Massive Frame-By-Frame Gallery of Transformers Age of Extinction Teaser Trailer

The part where you see the old tattered river boat.That is a old Boblo Island boat.Its docked right by my dads work.US Steel Great Lakes Works in Ecorse,Michigan (suburb of Detroit)They filmed several scenes in and around the steel plant.It was awesome to see something on film that I have ridden as a child spending several summer days at Boblo Island.Boblo was a small amusement park that was an island in Canada.The only way to get there was these river boats.There were 2 large and several smaller ones.It closed down several years ago and now has high end homes on it.Brought back memories seeing that boat in the trailer.I will be there opening night to see this latest installment of the Transformers movies.

megatronus wrote:

tarZen wrote:

budmaloney wrote:I wish this is the last and final movie from this horrible series. Michael Bay just stop. But we all know that will never happen

Such comments can only come from 30+ year old fan boys stuck in the past who think the Transformers franchise revolves around them. The movies updated the franchise for and created a new generation of fans, greatly increasing its public mindshare than ever before. Transformers has taken on many incarnations after G1, just because G1 was the first doesn't make it the best and only legit series. In fact, most G1 episodes were dumb, illogical, incoherent stories.

The movies may consistently get flak for being "bad movies", but they are the best thing to happen to the Transformers franchise.

First of all, I'm 26, and I think the movies are, all else being equal, awful.

Second, I don't have be a geewuner to think that. There are plenty of modern incarnations of Transformers I love. But Michael Bay is a bad, incoherent director who makes bad, incoherent movies.

Third, haters gonna hate. Best not to take it personally. Did I mention the movies were bad?

Fourth, yes, the movies are the best thing to happen to the franchise. The money earned from the movies drives cash to media and toys I do like, so I can live with it.

@Tarzen I too am 24, although I have been hanging out with many 30+ Transformer fans so it must have brushed on me.
The problem I find with the Bay movies is that they deviate from what makes Transformers what they are. As Megatronus said, there are numerous incarnations that trump the Bayverse. Transformers Prime and Animated are both prime examples that allude to the TF lore while delivering a new franchise. I fully agree that if it wasn't for the 2007 movies we would not be where we are today. Hands down there have been some great things. I can't sit down and watch G1 with a straight face, I can't. I watched the Besties growing up. But what came out of G1 injected new ideas that kids got hooked on and inspired one another. G1 gave us combiners, a level of transformers we never thought could happen. It must have been awesome witnessing Devastator's first appearance. The movies don't give us that. They thrust us into action without any reason or character development, especially the Decepticons. The writing was rushed and bland. Ironhide didn't even get a funeral. If it wasn't for the amazing effects of ILM the movies wouldn't have made the $2.3 billion. I see it as a demo reel for Michael Bay that happened to use the name Transformers.
TLDR : Transformers as movies had the potential to be more than what was delivered, I think that's the grievance with the fans.

THIS MOVIE LOOKS AMAZE-BALLS. I WILL SEE IT MULTIPLE TIMES.

If any of you Bay-haters can actually stay away from the movie, then more power to you. If not, I hope you sit somewhere else.

MULTIPLE TIMES. BRING ON THE BAY-SPLOSIONS!!!!

Looks great!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let that classic Mini be a Transformer, I will do a little dance if it is.

Anyone hear at 0.49 Optimus say "Calling all Autobots"

I can't get on board with this movie. What is the recent obsession with TF's and dragons? So much so that they alter Grimlock from a T-Rex to a dragon-rex. Furthermore, how tall is Grimlock going to be? He must be as tall as Omega Supreme with him large enough to dwarf Optimus while riding on his back.

This movies gonna suck. I can feel it already. Of course there will be cool eye candy as that is the only thing Bay is good for, but as far as plot goes......

shockblast2 wrote:I can't get on board with this movie. What is the recent obsession with TF's and dragons? So much so that they alter Grimlock from a T-Rex to a dragon-rex.

Because dragons kick ass. Ever play Skyrim?

