Despite Sarah’s protests, Hot Rod insisted that the device would be put at its best use in the hands of the Autobots, keeping the world safe from the Decepticons. RSS. As the nearby Decepticons troops were busy bowing to their leader’s image, Bumblebee and Hot Rod managed to find the Decepticons’ main computer room. Rodimus gratefully accepted the opportunity. (This is possibly what, Most people mistakenly confuse the date of Megatron's discovery with the date the Hoover Dam was built. [32], Aside from advertising the Transformers toyline, the movie also features product placement for other companies, such as Apple, Yahoo, Burger King, Nokia, Panasonic, eBay and Hewlett-Packard. Optimus Prime: He'll die in vain if we don't accomplish our mission. Joe vs. the Transformers II #1 Back on Cybertron, they were stuck waiting inside the force field Ultra Magnus had erected to prevent Shockwave from capturing Teletran 3. Your B minus? Generation 1 #11, A few months after he destroyed Unicron in 2005, Covenant Rodimus Prime spearheaded an effort to establish multiple recon posts to watch for advancing threats... even though some of his scientists said he shouldn't. The two Autobots wrestled it from him and returned to Cybertron, where the beacon was found to hold the coordinates to Metascan Alpha, a major Energon storehouse. Lost and Found Soon afterward, he was assigned to perimeter guard duty at Autobase with Gnaw and Wheelie, separating him from Arcee. Sam buys Bumblebee and the two quickly begin to bond as Bumblebee helps Sam try and woo his crush, Mikaela Banes. Weirdwolf was defiant, but Monzo wasn't feeling lucky and surrendered to the Autobot. Battle on the Junk Planet. If Ultra Magnus decided to prioritize the Decepticons’ orbital attack, Hot Rod became frustrated after once again being overlooked for a mission. Sam, having been bailed out of jail by his father, gets the impression that Bumblebee is stalking him. Vortex the Lookout from Hell After Megatron transformed into Galvatron, Rodimus helped stop Galvatron's rampage by distracting him long enough for Optimus Prime to take Galvatron's helmet off, returning him to normal. Catching him sulking, Bumblebee approached Hot Rod and informed him that he had spotted Astrotrain skulking about nearby the previous night. Early design for Barricade with working name "Brawl" shown during the BotCon 2007 Hasbro Tour. He was shocked that despite the fact the two Primes were working together, they were still defeated. After several false leads, the quartz was eventually located, serving as the power source of the ELTA power transmission array. Hot Rod had to then decide on two options. [fires gun] When the Builders of Cybertron came into power, Hot Rod quickly became aware of how oppressive their rule was. Helen Mirren at the June 27, 2007 Los Angeles premiere of, Variety article about the then-upcoming 2008, https://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Transformers_(film)&oldid=1501488. Kup told the others the story of how, upon first crash landing in Mt. Bumblebee covertly sabotages all of the other cars in the lot, leaving him as Sam's only option. Then, a few days later, when the invisible Decepticons attacked Metroplex city, Hot Rod and the rest of the Autobots were reduced to scrap metal, unable to fight the unseen enemy. volume 2 Unable to tackle Megatron in hand-to-hand combat, he was able to get Starscream to accidentally blast his leader instead, but this did little more than annoy Megatron, who flattened Hot Rod with a fusion cannon blast. The font is slightly different, too. Hot Rod succeeded in firing Astrotrain’s weapons at Cyclonus, warning the Autobot shuttle of the Decepticons, but was quickly overpowered by Scourge. The Autobots began to lose hope when it became clear that they would have to venture into the vast, dangerous, and unmapped Decepticon territory to retrieve SARA. As the journey continues the unexpected comes to fourth even when younglings come into the picture … If Hot Rod went through with his plan to steal the device back from the Decepticons, he successfully snatched Sarah’s invention from Shockwave’s grasp and took off. While the bulk of their forces had been drawn away from their base of operations, a group of Decepticons forced their way in and abducted SARA before returning to the Underground. The Autobots—Optimus Prime, Jazz, Ironhide, and Ratchet—land on Earth and take on the forms of several Earth vehicles. Hot Rod then made his way to Metroplex's control room and ordered him to convert to his battle mode. The next shot cuts back to Mikaela spotting the abandoned tow truck she's about to use to transport Bumblebee out of the city. He shortly took part in an attempt to repel a Decepticon attack on Cybertron, finding himself fighting against Sixshot, who seemed more interested in goading him than fighting. The Decepticons had gotten their hands on an important coded message. After scanning his modern Camaro alternate mode, the license plate changes too... which isn't actually an error. