Obviously the animal forms rip themselves to pieces in brutal fashion
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Dual ‘Transformers’ Movies In The Works At Paramount, One Based on Beast Wars
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Obviously the animal forms rip themselves to pieces in brutal fashion
Or..or they can run into time traveling humans also stuck in the past.... every option with any humans just sounds terrible.
If Michael Bay isn't attached to the project and it doesn't take place in the main movie universe then I might be interested in Beast Wars. That show rocked
Inferno had the best rants. I remember the one of him going on about how pain is his friend.
Hopefully they stay faithful to the original colors of the characters as well as the animals they disguise as.
Look in your heart, you know what's coming.
Look in your heart, you know what's coming.
Give me that Jungle Book/Lion King fidelity.
Look in your heart, you know what's coming.
I'd be okay with this design as long as the bottom half of his legs can turn into a sky surfboard.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I just didn't wanna get too excited for something prematurely, but that goes the other way too I suppose!
Man I hadn't even considered this. Them still using Peter Cullen makes me think it's not outside the realm of possibility.
tbh, I didn't hate the similarly overdesigned Scorponok from the first live action movie. And I'd mind this even less if they use it if they ever get to the transmetals era of Beast Wars.
Look in your heart, you know what's coming.
This series became a guilty pleasure of mine. For how stupid some of the storylines are (the Witwiccans, lmao), the action is so fucking over-the-top that I can't help finding it fascinating to watch. Bumblebee felt like a good step backwards, but to have more relatable human characters and interactions they sacrificed some of the action. At this point I have to wonder what is actually gonna happen with this franchise. They keep saying back and forth that they want to continue the original saga but they don't seem committed. They flip-flopped back and forth between whether Bumblebee is a full reboot or not. They mentioned they want to do an Optimus Prime origin movie; they talked about working on that Hasbro universe to crossover with GI Joe, Ninja Turtles and other properties; they mentioned they'll still continue the storyline of the first 5 movies eventually; now there's these talks, too.
Feels like they don't really know what to do right now, stuck between a low critical reception but great viewer numbers of the original movies, the much better reception for Bumblebee, and the fact they're also sitting on tons of Hasbro stuff, Transformers stories or otherwise.
Feels like they don't really know what to do right now, stuck between a low critical reception but great viewer numbers of the original movies, the much better reception for Bumblebee, and the fact they're also sitting on tons of Hasbro stuff, Transformers stories or otherwise.
Eh, there were 2 horrendous trashfires of cinema, 1 comically mediocre movie, 2 enjoyable if unremarkable movies, and 1 very enjoyable spin-off/reboot that's outright good.
Look in your heart, you know what's coming.
I don't mind this Robo-Monster universe design for Beast Wars characters. As long as human involvement are kept in a minimum or preferably non-existent. And please maintain the team chemistry of the Maximals.
A Beast Wars film would be the first Transformers film I watch.
It only succeeds if they don't include any human characters like the show. Some early humans being glimpsed is fine.
It only succeeds if they don't include any human characters like the show. Some early humans being glimpsed is fine.
Just remember the original show isn't going anywhere, if the end result is garbage it isn't going to ruin what's come before in any way.
Now, with that said, the show is beloved but it probably can't have a run or trilogy/etc that's going to "ape" the old seasons without throwing in some thing different. I hope they do mess with fans expectations in that way.
Pun intended.
Season 3 had too little world building too late.
Hell, Season 2's finale/Season 3's opener should have maybe been the end if I'm being honest.
I love the show warts and all, I just watched the Black Arachnia Transmetal episode last week for the hell of it - Silverbolt is probably one of my faves if not my fave, he's MVP in that one - but damn it I want my Beast Wars Battle Royale video game before too long.
Now, with that said, the show is beloved but it probably can't have a run or trilogy/etc that's going to "ape" the old seasons without throwing in some thing different. I hope they do mess with fans expectations in that way.
Pun intended.
Season 3 had too little world building too late.
Hell, Season 2's finale/Season 3's opener should have maybe been the end if I'm being honest.
