First Look at Optimus Primal, Rhinox and Cheetor from Transformers Rise of the Beasts Movie

Those look great Wow

Why would they alter the design of the Maximal Symbol?

Thats a win. Nothing but a win.

84everfan wrote:Why would they alter the design of the Maximal Symbol?

That's how it looked on the Kingdom toy packaging.


Transformers War for Cybertron: Kingdom Optimus Primal Gallery

84everfan wrote:Why would they alter the design of the Maximal Symbol?

One could ask the same of the 2007 movie and both faction symbols.

Making Rhinox that streamlined in his metal plating results in him looking a more like a Monoceratops. With maybe a bit of Tundro from the Herculoids.

Not complaining, in fact I'm glad they found a design that conveys "Rhinox" while being original enough that it doesn't evoke his Transmetal body or any other past rhino-formers.

Bumblevivisector wrote:Making Rhinox that streamlined in his metal plating results in him looking a more like a Monoceratops. With maybe a bit of Tundro from the Herculoids.

Not complaining, in fact I'm glad they found a design that conveys "Rhinox" while being original enough that it doesn't evoke his Transmetal body or any other past rhino-formers.

I think it's the angle of the head in the picture. It almost makes it look like he has no neck and that the head connects directly to the torso, if that makes sense.

Looking closer, that Cheetor almost has a Beast Machines vibe to it.

FYI, major props for the Herculoids reference. Those were the good ol' days....

at least in beast wars they looked like the other animals. these do not pass for creatures that would blend in.

First-Aid wrote:FYI, major props for the Herculoids reference. Those were the good ol' days....

I only got acquainted with Alex Toth cartoons in '97, right before Toonami started, my last year of high school. Not many action cartoons where the heroes were a nuclear family; only The Bionic 6 and The Secret Saturdays spring to mind.

I guess the Beast Machines resemblance was inevitable when combining Beast Era designs with the sort of details we expect from Bayformers, but again I'm not complaining (oddly enough). The aesthetics were never one of the serious problems I had with the show, and comments on Airrazor's design seemed to agree that's what Silverbolt should've looked like, so maybe they'll all end up being improved versions of some past attempt attempt at techno-organimals.

Besides Cheetor looking a bit like a FNAF character (at least from this angle), these designs look really great. My favorite has to be Rhinox, he looks well designed instead of someone just randomly putting robot parts in the exact shape of an animal. Can’t wait for their figure reveals, they’ll look great next to their Kingdom counterparts.

Hopefully we also get some Terrorcon reveals soon, haven’t been hearing much about them.

griftimus prime wrote:at least in beast wars they looked like the other animals. these do not pass for creatures that would blend in.

No one said anything about blending in, that was never the intention in Beast Wars hence the giant insects and giant rat and dinosaurs roaming around. And in the 5 seasons these characters featured in, only 1 had them in these modes that seemed fully organic, so these designs are paying a more well rounded homage to all designs rather than just the season 1 look.

william-james88 wrote:

griftimus prime wrote:at least in beast wars they looked like the other animals. these do not pass for creatures that would blend in.

No one said anything about blending in, that was never the intention in Beast Wars hence the giant insects and giant rat and dinosaurs roaming around. And in the 5 seasons these characters featured in, only 1 had them in these modes that seemed fully organic, so these designs are paying a more well rounded homage to all designs rather than just the season 1 look.

It's funny to think of it that way, and it's very true. I'm just counting down to when we get a trailer, which I'm guessing will happen around superbowl time.

ZeroWolf wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

griftimus prime wrote:at least in beast wars they looked like the other animals. these do not pass for creatures that would blend in.

No one said anything about blending in, that was never the intention in Beast Wars hence the giant insects and giant rat and dinosaurs roaming around. And in the 5 seasons these characters featured in, only 1 had them in these modes that seemed fully organic, so these designs are paying a more well rounded homage to all designs rather than just the season 1 look.

It's funny to think of it that way, and it's very true. I'm just counting down to when we get a trailer, which I'm guessing will happen around superbowl time.

Yes, february would make sense for a teaser, with a full trailer being closer to 2 months before the movie is out.

