Advantages: 2 toys in one Disadvantages: Plastic design is easily broken
Over the last year or so my little boy has become quite a fan of Transformers, he's only 4 years old but can already name all the characters and even work out how to change the toys from one form to another. It was for his 4th birthday earlier this year that he asked for some new transformer toys and among the selection he received was Voyager Ratchet from the Transformersmovie.
Voyager Ratchet is based on the classic transformers idea coming in the form of a vehicle, Ratchet is an American emergency services vehicle in green and red, but able to change into a robot with the help of a clever design that allows you to move around parts of the toy until it is completely "transformed" The toy is suitable for 5 years upwards and while this was too old for Christopher I didn't have the heart to tell his Great Granddad he was too young ...
Advantages: inspiring story Disadvantages: animation errors, conflicts in story
Transformers the movie started off with Unicron devouring the planet Lithone. This planet is inhabited by robots and the only survivors were Kranix and his crew. The scene then shifts to the Autobot moonbases where they plan to liberate Cybertron from the clutches of the evil Decepticons. They preparing a supply shuttle for launch to Autobot City on Earth. The communication however, was intercepted by Laserbeak and the Decepticons ended up slaughtering the Autobot crew. Meanwhile, back on earth, Daniel and Hotrod were fishing and saw the shuttle landing. They raced to meet the shuttle when it lands. Hotrod however discovers that the shuttle is infested with Decepticons and proceeds to blast them The Decepticons then attack and lay siege to the Autobot city. The Autobots were badly outnumbered with a big chunk of the Decpticon army ...
Advantages: thrilling, pleasing fun, easy viewing, good story, all the family Disadvantages: nothing realy, unless you look extremely hard, then you may miss the mistakes
Wow what can you say; this is a brilliant movie, and this coming from a fervent follower of the transformers.
At 31 years of age I am the prime age (pardon the pun) to enjoy this comeback for the autobots and the decepticons.
This film has been produced in a manor fitting the huge following the transformers have.
I have spent the last year buying generation 1 toys I never had as a youngster.
Back to the film though, the fact Optimus prime is a bull nosed truck was easier to take then expected, you also think how can they have made the film with the original cars and trucks when they would be 20 years out of date.
This taken they do look magnificent, the story line lends itself well to the history of the transformers and not going of on a tangent makes for good viewing.
Regardless of this you can see why it wouldn’t ...
dingoo 16.01.2008 (17.01.2008)
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