

Good for its time? The CGI in the 2007 film looks more real than most modern films

[@marcusaaronliaogo9158]

@@LeonLegotbh the bay verse really started and tainted the transformers brand since absolutely everyone hated last knight

[@eggoryheffley7569]

Let’s be grateful that the 2007 movie saved the franchise

[@WarpingFist]

Certainly made the series relevant again.

[@eggoryheffley7569]

@@WarpingFist Yup, true. And that says a lot because my first interaction with the franchise was the TFP Weaponizer Bumblebee toy back in like 2012 or 2013 when I was 5 or 6

[@donutello_]

So many older fans always get mad with that. “Transformers never became irrelevant”. Yet so many fans including me wouldn’t even be here if it werent for the 2007 movie.

[@DaimosZ]

It really didn't save it. Beast Wars and the string of Transformers cartoons and anime's that followed carried the heavy lifting for 10 years until the Bay films came along and shot it right into mainstream pop culture. I say this as a 2000's kid who got into Transformers through the Unicron Trilogy of anime's. It kinda makes me sad how those late 90's/early 00's TF series get forgotten despite them being what convinced Spielberg and Bay to pick up the license for film.

[@eggoryheffley7569]

@@DaimosZ true, but iirc, it was the 2007 movie that made TF popular again. Still, nice points you bring up, though you did acknowledge that the Bay films shot them right into mainstream pop culture, so….

[@TheRealRahstar]

People wanted to hunt and kill Michael Bay? Damn! Some of these Transformers fans in the early 2000s were really toxic. Without Michael Bay's first Transformers trilogy the Transformers franchise wouldn't have been so popular as it is today.

[@eudacye709]

Well the Bayverse has pretty toxic fans too. It’s the snake biting its tail.

[@TheRealRahstar]

@eudacye709 toxic enough to say that they'll kill someone?

[@KnightsofCybertronReturns]

@TheRealRahstar facts I agree with you there is alot of toxic fans in the Transformers community

[@UserAndSale]

That's just a plain threat​@@TheRealRahstar

[@eudacye709]

​@@TheRealRahstar I don't hope so but death threats are sadly a norm in a lot of mainstream fanbases.

[@kindequation_Arts]

As someone who grew up with the Transformers Bayverse. I’m certainly greatful for being honest on takings risks on the design and trying to be its own thing and it’s own style. I’m very glad that we got Bumblebee and Rise Of The Beasts proper design but I can certainly say I appreciate what Michael Bay has given us, even if it wasn’t perfect.

[@WarpingFist]

Right. Ultimately, I appreciate Bays movies for what they were. I can't imagine a timeline without them.

[@ishguy524]

Some fans didn't like other entries In the franchise from before like beast wars or beast machines so this is not new

[@Tyrannosaurus_rex.]

Imo Bayverse is better than RotB and Bumblebee in every way including designs.

[@erikpng]

Idk, Bumblebee looks very much like his Bayverse self in the new movies. I hate the thing on his mouth. It looks cursed.

[@devofficialchannel]

One thing I like about the reboot films is that they fused the G1 blockiness with the more mechanical Bayverse designs. So they still look memorable enough for people to point and say "That's [insert character here]!", but still look "realistic" enough to blend in with live-action.

[@TheBlindFighter]

Honestly in my opinion i would say that Michael bay made the transformers ip more popular to newer audiences

[@WarpingFist]

Yeah, especially since the first movie was a lot of people's gateway into the series.

[@ToaDaGardeKat]

Its a fact, I don't like that fact, but its a fact

[@trollsome]

Perhaps we were too harsh on Michael bay?

[@basedbattledroid3507]

​@myang12003 nah if anything we're not harsh enough, things like his repeated assaults of Megan Fox and then threatening to end her career if she walked were fucked up

[@KnightsofCybertronReturns]

Facts

[@GeneFOX70]

"With the All Spark gone, we cannot return life to our planet, and fate has yielded its reward, a new world to call home. We live among its people now hiding in plain sight, but watching over them in secret, waiting, protecting. I have witnessed their capacity for courage, and though we are worlds apart like us there's more to them than meets the eye. I am Optimus Prime and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars... we are here... we are waiting."

[@Katakuna15]

“WHAT I’VE DONE!”

[@Alf-gm7tf]

I’LL FACE MYSELF!!

