Rise Of The Beasts’ Wheeljack Is Incredibly Different From Michael Bay’s Transformers Movies

The version of the Wheeljack character seen in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is very different from the one seen in Michael Bay’s earlier Transformers films, but the filmmakers had a good reason for shaking up his characterization. Set in 1994, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts sees an artifact researcher and an ex-military electronics expert being roped into helping the Autobots and the Maximals track down a precious MacGuffin to protect Earth from the arrival of Unicron. While it takes place in the same continuity as Bay’s Transformers movies, this one is very much its own (pardon the pun) beast.