Hasbro stated very firmly from the beginning they didn't want a G1 movie
First, show me the evidences/quotes.
Second, of course they don't want an
exact G1 movie (see the Wiki link very down below). They're making a movie largely based on G1, because that's what most people remember of TF and I don't have to explain this again and again. It's Captain Obvious.
Sadly, you're wrong. Because Blackout is not a combaticon named Vortex and Barricade is not a G1 micromaster for the Decepticon race team. Blackout was, however, a character in Armada...to which he is unrelated as well.
Piss Off.
Read the Wikipedia articles I show you. Vortex is the name of Blackout in the original script but it's later dropped because of copyright issue. Unlike you, I gave evidences to support my cases.
Well considering Rhinox had a similar voice, duel gattling guns ....I'd have to say the parrallels are apparent.
Unless you're watched the movie half-sleeping, I don't see either of those guns are gatlings. And your don't need to watch the movie to know what guns that Ironhide carries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironhide
"His weapons include an energy cannon mounted on his left forearm and a missile launcher on his right forearmis weapons include an energy cannon mounted on his left forearm and a missile launcher on his right forearm"
You're a making a fantasy world, where you had this image of movie Ironhide having a twin gatling gun and stick by that image. Face it you, you're wrong.
Transformers movie, not a king kong tribute.
Who said it's a King Kong tribute? I said it may be easier to walk those CGI creations on screen like King Kong.
If they took it they took it from Beast Wars much like the Prime-Lips
You're just imagining that they take the lips from Beast Wars.
Okay to make you happy, look at like this:
Movie Optimus Prime takes the lips from Beast Wars, but on the other hand it takes voicework, name, personality, transformation mode, quotes, rifle from G1.
Lips... against the whole shbang. How's that?
Well the writers wrote the story, not Bay and they were given the recent Transformers cartoons and comics as reference. Not surprising that Armada and Infiltation would seem to be the plots used.
The writers wrote the story, but Bay as Director could interject the story anytime he feels to. Again you're escaping the fact that the TF movie is made out of respect of the 80's shows and toys. Heck the whole series can't be made without derivating from G1. G1 maybe has a poor original show, but it has a set of mythos inherited to the predecesors and this is the series which most people identify TF with.
Read this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_(film) thoroughly. You will again babble like an ignorant before reading it.