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary John Keller oversees the investigation into the attack in Qatar. But when they arrived at the coliseum, Kup spotted Decepticons flying about. During his time as Prime, Rodimus not only had to deal with the Decepticons and their new leader, but also the political complexities of the planetary alliance Cybertron joined, the return of the Transformers' cruel masters from long ago, the Quintessons, the possible revival of Unicron and the arrival of Unicron's "little brother" Tornedron. Mikaela identifies Bumblebee's engine as having a "high-rise, double-pump carburetor" but the engine shown has no such carburetor. Escaping in the ship, despite the Decepticons best efforts to stop them, the Autobots returned to Metroplex. They all meet in a dark, secluded alley, transform in front of the two amazed humans, introduce themselves and tell of the reasons they had to come to Earth to Sam and Mikaela. TakaraTomy product page for Leader Class Optimus Prime. Bumblebee urged Hot Rod to go through with his plan quickly as Scourge approached them. With their future thus averted, Rodimus and his Autobots began fading away to rejoin the timestream. [21], Many of these cooperations were mutual: Burger King offered the obligatory Kids Meal toys based on the movie characters for the movie's theatrical launch, and General Motors and Mountain Dew ran TV ads under the titles "Transform Your Ride" and "Transform Your Summer", respectively. An extended cut of the film featuring footage not in the original was released to IMAX theatres on September 21, 2007. (The treatment would eventually remain entirely unused, but DeSanto would try to get a writing credit regardless, even though none of the screenwriters had ever actually seen his treatment. 5U Model Bumblebee Deluxe Figure Transformers DLX Collectible Series $ 92.99 (58) Sale. Glen, Maggie, Keller, and Simmons manage to contact the Air Force and direct F22s to Mission City. However, the boy who made his presence known was not aiming at them, but at the Quintessons behind them. Leap. Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Starscream, Prelude to Transformers: Combiner Wars - Windblade, Hot Rod, Kup, Blurr, Cyclonus, Scourge, and Rodimus Prime commercial, The Transformers: Battle to Save the Earth. Shortly afterwards, Blurr returned prematurely from the aforementioned secret mission to deliver more bad news. If Ultra Magnus listened to Jazz’s plan, he ordered his Autobots to remain silent, and to shut off all of the shuttle’s lights and mechanisms. This page was last modified on 22 April 2021, at 12:38. When Sam's car breaks down and Mikaela gets out to look at the engine, she leaves the passenger door open. He is also very self-reliant, rarely sending others to do anything when he could be doing it himself. The Invisibility Factor, Hot Rod served on an alien spacecraft with the Autobots Sandstorm, Springer, and Ratchet under the command of Ultra Magnus. As an injured Prime breached the citadel, Hot Rod, Ironhide and Springer provided cover fire, taking down a number of Guardians in the process. Starscream retreats from Earth. Il apparait à Shanghaï pour vaincre Demolisher, un Constructicon. Athenaeum Sanctorum Rodimus then proceeded to beat down any member of the team that came his way, culminating in him strangling Windblade when she moved to defend Megatron. Kup's use of the Universal Autobot Greeting resulted in the Junkions abandoning the fight and making friends with the newcomers, and causing Hot Rod to exclaim "Holy cow!" The Decepticon leader revealed the extent of his megalomania, declaring that he would rule all of space-time, even if it meant destroying his home dimension in the process. Of course, much of this comes from comparisons with his former commander Optimus Prime—and let's face it, shoes-to-be-filled just don't get much bigger than that. If Hot Rod attempted to stop Galvatron, he successfully plucked the device out of the Decepticons’ hands and barrelled through the nearby circle of flames to make his escape. As a result of his damaged flux capacitor however, Gigawatt was unable to complete his mission, instead brining Marty McFly before Rodimus. Roberto Orci confirming that Blackout was originally intended to be Soundwave. 