That's "Predacons," with an "s" as in more than one! Dear GAWD! I am so geekin' out! Let the SPECULATION begin!!!! What Predacon(s) would you like to see in TFA? Waspinator seems to be a given considering Autoboot Camp...

If the cartoon series draws an official continuity connection between Transformers Animated and Beast Wars, can we all just say that TFA is an official part of G1/BW/B.Machines fictional "Canon"???

http://www.unicron.com/news_item/1396/

Sorry Perceptor, but a connection between Animated & the eventual Beast Era is the last thing that should happen. One word: MULTIVERSE. TransFans have to learn to live with that & deal with it if t hey are to survive in this community. The real question is, with the Predacon ideal being a plural one, which Preds are we talking about? ... G1-ish Decepticon Predacons, or a new Beast Era homage featuring Wasp...

Well, I imagine that for most fans, "Predacons" equals Megatron and his merry crew of outlaws and crazies just as much as it refers to a certain combiner team.

Given Forward and DiTillio are writing, I'd say it will at LEAST reference the Beast Wars crew.

I'm wondering if it could refer to something like the G1 Predaocons, and the associated Predaking? As much as I liked the Predacons from BW era, I'd like to see them continue the "borrowing" of elements from G1. Besides, I'd LOVE to see and Animated style gestalt with four to five characters!

Aww man i'm geeking out too, its about slagin' time we got some Preds back in the picture. mabey the Autobots will create Maximals and we'll have the very first Autobot/Maximal alliance.

I don't think there is really much question in of whether it will be G1 Predacons or the Beast Wars incarnation. With the lead writers of the BW days on board, it would be more than a bit odd to have a show featuring the Predacons that they didn't ever previously write about; not to mention we've already got two serious homages to Beast Wars characters in the mix namely Blackarachnia, and Wasp-inator with some seriously loose ends as far as stories go. The real question in my mind is: Will there be any other Beast Wars Predacon references? Scorponok, Tarantulas, Terrorsaur, Quickstrike, Rampage...Ravage? Arg! I'm dieing to know!

Tarantulas would be interesting, being a mad scientist and all he might be trying to find a way to get rid of the beast modes or the opposite and giving beast modes to all transformers. Blackarachnia would certainly be interested either way.

My Beast Wars spirit has came back. That is way cool. I saw that there would be a Primal even tohugh he isnt a Pred. I would guess that one of the Preds is Wasp. It would be cool if they put the original five preds in it. It would be like watching Beast Wars again. What would Blackarachnia think of this, considering she has the sixth pred on the show.

OH. GOD. NO. I hope and pray that they are just going to be the G1 Preds and they develop them similar to the level of development that the BW Preds had. It took me long enough to accept Blackarachnia in TFA, I don't know if I can handle a whole cast of BW characters. T_T

Are you kidding TriPred???? Better start getting used to the idea, because it 'aint gonna be the G1 preds, written by BF and LD!!! In the same way that "Garbage In, Garbage Out" was a huge appeal to fans of the G1 series, "Predacons Rising" is going to be GREAT for Beast Wars fans. I'm completely nerdgasming over it! It's gonna RULE!! YEAH HA!!

Woo! Predacons! A-mazing! It would be cool either with the BW preds or the G1 preds if you ask me. But given the writers and previous involvement of other BW Predacons I'm assuming it will be the BW guys. Can't have terrorsaur cuz we already have swoop, but that would make a cheap repaint for Hasbro. Scorponok would be cool but I prefer the G1 or Energon version to the BW, and Megs would be awesome, but two Megatrons in one show? Tarantulas would be easy to squeeze in, but I think the one we would all look forward to is the infamous traitor... Dinobot! But Grimlock might get confused by that " Me Grimlock am Dinobot!"

PREDACONS?! The first episode will feature PREDACONS?! At least it's good to know there's a season three!

