![]() Optimus Prime was also in attendance and provided his tire marks in lieu of handprints. On September 30, 2014, Cullen was immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a cement printing ceremony outside of Grauman's Chinese Theatre.Cullen apparently became depressed, worried that kids would go through the same trauma of Optimus dying as kids did in 1986 with the original movie. According to DVD commentaries, Cullen was not informed that Prime Optimus would survive the first arc of the third season until the recording session for " Rebellion" came along.Cullen's voice is unmodified and is entirely his own in his role as Prime's Optimus Prime, work for which he received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 2011.He expressed that he wanted Michael Bay to return for the fifth live-action film when Bay announced he departed from being the director's position. ![]() He turned down the offer as he took the role too seriously to make fun of it, which the show's staff respected him for. Cullen was asked to reprise Optimus Prime for the first episode of Robot Chicken, where the character would enact a dramatization that he's dying from prostate cancer.At one point, the Animated crew considered having Cullen play a human "old west hero" character that would inspire Optimus and teach him good leadership qualities, but the idea never came to fruition. ![]() However, he did not return to announce Toonami after its revival on May 26, 2012. Later, he narrated commercials for Animated, even though it wasn't on Toonami.
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