'Til All Are One, When Ultra Magnus, Kup, and Spike were abducted by Skuxxoids during the Galactic Games, Grimlock and Rodimus Prime traveled to Chaar to see if the Decepticons were responsible. Hot Rod and his team, Drillbuster, Blackout, Spaceshot, and Countdown, were assigned to deal with and counter the Resistance's Grand Uprising. Snapper was swayed to not unleash a thousand more mad tyrants on Cybertron, and destroyed the virus. when you’re constantly interrupted by "Oh my goodness! Sunset occurs roughly every fifteen minutes. During the scene where Optimus Prime scans a truck for his new body, the passing truck has what appears to be an Autobot sigil on its grill, but the actual truck that Prime turns into at the end of the scene has a much wider, flatter symbol on the grill, quite possibly a Peterbilt logo. Hellbent on destroying the Matrix, he approached Megatronus, but was knocked away before the Fallen Prime escaped with the blaster. Early designs for Ratchet shown at the BotCon 2007 Hasbro tour. Soon after, he was called to Earth to aid Optimus Prime, but briefly returned to retrieve the Magnificence to gain information on the Expansion, during which he discovered Dealer's treachery and killed him. Finding a hatch to the space shuttle’s exterior, Hot Rod trained one of Perceptor’s inventions, a "rapid-fire, high-intensity rifle cannon" towards Cyclonus and fired. The trail seemingly lost, the Autobots then heard someone incoming, and took cover. After Bumblebee's capture, Optimus uses the glasses to locate the AllSpark at Hoover Dam, and declares that if they cannot defeat the Decepticons, he will merge the Cube with his spark, even though it will kill him. He proceeded to destroy Devastator's limbs one by one until Menasor finally confessed Megatron's whereabouts, only to finish the job anyway before departing for Primal Swamp with Overlord. We live among its people now, hiding in plain sight... but watching over them in secret... waiting... protecting. A prequel-slash-reboot-slash-spin-off, Bumblebee was released on December 21, 2018. Though they tried to stop him, both Hot Rodimus and Brawn were shoved away effortlessly by the newly empowered Megatron. ", "Look, can you do me a favor—can you look out the window for a second? If Hot Rod forewent attaining the Invisibility Device and attempted to take out Galvatron instead, Starscream spotted him before he could do so, and Hot Rod was promptly dispatched. Kaputt. Bumblebee converts the AllSpark into a smaller state for transportation to Mission City. The United States military (via Philip Strub and the Defense Department's Film and Television Liaison Office) supported the movie by providing vehicles and soldiers. Four sequels have been produced to date: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was released worldwide on June 24, 2009, Transformers: Dark of the Moon was released on June 28, 2011, Transformers: Age of Extinction was released on June 27, 2014, and Transformers: The Last Knight was released on June 21, 2017. He joined Overlord in assaulting the remaining Combiners, killing Computron and disabling Devastator. Hot Rod and the others successfully beat them back, until Soundwave attempted to escape with the Brain Drain device in hand. Sam explains the Decepticons' plan to use the AllSpark to transform human machines to conquer the universe. Cold War Shortly afterward, the cell rescued Optimus Prime from Runamuck and Runabout, and took him to their base. Hot Rod (aka Rodimus and Hot Rodimus) is brash and headstrong, with an overwhelming self-confidence that borders on arrogance.Kup has assumed the role of mentor and advisor to the impetuous young Hot Rod, offering him wisdom and advice when he needs it (though Hot Rod rarely feels that he does, much to Kup's annoyance). Unicron just might consume the universe, and the Autobots need to determine who the Chosen One is so that he may rise from their ranks, unlock the Matrix of Power, and save all from Unicron! When the shot changes angles to the other side of the truck, Bumblebee is sitting right beside the truck while Sam directs Mikaela to wrap Bumblebee in the chains. The Autonomous Robotic Organism (shortened to "Autobot") known as Bumblebee is also on Earth, disguised as a 1976 Chevrolet Camaro, and looking for Sam Witwicky, the descendant of Captain Archibald Witwicky. Finding themselves in a time where Primus and Unicron were battling one another, shaking the very cosmos with their blows, Rodimus and his troops allied themselves with their creator, while the mad Galvatron ordered his troops to help the Chaos Bringer. The movie set multiple records when it opened, including biggest opening week gross for a non-sequel ($155.4 million), biggest Tuesday release gross ($27.4 million), biggest July 4 gross ($29 million), and the biggest film opening in mainland China ($3 million) [1]. Prime references "the