Possible First Look At Transformers Kingdom Blackarachnia Alt Mode

Emerje wrote:

william-james88 wrote:For some reason, I don't remember about the earthrise leaks. From what I remember, they did a good job keeping things close to the chest. I know the first time we saw the quintesson, arcee, shuttle micromasters, scorponok and allicon were at their designated reveal events.

Initially, yes, but then things like our first complete look at Scorponok and the still rumored Sky Lynx happened and it's all been downhill from there.

Emerje

Do we know what the entirety of wave 3/4 earthrise is?

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

william-james88 wrote:For some reason, I don't remember about the earthrise leaks. From what I remember, they did a good job keeping things close to the chest. I know the first time we saw the quintesson, arcee, shuttle micromasters, scorponok and allicon were at their designated reveal events.

Initially, yes, but then things like our first complete look at Scorponok and the still rumored Sky Lynx happened and it's all been downhill from there.

Emerje

Do we know what the entirety of wave 3/4 earthrise is?

Pretty much, we know wave 3, and looks like wave 4 isn't happening.
Battle Masters are the new Doublecrosser with repacks of Soundbarrier and Slitherfang.
Micros are re-release of Direct Hit and Power Punch packed with wave 1 re-packs.
Deluxe is Runamuck, Fasttrack, Sunstreaker and Trailbreaker
Voyager is Megatron and Quitesson
No new leader, so likely re-packs of waves 1 and 2.

WFC-E numberwise, Runabout's number would put him in wave 4 without any new micro or battle masters for that wave, but he could also be an exclusive if there is no wave 4 as the leakers have been indicating.

Looking at this and her bot mode we saw earlier, there are some definite ques from the masterpiece blackarachnia.

Kingdom Blackarachnia's black spider legs aren't too surprising, especially considering the alterations to Rattrap's beast mode to look more like an actual rat. Most black widow spiders have black legs to match their black head and abdomen. Occasionally, they may also include some dark brown pigmentation on part of the legs, but that's a far cry from solid brown. I can appreciate the focus on making the beast modes more true to their source material: actual animals.

Wolfman Jake wrote:Kingdom Blackarachnia's black spider legs aren't too surprising, especially considering the alterations to Rattrap's beast mode to look more like an actual rat. Most black widow spiders have black legs to match their black head and abdomen. Occasionally, they may also include some dark brown pigmentation on part of the legs, but that's a far cry from solid brown. I can appreciate the focus on making the beast modes more true to their source material: actual animals.

With the source material theoretically being pre-historic animals that may have *had any coloring and not be feathered...screen or toy accurate colors should be the priority but as long as it's a good toy that's the important thing.

I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

No thank you. Jurassic Park dinosaurs look cool.

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

No thank you. Jurassic Park dinosaurs look cool.

But I would love to see some feather on his dino mode. could add some cool looking aesthetics to him

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

No thank you. Jurassic Park dinosaurs look cool.

But I would love to see some feather on his dino mode. could add some cool looking aesthetics to him

If it's anything like this, feathered Dinobot = hideous.

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

No thank you. Jurassic Park dinosaurs look cool.

How does a non tail dragging/non erect Jurrasic Park Trex sleep?

How ever it wants to

Wakkawakkawakka

Agreed on non feathered but turns out I'm in favor of tail draggers.

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

No thank you. Jurassic Park dinosaurs look cool.

But I would love to see some feather on his dino mode. could add some cool looking aesthetics to him

If it's anything like this, feathered Dinobot = hideous.

This is actually entertaining and somewhat cool to me

Personally, I'd rather no feathers on Dinobot and Megatron (and according to some of the leakers before everything caught fire and they had to lay low, they won't have feathers), but I'd be fine with a potential GS Grimlock from Dinobot that had the raptor head retooled a bit to be sorta like a mix between JP3 "feathered" Raptors and the "Indominus Rex" spines.

Not the perfectly accurate Raptor mode that some would want, but a decent enough compromise without having to reshell the whole thing, plus it would result in Dinobot and Grimlock looking different in beast mode, but still recognizably looking like the "theme park monsters" some people love

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

No thank you. Jurassic Park dinosaurs look cool.

But I would love to see some feather on his dino mode. could add some cool looking aesthetics to him

If it's anything like this, feathered Dinobot = hideous.

This is actually entertaining and somewhat cool to me

I like dinosaurs as giant birds.It look hard to accept for some people.

Dinosoid in TUROK are basically the reptilian aliens.And in other fiction...

If we were getting Beast War characters all the time I think feathers would be a welcome sight for a toy or two

BUT

Since we don't I think it's best that Dinobot doesn't have feathers since it's been a long time since his last figure.

Yeah, for this go around I want show accuracy to be paramount, so no feathers or anatomical accuracy on Megatron or Dinobot please. After that? Bring on the feathered dinos, I love those. I'm still waiting on a trilobite transformer. A cambrian explosion beast warrior, like an opabinia transformer, is something that will never happen but I'd love.

But for now, the fact that they're giving us almost the whole BW season 1 cast is crazy enough.

If they wanna do feathered dino Transformers, either make all new characters or give us the Raptoricons.

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:But I would love to see some feather on his dino mode. could add some cool looking aesthetics to him

If it's anything like this, feathered Dinobot = hideous.

First of all, that looks great. A little lanky in bot mode but that's because of how he's rigged, the artist admits as much in the description.

Now, I want my cartoon-accurate Dinobot, but this is also cool.

Sabrblade wrote:If they wanna do feathered dino Transformers, either make all new characters or give us the Raptoricons.

However I'm also here for these.




As far as Kingdom goes, I'm really impressed by that Blackarachnia so far. I didn't think it was possible to make her cartoon accurate but I guess she's a shellformer. Cheetor looks alright. Rattrap is nice, never was a big fan of him to begin with. I want to see that Megatron. The first figure I ever bought was Ultra Class T-Rex Megatron, I'm pleased to see what they do with him for the 25th anniversary.

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I want a Dinobot with feathers, please?

No thank you. Jurassic Park dinosaurs look cool.

Honestly? I don't think Jurassic Park dinos look as cool as feathered dinos. At this point, in my mind, seeing feathers on dinos that had them actually help them feel like the real living creatures that actually existed, while the typical featherless scaly things in pop culture are these imaginary fake creatures. Feathers + realistic addition of fat, flesh, and muscle on the face, body, and limbs/tail bring dinos from being these fake monsters to actual interesting ancient life.

Unrelated, all the bipedal dinosaurs in Jurassic Park have broken wrists. Most dinosaurs' wrists faced inward, and could not rotate to face downward the way they do in Jurassic Park.

PerfectVision wrote:I like dinosaurs as giant birds.It look hard to accept for some people.

Dinosoid in TUROK are basically the reptilian aliens.And in other fiction...

And will you be as accepting in another 30 years when paleontology "discovers" more which makes what they believe now seem dated?

Just saying these are toys, no need to chase something that isn't really there.

o.supreme wrote:

PerfectVision wrote:I like dinosaurs as giant birds.It look hard to accept for some people.

Dinosoid in TUROK are basically the reptilian aliens.And in other fiction...

And will you be as accepting in another 30 years when paleontology "discovers" more which makes what they believe now seem dated?

Just saying these are toys, no need to chase something that isn't really there.

what further discovery would retroactively erase the many, many, many clear feather and proto-feather imprints we've seen (and continue to see more of) in fossils

and don't show me that Ben G. Thomas "maybe T. Rex didn't have feathers" video, because T. Rex never had anywhere close to the most concrete evidence of feathers in adulthood, compared to the many many many other species that have had incredibly solid evidence for it