Besides, they changed Optimus Prime into a long-nose semi in the first film. I don't remember the world actually coming to an actual end.

shockblast2 wrote:Furthermore, how tall is Grimlock going to be? He must be as tall as Omega Supreme with him large enough to dwarf Optimus while riding on his back.

Whatever dude. If you can't find joy in giant robots riding giant robot dinosaurs, go watch Les Miserables.

shockblast2 wrote:This movies gonna suck. I can feel it already. Of course there will be cool eye candy as that is the only thing Bay is good for, but as far as plot goes...

Hey, at least we get to watch giant robots riding giant robot dinosaurs on the big screen. Who needs plot?

Lockdown looks really badass

So does Lockdown work for Megatron or is he just working for himself?

rich prime wrote:So does Lockdown work for Megatron or is he just working for himself?

Well, presumably, Megatron is dead. It was said, somewhere, that we'd see Galvatron, but who knows? Too early to tell.

I'm pretty sure that's Crosshairs, not Lockdown.

Grimlock looks cool, but how does a green dinosaur in the movie translate to a bronze and gray toy?

Ugh. I kind of predicted something bad was going to happen to Ratchet, but if they are indeed killing him off I am done with this franchise.

Man I loving Lockdown ship hovering over the city

I still love this shot out of the trailer the most just epic lockdown appearing out of the smoke with his badass ship

MINDVVIPE wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:Um...actually...it kind of does.

"Good financial success" isn't mutually exclusive with "good content quality".

People also tend to not spend a ton of money on something really crappy. I didn't like Titanic. However, based on the box office success, I would have to grudgingly say that it was a decent movie to be so popular.

How does one define good or great in this sense? We could look at critics, but it is actually rare for a critical success to do very well at the box office or a box office smash do very well with critics. (Though this does seem to be a reversing trend of late.)

If we look at popularity, I.E. something people actually like, then I think it could be argued that $2.6 billion indicates something good.

(Disclaimer: I actually really liked Pacific Rim, so take all of this with a grain of salt. )

I think to put it all a lot more acurately is that only YOU can decide what is good or not. If you think the TF movies are amazing, thats simply what you think, with the opposite also being true. But something is not defined as good simply because others deem it so. Decide for yourself, and stop hating on those who oppose your views about something like a movie.

That was actually my point all along. I'm not hating on anyone's views. They should have their own opinions (and others should express theirs as well) and maybe the differing perspectives can add to the debate or even convince others to change their mind. It happens rarely, but has even happened to me.

I just argued the reasoning and logic of such a statement, especially when considering how vitriolic the discussions seem to get in reference to the Bay movies. (I actually find it entertaining, in a way, to see people get so passionate about this hobby. It's why I come here so much. )

If we go by the premises that something popular gets a lot of money, and that people will not go see something bad (hence why it is popular), then the prevailing opinion of the populace is that something that generates a lot of money is, overall, good.

A better statement would be, "Just because something generates $2.6 billion doesn't mean I have to like it."

And I think this is on topic. Does this movie look good for people personally? That's up to the individual. Will this movie make a lot of money? Based on what is in the trailers and how well the other movies have done, unless there is a public fatigue setting in about the Transformers, then this movie will probably generate in the 8 figure range.

Personally, I will look forward to this movie more than any of the Oscar Best Picture nominees from this year, even if it's not what I would expect for my G1 inner child.

(P.S. Megatronus knows me well from other interactions. I would hope he recognizes that I'm not deliberately hating on his opinion or trolling him. )

This movie looks really fun.

I kept myself from watching the trailer last night just so I could get up on my birthday and watch it first thing. I love where the story is going. Yes there are many similar plot points and yes hearing darling daughter yell "Dad" multiple times in the trailer was silly. That could have easily been Megan or Butterface screaming "Sam" over and over again. I like the aesthetics. I like the serious tone of the humans...especially Tucci and what little we saw of Grammer. I look forward to this movie and I only wish that Amazing Spiderman 2 hadn't nabbed the coveted early May release as I wish it was AOE in that slot. I just hope there is enough time spent on why Prime and Bee may have to time travel? Will we see an epic battle with Prime in that old mold and how he ended up in stasis in a possible junk yard/auction/scrap metal heap? I'm wondering where Mark will pick Prime up from.

