Rise of the Beasts

As part of a promotion for the upcoming Rise of the Beasts film, Takara Tomy will be releasing exclusive Nemesis Prime and Burning Optimus Primal figures!  Nemesis Prime is a redeco of Rise of the Beasts Optimus Prime and features the character's signature black, teal, red and silver colors.  Burning Optimus Primal is a redeco of Kingdom Optimus Primal featuring the clear red color based on his appearance in the Beast Wars II movie (which has been made into toys before).

The Official Transformers Facebook Page has posted a series of character profiles from Rise of the Beasts!  These profiles give some general information about each character but there are also some really fun tidbits in there including Rhinox's weapon being described as a Gatling gun!  We also learn that the Terrorcons have worked for Unicron for a long time, going from world to world causing destruction for their master.  Check them out in the gallery below!

The newest Transformers live action film debuts in less than a month.  Ahead of its release Paramount Pictures has released a new featurette focusing on the new human characters from the film.  Check it out below:

The Official Transformers movie Facebook Page has posted images of two exclusive prints that will be made available during early screenings of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.  These screenings will take place on June 7 at 7PM ET.  You can see participating theaters here:

The next live action Transformers film Rise of the Beasts is only a month away so various promotions are coming out of the woodwork.  The latest is a text-to-speech ability added to Tik Tok featuring Peter Cullen's voice as Optimus Prime!  If you have a Tik Tok account, you can do the following:

How to use the Optimus Prime text-to-speech voice:

Yolopark has updated their Facebook Page with new images and product info for their upcoming Rise of the Beasts Optimus Primal AMK model kit.  These kits generally come preassembled and painted.  Highly detailed and articulated, they are essentially high end non-transforming action figures fit for display!  This also gives us some of the best images of what Primal may look like in the final film since (presumably) this model was based on the CG model used in the film.  Here are the details on the kit from Facebook:

Paramount Pictures has released a new clip from Rise of the Beasts featuring the Autobots meeting the Maximals led by Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal respectively!  Check it out below:

Paramount Pictures has released several new character posters from Rise of the Beasts  These posters not only show off characters in their robot modes, but also their alt-modes as well (except for Arcee oddly enough).  Check out the posters in the gallery below!

In the battle against the Terrorcons, Optimus Prime has gotten some back up from the Maximal Battle Master Chainclaw!  Check out my review and gallery of Rise of the Beasts Optimus Prime with Chainclaw!

General Information:
Release Date: March 2023
Price Point: $14.99 (depending on retailer)
Retailer: General Release (Amazon, Target, Walmart etc.)
Accessories: Chainclaw beast/chainsaw