Ranking Every Transformers Movie Live Action Design From Worst To Best 

No I didn't forget Nitro Zeus I added him when I talked about the KSI bots in AOE. Some of the designs used represent the same design even if minor things are tweaked comparerd to the CGI designs.

Fun fact: the flame design on Optimus were done out of practicality, as red is apparently tricky on camera, so instead Bay used a blue truck and made the flames so Prime's robot mode would still have red on the chest (the issue filming red cars also being why Ironhide was made black instead of red)

The Bayverse designs are very hit or miss, but in my opinion, I think Megatron’s design in TLK is super underrated. I liked how they gave him a mouth cover similar to Optimus and his sword is raw as fuck.

Jazz’s design doesn’t get nearly enough credit for how good it is. It’s recognizable and actually fits his character better than his G1 design.

Soundwave being a surveillance satellites is a 10/10 design. His personality in that movie was way more accurate too

Is this what my life has come to, watching Transformer design rankings at 5am.

6:14 "They didn't have to make him an actual scorpion" Scorponok was always a scorpion tho

The Bayfilms Robots get a bad rap. While I'm a sucker for G1 accuracy, the designs for the 1st movie are All Around really stellar. Especially since you can tell who each robot is in a Given scene😅 lol I mean my abuela could tell which one Optimus Prime was supposed to be, and thats gotta count for somethin! AOE on the other hand.....

I think having Devastator being a hulking monster rather than just.. a larger robot? Is cool.

The designs from 4 and 5 looked way too human in the proportions and smooth-ness. You can barely see any car parts in them. IMO it robbed them of the appeal of Transformers and just made them look like colorful plain robots.

The movie Galvatron is one of the worst offenders for me from the Bay movies. I can’t believe how… uncreative it is. I don’t even care if he isn’t purple… he just… doesn’t look like anything. That design could have been used as a generic foot soldier and nobody would notice

I find it interesting that they took Sideswipe’s piledrivers and made them into blades for the live action version. Whether that was a misinterpretation of the design or if it was an intentional homage I like it.

4:03 wasn't ratchet a custom H2 Hummer Ambulance tho not a firetruck? also most of the pngs of movie bots are not the ones seen in the movie, not really a problem just pointing it out

the shock wave design is so good, he just need's color, but then again 90% of the cons need color instead of just sliver

I was looking at 07 Megatrons design and noticed he takes designs elements from previous Megatrons, chest from Armada, helmet had the Armada side panels and bw forehead crest and overall silhouette from G1, shoulders and arms from Rid, legs from Cybertron all with a coat of silver from G1

Personally, I think all of the Autobot designs in AOE are the best out of the Bay movies because they remind me of different eras/forms of combat. Prime is a knight, Bumblebee is a ninja/martial artist, Drift is a samurai, Crosshairs is a WWI soldier/paratrooper, Hound is a WWII/present day soldier, and the Dinobots are barbarians.

Actually, you know the only reason we have the iconic flames is because in 2007 when they designed prime, red was really hard to look good on film if there was a lot. That's also why there was concept art of him being all blue

Transformers fans: "The movie designs are lazy, and keep getting reaused." Also Transformers Fans when a new Sideswipe, Prowl, or Starscream toy comes out: "I'll buy all the repaints!"

I feel like Dispensor could have been pumped up one because…he became weirdly popular for no reason, he got a pretty fun stealth game and later got an AOE toy…For no reason

Credit where credit is due. The bayverse gave us some very iconic designs to the point where characters nowadays take inspiration from here. (Such as barricade and ironhide) and I LOVE that the live action finally broke away from just re-using the same design with ratchet and ironhide. And I hope more series or lines will break away from just using the same mold such as Starscream and Thundercracker in Cybertron. I will always give credit to the designers and the concept artists for these movies. And THATS IT!

I absolutely love the dreads designs. They just look so cool to me and I really love them. Also I don't understand why people say "OoOoh the designs of the Michael bay movies are so lazy!!" When in g1 we have 3 characters using the same designs. Also have bumblebees and cliffjumoer. We have ironhide and ratchet using completely the same body. I may be bias because I grew up with flame optimus prime. DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON 15 SEEKERS USING THE SAME BODY. I mean I actually really like the seekers but Jesus Christ it's kind of hypocritical to hate on Michael bay designs for reusing bodies.

