Beast Wars Leaders Sing Us A Merry Christmas

A Transformers tradition continues, this time with a new voice in the mix. For the last few years the voice of Transformers: Beast Wars Megatron, David Kaye, posts a Merry Christmas message in the voice of the character. In a response to last year's message, Beast Wars Optimal Primal aka Garry Chalk sung us a response (below). Of course Megatron could not let this go unanswered and so below is his reply. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

First Look at Bumblebee and Hailee From Movie

UK's Empire Magazine (via ComicBookMovie) what I think is the first official look at Bumblebee: The Movie stars Hailee Steinfeld and VW Beetle alt mode. In addition director Travis Knight spoke about the movie.

"I wanted to approach this massive, expansive franchise and really focus in on a tiny corner of the canvas. Everything I've tried to do at Laika, searching for an artful blend of darkness and light, intensity and warmth, humour and heart, I wanted to bring to the Transformers franchise."

"At its core it's just a beautiful love story between two broken souls who find each other and heal each other. I grew up loving those classic Spielbergian Amblin films. And we're trying to evoke that kind of emotion in this movie, fusing a rich coming-of-age story with some sci-fi insanity."

Two New Episodes of Transformers: Titans Wars Cartoon

Go90.com has the next two episodes of Transformers: Titans Wars. The battle continues between Trypticon and an already weakened Metroplex as Windblade attempts to get reinforcements by waking Fortress Maximus. Meanwhile, what happens when a Combiner combines again? In the United States you can find the eps here: Desperate Actions | Run For Our Lives. If elsewhere look for YouTube's Machinima channel.

Hailee Steinfeld, John Cena Comment on Bumblebee: The Movie

Bumblebee: The Movie stars Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena briefly commented on the movie. Steinfeld spoke about acting against a CGI character for the first time with IGN while Cena spoke about the project in general with Digital Spy. Cena does call the movie a "reboot" but it is not. It is more of a prequel to the Michael Bay movies with its 1987 setting. It could be argued its a "reboot" of approach for the franchise with a ~$70 million budget (compared to ~$200M on average) and by virtue of being the first film not directed by Michael Bay.

Hailee Steinfeld
“It's very character-driven and storyline-driven, which is good. I think will be interesting to see it play out because you still get the action and the Transformers themselves. There's a whole lot in it for the Transformers fans that I think they'll love, but it's definitely about storyline and characters.”

“It was definitely a process [acting against non-existent Bumblebee]. With his background in animation, [director Travis Knight] was able to see, visually, a final product. It was nice to have somebody that could verbally translate what that was. But it was difficult. It was hard, I think, for both of us to sort of maneuver,” she explained. “Not only was this something completely new to me but it was something completely new to him and a different, you know, a different way. It was definitely a work in progress but I think we got a good thing going and hopefully, we'll see what happens.”

John Cena
"It was awesome to be involved with that franchise, and a pleasure to be asked to be part of the movie, but I took the part because it was a challenge for me," he reiterated. "It's something that I haven't been able to showcase, and that I wanted to."

Two More Transformers: Titans Return Episodes

Two more episodes of Transformers: Titans Wars is up on go90.com using these links - Episode 4 | Episode 5. IF not in the United States, look for the Machinima channel on YouTube to see them.

Everything Wrong with Transformers: The Last Knight

CinemaSins has posted their latest humor/attack video, this time turning their ire on Transformers: The Last Knight. If a fan of the film will probably not like the below video at all and if not a fan will likely find it accurate and amusing.