The year is 2005....

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Hikaru Ichijyo

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The treacherous Decepticons have taken over the Autobot homeworld of Cybertron....

I popped the DVD of Transformers: The Movie and heard that opening line and was like "Oh shit! It IS 2005, isn't it?!" I remember when I was kid watching Transformers: The Movie and wondering how life in the year 2005 would be. I remember it being sooooooooo far in the future too, heh heh. Well here we are and dammit, where the fuck are my flying skateboards?!

Ah well, at least the death of Starscream is a timeless classic to watch....

"Who disrupts my coronation?!"
"Coronation Starscream? This is bad comedy..."
"Megatron?! Is that you?"
"HERE'S A HINT!"

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!! :D
 
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Then I'll prepare for cheezy 80's music if the movie holds true...
 
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Yeah, what a let down man. Back then I too thought we'd at least have a freckin' Moon Colony that we could go back and forth from Earth to. Bet ya Los Angeles won't look a thing like Blade Runner in 2019 either, nor will there be "Replicants" or flying spinners and shit. :(

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2005...Totally agreed. I've been wondering the same thing since I was a wee lad. Btw,

"Mcfly, you BOJO! Hoverboards don't go on water. Unless you got Power!"

I still want a flying Delorean. :mad:


While were on the subject of, Timeless Classics to watch...

"Till all are One(1)."

"Magnus, give me the Matrix!"

"Never!"

"Exterminate HIM!!"

"Unicron, my master...with this, I shall make you my slave."
 
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lol I was just thinking of that bit in TF the movie the other day

best kids film ever... well cartoon anyway
 
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HA! Yeah, I'm wrapping up disc 1 of TF Season 3 part 2 and Season 4.

One of the previews goes "The year is 2006..."

I'm like "hey thats one year away..."

Funny how back in the late 80s we were like "2000's and beyond? WHOOOOOA... it's gonna be all futuristic shit!"

I bet by 2050, life will be much the same...
 
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My best friend and I have been Transfans ever since we we're little. And right at 12:00am we started watching that movie on our old VHS tape. Damn good film. The amount of celebrities that did voices in that movie was amazing I though, for a kids film anyways.
 
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Mercenary X99 said:
I wonder what Stan Bush is doing right now in the year 2005?
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He had an AIM name a few years back. I don't remember it though. The band that did the song "Hunger" was called "Kick Axe." I read somewhere that their main member turned into a transvestite if that makes you feel beter. :D
 
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Hey Hollywood screenwriters, new rule:

When setting a story in the future, make sure its so far ahead that the kids of the generation watching the flick will never make it to that date and be massively disappointed.

Nothings worse than watching old reruns of Buck Rogers and seeing in the opening sequence that the last of the manned deep space probes was launched in 1987.
 
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Hikaru Ichijyo said:
The treacherous Decepticons have taken over the Autobot homeworld of Cybertron....

I popped the DVD of Transformers: The Movie and heard that opening line and was like "Oh shit! It IS 2005, isn't it?!" I remember when I was kid watching Transformers: The Movie and wondering how life in the year 2005 would be. I remember it being sooooooooo far in the future too, heh heh. Well here we are and dammit, where the fuck are my flying skateboards?!

Ah well, at least the death of Starscream is a timeless classic to watch....

"Who disrupts my coronation?!"
"Coronation Starscream? This is bad comedy..."
"Megatron?! Is that you?"
"HERE'S A HINT!"

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!! :D
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By the way, the line is "It is the year 2005," not "The year is 2005." :make_fac:
 
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jaydubnb said:
Hey Hollywood screenwriters, new rule:

When setting a story in the future, make sure its so far ahead that the kids of the generation watching the flick will never make it to that date and be massively disappointed.

Nothings worse than watching old reruns of Buck Rogers and seeing in the opening sequence that the last of the manned deep space probes was launched in 1987.
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This is why my books {unpublished but almost complete} in a particular series all take place in An alternate present, with a mish mashing of actual past with my ficition Or, in other cases... the story should mearly be stated as being "IN THE NEAR FUTURE" with no actual date stated. That way the book is always in the near future from whatever year the person first picks it up, assuming that the technological marvels in the book haven't surpassed the descriptions.