~reluctantyouth~

that green bot gettin blasted around isn't ratchet. look at his head design. it's soldier-esqe. definitely hound. also, that red bot standing next to bumblebee, when the voice over said "we don't need you anymore." doesn't look too friendly. looks like there are more than one of him as well. one was standing and one was still in vehicle mode.

either way, good lawd this is gonna be dope. i can't wait to see drift get his samurai on.

rich prime wrote:Man I loving Lockdown ship hovering over the city

I think that's Crosshairs.

So late last night I saw that MichaelBay.com had a super high res version of the trailer. I went through the whole process again and made new screen captures from the better version of the trailer. That was about 4:00am. Fast forward to now and they're finally available. I replaced the images in the forum topic and in the news post so that it should display the revised images instead. You might have to force a refresh in your browser.

I couldn't help but notice how many times the American flag showed up in this trailer. If I noticed them all, there are 9 cuts where the flag is in in the frame. That's a lot for a 2:34 trailer! Hope our friends in China like all of the American propaganda for supposedly having such a prominent role in this movie. I don't mind, I just find it humorous. Admittedly this will probably be a big 4th of July weekend movie though so it's probably fairly appropriate (thinking of Independence Day having a similar strong American spirit).

I also love the Mark Wahlberg Bruce Banner/Hulk moment. jON3.0 you guys have to do something with that in one of your epic trailers!

Sabrblade wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:Speaking of which, is this the new model for Mirage/Dino?

That's Stinger.

OptiMagnus wrote:

PrymeStriker wrote:Speaking of which, is this the new model for Mirage/Dino?

No...not at all. This is "Stinger," and he's not friendly.

If he's Stinger, then what is he doing in what appears to be an Autobot hanger? Do we have a side switcher on our hands?

GuyIncognito wrote:I'm pretty sure that's Crosshairs, not Lockdown.

Crosshairs is a green Stingray Corvette and looks like this:



Lockdown is a gunmetal grey Lamborghini and looks like this:



Which is clearly this:

ScottyP wrote:This movie looks really fun.

I'll drink to that. All the haters can step aside! More room for those of us who enjoy Baysplosions.

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Disregard. Double Post.

If you read the posters in the background, it looks like it says KSI Prototype Stinger. So Stinger is made by the humans and Bumblebee is there possibly for comparison. On Bee's poster on the right it says things that seem demeaning to him and to show Stinger's superiority.

Reference Ratchet, if anyone remembers the poster that was leaked a few weeks ago stating the current whereabouts of each Autobot, it said that Ratchet was "apprehended". So this could be how they get him.Really hope he doesn't die...

Jack Hallows wrote:that green bot gettin blasted around isn't ratchet. look at his head design. it's soldier-esqe. definitely hound.

you REALLY need to take another look.

first.. hound isn't that color green.

second. the head DOES look like ratchets.

third. the top of the chest, the shoulders, and the forearms all look like ratchets.

fourth. his color is the only color that looks like ratchets color.

and lastly, next to his shoulders you can see the lights and bars from his vehicle mode roof rack.

so, again, you might want to take another look, you're wrong.

Dseptykon13 wrote:

If you read the posters in the background, it looks like it says KSI Prototype Stinger. So Stinger is made by the humans and Bumblebee is there possibly for comparison. On Bee's poster on the right it says things that seem demeaning to him and to show Stinger's superiority.

Reference Ratchet, if anyone remembers the poster that was leaked a few weeks ago stating the current whereabouts of each Autobot, it said that Ratchet was "apprehended". So this could be how they get him.Really hope he doesn't die...

yeah.. i saw that too.. but enough with the greying out your posts.. if people don't want to be spoiled.. they're not going to read 7 pages into this thread.

Not to mention that Hound is a big burly dude with a great big Duck Dynasty beard and cigar.

PrymeStriker wrote:

GuyIncognito wrote:I'm pretty sure that's Crosshairs, not Lockdown.

