We’ve had the first trailer for a while, but it’s just been announced on Tiktok that we’re going to begetting a new trailer for Rise of the Beasts next week on Thursday, April 27. Check this out:

officially announced on tiktok!! pic.twitter.com/8FRVXxKg2t

— Blamo! (@smimblor) April 20, 2023

Though the trailer has teased some returning Autobots and the Maximals, the only one we really get a good look at is Optimus Primal. Hopefully the upcoming teaser will reveal to us even more characters; we’ve yet to see the robot form of Cheetor as well as any of the Predacons—fingers crossed we finally get to see Megatron’s T-Rex version.

The series may have dropped the Unicron storyline that Michael Bay was setting up, but I think there’s still a lot of potential with the new timeline that Bumblebee has set up. We don’t know exactly where it’s going, but as long as things go boom and the movie has some great toys, I’m sure Transformers fans will keep coming for more.

Here’s the official description for the film:

Returning to the action and spectacle that have captured moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure and introduce the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is set to release in theaters on June 9.

Here’s the official reveal for Transformers: Reactivate:

While the Transformers franchise has always been about the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons, this game will now bring in a new threat called The Legion who seems to be a mix of the villains in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel and Justice League.

We don’t have a reveal on which Transformers will appear in the game yet, but the game does promise, ‘some of their favourite characters; unique, weighty, and powerful, seamlessly converting between vehicle and bot form.’

With the Transformers franchise remaining to be a powerhouse IP in the box office, it’s only natural that we should get some AAA games based on the characters—which fans have been clamouring for for years. Though past Transformers games may lean in on the more cartoonish side of the property, I think that Splash Games could be working on something more serious for Reactivate.

Though Bumblebee may have been a smaller film that the usual ‘Bayformers’ movies, I think the upcoming Rise of the Beasts will get fans riled up once again for Robots in Disguise. Let’s hope Reactivate manages to do its namesake for interest of Transformers games when it launches.

No release date has been set for Transformers: Reactivate, but fingers crossed we get a launch for all major consoles sometime in 2023.

Check this out:

Here’s the official description for the film:

Returning to the action and spectacle that have captured moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure with the Autobots and introduce a whole new breed of Transformer – the Maximals – to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons.

Though Bumblebee only focused on a handful of robots, this sequel promises to give us a whole lot of them again. Besides Prime and Bee, we also have a look at Arcee who is given more of a starring role this time. A lot of fans also thought that this would be the reintroduction of Jazz from the first film, but the Porsche we see is actually Mirage.

As for the Maximals, we only get to see Primal, Cheetor, Rhinox, and Airazor. Though they look like regular animals in the Beast Wars series, it looks like they’ve been upscaled to be the same size as the Autobots.

The main antagonist is said to be Scourge of the Terrorcons, and he’ll be voiced by Game of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage. We’ve yet to get a look at the robots that will be fighting for his side though.

Catch Transformers: Rise of the Beasts when it comes to theaters on June 9, 2023.

Here’s the post from Paramount+:

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will be released theatrically in 2023 and is the first of three new installments. A new animated series from @Nickelodeon arrives this fall. And in 2024, the franchise expands further with a CG animated Transformers theatrical film. #ParamountPlus pic.twitter.com/4FKsliX2Hp

— Paramount+ (@paramountplus) February 15, 2022

We don’t know exactly where Rise of the Beasts exists in the Transformers movie canon, but we know that Beast Wars is connected to the OG Transformers, so the same could be happening for this new film. If anything, the revamped designs for Bumblebee were so good that it would be a shame if we didn’t see those iterations of the Autobots and Decepticons again.

While a new animated Transformers series is expected every few years, I am eager to take a look at a fully CG-animated Transformers film. If anything, I never really thought that the Transformers films needed any human characters, and a movie could just focus on the robots which have a lot of personality on their own. Maybe they can set the whole thing in Cybertron, because that opening scene of Bumblebee can be its own movie.

We don’t know when Paramount is going to give us our first look at Rise of the Beasts, but with a mid-2023 release, we might have to wait until the New Year for a first look. That’s just my guess though.

For now, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is expected to hit theaters on June 9, 2023.