More than Meets the Eye
Growing up, the second oldest and I had a few heros.
Bumble Bee
Jazz
Grimlock
And most of all
Optimus Prime.
So we were mega stoked to find that Transformers: The Movie was coming out in the summer. After much calculated annoyance during summer vacation in Utah we were able to get our parents to let us go see the flim.
They probably shouldn’t have.
Even with the voice talent they had (Leonard Nemoy(remind me to tell you of the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins), Orson Wells) the tagline for this film should have been.
“Half Rock Video, half cartoon, All toy marketing vehicle.”
Within the first 15 minutes, we were subject to seeing all of our favorite toys/cartoons killed and replaced by new toys/cartoons.
Now I’m sure to the marketing whizzes at Hasbro, this meant “New Toy Lineup!”. To us 80’s kids, these were the toys/cartoons that you watched day after day. I mean sure, they shot lasers at each other, but in the future where cars become robots, nobody can ever aim when they are shooting. They just, shoot in the general direction. (Same goes for GI Joe).
So all the sudden, when the Decepticons have apparently been going to the shootin’ range and learning how to fire the lasers, and proceed to wipe out all your favorite Autobots, you just sit there, in the theater chair, slowly going into the fetal position.
Needless to say, both the second oldest and I own the DVD, and can pretty much tell you what’s happening in the movie by what we here in the soundtrack.
I wrote all that backstory, just to show you this.
The kid in me is so geeking out right now.
Bilbo….Bilbo Baggins…..The 42nd fastest gun in the west….
One of the most traumatizing parts was when the decepticons board one of the shuttles and shoots one of our favorite caracters and smoke comes out of the characters mouth and eyes! I can’t explain what that kind of imagery does to a young kid! I am still having nightmares…..
One shall Stand..
One shall Fall..
What was that universal greeting again, never mind I remember. Ba weep granna weep ninny bang.
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Me, Grimlock, not “nice dino.” ME BASH BRAINS.
Did I ever tell you that I work for Hasbro, in a roundabout way? Rather, that my paychecks come from Hasbro, because they’re our parent company. Did I ever tell you where I work? Anyway, yeah, we’ve been hearing a lot about the movie. Very cool.
Gordon:
Optimus Prime:
Now all we need is a little energon, and a lot of luck.
Megatron:
More than you imagine, Optimus Prime.
Yes, friends and now destroy Unicron, kill the grand poobah, eliminate even the toughest stains. Hurry, hurry, hurry, sale must end, rush right on down and test drive latest model with no obligation. New improved Junkion planet is sleek sexy import with turbo handling.
Stacer: No.. No you didn’t.. What’s the skinny? 🙂
I don’t know how scared I am right now of the post. First you bring up the ballad of bilbo baggins (which is hillarious and scary) then the transformers confession. 😉
I saw the trailer this weekend. Needless to say, I thought transformers were kind of gay so I wasn’t that excited. Now, the movie about Philly in 1976…that looks cool.
Sherpa.. Its all good.