But that's just it, guys, the headwriters have already said that they don't have a huge budget for a lot of new voice actors, so the likelihood of creating this large cast of Predacons is not very grand. Secondly, it's not like they're going to make this huge cast of characters who just so happened to have a similar experience to Blackarachnia on how they got their organic forms, so they will more than likely be mechanical like the G1 guys. And do you honestly think that Forward and DiTillo are going "Man, you know, we made this great series ten years ago, we should totally make all those characters again?" No! Writers like to tell new stories, so they're probably not here to make Beast Wars again. Lastly, we will probably never have Maximals. We may have homages to them, but we probably won't have them in TFA soely for the fact that the Autobots are prejudice against organics. So the odds of there being an Autobot Subfaction designated "Maximals" seems unlikely to me.

TriPredRavage, I meant as in the G1 guys. I'd think it'd be pretty funny if they were played by famous actors who played hunters at some point in their film career.

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O.O Predacons? EEEEEEEE!!! I CAN'T WAIT!

hm.... so sari is like this robotic human, and i think it was in the last episode of the first season when she was talking to the allspark and she asked "why me?" and the allspark showed DNA to her. maybe it all has something to do with making all transformers both mechanical and organic. sounds something like beast machines to me.

AWESOME, but as much as I would love to see the beast wars predacons, i don't think thats what their going to do, because of grimlock and swoop took megs and terrrorsaur beast modes, but then again that could turn out to be some very cool fight scenes. But what I hope will happen is that Megatron, starscream, and lugnut come back with the beast modes of a T-rex, pteradactul,(I'm sure thats spelled wrong)and a scorpian. Then starscream and lugnut change there names to terrorsaur and skorponok. Then maybe blitzwing's personalities could merge into a intelligent maniac,then he could come back as Rampage or Tarantulas. One more thing, why hasn't this news been posted on any other website?

I'm surprised no one's thinking that they could be like the RiD Preds. Has everyone forgotten about Sky-Byte, Slapper, Gas Skunk, and Dark Scream? Those guys were hilarious!

But, yeah, it probably does seem unlikely for them to make a return, since their show wasn't exactly the most popular of them all.

I'm guessin' these Preds'll be like the G1 Preds (A.K.A. "the Animatrons") not like the BW Preds (A.K.A. "the BW Destrons"). Still, this should be good. But I wonder what their names'll be, how many of them there'll be, what they'll turn into, and if they combine.

I'm not expecting to see a Predaking homage, or for them to combine at all. I'm guessing that there will be about three of them, so they could be an even match for the Dinobots.

As for names, I'm not expecting the names "Headstrong" or "Tantrum" to return. So we could just have Razorclaw, Divebomb, and maybe Rampage.

no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i hate bw

1-10, didn't you read ANY of these comments? These Preds are likely based on the G1 Preds, not the BW Preds.


(and how do you hate BW?)

Sabrblade i did read the comments (all of them)

Wait a sec. NEXT SPRING?!! Are you kidding me! We gotta wait THAT long?!! SLAG!!!

If there is one thing that I've learned from the IDW Beast Wars comics it's this:

The Beast Wars are over and they are never coming back. And that is how I want it to stay.

Yeah, Sabr, next spring, and then the figures won't come out until next winter. XD

like i said PREDAKING and i hope reggar comes back and i need to see the robots that grimlok made in G1
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the beast wars preds were awesome.
waspinator and blackarachnia are a given,so i think they will have 3 more.
im geussing terrorsaur,tarantulas,and skorponok would be good.

Given that the Decepticons are spread throughout the galaxy in the Animated universe, they surely have colonies so what if the Predacons are an offshoot of the Decepticon legions. A new faction rising in Megatron's absence. I think that would be cool. A third faction.

It'd be stretch but wouldn't it be awsome if two more dinobots came along, to form a five bot dinobot gestalt, and have Predaking? (wishful thinking). Anyway if they put in Skorponok he likely won't be a predacon since the name is generally more associated with decepticons. If they do go for bw preds its likely that you'll have someone like inferno or rampage. Terrorsaur is still possible since there's never been a series a single alt form wasn't shared by someone else (think of all the f-15 eagles in g1. Not only were there seekers but there was airraid. Or BWII where there were three squids). I think RID preds are pretty much the same as BW preds as a faction so that's why no one mentions them (that's probably why you later have Decepts made from autobots).
Oh yea and TPR, if there's a limit on budgets for voice actors, all they need to do is add Frank Welker. If you have Welker and David Kaye alone that's enough for a whole cast.

