Transformers: The Last Knight Drift Revealed

What does "History: No longer in hiding" mean
I mean I get what it's trying to say but it's really awkward


In any case red is cool. Like I said when the car mode was revealed, probably trying to bring it closer to the RiD 2015 cartoon design.

Could this mean that we might get a red triple-changing Drift?

Kurona wrote:What does "History: No longer in hiding" mean
I mean I get what it's trying to say but it's really awkward


In any case red is cool. Like I said when the car mode was revealed, probably trying to bring it closer to the RiD 2015 cartoon design.

The RID scheme was apparently based on an early color scheme for AoE Drift.

That pose look familiar?

MrBlack wrote:

Kurona wrote:What does "History: No longer in hiding" mean
I mean I get what it's trying to say but it's really awkward


In any case red is cool. Like I said when the car mode was revealed, probably trying to bring it closer to the RiD 2015 cartoon design.

The RID scheme was apparently based on an early color scheme for AoE Drift.

That pose look familiar?

Interesting. That is pretty sick!

MrBlack wrote:

Kurona wrote:What does "History: No longer in hiding" mean
I mean I get what it's trying to say but it's really awkward


In any case red is cool. Like I said when the car mode was revealed, probably trying to bring it closer to the RiD 2015 cartoon design.

The RID scheme was apparently based on an early color scheme for AoE Drift.

That pose look familiar?

Huh, interesting. It's still very... questionable to me why they went with a prototype colour scheme for RiD 2015 rather than matching either IDW or Movie, but that's a discussion for another time and isn't an actual flaw or anything. Just weird to me.

Kurona wrote:

MrBlack wrote:

Kurona wrote:What does "History: No longer in hiding" mean
I mean I get what it's trying to say but it's really awkward


In any case red is cool. Like I said when the car mode was revealed, probably trying to bring it closer to the RiD 2015 cartoon design.

The RID scheme was apparently based on an early color scheme for AoE Drift.

That pose look familiar?

Huh, interesting. It's still very... questionable to me why they went with a prototype colour scheme for RiD 2015 rather than matching either IDW or Movie, but that's a discussion for another time and isn't an actual flaw or anything. Just weird to me.

Maybe it's an easteregg?

Black Car > Red Robot how?
I mean, Drift's design always looked like it couldn't possibly transform anyways, but this is just ridiculous.

Kurona wrote:What does "History: No longer in hiding" mean

History: No longer needing to hide from those who hunted him down.

Noideaforaname wrote:Black Car > Red Robot how?
I mean, Drift's design always looked like it couldn't possibly transform anyways, but this is just ridiculous.

That's my deal with it. The car is mostly black, with red accents. How does he transform into a mostly red robot?

nice to see drift is back

That's my deal with it. The car is mostly black, with red accents. How does he transform into a mostly red robot?

I realise this is not the best if replies buuuut... black jet to white robot w/ red highlights.

Noideaforaname wrote:Black Car > Red Robot how?
I mean, Drift's design always looked like it couldn't possibly transform anyways, but this is just ridiculous.

The car kibble gets flipped inside out. The last toy did it with the shoulder pads by folding the sides to reveal the inside.

Noideaforaname wrote:Black Car > Red Robot how?
I mean, Drift's design always looked like it couldn't possibly transform anyways, but this is just ridiculous.

It's called concept art.

SlyTF1 wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:Black Car > Red Robot how?
I mean, Drift's design always looked like it couldn't possibly transform anyways, but this is just ridiculous.

It's called concept art.

Sly,you don't get to be snide when you haven't even responded to the last callout of your bullshit.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

Kurona wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:Grimlock never became leader of the Autobots.

... actually.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Grimlock_(G1)/Marvel_Comics_continuity

Ah, beat me to it. Hoist by your own ignorance there, Ol' Sly.

Those don't count.

Why don't they count? You said Grimlock never bale and leader of the Autobots, were proven wrong, and then it doesn't count? What's your criteria? to count?

Because the general audience who were asking for Hot Rod to be in the movie don't care about the Marvel Comics. They probably don't even know they exist.

william-james88 wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:Black Car > Red Robot how?
I mean, Drift's design always looked like it couldn't possibly transform anyways, but this is just ridiculous.

The car kibble gets flipped inside out. The last toy did it with the shoulder pads by folding the sides to reveal the inside.

