Jose Lopez, the Art Director of Transformers: Prime and Transformers: Robots In Disguise is sharing an interesting piece of concept art from the new show. He’s red, he’s a Stegosaurus…. please welcome: Grimlock. (wait! what!?!)
Mr. Lopez stated:
“Some concept work from Transformers Robots in Disguise. Before Grimlock was Green or Grimlock. #Transformers“
It seems as though the art department of RID were experimenting with some cool new ideas.
Grimlock may be a Tyrannosaurus now, but things haven’t changed much from the old concept art. Fans may identify our lovable Dinobot has retained the face and overall physique [of the Robot Mode]; just not the color and the spikes.
Check out more images, after the jump.
Mumbo
Oh, Lopez…
Autovolt 127
For something being completely different, he was once an excavator.
Reminds me of the Prowl/Dent thing from IDW.
Ninjanicktf
To be honest, I think that could work as Snarl.
Louise Belcher
In my opinion, this concept art is way better then the boring green T-Rex we got and even more cool then scowl, makes me wonder how many great character designs were thrown away. I agree, I do like the general style of this show, it's look like a peculiar combination between the animated and the prime. But there is a lot of hit or miss, mostly miss. I truly want a toy version of filch, she has the best female transformer design so far! I also want chop chop (it's cool that they made a male spider decepticon, instead of another blackarachnia, ughh), Saberhorn, scowl and glowstrike. I still hope these will made into toys, although it's most unlikely .
Haywired
But it still would be better if the situation was never like that.
Though, obviously, a lot of humans share names and surnames in real name despite not being related at all so it's not unlikely some TFs had it the same.
Noideaforaname
Oh boy, a beast-former that stands up to transform…
I mean, it would've been cool for the main Dinobot to be someone other than Grimlock, but this guy isn't all that interesting.
janeDoe001
You mean Scowl? Yeah, I thought it looked familiar.
jD001
kaijuguy19
Well we could always look at them as bots who happen to share the same name and design elements as the originals. After all we did have this happen in BW with Megatron taking up his G1 namesake with his helmet being a bit inspired by the original G1 megs and from IDW to a degree. Or just see both TFP and RID15 as being separate universes from WFC/FOC but they all belong in the same continuity family like what the G1 marvel comics and G1 Sunbow show were at the time.
Haywired
I wish NuRID went with a different Dinobot and a name for Sideswipe.
Wouldn't change a lot in terms of characterisation, I suppose, but would be one headache less with having few bots with same name in same continuity.
FanimusMaximus
>Grimlock as a Stego.
Why would that even be on the table?!
astrocreep777
Movie Drift color scheme was suppose to be orange and black but they couldnt two of the same vehicle for the movie or something like that. It's why RID Drift is orange and black instead of white.
Autovolt 127
This is an awesome Dinobot design, definitely not Grimlock but it's one that can't go to waste.
TFW10
^^ agreed grimlock does look good in rid2015 ^^
this good news and interesting
its a shame that the writers didn't go with the concept art, snarl it would have been something different
QLRformer
That looks to be Scorn's design. It looks pretty cool, but I like how Grimlock looks in the show.
Sidewings
I shall call this design Snarllock. : P
Cykill 1
I think that if they introduced all the dinobots into the show, it would be a more interesting show and might make it more popular. Since kids like dinosaurs and transforming ones would be more fun. Interesting concept if the stegosaurus was Grimlock.
Chronix
What color scheme?
kaijuguy19
This is interesting and surprising all right. Not sure how I'd feel about Grimlock being a Stegosaurus if they went this direction so in a way I'm glad they went with the T-Rex instead not because I'm a purist but because I feel that he needs to retain his T-Rex elements somehow be it be his alt mode or robot mode even. That said this looks sweet and I'd love to see this be used for Snarl should he show up in RID15 later on because this design fits him perfectly.
Lody666
Fans would have shite all over this if it happened