Crosshairs is a green Stingray Corvette and looks like this:

Lockdown is a gunmetal grey Lamborghini and looks like this:

Which is clearly this:

Yup, you're right! For some reason I thought the gun-face guy was the same one we see parachuting from the sky.

GuyIncognito wrote:I'm pretty sure that's Crosshairs, not Lockdown.

Grimlock looks cool, but how does a green dinosaur in the movie translate to a bronze and gray toy?

Maybe the colors aren't finalized for this trailer. Remember Dark of the Moon's trailer? Sentinel Prime was GOLD in the trailer, but in the movie, he was RED from start to finish in the movie itself.

battlecollective wrote:

GuyIncognito wrote:I'm pretty sure that's Crosshairs, not Lockdown.

Grimlock looks cool, but how does a green dinosaur in the movie translate to a bronze and gray toy?

Maybe the colors aren't finalized for this trailer. Remember Dark of the Moon's trailer? Sentinel Prime was GOLD in the trailer, but in the movie, he was RED from start to finish in the movie itself.

Well, the colors in this trailer have already been modified from those seen in the Superbowl trailer. Compare:

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Superbowl on the left, new trailer on the right.

battlecollective wrote:

GuyIncognito wrote:I'm pretty sure that's Crosshairs, not Lockdown.

Grimlock looks cool, but how does a green dinosaur in the movie translate to a bronze and gray toy?

Maybe the colors aren't finalized for this trailer. Remember Dark of the Moon's trailer? Sentinel Prime was GOLD in the trailer, but in the movie, he was RED from start to finish in the movie itself.

I'm guessing they did it just to give the toys personality. Same reason that I doubt Slug is gonna be purple and red. Also same with The Fallen from ROTF, whose toy was a dark green, though in the movie he was black.

Sabrblade wrote:

battlecollective wrote:

GuyIncognito wrote:I'm pretty sure that's Crosshairs, not Lockdown.

Grimlock looks cool, but how does a green dinosaur in the movie translate to a bronze and gray toy?

Maybe the colors aren't finalized for this trailer. Remember Dark of the Moon's trailer? Sentinel Prime was GOLD in the trailer, but in the movie, he was RED from start to finish in the movie itself.

Well, the colors in this trailer have already been modified from those seen in the Superbowl trailer. Compare:

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Superbowl on the left, new trailer on the right.

I would attribute those differences to "grittifying" than color change. Essentially, those two shots are the same color, the one on the right just has more textures and effects.

now we know why Prime spoke of a bounty on his head

and why there was a white flat nose truck...
even that they had to screw up... they could at least have picked up a red truck!

because when he transforms in robot he's red...

my guess the green bot being blasted is crosshairs...

we humans are so stupid

the autobots saved our world. and we want to kick them out of our planet??
why does Prime even bothers protecting us ingrates??

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

battlecollective wrote:

GuyIncognito wrote:I'm pretty sure that's Crosshairs, not Lockdown.

Grimlock looks cool, but how does a green dinosaur in the movie translate to a bronze and gray toy?

Maybe the colors aren't finalized for this trailer. Remember Dark of the Moon's trailer? Sentinel Prime was GOLD in the trailer, but in the movie, he was RED from start to finish in the movie itself.

Well, the colors in this trailer have already been modified from those seen in the Superbowl trailer. Compare:

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Superbowl on the left, new trailer on the right.

I would attribute those differences to "grittifying" than color change. Essentially, those two shots are the same color, the one on the right just has more textures and effects.

He's laso got more blue on his chin and forehead, and some reshaped parts such as the central panel of his nose and the inner yellowish triangle of his chin.

You know, this starting to feel like one of those "Spot the Differences" children's games. I wonder just how many differences between these two pics one can count up to.

Deathscythetransform wrote:the autobots saved our world. and we want to kick them out of our planet??

Fear of the unknown. You have giant alien robots show up on your planet duking it out, are you really going to pick sides when you're caught in the crossfire?

Looks like Ratchet to me... like the Humans decided to hunt them down with their own transformers after time from Chicago and they all went into hiding, explaining the old broken down Optimus. Cant wait to see it in theaters...

