There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.

Wester. His follow-up film The Rock (1996) was an action movie set on Alcatraz Island and in the San Francisco Bay area. It starred Sean Connery Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris.

His films which include Armageddon (1998) Pearl Harbor (2001) and the Transformers film series (2007-present) have grossed over three billion dollars world-wide. He is co-chair and part-owner of the digital effects house Digital Domain. He is co-founder of commercial production house The Institute a.