ZeroWolf wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

griftimus prime wrote:at least in beast wars they looked like the other animals. these do not pass for creatures that would blend in.

No one said anything about blending in, that was never the intention in Beast Wars hence the giant insects and giant rat and dinosaurs roaming around. And in the 5 seasons these characters featured in, only 1 had them in these modes that seemed fully organic, so these designs are paying a more well rounded homage to all designs rather than just the season 1 look.

It's funny to think of it that way, and it's very true.

Yeah, over the entire history of the Transformers brand, beast modes have rarely, if ever at all, been used for disguise purposes.

Sabrblade wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

griftimus prime wrote:at least in beast wars they looked like the other animals. these do not pass for creatures that would blend in.

No one said anything about blending in, that was never the intention in Beast Wars hence the giant insects and giant rat and dinosaurs roaming around. And in the 5 seasons these characters featured in, only 1 had them in these modes that seemed fully organic, so these designs are paying a more well rounded homage to all designs rather than just the season 1 look.

It's funny to think of it that way, and it's very true.

Yeah, over the entire history of the Transformers brand, beast modes have rarely, if ever at all, been used for disguise purposes.

That's true. Beast Wars it was a protective mechanism. Beast Machines it was for stealth.

Funny that the animal bots have never been about disguise...

First-Aid wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

griftimus prime wrote:at least in beast wars they looked like the other animals. these do not pass for creatures that would blend in.

No one said anything about blending in, that was never the intention in Beast Wars hence the giant insects and giant rat and dinosaurs roaming around. And in the 5 seasons these characters featured in, only 1 had them in these modes that seemed fully organic, so these designs are paying a more well rounded homage to all designs rather than just the season 1 look.

It's funny to think of it that way, and it's very true.

Yeah, over the entire history of the Transformers brand, beast modes have rarely, if ever at all, been used for disguise purposes.

That's true. Beast Wars it was a protective mechanism. Beast Machines it was for stealth.

Funny that the animal bots have never been about disguise...

It goes all the way back to the Dinobots and Insecticons of G1. They were never in disguise.

Do you guys think there is a chance for any official updates or reveals on the movie before the end of the year?

Sabrblade wrote:

First-Aid wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

griftimus prime wrote:at least in beast wars they looked like the other animals. these do not pass for creatures that would blend in.

No one said anything about blending in, that was never the intention in Beast Wars hence the giant insects and giant rat and dinosaurs roaming around. And in the 5 seasons these characters featured in, only 1 had them in these modes that seemed fully organic, so these designs are paying a more well rounded homage to all designs rather than just the season 1 look.

It's funny to think of it that way, and it's very true.

Yeah, over the entire history of the Transformers brand, beast modes have rarely, if ever at all, been used for disguise purposes.

That's true. Beast Wars it was a protective mechanism. Beast Machines it was for stealth.

Funny that the animal bots have never been about disguise...

It goes all the way back to the Dinobots and Insecticons of G1. They were never in disguise.

If you think about it, NONE of them were in disguise. They always know who each other were except for the humans who were fooled. All the 'bots and 'cons knew each other's modes. Kind of ruins the whole "Robots in Disguise" thing.

First-Aid wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

First-Aid wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

griftimus prime wrote:at least in beast wars they looked like the other animals. these do not pass for creatures that would blend in.

No one said anything about blending in, that was never the intention in Beast Wars hence the giant insects and giant rat and dinosaurs roaming around. And in the 5 seasons these characters featured in, only 1 had them in these modes that seemed fully organic, so these designs are paying a more well rounded homage to all designs rather than just the season 1 look.

It's funny to think of it that way, and it's very true.

Yeah, over the entire history of the Transformers brand, beast modes have rarely, if ever at all, been used for disguise purposes.

That's true. Beast Wars it was a protective mechanism. Beast Machines it was for stealth.

Funny that the animal bots have never been about disguise...

It goes all the way back to the Dinobots and Insecticons of G1. They were never in disguise.

If you think about it, NONE of them were in disguise. They always know who each other were except for the humans who were fooled. All the 'bots and 'cons knew each other's modes. Kind of ruins the whole "Robots in Disguise" thing.

