Robots in Disguise!

[elspethdixon]

Thanks to this weekend's viewing material, I have come to two slightly embarassing conclusions:

I wish to read h/c threesome fic about two teenagers and a robot that turns into a car (yes, I know, shut up).

I wish to read a Supernatural fic where the Impala is actually a Transformer and talks to Dean through the radio. Dean flipping out and throwing a temper tantrum over this discovery is optional.

As you may have gathered by this point, Transformers is awesomeness cubed. There are robots! That turn into cars! And blow things up! Lots of things! Boom! While supporting the American military! And the female characters don't suck!

When Optimus Prime uttered the line "Autobots, roll out!" half the theater burst into spontaneuous applause. I, um, may just possibly have been one of them.

The movie got a lot of military support (you can see it in the film, which showcases several of the military's newly operational aircraft, like the F-22 Raptor and the V-22 Osprey, and which has some nice sequences of F-22!Starscream dogfighting with Air Force F-22), and it shows--in adition to being a two-hour toy commercial, it's also a very pro-military film. Even the Secretary of Defence character (unlike the President, an obvious Bush parody, Mr. SecDef is completely fictional), who starts out the movie as the classic "Sci-fi movie politician who won't listen to his subordinates' dire warnings," turns out by the end of the movie to be both baddass and competent.

And it says something about the current state of the world that we've been in Iraq and Afghanistan long enough that "random military base in Iraq" can turn up as a setting for the opening scene of a movie that has nothing to do with the Iraq war.

Comments

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

I really have NO interest in this movie, but I keep thinking that Tony would like it, and my Tony-muse kind of wants to see it. . .

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

Other children of the 80s wanted to have a Transformer. When Tony was (checks current canon on age) 12, and Transformers were first introduced, he probably wanted to be one.

Also, the really awesome special effects on the Transformers gave me high hopes for the armor in the Iron Man movie, since ILM will be doing the FX for that, too.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

There is a Supernatural fic where the Impala is a Transformer (it's pre-movie), but I cannot for the life of me remember who wrote it!

[figliaperduta.livejournal.com]

There are plushies of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, transformed by turning them inside out.

Called Softimus Prime and Slumblebee, respectively. THEY ARE SO CUTE.

And Softimus Prime is adorning my pillow.

That movie is so many different kinds of awesome. It makes me want to cross it over with my (one) military fandom. Because wouldn't that be awesome on an X-Wing?

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

I may just have to own a Slumblebee. They transform by turning inside out? Like those Popples stuffed toys that turned into balls? I may kind of sort of have had a Popple as kid. It was pink and yellow.

[figliaperduta.livejournal.com]

I don't know what a Popple is, but these are incredibly cool.

Here's Slumblebee. His vehicle form is the (original) Beetle, not the new Camaro.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

A Popple (http://www.80stoysale.com/popples.html) is a stuffed animal that can be turned inside out to roll into a ball. There was an accompanying cartoon show, but that was back in the days when my family didn't have cable, so I never saw it. (I did most of my 80s cartoon watching at our babysitter's house and via early 90s re-runs).

Oh my god, squishy little fabric robots, so cute!

[harkalark.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was cool. I was afraid it might suck, and the Transformers were a big deal to me growing up. I have to admit to nerdy-squee during any reference to the original series, too. They even threw in "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings," which, while it wasn't on the show, was Optimus Prime's motto on his tech specs on the back of the box of the original toy and HI I'M A BIG HONKIN' NERD OKAY THX BYE

[ilyena_sylph]

*hugs, waves*

I don't think we've ever exchanged comments before, so hi!

It's so nice to find other Transformers and comics fans!

And I want that fic, too.

I'm keeping my eyes on transficsation, but I haven't seen anyone write it yet.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

*waves back* I actually hadn't watched any Transformers stuff since I was a kid (when I saw the 1990 movie, and used to watch the cartoon occasionally), and was slightly surprised at how much I actually remembered. And how suddenly I was possessed by the urge to go watch the cartoon again and find fic for it. I understand that there's an entire fandom out there for it, with robot porn and everything.

I have this suspicion that, like many 80s cartoons, it will not quite as awesome now that I'm no longer in elementary school, but the retro nostalgia will make up for it.

And Optimus Prime dying traumatized me when I was about seven, so watching Megatron die instead was deeply and pettily satisfying.