Transformers: Age of the Primes toyline discussion || update: stock renders of upcoming Alpha Trion, Micronus, Flatline, Fireflight, Skydive, ++

[CoffeeHorse]

This is going to have a monstrous backpack, even by Shockwave standards.

 

[Donocropolis]

This is going to have a monstrous backpack, even by Shockwave standards.

Not necessarily. The arms and chest make up the back end of the whale, the legs are the lower jaw and tum-tum. Only a relatively thin portion of the whale's upper head and back form the robot backpack, and it looks like that could condense pretty well.

 

[Undead Scottsman]

I wouldn't get too attached to specifics of that design, just the general idea.

Once they actually start putting that design to actual physical and budget constraints, I imagine it'll change a bit.