Oh wow! This is going to be awesome!

But what if they don't/can't get Welker, Black Starscream?

YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAH!!! Predacons! Terrorize!!

I think everyone's getting their hopes up for all these new characters is gonna be disappointed. I think only 1 new character will show up (BW Megs homage) and he'll be paired up with Wasp and Blackarachnia. 3 member subfaction, just like the Dinobots.

I doubt they can't get Welker. They could if they tried. It was really just a wishful thought, but if they don't, they have to find some other unusually talanted voice actor.

Question. Is "Predacons Rising" going to be the multi-part first episode of season 3? Or is it a later episode?

The first thing i thought of when i read this was the G1 Preds, but then again BW Preds with Wasp and all seems more likely. The way i see it, Wasp gets together with a bunch of buddies (all either named after former Predicons or organic Cybertronians) and goes to Earth. Oooo im thinking BA might even team up with them!

I'll bet Wasp and/or Blackarachnia will found the Predacons. Neither are really Autobots or Decepticons. And they were both based off of some BW Predacons. Yeah, that would fit.

It would be out of character for BA to join up with the Preds, if they are techno-organic that is. She sees her organic side as ugly, she hates herself for being the way she is and she hates Prime for "making" her that way, she would never join up with others like herself.
I always figured if they were to have more techno-organic characters that Meltdown would be responsible for their creation. He'd be trying to make purely organic Transformers, he'd steal the Key, kidnaps a few new to earth cons (Wasp and two co-harts (Inferno and Rampage?) he found on his way to Earth to harass/payback BumbleBee), and ends up using the key fuse the 'Cons with a couple of giant, genetically modified, super insects creating more techno-organic Transformers. At some point before all of this Meltdown kidnaped Ba for further study. Prime and the 'Bots show up to fight Meltdown and the Preds, Prime ends up saving Ba and sees the beauty and humanity in her that she can't / is unwilling to see within herself. Inferno, Rampage and Waspinator all like their new bodies, Shockwave takes them under his wing, if they weren't already under his command from the beginning. Prime, Ba and other ex-/elite guard members recognize Rampage as being Protoform-X an experiment gone horrible wrong. He was supposed to be the new wave of con destroying machine, but ended up going mad with power, taking out a huge chunk of civilians. Throughout the season, there will be meetings between the Predacons, Autobots and Blackarachnia, ending up with the season ender where Blackarachnia team up with the Autobots to beat out Rampage. She and Prime reconcile, Prime wants her to join up with them full time, but the other 'Bots can't trust her yet. Sari being Techno-Organic also begins to bond with Ba, they both find ways to remove one side of themselves, Blackarachnia is finally able to see the person she once was in herself now and decides against removing her Organic side and joins with the bots once and for all.

Personally, I'd like to see a Razorclaw character, as it's been since the '86-87 season since we've seen a Razorclaw character in animated form.

Then again, this could all be a bone thrown to us nosey fans to send us sniffing in the wrong direction. ;)

Now that I think about it, it would be cool if the did a triple homage with a Pred named Scourge. He could be a homage to G1 Razorclaw in that he would have his colors and be a the Preds' leader. He could also be a homage to RiD Scourge, in that, again, he would be the leader, but he could have a similar personality to RiD Scourge. And He could be a homage to Cybertron Scourge by his name, and he could also be a dragon as well. This is all just my idea.

First of all to Rotorstorm:ARRRRRGH! slag Slag SLAG!
But *smiles smugly*,I think we can all survive until the next solar-cycle to watch Season 3.
To Dillon:You take some of the ideas right out of my head! My ideas are somewhat different than yours,but that is to be expected. For an example of what I mean,check out my Tarantulas story (I am listed under the name Starscream. I change my name back and forth from these two characters depending on whether Starscream can use his hands and arms or not) http://unicron.com/news_item/1375/

Icy:I realy have no speculations zat I vould vant to make public at zis time. Personally,I vould prefer it if zee BW Preds vere featured in Animated,but zis is only a vish,not a speculation.