[@KaygeeFromNanotrasen]

TO CROSS OUT WHAT I'VE BEEECOOOOME

[@gmgrajo434]

...erase myself and let go of what i've done

[@SpectacularSpooder-Man]

*Directed by Michael Bay

[@ArcTrooper269]

People really needed to consider that they weren't making a new show or a new cartoon, THEY WERE MAKING A LIVE ACTION MOVIE, & sometimes some things meed to be changed in order to work in a set alongside REAL PEOPLE, so as long as they kpt the core elements & a faithful vision towards the project, changes shouldn't be demonized in adaptations as long as they bring a competent project

[@ishguy524]

Don't really matter what they think, this movie managed to do well in the box office earning sequels.

[@ArcTrooper269]

@ishguy524 it helped me that I grew up with the Unicron trilogy, so Transformers having bastly different designs in the movie didn't hit me hard since I was pretty used to, unlike the GEEWUNERS

[@Ducket]

@@ArcTrooper269Nothing wrong with your comment, I just hate the term “geewunner” so much.

[@Jman92854]

@@ArcTrooper269 This. I grew up with the Unicron Trilogy, Beast Wars, RID 2001, I'm used to characters' names being slapped around and not being like their G1 counterparts... that's why the Bayverse never bothered me with making Barricade a cop car, or Ironhide a black pickup truck. It's strange that fans were okay with the shows, but not the live action movies.

[@ishguy524]

To add, in the early 2000s They were making an unmade show called trans tech that also had radically different designs too and it was part of g1 continuity with bw

[@silentgaming6287]

The eye part was not a decepticon looking over the earth. It was optimus's eye behind the autobot symbol looking over the earth

[@donovanmartin7946]

This video was a trip down memory lane

[@WarpingFist]

This must be how our parents feel when they reminisce on the good ol days

[@DefrostedNeanderthal]

This was such a fun time to be alive. I was checking websites and blogs daily looking for news and leaks and it was always so exciting when something new came out about the movie. This was quiet the nostalgia trip, thank you!

[@Eva01-jy2qu7pu9r]

The first two Bayformers movies were my gateway to the Transformers franchise, and I love them to death to this day. ROTB and One are masterpieces, but they would nevef exist without these movies being successful

[@henrygambles3652]

It’s interesting the kind of advertising these films had

[@liammeech3702]

15:27 "Bumblebee looks like a Bionicle" BIONICLE MENTIONED🗣🗯

[@celestialspartan1176]

I’m agreeing with the fans when they said that Megatron’s original head design was FAR TOO alien. It reminds me way too much of a Xenomorph. The one that we got in the film was much better. Hell, it’s what made Bayverse Megatron (‘07-‘11) so iconic along with him being voiced by the legendary Hugo Weaving, aka. Elrond from LOTR.

[@TechDove]

Transformers 07 is my favorite movie of all time It was a dark period of my life, I had just lost my best friend the year prior and this movie gave me something to look forward to.

[@MrDrMedicBag]

The designs are perfect. They by no means need to conform to conventional humanoid physiology, so they can get as creative as they want. Plus, it makes them feel more grounded in reality.

[@wheel2gram965]

90s kids are very great full of these people who made this possible. It was my childhood dream and they made it real. Thank you.

[@ShockwaveFPSStudios]

And you thought TFOne had it rough. It didn’t get hacked compared to the first Michael Bay Transformers movie.

[@KnightsofCybertronReturns]

Facts

[@user-mu6sk7ub9r]

Michael's designs for the bots is what transformers would look like if they exist, they're gonna have weirdly proportioned body and we can still see car parts on them when they transform. That's the things the last 2 bayverse movies lack, the bots looking more humanly proportioned showing that they fit in with humans is cool but we barely see car parts on them.

[@abuhajar4222]

In real life, there wouldn't be 22 foot tall alien robots that can disguise themselves as automobiles

[@user-mu6sk7ub9r]

@@abuhajar4222 that's why i said "if they exist"

[@T3kAru]

I feel the last two movies design where meant to show what they should have looked lik before coming to earth

[@shadowlazers]

Ya definitely u would know what alien is robots would look like..except they'd probably be micro .as it's way more efficient..so you would never know what they look like

[@X_CROTO666]

I love rise of the beast but tf2007 really gave you the impression that these are giant robots and the cgi of the 2007 movies still holds up to this day

[@JoeChillton]

I can safely say a constrained Bay with the first film is not as bad as what happened next with the next few films where the plot was just shredded into oblivion I had no idea this was a thing till i saw the tesser, inagine that hype nowadays. Beyween this and Cloverfield, they knew how to shock with teasers

[@WarpingFist]

After the first movie, it was all downhill from there.

