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News Credits: 217 · by **Diem** » Thu May 05, 2011 11:16 pm

Once again Derrick J Wyatt's Twitter reveals a new character design. This time it's a fairly obscure character unless you enjoy your Japanese-only Beast Wars, Longrack. Much like Cheetor and Depth Charge he has a new design for Animated which takes elements from both his original Beast Wars figure and his Cybertron repaint.

More of Longrack will no doubt be seen in the Transformers Club Comics.

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by **ProwlJazz** » Thu May 05, 2011 11:34 pm

Woah I just put his cybertron figure on my self. :lol:

It's funny how different and alike they are, I like the somewhat unique design though.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Thu May 05, 2011 11:40 pm

Longrack Prime. Sweet.

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu May 05, 2011 11:50 pm

Longrack Major survived the Battle for Iacon! Awesome!

News Credits: 217 · by **Diem** » Fri May 06, 2011 12:14 am

Sabrblade wrote:Longrack Major survived the Battle for Iacon! Awesome!

Unless he's in flashbacks only. Or unless the Stunti-con Job is a prequel or midquel.

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri May 06, 2011 12:48 am

Diem wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Longrack Major survived the Battle for Iacon! Awesome!
Unless he's in flashbacks only. Or unless the Stunti-con Job is a prequel or midquel.

"The Stunti-Con Job" is described as being "season 3.5". It's gonna take place post-season 3 with Optimus' team back on Cybertron.

News Credits: 2 · by **Twitchythe3rd** » Fri May 06, 2011 1:03 am

Shovel hand!

News Credits: 1 · by **bluecatcinema** » Fri May 06, 2011 8:08 am

Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know what Derrick calls that recolored Jetfire with the flaming green hand? You can see it in the next photo preview.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Fri May 06, 2011 9:47 am

FUn design.

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri May 06, 2011 12:14 pm

bluecatcinema wrote:Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know what Derrick calls that recolored Jetfire with the flaming green hand? You can see it in the next photo preview.

Might be Shattered Glass Jetfire from the unproduced Shattered Glass Animated world that we would have seen in season 4.

News Credits: 1 · by **Skywarp64** » Fri May 06, 2011 12:22 pm

Wouldn't it be great if all these new character designs were put out before Animated's cancellation? So we could see them in action? I'm no Animated fan, but some of these new characters look kind of interesting to me.

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri May 06, 2011 12:35 pm

Skywarp64 wrote:Wouldn't it be great if all these new character designs were put out before Animated's cancellation? So we could see them in action? I'm no Animated fan, but some of these new characters look kind of interesting to me.

We will be seeing them. In the BotCon comic "The Stunti-Con Job".

Though, I don't think it'd be quite right to see all of them "in action", considering how a lot of these characters are mere civilians and not soldiers. Not every Animated character is a warrior. A good majority of the Animated Autobots are just innocent bystanders with ordinary non-war-related careers. Even some Decepticons bear this description as well (i.e. - Animated Sky-Byte is a Decepticon poet).

News Credits: 1 · by **Skywarp64** » Fri May 06, 2011 12:38 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Though, I don't think it'd be quite right to see all of them "in action", considering how a lot of these characters are mere civilians and not soldiers.

By "in-action", I kind of meant just BEING animated on television.

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Fri May 06, 2011 1:47 pm

So Transformers Armada Hoist dressed up as a giraffe on Halloween?

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri May 06, 2011 1:58 pm

amcgrath929 wrote:So Transformers Armada Hoist dressed up as a giraffe on Halloween?

No, he's based off of this guy:

With some elements of this guy thrown into the mix:

Though, he originally looked like this in the Transformers Animated: AllSpark Almanac II book:

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Fri May 06, 2011 3:26 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
amcgrath929 wrote:So Transformers Armada Hoist dressed up as a giraffe on Halloween?
No, he's based off of this guy:

With some elements of this guy thrown into the mix:

Though, he originally looked like this in the Transformers Animated: AllSpark Almanac II book:

I was just making a joke buddy but thanks for the info. He looks a lot better now than he did in the Allspark Almanac.

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri May 06, 2011 5:06 pm

amcgrath929 wrote:I was just making a joke buddy but thanks for the info.

Any time.

amcgrath929 wrote:He looks a lot better now than he did in the Allspark Almanac.

Yeah, I'm guessing this new design is either a retcon or a new body upgrade of some sort.

News Credits: 5 · by **alexison** » Fri May 06, 2011 5:10 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
amcgrath929 wrote:He looks a lot better now than he did in the Allspark Almanac.
Yeah, I'm guessing this new design is either a retcon or a new body upgrade of some sort.

That would be really cool. A powered up mode perhaps?

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri May 06, 2011 5:25 pm

amcgrath929 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
amcgrath929 wrote:He looks a lot better now than he did in the Allspark Almanac.
Yeah, I'm guessing this new design is either a retcon or a new body upgrade of some sort.

That would be really cool. A powered up mode perhaps?

Or, maybe he took so much damage during the war that he had to get a full makeover in the rebuilding process. After all, his Omega Sentinel partner, Gamma Supreme, died during the Battle for Iacon. I can imagine Longrack Major coming out of it with his own injuries as well.