BOT023

BOT023, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

Travel centre, St Enoch Square, Glasgow.

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BOT025

BOT025, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

Off Queen Street, Glasgow. I can't remember exactly where, it may come back to me when I put it on a map.

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JOE021

JOE021, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

Left somewhere in Strathclyde student union.

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BOT026

BOT026, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

Killington Lake services, Cumbria

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A Transformer reviews Transformers

A Transformer reviews Transformers, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

It seemed obvious to take a bot-crossing Transformer to see the Transformers movie. This is BOT016, who was subsequently left in the cinema atop the movie's poster. He liked the show.

Michael Bay made the better than expected The Island and the awful Pearl Harbour (to be fair, the sequence that covers the attack on Pearl Harbour is excellent and deserves to be rescued from the dire love story framing it and edited into the superior Tora! Tora! Tora!) so I didn't know what to expect.

What I got was a no nonsense adventure story that moved fast enough to keep me thinking too much about plot holes. It provided a few laughs as well, which is always good. The special effects were stunning, as you'd expect, making this another on of those films where I'd buy the DVD for the special features on the cgi.

A few observations-

Nice family dynamics in the Witwicky clan. It made a change to see a functionally eccentric clan rather than the usual miserably dysfunctional kind.

Was the pilot/driver of all the Decepticon vehicles the same person? And couldn't they have got a hologram without a pornstar moustache?

I believe the original Bumblebee was a Beetle, which makes the car lot scene an inside joke.

Sector Seven were annoying, but I did like the logo.

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BOT021

BOT021, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

This brave robot nestled without fear in the lion's mouth.

By the main entrance to the Trafford Centre.

BOT024

BOT024
Originally uploaded by spinneyhead

Guarding the gate to Didsbury Methodist Church.

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BOT022

BOT022
Originally uploaded by spinneyhead

A transformer on a transformer, what could be more apt. (Actually, I had a look around afterwards and I think this is actually some sort of gas main. Oh well.)

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BOT016

BOT016
Originally uploaded by spinneyhead

BOT016 liked the film so much he took up station atop the poster and vowed never to come down.

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JOE007

JOE007
Originally uploaded by spinneyhead

Left near the Market Hall in Bolton.

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