Random:Oo Oo! Bring Ravage in! Zen I could have someone to play vith!

It's intresting how he says he has a credible source, but he doesn't reveal who or WHAT it is... it's just another rumor

That's because, Bludgeon589, in those cases, it can normally cost that source their JOB.

dude this is sick! probably were gonna see waspinator and a few maximals too! probably cheetor or silverbolt

Dudes, It's silly to me that so many people are guessing the G1 Predacons! I don't know who will be in it (and don't want to) but I'll tell you what, if Marty Isenberg the lead writer of TF:Animated seeks out the story authors of Beast Wars, he sure as heck is NOT going to have them write a story about the G1 Predacons! We're talkin' Beast Wars, Scorponok, Terrorsaur, Inferno, Tarantulas, Quick Strike, Waspinator, etc... PREDACONS!

In other words, forget the Animatrons and the Destrongers. These are Beast Era Destrons! =)

being the fan of the beast era that i am i reeeaaly wanna get my hopes up about this one :D and true, if their getting the original beast wars writers on the job and we're talking predacons coming into the picture, we've already seen blackarachnia, an homage to waspinator i would love to see a maximal or two...especially someone like silverbolt lol

Wait sabr, weren't the destrongers decepticons?
Anyway if they have skorponok i'm sure he'll still end up a double oor triple homage to all the past skorponoks. He'll be organic but with more mechanized and solid look. Tarantulus could end up being a reverse blackarachnia (a human who becomes part robot =)

The Destrongers were the Car Robots version of both the RiD Predacons AND Decepticons. Remember, the Decepticons (Combatrons in Japan) in that series were a sub-group, not a separate faction. Only the U.S. toys used the regular Decepticon symbol for the them, the show and japanese toys used an upside-down G2 Autobot Symbol.

However, to differentiate the beast and vehicular Destrongers, one could refer to the beast/regular ones as the Destrongers and the vehicular ones as the Combatrons, but they still all Destrongers (its just that the beast ones are more known as the Destrongers than the vehicles).

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does anybody remember the maximal symbol on the black truck in the episode with blurr first appearing and the guy with the remote?

That wasn't actually the Maximal symbol. It was the top half of the Street Demon logo. You can see the whole logo here (its where the "O" should be in "Demon"): http://images.wikia.com/transformers/images/7/7d/SpeedDemon.jpg

No it wasn't the Maximal symbol, but I have a feeling it was an intentional nod to it. Which serves to further prove the point that there will be NO MAXIMALS. Give it up, this isn't BW!! This isn't directed at anyone in particular but, come on, it was a great show it's over, let it be over. Predacons will be awesome regardless of which ones they are. Animated is great because it pays respect to such great shows, not because it wants to become them. If it is BW preds you know they won't be the same ones, if it's G1 preds they won't be the same ones either. But it is gonna be the BW guys anyway : P

Ok, my turn to put in my two cents! I think all Preds will be jaded Autobots, look at Blackarachnia and Wasp! And Tankor was a converted Rhinox, so there is deffinately signs of there being a third faction!

season 3 will air in canada in fall 2008

Awsome. so the canadians can totally put it on youtube for us alll right?

Dude, Before I even knew this I was thinking, wouldn't it be koolio if the Beast Wars guys, like, went into the past and were in TFA, I mean they could pull it off. If that was the case and did happen they could say Blackarachnia was named after BA in Animated and the Preds took Wasp wit' them. That would explain it all and I think it would be a great idea!

Black Starscream,Fan Transformers channel is suspended.who knows when he will come back.

Do you think he's the only one who can put TF:A episodes on Youtube when they air in Canada (or elsewhere)? No. He isn't. There are others who could take the job just as well ans FanTrasformers. Have a bit optimism.

i just said he was suspended.i never said he was the only one who could post the episodes.

i bet anything that after all this speculation,they end up just borrowing the name,like with the constructicons...i think we should just be glad that season 3 is confirmed...