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Mercenary X99 said:
This is why my books {unpublished but almost complete} in a particular series all take place in An alternate present, with a mish mashing of actual past with my ficition Or, in other cases... the story should mearly be stated as being "IN THE NEAR FUTURE" with no actual date stated. That way the book is always in the near future from whatever year the person first picks it up, assuming that the technological marvels in the book haven't surpassed the descriptions.

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Smart man. It keeps the timeless quality about the work. Rod Serling was great at doing that as well.
 
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fucking classic movie, too bad transformers jumped the shark after the movie came out.
 
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jaydubnb said:
Hey Hollywood screenwriters, new rule:

When setting a story in the future, make sure its so far ahead that the kids of the generation watching the flick will never make it to that date and be massively disappointed.

Nothings worse than watching old reruns of Buck Rogers and seeing in the opening sequence that the last of the manned deep space probes was launched in 1987.
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I concur. In the year 2030, I'd better be a fucking cyborg with only my brain and a cervical disc remaning and the rest automated. If you know what I mean, of course... :glee:
 
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:cool: I have the VHS & DVD which is my favorite
Transformers Movie. They had some new
Transformers series where Optimus Prime
came back as leader of the Autobots again. :cool:
He didn't really die after all which was such a
good thing too. :) The Movie had 2 Cyclonus's
which I think either they messed up or one
got destroyed?. The year is 2005 & Earth is
all jacked up. :kekeke: RC was a cool female
Autobot. :D ;) They had female Autobots from
Cybertron in the original series or after the movie?.
Their heads came off later after the movie. Unicron
tried to make Cybertron his new body but Starscream
trick him plus he stole eye's from Omegasurpream which
one broke & had to get another eye from another
giant robot. "My Eye's Where Are My Eye's!!!!!. :kekeke:
Unicron is my most favorite robot which I own
& Optimus Prime R9 series. Unicron is worth
about $50 & Optimus Prime is worth about $80
which my older brother bought me & he wants
to get a Megatron if they make one. Plus I have
a photo of myself when I was a kid with Megatron
on a black T-shirt. :D

I want the glass made Unicron which cost about $125. :eek:
 
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DashK said:
fucking classic movie, too bad transformers jumped the shark after the movie came out.
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Shit, Transformers jts during the movie. Annoying Junkions. Annoying new autobots. Everything after the first half's body count sucked ass.

When Prime returned to regulate, I soiled my knickers.
 
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jaydubnb said:
Shit, Transformers jts during the movie. Annoying Junkions. Annoying new autobots. Everything after the first half's body count sucked ass.

When Prime returned to regulate, I soiled my knickers.
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Yes but the one question that will forever burn in my mind is WHY? does Prime get offed with such a puny laser pistol in the hands of Megatron??? Sure they'd been dukin' it out, but he'd faced worse than that before in the series leading up to the movie, taking a full blast from Megatron's cannon, both of them going "Gladiator" with energon melee weapons {ball & chain w. spikes, a energon axe} and what not. I'm supposed to believe that Judd Nelson ... er... Hotrod just got in the way, and Megatron decimates Prime with a puny laser pistol. No fuckin' way!

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Another fact that kind of bothers me is, the Junkions can piece together Ultra Magnus in a matter of minutes but the same precision craftsmanship wasn't given to Prime.

Given alittle Turtle Wax goes along way, I guess.

Junkions should have their own infomercial with the knowledge of television they have. Stuff works wonders. :rolleyes:
 
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Optimus Prime was on a grave ship
when Hotrod found him which Hotrod
gave the Matrix back to Optimus Prime
but Hotrod got his ass kick by Optimus
Prime. Who are the judge robots with
the many faces names are because
they rebuilt Optimus Prime in the series
after the Transformers Movie. :kekeke: :cool:

Guilty of innocent, innocent, Ahhhhhhhhhh. :eek: :kekeke:
 
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Shawn Carr2o said:
Optimus Prime was on a grave ship
when Hotrod found him which Hotrod
gave the Matrix back to Optimus Prime
but Hotrod got his ass kick by Optimus
Prime. Who are the judge robots with
the many faces names are because
they rebuilt Optimus Prime in the series
after the Transformers Movie. :kekeke: :cool:

Guilty of innocent, innocent, Ahhhhhhhhhh. :eek: :kekeke:
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They were called the Quintessons. They were pretty awesome, actually.
 
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