[@JoeChillton]

@WarpingFist it's been trapped in just diminishing returns and One should have been a full return and they fucked it up by making it look like a dumb Nick cartoon

[@PoIarisPrime]

Not to start a long discussion. But what's wrong with the plot of the next few films? (Ik the issues with TLK)

[@KnightsofCybertronReturns]

​@@PoIarisPrime I disagree I enjoyed the last knight but that's just my opinion

[@Dasistrite]

@@PoIarisPrime Lets be real here.. The first three movies are great but after those they started milking it. Should have went to the plan room and go into farther in future humans coexisting with autobots.

[@akuraccoon]

remember watching this movie's leaks for the first time, being extremely scared since i was a big fan because of RID01 and the Unicron Trilogy, but honestly i was so pleasantly surprised after finishing it for the frist time too bad evry single movie after this one was actual torture

[@akbarbokhari7727]

Happy 40th Anniversary to Transformers!!!!!🤩😇🎉🎂🧁

[@KnightsofCybertronReturns]

Amen to that 👍🔥🔥🔥

[@akbarbokhari7727]

Exactly!!!! 😊❤

[@jaredsmith7612]

I think the Bumblebee design is actually really good.

[@todbringer787]

Geewuners are the real problem of the fanbase

[@guyger]

I grew up with G1 but became a fan again with the Bay movies. I love the realistic alt modes and knowing the massive work that went in to transforming them on screen made me love them even more. I collect the figures and will always run to a Bay Transformer over the classic G1 stuff. They look fantastic on shelves.

[@theRealmcMoonBall]

These are unironically the best Transformers designs we have ever gotten (excluding AOE and TLK, those dont even look like they transform into anything), and it's a crying shame they can't be used anymore.

[@ishguy524]

Same here, now they're all kind of minimal and i know why

[@shamimmohamed2843]

​@@ishguy524 Why?

[@ishguy524]

Some designs are Deemed complicated, and just straying away from g1 at least 4 and 5 as the sequels go that's the obvious answer.

[@natecollins9331]

Good Or bad, Doesn't matter. It was Bay that made Transformers Popular again and not only that even MCU took some ques from the Bay's Transformers ...

[@omegachungus4847]

Wasn't transformers already popular?

[@KnightsofCybertronReturns]

Facts

[@effiespark3635]

4:48 'as bay at the time was primarily known for mediocre action flicks' and nothing has changed

[@EinfachNoah]

0:18 only if you are a gen 1 kid

[@Soldier-Boy1954]

*Real Transformers fan

[@someonewhocommentsonyoutub3779]

@@Soldier-Boy1954 Don't be a gatekeeper bro, let people enjoy things

[@LemarDavis1824]

​@Soldier-Boy1954 yeah you making transformers look bad since we can't branch out and we must stick to wtv came before

[@meatgrinder21]

In the begining of the bayverse their goal was to make the cybertronians alt mode seem realistic by using actual car parts when they transform and from aoe and tlk they didn't use that the transformation is more alien like but we gotta admit it was really nice to see them transform into their alt modes in the bayverse movies

[@remuslazar2033]

The Bayverse movies had the potential to rival MCU

[@NeoTeku_2319]

Definitely more videos of Transformers please this is just fascinating to watch

[@Goosebear77]

Michael Bay, the same guy who didn't want Scarlett Johansson go topless in The Island even though it was her idea and fit the scene.

[@nicklander3301]

I loved the Bay films hell I even turned around on Age Of Extinction and The Last Knight as I first hated them but man I am suprised that there was a lot of hate towards Bay and now learning about the leaks cause man the hype was through the roof with the trailers and when the first movie came out

[@jonathanwerrell3897]

It was such a fun during that time to follow all the leaks. Movies are not as hyped anymore unfortunately.

[@ronbrown1236]

I don’t understand the hate the designs got at the beginning. They are very different but iconic in their own right. Love both the cartoon and most the movies. Optimus, magnetron and bee are top tier in the newer forms

[@tc3969]

They’re iconic now because people grew up on Bayformers. When these designs were introduced they were radical departures from the classic designs fans recognised each character for.