Hips aside, the Deluxe AoE toy was pretty fantastic, and it was both faithful to the alt-mode and the animation model. Lots of armor in bot mode, and a great looking car.

Deadput wrote:

dbelleman wrote:tweaked

And I now see why the movies stick with realistic colors and not use the G1 colors.


Just looks cheesy and dumb it's good work but it would not work in a movie.

That's one opinion, one I disagree with. They should definitely do something about the head and face, though.

SlyTF1 wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

Kurona wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:Grimlock never became leader of the Autobots.

... actually.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Grimlock_(G1)/Marvel_Comics_continuity

Ah, beat me to it. Hoist by your own ignorance there, Ol' Sly.

Those don't count.

Why don't they count? You said Grimlock never bale and leader of the Autobots, were proven wrong, and then it doesn't count? What's your criteria? to count?

Because the general audience who were asking for Hot Rod to be in the movie don't care about the Marvel Comics. They probably don't even know they exist.

Even setting that aside, Grimlock is at least as big a character as Hot Rod, if not bigger. He was a significant character in the pre-Movie G1 cartoon, and and even bigger player post-movie. He got a Masterpiece toy before Rodimus. He was in the recent High Moon games and Devastation when Hot Rod wasn't. He is in RID (or at least a character based on him is) when Hot Rod isn't.

Michael Bay has been putting the absolutely ugliest and goofiest faces on to these Transformers' characters. The faces don't look like Transformers to me but some hideous organic-nightmare. The character designs need more attention to the faces and make them look like Transformers, you know, actual robots! This is movie 5 and Bay has YET to get this right. WHY do they keep making money when they are "Blasphemy" to Transformers?

Nerdimus Maximus wrote:Michael Bay has been putting the absolutely ugliest and goofiest faces on to these Transformers' characters. The faces don't look like Transformers to me but some hideous organic-nightmare. The character designs need more attention to the faces and make them look like Transformers, you know, actual robots! This is movie 5 and Bay has YET to get this right. WHY do they keep making money when they are "Blasphemy" to Transformers?

Erm, Michael Bay isn't the one who makes the robot mode designs for the movie TFs.

william-james88 wrote:The car kibble gets flipped inside out. The last toy did it with the shoulder pads by folding the sides to reveal the inside.

Eh, that's too big of a cheat for my tastes.

Nerdimus Maximus wrote:Michael Bay has been putting the absolutely ugliest and goofiest faces on to these Transformers' characters. The faces don't look like Transformers to me but some hideous organic-nightmare. The character designs need more attention to the faces and make them look like Transformers, you know, actual robots! This is movie 5 and Bay has YET to get this right. WHY do they keep making money when they are "Blasphemy" to Transformers?

Because the wider movie-going public doesn't see the franchise as a religion.

I still really like THIS Drift as opposed to the comic Drift.

Nerdimus Maximus wrote:Michael Bay has been putting the absolutely ugliest and goofiest faces on to these Transformers' characters.

No, 'Transformers: Animated' did that.


I liked Drift's design in AoE and he looks even cooler here in the red. Glad to see him back (and I still find it odd to say positive things about a Transformer called Drift)

Gunmetal wrote:

Nerdimus Maximus wrote:Michael Bay has been putting the absolutely ugliest and goofiest faces on to these Transformers' characters. The faces don't look like Transformers to me but some hideous organic-nightmare. The character designs need more attention to the faces and make them look like Transformers, you know, actual robots! This is movie 5 and Bay has YET to get this right. WHY do they keep making money when they are "Blasphemy" to Transformers?

Because the wider movie-going public doesn't see the franchise as a religion.

I think his point is that generally the public likes robots that look like robots, and not mishy mashy alien creatures made of metal. Ex. Pacific Rim, Iron Man, or Ultron. One only has to look at how Marvel has updated its corny designs (looking at you Cap, Falcon and Hawkeye) into the badassery that we know and, personally speaking, love. It stuns me that the studio and designers behind the TF movie franchise haven't even once done that (taken a classic and honored design and updated it without actually changing that much, case in point: Thor)

You guys do clearly know these are not his actual colors right?

Something got screwed up with the coloring in fact it's given me a theory Hot Rod and Drift have their colors switched somehow for these posters.