Personally, I don't see them bringing in more than one Predacon (BW), if that is indeed what they will do. They have Blackarachnia and Wasp(inator) already, that's enough BW homage for me.

I'm hopping they are talking G1, just like they did with the Constructicons. It would be whole lot funner to see a bunch of machines become alive thanks to Allspark fragments, much like Starscream's clones.

I have no problem with Preds. Its Maximals I hate!

Side note: Sari's eyes look kinda red to me. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I think the following are possible candidates for the Preds' leader as a homage:

* G1 Razorclaw
* BW/BM Megatron (but not named Megatron)
* BWII Galvatron
* Magmatron
* RiD Megatron/Galvatron (but not named Megatron)
* RiD Scourge (but given a Beast Mode)
* Universe Razorclaw
* Any Nemesis Prime (but with a Beast Mode and a whole new mold, instead of being redecoed from Prime)
* Energon Scorponok (but given a more organic Beast Mode)
* Cybertron Scourge

Well... you already have the voice actor for Beast Era Megs on the animated team... so it isn't impossible to feature him.

This news has ramped up my excitement for animated to another level!

To all of the people saying the G1 Predacons will be in this, I point to the "“it should be a surprise treat for all Beast Wars Fans” line. It wouldn't be a surprise treat for BW fans if it was the G1 Predacons and not the BW ones.

i can not wait until season 3 come out

predecons hope dinobots not 1 of them or worse i am doomed but hope the 5th episode is called form for wasp for good as what i respect.its scheduled that teacher susie coming in the show so i don't nead to fall respect

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Remember there is not going to be a real connection to G1 or Beast Wars. Homages, yes, we've seen plenty of them already. I'm guessing that the Preds will be based on BW. G1 Preds or BW Preds, it doesn't matter to me, I'd like to see them both. I'd really like to see a few combiner sets in this series.

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why i want jetfire

hes cool?

looks good

i want him

and finaly i just want him

and i nead my new BLAZING LOCKDOWN
this is the list of transformers animated season 3 eps
predecons rising pt 1
predecons rising pt 2
saris a robot
multitel
the night of the online
shockwaves gun
fin distress
the fight meets skywarp
omega supreme returns
the battle rages
bevrly hills code
the code leaves destress pt 1
the code leaves destress pt 2
and for seson 4 the 1st ep is
leaving the train sinrecly tfan

its the end of transformers that includes
g1
g2
g3
early japan shows
transformers sqad of darkness
transformers armada
transformers energon
transformers cybertron
transformers the movie
transformers animated
tansformers 2
transformers reviws
transformer lego reviws
and transformers troops of the good side

I want to see Silverbolt again!!

season 3 is not in contrass but i keep the wasp/wosp how i shod say it but i don't need it for that advice so i can't eat apple pie thats not the truth i can't do that bad for the station advice who cares!

I'm hoping they bring Shockwave back and give him a more open part too. He's my favorite, in the comics you can't really tell if he's good or bad because he's so smart sometimes. He seemed kind of like his own group of Transformers because he didn't exactly do as as much bad as Decepticons did but apparently wasn't with the Autobots either. And he was Megatron's most loyal right hand man back in the day- he LEFT Cybertron in SHOCKWAVE'S care... That's a lot of trust from a Totalitarion...
If he could come back as a neutral sided, but continous backstabber character that would be awesome.
Also investigator characters always give shows an interesting twist, I think Nightbeat would also be a great to have Autobot every once in a while. Though Blur kinda took the investigator-ish character thing in TA.

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you guys can just go to youtube and put in predacons rising and it will show the first five minutes of the episode.

i think the dinobots, wasp, and constructicons could make up the predacons

Sounds great! Unlike most people I'm hopeing for a maximals faction! Rattrap was awesome! Prepare for nerdgasm~. Also, it's possible (but I suppose unlikely) that characters immortalised in plastic rather than animation could be included, Iguanas for example. That way the Predacon concept could both pay homage to BW and be original at the same time. Honestly I'm just hopeing for a revised version of Airrazor at some point(yes I realise she was a Maximal)! woo

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