Talk:Commercial

Only fictional appearance in commerical?

"These spots were the only American animation produced for dozens of characters from the toyline's later years." Hmm, are there any cases where a TV commerical is the only fictional appearance of any kind for a character? Some of the Micromasters, perhaps? JW 17:00, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

The MM Combiners, yeah, and possibly one or two of the Mega/Ultra Pretenders. Not sure about the Action Masters -- the tail end of the US comics and Spotlight: Arcee might've covered them all. -- Repowers 17:29, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Split?

This page is already getting huge, and the post-G1 stuff is barely started. Considering there's probably a boatload of UT commercials, would it make sense to split the page up by franchise? It could then be added to the franchise navigation links for each major franchise. -- Repowers 21:10, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Cybertron commercials

I seem to remember a commercial where a kid sort of dressed in an Autobot uniform runs up to a large door. He unlocks it with an Optimus Prime Cyber Planet Key prop. I think the actor was a guest at BotCon 2005. Of course our BotCon 2005 page is pretty half-ass at the moment so we can't even check our own info. --FFN 19:47, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Robots in Disguise narrator

Does anyone else think the narrator for the RID commercials (all but the first version of Prime/Magnus) sounds like Neil Kaplan? I think it is him, but I'm not certain enough to put it on the page. Would e-mailing him be sufficient for confirming it? --Tigerpaw28 01:45, 22 April 2009 (EDT)

2007 Film TV spot

Old, yeah, but I was bored. Browsing through my computer, found a TV spot that features instrumental portions of Linkin Park's "What I've Done". Opens up with Ron's "My son here - buy his first car" voice-over, cut to Bobby's "Driver don't pick the car" line; 'Bee going out to send the signal; "Some will come to defend us"; 'Bee fully transforming sequence on defending the teens before cutting to post Barricade fight; "Most will come to destroy us"; Scorponok's money shot of leaping out of the desert; Starscream flipping onto Hoover Dam; pilots scrambling to F-22; Autobots' arrival; Sam's "We have to get into the car" over a quick montage alongside Epps' "Bring it!" before finally ending with Bonecrusher crashing into the bus. ...that was a mouthful. Add it in? Can't find it on YouTube anymore, so I'm just glad to have saved it when I found it back then. --Lonegamer78 14:59, 1 July 2009 (EDT)

That sounds like it could be the 2nd full trailer. However, there's a lot of scenes earlier in that trailer which aren't in your description. That has me intrigued. If the commercial you have doesn't match anything listed, then by all means add it in! I want to make our list of commercials the most complete it can be. The commercial can be uploaded to my YouTube account, if you'd like, so that we have a copy to link to. --Tigerpaw28 23:24, 1 July 2009 (EDT)

Not the 2nd full trailer. If you're the same Tigerpaw back from Murphy's boards with all the nifty TV spots from 2007, you might have the original copy. :) The one I have is low quality that might suffer compression issues if I try to upload to YouTube - fact being that I got it from YouTube using one of those online converters in the first place. http://megaupload.com/?d=WHW4UAPW --Lonegamer78 00:01, 2 July 2009 (EDT)

I am not the Tigerpaw from Murphy's board so I unfortunately don't have the original clip. I don't think I ever registered there. I am, however, the same Tigerpaw28 who frequents the Allspark, has an account at TFW2005 and who used to post to a.t.t.

I see what you mean about the compression being an issue. I'll try and see if I can't find a copy of this somewhere online. --Tigerpaw28 12:37, 2 July 2009 (EDT)

Good luck on the search. It's been so long. --Lonegamer78 13:55, 2 July 2009 (EDT)

And things get even more interesting. I started checking for the post the video was found in on Murphy's boards. I found a poster named TigerClaw but no post for a video matching yours. I then went and compared it to Destiny and it turns out they're nearly the same. Yours has a different soundtracking with "What I've Done" being used. It also says "Coming Soon" at the end instead of "July 4th". I'm really wondering about this commercial now. The "Coming Soon" just seems completely out of place, since "What I've Done" wasn't used in the commercial until later on. --Tigerpaw28 17:22, 2 July 2009 (EDT)

(That's where my name confusion came in! XD) Hmm... Good point. I saw it on TV once some time before US release. --Lonegamer78 20:00, 2 July 2009 (EDT)

Well, I've come to a wall with my searching. I can't find any mention of it at Murphy's board. Perhaps you might be able find it Lonegamer? I've come up empty on YouTube as well. I'm still hunting through some Google results but it's not looking good. I still can't figure out where the commercial fits into the promotional scheme. All of the known commercials use a specific date (including "Destiny") as opposed to the general 'Coming Soon'. None of them use "What I've Done" in their soundtrack. I'd be inclined to think it was some sort of oddball mini-trailer, if you hadn't mentioned seeing it on TV. I don't suppose you've remembered anything else about where or when you saw it?

My searching has not been completely in vain. YouTube searching led me to a bunch of commercials that aren't on the page. A couple Now Playings, "Has transformed America", #1 Movie in America, IMAX, and several DVD spots can be found at [1] or [2]. I found out about couple other things through the Live Action Movie Blog and Murphy's board. With all this stuff, I don't know whether to kiss you or curse you. :-D--Tigerpaw28 01:24, 7 July 2009 (EDT)

I'd rather not be cursed. ;) As for the "What I've Done" with "Coming Soon" TV spot, all I remember was that I saw it on TV just once (I think Comedy Central; my sister was watching The Daily Show at the time) and digging around YouTube resulted that before it disappeared. I'm thinking it might've been one of those that slipped by the marketing teams. --Lonegamer78 01:36, 7 July 2009 (EDT)

I'm going to be moving the entry for this out of the commented area and into the page proper tomorrow (7/14), if you or someone else doesn't beat me to it. I found a reference to it on the Transformers Live Action Movie Blog, so at least we have a second source on it. I sent a PM to TigerClaw over at Murphy's board to see if he had any other info or could send me the original clip. Unfortunately, I've yet to get a response from him since sending the PM last Tuesday. At least the clip you sent me actually ended up looking pretty good on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unz7hIHoDQg

I'm also failing to get a response from ekocher over at TFW to my request to get his recording of the Shrek the Third exclusive trailer for the first film. That's only been since Thursday. You wouldn't happened to have grabbed that from his YouTube account would you?--Tigerpaw28 01:19, 14 July 2009 (EDT)

Hey, that turned not out too shabby! :D I was worried about the compression being screwed up even more if we put it back up on YouTube. As for ekocher on the Shrek exclusive, I'm not sure if I did get it back then. I'll have to dig through my external HDs to find it though. --Lonegamer78 02:21, 14 July 2009 (EDT)

ROTF toy commercial!

[3] Featuring original CGI animation of Prime and some non-Cullen voice. --ItsWalky 01:32, 20 May 2009 (EDT)

I found that on Monday along with several other first Movie toy commercials on Hasbro's site. I'll be adding those when I do the movie update. --Tigerpaw28 22:55, 20 May 2009 (EDT)

Some new comercials were just uploaded about an hour ago. [4][5] [6]