The trailer was better than expected, I don't want to see too much of bad acting girls because they have big boobies and are there to appease the male members of the audience - but I accept that that's how Mr. Bay and Hollywood as a whole operates.

I don't like the idea of humans having created Grimlock or whoever. I'm hoping they've build exo-suits sort of thing in the same vein as what was in that awful GI Joe movie - that plot point could bridge into a cross over, maybe?

I don't think its realistic to say "oh ten years have passed and look humans have built fully sentient/easily controlled giant robots to fight Autobots/Decepticons". They might be good at reverse engineering the tech, but not that good, and if it took them 130+ years of twinkering to get a cellphone, can't quite see them building fully functionally robots.

I like the theme of the trailer, I like the feel, Wahlberg looks like he'll fit into this universe well I think. There's too many versions of Grimlock to make judgements on his alligence at this time, though I'm more slanted towards him waking up, Prime trying to seek him out to convince him to wear the little red face, they have robot fisty cuffs, then Megatron/whoever does something that makes Grim jump to teh Autobots. The rest as to characters and deaths my eyesight ain't good enough to tell from teh trailers.

Overall, I'm quite happy with it, I'm not horrified or worried like I was between two and three. I've gotten past my outrage at ROTF - still hate it though, but this is what we have. I still think that we deserve a decent movie, and that over the top potty humour and racist jokes are stupid. That is something all movie fans should hope for, not just old geezers gewunners such as myself long for.

The skill is in HW to make good movies, to write good stories, to build good plots. Wanting a decent TF movie isn't about being a stubborn grumpy 30+er, its about being a movie fan.

And to add to the debate, huge box office results doesn't mean good movies, it means good marketing whch gets people in the door. The majority of a movie's income comes from opening weekened, before there's really been enough people to spread word of mouth. Plus, its giant robots, explosions and half naked undies modles who can't act their way out of a wet paper bag - that's always going to pull a certain audience demographic, especially if the other options are a chick flick and some animated disney crud.

So that's my old lady Transformer fan rant of the day. Now I"m going to do 30+ things like drink coffee and read the obits looking for people I know.

OptiMagnus wrote:Well...that was certainly interesting. Much more interesting than I thought it was going to be.
Anyway, here are my thoughts:

-I don't think Optimus fighting Grimlock automatically means the Dinobots are Decepticons. They could be neutral faction of Transformers or some very old Autobots that have been in stasis lock for centuries, and they wake up unwilling to trust anyone. They could also be human creations meant to destroy the rest of the Transformers.

-These trailers seem to focus more on Lockdown than Galvatron. Are they just not revealing much about Galvatron or is Lockdown the primary Decepticon antagonist?

-So here's what I get from everything we've seen/heard. A guy buys a rusty vehicle that turns out to be a Transformer and the government shows up at his house going berserk on him, the humans are rejecting the Transformers and want them gone, and the Decepticons are coming back for retribution with a full invasion and also manage to resurrect their leader? Didn't all of that happen in the first trilogy?

Sounds like the whole movie!

MenaceRX wrote:Looks like Ratchet to me... like the Humans decided to hunt them down with their own transformers after time from Chicago and they all went into hiding, explaining the old broken down Optimus. Cant wait to see it in theaters...

It's definitely him.

310 MB for 2 and a half minutes. So this is the future of HD.

This trailer had changed a lot, now I'm almost certain that this movie gonna be a disgrace.

-Fake drama
-Even more humans, noe as antagonists too
-Ratchet owned and possibly killed by soldiers
-Even more faceless Con's Mooks as a canon fodder
-There is no hope for Galvatron
-Grimlock isn't so awesome as it should be either

At least this time Bay is honest in trailer- it's obvious that this movie will be centered almost entirely on Humans .

On the other hand, Optimus as a Rusty Truck, possibly in stasis or even dead is kinda cool idea. Stinger looks interesting either. So bad it's already too late for Bayformers...

TurboMMaster wrote:This trailer had changed a lot, now I'm almost certain that this movie gonna be a disgrace.

