Three years ago, Hasbro contacted Hoi Mun of Xylac Industries, asking him if he would explore some different designs for a pitch to Paramount regarding Michael Bay's Transformers franchise. He was only given two weeks to work on the assignment, and only focused on the Dinobots (Grimlock, Slag, Sludge, Snarl and Swoop) - keeping some of the G1 elements.
"The goal was to explore new aesthetic vision for the TF film universe such as layering to see the inner mechanic structure under a transparent layer, organic shape to the Mechanic - Musculature, new silhouette, new panel segmentation styles, Organic forms and Muscle system. So with these goals in mind there was a list of Transformers I could choose from to redesign and the Dinobots was in the list. So Dinobots it is and here are my takes on them." - Hoi Mun
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