Transformers Optimus Prime A FIRE TRUCK!?

[Cold2daToucH004]

Please, somebody... tell me thats only a rumor. Tell me its fake. Sorry if this is old, and has been discussed... I haven't been on the boards much lately.

PLEASE, just one person, tell me that isn't true.

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/354/C8127/

 

[DorkyFresh]

okay....



....turning Optimus into a firetruck is pushing it. i'm not the biggest Transformers fan but Optimus has ALWAYS been a big rig (at least when he was a vehicle)! if that scoop is true i'll be SEVERLY disappointed...

 

[BlazingBread]

Well during attack of the shows feed session earlier today they also said he was a firetruck and starscream was the police car.

 

[deathshead2]

I don't think its true besides they had a big rig at the SDCC now why would they go to all that trouble of getting that in there and not make him a big rig.

 

[Cold2daToucH004]

Well... I will be pretty pissed it this has truth to it. If not, then yippie.

 

[Chaos Bringer]

y'know, much like other comic fans moan and groan about changes...
adaptations. adaptations.
Learn the word well. No one ever said it was going to be a direct Translation. So, expect changes and that's that.

 

[muscaremy]

direct translation or not prime MUST be a big rig of some kind...not a fire truck....INFERNO is the fire truck

 

[Cold2daToucH004]

y'know, much like other comic fans moan and groan about changes...
adaptations. adaptations.
Learn the word well. No one ever said it was going to be a direct Translation. So, expect changes and that's that.

Listen man, I'm a huge fan... no doubt. I don't moan and groan about much. The superman suit.. I'm ok with. Spidey flicks, great movies. X-Men, awesome. I'm the one who always tells the annoying fans to relax.

Now that I gave you a quick history check about myself, let me explains something. Making Optimus Prime a fire truck is a HUGE mistake. You should never tamper with the leader, the main man. Now is this something I'll have to live with? Yes, will I want to? No. I doubt hes gonna be a fire-truck, but if he is, I'm gonna be pretty damn angry. Everyone knows him as that 'semi truck' one. This would be a very bad move.

 

[zanos]

Maybe they're doing a firetruck because it makes more sense for it to be red.

 

[Crimson Dynamo]

Please, somebody... tell me thats only a rumor. Tell me its fake. Sorry if this is old, and has been discussed... I haven't been on the boards much lately.

PLEASE, just one person, tell me that isn't true.

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/354/C8127/

Not true. Trust me.

 

[zer00]

y'know, much like other comic fans moan and groan about changes...
adaptations. adaptations.
Learn the word well. No one ever said it was going to be a direct Translation. So, expect changes and that's that.

there's a difference between a ****ing adaption and direct adaption

Doing half the **** they're doing with this movie is like what happened with LXG. And alot of people said the same thing you did there too.


I of course don't think this is true and just a BS rumor. People have already seen concept art that Prime is a semi. Blue...but a semi

 

[Chaos Bringer]

Like what happened with Punisher?

kidding.

I dunno. Adapting is what it is and if a director and producer have a vision to follow and some kind of continuity is messed with to keep the flow going, they usually do.

I'd like Prime to be a semi too. If he was a firetruck I'd deal with it.

 

[Denny67]

What I don't get is why they would use this promo at the 2005 San Diego Comic Con if they were changing Prime's design?

Looks like good ole Optimus Prime to me.

 

[ComicKoryn]

I hope they choose not to do the Firetruck, if it's even an option they're thinking of pursuing. Although, if they did do a firetruck Optimus, I wouldn't be too upset, considering how they had him as a firetruck in that one animated show that came out a little while ago. He didn't look bad as a fire truck then, so who knows.

That being said though, the purist inside me still pushes for the red semi. I mean, of all the movies they could do, Transformers has to be the one where changing around a lot of stuff just wouldn't work. For the most part, I would think that Transformers might be one of the easiest shows/comics to bring to film form, considering how it was such an epic set of shows/comics. Honestly, Hollywood doesn't need to change much to make Transformers rock.

 

[Arcturus]

Imagine how awesome it would be if Optimus Primer were an icecream truck or something?

He could transform, instead of the usual transforming sound, icecream music would play!

 

[Destructicus]

I have read so much **** that I cant tell if its fake or not and I'm fed up with it. Megs an alien jet, starscream a police car, Soundwave a midget and we cant even have Spike be called Spike. Now Optimus a ****ing firetruck. If all of this is true then this film will suck. They cannot do this film if its based of off the Robots in Disguise cartoon show from a few years ago.

 

[CFlash]

I really don't know how you can draw the line. Bumblebee can be a hot-rod but Prime can't be a firetruck? Why one and not the other? How do you guys justify that? You can have a Decepticon car straight out the bag despite the fact that none existed until the Stunticons, which was a special watershed sort of storyline (finally the "arial" Decepticons meet the Autobots on the road). All these guys can change what they transform into at will (huh?). (<insert countless "re-imaginings" here>)

I highly doubt the firetruck rumor is real. But, if it is, I don't see why anyone should be shocked.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Prime may not be a snub nose or Red but he won't be a fire truck from what ive read

 

[zer00]

Like what happened with Punisher?

You mean be good?

 

[Cinemaman]

Prime may not be a snub nose or Red but he won't be a fire truck from what ive read

I hope you are right.

 

[WalkingDead]

If he's a fire truck, he could STILL have his classic look and give off the Prime vibe. A big-ass fire truck is still a large, powerful truck. I don't believe this to be true, but if it is...it's not that bad.

I'm to the point I'm up for about anything, as long as I get a good movie with good acting, a decent to great plot, and great CGI TF's.

 

[LobokDaikon]

Maybe they're doing a firetruck because it makes more sense for it to be red.

More likely to be red, maybe, but a red semi makes as much sense as any other colour.

 

[The Only Woj]

making Optimus a fire truck would be the "making Batman gay" of the 21st century

 

[ragdus]

Making him a fire truck would be no big deal if you could remove your boyhood emotions for a half-second.

I'd like him to have that classic look. But I'd also prefer not to see a rig that looks 20 years old, like every single COE rig does nowadays.

Firetrucks have taken on a much more heroic feel post-9/11 for those people who lacked appreciation for the firemen of this country prior to that. It's a large heroic vehicle, and it's bright red. Sounds good to me.

When he goes robot, if I look and think "that's Optimus Prime", then I'll be happy.

 

[Arcturus]

In my personal opinion, I hope they keep him as a semi-truck.