spark in my chest". Curious, he prompted Kup to come with him to investigate. Optimus Prime finally arrives in the area and confronts Megatron. They were shown a hologram chamber, where they encountered Ravage. The Keeper told the group about the creation of Cybertron from its progenitor Daiakuron. In an alternate scenario where the Autobots silently trailed Scavenger while the Decepticon held Sarah Sanders captive, Hot Rod and the others followed him all the way to the Decepticons’ secret desert base. Sam: No, no, no, you said cars pick their drivers! [7]) The movie was officially announced for the first time in June 2003. After a short, sharp fight that saw Rodimus defeated, Megatron was distracted enough by the appearance of Galvatron to allow the future Autobot to escape. When the defected Decepticon Gigawatt, having scanned the DeLorean time machine, came before Rodimus and informed him of how Megatron had gained time travel, Rodimus sent him back to 1974 to undo the perversion of history. Instead of having been hiding on Earth for a while, they would have arrived there during the movie after having been summoned by Soundwave. However Sam and Mikaela are recaptured and Bumblebee is also captured despite Sam's pleas to let him go. When taking inflation into account, Transformers currently sits at #102. Plot summaries and such will reflect whichever name is relevant to that being described. "NO! A Reliable Warrior!? Arriving at the scene, Ultra Magnus’s troops were informed by Powerglide (who had flown ahead of the land-bound group) that he had discovered the location of the sunken ship containing the cybertite sphere. You can help Transformers Wiki by expanding it. [21] Hasbro and Takara then created the toys based on the designs developed by Industrial Light & Magic. event. A Real Mother, Hot Rod was one of Optimus Primal's many Autobot allies in a fight against Megatron's Decepticon forces. volume 9, Following the defeat of Galvatron on Earth, Hot Rod was among the Autobots that Optimus Prime summoned to the planet. If Jazz and Springer convinced Hot Rod and Kup to return to Metroplex city to make sure they didn’t have a few wires loose, Ratchet found nothing wrong with the pair, but the incident was forgotten nonetheless. Henkei! Some of the prequel material contradicts the other prequel material... at least till John Barber fixed some of them on his Dark of the Moon tie in comics. Otherwise, Hot Rod and the Autobots arrived just in time to congratulate Wreck-Gar, who had already destroyed the Brain Drain device. Kup told the young Autobot of how he defeated the Decepticons on Renerian, and the two of them put into action a similar plan. Joe #12, Rodimus was one of the many Autobots forced to combine with Megatron to form "Mega-Megatron". When the Autobots cross paths with Bumblebee, Sam and the Allspark, during the close-up on Optimus, Ratchet's rear reflection can be seen in the bumper of the truck. Donning them, Hot Rod and the rest of his team were able to fool the Decepticon Droids guarding Sarah’s ship. As some entered the back door, Kup shooed Hot Rod away, telling him to warn the others. If he managed to defeat Menasor, Trypticon, Astrotrain, Starscream, and Megatron, Rodimus was declared to be the tournament's champion! On a number of occasions, he struggled with his knowledge of the future, knowing he could prevent a great tragedy but could also cause untold damage to the timestream by doing so. Kingdom Studio Series MasterPiece G1 3P Reviews Comics ... update from www.robotkingdom.com. Rodimus saw the back-in-his-old-body Devcon off, who was sent to chase after Cyclonus, while the Wreckers made for their next destination... even though several of them were now leery of the visions Primal Prime had been getting. Additional Key Assistant Location Managers: Three quarters of the CG effects were done by. If the Autobots decided to investigate the dark side of the moon, they found themselves unable to see anything on the satellite’s shadowy surface. His feelings of being watched were confirmed when the Decepticons, now invisible, began firing upon them. Edmunds.com article on the vehicles featured in the movie. As Primal Prime took some Wreckers after their true foe, Cryotek, Rodimus tried to get their injured to a safe place. Though Hot Rod had been specifically instructed to retrieve the G-Virus, he was simply content with the fact that it had not been unleashed. Transformers Battle Circuit, Following Megatron's rebirth as Galvatron, Rodimus led the Autobots to a decisive victory over the Decepticon forces. Funnily enough, this curb was where the crushed car was parked. "It's his first car... supposed to be like that.". Undeterred, Rodimus got to his feet and gave chase