Big enough umbrella - Michael Bay discusses nuts and bolts of "Transformers"

Matthew L. Price is an entertainment writer for a major Oklahoma newspaper. He also owns the Eisner-Award-nominated Speeding Bullet Comics with his wife, Annette.

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Michael Bay discusses nuts and bolts of "Transformers"

Bay said he wanted to make a “Transformers” film that would appeal to people who didn’t grow up with the characters.

“I actually think that because I wasn’t a fan, I think makes it more accessible to other people, does that make sense?,” he said. “(Decepticon leader) Megatron was a gun, and I’m like, ‘I don’t get that,’ and I did get a lot of flak from fans on the ‘net, like, ‘Michael Bay, you wrecked my childhood. … We’re going to protest his office.’ They protested my old office apparently.”