Abandoned Transformers Cartoon Designs Inspiration for Michael Bay’s ‘Bots?


Are the robot designs in Michael Bay’s Transformers blasphemous and completely un-Transformers, as some argue? Maybe not.

After (the last good) Transformers cartoon, Beast Machines, Hasbro had started preliminary work on a sequel, TransTech, that would (awesomely) be an in-continuity G1/Beast-era crossover. The idea was cancelled, but certain character designs that have surfaced bare a striking resemblance to the robots in the upcoming flick.

Click on the link below to see a couple of comparisons of these “lost” Transformers designs and their movie counterparts.

Movie Megatron:
megatron_heads_2.jpg

TransTech Megatron:
megatron_heads.jpg

Movie Optimus Prime:
optimus_2.jpg

TransTech Optimus Prime:
optimus_1.jpg

What do you think?

(P.S. More TransTech designs can be found at TF Archive.)



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5 Responses to Abandoned Transformers Cartoon Designs Inspiration for Michael Bay’s ‘Bots?
  1. myth
    May 1, 2007 | 9:37 pm

    No…

  2. AF Duncan
    May 2, 2007 | 6:23 am

    I know this is sacrilicious, but I have to say, the new designs don’t bother me.

  3. Daniel Brooks
    May 2, 2007 | 6:28 am

    I’m coming around on them, myself…Optimus looks pretty awesome. Starscream still looks horrible.

  4. Bob-E
    October 20, 2007 | 12:01 pm

    I just saw this movie and being a huge fan as a kid, I must say, I loved it…a great adaptation as far as the storyline, with the exception of a few new characters (and obvioulsy the scorpion didn’t come around until the BW era)I thought they held pretty true…my biggest complaint is that Megatron does not fly or transform into a jet…Starscream got him around…but other than that…awesome…even Witwicky stayed the same!

  5. kevin
    December 30, 2008 | 12:52 pm

    actually, its just coincidental, most likely.

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