Why do you keep dragging me to these things?
on June 20, 2020 at 12:01 amChapter: A Mild Dorothy Appears!
Location: BotCon
There was a sneak preview of the first live-action Transformers movie at BotCon 2007. The first one was not the worst one, and seeing it in a theater crammed full of Transformers Diehards was… a pretty memorable experience.
Ethan is there in a gown because he escaped directly from the hospital.
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wouldn’t have realized it was a gown until you mentioned it
Ah, 2007. We were so young. So innocent. So not knowing the movies would someday hold lines about robot wangs, and racist stereotypes, and the statutory rapist subplot in 4.
Seriously there is no non-creepy reason for that scene. Why was that of all choices the one made.
He has a card that says he’s allowed to put those in.
So have Willis and Ethan just not seen each other, or is there an automatic ceasefire for an event like this?
One would assume there’d have to be…if they kicked up shit, they’d be banned for life. (Unless Botcon was WAY wilder than I imagine.)
Well the BotCon’s in the late 90’s were regular bloodbaths. Brawls, orgies, animal sacrifices, you name it, they were happening. At the 1998 one Scott McNeil disappeared at some point on the first day and wasn’t seen again for two weeks. He was finally found in a drainage ditch in Santa Clarita wearing nothing but a fez and a grass skirt, screaming “THEY ARE COMING TO CLEANSE US ALL!”.
But by 2007 they had cleaned up their act and become a more family friendly toy collectors convection.
Botcon is neutral, sacred territory, so long as neither lays claim to it.
‘LV!’ has quite a few appearances apparently. I’m still not sure who or what it is.
Bearded person with glasses, second from right.
Weren’t they monkey humped to death?
I’m pretty sure the 2007 movie is the only Michael Bay-directed Transformers movie I’ve seen so far. While I liked it ok, I never got around to seeing the other movies in that series.
You didn’t miss anything.
I haven’t seen even the 2007 one.
Where is this on the scale of:
Buy it
Rent it
Stream it
Watch it edited for time and content on basic cable, with ads
Watch it if the remote is broken and it’s on TV
Throw the circuit breaker if the remote is broken and it’s on TV
If you actually really like Transformers, stream it or cable. If not then just forget it ever existed and go on your merry way.
Regardless, it’s not worth spending extra money on.
OH SHOOT I’M SO GLAD I HAD ALREADY STARTED READING SHORTPACKED BY NOW
Oh, look! It’s that guy Ethan got into a wiki-edit-war with!
Mr. Willis,
Is 5 and 6 in line from the left you and your wife?
The guy with glasses and A hawaiian shirt and the girl with glasses and freckles.
I believe so; they both have prior tagged appearances in the comic.
(Their Walkyverse selves are canonically ex-SEMME abductees, I believe.)
Maggie was blonde at some point?
First ever appearance of Ethan?
Not in the Walkyverse as a whole, no (he’d appeared in Shortpacked! before this, both chronologically and in release-order), but this is his first appearance outside of that specifically.