There's a lot to like about The Transformers. The hand drawn animation is stunning, the music is a wonderful chance of pace from anything you'd expect and the overall effect is of watching an issue of Heavy Metal come to life in front of your eyes. One Wing Commander-relevant debate it brings to the table is: how do you bring a new audience in to an IP? Transformers is an extreme in that it doesn't even try; the movie is unassailable to anyone that doesn't know anything about Transformers and probably has little meaning to anyone that hasn't recently watched two seasons of the Transformers TV show. That makes for a pretty thrilling experience… but one for a pretty small group of people.
Our big Wing Commander connection this week was a simple reference to Optimus Prime (RIP) in Wing Commander Armada… so here's the shape-changing robot truck himself!
Crinkle balls are the right of all sentient beings.
