8/15/2023 0 Comments Mirage porsche transformers![]() ![]() That seems to be a running theme for the Maximals in this movie. Bumblebee is in his new off-road form, and Cheetor is, again, very large. The giant cheetah is, surprisingly, the Beast Wars kid-appeal character Cheetor! In one shot we see him next to Bumblebee, Generation One’s kid-appeal character. There he is, my not-so-little guy! Image: Paramount Pictures Image: Paramount Picturesįingers crossed for ears that glow as he talks. And we don’t get a good look at his robot mode here, other than one shot of his shoulder in the battle scene and a look at him from behind in a wide shot, but we know the bus is Wheeljack from Caple’s Instagram. That Volkswagen bus is Wheeljack! No, he’s not a red-and-green Lancia Stratos this time around. This movie takes place in the 1990s, so it seems like she’s got a decade or so to become the three (!) motorcycles she appears as for about two seconds before getting blown up in 2009’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Arcee looks very familiar in robot mode, though she now transforms into a red-and-white motorcycle. Now, who are they? Red is the new pink, and vice versa Image: Paramount PicturesĪrcee (Liza Koshy) and Wheeljack (Cristo Fernández) are returning from their extremely brief cameos in Bumblebee. We also see Battletrap in tow truck mode on a mountain highway firing missiles at a pair of Autobots. These guys are what Primal is referring to when he talks of a “coming darkness.” Battletrap is voiced by David Sobolov, who was the voice actor for Depth Charge way back in the Beast Wars cartoon! Image: Paramount Pictures He’s a member of a new faction (again with an older name) called the Terrorcons. The orange-and-black tow truck is named Battletrap! You might remember a blue and gray Duocon named Battletrap from 1987, but this fella seems to be merely borrowing his name, as Transformers are wont to do. There are lots of classic Beast Wars callbacks here.īut who’s that orange guy going toe-to-toe with Optimus Primal? A familiar name Image: Paramount Pictures Later on in the trailer we see Optimus Primal in his robot mode wielding his two swords, combined at the hilts, just as the original gorilla Optimus Primal toy could! We also briefly see them attached to a chain, which seems to harken back to that toy’s mace weapon. (That’s precisely why the original Optimus Primal found himself facing off against Megatron as a Tyrannosaurus rex. Judging by Primal’s size here, however, Rise of the Beasts seems to be taking after Optimus Primal’s original inspiration, King Kong! ![]() They’re different guys! Traditionally, Optimus Primal is around the size of a regular gorilla, aka generally human-sized. But for those of you who were born after 1995, that gorilla dude on the right is Optimus Primal (voiced by Ron Perlman). You know which one’s Optimus Prime! And this Optimus Prime is looking fresh out of his brief appearances in the 2018 Transformers spinoff prequel, Bumblebee. ![]() Look, I’m not gonna condescend to you and tell you who Optimus Prime is. Who are these robots? What do they convert into? Whose tusks gleam in the night? Allow us to answer all these questions and more with the exclamations they deserve! We’re not sorry we know this stuff! That’s just Primes Image: Paramount Pictures The teaser trailer for Steven Caple Jr.’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts dropped on Thursday, and - by Primus! - it’s got more robots in it than you can shake a Power Booster Rod at! ![]()
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