News from Italy is revealing our first possible look at the actual movie model of Stratosphere from Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts.
Cyber sleuths from TFW2005 Boards previously discovered his control art from Takara’s website update. However, the art was quickly taken down from the servers.
The news also highlights the fact that Frank Matano will voice this flying Autobot for the Italian dub.
Mr. Matano is an Italian comedian famous for his work on You Tube.
John TheDestroyer
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These two Micheal Bay faces have the exact same design ethos as Stratosphere
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Majestic Senzu
I can see that being the case. Kind of looks like a pair of headphones too. Whatever it is supposed to be, it's terrible and should have been removed.
Rodimus Prime
I thought it was a sideways ball cap.
Majestic Senzu
"Hey, Bumblebee. It's a little known fact that Maximals were kept as pets by ancient Cybertronians."
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THAT'S WHAT THAT IS?
Autobot Burnout
Maybe Uncanny Valley is a bit too strong a term, but they definitely are trying to make the robots have human faces, since Wheeljack is Steve Urkel and they claim Prime is based on Cullen (I'm just not seeing it with the latter, unfortunately)
T-Hybrid
Words have meaning. Nobody is mistaking the robots for humans.
TriBlurr
Wasn't the rumor that he's voiced by John Dimaggio doing a Scottish accent?
If so that's great. Lol.
kwanzaabot
You know what? That's fair. I'll agree to that. They went too far making them human. The Bumblebee heads were definitely good (but the Decepticons in that scene were all space monsters and the Autobots were all regular guys–except wheeljack–so I think my argument still has an element of truth, but I think I'm probably not painting the full picture)
artimus prime
While I don't mind the design, I was hoping for the massive ROTF jet that can transport semis. Where beetlebee/knight Camaro bee could stand upright in the cargo area.
As long as the toy is good.
PrimalFury
I'm just going by what someone else on here said at one point, id take it as unsubstantiated rumor without a legitimate source but a user on here said there's a commander Stratosphere for next year, I don't recall who said it or if they saw a listing in a system somewhere
Oniconvoy
Speculation
Electro Rush
Wait, is there really going to be a commander figure or is this just speculation?
UltraViolet
that sure is the reason they have all their blockheads and yet, their face and helmet details are all so very generic and interchangeable. If you cut off a bunch of scramble city heads and had them in a greyscale lineup I doubt I could identify which specific character that head came from, even in my bottomless autism.
I don’t think it’s fair NOT to level criticism at shit just cuz it’s grandfathered in. The Dery-ized models for those characters could have done something interesting for them but instead they’re all pretty much forgettable. The only ones who lucked out are the combaticons, I guess because they all share the visor/mouthplate design traits that make more sense for their motif.
the aerialbots, technobots, terrorcons, and like at least 1-2 from the other teams have incredibly generic interchangeable head designs.
i’m not picking a side here lol I just way prefer anthropomorphic character designs that telegraph what the character is like before they even speak. A relic from when most characters in these god-forsaken films didn’t even get lines or actual personalities.
I just think it’s super silly to level criticism about unoriginality when most G1 characters are extremely bland and repetitive. People eat that shit up until it’s in an art style they don’t agree with. there are like 8 million tfs at this point, originality left the building 38 years ago.
Autobot Burnout
On point 2, the problem is that Paramount wheels too hard over into making them look like just "guys" and moreover humans to the point we get the uncanny valley effect. Why do the alien robots have to look extremely humanlike, to the point their faces have the folds and cresses like it's skin on top of human muscle tissue?
It's really staggering that we actually more or less hit the perfect medium with the slapdash designs from the BBM opening models. Robots that have clear faces that aren't jagged messes and heads that, while definitely not human shaped, actually look aesthetically pleasing as heads (As opposed to Mirage's dumbass mishapen cranium because they tried giving him hair).
I don't feel that's a valid criticism 40 years after the fact because that's accuracy to the toy, and G1 Scramble City combiners all had the same block head because that was the universal combination socket design. For most of the limb bots, the point of connection was their head for simplicity when using any of them as a leg for the combined forms.
Onilink
I mean…
Jeddostotle7
Huh, I already liked the face on the control art pretty decently, but this final face I like even better for some reason. It manages to have a lot of surface detail but without feeling overdesigned or cluttered, or obscuring/crowding out the actual face-ish shaping. It just….. looks really nice.
It's wild that a robot face this nice can exist in the same movie as Pablojack's face.
PrimalFury
I wonder if the commander class toy will be based on the control art we saw or this?
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He would look better with a mouth plate though. I wonder if he too will have a mega buster
The Factory
Why are they so obsessed with making extreme humanoid faces from the bayverse now? It'll just stick out like a sore thumb if he stands with the other characters, who are designed almost the opposite.
Purple Heart
I keep seeing people bring up the fact that Stratosphere’s cabin windows make up his goggles, and while thats true..
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It was the same on his ROTF design.
Inner child me is pleased. I was 11 when the original came out and I still remember the day I got it. He was such a cool character and makes me so happy to him get a “glow up” for ROTB. Probably going to be my favorite character in the film even if he only shows up for a few minutes.
If he dies though, I will cry a thousand tears.
G1Optimal
He looks cool hope he dose not die because of being a background character