You saw the Arctic, you saw the Pyramids of Egypt, you saw the Great Wall of China. Now get ready for Stonehenge. Because if you want the Pandorica tonight, just remember who’s standing in your wa… (oops, wrong franchise).
Director Michael Bay is scouting for locations and it looks as though he’s in United Kingdom. At Stonehenge to be exact.
The director has posted a new Instagram image hinting what may come our way with Transformers 5.
So what do you think of this new development? Will it be just for a cool shot or will the next MacGuffin be located at this historic monument? Or would you like to see the place go BOOM? Leave a thought at the thread associated with this news post.
Hazekiah
Looks like SOMEONE played too much Lazer Tag as a kid, lol.
But, yeah…giant, robot aliens!
Sounds good to me.
EagleTron
Yup, how each 100 ton Lazer percesion cut stone was transported miles with only the use of ancient wood and stone tools would be a great tie in with a transformers plot.
Hazekiah
Agreed, but…do you seriously think it WASN'T setting up the Quintessons, or some TFCU equivalent?
I would SO TOTALLY be down with that.
Isaac Hill
"I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a minicon."
Instead of the Statue of Liberty, I'd rather see a crossover film that gets us a Spaceball-1/Megamaid toy. Transformers 5: Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money
Really, I'm just hoping the search for the creators bit at the end of AoE was setting up the Quintessons for TF5. Movieverse Quint judges would probably look pretty good, and I'd like to own (at least) one.
EagleTron
No no no, Indiana Jones didn't have tons of magnificent transforming robots. This is sci-fi entertainment not that other stuff.
Autobot Burnout
Because it's why the fourth Indiana Jones movie is a pile of shit.
EagleTron
Why should we "go back" when there is so much real life earth issues to take ideas from. Earth has a history of illuminate/aliens stuff.
Come on Mr. Bay, take us to Pumapunku the most mysterious ruins of them all!
Autobot Burnout
Furthermore, the dialog in this scene directly has Felix mention Mario – because Nintendo allowed Disney to mention he exists, but not actually have him appear in this film.
Yeah, but it's already reaching illuminati/Ancient Aliens scale conspiracy theories and that stuff gets boring.
Remember when ancient history and Transformers were entirely unrelated and the Decepticons were just trying to harvest energy? Why can't we just go back to THAT without having to make Earth increasingly the only thing in space that all the old crap from Cybertron crash lands on?
MV95
I love the history tie-ins. Was actually hoping they'd use Stonehenge eventually.
That's great
Nightrain
To be fair, it does make sense that aliens are gonna be the reason for all of history's mysteries here. It shouldn't be a thing where like some other mystical reason happens to exist that causes whatever.
"Stonehenge? Nah that one wasn't us somehow" – Optimus
Susha
I must say keep it coming, while the movies are totally boring, these threads are well worth it! I can't wait till some1 makes a Jar Jar Abrams vs Jar Jar Bay thread.
stonehendge… haha.. … oh yes ofc the pyramids we've already had. its a good thing hes keeping the coliseum for the TF 6 (shhh don't tell him)
or he might run out of landmarks.
BeePrime_WFCTX_106023
And Donkey bitch ass. Anybody watch dashiegames?
Moy
Sadly.
TheBigBad
Well they didn't go the "Good Guys" meeting did they? They only went to the "Bad Guys" meeting.
Autobot Burnout
Mario is not in Wreck-it Ralph for a reason, even though Bowser is.
TheBigBad
Negotiations can always be made for the rights of characters, otherwise we wouldn't have Spiderman (rights held by Sony, not Marvel Studios/Disney) in Captain America: Civil War. No company is just going to outright deny the use of character if there is money to be made with it.
TheBigBad
Actually I remember that part quite well, the Dinobots were never part of the early info for TF4, I think it was another two to three months after that script leaked that the first image of Optimus riding Grimlock popped up at a trade show. Meanwhile the YouTube report of the leak sort languished there, it had a few thousand views, and that was it. Then that image of Grimlock and Optimus appeared and the views on that video quickly shot up to 2 million.
There is better evidence for that script being somewhat legit in the toys… Anyone ever wonder why these came out?
Amazon.com: Transformers Asia Kids Day Protectobots Emergency Response 3-Pack: Toys & Games
and…
Amazon.com: Transformers Asia Kids Day Protectobots Evac Squad 2-Pack: Toys & Games
We had Protectobots, that weren't Protectobots in AOE packaging.
The leaked script opened with the Protectobots coming to the rescue of a small town that had been hit by a meteor. To me, these are the result of that draft, and were released as an odd Asia exclusive when that storyline was dropped.
Autovolt 127
Agreed. It's very tiresome.
Why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch? Also Transformers.
E.) all of the above.
Paradigm-Shift Prime
Now Bay can shoot his underage girl from behind and beneath through the crotch shots…through Stonehenge pillars! How artsy!
T-Logicon
Count me in, I like it too!