New Rise of the Beasts Trailer Featuring More Characters and Other Surprises

I’m gonna just leave this here.

Nexus Knight wrote:So... Unicron is coming to Earth... but he is also Earth... and this isn't a reboot... ow my head.

Sidebar: This looks epic... other than likely continuity slipsadoodle (seriously, the Bay films were moneymakers and the my first exposure to Transformers, but let them go, pleeeeease), I'm hoping for big things.

That's just continuity for ya.

I stopped following the Bayverse films some time ago. So much potential, so much squandered so they could pander to the lowest common denominator. Every time their team tries to inject 'personality' into a Transformer character, it winds up as pure, concentrated cringe.

Unicron being in this movie makes me think they're doing a sort of "half-way" reboot-prequel that only acknowledges one or two past movies as canon and ignores everything else. Slasher movie franchises do this a lot, Halloween is notorious for it, being like a Choose Your Own Adventure book with the various timelines at this point, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre does it too. It seems like Rise of the Beasts is at the very least ignoring The Last Knight, and possibly Age of Extinction too, which I don't mind too much.

I don't know why people are that surprised. The phrase "Transformers Continuity" has almost always been an oxymoron.

Everyone has their own view. But for me, until Car Robots/Rid there were basically only 2 continuities. The Marvel Comic, and Marvel/Sunbow animated series.

UK, & G2 comics were part of Marvel comics continuity.

All the Japanese series, Manga, as well as BW and BM could be tied to the original Sunbow series. It wasn't *perfect* but it made a heck of a lot more sense than the live action films.

Sure in the 21st century we have literally dozens of TF continuities now, but nobody is saying they Are all in the same universe. We acknowledge they are all different.

It's just certain producers at Paramount trying to say all the live action films take place in the same continuity when that clearly isn't possible.

o.supreme wrote:Everyone has their own view. But for me, until Car Robots/Rid there were basically only 2 continuities. The Marvel Comic, and Marvel/Sunbow animated series.

UK, & G2 comics were part of Marvel comics continuity.

All the Japanese series, Manga, as well as BW and BM could be tied to the original Sunbow series. It wasn't *perfect* but it made a heck of a lot more sense than the live action films.

Sure in the 21st century we have literally dozens of TF continuities now, but nobody is saying they Are all in the same universe. We acknowledge they are all different.

It's just certain producers at Paramount trying to say all the live action films take place in the same continuity when that clearly isn't possible.

one thing I've been saying for a while, and still think is true, is that this movie is going to borrow from the netflix kingdom show. Beastwars has been heavily tied to time travel shenanigan's since it's beginning after all. In other words, this unicron is likely the unicron from the future, or a possible future where he got up and dusted the Earth off of him.

as for the movie continuity as a whole, it has been broken since RotF, and broken more with each movie's retcon of the retcons. (insert obligatory Autobots vs Retcons joke here). So I never expect anything else.

Wheeljacks full model does look much better inho, even if they are still doing the Urkel "Nerds must look like sterotype nerds" motif.

At the end of the day, I'm not expecting high cinema. Would a high cinema art piece be awesome? sure.
But for me, it is more important that it is a fun, entertaining and enjoyable romp, without being so braindead as to be insulting. Because imho, that's what made Transformers great from the beginning.

Trailer was pretty cool! Looks like it’ll be fun. Some very neat shots of Bumblebee in there!

Read on one of the other fan sites that the round ball things in the bit where Bee's "skydiving" appear to be similar to Armada Dead End, a "character" that was associated with Unicron.



If so that's a bit cool way to potentially get Unicron a bit more active in a battle than just hovering over the planet while letting his Heralds do all the heavy lifting.


Well at the least this trailer shows that the action should at least be pretty decent, didn't look super shaky like some of the previous films have been where I can at least tell what's going on relatively despite the scale of the fight, as much as I liked Bumblebee's fights just fine as one on one fights I'm somewhat glad to get an epic war fight that might be good, at the least even if the film isn't great in the story department it should hopefully be entertaining in a popcorn flick sort of way, only movie I've watched in theaters in the last 4 or so years was Top Gun Maverick and Mario so eh a big theater experience will be nice.

Sabrblade wrote:If any previous movie is getting retconned by all this, it could just be TLK alone, since it was the only one of the movies that bombed.

What would the point of that be when all it would do is just make Age of Extinction a cliffhanger if they don't follow up on the ending when it already had a sequel movie as unsatisfying as it was at actually following up on the plot threads there especially when Unicron was never mentioned to be a thing until TLK?

This film doesn't seem to be doing anything with Creators or whatever so that idea just seems jarring.