I think Starscream’s design is genius. In art an inverted triangle is a shorthand for the male figure, broad shoulders tapering at the waist. It’s meant to show strength, but having it all supported by chicken legs actually shows his character perfectly. All talk with a shaky foundation. He was deadly in the first film though. I love that design so much and his sound effects were perfect. I dislike the tattoos however

Bumblebee movie designs are amazing but i also really like bayformer designs.

I like the live action designs because I grew up with Optimus with flames, but I understand why older fans wouldn't like the designs

Yesss!! Now we need a rating tier for Michael Bay’s best explosive scenes 😆🔥

29:18 I wanted to say "Jetfire's father", but then I remembered that Jetfire's father was a wheel that didn't transform.

Absolutely seething at Dispensor’s placement

I think I like brawl the most in the first movie. He kept taking critical hits and just kept going. Even when it was clear he was far to damaged to even flee battle if he wanted to, he was still incurring human casualties. Kinda wish that’s how all the transformers worked. I liked it when brawl, a background decepticon, took a lot of hits to take down cuz he’s a giant war machine that takes a lot of damage to kill. I hated it when all the background decepticons in the sequels could basically be taken down with a handgun they were so weak.

Do a tier list on the transformers prime designs!

Optimus’ TF2 modes were the best! Jet power Optimus was soooo badass, but I absolutely loved Jolt & Ironhide!

In case you didn’t know The Fallen actually has a mini decepticon logo on his face, or at least something similar to it

"The knights didn't have a whole lot of design behind them" *literally covered in small details* It is funny when he says they didn't give much thought even though most bots are just covered head to toe in small details and do have unique designs like the knights

S tier: ironhide and bumblebee A tier: drift F tier: “wheeljack”

My only problem with bayformera in general is the lack of respect for the property

5:48 I’m gonna tell you right now, there was NOTHING as impactful and “thrilling” to me as a kid than the scene with the soldiers and blackout. Idk why but that bit of tension and then all out action was just something else!

Watched a lot of G1 and unicron trilogy before the first movie but I’m still biased to the designs from movie 1-3. Bumblebee redesigned them to look more like the original but idk, I don’t hate them though.

I think grimlocks design was a masterpiece. I loved seeing the T Rex heads on his shoulders and that badass mace. His Dinobot design was great, I loved the devilish T Rex look of him. Plus that fire breath was *chefs kiss*

I prefer Ironhide being in a black color scheme. Like I like the Diaclone version way better because of its red accents with mainly black color scheme. Also iron is naturally black in color so that’s also a thing

Infernocus is definitely one of the reasons I want a Transformers meets DOOM and one of the reasons I named myself DOOMSLAYER PRIME as well even some of the Decepticons Desins in general definitely made my this of certain Demons from the Game and Optimus definitely gave me DOOMSLAYER vibes towards the sequels he definitely was one of the few versions of Optimus that pretty much said I'm done giving cons a second chance Give me your face pretty much the DOOMSLAYER when he decapitated the Cyberdemon

I just wish the bayformers had cleaner heads, the Bumblebee movie showed that they could have have smooth faces that don't look like a bunch of knives.

I vastly prefer almost all the G1 designs to... anything else, but the 2007 movie actually made all of the characters distinct. Especially Optimus. I know his model didn't change much in the trilogy, but he just looks perfect in that first film.

I absolutely LOVE how Sideswipe rolls around on his wheels. I also love Bumblebee's classic Camaro that's mostly black from the beginning of AOE.

29:39 *AHEM* Lieutenant was one of the many elderly Transformers under the care of Edmund Burton and Cogman. When the TRF and MI6 stormed their castle, Lieutenant stepped up to defend the castle, but was undone by his own age, shutting down before he could make a stand.

If you watch the forest battle in Revenge of the Fallen, they can see grinder switching body designs, for example like seeing his shoulders and top-half are changing in a certain scene

When I first saw the movie design for the Fallen, my thought was “A new threat comes to the island of Mata Nui. Can the Toa succeed? Find out in the new Bionicle range”

Barricade and blackout are still my favorite decepticons in the original transformer movies. The first movie introduced me to transformers so I have so much nostalgia. Also comodin cam I love these tier lists and appreciate your hard work. Hope you have a great Christmas.

Soundwave was originally gonna go to Earth and transcan a Black Chevy Silverado in ROTF, but was scrapped for whatever reason Also, Blackout was originally going to be named "Vortex" in movie 1, which would've given us two of five Combaticons along with Brawl. And sense we saw Onslaught in TLK, that would've given us three Combaticons

Welp, we all knew this was coming, also not first.

