Possible New IDW Dino Transformers Preview Image by Matt Frank

Note that they're all raptors.

I love that all grimlock picture but the rest of his work is amazing.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Va'al wrote:Thought I'd just show some of Frank's art to get the gears oiled up.

Love this. So much Grimlock of the multiverses!

I just realised something, isn't that rid 2001 grimlock from the land fill team there getting stepped on by animated grimlock.

Everybody says Grimlock, but I bet this is related to BW Dinobot.

Noideaforaname wrote:Dinosaurs! Transformers! Feathers! Hands in the right position! Too excite--

Va'al wrote:Thought I'd just show some of Frank's art to get the gears oiled up.

*explodes*


The raptor lineup in itself is rather interesting. Most obviously one appears to be a baby! The first two have lots of feathers, number three looks to have a shorter coat (going bald from age maybe?), while the last one doesn't seem to have feathers at all, but a rough crocodilian hide. Different breeds of raptor? A certain dinosaur park experimenting with scientific accuracy? (Blue gets a new family?) Or maybe even one Cybertronian just really liked the traditional scaly version of dinosaurs? (Me Grimlock NO GIANT CHICKEN)

There were different species of Raptors during the millions of years they existed... so the "baby" raptor is likely an adult, but just from a different species. Same rule applies to all of them really. But the last one sans feathers could be of an earlier species of Raptor, long before its species evolved feathers.

Actually, it's looking like feathers (or similar features) were a basic trait of all dinosaurs, and maybe even all archosaurs -- that is: dinos/birds, pterosaurs, and crocodilians (the latter merely has the gene turned off). So a featherless raptor wouldn't be too early of a species, it'd be one that lost the feathers, akin to how penguins lost the ability to fly.

wolverinetodd wrote:There were different species of Raptors during the millions of years they existed... so the "baby" raptor is likely an adult, but just from a different species.

This is true. There were some tiny raptors, and some really big ones.
Though with the raptor pack trope and 3 of the 4 being the same general size, it does imply this is a family as opposed to just a random assortment. Or maybe I'm just looking too into it.

I hope this is the direction they're heading with the next live action movie. Edit: But that said, the first one does look an awful lot like BW Grimlock as drawn in Gathering/Ascending.

I have no clue what this could mean, but I love it! Just got a good feeling about it

Slash shall finally get his day of reckoning!