Names Revealed for Terrorcon Tow Truck and Autobot VW Van from Transformers Rise of the Beasts

william-james88 wrote:I gotta say, seeing Michael Bay on set with the director for this movie is not sitting well with me

Micheal Bay looks like the Penguin. "Waaaaaak waaaaaak waaaaaaaaaaaak!"

Battletrap, huh? Interesting! G1 Battletrap was hardly the most memorable character (I think he MIGHT have gotten some appearances in the Headmasters?) and it is a cool name, so I'm not exactly seething over the nameslap.
Wheeljack being a campervan is kinda neat. Whilst I am awfully fond of G1 Wheeljack and absolutely adore the Lancia Stratos (especially the specific one he turns into), it does add some much needed variety to the Autobot lineup rather than him being another sports car. Plus VW campers are cool, and if he gets a good SS toy I'll be all over it. I personally would have gone with green instead of brown as a homage to his OG deco but I don't mind it.

Cool!

Can't wait to see the Maximals!

Well, I am very excited that the VW bus is Wheeljack. I am stoked for that. And BATTLETRAP is the name of the towtruck?! I love it!

also excited to get confirmation of Cheetor being in the film. I am excited for the film, still excited and getting more excited as time goes

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Well, I am very excited that the VW bus is Wheeljack. I am stoked for that. And BATTLETRAP is the name of the towtruck?! I love it!

also excited to get confirmation of Cheetor being in the film. I am excited for the film, still excited and getting more excited as time goes

My favourite part aboit Wheeljack is thst we'll eventually get a toy of a Transformer with an interesting alt mide like that.

Maybe we will get a retool of that Wheeljack mold as Origin Wheeljack?

We know from Deadline that Paramount has pushed back the release of Transformers 7: Rise of the Beasts by a whole year. Instead of coming out in June 2022, it will instead be released in June 2023, the 9th to be exact.

What makes this more interesting than possibly any other film delay is that more than any live action franchise, the Transformers franchise always has a major toyline assigned to it, often taking up entire retailer areas, as can be seen below. And the Rise of the Beast toys are already ordered by retailers like Target, which have the toys already in their system, for a 2022 release date. You can see the whole list of toys here (they are in spoiler free code names). And as we had seen in previous toylines for films, like Godzilla vs Kong, Black Widow, ect, the fact that the toys were already in the pipeline meant they were released anyway. So knowing all this, is it possible that we still get that massive toyline in 2022 instead of in 2023 when the movie releases? We'll see, but this is bound to be interesting.



The sadness themed thumbnail is from TheWhovianHalfing on Deviantart

High chances that the toys will look nothing as they appear in the movie. Remember the Beetle Bee? That was just within the normal timeframe. The movie producers could turn Scourge into a Skids-N-Mudflap duo riding each other's shoulders for all we know.

This is actually good news, toy wise, as it means that the priority will be on Generation molds, including molds that they might have ended up cancelling.
If they already have designs made for folks like Polar Claw and Gears (who we know were originally planned for Kingdom, but cancelled), they will try to use such toys to fill in the gap so as to fill space.
I would also assume more cases of repaints, alas.

TF7 delayed by a year???

Well that's just prime...


(I always wanted to say that )

Triggerdick Megatron wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:I guess that would explain why there are no ROTB Studio Series figures leaked for this year.

SS ROTB toys won't be out until 2 or 3 years after the original ROTB toys like with Last Knight which had a toyline well before Last Knight Studio Series.

I don't think that's how they're doing it anymore. The Bumblebee Movie released toys in Studio Series, rather than having its own separate line. It doesn't make sense to have a separate line anymore, then release "better" toys a few years later.