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[MaximalNui]

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.

[EvasionModeBumblebee]

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.

[william-james88]

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

[william-james88]

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!

[TulioDude]

Thats cool!

[EvasionModeBumblebee]

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

[Sabrblade]

It's up now.

[william-james88]

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!

[Autobot_Benz]

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

[Sabrblade]

Also, voice cast!

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

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

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

[Autobot_Benz]

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

[EvasionModeBumblebee]

"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!

[Sabrblade]

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)

[84everfan]

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.

[william-james88]

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.

[Rtron]

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.

[william-james88]

"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.

[X3ROhour]

ZOINKS!
excitement.

[ZeroWolf]

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

[EvasionModeBumblebee]

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.

[william-james88]

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.

[william-james88]

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

[blackeyedprime]

I've probably watched the trailer more times than I'll end up watching the film.

Kids didnt look like they actually got wet from Primal. Cheetor is way too big (maybe his toy will be like the huge beastmachines version ). Arcees face is ass and her coloring odd choice. Primes face is only a slight bit less ass. Not Mirage transforming just so he wasnt facing backwards could have been genius if it squished what is some what likely to be annoying acting human inside but just seems odd (it looks like he killed the cop chasing him anyways yay for 'live action autobots')
As long as some of the toys are good i'm not really bothered how the film pans out in all fairness -though I am expecting it to ruin beastwars characters.

On a positive note, looks like Rhinox ate some beans....

[Whirlkick]

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.

Remember that the film doesn't release until June, this is just a teaser trailer so the CGI is unfinished.

[william-james88]

I've probably watched the trailer more times than I'll end up watching the film.

Kids didnt look like they actually got wet from Primal. Cheetor is way too big (maybe his toy will be like the huge beastmachines version ). Arcees face is ass and her coloring odd choice. Primes face is only a slight bit less ass. Not Mirage transforming just so he wasnt facing backwards could have been genius if it squished what is some what likely to be annoying acting human inside but just seems odd (it looks like he killed the cop chasing him anyways yay for 'live action autobots')
As long as some of the toys are good i'm not really bothered how the film pans out in all fairness -though I am expecting it to ruin beastwars characters.

On a positive note, looks like Rhinox ate some beans....

Cheetor will be much bigger than he's usually depicted. He gets a voyager toy while most autobots are getting deluxe toys.

I don't think the film will ruin anything. The films havent ruined anything so far, the brand is as strong as ever, they just bring more attention to characters and create more fans, so I'm always here for that.

On a completly unrelated note, i'm really not over that Scourge design, it's so different than what I pictured and just looks so plain and generic. Reminds me of the destroyer from the first thor movie.