New Images of ROTF Skids, with Bio.

I'm really on the fence about this character.

DavidT wrote:Darn... Beat me to it

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me too

I guess these two are the comic relief this time around? They sure are funny looking.

Well, the movie TF designers have outdone themselves again. I thiiiiink this may be the ugliest head sculpt I've ever seen on a transformer.

One fist appears bigger than the other...

I wonder if he'll request that we show him our moves.

Sounds to me like these 2 are either retards or they're 8 years old. Either way I'm not liking them one bit.

At what point in movie history did "annoying" come to mean "humorous?" Who ever actually liked wheelie, jarjar, or the Wayans?

And that face!?

His brother's, if I'm to believe it, is almost as malformed!

Well, my expectations are way down for the movie. At least I can't be disappointed with rock-bottom expectations.

I am not digging that..

I don't like the car and I don't like the bot. I won't be a completest this time around.

I'm only getting him because I like his alt mode and I have a car that looks just like his. If he and Mudflap turn out to be idiots in the movie then god help us all.

my only thing is that they give the bots comdey imperssions is so that the bots would have more of a human personality in the movie bumblebee, rachtet, irohnide, in hte first film rchet going yeah yeah, ironhide i just wanted to so him my guns are you felling lucky, bumblebee well we know what he did, freanzy hyperactive mind of a teenager in bodey of 6 year old.

it will be intersting to see how these tow coreact to one another in the film and maybe entertaing in way m. bay did say he wanted his bots to have more human persoanltiy to them even the body themselves it would be little boring if all the bots in the film where all seirous and did not attempt to do anything funny ok bumblebee peing on hte sector 7 guy was little over top but everything else he did in the first film was entertaing.

Whats an Orc doing in a Transformers movie?

I like everything from the waist down on this guy. The way his chest expands is pretty slick.

But that face!

I think what you mean, Firebird, is everything neck down. And yes, I agree, I love this toy except for the head.

But I don't know why everyone is upset. This is a good sign! Nothing about this bio says "Stupid Hick" which is what his face says. Sure, it's a little silly, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Perhaps, despite his ugly face, he'll actually have a fun personality and be a cool character. That's what the Bio says to me, anyway. I could be wrong, but I think it's a good sign.

I think he should talk with a British accent. That would be hilarious.

Oh look it's Fisto!
Damn that guy's head is just
Oh well I liked Jar Jar Bings.

I really, really, like this guy and Mudflap. Even their ugly mugs.

Both will be mine.

Kuribohfett wrote:I think what you mean, Firebird, is everything neck down. And yes, I agree, I love this toy except for the head.

But I don't know why everyone is upset. This is a good sign! Nothing about this bio says "Stupid Hick" which is what his face says. Sure, it's a little silly, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Perhaps, despite his ugly face, he'll actually have a fun personality and be a cool character. That's what the Bio says to me, anyway. I could be wrong, but I think it's a good sign.

I think he should talk with a British accent. That would be hilarious.

Whoops, Your right I meant neck down. That face distracted me from posting correctly

Thanks buddy!

I don't see what the huge controversy is with this figure. I think they'll bring alot to the movie, especially where Michael Bay said it would be a darker film. Someone's gotta appeal to the kids, and that's exactly why they make these funny-looking characters.

I think Skids and Mudflap are two great-looking characters and I will be purchasing them.

Wish he could have been blue, not green, as a nice little G1 nod.

You know the twins will probably be semi-retarded surfer or hip hop cliches but if the movie's dark overall, I'll forgive Bay and Co.

Great, the fate of the world lies partly in the hands of an RC truck, 3 motor cycles and 2 compact cars with ADHD and a bad beating with an ugly stick.
I wonder at what point in the movie Prime looks at all of his troops, turns to Ironhide and says "We are sooo screwed!"

This should at least take a little bit of the edge off of the darker theme to this movie. I was starting to worry a bit as to whether or not this movie would be approopriate for my youngest son to watch. Not like I won't be seeing it before him, but still...
I think this figure and it's brother will actually go over well with the kids. I'm curious to see how they bring their personalities across on the big screen. It may not be as bad as everyone imagines.
Ironhide will only put up with so much before he sticks his cannon in someones face and tells them to "shut up or die".

T-Macksimus wrote:Great, the fate of the world lies partly in the hands of an RC truck, 3 motor cycles and 2 compact cars with ADHD and a bad beating with an ugly stick.
I wonder at what point in the movie Prime looks at all of his troops, turns to Ironhide and says "We are sooo screwed!"

