Robot cast - reveals (spoilers)

[griffin]

Would it be likely that Bay just has the "Dinobots" being regular sports cars (because he's a car enthusiast), and their robot modes just have dino-armour on them (for being fans of earthen dinosaurs)... because we haven't seen any dino props yet to stand in for their CGI dinosaur modes. Unless they aren't yet filming that part of the movie yet (finding or introducing the Dinobots).

Or "better" yet... the Dinobot element has been one big red herring, masterminded since the beginning (on all the documents so far leaked), like the return of Megatron in TF2 that was supposed to be a big secret.

[griffin]

Names will be interesting too... but after the occasional random name in the past movies (like the Wreckers having Leadfoot who wasn't a traditional Wrecker, Blackout was meant to be Soundwave, and the Constructicons having a couple new names), I think we have to expect and accept the names we end up for the Dinobots (and not be too upset about it).

Slag may still be a problem, due to the European market... so if they resort to using Slug, at least it won't be without precedent.
As long as they don't do like Beast Machines, which had all new names for their EIGHT Dinobots - T-Wrecks, Airraptor, Dinotron, Triceradon, Striker, Rapticon, Terranatron, Magmatron.
They couldn't even throw in one classic Dinobot name.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Would it be likely that Bay just has the "Dinobots" being regular sports cars (because he's a car enthusiast), and their robot modes just have dino-armour on them (for being fans of earthen dinosaurs)... because we haven't seen any dino props yet to stand in for their CGI dinosaur modes. Unless they aren't yet filming that part of the movie yet (finding or introducing the Dinobots).

Or "better" yet... the Dinobot element has been one big red herring, masterminded since the beginning (on all the documents so far leaked), like the return of Megatron in TF2 that was supposed to be a big secret.

I was actually thinking the other day when looking at the vehicles for TF4 how it's almost all sports cars - I've yet to see an aircraft for this film. There is so much potential for there to be fantastic air battles (Silverbolt vs Skywarp maybe) that it seems a shame that Bay is so obsessed with what many men buy to compensate for some other form of inadequacy I have Alternators Grimlock, and I gotta admit he is my least fav version of the Dinobot Commander so I hope that doesn't happen here.

Possible the Dinobot thing could be a red herring - if so they are going to a lot of trouble, even having hats being made! If so I hope they fix it in post production, we ended up with Brawl still being called Devastator on screen, I don't want to see a moped named Snarl

[Sinnertwin]

I'm curious how the international fans will respond come time of the big Dino reveal. I think that we'll be more accomodating in regards to alt-modes. I can see it now: "my childhood rant rant Bayplosions rant rant #1 Fanboy rant rant T-Rex not apple cart rant rant"