But we ARE getting a Battletrap, I am almost willing to bet by the end of the flick we either get Rattrap, or a strong hint he is coming.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
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To be fair, that was the intent for the character, his electro disruptor made his foes see him where he wasn't. It just was easier to make him turn invisible on the show while Hound's "can make holographic maps" gimmick got fluffed up to "hologram for any job".
This looks like a complete return to Bay. But who knows. Maybe that will be fine after having a bit of a break from it.
The only hint I want is of a big purple mecha-Tyrannosaurus.
A thought did occur to me: earlier leaks referenced the Maximals as having a "steam punk" look with rusted elements. The ONLY place I really see that is in the big battle sequence, so I'm left wondering...is that big battle at the end of the film...or is it a early film flashback?
Doing a "Days of Future Past" thing would help them distance themselves from the Bay movies while still justifying the aesthetic they got stuck with.
Three different factions and the return to Bayhem sounds like a giant mess, but I love that somehow Stratosphere is involved. Like, it was neat how Shatter and Dropkick were loosely inspired by Movieverse toyline characters, Strat carrying on that tradition is pretty fun.
I guess if I had an actual "gripe" about it it would be the Maximals size. Right now I am head-canon-ing that this is post Beast Machines (for the Maxi's) to explain the more mechanical look and I can accept them returning to a larger scale, I mean, Thrustinator was tiny in the end.
I'm betting that the Maximals and Terrorcons are time travelers from the future, with Scourge having come back in time to try to change history by finding and awakening Megatron ahead of his proper awakening later in 2007. That would make Scourge the threat from the future, and Megatron the threat from the past.
I mean, my dream would be having the time travelers come from after the last night and are either trying to preserve or alter that future, depending on their point of view. Basically terminator, or xmen, days of futures past, target:2006, pick your poison.
Bonus points if Scourge is just a future evil optimus, but I admit that's asking a lot.
I just love the build to these movies because you have no idea what new ideas and traditional ideas are getting thrown in a blender and what that will be.
Bonus points if Scourge is just a future evil optimus, but I admit that's asking a lot.
I just love the build to these movies because you have no idea what new ideas and traditional ideas are getting thrown in a blender and what that will be.
Let’s be honest, it’s all leading towards Unicron.
I expect if they are doing Unicron again, he'll be titan class and likely a scaled down verison of the Haslab verison
I like that they look like robots and not shredded metal, for the most part. OP, Arcee, and the beasts all look fantastic.
Just to be clear, I would assume Darth_Prime's comment refers to where the movies are going, not the toyline.
Last Knight already threw the 'earth-is-Unicron' card on the table, so I guess it remains to be seen if the writers remember that plot point and roll with it. But in general, yeah, Hasbro tends to lean into Unicron pretty heavily for endgame-type stories.
...one of these days they should change it up, and reveal that Cybertron's greatest threat is....Gobotron! (Shock! Horror! And make it a real threat, not some 4-panel, haha-kill-the-Gobots joke)
Back on topic, I am optimistic about Rise of the Beasts. What we've seen looks good, and the leaked toys that have turned up have me pretty excited. Definitely looking forward to seeing this!
Don't know if there are any other Beast wars fans here ( Beast wars made me end up watching and enjoy gen 1 transformers for context) but I'm really sad they didn't even contact Gary chalk, nothing against Ron but his voice isn't Optimus primal also where are rat trap and dinobot? I really hope they don't drop the ball with this movie
Man those beasts are big. Practically baby kaiju.
CGI looks fairly unfinished. I would have polished things a bit more for the trailer, myself. Primal in that first shot looks rough as hell.
I'll take a Scourge and Terrorcons over yet another Megatron.
Overall though this feels like a Bay movie and I'm pretty over those. I don't know if I'll bother with this in theaters.
CGI looks fairly unfinished. I would have polished things a bit more for the trailer, myself. Primal in that first shot looks rough as hell.
I'll take a Scourge and Terrorcons over yet another Megatron.
Overall though this feels like a Bay movie and I'm pretty over those. I don't know if I'll bother with this in theaters.
Wanna see something in that trailer you can't unsee?
Primal in the beginning splashes those humans TWICE and thy're both seemingly untouched by it, both times.