Hmmm how about this then?

 

assuming that good wins out in the film (heh this is holywood is it not?) then how about film 2 has a scene with prime talking to some earth proffessors about knowledge transfer, on one of these visits he see's some archeology (a totally new thing to him - not the sort of thing that happens on cybertron) he comments on this and they get into a discussion:

 

earth dude: 'yeah we are doing it to see what our history was like, but its a lot of speculation, we'll never know the colours and noises'

Prime ' hold on, what was that?'

earth dude ' That? thats a tyranosaurus rex, one of the largest carnivores ever to walk this planet (we think!)'

Prime ' I don't think they were that colour '

earth dude ' excuse me?'

Prime ' Our records were not accurate in that era, but I can now say that this is not the 1st time we 'the autobots' have visited this planet'

Earth dude ' how can you say that from seeing a tyranosaurus?'

Prime pops open a com link on his arm ' Prime to cybertron, patch me through to grimlock'

A picture appears of a bot in the comlink screen, he turns to the screen and says ' Hi big boss'

Prime ' Grim, I'll explain later, can you please transform?'

A puzzled look, an 'ok boss' and a few seconds later a pretty lifelike t-rex is in the screen..

 

It would go onto explain thatin cybertrons 'glorious days of expansion' brave souls were sent out to find other life blah blah...

The dinobots (because there are more - 5 in total to be exact) found earth and took on forms of the life there.

why havent they taken new forms - perhaps the volcanic activity affected their circuits (making them act more 'dinobot') and hence once recovered back to cybertron they chose not to take their normal cybertronian forms again.

 

once they are established - getting them to earth is a formality :)

 

EDIT:

I guess this puts me as Robotic/lifelike dinosaurs

Which would also allow beastwars fans to have a bit of a fangasm too, and movies are nearly always about maximising your audience! :)

and just as Devastator is about to deliver this big blow to Prime, five laser blasts hit him, and then the smoke is followed to the smoking barrels of the Dinobots weapons. Battle ensues, Autobots win, movie ends.

Never become a screenwriter, you great big hack. :P

Either go with they came millions of years ago (to fight Shockwave!)... Heres some brainstorming, maybe Shockwave fiddled with

Megatron's navigation systems resullting in him getting lost and trapped under the ice?

 

In that case I think Grimlock is enough. A whole unit of Dinobots might be overkill.

 

That or bring in Grimlock as some kind of really big Cybertronian tank. He could be one of those reinforcements thats only called in when there is no other viable option and disguise isn't particularly important.

 

heh?

 

Whats a land raider crusader got to do with ought?

A dark angel Death wing crusader no less.

 

:redface

 

 

Anyway, if they turn up, lose Dinobot, and give them Cybertronian Alt modes only.

If I see a robotic dinosaur I'm gonna go nuclear, by the by

archeology

Palaeontology ;)

I'd like to see them go with Option #5 -- BEAST WAAAARS! *ggggrrrroooowwwwlll!* :D

 

No. :wtf There supposed to be robots in Disguise right?

Dinobots should have an origin like they did in Marvel comics. Considering that the movie Transformers don't have metallic, or any other kind of skin, mechanical Dinobots would, at least in that aspect, work in a movie.

and just as Devastator is about to deliver this big blow to Prime, five laser blasts hit him, and then the smoke is followed to the smoking barrels of the Dinobots weapons. Battle ensues, Autobots win, movie ends.

Never become a screenwriter, you great big hack. :P

Dork.

 

I'm just following you're typical action flick power moment where the tide turns and the good guys start winning. Like when Aragorn came with those ghost soldiers in Return of the King.

 

And don't call me a hack.

and just as Devastator is about to deliver this big blow to Prime, five laser blasts hit him, and then the smoke is followed to the smoking barrels of the Dinobots weapons. Battle ensues, Autobots win, movie ends.

Never become a screenwriter, you great big hack. :P

Dork.

 

I'm just following you're typical action flick power moment where the tide turns and the good guys start winning. Like when Aragorn came with those ghost soldiers in Return of the King.

 

And don't call me a hack.

Ah yes, the most hackish part of the whole trilogy where a crummy deus ex machina just turned the story around because they were too lazy to think of something better? Yeah, I remember that.

You hack :P

and just as Devastator is about to deliver this big blow to Prime, five laser blasts hit him, and then the smoke is followed to the smoking barrels of the Dinobots weapons. Battle ensues, Autobots win, movie ends.

Never become a screenwriter, you great big hack. :P

Dork.

 

I'm just following you're typical action flick power moment where the tide turns and the good guys start winning. Like when Aragorn came with those ghost soldiers in Return of the King.

 

And don't call me a hack.

Ah yes, the most hackish part of the whole trilogy where a crummy deus ex machina just turned the story around because they were too lazy to think of something better? Yeah, I remember that.

You hack :P

Well, then you must be calling J.RR. Tolkien, one of the greatest fantasy authors of the 20th Century, a "Hack" as well since it was he who came up with the ghost soldiers, not the movie screenwriters. Aragorn seeking out the cursed army and then leading them into battle in Return of the King to turn the tide at the last minute was in the original book, not something added by the movie creators.

and just as Devastator is about to deliver this big blow to Prime, five laser blasts hit him, and then the smoke is followed to the smoking barrels of the Dinobots weapons. Battle ensues, Autobots win, movie ends.

Never become a screenwriter, you great big hack. :P

Dork.

 

I'm just following you're typical action flick power moment where the tide turns and the good guys start winning. Like when Aragorn came with those ghost soldiers in Return of the King.

 

And don't call me a hack.

Ah yes, the most hackish part of the whole trilogy where a crummy deus ex machina just turned the story around because they were too lazy to think of something better? Yeah, I remember that.

You hack :P

Well, then you must be calling J.RR. Tolkien, one of the greatest fantasy authors of the 20th Century, a "Hack" as well since it was he who came up with the ghost soldiers, not the movie screenwriters. Aragorn seeking out the cursed army and then leading them into battle in Return of the King to turn the tide at the last minute was in the original book, not something added by the movie creators.

 

..

*clears throat*

Except the traitors weren't actually present on Pelenor fields, never saw minas Tirith and never broke said siege Damnit >.<

They were used to destroy the corsair fleet, which Aragorn took, met up with his homies (The dunedain and other warriors from the fiefdoms of Gondor -such as Dol Amroth) and sailed to Pellenor with a whole arsing load of HUMANS!

You know, that lot thats been played up as "being alone" cos its "up to them to face this darkness" and that they cant expect to be bailed out by the elves again.

 

...

Pet peeve.

(That entire gorramn film)

 

Where was I?

 

Oh yes, make devestator an earth mover (Ala, Cybertron Metroplex) those things are damn arse big enough to represent a gestalt, and splitting him into five or six bots that for one alt mode / Combined bot mode would (May) work.