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[Va'al]

As we know, the third chapter in the Prime Wars Trilogy (in its media incarnation here) will be debuting from Machinima as of May 1st - you can check out the trailer here - and the official Facebook page for Transformers has shared a video of some behind the scenes work with the voice actors who will be giving life to the characters in the cast, such as Mark Hamill (Megatronus), Gregg Berger (Grimlock / Volcanicus), Judd Nelson (Rodimus Cron), and Ron Perlman (Optimus Primal). Check it out below, and let us know what you think of this new series!

We’ve got an awesome voice cast for Transformers: Power of the Primes! Watch them do their thing May 1st on transformersprimewars.tumblr.com.

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[ZeroWolf]

Wow judd you got old now I feel older.

[Randomhero]

Wow judd you got old now I feel older.

Well he is pushing 60

[william-james88]

Wow judd you got old

Thats what happens when your dad encourages you to smoke at a young age.

[Randomhero]

Wow judd you got old

Thats what happens when your dad encourages you to smoke at a young age.

Did...did you just breakfast club this?

[WreckerJack]

It will be werid to see Ron Pearlman as Optimus Primal after I am so used to him as one of the bad guys from Sons of Anarchy.

[william-james88]

Wow judd you got old

Thats what happens when your dad encourages you to smoke at a young age.

Did...did you just breakfast club this?

Hells yeah !

[ZeroWolf]

It will be werid to see Ron Pearlman as Optimus Primal after I am so used to him as one of the bad guys from Sons of Anarchy.

Any weirder then thinking that Hellboy has turned into a monkey bot?

[The_Cryptid_Person]

“Rodimus Cron” makes a surprising amount of sense when you think about it. Like how “Prime” is one of the syllables in Primus, except faction-swapped. Would be a really good way to denote servants of unicron if it didn’t sound completely ridiculous.

[Ultra Markus]

Wow judd you got old now I feel older.

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[Sabrblade]

Full POTP cartoon poster - https://www.instagram.com/machinima/

Solus Prime is included on this poster as a character in the show.

[Sabrblade]

Episode 1 - https://www.go90.com/videos/AwYuFwRTEEG

[Sabrblade]

Okay, so, it is so painfully obvious that Megatronus is talking to Unicron in the first scene, and that Overlord and Rodimus Cron are his acolytes.

Mark Hamill is basically playing Megatronus like he played Fire Lord Ozai. This creates a problem on two fronts. One is that his entire performance is nothing but sinister-sounding, even in the flashback scene with Solus Prime in which he's supposed to sound casual and maybe even friendly with her. But instead, his voice comes off as sounding evil even at the point in his life before he turns to the dark side. The other problem is that the limited facial animation he is given completely belies the sinister tone of his voice. While he sounds eerie and ominous, he face instead reads as constantly bored and indifferent, much like the infamous "Uhh" faces of Transformers: Energon.

Oh, he also uses the D-word at one point. We'll see how far the cursing in this show goes since Windblade later uses "Oh... scrud".

Solus Prime's actress is just as stiff in her performance as the Mistress of Flame. Her acting is completely wooden, and the long and numerous pauses make her sound like either a female William Shatner or a character from an old video game cutscene.

As for all the others, Megatron, Windblade, and Victorion give the best-sounding performances, while Wheaton's Perceptor, Berger's Grimlock, and the other Dinobots all come across just as stiff as the performances in these shows have come to sound.

The Dinobots don't really seem all that familiar with everyone else, with Grimlock only recognizing Perceptor and harboring hateful feelings towards him and his intelligence. It's as though the Dinobots disassociated themselves from the Autobots and Decepticons and spent a long time in isolation, as they have no qualms with trying to kill the other Autobots they encounter, even if they were with Megatron at the time. They even emerge from the swamp saying things like "Kill!" and "Destroy!" in a singleminded manner, as though that was the main thing they loved doing.

But the biggest sin this episode commits is with the one thing that had been the best and only really good thing about the Combiner Wars and Titan Return: Megatron. This one episode has done the undesirable by taking Megatron and sucking all the fun out of him. He is now all business and seriousness without even a hint of the smarm and sarcastic snide that made him so endearing in the previous two shows. Now, he's just like everyone else, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders and speaking all about a foreboding doom and gloom. Bleh.

[WreckerJack]

Thanks to fellow Seibertronian, Sabrblade we now know that Machinima has finished their Power of The Primes poster by revealing all of the pieces. You can see the full poster on Machinima's instagram page. It features many different characters from The Prime Wars Trilogy.

Rodimus Unicronus is in the middle with Perceptor, Windblade and Optimus Primal to his sides. Megatron takes up a lot of space here too, which may clue us into him having a big role in the series. The combiners Victorion, Menasor, Computron and Devastator are also feautred as well as the dinobots. We also notice that Unicron's head and Overlord are also looming around.

