Thanks to fellow 2005 Boards member Heat Guy we have a look at Transformers: The Last Knight Walmart End Cap Featuring Hot Rod.
It’s cool to see Hot Rod in official displays at stores. Heat Guy also found a Bumblebee End Cap and a Bumblebee lenticular poster.
You can click on the bar to see the pictures and sound off at the 2005 Boards.
maxxzander
Yep she's a keeper !!
roaddemon2001
The worst part is my wife is 5 years young than me never gave a crap about transformers … at all. Walks over to my detolf ,picks up the masterpiece of him and says this is what he is supposed to look like. Then i spent 10 minutes explaining the movie verse to her where we finished with her calling MB a ******.lol
BumblebeeNotOP
Well, the fact that he turns into one of the world's most expensive supercars makes up for his drab color scheme
SoundBlaster7
Found legion Hot Rod on robotkingdom.com, says it's a walmart exclusive.
Don't remember seeing or hearing any info about him, so I thought I'd post.
Walmart Exclusive Transformers Movie 5 The Last Knight Legions Hotrod. Available now. – Movie 5 – The Last Knight – Transformers
Diecast G2
"Every single Bayformer since 2007 has disregarded the G1 design, but I'm surprised, shocked, and downright offended that character number eleventy disregarded the G1 design!"
Like every single conversation about the new movie. Which new movie? Every new movie.
Purple Heart
I do agree that I don't really like casting the Autobots as high end cars. For Sideswipe and Rodimus I think it works. The original Rodimus(or at least the classics) had some Dome Zero influence, but he was basically a space lamborghini and I think he should be one here, just red.
I think two major contributing factors for them using really nice cars is because they are 1. Appealing to modern audiences, especially children.
2. Manufacturers, who ontop of having the approved of their vehicles portryal in the movies(the better the more stingy) most likely pay a good portion to have their vehicles featured so prominently.
Shepard Prime
As much as I like the movies I do wish that Bay hadn't went the high-end concept car route so many times. Like Sunstreaker, Sideswipe and Tracks I can see being high-end concept cars like Audi, Bugatti, Lambo etc. It's weird because given his love for muscle cars (classic or otherwise) I'm surprised he didn't get more classic cars for designs. It's the reason why I love BB's alt mode in AoE before the upgrade so much. Older cars have so much more character.
Back when I was fan-casting alt-modes (before I realized they were always going ot be current year cars with a few exceptions to pay the bills) I thought something like this would've worked for Hot Rod:
I like Rodder's movie design overall tho'. I realllllly don't like the big eyes however. Too Bee-ish. If only that visor over his eyes were his actual eyes that would look pretty cool.
MnemonicSyntax
Says who? According to a Google search of "hot rod" you end up with actual hot rod vehicles of various colors.
People are putting too much stock in a name because one (useless) guy had it previously.
If anything, previous incarnations of "Hot Rod" and the movieverse Hot Rod don't match as to what a "hot rod" really is.
This really isn't a bone of contention folks. This is the movieverse Hot Rod. You can say it's not all you want, but the fact remains, it is.
Coming into a movie based thread to complain about how this looks nothing like "Hot Rod" makes no sense and just detracts from the original point.
maxxzander
Lance Armstrong bot??
maxxzander
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What happen to my face?! Fcuk u Michael bay!!
jackgaughan
Yeah but a character called Hot Rod shouldn't have a drab colour scheme. Really he should've been movie Hotshot, he has the exact colour scheme of RID Hotshot.
User_136440
Makes you wonder why though. They shared his concept art without any fuss or fanfare and he's been shown in trailers so it's not like he's going to be a surprise of any sort.
Lord Ultron
Wait a minute.
So, you are telling me that this version of Hot Rod is horrible, because is black, has orange parts and a strange face, but you are ok with Ironhide?
Seriously?
Chaos Muffin
I feel like they purposely designed him to be awkward so he does\'nt steal Bee\'s thunder.
Then the kids would want Hotrod movies instead of the Bee movies.
Afterburner
You mean it would be cool to see Hot Rod. I have no idea what this is supposed to be though.
Lazerwave
Wish I could hope for the same with the others.
SilverOptimus
There's an embargo on his reveal. He is not suppose to be revealed… yet. Not even fansites are informed. June is almost here. We may (emphasis on the word may) see him near the release of the movie.