#shorts #transformers
Why Wheeljack's Design Changed After Transformers Bumblebee. When fans got introduced to the new rebooted Transformers universe. They were instently met with a similar design aesthetic that harkened back to Generation 1 Transformers. Everything felt familiar yet slightly updated to fit the live action world Travis Knight was setting up. Unfortnuately that approach got thrown out of the window once Rise of the Beasts rolled around. The film thought it'd be a bright idea to take elements from the Bay canon. And the character that suffered the most from this was Wheeljack. Rather than take the more G1-inspired design of the Wheeljack seen in Bumblebee, either Hasbro or Paramount wanted to lean more into the idea of the character as a nerdy scientist. Kinda like he was in Dark of the Moon. The reason being that they felt the "tough guy" seen in the previous movie was too similar to other characters among the Autobots. This is...
