...the new Transformers movie is growing on me.

At first I was dead-set against it.  I HATED the initial designs (I posted a few times to this very blog regarding that subject).  When they first announced the Transformers movie some time ago, the initial speculation was that it would feature G1-style designs (the classic designs we all know and love), and a semi-truck at the ComicCon following the announcement seemed to back this idea up.

But when the designs leaked online last year, they were nothing like the original characters.  The all looked almost insect-like, Optimus had flames and lips, it was madness.  Yuck!

But time passed.  And over the following months, I stopped caring so much about it.  In the past 20+ years, there have been several versions of the Transformers, varying from series to series.  I started to look at this movie as just another series.

And then I saw the latest trailer - which for the first time really made me want to see the movie.  The robots have a HUGE scale to them, and their transformations look smooth and believable (in so far as a giant alien bug-like robot transforming into a jet/truck/camero/whatever can be believable).

So...it might not be the G1 Transformers that I love from my childhood, but I'll still give it a chance.

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