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Just watched transformers (2007 movie, not the cartoon movie in 90s), Malaysians were lucky to have the opportunity to watch it 3 days ahead of people in other parts of the world, even US citizens have to hold their nerve.

I am happy to say the movie is not disappointing, the robot design is truly AMAZING !! The fun part is to watch each character appeared throughout the movie one by one. When BLACKOUT first came out after 10 min into the movie, the feeling is breathtaking! Finally after so many years, someone had finally able to realize the idea of transformation from animated series to big screen, salute!

However there are a few things that could have made the movie experience better. First, the movie pace is too fast, typical Michael Bay’s style, somehow I not really into Michael Bay style, cant argue about the explosions and action scene he presented, but when come to simple storyline and the smoothness of the flow, I think that he is not good at. At times, making the movie flow hard to swallow. Something like when you are reading a book, before you fully understand page 2, you are suddenly at page 10.

Second thing, the transformers too hard to differentiate. The flaw is the coloring, especially for decepticons. Other than starscream and megatron, I cant differentiate the rest when they are moving in fast pace…..because they all have the same kind of color category. It is a bit easier on the autobots end due to the bright color that makes it easier to distinguish one from another.

Third thing, the fun thing about transformers is the transformation process. If you notice in Japanese animated series, why transformers were hot is because when they transform, they transform slowly and so you can follow it and understand the logic. In the movie, they transform like in 1 or 3 seconds, yeah…it is cool, but I dont enjoy it, because it is too fast…….In animated series, normally they will try to slow it down to like 7 to 10 seconds so you enjoy the transformation phase.

The good part, a lot of military technology showcased in the film and Optimus Prime is ORIGINAL! Ironhide and Ratchet rocks! Bumblebee, I love it! Starscream & Megatron not as bad as it looks. Blackout, Barricade, Brawl (Devastator), Scorponok simply leaves you drooling by the end of the movie.  Jazz a little bit disappointing, perished after being torn apart by Meg. Bonecrusher head got unplugged by Prime, just appeared in the movie for 5 min.

Still this is a good transformers movie, i think there is no way another movie can get as close as this one, it will definitely bring back the good memory so guys and fan boys, relish the moment, you gonna love it!

These few days had been the toughest and frustrated one indeed, I didnt realize the transformer toys launch was actually scheduled during school holiday season and public holiday, damn I was pissed off with so many people….I mean I didnt realize that they were so many collectors out there scrambling for the few pieces of transformers. You can count the number still available as minutes go by, I stood by one store in One Utama and I can see Optimus prime figure went from 5 to 1 in just like 10 minutes. After Prime is gone, then followed by the good figures, Blackout top on the list, followed by Barricade…..by the end of the battle which is Monday 5 pm, I think you can hardly find anymore good figures in KL & Penang major departmental store. What left are those sorry figures like swindle (not even in the movie), bonecrusher (second ugliest in the movie) …damn even scorponok is gone (the ugliest), I think people just dont care about the look anymore, it has been an epidemic, you just want to grab some figures on your hand. After these tiring 3 days, I managed to get most of the figures but I missed out on Blackout…..I actually saw that figure in front of me, but I just missed it….dont ask me why, now you can hardly find it anywhere. Blackout is rated 5/5 from most of the reviewers, I thought I could get it like 1-week later after the dust had settled, but looks like the dust settled in 3-days and Blackout has gone.

This is crazy, still I had managed to get some real good figures especially from robot heroes, those were cute G1 non-transformable figures meant for display purpose. I found 1 which is hard to get, Megatron + Ultra Magnus, luckily I didnt have second thought when I grabbed this one.

I have Prime, Barricade from Penang (location undisclosed ..hehe), Brawl, Bumblebee, Ironhide (from Toy R us midvalley), Starscream, Ratchet, Jazz from 1 Utama KL. What I am missing now is Blackout, I trying to skip Megatron, Scorponok, Bonecrusher if possible coz these figures are ugly, unless I have extra $$$ to spare or I want to do business, can do real good business with Megatron. 

These few days are indeed tiring, nothing comparable to few weeks ago when I was searching for G1 Ultra Magnus Titanium (you can hardly find this, trust me) on web, manage to buy it from a cool ebay seller in Malaysia. My luck.

Hope that I will be lucky enough to find Blackout.

By the way, the movie aint starting July 4th in Malaysia, it is earlier. Take a guess when? do you homework! :P   I hate people and queue….shue! shue!