Talk:Tankor (ROTF)
GoBots homage?
[edit]Is Tankor's coloration possibly an homage to the Renegade GoBot Tank? Khajidha 11:44, 18 October 2009 (EDT)
- "Given his name and especially his color scheme, Tankor is a pretty big homage to his Beast Machines predecessor. His face is even painted to give him a single red optic band like the original." --ItsWalky 12:00, 18 October 2009 (EDT)
- Saw that, but the Beast Machines Tankor toy was black, grey and red. The Beast Wars Returns Tankor toy was blue and silver. Same character, but I'm not sure which toy is more associated with the character and thus more likely to be brought to mind by a reference or homage. In any event, I'm not saying that it DOESN'T reference Tankor; I'm just asking if it might ALSO reference Tank. Khajidha 12:18, 18 October 2009 (EDT)
- Look at the show model for BM Tankor, not the toys (which notoriously bore a very limited relation to the CGI) - Mammalian Verisimilitude 13:10, 18 October 2009 (EDT)
- Yeah, Tankor's show model was a light blue and gray, just like ROTF Tankor. (And GoBot Tank is a dark dark blue, so I don't really see any intentional resemblance there.) --ItsWalky 13:21, 18 October 2009 (EDT)
- Okay, I missed that as I'm really more of a toy guy than a cartoon guy. Khajidha 14:51, 18 October 2009 (EDT)
- Yeah, Tankor's show model was a light blue and gray, just like ROTF Tankor. (And GoBot Tank is a dark dark blue, so I don't really see any intentional resemblance there.) --ItsWalky 13:21, 18 October 2009 (EDT)
- Look at the show model for BM Tankor, not the toys (which notoriously bore a very limited relation to the CGI) - Mammalian Verisimilitude 13:10, 18 October 2009 (EDT)
- Saw that, but the Beast Machines Tankor toy was black, grey and red. The Beast Wars Returns Tankor toy was blue and silver. Same character, but I'm not sure which toy is more associated with the character and thus more likely to be brought to mind by a reference or homage. In any event, I'm not saying that it DOESN'T reference Tankor; I'm just asking if it might ALSO reference Tank. Khajidha 12:18, 18 October 2009 (EDT)
DOTM appearance?
[edit]I seem to recall that back when we got our first trailers for DOTM, it looked like there was a light blue Brawl among the crowd in the "Optimus lands and slaughters the fuck out of some Decepticons" scene. Anyone spot this in the final cut? Anyone got a grab of it in the trailer? --M Sipher 08:33, 31 January 2012 (EST)
- Other than the tan-colored Brawl lookalike, I didn't spot any others. --Sabrblade 12:45, 31 January 2012 (EST)
- IIRC, he only showed up in the first trailer, and wasn't in any of the other trailers or the movie proper.--Carrion 15:20, 31 January 2012 (EST)
DOTM trailer
[edit]"A blue version of Brawl appears in the very first trailer for Dark of the Moon, as part of the crowd as Optimus Prime flies in to deliver his brutal mile-long beatdown of random Decepticon goons. This Decepticon, however, was not present in later cuts of this scene." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj0HkNrPK5k Where? Yes there's a Deep Desert Brawl-ish Decepticon but obviously, he's not blue.--Primestar3 (talk) 14:09, 24 October 2015 (EDT)