![]() ![]() The tech had to come out because they’re temperamental. We had it for a week before we could figure out how to even start it. ![]() Peters: I’ve driven, you know, on and off. Have you driven all the cars in the movie? Peters: Well, I’m more into, you know, when you can slide a semi-truck 60 miles-an-hour and make it do a 180… ![]() It’s got to be fun for you guys to get to drive some of these things around, especially … It used to be just me and another person, and then we got bigger and bigger and bigger. And then I have guys that help me manage that and manage the picture cars. My guys, everything that you saw over there, the equipment, the stake beds, the trailers the actors are staying in, the picture cars … anything that moves, we encompass that. Robosens Optimus Prime Transformer robot truck gets an auto. How many vehicles are you responsible for total? Ten Years of YouTube: My Journey (eBook PDF) Close (esc) 4. Peters: I think if Michael Bay knew that. So we take a stock Camaro and kind of tweak the car. We do all these after-market flares and sculpting and the hood things, and they tweak it and tweak it, and then they go and play it. Action Adventure Sci-Fi When humanity allies with a bounty hunter in pursuit of Optimus Prime, the Autobots turn to a mechanic and his family for help. ![]() So every time we do a new Transformers, we start playing with what we want to do, and this is the new model here. Combine with other figures to recreate your favorite scenes. Well, that scene in Transformers where they swap cars out, we see the old Camaro and then this one flies over. This Transformers Age of Extinction action figure is an excellent addition to any collection. GM hadn’t done that yet, so we took the two GTOs, which are made in Australia, and we had a company out here in Detroit CAD the body onto the GTO, which was like two inches shorter in the wheelbase. A CAD file, you put it into the computer and it reads it and blah, blah, blah, you take it to a CNC machine and cut all the body parts out. So we had a Camaro, we knew GM was going to be a player, and they had the CAD files all they gave us was the CAD files. That was a huge learning curve on the first one. We had all these pictures on the wall and they had to decide what’s going to be Bumblebee, who’s gonna be Optimus Prime, and so on. Randy Peters: They were thinking about making it a Camaro, to go with GM. Lockdown: An extremely powerful, relentless, heavily enhanced, ruthless Cybertronian assassin and bounty hunter who transforms into a grey 2014 Lamborghini Aventador LP 7004 Coupe and is hired by the mysterious Creators to bring Optimus Prime back to them and kill any Autobots who refused to give up his location. And that's the basis of his popularity.Unfortunately, none of the Dino-Bots were wandering around the movie set, but we did get to talk to transportation coordinator and stunt driver Randy Peters who shared a lot of behind-the-scenes tidbits on the vehicles and their design: "Since the original concept of Optimus Prime, the trustworthiness, the honor, the courage are still there. Remove backdrop to showcase figure in the Autobot Reunion scene. This Studio Series 45 Deluxe Class Transformers: Age of Extinction Autobot Drift figure converts from robot to car mode in 26 steps. "There are changes, but he still maintains the element of characters that are so important to him," says Peter Cullen, who has voiced Optimus Prime in each movie since 2007's Transformers and in the 1984-1987 TV series. At the sight of Optimus Prime, Autobot Drift dives gracefully off a cliff, converting midair into his helicopter mode to meet him. But he never loses his Transformer heart. This is especially apparent when government forces led by Harold Attinger (Kelsey Grammer and Savoy (Titus Welliver) attack him at Yeager's farm. After devoting himself to protecting humans, Optimus Prime turns hard and cynical about this human betrayal. The biggest difference in Extinction is that humans are fearful and less trusting of both heroic Autobots and evil Decepticons since the Transformer destruction of the last film. The upgrades continue with the introduction of Dinobots, ancient creatures who enter the franchise "with their fists and feet first," says Di Bonaventura. There are plenty of new Autobots as well, including ones voiced by John Goodman (Autobot Hound) and Ken Watanabe (Drift). Bumblebee re-emerges as a new souped-up Camaro. Optimus Prime eventually reveals himself "like a knight in shining armor" as an impressive Western Star truck, says Di Bonaventura. The two also have new souped-up transformation vehicles. "He's been upgraded with more abilities."īumblebee takes his martial arts to another level with Chinese star-style adornments on his armor. "The sword is emblematic of what we've done to Optimus Prime as a whole," says Di Bonaventura. Optimus Prime goes from junkyard shabby to wielding a new power sword in no time. ![]()
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