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nerd with a bumblebee advanced screening
Easter Egg Smackdown I mean I've got a
slide a few resting references in
because come on guys John Cena but yeah
you heard that correctly
we had the esteemed privilege to catch a
one-day advance screening of the sixth
installment in the Transformers
franchise and being a film set in 1987
there's some gloriously nostalgic
references that make for some grade-a
Easter eggs well I guess we'd better
take a look what's going on guys and
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blockbuster film before you've even had
the chance to see it but there may be a
few Close Encounters so you've been duly
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kickin off number 10 the first Autobots
and the most reassuring part of
bumblebee is that it does a stand-up job
of staying true to its original source
material and what better way to do that
than by making sure that the whole
transforming part is true to its word if
you know anything about the original
Hasbro toy line you'll know that the
first 10 Autobots originally released in
the u.s. in 1984 were all automobiles
amongst them were our boys bumblebee
Wheeljack and Optimus Prime
sticking to their respective modes of
transformation transportation this was
before the days of sick switch and
hexadecimal and it was nice to see some
good old fashioned Autobots do what they
do best turning into motorised
automobiles and saving the world next up
at number 9 the first Decepticons and of
course it couldn't be true - the
Autobots without also being true to the
first Decepticons whereas the Autobots
had the motorized vehicle market covered
the Decepticons were a little bit more
devious in their transformations amongst
the original hasbro released in 1984 the
Decepticons were all strictly either
aircraft weapons and communication
equipment and while the film has that
whole sole nod covered with Blitzwing
shockwave and Soundwave part of the
generation 1 toy line release featured
Decepticons that turned into regular
household objects shockwave would turn
into a weird
Raygun and Soundwave would essentially
turned into a cassette tape player where
he interacted differently with varying
tapes of course these little guys make
an appearance although they're a little
bit more mobile shall we say coming in
at number 8 first ever triple changes
kinda and granted this perhaps isn't
technically the first time a transformer
has pulled off the coveted triple change
in the film continuity franchise but it
is the first time or we actively see in
action from start to finish
multiple times enter shatter and
dropkick bumblebees Decepticon enemies
voiced by Angela Bassett and Justin
Theroux respectively who are sent to
earth to blow our favourite VW Beetle to
smithereens and also have the
overpowered advantage of taking to both
land and air in one seamless fashion
chateaux takes on the form of both a
Plymouth Satellite and a Harrier Jump
Jet and dropkick takes on the form of an
AMC Javelin and a bell ah-1 supercobra
attack helicopter stylish and deadly
just how the Decepticons like it next up
at number 7
mr. t cereal of course it wouldn't be an
80s nostalgia throwback without
everyone's two favorite commodities
cereal and mr. t it just couldn't be an
80s themed movie without the main man ba
Baracus rearing his head on a breakfast
cereal box to set the scene granted it's
a pretty throwaway moment but when the
movies league girl Charlie Watson played
by the rising star Hailee Steinfeld
skips into her kitchen to grab the most
important meal of the day her first
choice is Quakers mr. t crispy sweet
corn and oats cereal fortified with B
vitamins and iron he pays the fool that
skips breakfast swingin in at number 6
take me to your leader it's a pretty
hotly debated topic as to where the
phrase take me to your leader actually
first came about some believed it to
have originated in a 1953 cartoon by
Alex Graham in the New Yorker magazine
where two aliens are standing in a field
asking a horse to kindly take us to your
president well since then it's been the
tagline for any and every
extraterrestrial being that's found
themselves on planet earth trying to get
someone to claim responsibility for the
rest of us
the film's two Decepticons are no
exception and after they hurtled down
through the atmosphere hunting for
bumblebee they stumble upon a perplexed
looking US military they didn't forget
their manners though and instead of
shoot first ask questions later
they utter the iconic five word phrase
yeah it's kind of corny but it's also
great next up at number five
Cliffjumper yeah we kind of hammered the
point home that the bumblebee movie
tries its damnedest to stick closely to
the first generation source material and
so of course it has to feature bumblebee
spiritual other half in an emotionally
charged scene Enter Cliffjumper the
impulsive and often reckless
autobot version of scrappy-doo although
only briefly in a scene where dropkick
and Shatter are interrogating
Cliffjumper to find out bumblebees
location
he sends his reckless buddy an audio
transmission of none other than the
intro theme to the popular 1980s sitcom
Cheers
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so it's kind of a double whammy of a
reference it's also awesome to see
Clifton for making appearance in the
bumblebee movie as his character was
famously associated with just being a
red repaint of the classic Hasbro
bumblebee toys always second best buddy
coming in at number four the eighties
soundtrack you don't get to be a prequel
set in 1987 unless you've got the
soundtrack to back it up and I'm happy
to reveal that a bumblebee goes the
distance and then just keeps going and
going it's no closely guarded secret
that bumblebee lost the ability to speak
after a great Autobot bowel and his main
directive other than just being a great
guy is to one day get his voice back
while this comes in as a minor plot
point throughout the events of the movie
but also features as the perfect way to
subtly slide in a stellar 80s soundtrack
when Charlie Watson replaces bumblebees
damaged voice box with the transistor
radio he delivers a has take on me
perhaps a little too much being at a
point also when things get a little sad
he plays the Smiths because you know the
Smiths are better enjoyed with a little
sadness swinging in that number three et
and of course BAPS we are hammering home
the point a little too much but you
can't make an 80s nostalgia movie
without referencing arguably the most
iconic 80s movie of all time Steven
Spielberg's et the extra-terrestrial and
essentially they're kind of the same
film weird alien crash lands on planet
Earth
young earthling finds them tries to hide
them in their house calamity ensues it's
kind of very obvious reference but when
Charlie heads out to work bumblebee is
left alone in the garage and what plays
out is an awkwardly disastrous but
awesome reference to Elliot and ET after
following a dog into Charlie's house he
smashes the place up a bit opens the
fridge and helps himself to a can of tab
yeah the holy grail of the 1980s next up
number 2 Breakfast Club and I may have
told a miss truth in that last point
because et is tied as the most iconic
80s film of all time because how could
we forget John Hughes is 1985 Teen Titan
of a comedy drama The Breakfast Club Wow
good news because bumblebee didn't
forget again it's corny as hell but come
on corny in 1987 go hand in
at the end of the final battle between
bumblebee and his buddies versus the
overpowered Decepticons everyone has
changed and learned something for the
better albeit a little more harrowing
than just a Saturday afternoon in
detention
well when John Cena salutes the cute
yellow Volkswagen bumblebee replies with
no other than the same iconic fist
thrust in the air that Judd Nelson's
John bender made famous in the hearts of
rebellious teams across the planet don't
you forget about me and finally number
one spot who's that truck to be honest
if you've got this far without being
shocked and awed by mildly infuriating
spoilers then I'll think you'll be
content with kind of knowing how this
film ends to be honest no one really
watches transformers 4 it's jaw-dropping
character reveals do they we just want
to see giant robots beat each other up
then turn into an attack helicopter and
fly off into the sunset it's simplistic
but it's also strangely beautiful and I
for one wouldn't want it any other way
well throughout the events of bumblebee
we see a few glimpses of the main man
Optimus Prime doing his business back on
Cybertron and we already know in advance
that bumblebee heralds the arrival of
the Autobots on earth so after the
film's climactic ending bumblebee scans
himself a yellow and black Camaro
upgrading from his Volkswagen much to
Charlie Watson's dismay and then he
drives out across the Golden Gate Bridge
before slowing down in traffic and
pulling up for sewing a vaguely familiar
semi-truck who's that truck well of
course it's Optimus Prime
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