Autobot_Leader wrote:ultra tron wrote:tomensnaben wrote:That's Optimus in the pool. You can tell because he's so huge.
It looks kind of like the armour can form the car when it's not on him. That would be nice, because then you could actually have him "scan" it, and sort of transform.
No, Ironhide was in the pool, the mag just picked that picture to show that its a protoform to try to pass it off as Optimus.
The one in the pool
is optimus. ironhide isn't that big and do you actually think they would put that "moody" part of the theme song on ironhide? ...No
No, that's Ironhide in the pool. If they meant for it to be Prime, the editors did a confusing job at trying to convey that because they immediately show Ironhide taking the Topkick form.
Whenever the protoform comes out of the pool and hides behind the tall trees, notice the smaller trees to the right. They look very similar to the trees surrounding Ironhide as he is Transforming into the truck. It also doesn't make sense why Prime, if that were him in the pool, would run out to the middle of nowhere and then scan the Peterbilt up on the embankment. Also notice there is nothing behind Prime or the embankment; no residential area, no trees, and even if that house was isolated in that area with nothing else around it, you would think it would be visible. That must be one tall embankment.
I think the music changes to a more subdued and mellow tone because of the little girl, not because that was supposed to be Prime. It happened roughly around the time she was asking if he was the tooth fairy. It's actually more funny when you think about the rough and tough Ironhide is having a tender moment with being confused for the tooth fairy, then the laid back, more tender hearted Prime.
Based on everything I was able to find about Protoforms, they all look similar except for heighth. Even when I tried to watch the movie frame by frame when a proto was on screen, it was tough to really make out a difference in the way they look. It kind of leads me to believe that protoform is more like a skeleton. All skeletons basically look the same. You only start to get an idea of how they vary after they scan a disguise. It's really tough to say the proto by the pool was taller than the one in the field since the only thing to go by for scale are those trees by the pool. Had they known it was going to help prevent an argument, the movie producers should have freeze framed the screen when you see a proto with like a crazy font that said "Jazz" and "Ironhide" and "Optimus Prime".
Here's a clip of the<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgcFvhET7rg"> arrival</a> in case anyone wants to reference the scenes without looking it up on the DVD.
