Machinima Transformers Combiner Wars Official Trailer

Really? Not this video crap again.

But really? Windblade can just cut down combiners like that? sheesh!

So, Megatron's alive after all.

Also, Starscream sounds worse in this trailer than he did in his prelude (in which I felt he sounded okay). When he speaks here, I first thought it was a Mistress of Flame speaking before he appeared onscreen to finish his dialogue. He sounds like an old lady.

And there's a lot of Movie sound effects in there.

Kurona wrote:Galvatronus being in it would make sense, he WAS voted to be Victorion's rival.

You saw Galvatronus in this trailer?

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:Galvatronus being in it would make sense, he WAS voted to be Victorion's rival.

You saw Galvatronus in this trailer?

I saw him mentioned in the news post :p

Kurona wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:Galvatronus being in it would make sense, he WAS voted to be Victorion's rival.

You saw Galvatronus in this trailer?

I saw him mentioned in the news post :p

When Windblade is cutting the faction symbols, the is on Galvatronus' chest.

EDIT: No, nope, ignore me.

The Enigma of Combination's sure looking a lot... Swirlier than the last time we saw it. I'm still kinda hyped for this series.

Sigma Magnus wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:Galvatronus being in it would make sense, he WAS voted to be Victorion's rival.

You saw Galvatronus in this trailer?

I saw him mentioned in the news post :p

When Windblade is cutting the faction symbols, the is on Galvatronus' chest.

No, that's Menasor's chest. It's the purple axe on Blackjack.

Sigma Magnus wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:Galvatronus being in it would make sense, he WAS voted to be Victorion's rival.

You saw Galvatronus in this trailer?

I saw him mentioned in the news post :p

When Windblade is cutting the faction symbols, the is on Galvatronus' chest.

Bingo. That is the Galvatronus chest design straight from the toy

No, that's Menasor's chest. It's the purple axe on Blackjack.

Okay, okay, I made an honest mistake. I'm sorry.

So did I, and the news is fixed.

Though seriously, why are we only seeing Menasor and Computron (save for a brief glimpse of Devastator). Where are the rest?

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:So did I, and the news is fixed.

Though seriously, why are we only seeing Menasor and Computron (save for a brief glimpse of Devastator). Where are the rest?

It really seems like Computron was originally going to be Superion, and that they just changed the latter into the former to make it so there's at least one combiner in this thing whose gonna have a toy out at the same time as the show's airing.

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It seems to be an American only video at this time I'm really not sure

Mirrored version for those outside the U.S.:

Seriously? If Windblade can take down Combiners that easily, then why are they a huge threat in the first place?

Autobot N wrote:Seriously? If Windblade can take down Combiners that easily, then why are they a huge threat in the first place?

Because she's super duper special

Kurona wrote:

Autobot N wrote:Seriously? If Windblade can take down Combiners that easily, then why are they a huge threat in the first place?

Because she's super duper special

Because it's fan favorite Windblade and you will like her..igh-

Well...she wants to kill all combiners. Maybe she just made anti-combiner weapons to help with that?

It looks good but man is the frame rate bad. I hope it's not that choppy

Sabrblade wrote:Mirrored version for those outside the U.S.:

Thanks for this!

Looks decent enough though I agree with others here. Windblade takes these massive threats down so easily? Aren't they is serious danger of turning her into a Mary Sue?

It's pretty cool John Bailey is doing the voice of Optimus Prime officially. First watch I didn't catch him doing Optimus, only the narration and it made me go "seriously? You're having John Bailey narrate but not him as Optimus?" But second watch, yeah that John. Awesome

best insight into it so far.

i was a bit aprehensive of the style but it works well with the neon/tron type backrounds.

nice to see they integrated stuff from the IDW run too interms of how cybertron looks (and its ONE moon )

ill give it a shot when it comes out. best thing about the trailer is its piqued my interest without spoilering everything. the storys still pretty much a mystery to me (ya know beyond the OBVIOUS combiner element to it )

dying to see what theyve set up.

its looking to be the closest thing to the comics yet.

I see Maxima fighting Menasor, but I don't see her anywhere else in the trailer. I hope they don't pull a "Cliffjumper" and kill her off before we get to know her.

P.S. Starscream sounds more like his G1 character, why so mad, and Windblade has been murder crazy in the comics before and at least she's not like her RID counterpart.

Randomhero wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Autobot N wrote:Seriously? If Windblade can take down Combiners that easily, then why are they a huge threat in the first place?

Because she's super duper special

Because it's fan favorite Windblade and you will like her..igh-

God forbid the toy company markets their new characters that are not rehash's of the same group of robots being used for the last 30 years.


You guys are hilarious (by hilarious I mean stress inducing)

Deadput wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Autobot N wrote:Seriously? If Windblade can take down Combiners that easily, then why are they a huge threat in the first place?

Because she's super duper special

Because it's fan favorite Windblade and you will like her..igh-

God forbid the toy company markets their new characters that are not rehash's of the same group of robots being used for the last 30 years.


You guys are hilarious (by hilarious I mean stress inducing)

It kind of annoys me when I don't like something new and people immediately assume it's because it's new.
On the contrary, I actually like Windblade. I just don't like this version of her and the whole revenge plot is trite and overdone. So please stop jumping the gun and thinking I'm some sort of rampant geewunner.

Kurona wrote:It kind of annoys me when I don't like something new and people immediately assume it's because it's new.
On the contrary, I actually like Windblade. I just don't like this version of her and the whole revenge plot is trite and overdone. So please stop jumping the gun and thinking I'm some sort of rampant geewunner.