This should at least take a little bit of the edge off of the darker theme to this movie. I was starting to worry a bit as to whether or not this movie would be approopriate for my youngest son to watch. Not like I won't be seeing it before him, but still...
I think this figure and it's brother will actually go over well with the kids. I'm curious to see how they bring their personalities across on the big screen. It may not be as bad as everyone imagines.
Ironhide will only put up with so much before he sticks his cannon in someones face and tells them to "shut up or die".

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Yeah... I imagine with all the wimpy bots, we will see ROTF end with the Autobots defeated just like the 1st movie ended with the Decepticons beat. Even though we already know that there will be a 3rd movie, it will probably end with a cliffhanger ending to let the general audience know there will be another sequel.

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Firebird wrote:I like everything from the waist down on this guy. The way his chest expands is pretty slick.

But that face!

That's what she said!

No ,but really. I hope he doesn't turn out to be the Jar Jar of Transformers. There's no need for a comic relief Transformer. It just wastes time and the character could have been a bad ass kicking decepticon butt instead. Oh well.

Oh yeah, I knew these guys would be "comic relief" characters. They're going to be irritating as heck, I just know it.

And I hope they have an explanation for that deformed face.

Maybe Skids and Mudflap will combine, and put those giant fists to good use...

Why do I see these two as really really annoying characters? By the end of the movie we are going to hope that Ironhid shoots them. I am not saying comic releif isn't welcome in a movie, but don't create characters speciffically for that purpose.

He looks like one of the gremlins.

Yup these guys are the next jarjar. Heres one more reason that this movie is going to suck. Mold would have been some what decent but that horrid head just makes it a fail.

Maybe we will get lucky and get a G1 repaint of Skids with a G1-esque shape head....

Body looks okay, that head sculpt is horrible though.

And it does look like one arm is bigger than the other, and I think Mudflap is the mirror opposite. I think they're really trying to give the 'two halves of a whole' feel to the twins, but it's not working, yet.

Thing to remember kids? The bios on the packaging tend to not be 100% accurate to the detail, especially between toy and media. Been that way since G1. There's still hope they won't be nearly as 'retard' as that bio sounds.

And they're still better than Wheelie.

T-Macksimus wrote:Great, the fate of the world lies partly in the hands of an RC truck, 3 motor cycles and 2 compact cars with ADHD and a bad beating with an ugly stick.

That's almost sig-quote worthy

Seriously though, I hate the twins' heads...way to ruin an otherwise decent pair of bots, Hasbro! I still might just get them for their alt modes...meh.

Highbeam wrote:

T-Macksimus wrote:Great, the fate of the world lies partly in the hands of an RC truck, 3 motor cycles and 2 compact cars with ADHD and a bad beating with an ugly stick.

That's almost sig-quote worthy

Seriously though, I hate the twins' heads...way to ruin an otherwise decent pair of bots, Hasbro! I still might just get them for their alt modes...meh.

Blame Bay, not Hasbro, for that one.

His bio makes him sound like Blurr.

Highbeam wrote:

T-Macksimus wrote:Great, the fate of the world lies partly in the hands of an RC truck, 3 motor cycles and 2 compact cars with ADHD and a bad beating with an ugly stick.

That's almost sig-quote worthy

Seriously though, I hate the twins' heads...way to ruin an otherwise decent pair of bots, Hasbro! I still might just get them for their alt modes...meh.

I'm guessing that one of the sites that does after market TF kits will be scrambling to be the first to put out a set of hard plastic "paper bags" with eye hole cut outs that are custom fit to go over these guys' heads. I was wondering why Bay has so many scenes where the lighting is low and why, in the daytime scenes we only see these guys in their alt. modes. It's cold and it's crass but as the saying goes, "Beauty is just a light-switch away"

Highbeam, I just might run with your idea. I'm still debating...

I still don't know what to say about skidz and mudflap, they have very cool alt modes and the robot modes are cool too, but their heads are killing me!!!! I really hope their not comic relief in this dark film, its not the right time or place for this i think. Maybe they look like this for a reason? or maybe the mighty Devastator stepped on their heads too! ha ha ha

Is anyone else really hoping that Skids and Mudflap are both voiced by Mike Judge?

Pass. Only Sideswipe so far for me.

Does he have buck-teeth?

So, let's take Skids, give him Sideswipe's family situation, give him part of Bluesreak's personality, and make the ugliest face we can. Sounds GREAT!!!

Yeah, wonderful idea guys.

Stormrider wrote:Does he have buck-teeth?

Yup...

