Author: JediTricks

Vote for your choice in the 2012 Transformers Hall of Fame

TFV has been invited by Hasbro for the 3rd year in a row to participate in this year’s Transformers Hall of Fame. We’re polling our readers to find out which Transformers character should be included in the third TF Hall of Fame alongside Hasbro’s 2012 choices of Grimlock, Jazz, and Shockwave. Click here to cast your vote!

Past winners include Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, Starscream, Beast Wars’ Dinobot, Ironhide, Ratchet,  Soundwave, and Waspinator, so your vote will determine who gets to be in some illustrious Transformers company!

Hasbro Comments on TF:P First Edition Figure Availability

This just in from Hasbro regarding the TF:Prime First Edition figures…

TRANSFORMERS fans,

As we greatly value our TRANSFORMERS fans and consumers, we appreciate the opportunity to clarify and explain the current situation with TRANSFORMERS PRIME First Edition figure availability in the U.S.

We very much apologize for the miscommunication with our great retailers in the U.S.  Regrettably, as a result, the TRANSFORMERS PRIME First Edition Wave 2 Deluxe, Wave 1 Voyager and Entertainment Pack figures were posted for pre-sale in error.  Final product was not produced for these figures to ship within the U.S.  As such, Continue reading Hasbro Comments on TF:P First Edition Figure Availability

Bumblebee Appears in 2012 Rose Parade

Paramount Pictures’ float in the 2012 Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, celebrated the Hollywood studio’s 100th anniversary by highlighting some of their best-known properties. Among them was Transformers movie Bumblebee, right in the middle of the float. As all Rose Parade float elements have to be covered in living things, Bumblebee was decked out in yellow Strawflower as well as poppy and chive seeds. Los Angeles’ KTLA channel 5’s long-time Rose Parade commentator Bob Eubanks, former host of the classic TV gameshow The Newlywed Game, revealed that his son, stuntman Corey Eubanks, was coincidentally the stunt driver for the Bumblebee Camaro in the 2007 Transformers film.

TF: Revenge of the Fallen Named Worst Summer Blockbuster of All Time

Time Magazine has compiled a list of the 20 worst summer blockbusters of all time, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was ranked worst on that list, just ahead of 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.

The second of Michael Bay’s’ cinematic Transformers trilogy was released just 2 years ago to impressive box office results – the movie was the biggest draw of the trilogy and ranks 78th in all-time domestic ticket sales (adjusted for inflation), making it the only Transformers film on the top 100 list – but downright abysmal  reviews that have not improved in the 2 years since its release. Time’s list places blame on the movie’s confused, jumbled plot, but ultimately focuses the film’s scorn upon its helmer, Michael Bay.

Time also named ROTF’s sequel, this summer’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon, as the 16th worst summer blockbuster of all time.

You can read their rationale and the rest of the list on Time’s website.

Did You Know…?

I learned at Comic-Con that the head of Hasbro’s Star Wars figure sculpting department, Dave Vennemeyer, handles the Transformers Human Alliance humans, as well as the Star Wars Transformers heads? It’s true! He even had the original sculpts on hand alongside his Star Wars head sculpts on display at the Hasbro booth as he was showing off sculpting and discussing the art with con-goers. The detailing on the Sam Witwicky, Captain Lennox, and Agent Simmons original sculpts was outrageously accurate, done in one-to-one scale no less, before they got turned into molds and given production paint. Dave and his team also do the generic Human Alliance figures that are helmeted, many of which are found in the basic HA line, and said any scale issues are unintended. Dave doesn’t personally do all the figures, for example, I asked him about the Sgt Epps figure and he knew that one only based on its flaws, not its name.

Some Movie Comes Out Today

Kinda weird, it’s Wednesday and yet there’s some sort of movie being released today. Not sure what the big deal is, I mean, it’s not like we’re a movie website. I don’t even remember what this movie’s called. But it’s out now, and in 3D and IMAX 3D (don’t get suckered into fake IMAX tho’).