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Yesterday, I went to the movies and saw Transformers: Rise of the Fallen, sure it was a craptastic script filled with inexplicable holes.  That being said, I left the movie theater excited as that movie was a complete rush of adrenaline, like drinking a 3 liter Coke bottle and eating a whole bag of sugar coated candies.

 But it astounds me that the level of importance that Transformers is as an intelectual property still has no decent boardgame of it's own.  Sure there are tons of versions of other games but where is it's Federation Commander, it's Strategy Tabletop Game (aka GW's LOTR), it's Mechwarrior, it's War of the Ring, it's anything?

I mean, have a look at the Transformers, they are robots that transform from a cool looking car or plane into a mean robot.  Sometimes they join each other (Devastator), or even have small robots that can be attached to them.

 The Transformers universe is huge, having a lot of sagas, iterations and versions, so there's no shortage of cool characters to choose from.

 If you go with the movie you have the Autobots working closely with an elite team of soldiers, so you could even add squads of highly specialized and capable men as well as the latest man made technology to their disposal.  Yeah, a rifle or pistol wouldn't do much harm to a transformer (if any), but something like an RPG should prove a worthy addition.  Just use some common sense and figure out that transformers could be harmed by our big weapons, otherwise it's stupid to put soldiers in their way.

 By looking at their confrontations you realize there's no way that a couple of hulking robots duking it out in the city are doing so without wreaking havoc, so all of the sudeen you have destructible environments and tons of props to use (light poles as bats per instance).

 So how does this idea sound for a game?  A game of squad level in which two rival factions of transforming robots can duke it out agaisnt each other, destroying the city they are while being assisted by the elite of modern military?  For me, it sounds like a recipe for a sundae chocolate ice cream with hot fugde a brownie and some peanuts, in other words it's so great.

I know the license to the IP must be expensive, but so for Star Wars and LOTR and look at the good games we've gotten from them, why can't  a company just make a miniatures game or wargame or boardgame using this ideas? 

 Imagine a counter having the car on one side and the robot on the other, or follow the route of LOTR and have 2 miniatures per character (one as a robot and one as a plane).

 Anyways, there are a lot of difficulties in making this reality but it saddens me that with or without the IP, nobody has tried to exploit this concept.

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