Daytrader was originally supposed to be called Wreck-Garr and I've seen it online and on videos of the characters in the movie.

The thing the life action movies got going for me is nostalgia since I was first introduced to Transformers in general through the movies. I don't really mind the life action designs since that's how I got to know them yk but I can definitely understand the criticism.

I like how OP resembles G2 more than G1

i heavily disagree with blitzwing being on winged it, i get that it doesn't look like blitzwing and it could've been almost any seeker or a new one just for the sake of killing it, but the design itself is beautiful with the only bad thing of it being sharing the name

Buggin on the megatron for last knight!!!! that's literally the best design we had for him in live action so far.......

You definitely should've added a "enemy scrotum" tier, either last or next to last.

While I love the Bayformers a part of me hates that some of them are completely different from the originals

37:40 Because that was originally suppose to be Starscream, but they changed their mind at the end of the production.

Alice was her "alt mode", the human disguise, the Decepticon was actually called Pretender. And it comes to me now, that Quintessa did the same trick at the end of TLK.

I love, Barricade, Bone Crusher 1st Optimus Prime, Iron hide, Black Out, Mixmaster, Longhaul and Desert Megs the best from the bay films. The SS figures do not disappoint

If I push aside the early problems with the overall character style, most of the designs are actually really good. Dont get me wrong I have *a lot* of problems with the designs of the first 5 movies and even with those in the Bumblebee movie. But I do appreciate that they tried to give character their own unique flare. The ones from the 07 movie were probably my favorites. Even the Cons had each a unique body shape and a ever so slight yet important change of color. They managed to bring the alien force of nature aesthetic across without turning them into grey blobs of amorphous metal.

I don’t care what anyone says, but I love the twins, they were hilarious and I loved it.

Awesome video. The movies are so nostalgic for me. Correct me of I’m wrong though but I don’t think starscream had the tattoos In the first movie

Isn’t there this funny joke that cliffjumper keeps dying in movies,games and tv shows?

I'm glad you included Warpath, Breakaway and Evac too.

My fav design that didnt appear in the movies has to be cybertron OP I rlly like that design and the alt mode too which is basically his Wfc (game =) design with a trailer slapped to it which I will admit it will look clumsy if in the movie but, its a great concept nonetheless

the one-eyed ravage is actually my favourite design from the entire RotF movie. i was obsessed with that design as a kid. it's just menacing, creepy, and satisfying to see. (i also wish Evac's design was used for Mirage instead)

I love the scene with Frenzy on Air Force 1

Bay: Here are the designs my artists came up with for ROTF. Hasbro: You do realize we have to make _toys_ of these, right?

24:45 Shockwave finally decided to do something about his mono eye!

Some of the Bay designs are not bad, Heck, some made improvements to the G1 designs. Like Bumblebee. His g1 head sculpt sucks. And his designs is the main inspiration for Bumblebee's designs in his film.

personally I quite like the more alien designs, I always found them more interesting and original than the G1 designs, that said I grew up with them so whatever

Ah an another amazing tier list video!!

These videos are my favourites from your channel

I agree with you on the AOE and TLK designs. Not enough kibble. If the movies weren't titled "Transformers", then I would not think that they would transform.

Honestly, I really like Bumblebee's AoE design.

Great video. I had some disagreements but hey this is your video, I've just never been a fan of a lot of the movie designs but a few. Can't wait to see what's next!!

Bro, I can’t believe you put that stealth robot from TF2 as “Blow it up!” That scene when it was so skinny it couldn’t be seen completely blew my mind

They could've worked more on the first design of Megatron

I think you absolutely DON'T have to adhere to the g1 designs. I think most of the designs are good, but some are kinda... weird. Like Hightower for example. But I still don't hate it. And I love Devy personally. He is an alien. It makes sense that he's huge and ugly. He's a fucking giant alien composed of 9 different aliens. And idk I think he just looks really cool. Yeah he could do without the enemy scrotum, but that was just bay's not so funny sense of humor. The bayverse is it's own continuity separate from g1, just like all the other continuities. It doesn't really matter to me if the designs of the transformers harken back to g1. Franchises need to do things different if they want to survive. Imo, the g1 designs are good but they like far too human to me. But every transforming robot looked like that back in the 80s so give it a pass.

