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Published: 2009-08-22 09:40:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 1857; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 52
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Not 100% on this design.To transform back to beast mode, pull beast head and neck from chest, slide beast head forward and lift neck halves beside robot head, untab raptor quills from back of robot head and tab into beast head before closing neck halves. Untab arms from torso and fold hands into forearms, and forearms to meet bicep. Rotate arms into chest cavity, then push sides of torso in to tab onto the arms and lock into place. Swing beast arms into place from behind back. Lean forward at the waist, and lift up belt guard to form raptor belly, and swing waist armor behind and rotate to form base for tail to connect. Untab back of shins and tuck in bone ridges before tabbing onto the back of the thighs. Slide up the blade on the sheild, and fold the pieces forward, then tab into tail base. Split halves of weapon, tuck in blade, than rotate and swing up to tab around tail tip before finally plugging into the sheild/tail base.
Phew...will probably work on this design more, so no bio until then.
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cool! at least you didn't give him the impossible style hands.
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Yeah, those would have been too awkward. XD
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lol. i'm working on a new form of him. what is going on is that DB2 meets my oc Alisha and she designs a new frame for him. you'll like it when i'm done.
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here's the colored version, hope you like it. [link]
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His name could be Raptorclaw, or something like that...
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Hmm? Oh, his name is actually Dinobot. He's the one from Beast Wars done up in this style, unoriginal name and all.
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Well, if they did put him in, his would be something different.
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I've not tried linking this to the actual series Animated. It's just using the style, I don't even consider it the same Universe as Animated yet.
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We don't know, but it could be possible in the future of Animated.
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Either that or they're thrown back in time again. XD
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If they make an animated season 4 they should put Dinobot in it. Since Blackarachnia was blown away and Snarl left, he could fill in, but be much smarter than Grimlock and Swoop. He'd be more like his Beast Wars counterpart personality-wise. But this picture is awesome, better than the original!
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I'd imagine having a Dinobot named Dinobot would be odd, though.
Thanks, though. ^^ I'm s till a bit iffy on him, but everyone's liked the design so far.
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Woah! He almost looks like Lockdown! Awsome work!
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Thanks, mate~ ^^ I did use Lockdown's head as a reference for him.
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I wonder how others feel with another Lockdown look like around.
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After the army of Bumblebee lookalikes from Animated, I doubt they'd mind.
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You're welcome!
so you have any idea of who you'll do next!?
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Tarantulus, most likely. His one I've wanted to do for a while now.
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It does look like it needs work, but very cool and full of characterrrr 
of course on Animated his name would be kinda silly.. XD since they already have.. dinobots..
So it looks like a piece of his thigh moves down to become the calf.... that's very interesting.. and then the raptor's foot folds down flush with its shin, making one long legpiece.. it might be harder to do with a real toy while still letting the heel have a joint, but that is a VERY good idea.
turning digitigrade legs into plantigrade is hard.. I've had a few ideas in my day.. the toys tend to just let the foot be a long foot.. I think it could extend back a bit being a foot with a long heel.. but it could also fold up and let the claws be some kind of knee ornament.
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Thanks!
As for that, I'm using the Animated style, but I wouldn't connect the series much, if any. I'm not planning on making a true story, so the fiction isn't needed. It's also why I've pulled Beast Machines and G1 characters into it.
Dinobot's transformation is heavily based on his recent Universe toy, which featured about the same leg transformation. I didn't want the dino mode to have the robotic heels on the back of the legs, though, and my first idea of having the calf-pieces conceal robot feet with the raptor feet tucking in seemed like it'd lose stability as a toy, so I sacrificed poseability for structure a bit there.
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Yeahhh that toy had such small feet too anyway.. though I guess it's unavoidable... and still way better than the original.
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Really, though, it's his torso that bugs me. I'm worried that the arms may not have the clearence needed if he were a toy, but I wanted the arms to fill out his dino torso instead of just sitting in plain sight under it. His weapons may need some more work, too...his shield/forearm blade especially, but I think it's more an issue because I drew it upside down.
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I think it looks better upside down but you could always make it an optional mounting choice... option..
Well you're going to want to redo the arms anyway with better elbow joints, right? (and to make the hands able to fold into the forearms as you describe, though that'll leave hollow forearms but some concessions must be made..)
it's too bad you can't just have the raptor arms fold up and then have the robot's forearms pop out of the chest, BEING the chest themselves, connected to the raptor's elbows.. or somecrap like that.. but that'd look terrible.
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His design here would mean his elbow will have double joints, to bend at the end of the bicep and at the top of the forearm, and yes, I've come to terms with his arms being hollow as a toy. From a conceptual standpoint, Dinobot's design allows for articulation at the head, shoulders, elbows, waist, hips, knees, and puesdo wrist movement thanks to them having to fold into his forearms, while sacrificing heel articulation. Not bad, really, but I still think I should fine tune him.
By the way, do you have an AIM or anything like that? You seem to have a love of Transformer design, and I wouldn't mind some new opinions.
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I dooooo. Well toy robot design in general.. :3 even as a kid I was always disappointed if something wasn't done as well as it could have been.. of course now I understand there are budget issues.. XD but it seems to me that if you don't put the money in, nobody buys your shit.
Yeah yeah I do have AIM.. I almost never use it but I keep it on all the time in case this friend shows up, so go ahead and add me.. I'll note you my username thing.
(tbh MSN seems like a better idea since you can draw on it 
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Dinobot was one of the coolest characters in that show.....
He's even more awesome because unlike most things, which die only once, he was one of those special things that die more than once.
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Aye, Dinobot is a fan favorite and a bad ass, and deserves it! 
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Yeah, can't wait to see Tarantulas.
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Tarantulus' personality may come off as even creepier since I've got him set as pretty much the Pred Medic.
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Thanks. ^^ Still got some work, but thanks.
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