Animated Longrack Character Design

Thursday, May 5th, 2011 11:18PM CDT

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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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Credit(s): Derrick J Wyatt

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Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1217894)
Posted by ProwlJazz on May 5th, 2011 @ 11:34pm CDT

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.

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1217895)
Posted by Blurrz on May 5th, 2011 @ 11:40pm CDT

Longrack Prime. Sweet.

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1217901)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 5th, 2011 @ 11:50pm CDT

Longrack Major survived the Battle for Iacon! Awesome!

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1217906)
Posted by Diem on May 6th, 2011 @ 12:14am CDT

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.

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1217915)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 6th, 2011 @ 12:48am CDT

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.

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1217918)
Posted by Twitchythe3rd on May 6th, 2011 @ 1:03am CDT

Shovel hand!

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1217995)
Posted by bluecatcinema on May 6th, 2011 @ 8:08am CDT

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.

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1218041)
Posted by Tigertrack on May 6th, 2011 @ 9:47am CDT

FUn design.

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1218094)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 6th, 2011 @ 12:14pm CDT

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.

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1218097)
Posted by Skywarp64 on May 6th, 2011 @ 12:22pm CDT

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.

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1218105)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 6th, 2011 @ 12:35pm CDT

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).

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1218110)
Posted by Skywarp64 on May 6th, 2011 @ 12:38pm CDT

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.

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1218135)
Posted by alexison on May 6th, 2011 @ 1:47pm CDT

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

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1218143)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 6th, 2011 @ 1:58pm CDT

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:

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1218187)
Posted by alexison on May 6th, 2011 @ 3:26pm CDT

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.

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1218219)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 6th, 2011 @ 5:06pm CDT

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.

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1218224)
Posted by alexison on May 6th, 2011 @ 5:10pm CDT

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?

Re: Animated Longrack Character Design (1218232)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 6th, 2011 @ 5:25pm CDT

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.