Did you spot any of your favorites? Have a look at the poster below and let us know on the boards!

[WreckerJack]

The very first episode of Machinima's Transformers Power of the Primes is online. We will not spoil it for you of course, but the title of the Episode is called "The Swamp". You probably guessed based on the new poster some of the characters that may appear. We will also share with you the episode description if you would like to read it.

Megatronus hunts for the Requiem Blaster as we learn about its mysterious past. Elsewhere, Megatron and his team are also searching for the weapon, hoping to get to it first, when they encounter Grimlock and his fellow Dinobots.

You can watch the episode on the go90 app or click here to watch on their website. Enjoy!

[jamarmiller]

IN ADDITION TO THE FIRST EP, There is an awesome ,almost 5 minute recap, of Combiner wars and Titan Returns by victor carolli, sorry I dont know how to spell his name , the original narrator of the g1 series on Tumbler , its not on go 90

for me it was must see

dont know how to link to it but look for Titans return recap, its 4 minutes 53 seconds

as for the ep, hell yeah I liked it. Only thing I didnt like was the arm is missing still on Victorian, but it makes sense since this follows pretty quickly after titans returns

I just wish there was a way that I could download and save these eps now.

[Burn]

For those of us who live in places where the letter U isn't shunned.

[Omegatron.]

At least the animation is smoother this time.

[TulioDude]

The Swamp

*All Stars playing in the background*

[Rodimus Knight]

Just gonna say this episode shows why the dinobots should have been made at a larger scale.

[Immortal Starscream]

this one was not that bad actually, compared to the previous series. though everyone headbanging when they talk gets a bit distracting, particularly in the scene with the close up of megatrons eyes. I find it odd that grimlock here looks like his masterpeice toy version in robot mode.

[o.supreme]

So...who's going to Drain the Swamp...

Okay, so, it is so painfully obvious that Megatronus is talking to Unicron in the first scene, and that Overlord and Rodimus Cron are his acolytes.

Well I'm glad you deduced that somehow. I don't think it was obvious at all. Not saying you are wrong, just saying this first episode was probably the poorest setup for a series I've ever seen. I had no idea who Megatronus was supposed to be talking to. The parts with the Dinobots were ok, but corny. Also I know people's voices change over time, especially after 30+ years, but with all due respect, there's just something off about Berger's Grimlock. It sounds just like his own voice but more gravely, like many characters he used to voice on Garfield and Friends back in the 80's, or Kraven from the 90's Spider-Man. There was just something about Grimlock, originally, that made him stand out, and whatever it was, Berger either forgot it, or maybe just cant do it anymore. This would not be the first time I've heard this with a VA, and it may not be their fault, just noticing the difference.

Was it better than the first episode of CW & TR, sure I'll give it that, but that's not saying much. I guess we better buckle in, one down. 9 to go...

[Chriphord]

Just gonna say this episode shows why the dinobots should have been made at a larger scale.

I think you're right and have been thinking the same thing recently. Making Volcanicus the titan would've allowed for a better looking combiner with better ratios all around. Predaking would've probably still looked a little off though if they had done him at the "normal size."

[Sabrblade]

So...who's going to Drain the Swamp...

Okay, so, it is so painfully obvious that Megatronus is talking to Unicron in the first scene, and that Overlord and Rodimus Cron are his acolytes.

Well I'm glad you deduced that somehow. I don't think it was obvious at all. Not saying you are wrong, just saying this first episode was probably the poorest setup for a series I've ever seen. I had no idea who Megatronus was supposed to be talking to.

I mean, there's the fact that they showed Unicron's head at the beginning, which is pretty much a given that he'll end up playing some kind of role in this show based on how predictable the previous two series were, which in turn means that Megatronus is gonna end up not being the main big bad of the series after all, which then means that he'll have to have some kind of connection to the main big bad (Unicron) in order for him to still be relevant in this show.

And since Megatronus--The Fallen--was conceived as a minion of Unicron from the onset back in the Dreamwave days, his being Unicron's servant here would pretty much be the easiest route for this show to take, and we all should know by now not to expect anything more than the easy street from this show.

Thus, his talking at the beginning has gotta be with his master Unicron, and his talk of acolytes has to refer to Overlord (who was all ominous about something bad coming soon back in Titans Return, who corrupted Hot Rod into Rodimus Cron, and who seemed pleased by Megatronus's presence in that show's last episode) and Rodimus Cron (for obvious reasons given his name, and that his deco is based on the Rodimus Unicronus toy, whose Matrix accessory is the Unicron-based Matrix of Chaos).

[Skritz]

Well, personally I'm all in favor of that character being less 'Megatronus Prime' and way more who he originally was when conceived and introduced to us back in the day: The Fallen.