Transformers: The Movie Guide

Transformer the movie guide is a must have for all Transformer movie fans. What this book has that many other lack is clear photography/pictures of you favorite movie characters. Being a model builder and wanting to build a accurate replica of a transformers I found very little reference out there besides this book to help me. There is a good amount of writen information to go with each picture allowing one to find out much about there favorite character.

The guide has lot of high quality pictures of most of the robots in the movie, the notable missing characters for me are Starscream and Ironhide... The fact boxes on the character's robot and vehicle modes are a bit boring, though. Its like they drew a line to a random part on the vehicle and decided "let's say THIS is a sensor... And THIS... Is an... um.... Deflector thingamajiggie..." It's kind of random, but it adds to the amusement for myself. There are pages that compare power levels and tell you how fast the robots can go in vehicular form, and how many tons they can pull. Just... stuff that might help if you write fanfiction or mean something if you're a dedicated fan. Otherwise I wouldn't have bought it.

This book tells you about the autobot and decepticon characters in their vehicle and robot modes and has some nice pictures of them. It also has a cool cover that when you tilt the book it changes from the autobot symbol to Optimus Prime's head. When I bought this book I thought it was going to be a more behind the scenes type of book like how they did the special effects and show concept drawings, but it basically about the robot characters. The odd thing about this book is it's missing one autobot character(Iron Hide) and three decepticon characters(Starscream, Bonecrusher, and Brawl/Devastator) that are in the movie. Other than that it's a great book to add to you collection.

Just picked this one up, and I have to say that it's pretty cool. The visuals are pretty much what all of the fans would want. Character bios of all of the featured Autobots and Decepticons. Showing all kinds of poses with a white backdrop which allows the viewer to actually see all of the detail in these guys. The one downfall to this book is that with these pics, there is little lines that point to some of the parts on the bodies of the transformer stating what the part is. Obviously there is really nothing to be learned from that. Some guy just sat there looking at the pics and said, "This would be his dual reflector thingamajiggy". I thought that was pretty lame, but I guess it keeps some kids or super dorks' imagination going. All in all, a real cool visual book. Definately worth checking out, but don't expect super high level reading though.