[@RurouniHeero]

Let's not forget that by the time the Bayformers arrived, we already had different designs for many characters in the various other animated series. But the designs of the Bayformers were really insect like and "organically" alien compared to the blocky motorized versions we used to know and were familiar with in G1, Armada, RiD. Even with Beast Wars being actual animals and insects, the original designs of the G1 TF were present with the crashed Ark in the past full of the original Autobots and Decepticons, visually establishing that the Maximals and Predacons were clearly an evolution of those transformers. Some designs from the Bayverse are interesting, but let's face it, the designs seen in the Bumblebee movie and Rise of the Beast are much better.

[@Hex_Scythe_takanashi]

​@@RurouniHeero nah, new live action movie designs are way to clean and simple, lacking of interesting shape

[@taxisalad]

As someone who grew up with both the Bay films and a DVD collection of G1, I admit there was a time where I detested the Bay designs in my adolescence, but in recent years I've come to enjoy them almost as much as I did when I was a kid; besides, if it weren't for these radical departures, we wouldn't have gotten Bumblebee with black racing stripes which just makes sense. We wouldn't have gotten new interpretations of nobody characters that everyone forgot until this movie; hell, Barricade and Blackout remain some of my favorite Decepticons from design alone! I've even seen a noticeable transition from people calling Bay Starscream a dorito as a way to say the design is awful to people calling him that endearingly and liking the triangular shape of him. Yeah, there are still people out there who act like these designs are comparable to war crimes, but that's mostly G1-elitists, and thankfully most of the community has come to realize that they're annoying.

[@TheRoorkesy]

Worst charactet design in the franchise.

[@ArcTrooper269]

@TheRoorkesy worst orthography in the comment section,🤡

[@Transformers_nerd_stop_motions]

Thank you so much for this video, I love the behind the scenes of the earlier transformers media and this was really well put together ❤

[@kingbash6466]

I was already a big fan of Transformers thanks to Cybertron, and seeing the first trailer for the movie on TV made me want to watch it day one. I still have nostalgic bias for the first 3 films even if a lot of their elements haven't aged the best.

[@binary1045]

Babe wake up (or go to sleep since its night), WarpingFist made another marketing video

[@LandRatZS]

i love these type of videos. It is always so interesting to hear about the internets reaction to these movies and how aspects of the movie changed close to release time.

[@Notsofunnyman217]

Damn, i wish i was born earlier to feel the hype

[@CodyCoonrod]

The first movie was amazing. The graphical achievements are TO THIS DAY, better than most films being released.

[@TheRoorkesy]

Pity it looked awful though.

[@mafkamikaze9032]

I love how beautiful the designs are for all the robots. It’s always the fans crying about how they simply hate change.

[@downspiral]

Great video. I love seeing fan discourse in specific time periods such as at a time when this was the first live action movie where the only frames of reference they have is the previous cartoons and the animated movie.

[@altier1014]

These are my favorite types of videos from you. I've always been interested in development coverage type of videos, keep up the good work

[@HYP3M0D368]

I remember when my dad printed a bumblebee poster out for me when i was little and it was bumble recolored to red to mimic cliff jumper good times

[@rustymixer2886]

11:14 thank you been looking for this clip for 17 years !

[@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim]

the fact there was nobody to record a theater first viewing reaction back in 2007 tells you how lowkey the movie was 😂

[@TheRoorkesy]

KZbin was young and hardly anyone was doing that rubbish at the time.

[@ishguy524]

I remember some of those old videos on KZbin on the recommendations before the movie came

[@Scuffedduck117]

Youre underrated bro

[@WarpingFist]

THX

[@kenmaru777]

I don't think it would be that impressive in 2007 with new cube designs of Tf remake Bay made an absolute masterpiece of visual insanity. He changed lives

[@mr.x2855]

And now this movie became our Generation 1 for us late 90s and 00s kids

[@levimiller9367]

I do kinda hate how fans interrupt the creative process by being nitpicky. The designs was part of what made the movie different it’s kind of why im not a fan of the newer movies g1 megatron wasn’t nearly as menacing as bays version of him

[@rehanimus]

I remember back in 04 when the rumors started getting heavy, and i think they announced the potential autobots, which included arcee and hot rod. And I was so apprehensive as to how it might look. I didn't have any positive expectations till the promotion began

[@BADASSATRON127]

I remember seeing all of theses old 2000s Transformers videos, they were peak

[@snitchpogi1277]

No matter what, I still love Bayformers, say whatever you want but i like the live-action Transformers.

