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what's up reactor eyes I'm John I'm here

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with Frank and Peter and you guys have

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done iconic roles especially for you

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know Optimus Prime and Megatron so doing

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doing the movie rows I just want to ask

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like if there's a difference between the

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animation and the film's animation and

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film well going back a long time in 84

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1984 g1 for all ug ones small little TV

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box little cartoon and faded colors

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watch transform

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Megatron sounded like I am Megatron g1

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you'll never accomplish it

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I got Ron that little box and then of

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course you know the movie company comes

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along and Michael Bay said to me said

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Peter you're gonna be 45 feet tall that

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mean you know so we were in an airplane

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hangar dump in Long Beach in their plane

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hangar and they have a picture of

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Optimus Prime on top of a crane so all

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the actors could relate to to where the

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voice was coming from 45 feet tall and

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at first you know I want to know you

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know can you make it bigger can you make

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it bigger because the character is very

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big I said well he's gonna sound pretty

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much the way he sounded and I thought

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about it you know I saw this mock-up

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no what no it's gotta be it has to be

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lower it has to be lower not to be

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deeper instead of all the yelling we did

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in g1 you know

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no it's Autobots transform you know a

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little deeper yeah yeah yeah the the

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amazing leap of 30 years you know the

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technology you know and and we had such

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a great rabid fan base for g1

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as you mentioned yourself you know it

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was really really really good I think

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for for its time the stories and the fun

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but the transition now to the blu-ray to

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the colors the the sounds in what

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Michael Bay does with the you know with

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the pyrotechnics obviously and the

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places that you get to visit you know

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you're so limited on that g1 screen even

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though we went well we went to Torrance

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we went to Reseda

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but I mean you know now you you're going

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with the knights of the round table and

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I mean so many adventures and Cybertron

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really looks interesting and the just

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the technology alone makes it just the

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the power just goes war vivid vivid yeah

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yeah and the same thing with Peter when

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he was saying you know to get this voice

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for the character Megatron has changed

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so much from the g1 voice now being the

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size that he is also had to sort of

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equal the size of Optimus Prime so my g1

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voice now began to have to transform

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into more of a larger voice Megatron

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if you notice that when Peter did his

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Optimus Prime

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it was so much deeper but he wasn't much

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louder and if you do that voice and you

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move in on a microphone if you watch him

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work he can just make the ceilings drop

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sawdust and it's not really screaming or

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yelling he's just doing this very deep

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voice and it's the same thing with sound

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Soundwave no I'm glad you well I do want

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to talk about myself

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to the king I call him the king please

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thank you very much so that was very

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sweet but it enters its true

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in technique and then Soundwave if you

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come up on the microphone and you do

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this I remember this I'm telling you the

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story because of Michael's my first

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working with Michael and Soundwave this

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is okay Frank let's hear your sound wave

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and we're just doing it in the office on

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a I don't know what you call that but it

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was a little silver machine with

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beautiful microphones but not a huge

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studio so when you hear it bear I will

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report back Megatron nothing but if you

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move in on that mic so I remember

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Michael saying okay okay guys what are

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you thinking they were going because

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it's just a weird thing that you can do

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with your voice to make it translate so

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you don't always have to yell and scream

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really loud to get those subtle moves he

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knows how to make Mike work no he has

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how to make it he knows how to work a

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mic and for his voice in superior you

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know did you try to add that or are you

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trying to have a new take actually you

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mean the dialogue or they're just like

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the way he always sounds actually the

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sound that we did in g1 they used some

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kind of vocal cord or vocal cord but

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something but they used a you know a

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mechanical technique oh that's a

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breathalyser vote voice quarter voice

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cooter yes cool but combining those two

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the that's how we did that but no I

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think for Soundwave in the feature it

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was pretty much bare but with maybe just

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a little bit of extra sound thrown into

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it but still

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and you're into that microphone I got

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one more question I'm sorry I'd like to

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tell you about Frank Welker the early

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years oh I'm sorry

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yeah I know you didn't get a chance to

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voice maybe trying for all of the films

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and so just being a part of it did you

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get to have that feeling yeah you know

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like finally I get to do this well if

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you've if you've watched closely

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you watched Megatron transform

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throughout the years

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he always finally gets his way Frank's

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plan all along the answer is yes I am

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enjoying it

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yeah all right thanks a lot guys and

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pleasure