Artist Josh Nizzi has been really active this year sharing several Transformers live-action movies concept art via his Instagran account. This week he surprised us with art not only from The Last Knight but from Dark Of The Moon.

• The Last Knight Bumblebee’s Sidekick –  Early idea of the character that would later become Hot Rod. Some comments from Mr. Nizzi about him: “They wanted him to be a lime green Lamborghini at first which was odd coloring being so close to Crosshairs – but then switched to carbon fiber. He was described as a faithful, scrappy war buddy.”
• Dark Of The Moon Megatron Helmet – Several ideas for the look of Megatron in DOTM as stated by Mr. Nizzi “In TF2 Megatron got half of his head blown off so in TF3 I explored the idea of a helmet or armor that could cover his damage. I thought it might be an excuse to introduce more of his classic look. Eventually it was decided to just have his damage exposed to add to his broken down look.” 

Don’t miss our previous concept art round ups for more great content. Check all the new images after the jump and then share your impressions on the 2005 Boards!

Appearing in an online conference by the Bank Of America, Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner stated that they are working hand in hand with Entertainment One (eOne for short) to produce various entertainment projects based on Hasbro properties.

Hasbro will also be producing toys for eOne’s original pre-school brands. From Fall 2021 onward, Hasbro will manufacture toys for Peppa Pig (current license-holder: Jazwares) and PJ Masks.

Brian Goldner mentioned that live action production was shutdown in 2020 due to COVID-19, but animated projects went ahead without any problems from Q2 onward. While not specified, this comment may or may not include the upcoming Transformers Live Action Movie and the Animated Movie by Josh Cooley.

However, Hasbro is hoping to restart pre-production and production of Live Action content from November 2020.

Regarding the Snake Eyes Live Action Movie, Mr. Goldner only mentioned that the movie shifted from 2020 to Fall 2021.

An undisclosed Action Man project is in the vault to be developed by eOne. Hasbro mentioned the following:

“Action Man is an incredibly strong brand particularly in Europe. To remind some people: Action Man was G.I. Joe’s European brother; effectively during the original launch period. European children really enjoyed Action Man programming, live action commercials, and other toys & games around that brand. That’s a brand [planned] for reinvention.”

In addition to that, an undisclosed project based on M.A.S.K. was also mentioned.

“We own a brand called M.A.S.K. which was a brand from the 70s and the 80s. It was a competitor at that time to Transformers, that we got through an acquisition that we’re now redeveloping.”

Hasbro had high praise for Transformers: War For Cybertron Netflix series, and stated the following:

“Transformers: War For Cybertron is a fan-oriented television series in animation on Netflix and it’s really driving engagement. I think we’re at a place for the audience to understand where streamed content has now reached such a pivotal point of inflection; where there’s enough content consumption to drive merchandising success. We always believed that we would arrive at this point of inflection and that’s why we had worked on getting more capabilities in storytelling.”

You can check out the rest of the slate, after the jump.

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Artist Josh Nizzi treated us with more The Last Knight concept art this week via his Instagran account. Once again, we have a look at some interesting ideas and reveals about some key characters.

• The Last Knight Cybertronian Fighter –  Originally an alt mode idea for one of the Cybertronian Knights that finally ended as Megatron’s alt mode. It’s good to notice that this design is inverted compared to the what we saw in the film, so it may explain why Megatron’s thrusters face forwards in the film.
• Cybertronian “Alien” Knight –  The knights were originally going to have influence from different cultures, but one of the first ideas was about a more “alien” knight design. We have several illustrations showing his front, back, sickle-swords and battle mask.
• Berserker Mask – A concept face mask for Berserker. While DOTM Crankcase design was used in the movie, Josh Nizzi commented something really interesting about it: “Initially they were talking about using the unused four arm Constructicon design Ben Proctor did for TF2 (which is great). But I guess the character just became more of a quick gag and wasn’t a whole new model.” This means that we had a chance to see ROTF Overload body on the screen, or maybe something pretty similar.

Don’t miss Josh Nizzi’s first TLK concept art round up here for more great content. Check all the new images after the jump and then share your impressions on the 2005 Boards!