I love the show warts and all, I just watched the Black Arachnia Transmetal episode last week for the hell of it - Silverbolt is probably one of my faves if not my fave, he's MVP in that one - but damn it I want my Beast Wars Battle Royale video game before too long.
Look in your heart, you know what's coming.
Should the Maximals even be that big? I'm going to assume they make them smaller than the size of the other Transformers.
If I am remembering right wouldn't this defeat the whole reason they were animals? Wasn't the planet blasting energy their machine forms couldn't handle so they used a organic outer shell?
Look in your heart, you know what's coming.
As an OG TF fan and a huge fan of the 1986 movie, I really enjoyed Bumblebee. The sequence at the beginning in particular was perfect. More of that please.
Beastwars can fuck right off.
Beast Wars has always been the best thing that came out of this franchise. I have no faith that they will do it justice. They will absolutely shoehorn humans into this and set it in modern day instead of prehistoric Earth.
I need explanations, when did Transmutate go from this
to this
The second one ain't great but at least it doesn't look like a rejected design for a Five Nights at Freddy's monster.
How do you figure? There has been precisely 5min of G1 design thus far which was arguably better than most of the other films put together.
There's a 90s nostalgia boom on the horizon, and I have long held that Beast Wars is the secret weapon of Transformers that Hasbro has completely ignored.
I'm so happy by this news. Hope they both made it to screen--I adore Bumblebee.
I'm so happy by this news. Hope they both made it to screen--I adore Bumblebee.
That's the point, it's supposed to look ugly and otherworldly.
Shit youre right. People have been stripping through 80s properties for so long, I guess it was bound to happen. If you were born in 1980, you were 4 when Transformers started and 27 when the first live action movie came out, and now you'd be 40. Now they want the 90s kids.
Both Maximals and Predacons are small, at least compared to Autobots/Decepticons.
Completely forgot that Beast Wars was called Beasties in Canada. I had to look up the opening on YouTube and BEASTIES being shouted with all the same enthusiasm and intent as BEAST WARS in the American opening is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
I usually just shrug at regional differences like this but this an absolute loss for Canada lmao
BEASTIE MODE
lmao
I usually just shrug at regional differences like this but this an absolute loss for Canada lmao
BEASTIE MODE
lmao
Beast Wars. Oh man. I have very fond memories of that show. Does it hold up today? Should I bother finding a way to re-watch it?
Also I think Beast Wars really resonated with me because at the time I was heavily into Pokemon, and in Beast Wars, the machines undergo transformations of their own, acquiring new powers and skins. It really reminded me of leveling up or evolving.
Also I think Beast Wars really resonated with me because at the time I was heavily into Pokemon, and in Beast Wars, the machines undergo transformations of their own, acquiring new powers and skins. It really reminded me of leveling up or evolving.
Beast Wars aged worse than G1. At least G1 is bad in an entertaining way. The first season of Beast Wars is unwatchable.
You mean, start of the generation Millennials/Young Gen X you had your turn, end of the generation Millennials its our turn.
I don't know, they're both pretty stilted animation wise. At least Beast Wars had relatively good writing for a kids show in season 1. And like actual good writing in season 2 and 3.
There's no way they're going to do Beast Wars, unless they find someway to force a predominately human plot into a time period hundreds of thousands of years before homo sapiens.
I need explanations, when did Transmutate go from this
to this
The collectors club/convention retconned* in that the protoforms on the Axalon had a life as transformers on Cybertron before the show, so they have pre-BWs bodies. They then did a bunch of toys that were representing those bodies, but couldn't afford to produce any original tooling (other than the odd new head), and just repainted existing toys. So if Transmutate had a body before the protoform pod malfunctioned then it would probably look more generic as a transformer, and the only female mold that hadn't been used to death elsewhere at the time was the Transformers Prime Arcee toy, so they repainted it in to Transmutate.
It was an odd chain of events that sort of all make sense in and of themselves at the time but come across as a bit... ehhh as a whole.
*this is perhaps a little unfair as the show does contradict itself a bit on this point. But it was definitely a weird fit for Transmutate.