"Robots In Disguise"

[PhatPat33]

I thought this was cool...

While riding through Sterling, MA this afternoon, I came across this replica of "Bumblebee" from the movie "Transformers."  It even had the hanging "Bee-otch" bee air freshener from the rear view mirror.  The kid in me had to take a picture.



Here's a scene from the movie featuring the car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CcGPyZcXTI

[Rincewind]

Nice catch.  Did you get to see it transform as well?  

Too bad it didn't have a Megan Fox replica inside.  

[JamminJere]

I think the new Suzuki B-King looks like it will get up and transform any second

What do you think?




Now thats a nasty naked street fighter isn't it?

Jerry

[PhatPat33]

Too bad it didn't have a Megan Fox replica inside.

I was really hoping that Megan Fox would come out from behind a tree somewhere.

I think the new Suzuki B-King looks like it will get up and transform any second

LOL.. yeah!  I can definitely see the huge cans on the B-King turning into legs or a rocket launcher.

[NJFJR]

I think the new Suzuki B-King looks like it will get up and transform any second

What do you think?

Yeah, I hope it transforms into something with a purpose.
FUGLIEST bike from Suzuki yet. (just my opinion, of course)

[molferen]

While riding through Sterling, MA this afternoon, I came across this replica of "Bumblebee" from the movie "Transformers."  It even had the hanging "Bee-otch" bee air freshener from the rear view mirror.  The kid in me had to take a picture.

It was an abomination that they made Bumblebee anything but a yellow Volkswagen Beetle.

[JReazor]

It was an abomination that they made Bumblebee anything but a yellow Volkswagen Beetle.

That's what happens when accountants make creative decisions.

[PhatPat33]

I agree with you there, too.  It's blasphemous that Bumblebee wasn't a beetle.  They should have called it, Bumble-maro or something.

[Malber]

Calm down, fan-boys. A beetle is a chick car. What teen-age boy looking to pick up the hot chick is going to pick a yellow beetle?

I don't think it took away from the movie.

[JReazor]

Calm down, fan-boys. A beetle is a chick car. What teen-age boy looking to pick up the hot chick is going to pick a yellow beetle?

I don't think it took away from the movie.

Heretic.

[scott-sts]

Yeah, I hope it transforms into something with a purpose.
FUGLIEST bike from Suzuki yet. (just my opinion, of course)

Opinion shared by many.

[molferen]

Calm down, fan-boys. A beetle is a chick car. What teen-age boy looking to pick up the hot chick is going to pick a yellow beetle?

I don't think it took away from the movie.

Arg, pick her up in some other car then.

I think this article in Wired summed up my feelings exactly:

So why all the grief over a Bay-battered Transformers? It's a toy. A cartoon. What's next? Please don't let Brett Ratner desecrate the Care Bears? And aren't ass-kicking robots exactly what you'd expect from the high priest of high-octane puerility?

But among a certain sect of geekdom, there's more at stake. Prime practically step-parented the latchkey kids of the mid-'80s. He was our Allfather at a time when flesh-and-blood role models were increasingly few and far between: Stallone had begun his long sag. Arnold was already more credible as machine than man. So when Prime declared, "One shall stand, one shall fall!" in that seismic, tear-down-this-wall timbre of his (or, more accurately, voice actor Peter Cullen), you believed him. Thus began the cyber-outsourcing of masculine heroism, a process that would eventually, inextricably, link Y chromosome to Xbox.

No, my Dad wasn't absent from my childhood, and no - I don't consider myself a "fanboy" (I no longer have *any* Transformers lying around the house, nor are there any tucked away in boxes in the attic or basement).  I don't even have a problem with the change they gave Megatron - he's no longer a gun, but a Jet.  How lame was it when he's standing there all bad-ass then "transforms" into a puny hand-held gun?  If you're gonna turn into a gun, at least become a howitzer or wave-motion gun (let's not get started on Star Blazers here).

Okay, I'm a huge nerd.

Malber, you're right, it didn't take a way from the movie.  Overall, I thought the movie was great.  

[Malber]

Malber, you're right, it didn't take a way from the movie.  Overall, I thought the movie was great.  

Thanks. Yeah, I never understood why Megatron turned into a pistol either. I liked in the movie that he didn't accept a cloned vehicle appearance, as if he woudn't stoop to emulate human technology. And I thought the modern Camaro that Bumblebee morphed into was cool. There are Staties out here who have those and they're cool looking as cop cars. I'll bet GM invested heavily for the product placement.  

It didn't make sense, though, that a cut-rate used car dealer would leave Bridgestones on a junker.

The most uncomfortable moment was the scene at the parents house when I had to have my six year old ask what the word "masturbating" meant.

[molferen]

It didn't make sense, though, that a cut-rate used car dealer would leave Bridgestones on a junker.

All bets are off when Bernie Mac is said used car dealer.

The most uncomfortable moment was the scene at the parents house when I had to have my six year old ask what the word "masturbating" meant.

Er...I'm not looking forward to those questions.  I have a 4 year old and a 2 year old - I'm dying to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark with him but I think he's just too young (the 4 year old).  The Well of Souls still freaks me out.

I got the first DVDs of Voltron after my son saw it on Cartoon Network and liked it.  It's funny how awesome you remember those cartoons being - then you watch them again as an adult and they kinda suck.

Oh well, back to watching disc 7 of Battle of the Planets.  

[Allan]

Whenever one story gets transferred to another medium it always goes through some kind of change. I was a big transformers fan as I defiantly was there target demographic when they first came out. I had no problem with the changes or the GM product placement. They were all approved by Hasbro and seeing as the original Cartoon (although it is one of the better ones of that time, especially the feature film) was designed to sell toys I had no problem with the movie selling cars. While it has to go ahead of Hasbro this was Bay's and Spielberg’s transformers and I think they did a great job bringing the franchise to a wider post millennium audience.

The most uncomfortable moment was the scene at the parents house when I had to have my six year old ask what the word "masturbating" meant.

From IMDB:

Transformers (2007)
MPAA:Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, brief sexual humor, and language.