Theyre called Orion Pax and D-16, respectively.
So how did it look?
I have to say, I was disappointed on multiple levels.
Optimus Prime in the 1986 Transformers movie.Image: Hasbro
The tone seemed aimed at a very, very young audience.
And any hints of this promised feud and betrayal are completely missing.
Obviously, Transformers is based on toys so, at its core, its a kid franchise.
Not totally serious, but a balance of humor with gravitas.
Transformers One, at least based on this first footage, isnt that.
We meet Prime and Megatron as young, lowly worker robots that dont have the ability to transform.
They fool around, fight, and act like teenage brothers.
Also, its important to note they dont look like the characters we know and love.
Theyre almost like a base-model robot without any upgrades.
They dont even have faceplates, so each character has a full face: eyes, nose, mouth.
Aesthetically speaking, this was, as they say, a choice.
Eventually, we see them get the ability to transform but its not something that happens instantly.
The footage shows the characters attempting to figure out how to use their powers and bungling them a lot.
Prime tries to do it but then only hides his head.
Later, a big villain emerges and the group decides to use their newfound powers to stop him.
But there was very, very little sense of that in the footage.
Or, maybe it will be, once we see more of it.
Its aimed at their 10-year-old kids who could care less about that.
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