Drift from facebook


Drift's alt mode from Bay's Flickr


Hot Rod from Bay's Flickr




So why does Hot Rod have the same colors as Drift's altmode despite the Lamborghini car parts while Drift has a red robot mode which has colors usually associated with Hot rod

So what is the most likely scenario that the colors are switched up on the posters or that Hot Rod is the same color as Drift's car mode while Drift turns into a completely different color pallet in robot mode?

Use logic sometime people I know it's the movie thread and we scream our butts off over everything but please think.

Why does EVERYTHING need to be based off the original source? This is a sore spot for me. Just because it's not based off the source material makes it bad. Is all the designs good? Heeeeell no. Personally, I thought Starscream looked absolutely ridiculous. I do appreciate, though, that the creators are still taking the time to come up with something new with old characters. People like to complain there's nothing original anymore, and awhile the movies are not original, it's nice to see them trying to do new and original. It's annoying to see people get so worked up over how "it's nothing like the original". I think that's the point.

And don't get me wrong. I loved the original designs for G1 characters. Optimus Prime was just awesome. Simple design that felt like a leader of a robotic race that could convert into a semi truck.

Madeus Prime wrote:I think his point is that generally the public likes robots that look like robots, and not mishy mashy alien creatures made of metal. Ex. Pacific Rim, Iron Man, or Ultron. One only has to look at how Marvel has updated its corny designs (looking at you Cap, Falcon and Hawkeye) into the badassery that we know and, personally speaking, love. It stuns me that the studio and designers behind the TF movie franchise haven't even once done that (taken a classic and honored design and updated it without actually changing that much, case in point: Thor)

Welcome to Paramount we are not Marvel studios or Disney the richest company in the world who has somehow not bought Hasbro yet and improved it.


Seriously thought we would benefit from Disney's help in making these movies.

Deadput wrote:Welcome to Paramount we are not Marvel studios or Disney the richest company in the world who has somehow not bought Hasbro yet and improved it.
Seriously thought we would benefit from Disney's help in making these movies.

Probably they don't want to worry about another toyline. Additionally, how would the public react to Transformers going from CGI laden, raunchy humored, and ultra violent to Marvel/Disney level cleanliness? People wouldn't know what to do without their racially offensive characters, Baysplosions, hot babes, and college pothead level humor.

My opinion, hope this expanded universe idea burns out and give it another decade for another company to buy Hasbro.

I like that not too much has changed for drift outside his alt and colour scheme.

Madeus@ remember just because you don't like the movies doesn't mean you get to forget all the people who do like the movies (I'm talking all the people on this spectrum, from those who see these films as a guilty pleasure to those who worship the ground these movies were made on)

It's fine for us to have opinions but not everyone will share them

Another thing, I still don't see how these movies existence hurts the rest of the brand considering how far reaching it is. It also doesn't affect anything that came out before. So why not just accept these are a thing, not saying you have to like it or see it but it's certainly not going anywhere yet.

SlyTF1 wrote:the general audience who were asking for Hot Rod to be in the movie don't care about the Marvel Comics. They probably don't even know they exist.

That is the single most asinine comment in this entire thread. And that's hard to do, considering some of the arguments that go on in here. But thank you for reminding me where your head actually is when it comes to Bayverse. I started to think you may be able to have a reasonable conversation with other people. My bad.

With AOE I felt we were getting better faces with the likes of Drift, Crosshairs and Lockdown yet those characters had terrible voice actors.

Be nice if they toned down the samurai thing with Drift. People complain about the twins being racially offensive, how is this not?

Also be nice if the movies respected the source material like Marvel does.
Batman fans would be pissed if they gave him spikey armour and had him hack the Jokers face off.

It doesn't even matter much.
Michael Bay will frel it all up anyway.

When is he going to go away?

Huh, that actually looks pretty cool. Not very Hot Rod-esque, but it isn't G1 so expecting G1 accuracy is silly. I would have liked to have seen his classic colours but black and red is cool too (plus it reminds me of G2 Sideswipe). A pity Arcee jobbed in ROTF- having two '86 movie Autobots in the movie (plus the chance for robo romance) would have been awesome. Oh well, maybe they'll introduce a totally new fembot with a badass design.