The robots in disguise thing was always from the human perspective, it was a big part of 2015's RID theme. It was also a theme in the Bumblebee movie. But it was never an element in Beast Wars due to the story being either in the distant past or on cybertron.

TulioDude wrote:Do you guys think there is a chance for any official updates or reveals on the movie before the end of the year?

Yes, 100% We have been told the marketing campaign will begin in December.

They look like FNAF animatronics.

Sabrblade wrote:

84everfan wrote:Why would they alter the design of the Maximal Symbol?

That's how it looked on the Kingdom toy packaging.


Transformers War for Cybertron: Kingdom Optimus Primal Gallery

This answers nothing. I don't care who did it first.
W H Y

84everfan wrote:
W H Y

Well,



But seriously, I think it's simply because those beasts shared the same timeline as the standard and . Thus, the "fusion" of the faction symbols.

I don't really mind the new symbol, I mean, it is just that a symbol.

Movie beasts are looking good! I am liking the designs so far, the aesthetic is one that I like and fits with my favorite TF universe. i look forward to some better looks at their designs.

New pictures have been uploaded to Baidu showing the upcoming Rise of the Beasts mainline converting role play mask. This is a mask of Optimus Primal's gorilla mode which transforms into Optimus Primal in robot mode. We had seen it out of the package a good while ago but now that we have it in package, there is new info to take in. Firstly, this mask is not packaged in Cyberverse line but in the Rise of the Beasts mainline packaging. This means that our early info on many ROTB toys being released in Cyberverse has changed. Turns out, only 1 toy was sent to the Cyberverse line so far while Hasbro has held off releasing the rest and will release them in proper Rise of the Beasts packaging. And that's great for us since it means we get to see the movie character models on the box. Here we get to see a new shot of Optimus Primal in his gorilla mode. We see skin and fur, stretched over a mechanical interior.

That mask is still one of the most creative Transformers to come out in recent years.

Lot of Beast Machines in that Primal...Looks good!

The beasts continue to look great, I am looking forward to them in live action!

Low-key love how the kid in the photos is wearing a shirt color-coordinated with Primal.

In hindsight, the technorganic/Transmetal II look might be the best way to translate organic altmodes with a mechanical transformation to live-action. Otherwise the alternatives would be to have the beast mode as split body parts (like the BW 90's CGI) or the flesh ripping and reattaching with each transformation (like in Sins of the Wreckers)

Or they could make them overly-complex like Alice from RoTF, but then it'd be impossible to make toys out of them.

Rumor is the first ROTB trailer is due this Thursday, December 1st. No official confirmation so I'd take it with a grain of salt, but I've been seeing that all over.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Rumor is the first ROTB trailer is due this Thursday, December 1st. No official confirmation so I'd take it with a grain of salt, but I've been seeing that all over.

Same

The big marketing push for Transformers Rise of the Beasts is upon us. It begins December 1st and we already have new posters up in the UK. They are Autobot and Maximal symbols filled with QR codes. The codes bring us to the Paramount youtube page so with these posters out in the wild now it's pretty clear that a video/trailer for the film is meant to be out very soon. The photos were posted by Lebastian on Twitter.

We'll keep you up to date on more info when it comes!

Thats cool!

Full trailer should be out in about an hour, but here’s a snippet of Mirage transforming!

https://twitter.com/VinzChing/status/15 ... afedw&s=19

It's up now.

Big day for Transformers fans as it is the official launch date for the Transformers Rise of the Beasts marketing campaign and our first official look at the film.

Without further ado, here is a link to the official teaser trailer on the Seibertron.com YouTube channel:



We get to hear Peter Cullen as Optimus prime and Ron Perlman as Optimus Primal who spends quite a bit of time in his gorilla mode with only a brief look at his robot mode at the end. That goes for the other 3 maximals in his movie (Rhinox, Airazor and Cheetor) who are seen more in their alt modes, at least in this trailer. We also get a very good look at Mirage's robot mode and his power which does have a G1 theme to it. We also see Arcee and Bumblebee very well. We get to see the shot of Arcee hanging onto Wheeljack's van alt mode which was previously shown to industry insiders.

