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Voice of optimus prime transformers3/20/2024 ![]() ![]() The real life black bear was in turn named after the hometown of the person who captured the bear, Lieutenant Harry Colebourn, who was from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Christopher Robin Milne named his teddy bear Winnie after a Canadian black bear he saw at the Zoo in London.Christopher Robin Milne’s toy teddy bear, who Winnie the Pooh was created after, is currently on display in the New York Public Library. The character of Christopher Robin himself was based on Milne’s son Christopher Robin Milne. Milne’s son’s toys and stuffed animals with the exception of Owl, Rabbit, and Gopher. Most of the characters and names in Winnie the Pooh were based on creator A.A.Eeyore’s name is based off the British Cockney dialect version of the phrase “hee-haw”.Genda also does the voice of Optimus Prime in the Japanese version of the Michael Bay’s Transformers film series. Interestingly, the guy who does the voice for Optimus Prime in Japan, Tesshō Genda, also does a Winnie-the-Pooh character in Japan, specifically, Tigger.Joe and a myriad of other characters in such shows as: Duck Tales, Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Adventures of Captain Planet, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers, Garfield and Friends, Darkwing Duck, The Jetsons, and Gremlins, among many others. So, when given the opportunity to do the voice of a superhero, he modeled it after Larry, not just in voice, but also applying Larry’s post-war demeanor to the character.Īmong his other voice acting work, Cullen also did the voice of Ironhide in the original Transformers series, KARR in Knight Rider, Zandar in G.I. Cullen looked up to his brother and considered him a hero. ![]() He also did the voice of Optimus Prime in the Transformers: War for Cybertron video game.Īccording to Cullen, he based the voice of Optimus Prime on his older brother Larry who was a captain in the United States Mariner Corps during Vietnam and who came back from the war significantly changed. Cullen not only did the voice of Optimus Prime in the original Transformers series, but he also did the voice of Optimus Prime in the 2007 Transformers, 2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and the upcoming 2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The man is Canadian voice actor Peter Cullen. Today I found out the guy who did the voice for Optimus Prime also did the voice for Eeyore, in the Winnie-the-Pooh series, and was the first person to voice Nintendo’s Mario character. ![]()
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