A completley new, orignal idea!!!

[Zaktan of the Shadows]

Lego should've bought a lisence to this years Transformers movie!! that would have been wonderful. *wub*

Peices are just guesses.

Some set idea's:

Optimus Prime:

Actually Transforms, can shoot projectiles (for the effect)

359 peices

$40 (CAD)

Bumble Bee (or hotshot, I dunno)

Actually Transforms, Pull back Motor

325 peices

$40 (CAD)

I don't know the rest. Really.

For Decepticons:

Megatron and Starscream. I don't know the rest here either.

And for Playsets I have some idea's, such as a city battle, and a desert.

What do you think?

-ZotS

[Siegfried]

Sad to say, I doubt that it will happen. Hasbro would have no interest in allowing others to make toys that would directly compete with theirs. They only seem to authorise static figures (which I think are silly) or silly things like Optimash Prime (which is supposed to be silly).

Can you make a tranforming Optimus with 359 pieces? When I finish my piece sorting I plan to make a tranforming plane so I am honestly interested.

[Corvus]

The problem is that if you make a transforming lego, it won't be a very stable design. Maybe if they only had the mechs, but had the peices and instructions to rebuild it into the vehicle?

[Starwars4J]

I remember this really nice MOC I saw awhile back that actually transformed...I wish I still had the link.

Sadly I don't think it will happen, without taking it apart and re-assembling it differently, Lego is too hard to make "transform" like that on a budget. Meaning that to get it to be done right, it needs to be very parts intensive. The only way I could see this working would be as a UCS line.

[iamded]

I think having the pieces and instructions for the vehicle and mecha is a good idea. It may take a while to transform though. 8-| :-P 1 set I think of is:

Attack of Scorponok

Set includes Blackout and Scorponok. Scorponok has to be the right size to fit inside Blackout, as that's what he does. I like Scorponok. :-D

[trooperdavinfelth]

Lol, if they ever do make a transformers line, which I note they most likely will not, in order to transform, I can see a number of part-chunks which can be seperated so that when you want to transform, you just have to break it down into 9-10 pieces and then reassemble it into the other version. Btw, I have the Beast Wars Skorponok. He is soooo cool. *wub*

[Brainbox]

Lego should've bought a lisence to this years Transformers movie!!

From the Movie, that'd be incredibly difficult. Have you seen the designs with the thousands of interlocking parts? It'd be much easier to do the classic 'bots.

Bumble Bee (or hotshot, I dunno)

Bumblebee is correct.

Megatron and Starscream. I don't know the rest here either.

From the Movie:

Autobots

Optimus Prime

Ratchet

Ironhide

Jazz

Bumblebee

Decepticons

Megatron (Megs)

Starscream (Screamer)

Barricade

Frenzy

Blackout

Scorponok

Bonecrusher

Brawl

or silly things like Optimash Prime (which is supposed to be silly)

And it's cute!

The problem is that if you make a transforming lego, it won't be a very stable design.

I dunno, it's been proven that Lego Transformers that actually transform are possible.

Maybe if they only had the mechs, but had the peices and instructions to rebuild it into the vehicle?

Sadly I don't think it will happen, without taking it apart and re-assembling it differently, Lego is too hard to make "transform" like that on a budget.

I believe it's known as a "Lego-former".

The only way I could see this working would be as a UCS line.

*wub* UCS Shockwave...

I know this'll never happen, but it'd be nice to see. Thing is though, I'm a little bit glad that we don't have official Lego TFs, and that's coming from a big TF fan. I'd prefer to build my own TFs the way I like to, and not have Lego do them their way, which may not be to my tastes. I much prefer actual transforming TFs, not LFs (with one exception of my own design), so it could come as a disappointment if they didn't have self-contained transformations.

[Zaktan of the Shadows]

No hotshot? Thats news to me.

Anyway, yah it would be trouble, but it still would be cool.

-ZotS

[Landlubber]

I see one seriously major flaw with this idea. Transformers are a toy, correct? Why on earth would they sell licencing rights to another toy manufacturer? ( Thats right, LEGO is still a toy remember)

[iamded]

I saw this movie the other day. *wub* It's awesome. I'm soo getting it on DVD when it comes out. :-D

Anyway, I think a UCS Scorponok should be made. That would be awesome. :-P :-P

*wub* :-P

[Joebot]

I saw this movie the other day. *wub* It's awesome. I'm soo getting it on DVD when it comes out. :-D

Anyway, I think a UCS Scorponok should be made. That would be awesome. :-P :-P

*wub* :-P

Totally agreed! I just saw it last night. Best movie I've seen this summer (Spidey 3, Shrek 3, and Fantastic Four 2 were all mild disappointments). Transformers totally delivered on what I wanted to see: giant robots fighting. The smoking hot Megan Fox was just the icing on the cake. Sure, the plot was dumb (a magic space cube?), and there was a long gap in the middle of the movie that suffered from a severe lack of giant robots fighting. But then, Optimus Prime showed up, and we got back to the giant robots fighting. The smartest thing they did was have Peter Cullen (from the old '80's cartoon) voice Prime again. Just hearing his voice made me feel like I was 12 years old again. I couldn't stop smiling everytime he had dialogue.