I love how you can hear Cam slowly getting more depressed as the video goes on😂

special effects directors: So Bay, how much explosions do you want? Bay: Y e s

As a huge transformers fan, I absolutely LOVE a majority of Moviesverse designs, because I am someone who is a big fan of flashy, realistic, different and well details designs, specifically the Transformers. My favorite ones are the movie trilogy Optimus Prime with his trailer jet wing, Bumblebee's 1977, 2007, DOTM, High octane and TLK designs, both of Ratchet designs, ironhide, starscream, DOTH Megatron, jazz, Blackout, barricade, Brawl, 2007 Arcee concept art, sideswipe, the dreads, the wreckers, and lockdown. I am not the biggest fan of Generation 1 live action designs, even though I like them, I much prefer Michael Bay's Transformers Movie designs than the Bumblebee movie designs in my opinion.

I've always loved Bonecrusher's design ever since I saw him as a kid.

can't wait to binge this video

Blackout, Brawl, and Bonecrusher are my absolute favorite in design and unique formality

Transformers designs from the Bumblebee movie are easily the best because they look like how their characters look and the including of colors on to them to tell the difference.

G-wuners: AAAAAA OPTIMUS SHOULD NOT HAVE FLAAAAAMES AND SHOULD BE A FLAT NOOOOSE Me: It's based on Laser Prime from G2 you kn-- G-wuners: I'mma pretend I didn't see that

You are truly a transformers fan, I virtually agreed with all of your picks.

The whole attack on the U.S. base scene with Blackout was EPIC. I never thought they could make such an epic scene in a Michael Bay movie.

I want a G1 live action movie. Either that, or use the G1 designs in a remake live action series. I need to see those designs in a realistic light. Bumblebee is not enough

I agree with like 90% of the stuff in this video, for me Ironhide, Mirage, rotf Bumblebee, Roadbuster, and Ratchet are my favourites

Telling ya man.. The opening scene to TF1 with Blackout destroying a base and trying to find info on the Allspark and Megatron.. just perfect, perfect way to open a brand new movie for a long franchise People instantly got the message and honestly, when a giant robot with a militaristic alt mode comes to literally wipe out a military base, the extreme amount of explosions made sense.

The green on crosshairs is chef's kiss

I wish there were the gen 1 designs along side the movie design in the video so I can compare the looks of the gen 1 designs with movie ones for ones that I don't know

IMO every bumblebee movie design Is PERFECT

I generally like special designs, but you can't design a Cybertronian just like a big metal human.

Awesome vid fr

The stupidest part of Last Knight was that Megatrons team of Decepticons were killed so early in the film. I mean seriously Mowhawk, Dread Bot, and Onslaught were killed instantly leaving only Nitro Zeus alive. It’s sad and I hate it as much as I hate film. Nitro Zeus is ok though, he seems like a cool guy u could chill with and blast cars with.

For me my favourite Transformers designs from the Micheal Bay movies are the Optimus Prime and Bumblebee designs from the first three movies, Revenge Of The Fallen Megatron, Blackout, Barricade from the 2007 movie and The Last Knight movie, Starscream, Brawl, Bonecrusher, Sideswipe, Dino/Mirage, Sideways, Sentinel Prime, Dark Of The Moon Shockwave, Dark Of The Moon, The Wreckers, Drift, Crosshairs, Evasion Mode Optimus Prime, Longhaul, Scrapper, Rampage, Demolisher/Scavenger, Overload, High Octane Bumblebee, The Fallen, Devastator, Grimlock, Scorn, Galvatron, Lockdown, Ravage and The Last Knight Megatron design. All of these Transformers designs from the Micheal Bay movies are some of my favourite Transformers designs and always had a special place in my heart especially Optimus Prime design from 2007 movie to Dark Of The Moon. The other Transformers designs from the Bayformer movies are just me to complete ugly or just downright awful especially the Kitchenbots and The Twins. The Transformers design from Age Of Exinction and The Last Knight movie start to look more humanoid and only 3 or 5 Transformers design that I acually like such as The Last Knight Megatron and Barricade, Drift, Crosshairs, Lockdown, Evasion Mode Optimus Prime, and Hight Octane Bumblebee. The Micheal Bay Transformers design always have a hit or miss for me because there are some I love and looks awesome on screen and there are some that looks interesting or not my taste. But The Bumblebee movie designs are all fantastic especially Optimus Prime and Soundwave.

Fun fact: trench died saving hound off screen when the deceptions came…also he mightve been a constructicon who crawled away and lived after getting hid legs cut off by prime

I hate how Canopy was in pretty much every trailer and he dies in like 13 minutes.