Oh who am I kidding, at best we'll get yet another Windblade appearance and get called sexist if we don't like it. Though I will be honest, I would like to see Windblade as a real-world plane. Perhaps a WW2 Japanese plane like a Zero, or maybe a VTOL jet like a Harrier?

Deadput wrote:You guys do clearly know these are not his actual colors right?

Something got screwed up with the coloring in fact it's given me a theory Hot Rod and Drift have their colors switched somehow for these posters.

Drift from facebook


Drift's alt mode from Bay's Flickr


Hot Rod from Bay's Flickr




So why does Hot Rod have the same colors as Drift's altmode despite the Lamborghini car parts while Drift has a red robot mode which has colors usually associated with Hot rod

So what is the most likely scenario that the colors are switched up on the posters or that Hot Rod is the same color as Drift's car mode while Drift turns into a completely different color pallet in robot mode?

Use logic sometime people I know it's the movie thread and we scream our butts off over everything but please think.

Mate, if you have a theory, please don't be a dick about it. Just say it's a possibility.

Z3ROhour wrote:It doesn't even matter much.
Michael Bay will frel it all up anyway.

When is he going to go away?

Thing is he tried to leave after DOTM. Hasbro keeps bringing him back.

This one looks like a mess..

Kurona wrote:

Deadput wrote:You guys do clearly know these are not his actual colors right?

Something got screwed up with the coloring in fact it's given me a theory Hot Rod and Drift have their colors switched somehow for these posters.

Drift from facebook


Drift's alt mode from Bay's Flickr


Hot Rod from Bay's Flickr




So why does Hot Rod have the same colors as Drift's altmode despite the Lamborghini car parts while Drift has a red robot mode which has colors usually associated with Hot rod

So what is the most likely scenario that the colors are switched up on the posters or that Hot Rod is the same color as Drift's car mode while Drift turns into a completely different color pallet in robot mode?

Use logic sometime people I know it's the movie thread and we scream our butts off over everything but please think.

Mate, if you have a theory, please don't be a dick about it. Just say it's a possibility.

Hod rod looks amazing

Have we ever figured out why Mirage didn't come back and isn't in this upcoming movie?

ImAWalkingCorpse wrote:Have we ever figured out why Mirage didn't come back and isn't in this upcoming movie?

Licensing issues.

Kurona wrote:

ImAWalkingCorpse wrote:Have we ever figured out why Mirage didn't come back and isn't in this upcoming movie?

Licensing issues.

His actor also died.

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:

ImAWalkingCorpse wrote:Have we ever figured out why Mirage didn't come back and isn't in this upcoming movie?

Licensing issues.

His actor also died.

Both make total sense. That is too bad, that was my favorite autobot so far.

Michael Bay is the director of these films and he must have a say over the final designs of the robot characters. He has the authority to say, No, change this or make it this way instead. Bay is also one of the main Producers so I would think that he could tell the CGI artists how he wants any character to look or not look. I know the artists have so much power but story board phases of the films must include what the robots will look like. He is a producer and the director he has to have influence over the final designs.

I'm still hoping that that military vehicle turns out to be Breakdown(or Silas Breakdown), coz as we've seen before....Bay has peppered the previous movies with some of the various TF cartoon series(for example....DOTM had scenes that played out like Megatron's Master Plan & The Ultimate Doom) & of course characters or groups from the comics(The Wreckers). so it's not too far fetched to have a character from TF Prime in this movie(& YES! some on here will keep bashing me over the head by stating that they have enough characters in this movie already without having to add more!).

Stuartmaximus wrote:I'm still hoping that that military vehicle turns out to be Breakdown(or Silas Breakdown), coz as we've seen before....Bay has peppered the previous movies with some of the various TF cartoon series(for example....DOTM had scenes that played out like Megatron's Master Plan & The Ultimate Doom) & of course characters or groups from the comics(The Wreckers). so it's not too far fetched to have a character from TF Prime in this movie(& YES! some on here will keep bashing me over the head by stating that they have enough characters in this movie already without having to add more!).

Sorry mate, they don't have an insignia on them - any of them, every tf thus far has had an insignia on their actual vehicle, so that these don't pretty much precludes them from being tf's. Besides, Deadput made an excellent argument as to why we aren't likely to get many (if any) more characters squeezed into the movie, it's overly cramped as it.

