He had a head flanked by two flat panels that glowed when he spoke.
So he gets this big beautiful close-up."
Arcee survives to fight another day, but … Brawn may not.
“Yeah, Brawn gets taken out,” Knight says.
That’s also a tribute to the 1987 movie, which sees the little tough guy going down hard.
The cartoon gave them distinct personalities, which made kids want to have both.
InBumblebee, Ratchet is the very first robot we see.
That gets expensive, especially if the character only has a few seconds of screen time.
The cost of creating them meant he could only pick one for Soundwave to unleash on the Autobots.
“It was always Ravage, he was always the coolest one,” Knight says.
“So we see Ravage attempt to wreak havoc on Optimus Prime.”
And I go ‘The doggy?
And he goes, ‘Well, Ravage.’
And I go, ‘They think Ravage is a doggy?'"
He’s definitely not a nice doggy.
Bright blue jet Thundercracker makes an appearance, along with black and purple Skywarp.
“And we did have some of the coneheads in there,” like Dirge.
Another favorite Decepticon villain also turns upthe traitor.
“Starscream is in there.
He’s got his own special build,” Knight says.
Unfortunately, budget restrictions prevented one recreation of a comical iconic shot from making it intoBumblebee.
in that great Chris Latta voice."
That’s another styleBumblebeeborrowed from the classic cartoon for the Cybertron aerial battles.
“That was a specific shot inspired by the ‘86 movie,” Knight says.
“There are lots of things like that, that are kind of scattered throughout.”
“It was complete wish-fulfillment for me,” Knight says.
It was just such complete fun."