The villains are less obvious in this trailer though we do get a good look at Battletrap in both of his modes. You'll let us know what you think!

This looks great. The Maximals look fantastic. Hell even Ron Perlman doesn't sound too bad. Still wish it was Gary Chalk.

Also, voice cast!

https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1598365576442744835

Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) wrote:EXCLUSIVE: A slew have just boarded Paramount’s upcoming ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ including Peter Dinklage (as the voice of Scourge), Liza Koshy (as the voice of Arcee), John DiMaggio (as the voice of Stratosphere) and more https://t.co/UOLLPnkEFm

https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1598367999445987328

Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) wrote:Also joining the #TransformersRiseoftheBeasts cast is:
➡️ David Sobolov (as Rhinox/Battletrap)
➡️ Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (as Nightbird)
➡️ Cristo Fernández (as Wheeljack)
➡️ Tobe Nwigwe (as Reek)
https://t.co/R4fy6SvG1i

Sabrblade wrote:Also, voice cast!

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➡️ David Sobolov (as Rhinox/Battletrap)
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well at least they got one voice actor from Beast Wars in it

"If I had a nickel for every time Bumblebee got stabbed in the first trailer for a Transformers movie I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice."



Also, John DiMaggio as Stratosphere? Count me very interested!

I really like that Prime has his Bayverse face again, though the rest of the design feels a little weird. Bumblebee's looking good though!

Autobot_Benz wrote:well at least they got one voice actor from Beast Wars in it

Only because he's currently living in Los Angeles.

(He was also previously Blitzwing in the Bumblebee movie)

The CGI looks top tier awful.
Primal looks like Beast Machines Primal with Prime's head superimposed on it.
Every single one of these character designs looks like a fan edit speculating who will be in Age Of Extinction from 2013. Optimus has the proportions of someone speculating what evasion mode Optimus would look like in robot mode.
The textures and shading on the models look unfinished.

Weird that there is so much battletrap in this trailer when he was the last of the terrorcons we knew about leading up to all this. He wasn't even part of the initial presentation.

Also, while I know they are being purposefully ambiguous about this film linking to previous ones I don't see any casual fans or simply fans of movies in general thinking this wasn't Bayverse, just another story within whatever the live action continuity has become.

Not sold on the designs yet, we'll see what they look like onscreen and toy form, but so far there's something just really boring about the glimpses we got of the Maximals. Curious to see if Stratosphere is going to be a cargo plane like the Revenge of the Fallen toy. Wonder who's "Reek" and if there'll be any Predacons. Also, I think in that last bit of battle in the trailer, it was Nightbird flying around, based on the colourscheme.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:"If I had a nickel for every time Bumblebee got stabbed in the first trailer for a Transformers movie I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice."

ROTB Bee.JPG

Also, John DiMaggio as Stratosphere? Count me very interested!

I really like that Prime has his Bayverse face again, though the rest of the design feels a little weird. Bumblebee's looking good though!

People online are saying that's Scourge in the photo you posted, but that head looks the same as battletrap's and I thought Scourge was supposed to be more "spiky" with big exhaust pipes coming out of him.

ZOINKS!
excitement.

I like this, I may try to get to the cinema for it (and probably the super Mario movie)

william-james88 wrote:
People online are saying that's Scourge in the photo you posted, but that head looks the same as battletrap's and I thought Scourge was supposed to be more "spiky" with big exhaust pipes coming out of him.

It is Scourge, but it's kinda weird how he goes from this big boxy truck to a Lockdown-esque super thin robot mode.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

william-james88 wrote:
People online are saying that's Scourge in the photo you posted, but that head looks the same as battletrap's and I thought Scourge was supposed to be more "spiky" with big exhaust pipes coming out of him.

It is Scourge, but it's kinda weird how he goes from this big boxy truck to a Lockdown-esque super thin robot mode.

And how he has the same-ish face as battletrap.

I'll admit, prime himself looked off in the trailer but it was just a few seconds so I kind of forgot about it. but someone posted an image of the shot and... yikes