TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS Promo Art Gives Us A First Look At The Maximals In "Beast Mode"

I wonder if we will get to hear a rendition of the Beast Wars Theme……

i better get Megatron as a TRex or i'll riot!! but seriously, i wonder how many maximals and predacons they are gonna throw in this movie... i have not liked anything transformer related since the first one came out, but this has me kind of excited

Dinobot and Rat-trap or we riot.

Ok these look nice af but where is my boy Rattrap? 😭

So I'm a HUGE Transformers fan/collector (I have an entire spare bedroom full of them going back to G1 and up to and including the current "Legacy" line), and based on the various websites that I frequent, the list provided by @SteamBlust above is as much as I know as well as far as the bots' cast so far. Obviously they are holding back on a good number of reveals because that's a pretty short antagonists list, but so far there has been no mention of any other Decepticons OR Predacons. They'll likely add Rattrap, as it seems like they are sticking primarily to the original Maximal team. Also, I wouldn't get your hopes up for any beasts that you wouldn't find in the jungle, as the beast part takes place primarily in Peru (from what I understand), so chances of any dinosaurs for example (i.e. Megatron, Terrasaur, Dinobot, etc.) are pretty slim, especially as the original Dinobots were the focus of "Age of Extinction". Also remember that this movie timeline is supposed to be somewhat connected to the earlier Bayverse movies in which Megatron is currently frozen, which is why they didn't include him in that awesome opening scene on Cybertron in "BB".

A couple of other notes: (POSSIBLE SPOILERS) Prime and BB are the same vehicles as we last saw them at the end of "Bumblebee" but when they go to Peru the get off-road upgrades (Hasbro's Gott sell those toys after all ). Mirage is a Porsche, Arcee's a Ducati, and Wheeljack's a VW van. The Terrocons are NOT the G! Deception team of monsters but just a sub-faction of Decepticons, instead Scourge (leader) is a Mad Max style semi truck, Nightbird (yes modeled after the character from the G1 episode "Enter the Nightbird" is a Nissan Skyline, and Rattletrap is a tow truck.

One last note for anyone planning on picking up the toys (myself included): originally the movie was supposed to be released this summer, however it got pushed back until next year BUT the toys had already been produced (at least the ones aimed at the younger fans). There are going to be 2 main toy lines for the movie: the one for the younger fans (like the current "Cyberverse" line) and the the "Studio Series" for the older collectors which Hasbro uses for their movie related figures and are more expensive and much nicer. Because the simpler toys had already been produced, Hasbro just changed the packaging to no longer say "Rise of the Beasts" and are already releasing them (I've seen them in Target already). But they'll repackage them next year and rerelease them. The Studio Series ones won't come out until the movie does, but there are already some pics of Airrazor online (looks like a SS anyway) and she looks pretty damn awesome. So all of you who grew up with BW, that SS line is probably going to be for you.

That's all I know so far folks, but I'm sure more info is going to start coming soon, especially after the New Year, so I'll share it with y'all if it's not already covered here. In case you want to follow it yourself outside of this site, the main TF sites that I get my info from are: seibertron.com, tformers.com, and unicorn.com. I hope that's useful info for the fellow TransFans here 😊.