I saw it too,and it was very cool! Tho this is pretty much not an untold story, since several story arcs, lore elements of TF One were taken feom several already exsisting TF continuities. XD Like Megatron's D-16 low class miner origin came from the IDW comics/Aligned continuity/TFP, just like the 'class/caste' system. Orion, D-16/Megatron being sworn brothers/best friends working together to topple a false prime(Sentinel who was a Prime without posssing the Matrix and was esentially the puppet of the Senate), and his opressive, corrupt government was taken from the Aligned continuity too, just like Starscream's TF One's backstory (Megatron taking Starscream's men after beating him to scrap happened in the War for Cybertron games). G1 also influenced this film in pretty significant ways, like cogless bots unable to transform during the Quintesson rule, the Quintessons, Orion being a low class manual labourer (he was a dock worker in the G 1 series), Megatron killing Orion before he was rebuilt as Optimus Prime to house the Matrix, Optimus's energy axe at the end fight etc. Sentinel is reminiscent of TFA's interpretation of the character (blue/gold, big chin, narcissistic asshole) and he had a very similar weapon Sentinel used in the Baymovies. :) Orion being a history nerd, spending his time in the Archives is a clever nod to TFP, just like the music (TF One, and TFP has the same composer, and he put elements/musical themes from TFP into this movie) And these examples are just a few of the ton of inspiration they took. If you loved TF One, you should give a chance to Transformers Prime as well. It is an animated series, but TF One took a lots of lore inspiration from that one. iT is Dark, mature, and very well written (tho season 1 has some pretty weak episodes, but season 2, and 3 are fantastic)
I saw it too,and it was very cool!
Tho this is pretty much not an untold story, since several story arcs, lore elements of TF One were taken feom several already exsisting TF continuities. XD
Like Megatron's D-16 low class miner origin came from the IDW comics/Aligned continuity/TFP, just like the 'class/caste' system. Orion, D-16/Megatron being sworn brothers/best friends working together to topple a false prime(Sentinel who was a Prime without posssing the Matrix and was esentially the puppet of the Senate), and his opressive, corrupt government was taken from the Aligned continuity too, just like Starscream's TF One's backstory (Megatron taking Starscream's men after beating him to scrap happened in the War for Cybertron games). G1 also influenced this film in pretty significant ways, like cogless bots unable to transform during the Quintesson rule, the Quintessons, Orion being a low class manual labourer (he was a dock worker in the G 1 series), Megatron killing Orion before he was rebuilt as Optimus Prime to house the Matrix, Optimus's energy axe at the end fight etc. Sentinel is reminiscent of TFA's interpretation of the character (blue/gold, big chin, narcissistic asshole) and he had a very similar weapon Sentinel used in the Baymovies. :) Orion being a history nerd, spending his time in the Archives is a clever nod to TFP, just like the music (TF One, and TFP has the same composer, and he put elements/musical themes from TFP into this movie)
And these examples are just a few of the ton of inspiration they took.
If you loved TF One, you should give a chance to Transformers Prime as well. It is an animated series, but TF One took a lots of lore inspiration from that one. iT is Dark, mature, and very well written (tho season 1 has some pretty weak episodes, but season 2, and 3 are fantastic)
1 of my UTD classmates named Richard brought this movie up.
Not the best Transformers film, but it is entertaining enough despite a few issues. Saw this with The Substance and His Three Daughters last week.