[@gdragon4829]

the 2007 tf movie was actually such a blessing it introduced more fans like me who have loved this franchise all their life it sucks to hear that some fans were disagreeing with the fact that there was a movie, our fanbase really has been the same all this time, huh

[@MrFantastic23]

As a kid from the 80's I recall not being super happy with the change simply for nostalgic reasons but I did like most of what Bay put out there. Still was never a fan of Doritoman but I understood WHY he looked like that being that he was a F-22 and those are bigger than most cars and trucks and they couldn't have him towering over everyone so he he got that wide body treatment.

[@muigokublack6487]

As someone whose first entry into the franchise was with the Unicron Trilogy, I loved these designs and I still do to the point I have the Studio Series figures. The early marketing hype was insane and I was there for it. The ARG, the "Transform Your Summer" promotion, the toys, etc. The robot designs looked great and even organic with how robots from a distant planet would look. I remember people complaining about Prime having a mouth and the flames yet nowadays Prime having a mouth is considered normal.

[@Micosanmiguel]

I remember watching the video of a early design for optimus prime transforming from a freightliner to robot form

[@famalam943]

I remember the early viral marketing so well for this, especially the grimlock video, was disappointed when he didn’t show up in the movie.

[@nedmurry7283]

I saw the commercials on TV and instantly said! Yeah they're making Transformers!!

[@MiguelMartinez-ls4vc]

It kind of reminds me of the same dilemna like the first sonic the hedgehog movie. During the marketing of sonic the hedgehog, fans were curious to see how a live action sonic would initially look until their excitement turned into skepticism as soon as reveling early footages of him. People started to point out the hedgehog himself overhumanized, unrecognizable, until it became public backlash on first sonic movie trailer in 2019. This is relatable.

[@Dasistrite]

I love the first three movies and especially the first movie. Imho the cybetronians look fucking bad ass and alien like they should be in a realistic and gritty portrayal!

[@bhagirathpriyavrat821]

Its always annoying when people just want everything to just look the same again and again. These complaints always happen whenever a design is different from what came before. Then some time passes and the new designs become popular as well. You would imagine that for a series as vast and with as many continuities as Transformers people would be over this kind of thing but it is what it is, i guess.

[@TheOneTrueAJ]

I'm a diehard fan of the G1 cartoon blocky robot designs. I think Bay's Transformers are hideous. But I do know that this is a cartoon world attempted to be adapted into the real. So in the interest of realism, I think the blocky forms would not translate most accurately and realistically. I agree with the one comment that said it couldn't work bringing the cartoon to the real world. So I understand why such complexities in character design were added. However I think so massive of changes to the character forms from the original was so bold and dangerous that it cost a lot of fans. But it seems they made enough new fans to leave the classic fans in the past.

[@M3DUZA8O8]

Well Bay did keep the lights on and saved Transformers from being solddd

[@ema4020]

15:32 the dreamwave and idw designs are literally just G1 with a few boring add ups. the G1-ers are just boring people lol. i understand the complains when it comes to story elements or transformer screentime, but the designs themselves on the first three films are really good. jazz is literally his G1 self but updated.

[@the_instru]

Really makes you realise how much toxicity and copium exists in the TF fandom.

[@derk123]

CC 2005. I saw the truck in person and my heart was pounding seeing an Optimus there with trailer.

[@markandrew287]

While the Bayverse has some...glaring issues, the fact of the matter is is that they were EXTREMELY influential (and despite it all, has wormed it's way into a nostalgic part of my heart) back then. I just wish that they took more notes in the writing department like Transformers Animated (best TF show imo) did. Imagine these blockbuster films with all of it's charm but _way_ more solid writing.

[@MegaAwesomethings]

I didn’t even like transformers as a kid till the bayverse because I preferred the less humanoid looking transformers that we got in the movie, animated and prime.