-Fake drama
-Even more humans, noe as antagonists too
-Ratchet owned and possibly killed by soldiers
-Even more faceless Con's Mooks as a canon fodder
-There is no hope for Galvatron
-Grimlock isn't so awesome as it should be either

At least this time Bay is honest in trailer- it's obvious that this movie will be centered almost entirely on Humans .

On the other hand, Optimus as a Rusty Truck, possibly in stasis or even dead is kinda cool idea. Stinger looks interesting either. So bad it's already too late for Bayformers...

-Define "fake drama".
-What the hell good is a live action movie if it doesn't have humans?
-Your point?
-Where? The only Decepticons in the trailer were Stinger, Lockdown, and part of Galvatron.
-There's never much hope for any Decepticon.
-He's awesome enough to warrant Optimus Prime getting pissed at him. What, you expect him to win in a fight against Optimus? If he did, he would kill Optimus.

SlyTF1 wrote:-Define "fake drama".

It's fake drama because all problems in this movie seems to be pretended and unnatural. It seems like all is forced, there is no atmosphere of normal, hard life or ordinary guy.

SlyTF1 wrote:-What the hell good is a live action movie if it doesn't have humans?

hen why it's called Transformers? If it's an human movie, why we need all these giant transforming robots. They don't need them as allies, and now they don't need them as enemies too!

SlyTF1 wrote:-Your point?

We already knew that humans are stronger part of this alliance, there is no need for yet another prove.

SlyTF1 wrote:Where? The only Decepticons in the trailer were Stinger, Lockdown, and part of Galvatron.

And all these ships are there because?

SlyTF1 wrote:-There's never much hope for any Decepticon.

Remember that Megatron had conquered Cybertron, and almost had won a final victory in mission city (and thanks to Titan Magazine and Video Games, he actually made it!). How good old and new Decepticon leader could be, if he can't even stand a chance against Optimus? What good all these upregades are, if he can't do what he already did so many time before?

SlyTF1 wrote:-He's awesome enough to warrant Optimus Prime getting pissed at him. What, you expect him to win in a fight against Optimus? If he did, he would kill Optimus.

And that would be something worth to watch If Grimlock is so weak, what is the point of riding on him anyway?

Jack Hallows wrote:that green bot gettin blasted around isn't ratchet. look at his head design. it's soldier-esqe. definitely hound. .

I wish you were right dude but that's totally Ratchet getting lit up by the humans. You can see it clearly in the screen grabs. Plus it's not even the right green for Hound.

Bleak5170 wrote:

Jack Hallows wrote:that green bot gettin blasted around isn't ratchet. look at his head design. it's soldier-esqe. definitely hound. .

I wish you were right dude but that's totally Ratchet getting lit up by the humans. You can see it clearly in the screen grabs. Plus it's not even the right green for Hound.

You are correct. It's definitely Ratchet.

SlyTF1 wrote:-There's never much hope for any Decepticon.

Is it safe to rank the generic Bayverse Decepticon soldiers with the Star Trek red shirts and the Star Wars Storm Troopers as inept cannon fodder?

SlyTF1 wrote:-What the hell good is a live action movie if it doesn't have humans?

Dinosaur?

Everything except the main characters were live action that movie, and it was both a commercial and critical success.

TurboMMaster wrote:It's fake drama because all problems in this movie seems to be pretended and unnatural. It seems like all is forced, there is no atmosphere of normal, hard life or ordinary guy.

Wow, we sure are glad that you've seen the movie already to know enough to state this as a fact.

And we're sure glad that you know how every lower class to lower middle class man live his life to confirm that a guy struggling to put his daughter through school has no atmosphere to it.

TurboMMaster wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:-What the hell good is a live action movie if it doesn't have humans?

hen why it's called Transformers? If it's an human movie, why we need all these giant transforming robots. They don't need them as allies, and now they don't need them as enemies too!

You're about 30 years too late with this complaint, man.

TurboMMaster wrote:And all these ships are there because?

Spaceships aren't Decepticons.

TurboMMaster wrote:Remember that Megatron had conquered Cybertron,

Did he?