Mark Wahlberg Confirms Mini-Dinobots For Transformers: The Last Knight

All we need is VA confirmations and I'll be content as a cucumber.

Autobot Burnout

The only thing I said about Lugnut that couldn't be taken directly from the RtS toy's box bio is that his punch of kill everything gimmick was abbreviated as P.O.K.E. – it goes unnamed but it is the Animated version's signature weapon, the same version this toy is clearly based on given his punches cause massive explosions.

Another reason why I chose Lugnut is because he's an Animated character who made a translation into the movie style. The only other character to do that is Lockdown, so it even preserves that aspect of the plot in a sense. And everybody loves Lugnut.

He sounds like a very useful decepticon Megatron would use.

Ra88, a member of our boards created a concept for that character if I'm not mistaken.

If that old plane we saw on set turns out to be lugnut, that would please much.

Afterburner

I see they are adding nazi things as well. I can only imagine the angle there, let\'s hope they are more careful with that then they have been with pretty much everything else.

Either it's the time travel angle – variant timeline, or possibly Bay looked through " history" and found the reports of the Vrill Society and the rumors of a UFO crash in the Black Forest, Germany in 1937 prior to WW2, which could also led to the Nazi reported wonder weapon, Die Glokin, aka the Bell- rumored to be a time displacement platform, ie time travel.

Bendimus Prime

So, does that mean after Prime released the Dinobots into the wilds of China, they started breeding?

I guess this guy was right.

"Life will find a way." ~ Dr. Ian Malcolm

Moy

You know way much than I will ever do about the transformers lore.
I don't know anything about lugnut, but your take on the movie plot isn't too bad.

The only thing I said about Lugnut that couldn't be taken directly from the RtS toy's box bio is that his punch of kill everything gimmick was abbreviated as P.O.K.E. – it goes unnamed but it is the Animated version's signature weapon, the same version this toy is clearly based on given his punches cause massive explosions.

Another reason why I chose Lugnut is because he's an Animated character who made a translation into the movie style. The only other character to do that is Lockdown, so it even preserves that aspect of the plot in a sense. And everybody loves Lugnut.

Autobot Burnout

Honestly I think AoE could have been far better had the plot instead been the Autobots not being betrayed by the humans – again – but actually hailed as international heroes. But then suddenly metal dinosaurs start popping up attacking people and after it is discovered they too are Cybertronian somehow, the Autobots are at a loss to explain what is going on and why they aren't stopping it like they did the Decepticons. Suddenly, KSI shows up with not-T2-reject manmade transformers faster than the Autobots and beat down the dinosaurs, making Attinger's bots and angle to mass market them worldwide actually not involve completely rendering the US government incapable of maintaining recognition of the Autobots as sentient allies.

Except then at a NEST compound, a giant T-Rex bursts in demanding to see Prime in raw caveman speak, having extreme difficulty in explaining who he is and why he's not trying to murder humans indicriminately. Ratchet then removes a suspicious looking armor piece, which releases the dinosaur's transformation cog and subsequently he assumes a robot mode, speaking much more clearly and establishing himself as Grimlock, King of the Dinobots. This plot twist then reveals KSI is instigating the dinobot attacks in the first place – hence why they're always there before the Autobots (yes this is basically what Syndrome was trying to do in The Incredibles but bear with me) – and using inhibitor technology to control them through their armor. And if they get uncontrolable, the dinobots are killed and melted down into KSI bots. But where did KSI get the technology to make transformers in the first place?

Well, Decepticons obviously. Personally I like the idea Lugnut comes to Earth after hearing about Megatron's final demise and being the #1 Megatron fan of all time, decides to take over leading the Cons in Megatron's name. And to acomplish rebuilding the Decepticon army AND a deathgrip on humanity all over the globe, he partners with Attinger who just wants money. And Lugnut is a bloody superbomber who throws the Punch of Kill Everything – seriously, it's even on his RTS toy – which is like punching enemies with nuclear bombs. So, he could punch Sideswipe and send him clear across the Atlantic ocean, but simply having him punch Grimlock and knock him only a city block, THAT is how you establish shit getting real in a final battle. Plus since none of the Autobots pointlessly died off screen, there's a bunch of background characters to fight background remote controled Dinobots and KSI drones while Prime, Bee, and Grimlock (plus any other dinobots he personally frees from enslavement mid-battle) wreck faces front and center.

Seriously, that would be an epic film and that's just going on the idea dinobots are major players in it. No mass autobot murdering, no Megatron resurecting get-out-of-jail free card, no human betrayal being the only reason the plot happens, and Lugnut can plausibly survive the final battle to swear revenge and then fly off to Chernobyl or something to hide in relative safety. And the main bad guys are still Decepticons!

EDIT: And as much as I think the Creators are utterly stupid, since they're just Not-Quints for all we probably will ever care, they can be mentioned in passing in brief exposition on where the metal dinobots even come from – basically preserving the stupid 'shoot laser at dinos to make super metal' idea except this straight up made them transformers too and they chased the Creators away, who then fired the meteor at Earth that killed most of the Dinobots and the survivors buried deep in the Earth in stasis – and then Lugnut could run into Lockdown at Chernobyl, who mentions the Creators are 'interested' in the one robot the rebellious dinobots even respect and so have hired him, and as Lugnut just got his shit wrecked by Prime, their interests are 'aligned' as the guy from Blacklist would put it.

You know way much than I will ever do about the transformers lore.
I don't know anything about lugnut, but your take on the movie plot isn't too bad.

Personally I still like that the Dinobots are legendary knights; and the creators being an unknown powerful alien race.

Now what I never agreed on was humans overpowering cybertronians.

The mini dinobots, that have better be the raptors, and not dwarfed robots.

Sablebot

Same here-and as much as I love the G1 iteration, I DO NOT want the movie ones to be talking like, "Me Grimlock not no Dino DoDo". If their voices are similar to the ones in the War for Cybertron game, that would be cool.

Yeah them being more like the Marvel and IDW comics along with FOC with a barbarian knight twist makes a lot more sense here in the movies as opposed to the goofy versions from the G1 show. I'd love to hear Keith David voice Grimlock.

Sablebot

Autobot Burnout,

I'd actually love to see your film idea as the official movie idea. Wish you were one of the screenwriters. One thing I didn't like about AOE was the Dinobots having no voices and basically, no character-they just showed up, help the Autobots wreck some shit, then disappeared back into the Chinese woods.

Thanks!

electronic456

Breeding? What if hatchlings are a thing again?

That would be wicked sick