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Published: 2009-08-10 15:13:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 1100; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 3
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Decided to try updating the Predacons from G1 to fit into Bay's messed up movieverse. I chose to do the Predacons since Bay, Orci, and Kurtzman will most likely never introduce beast-based Transformers into the movies, like the Dinobots, which Bay stated that he never liked.

Here's some of the sketches that I did for a few of the Predacons' heads. Got lazy and just drew half of their faces and did the copy/flip trick.

Changes made:

To make them fit into the movieverse, instead of being Transformers that turn from beasts into robots, I changed it so that the Predacons have vehicle alt modes, like most of the Cybertronains, meaning that their beast modes are their robot modes.

Tantrum and Headstrong were removed from the Predacons because, let's face it, bulls and rhinos aren't predatory animals. Rampage was also removed because, well, Bay already used that name for a Constructicon in Revenge of the Fallen and it felt weird assigning a new name to the tiger Predacon.

Featured Predacons:

Here we've got a condor/falcon (not sure yet) named Divebomb, an alligator whose name as of now is Undermine, an amphibian-like biped named Spittor, the tarantula named Tarantulus, and a serpent named Quickstrike.

Divebomb turns into a stunt plane, Undermine transforms into a jeep, Spittor disguises itself as an ATV, and Quickstrike converts into a dune buggy.
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Comments: 11

Shawn1993 [2009-08-11 02:51:20 +0000 UTC]

Nice work I wonder if Bay will actually end up doing that >.> Making their bot modes the preds and alt modes vehicles. Anyways nice heads They look pretty sick. I like the second the most for some reason haha

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soy-monk In reply to Shawn1993 [2009-08-11 02:58:07 +0000 UTC]

It'd be neat, but I highly doubt it =/

Bay, Kurtzman, and Orci have stated before that they wouldn't even consider the Dinobots because giving Cybertronians dinosaur alt modes was unrealistic and goofy to them. Bay'a also said before that he didn't like the Dinobots himself, personally.

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Shawn1993 In reply to soy-monk [2009-08-11 17:05:29 +0000 UTC]

That's pretty stupid. Like, I understand the matter of not being realistic but still... it would be cool Who cares if he doesn't like them XD What about all the dinobot fans? Like honestly lol It isn't all about him XP

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soy-monk In reply to Shawn1993 [2009-08-11 18:21:31 +0000 UTC]

I know, right? It'd totally make sense to include the Dinobots in the movie. Little kids don't care about realism if they see a gigantic, badass dinosaur robot on the big screen! That'd definitely help boost toy sales.

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Shawn1993 In reply to soy-monk [2009-08-11 18:32:15 +0000 UTC]

It probably would, yeah XD The younger kids would love to see some huge damn robotic dinos on the big screen XD It's about the fans really. That's what Bay should focus on.

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soy-monk In reply to Shawn1993 [2009-08-11 19:17:21 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, totally irked me about what he did to Arcee too!

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Shawn1993 In reply to soy-monk [2009-08-11 19:27:30 +0000 UTC]

With the three motor bikes?

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soy-monk In reply to Shawn1993 [2009-08-11 19:41:30 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, that totally ruined the character, especially since she was pretty well developed in the extra material from the first film.

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Shawn1993 In reply to soy-monk [2009-08-11 19:53:38 +0000 UTC]

Mmm, I did find it odd that she was three motor bikes. I never did look at the extra material so I never saw what she was supposed to be like.

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soy-monk In reply to Shawn1993 [2009-08-11 20:13:29 +0000 UTC]

You've probably seen her 2007 design before in comics and itt was what they used to make her Deluxe class figure.
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I would've liked if the bikes were all just separate characters, because now Hasbro's Chromia and Flareup names have been used up.

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Shawn1993 In reply to soy-monk [2009-08-11 20:19:57 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I think I've seen that before.

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