Via Japanese retailer Maruzen we have learned the possible identities of the final three listed releases for the Takara-Tomy Movie Advance Age of Extinction line. The three listings are AD-28 Snarl, AD-29 “Kurabar” which might mean Clubber or maybe Slugger, a name that popped up in the leaked listings and is probably an alternate name for Slog, and lastly AD-30 which is the speculated Voyager Drift.
The listing for Drift implies some movie spoilers – highlight to read –
Spoiler:
No pictures as yet but this confirms all but two of the Takara-Tomy Movie Advance releases – and popular thought is one of those two is Stinger. Keep it TFW for more news.
Actar
Hm… Has there been a movie-advanced version of the Deluxe Drift? Strange if there isn't one, seeing that he's a Samurai and all…
RedAlert Rescue
How many Decepticons are in the movie depends on what is a Decepticon in your count.
If you include Lockdown – then he's not alone on his ship he has a crew you can see one or two of them in the odd shot.
If you included the Human built ones – controlled or rogue ones then that ups the count too.
But in general it's not a movie seemingly awash with Decepticons – but remember in the last 2 Movies there's been blink and you miss them cameos aplenty.
Like the Refuse Truck or the Bank Truck or the random cannon fodder Optimus kills.
I would guess Human built bots aside there may be some Decepticons as represented by Lockdown's crew (if I'm right that he has one).
Mister Chief
True no one has seen the movie and yeah Drift hasn't had any screen time besides the his car and the one next to Grimlock, but wouldn't that also change the way he looks? Like people are saying it could be his first mode then change but honestly i don't see the point they all have better stuff to do plus why would they spend money on a new CGI model for almost no reason plus have we even seen a helicopter? Again it's just my 2 cents but i have a feeling it's either a random toy or like you said the comics
SunSwipe5
No matter what, my favorite Transformer in this movie is definately Drift.
SunSwipe5
AD18 is AutobotA and AD19 is DecepticonA.
My guess is a Bot and Con we have yet to know about.
thewiredknight
Not quite, he is visable in the location where Optimus is fighting Grimlock.
Sideways77
It would seem like a waste of a space for a flashback form for Drift to be in he toyline instead of the Trax(s) or Junkheap.
I personally think Drift arrives in a helicopter form, scans a Bugatti, then Galvatron or Lockdown, or whoever convinces him to be a Decepticon again, and he rescans a helicopter. (Seeing that helicopter in Chicago)
Ravenxl7
I knew it, I fraking KNEW it. There was no other explanation for there being a Voyager class Drift.
SunSwipe5
When the page translation option kicked in, it translated it as Senart. I blame the translation option, since I don't read Japanese.
Cujo
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charsdc2
Black out redeco as Drift?
Scorpio
I think his frustration about the number of Decepticons comes from the fact that most the Decepticon army is just made-up of Vehicons, Drones or other random characters that don't have much development.
Its more to do with the lack of identity for each Decepticon than the number of Decepicons in the film.
I mean looking at the film series – going off the TFWiki listing of Decepticons in the films series we can see that we should really be getting a minimum of 8 named Decepticons for this film and at the moment we have barely that much listed and most of them are human-made Transformers that just join the Decepticons.
Transformers;
Total number of Decepticons listed; 8
Transformers ROTF;
Total number of Decepticons listed; 25
Transformers DOTM;
Total number of Decepticons listed; 24
Deonasis
I there a link where can I find this image of Hound and a helicopter?
Achilles1943
without counting the human made cons:
– junkheap
– mysterious dread (seen with stinger and galvatron)
two if I am not missing anyone… excluding the protoforms of course…
I also heard something about a mix master, but I dont believe it…
however, like I said in another thread…
I think there are more than one helicopter…
the one that we see in utah with hound… if you look closely, you can see it is the nikko copter… and it is purple…
can drift be purple? I dont think so…
Decepticons
Damn! And here I was hoping for Cyclonus. Oh well. Drift will be awesome I'm sure.
tonyformer
Agreed.
toaprime
has got to be an important character for him to get two different forms. No wonder why they haven't reveled his Voyager form yet. I'm looking forward to his role in the movie as well. Maybe a connection to Lockdown or he is the one that will bring the Cons armies back? Interesting…
All that leaves is the Sonic who is likely a big part of the movie as well if he is still under wraps.
Please Hasbro, reveal a Generations Vehicon and Junkheap! Please!
tonyformer
Well like I said, if they are putting the effort into having Drift take multiple looks and Alt modes, he's got to be pivotal to the plot and there is more to him than they want us to know. I say hello evil Drift you bastard lol.
Optimus117
Interesting. So here's a theory. Maybe as a Con, there's a bounty on Drift for some reason, so Lockdown scoops him up. Then when Prime is captured and ultimately escapes/is busted out, he frees Drift, earning his respect/loyalty. They both return to Earth and rescan….
Just a quick thought.
Exactly. Which leads up to meeting Prime via my above theory.