Saw this on reddit.... A comparison of the real Megatron to his version (based on the toy). I have been wondering how much hollywood would destroy my memory of my childhood enjoyment... First not using a VW for Bumblebee (I think that was it right?) and now this. When will the torture end!?!
Yeah, it's become painfully clear that Michael Bay doesn't give a rat's ass about the original Transformers, or even the ones that came since then. He's just doing his own thing. It'll be like the USA version of Godzilla. Nothing like the original, completely missing the point of what made the original so attractive, and ultimately an embarrassing failure at the box office. This pisses me off to no end. Transformers were THE childhood toys and shows for me, I still have a huge box of all the toys I collected as a child. Looks like hiring Cullen to voice Prime really was just to shut the fans up.
What I wonder is... I thought they said Megatron would be a tank and starscream would be a jet
I'm pretty sure they never said anything of the sort. Megatron WAS a tank toy at one point, and I'm sure in the comics too. Basically Michael Bay is just doing his own thing. He doesn't care about the fans and judging by the character designs he's approving, he never saw any of the cartoons either. Oh well. Remember the He-Man movie with Dolph Lundgren? Looks like we're getting a repeat of that. :)