Transit (ROTB)
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| The name or term "Transit" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Transit (disambiguation). |
- Transit was to have been a Decepticon from the Rise of the Beasts portion of the movie continuity family.
Transit is a Decepticon who turns into a bus.
Notes
- Transit is a character who was planned to appear early in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, dispatched from a Decepticon-controlled Cybertron to kill Optimus Prime, before himself being killed by Optimus and dumped into the Hudson River alongside numerous other Decepticons who have tried to do the same in the past few years. Steven Caple Jr. has indicated that the visual effects for much of the sequence were completed prior to its removal—a result of test audiences finding it too dark—and that he intends to release it as a deleted scene via the film's home media release or otherwise.[1] The entertainment press has reported that Transit was voiced by John DiMaggio for his removed appearance in the film.[2]
- Likely as a result of the flux his sole scene was in, Transit was completely absent from all promotional material for the film. The character was "revealed" when people found unused character art (seen at the top of the page) among the assets for TakaraTomy's Rise of the Beasts website; the image has since been removed from the server. Notably, this image labelled Transit as a Terrorcon—given what we know about his role in the film, it seems likely this was an error or deliberate conflation of bad guys on TakaraTomy's part.
- Despite not appearing in the final film, actor John DiMaggio is still credited as the voice for Transit.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Transit (トランシット Toranshitto)
References
- ↑ "One was this Decepticon scene, Transit, that I've been talking about, because Optimus Prime fights Transit at the beginning of the movie—or at least he used to—and you find out that Optimus Prime wants to go home. That's all he wants to do, and Cybertron's in deep trouble, and this guy Transit was telling him that "we're just here to kill you", AKA "Cybertron's already ours." And it was a really epic fight scene, and then you saw Optimus Prime dump his body in the Hudson River, and all these Decepticons are dead, and you see he's been hunting for the last few years."—Steven Caple Jr. in a Collider interview, Twitter, 2023/6/6
- ↑ "Everything we know about Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" on Entertainment Weekly