Anyway! Back to the topic ... it's hard to imagine Hasbro licenseing one of their key franchises to a competitor. That would sorta be like Marvel letting DC publish Spiderman comics. Sure, it's a fun idea, but it's not gonna happen.

[iamded]

Well maybe they could reach a compromise. Like a Marvel - DC crossover, featuring characters from both lines.

Only for this we could have Lego Transformers, and Hasbro could, like, make Lego minifig action figures or something. :-P Ah, can you imagine that? :-D

Edited July 8, 2007 by iamded

[Autobob]

hasbro did actually make theyre own version of lego a few years ago, it was called BTR (built to rule) it was very similar, better than megablocks and you could attach real lego and mini figs to it no problem.

they used it to make a line of btr transformers alongside the armada and energon lines, they were ok too but would have been better made by lego. lego do make hasbro property though. look at star wars other than lego hasbro are the only people that mak star wars toys.

to find BTR stuff go to www.bigbadtoystore.com.

[Brainbox]

That would sorta be like Marvel letting DC publish Spiderman comics. Sure, it's a fun idea, but it's not gonna happen.

Well, actually, you say that, but a while back DC did a 'Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating...' series, where Stan Lee of Marvel rewrote key DC characters as if they were Marvel. Batman was a real bat, that sort of thing.

[iamded]

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[MatthewUSA]

I would agree that Hasbro would never have another competitor participate with them. But I would *wub* to see TLC create a similar theme. I thought the Exo-Force theme was going to be similar in the aspect of the "Robo Tech" concept. A piloted jet turns into a Mech robot. But I was disappointed when they didn't. I thought this would have been really, really *sweet* . I would have been more interested in Exo-Force had TLC created such sets.

[Brainbox]

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Edited July 8, 2007 by Brainbox

[Zaktan of the Shadows]

I saw the movie last Thursday! Best move I've seen this summer. Definantlly one of my favourite movies. I like the action and Transformations...

But that brings another question to this...

How would they Transform? And still Lego and Hasbro should work together to make Lego Transformers.

-ZotS

[Ribatagus]

Transformers are simply... MY CHILDHOOD HEROES!!! :-D

And I still remember when I was young to make Lego-Transformers.... Unfortunately I didn't had much hinges, and back then there was no locking hinges what so ever! So they worked... but never hold steady. (unfortunately, no pics from that time... that was almost 20 years ago...

That changed now... and because of my favourite heroes return, there will be a massive hinge order at pick-a-brick soon... :-$

*yoda* ... the idea, never forgotten it was hmm hmmm rebuild it I must! *yoda*

Let me just say that the movie was POWERFULL, and did not disapointed this fan, as other movies from characters and stories did, when they changed for the "big screen"

There is one thing I must say: THE BAD EXAMPLE AT THE END!!! DUMP THINGS IN THE OCEAN IS WRONG!!!! >:-(

OK, it's to seal the "bad" bla bla bla... WHY NOT MELT IT DOWN IN A STEEL FACTORY??? OR SEND IT INSIDE A VOLCANO! Anything is better than the bad example of throw trash into the ocean!!!!

by the way, in 1987 Lego created a "kind-a-transformer" in technic: 8852

[Brainbox]

How would they Transform? And still Lego and Hasbro should work together to make Lego Transformers.

Do you mean what pieces would be used? Or what transformation schemes would be used? For the latter, whichever scheme the character had. Obviously, you'd struggle to do the Movie ones, but the original blocky ones would be 'easy' to do.

As for pieces, you could use any of the hinge pieces in different ways: a multitude of click hinges, the 1x4 swing hinges, that sort of thing. And use different pins to hold the bits in place in either robot or vehicle.

[iamded]

Found this on MOCPages by Sean Boyer.

"A mosaic of the greatest Transformer of all time: Optimus Prime. My first true LEGO mosaic. 30"x30", 8,836 1x1 bricks."

MOCPages account.

Edited July 22, 2007 by iamded

[Brainbox]

Found this on MOCPages by Sean Boyer.

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[PaulC]

I hadn't noticed this thread! It would definitely be cool if Lego got a license for Transformers, even though I think it's unlikely.

Sinner said earlier:

Can you make a tranforming Optimus with 359 pieces? When I finish my piece sorting I plan to make a tranforming plane so I am honestly interested.

It's funny you should ask that because I've just made an Optimus Prime that fully transforms without taking him apart into a 4-wide Lego city truck using just 97 bricks (see below)! 8-

[SWMAN]

Sounds interesting, but like others have said, Hasbro doesn't want to give up their toy rights. The only reason lego can make Star Wars is because Hasbro doesn't really own the toy rights. Still, it would be cool.

[Dino_Bot]

Where is that Arcee MOC again?