[@KnightsofCybertronReturns]

As a fan of the bayverse transformers films I'm Grateful too have live action transformers movies Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg Took something that was a comic book and cartoon and toy and they brought if to life on the big screen thats awesome

[@1234567890ZETA]

I never understood the hate the 2007 film got even the subsequent sequels that followed it. Without this movie, I wouldn’t be introduced to America’s military arsenal. I wouldn’t be wanting a GMC Topkick because let’s face it, Ironhide’s alt-mode in this movie is far more badass than the OG. Then there’s Optimus Prime’s Pete 379 so American rig styling. This movie is and always will be a car lover’s dream.

[@Gunnumn]

my younger brother and i left to go to a movie theater in the middle of a family camping trip to see this.

[@ultimateslinger9857]

Excellent video my guy👌.You should really do a video on concept art and designs from Transformers Prime eventually. That show was peak

[@jonasgrye]

These movies where my childhood and forever love them! They were amazing seen everyone in theatres.

[@Theover4000]

I love the video! But I do have some feedback: 1. Citroen is pronounced Sit-tro-en. 2. It feels like you’re rushing and stumbling a bit in some parts of the video, might be worth doing multiple takes for future videos. I hope you continue to make these videos and I look forward to seeing more from you! 😊

[@TheRandom1631]

15:36 "A whole team of peolle need to be fired *and/or SHOT."* That's just honestly horrific that people would say shit like this over a damn robot fighting show.

[@Thebatman10000]

11:12 I remember watching this as a kid. Brings back the memories of the early days

[@therandomcarguy77]

That thumbnail is every 80s kid's dream

[@immunecookie0179]

Without the 2007 movie, this franchise could’ve been forgotten and gone downhill

[@Rougewave_fun]

I love all the transformers. When I was younger than I knew about g1, armada, cybertron , and whatever transformers media I could consume before the 2007 movie. I watched transformers the movie 1986 over and over until the movie came out. I had chocolate waffles with syrup and watched that movie over and over. Then 2007 movie came out and my heart was already attached and grew bigger😂❤ now I still collect them but more of the masterpiece ! Will always be a transformers fan and always love the community ! ❤

[@MosesKaldor]

Early 2000's nerd rage. It brought about the golden era of polite Internet trolling. It was epic to see them froth when you misnamed or misspelled a robots name. I can still get a rise out of Apple fans with my 'apple phone' and 'iwatch'

[@Stygian360]

Moral of the story. There are a lot of insane weird people out there that get way too into this sort of thing

[@Zygomatic_Bolt]

11:23 That's Ultra Magnus

[@BrianAwesome]

Screw this obsession with retcons and remakes. Transformers Prime AND Bay-Formers NEEDS Sequels, Prequels, and Midquels 🔥

[@kaobunn]

crazy how fans back then advocated for michael bay's death over some design changes

[@hakimmyassoud5842]

what is the name of the film which is 2 part of the video from 0:38 11:36 pls ? we see a vw beetle in a parking lot through a surveillance camera

[@WarpingFist]

It's not from a movie, apparently. It was a part of the transformers (2007) marketing campaign.

[@Opt1140]

I got a whole playlist of those animations

[@adamshafeeq8685]

I appreciate you not putting the title in the thumbnail. It's honestly stupid whenever KZbinrs (video essayists in particular) do this.

[@martinmarcos5340]

Say what you want about MB but who cared about Transformers before 2007? I watched it as a kid but I could barely remember anything besides the first 3 episodes because I had them in VHS. When I first read around 2005 that a mopvie was being made, that´s when I became a true fan, and I would bet my life that most fans today owe it to the 2007 movie.

[@johnedsel]

The designs on the tv ads and fan made clips were better than anything shown in Bayformers.

[@matthewwilliams9200]

They looked amazing

[@OvertheHedge06]

I honest to god think if the movie was made a decade later where Facebook, Twitter, KZbin, and Instagram were a thing and social media is what it was in 2017 then the internet could've pulled an entire Ugly Sonic redesign on this movie because Jesus Christ 17 years later and these designs are still pretty goddamn horrid.😊

[@Tyrannosaurus_rex.]

Imo they are the best ever created.

[@OverX6time]

​@@Tyrannosaurus_rex. Your standards must be very low then

[@darthwatson8274]

I remember being a kid and seeing that first Transformers NASA teaser.

[@WillCaddell-b6w]

Michael Bay….. so evil and foul that even Thanos said…..Damn what did the humans do to deserve that??”