First reported figures are indicating that Michael Bay’s Transformers has taken in over $8.1 million on its opening day and a further $29.5 million dollars on Tuesday. Which, for the calculator-less among us, amounts to a total of $38 million in it’s first 28 hours on screen and furthermore, has bagged Bay and his robots the biggest Tuesday opening of all time, topping the wretched Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest by nearly $14 million.
Now the bad news: we in the Republic of Ireland and the UK can’t open our wallets to Michael Bay along with the rest of America until the 27 July. That’s a depressing 3 and a half weeks of robot-free time to pass. However, there are ways for the super-nerdy among us to pass the time (presuming you’re a big enough Transformers fan not to have a job or social life):
1. Rewatch the original Transformers movie once a day and pour a bit of your beer onto the carpet every time Optimus Prime dies, whilst saying ‘for my homes.’ (If you’re too young to drink beer, then…. How have you even heard of the Transformers? You should be watching… Pokemon or something)
2. Make a mixed tape in honour of Soundwave.
3. Bring out all your old Transformers toys and arrange them in hilarious sexual positions. Then laugh to yourself, sigh and utter ‘I’m so alone.’
4. Change your name to Rodimus Prime by deed pole.
Let the wait begin.
Source of figures: Fantasy Moguls
