Transformers 4ever!

As I'm sure everyone has heard already, Transformers 4 has been confirmed for a release date in 2014, and once again will be directed by Mr Michael Bay.

I'm personally quite happy about this, I'm pretty impressed and happy with the movies thus far (and of course the toylines and comics associated with them as well) but there is one thing that does annoy me about this particular part of the franchise...the fanrage....

The moment this news came up there were angry posts about how Bay has destroyed the fandom and how he's doing it again and whatever. Now I appreciate that these guys are just angry that they didn't make the characters look exactly like their antiquated G1 counterparts or that they actually look life-like etc but that's no reason to besmirch the franchise for a different aesthetic touch to what they were expecting.

Of course I'm also expecting the usual "I CAN'T SEE WOT THEY'RE DOIN!!11!" posts regarding the designs again...which I've never understood...how can anyone get mixed up between the character models on these guys? They all look so different and most have vastly different colour schemes to one another (Bright red Dino vs a Dark Black Dread for example)

What else? Oh yeah all we know about this new film so far is that Optimus and Bumblebee will be returning most likely (:<) and since they're using "4" in this preliminary title it's likely to be in the same continuity (although with a soft reboot most likely as a start of a new trilogy as Sam won't be returning, so they'd have new Human and Transformer characters) again this time.

Due to Megatron's death in DOTM (and them already using a "revive him" plot in ROTF) he's likley to stay dead now, but don't worry kiddies! There's plenty of psychotic characters in the Archives of the franchise (Overlord, Deszarus, Bludgeon to name but a few) and this most likely means a goodbye to other popular villains from the previous films like Starscream, Soundwave or Barricade (unless they can make out that they didn't really die in the battle effectively)

Well in summary, despite the film being a good 2 years away still, it's still worth us having these fun speculation sessions and talking rationally about it. So have fun and don't take it too seriously like most fans do.