"We're just putting more personality in," Bay said at the time. "I don't know if it's stereotypes -- they are robots, by the way. These are the voice actors. This is kind of the direction they were taking the characters and we went with it. I purely did it for kids. Young kids love these robots, because it makes it more accessible to them ... "
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Hip-Hop Autobots Cut From ‘Transformers 3′?
"We're just putting more personality in," Bay said at the time. "I don't know if it's stereotypes -- they are robots, by the way. These are the voice actors. This is kind of the direction they were taking the characters and we went with it. I purely did it for kids. Young kids love these robots, because it makes it more accessible to them ... "