I read that HASBRO is introducing "M.A.S.K." in the next G.I.Joe movie. M.A.S.K. is then supposed to get its own live action film that may become another franchised movie series like TF. Perhaps this will also somehow connect with 'Transformers 5' as the M.A.S.K. tech could be reversed engineered Transformers tech used by a special division of G.I.Joe, itself a special unit. It would make sense to at least have some minor reference to M.A.S.K. or the project in TF5. Maybe an after-credits scene? It could tie M.A.S.K. in with the old "M.E.C.H." unit seen in Transformers Prime and the former "Sector 7" and "N.E.S.T." from the other TF Bay films.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:I'm still hoping that that military vehicle turns out to be Breakdown(or Silas Breakdown), coz as we've seen before....Bay has peppered the previous movies with some of the various TF cartoon series(for example....DOTM had scenes that played out like Megatron's Master Plan & The Ultimate Doom) & of course characters or groups from the comics(The Wreckers). so it's not too far fetched to have a character from TF Prime in this movie(& YES! some on here will keep bashing me over the head by stating that they have enough characters in this movie already without having to add more!).

Sorry mate, they don't have an insignia on them - any of them, every tf thus far has had an insignia on their actual vehicle, so that these don't pretty much precludes them from being tf's. Besides, Deadput made an excellent argument as to why we aren't likely to get many (if any) more characters squeezed into the movie, it's overly cramped as it.

Apart from the overly crowded characters in the movie already, maybe that vehicle is a scanning vehicle(which is why no insignia! & one that the transformers could quite possibly scan, they have done this in the previous movies before...the most obvious being Optimus going from a battered old truck(G1 style) to the new current one he has(even in THIS movie) or Skids & Mudflap....going from an old ice cream truck to two new cars(which btw...were left out deliberately for them to scan).

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:I'm still hoping that that military vehicle turns out to be Breakdown(or Silas Breakdown), coz as we've seen before....Bay has peppered the previous movies with some of the various TF cartoon series(for example....DOTM had scenes that played out like Megatron's Master Plan & The Ultimate Doom) & of course characters or groups from the comics(The Wreckers). so it's not too far fetched to have a character from TF Prime in this movie(& YES! some on here will keep bashing me over the head by stating that they have enough characters in this movie already without having to add more!).

Sorry mate, they don't have an insignia on them - any of them, every tf thus far has had an insignia on their actual vehicle, so that these don't pretty much precludes them from being tf's. Besides, Deadput made an excellent argument as to why we aren't likely to get many (if any) more characters squeezed into the movie, it's overly cramped as it.

Apart from the overly crowded characters in the movie already, maybe that vehicle is a scanning vehicle(which is why no insignia! & one that the transformers could quite possibly scan, they have done this in the previous movies before...the most obvious being Optimus going from a battered old truck(G1 style) to the new current one he has(even in THIS movie) or Skids & Mudflap....going from an old ice cream truck to two new cars(which btw...were left out deliberately for them to scan).

That's a fair point, but I'm saying that the tf's in the movies always had a vehicle for them specifically with alterations (o/p's truck with insignia's and the scanned vehicle) same goes for all the rest there's always the alt mode and the 'scanned' vehicle, that we haven't seen any of the beefy military trucks with insignia's likely means they won't be tf's, that said, I too am hoping they get a figure out of it, it's so bulky and mean looking

MrBlack wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

Kurona wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:Grimlock never became leader of the Autobots.

... actually.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Grimlock_(G1)/Marvel_Comics_continuity

Ah, beat me to it. Hoist by your own ignorance there, Ol' Sly.

Those don't count.

Why don't they count? You said Grimlock never bale and leader of the Autobots, were proven wrong, and then it doesn't count? What's your criteria? to count?

Because the general audience who were asking for Hot Rod to be in the movie don't care about the Marvel Comics. They probably don't even know they exist.

Even setting that aside, Grimlock is at least as big a character as Hot Rod, if not bigger. He was a significant character in the pre-Movie G1 cartoon, and and even bigger player post-movie. He got a Masterpiece toy before Rodimus. He was in the recent High Moon games and Devastation when Hot Rod wasn't. He is in RID (or at least a character based on him is) when Hot Rod isn't.

And Grimlock is still around in the movie universe, is he not? Why wouldn't they keep Hot Rod around, too?

Optimus's sword looks broken.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelbay/28498344740/