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News Credits: 6188 · Tue Feb 09, 2016 5:20 am

Comic artist Matt Frank, a regular on the Godzilla series from IDW, and who worked on the highly popular Spotlight: Trailcutter a while back, has just shared a teaser image on his DeviantArt page. The image, mirrored below, shows four vaguely scientifically accurate dino-silhouettes, the tag 'Coming Soon' -- and is titled New Dino Transformers preview! Now, this could easily be part of the upcoming Till All Are One series, with beast planet Eukaris showing up again, or something entirely different. Check it out, and let speculations run wild below.

News Credits: 1350 · Tue Feb 09, 2016 5:27 am

My beast wars senses are tingling. It would be nice for IDW to honour beast wars with either a brand new miniseries or an ongoing

News Credits: 2 · Tue Feb 09, 2016 5:52 am

Note that they're all raptors.

News Credits: 6188 · Tue Feb 09, 2016 6:05 am

Thought I'd just show some of Frank's art to get the gears oiled up.

News Credits: 1350 · Tue Feb 09, 2016 6:28 am

I love that all grimlock picture but the rest of his work is amazing.

News Credits: 19 · Tue Feb 09, 2016 6:38 am

Va'al wrote:Thought I'd just show some of Frank's art to get the gears oiled up.

Love this. So much Grimlock of the multiverses!

News Credits: 1350 · Tue Feb 09, 2016 6:42 am

Carnivius_Prime wrote:
Va'al wrote:Thought I'd just show some of Frank's art to get the gears oiled up.

Love this. So much Grimlock of the multiverses!

I just realised something, isn't that rid 2001 grimlock from the land fill team there getting stepped on by animated grimlock.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Feb 09, 2016 7:25 am

Watch it turn out to be something for the much-reviled AOE Slash. :twisted:

News Credits: 1 · Tue Feb 09, 2016 8:31 am

Everybody says Grimlock, but I bet this is related to BW Dinobot.

News Credits: 7 · Tue Feb 09, 2016 10:02 am

Dinosaurs! Transformers! Feathers! Hands in the right position! Too excite--

Va'al wrote:Thought I'd just show some of Frank's art to get the gears oiled up.

*explodes*

The raptor lineup in itself is rather interesting. Most obviously one appears to be a baby! The first two have lots of feathers, number three looks to have a shorter coat (going bald from age maybe?), while the last one doesn't seem to have feathers at all, but a rough crocodilian hide. Different breeds of raptor? A certain dinosaur park experimenting with scientific accuracy? (Blue gets a new family?) Or maybe even one Cybertronian just really liked the traditional scaly version of dinosaurs? (Me Grimlock NO GIANT CHICKEN)

Tue Feb 09, 2016 10:47 am

Noideaforaname wrote:Dinosaurs! Transformers! Feathers! Hands in the right position! Too excite--
Va'al wrote:Thought I'd just show some of Frank's art to get the gears oiled up.

*explodes*

The raptor lineup in itself is rather interesting. Most obviously one appears to be a baby! The first two have lots of feathers, number three looks to have a shorter coat (going bald from age maybe?), while the last one doesn't seem to have feathers at all, but a rough crocodilian hide. Different breeds of raptor? A certain dinosaur park experimenting with scientific accuracy? (Blue gets a new family?) Or maybe even one Cybertronian just really liked the traditional scaly version of dinosaurs? (Me Grimlock NO GIANT CHICKEN)

There were different species of Raptors during the millions of years they existed... so the "baby" raptor is likely an adult, but just from a different species. Same rule applies to all of them really. But the last one sans feathers could be of an earlier species of Raptor, long before its species evolved feathers.

News Credits: 6 · Tue Feb 09, 2016 11:12 am

There were different species of Raptors during the millions of years they existed... so the "baby" raptor is likely an adult, but just from a different species. Same rule applies to all of them really. But the last one sans feathers could be of an earlier species of Raptor, long before its species evolved feathers.

Assuming that birds evolved from Raptors and not the other way around.

News Credits: 7 · Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:53 pm

Actually, it's looking like feathers (or similar features) were a basic trait of all dinosaurs, and maybe even all archosaurs -- that is: dinos/birds, pterosaurs, and crocodilians (the latter merely has the gene turned off). So a featherless raptor wouldn't be too early of a species, it'd be one that lost the feathers, akin to how penguins lost the ability to fly.

wolverinetodd wrote:There were different species of Raptors during the millions of years they existed... so the "baby" raptor is likely an adult, but just from a different species.

This is true. There were some tiny raptors, and some really big ones.
Though with the raptor pack trope and 3 of the 4 being the same general size, it does imply this is a family as opposed to just a random assortment. Or maybe I'm just looking too into it.

News Credits: 293 · Tue Feb 09, 2016 1:54 pm

I guarantee that every BW Dinobot fan just wet his pants. At first glance, I thought this was a MP Dinobot tease.... :shock:

Tue Feb 09, 2016 3:01 pm

I hope this is the direction they're heading with the next live action movie. Edit: But that said, the first one does look an awful lot like BW Grimlock as drawn in Gathering/Ascending.

News Credits: 6 · Tue Feb 09, 2016 3:05 pm

Y'know, instead of being four bots all with raptor altmodes, it could be one bot that transforms into a pack of raptors. (Similar to characters like Magmatron and Overlord.)