And one of the cgi renders showed an Autobot symbol on one of them.

I hated the heads at first, too. Mudflap's head looks MELTED for goodness sakes. I had thought about kitbashing them new heads, and I'm sure some people will.

But I think it would just be easier to slap Decepticon stickers on them. Autobots outnumber Decepticons anyway, so taking two ugly bots and making them Cons really just helps even things out.

But, yes, it would be cool if they actually gave us a blue repaint of Movie Skids with a more G1 Skids face.

-J-

Skids is very ugly to me whether he is in alt mode or bot mode. I hope the movie explains why the face is so malformed. Is it supposed to be damaged?

im really not keen on the Autobot twin's faces. Or in this case, their bios and stats. I feel like theyre getting set up for the Jazz treatment with their obscure names, but well see what happens.

Skids couldnt possibly be as annoying as his bio suggests...could he?

well, at least sideswipe looks great.

Firebird wrote:

Stormrider wrote:Does he have buck-teeth?

Yup...

And one of the cgi renders showed an Autobot symbol on one of them.

Whoa,whoa,whoa, Am I understanding you correctly?? The symbol is on one of his buck teeth?? Like some sort of hip-hop, rapper gold or jewel Abutobot bling??? Where's that ugly stick?! I'll finish what was started on the Autobot then I'll go after the artist. There are just some places people should not go when it comes to Transformers and I'll be damned if somebody wasn't foolish enough to go there.

Please, Firebird, tell me I mistook your post. PLEASE!
I've got nothing (well, not much) against rap or hip-hop, don't get me wrong. I'm a metal-head and I bought the Grindcore figure solely because of his name and bio, but he doesn't LOOK like a metal-head. NO Autobot should resemble any genre of music fan. It's just not right! Besides, rappers should be offended if THIS guy is representin' them! That's like equating rap with inbred fugly!

Ummmm. never mind!

T-Macksimus wrote:

Firebird wrote:

Stormrider wrote:Does he have buck-teeth?

Yup...

And one of the cgi renders showed an Autobot symbol on one of them.

Please, Firebird, tell me I mistook your post. PLEASE!

I wish you were. And I hope that they decided against it before the character models were finalized.

But back when Activision had the renders for their game online we got this picture. Look at the black smudge on his right tooth, It looks suspiciously like a certain faction symbol.

There was another with a closer look at his face and the tooth, but Unfortunately I didn't save that one.

And Stormrider, we can just throw a Cronoformer around Skids neck to get the same effect

Firebird wrote:...And Stormrider, we can just throw a Cronoformer around Skids neck to get the same effect

What are you doing? Don't encourage him!!! Next you'll be suggesting we hang the cronoformer from a gold chain...

T-Macksimus wrote:

Firebird wrote:...And Stormrider, we can just throw a Cronoformer around Skids neck to get the same effect

What are you doing? Don't encourage him!!! Next you'll be suggesting we hang the cronoformer from a gold chain...

But the little guys only come in Brushed Metal

We need Platinum chains obviously. Otherwise the effect would be ruined by clashing colors

Firebird wrote:

T-Macksimus wrote:

Firebird wrote:

Stormrider wrote:Does he have buck-teeth?

Yup...

And one of the cgi renders showed an Autobot symbol on one of them.

Please, Firebird, tell me I mistook your post. PLEASE!

I wish you were. And I hope that they decided against it before the character models were finalized.

But back when Activision had the renders for their game online we got this picture. Look at the black smudge on his right tooth, It looks suspiciously like a certain faction symbol.

There was another with a closer look at his face and the tooth, but Unfortunately I didn't save that one.

And Stormrider, we can just throw a Cronoformer around Skids neck to get the same effect

This link has the close-up. It's pixelated, but it's as good as it gets.
http://jalopnik.com/5142906/2011-chevy- ... neck-robot

Firebird wrote:

T-Macksimus wrote:

Firebird wrote:...And Stormrider, we can just throw a Cronoformer around Skids neck to get the same effect

What are you doing? Don't encourage him!!! Next you'll be suggesting we hang the cronoformer from a gold chain...

But the little guys only come in Brushed Metal

We need Platinum chains obviously. Otherwise the effect would be ruined by clashing colors

Yeahhhhh...boyyy....!

Seriously, if Transformers have the ability to change their form then why can't they fix their faces?

Is that his head or did his neck throw up ???

Not bad. I will buy this one and his brother.
I will only buy some Transformers from this movie, probably only the ones that are in the same scale and not the same Transformers from the first one like Optimus, Iron Hide and Ratchet.