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Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:27 am

Tiss the question. Alright I haven't seen a thread on this here in this forum, but I ran into some alleged unused Massive Black TF2 concept art depicting Laserbeak, which seems fairly close to what was shown in the Trailer.

Art is featured in the attachments.

It seems to coincide with whats being included in film and the new figure that went up for auction.

Just some stuff I'd thought I'd share...if there is already a thread out there about this, please do plug it here, if not, eh, feel free to add whatever pics and links you think validate or debunk this claim.

Personally I think it's true, being this is "CONCEPT" art, it's not going to look simlular to the letter, but enough of the design elements are there being the circular wing disks, the serpentine neck (Forced perspective), and the segmented wing feather bits. As for the design itself...eh, I mean I give the artist credit for not giving it one eye or going the other extreme and giving it ten eyes....but again the head just strikes me as too bug like for an avian based bot.

~Josh

Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:00 am

Ugh. I hope they at least change the head.

Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:10 pm

Takanuva wrote:Ugh. I hope they at least change the head.

He has a stache! :lol:

Or is it?

Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:20 am

lazerwave217 wrote:
Takanuva wrote:Ugh. I hope they at least change the head.

He has a stache!
Or is it?

No one knows, there lies the mystery :lol:

I honestly don't know whats going on there either though....I think because this was art meant for "Fallen", they will change or have changed (being there are images of Laserbeak in the trailer) this design...I can only pray the head has changed as well.

News Credits: 37 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:58 am

Joshua Vallse wrote:
lazerwave217 wrote:
Takanuva wrote:Ugh. I hope they at least change the head.

He has a stache!
Or is it?

No one knows, there lies the mystery

I honestly don't know whats going on there either though....I think because this was art meant for "Fallen", they will change or have changed (being there are images of Laserbeak in the trailer) this design...I can only pray the head has changed as well.

I like the head. He looks like he kills people; AKA, the way a Decepticon SHOULD look!

Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:19 pm

Alright it looks like things have gone from bad to worse here as far as that head.

New images of Laserbeak have arisen in the toy forum under this thread here.....

transformers-dotm-laserbeak-revealed-t74535s0.php

Which reveal an alt mode and a....something else mode.

Ah, wonderfully bad. I think this film has officaly gone into the feild of parody at this point. The alt mode seems to be some type of UAV or

Drone, which has a birds face painted on to it. Nice easy way out there. The uh....beast mode? Well the "other" mode just, I don't know really. The toy thread has descrptions of dying vulture to plucked chicken to robot ostritch....all which sound accurate to me. Even in movie mode, I don't really see how this thing could look good on any capacity.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 5:12 pm

The head is pretty bad, especially those bulbous eyes on the side. And is that a tongue? Other than that and the way off color choices I like it.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:12 pm

Joshua Vallse wrote:Alright it looks like things have gone from bad to worse here as far as that head.

New images of Laserbeak have arisen in the toy forum under this thread here.....

transformers-dotm-laserbeak-revealed-t74535s0.php

Which reveal an alt mode and a....something else mode.

Ah, wonderfully bad. I think this film has officaly gone into the feild of parody at this point. The alt mode seems to be some type of UAV or Drone, which has a birds face painted on to it. Nice easy way out there. The uh....beast mode? Well the "other" mode just, I don't know really. The toy thread has descrptions of dying vulture to plucked chicken to robot ostritch....all which sound accurate to me. Even in movie mode, I don't really see how this thing could look good on any capacity.

*ROTFLMAO*
If it doesn't get named in the film, and the name remains 'condor' or 'Buzzard' or whatever on the box, we can pretend its a PCC drone with no friends.
By Junkion,that's ugly. We can show it to the Barbie haters next time they complain all toys are made to brainwash kids into wanting to be beautiful.

News Credits: 5 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:23 pm

Damn... well this sucks. Her's hoping that he looks better in the movie than his toy. oh well. Can't have them all i guess. Its a shame too cause they did such a great job with Ravage.

On a side note, it would be real killer if we got a classic..

"Lazerbeak,.. Eject!" from Soundwave! One can only hope.

Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:26 pm

Joshua Vallse wrote:Alright it looks like things have gone from bad to worse here as far as that head.

New images of Laserbeak have arisen in the toy forum under this thread here.....

transformers-dotm-laserbeak-revealed-t74535s0.php

Which reveal an alt mode and a....something else mode.

Ah, wonderfully bad. I think this film has officaly gone into the feild of parody at this point. The alt mode seems to be some type of UAV or Drone, which has a birds face painted on to it. Nice easy way out there. The uh....beast mode? Well the "other" mode just, I don't know really. The toy thread has descrptions of dying vulture to plucked chicken to robot ostritch....all which sound accurate to me. Even in movie mode, I don't really see how this thing could look good on any capacity.

the head sucks so bad its terrible to look at. A disgrace to the tf universe. ESpecially bay. :BANG_HEAD:

Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:28 pm

5150 Cruiser wrote:Damn... well this sucks. Her's hoping that he looks better in the movie than his toy. oh well. Can't have them all i guess. Its a shame too cause they did such a great job with Ravage.

On a side note, it would be real killer if we got a classic..

"Lazerbeak,.. Eject!" from Soundwave! One can only hope.

Good job spelling laser thqat way. Lazer.

News Credits: 5 · Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:45 pm

Good job spelling laser thqat way. Lazer.

haha.. I've always spelt "lazer" that way. I remember the lazer tag place down the street from my house when i was growing up. Thats how they spelt it and it's stuck with me ever since.

Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:49 am

I actually like the flatter gead shape on the new toy, evokes memories of the original Laserbeak, not too sure on the silly dinosaur-esque head that pops out. However, as a totallity, it seems ok.

Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:14 pm

... will lick you to death

but seriously why a tongue!!!! Now I know Tf's have had tongues before...

Legion

G2 Starscream

Waspinator

but really.... Why a tongue on laserbeak?

News Credits: 104 · Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:25 pm

Aaaaaw.. He's so cute..

News Credits: 1 · Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:43 pm

It's actually the first time I've seen him, and I have to say he looks crap! He genuinely looks like some kind of freakish Dodo bird. Big pass.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:26 pm

There once was an ugly duckling... But seriously, he's so ugly I hope Prime shoots him in the face in the first scene, just to put him out of his undoubted misery.

News Credits: 104 · Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:37 pm

Oh and I merged the two topics.. No need to have 2 topics on the Lazerbeak toy.

Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:23 am

Cyber Bishop wrote:Oh and I merged the two topics.. No need to have 2 topics on the Lazerbeak toy.

Yay my first merger...guess I really am now a combiner like my post status states ha ha

Yeah the little tongue thing threw me off too, it's just soooooo.....I honestly don't know