in vehicle mode. In addition to repeatedly getting the two character models mixed up, sometimes the animation would depict one model colored as the other. Other Decepticon characters featured in an early draft, aside from "Grimlock" (helicopter) and "Soundwave" (portable stereo/Humvee), were Brawl as a Jeep, Frenzy as a Piranha III mortar artillery vehicle, Onslaught as a mobile missile launcher, Octane as a tanker truck, and three jets named Blitzwing, Starscream and Devastator (a cargo plane, a 747 jet and F-16 fighter; the script doesn't say which is which). Seller 99.4% positive. He also remarks that he has "been there" when it comes to women with criminal records. Betrayal, Upon landing on the frozen planet, Rodimus was part of the search party immediately dispatched to look for... something. [19] For the DVD release of the movie, meanwhile, additional "Cisco" logos were added into the movie that had not been there yet in the theatrical version.[33]. Autobots Strike Oil, Out searching for a missing shuttle, Hot Rod and Kup spied it crashed on the Junk planet. Our Heroes Respond The Fight Begins Finally arriving, he ran into Windblade and the two worked together to attack Trypticon, though they were unable to save Metroplex. Orci explaining why Prowl is not in the movie. The severity of the situation cleared up why he had been allowed more than his usual ration: the Resistance had managed to steal the G-Virus. Also, in this shot, Optimus' feet don't make craters or any visible mark on the concrete. Sometimes there were many of him! Galvatron's Air Attack He got along well with Spike Witwicky, the two spending their downtime looking at car magazines together, and was quite pleased to receive some snazzy gold wheel-trims from the boy. (Domestic gross accounted for $310,578,372 before the IMAX version's release.) While the other Autobots were busy dealing with a rampaging Astrotrain, Hot Rod disrupted Megatron and the other Decepticons' attack on a power plant by engaging them solo. Galvatron’s image appeared on a nearby monitor, explaining that both Hot Rod and Bumblebee would be used as hostages in order to secure a Decepticon victory. Hasbro Transformers Future Product Unveiling panel at BotCon 2007. Later, Kup led Hot Rod, Arcee, and the Dinobots on a special mission to take supplies from Earth to a space station on Cybertron's second moon. Then, Rodimus handed his totally trustworthy agent, Rodimus and Blurr drove to an Autobot laboratory, only to be informed by a distressed Kup that there had been an accident; the newest Autobots were monsters! He again prepared to execute Megatron, but Overlord insisted he do it himself. Some of these were included in direct response to urgings of the fans; others originated with the production crew. A lot of details about the movie changed during the pre-production phase (and even still during production and post-production): For an extensive synopsis of the battle, see separate article, Changes before, during and after production, I didn't sleep through it the way I Novocained my way through the awful. Back in Qatar, the Army Rangers are attacked by Scorponok, and take refuge in a nearby village. The Autobots would have distracted a security guard while Sam and Mikaela would have broken into their school. Kup and Hot Rod traveled to the coliseum to check out a robot car the humans had built that could respond to voice commands. Bobby Bolivia: What with the semi-classic nature of the vehicle, slick wheels and custom paint job— Enter the New Emperor of Destruction!? Michael Bay claiming that the Transformers' names circulating were "aliases". Optimus Prime: A necessary sacrifice to bring peace to this planet... We cannot let the humans pay for our mistakes. And just when all hope seemed lost, message of a new discovery drew us to an unknown planet called... Earth. He was parked in the cargo bay of a troop-carrier aero-plane when he met the young human Jeff Grey. Though Magnus was more concerned about the threat of war, Hot Rod told him not to worry, unaware that Sixshot was planning to throw him a surprise. Once they had reunited, Rodimus Prime and the others met with Fortress Maximus for the last battle against Scorponok. Both sides are after the AllSpark, a mysterious artifact that landed on Earth ten thousand years ago. If the group settled on launching a counter-attack, the lot of them stormed the lab with such ferocity and suddenness that the Decepticons were caught completely unawares. For his part, Megatron thought he was facing Hot Rod, but quickly realised his mistake. While on a midnight spin, Hot Rod spotted Beachcomber, Springer and Blurr leaving Metroplex on a secret mission.
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