Everyperson on the planet jumps to the gun on things like this we kinda tend to do that.


I'm sorry for assuming.

Seibertronians, just in case you didn't get a good enough look at the series in the first trailer, courtesy of Seibertron himself, we have a special peek inside the first episode of the Machinima Transformers Combiner Wars animated cartoon. In addition to a bit of the Machinima panel, we also get our first look at the new female Autobot and Combiner Hunter, Maxima! Check her, and the rest of the trailer out below, and tell us your thoughts in the comments! And, as always, keep your optics and audio sensors tuned to Seibertron.com, the best Transformers news source on the net!

Clip starts at 1:49

Anyone else finding themselves getting less and less excited for this?

I mean... I'll watch it, and I'm sure I'll find something to enjoy about it, but ehhh... since that Windblade preview I've not exactly had as easy a time getting myself hyped for this.

Kurona wrote:Anyone else finding themselves getting less and less excited for this?

It happened as soon as I saw the clips with Windblade standing over Computron and slicing off Menasor's arm with ease. I was ready to enjoy this series, I was even able to disregard Windblade being the main character (though it did kinda annoy me). But this? This is absurd.

At least it's a new character instead of Optimus or Bumblebee being the main character for the billionth time.


I'm going to watch this show to be entertained not looking for a grand story and I'll be happy that way.

this is awesome ! I love this clip.

Super excited. Sad though its only 40 minutes arghhhhh

Looks great, cannot wait.

Deadput wrote:At least it's a new character instead of Optimus or Bumblebee being the main character for the billionth time.

Stop missing the point, man. It doesn't matter that she's a new character or not. The thing we don't like about this is that it's taking the brand new character that many of us know and love and depicting her in a negative light. The naive, altruistic, optimistic, and dutiful Windblade from the comics, whose personality we were hoping to see reflected here, has been reduced to a homicidal psychopathic maniac. Even disregarding the personality of IDW Windblade, that kind of personality is never acceptable for our main heroic protagonist gateway character, especially in a work related to a children's toy brand. She's basically an Arcee knockoff at this point, and no one wanted that. Just because it's doing something different doesn't automatically make it good.

Sabrblade wrote:

Deadput wrote:At least it's a new character instead of Optimus or Bumblebee being the main character for the billionth time.

Stop missing the point, man. It doesn't matter that she's a new character or not. The thing we don't like about this is that it's taking the brand new character that many of us know and love and depicting her in a negative light. The naive, altruistic, optimistic, and dutiful Windblade from the comics, whose personality we were hoping to see reflected here, has been reduced to a homicidal psychopathic maniac. Even disregarding the personality of IDW Windblade, that kind of personality is never acceptable for our main heroic protagonist gateway character, especially in a work related to a children's toy brand. She's basically an Arcee knockoff at this point, and no one wanted that. Just because it's doing something different doesn't automatically make it good.

I know we disagree a lot but thank you for putting my thoughts into words better than my attempts earlier

Here's my thoughts.

First, the animation is great. It looks modern but has the G1 feel at the same time.

The length is a major bummer. This whole series we've been waiting for is as long as 2 standard episodes? Why were they not upfront about it? It's not even the length of a TV movie or miniseries.

As far as the voices go, we honestly didn't hear many but let me tackle the Optimus Prime voice. They really dropped the ball here. It seems obvious they didn't want to pay Peter Cullen. Anyone who has heard Jon Bailey's Optimus voice knows that it is the next best thing and actually sounds more like G1 Prime than Cullen himself has in recent years. The problem is that this isn't Bailey's Prime voice, it's a very generic sounding voice that really misses the mark. I would hope that we'll get more G1 based animation in the future and a real series and hopefully Jon can return as Optimus and do the voice the way he has before.

One small fault I find, nitpicking but Menasor doesn't have the titanic echoing sound I'd like to expect like when you heard Devs shout "Prepare for eXXterminAtion!" in the 1986 movie. Aside from that, the animation is AWESOME!

I do like the animation. I'm looking forward to the show

Jeez the animation looks beautiful, but it is so chopy it irritates my eyes. Look, we know it's 3d, so can we stop the practice of ditching frames to try and make it look like traditional animation? It feels like watching a clip on a bad connection, not quite buffering but not running smooth either. Hopefully the official release will look better, but there are a lot of animated shows that handle cg this way so I'm worried.

Autobot N wrote:Seriously? If Windblade can take down Combiners that easily, then why are they a huge threat in the first place?

THIS!!!!

I saw Windblade taking off Manassor's Arm with her Sword and immediately got turned off... I'm loosing a lot of faith in this show. Not that I really had much to start.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Really? Not this video crap again.

But really? Windblade can just cut down combiners like that? sheesh!

Yeah, I can see some clueless exec at a Hasbro board meeting going, "Yeah...lets make her the She-Ra of the TF Universe! I'm telling you, fans will love it!"

*Shudders with revolution*

Sigma Magnus wrote:Well...she wants to kill all combiners. Maybe she just made anti-combiner weapons to help with that?

I honestly think that's what Hasbro believes we want to see. Trust me if it wasn't her being forced down our throats then it would've been Bumblebee. Why?

Because Hasbro are idiots that why! Remember they had a station all to themselves and we all know how that turned out. So their input in this show isn't turning out to be much better.

YoungPrime wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Really? Not this video crap again.

But really? Windblade can just cut down combiners like that? sheesh!

Yeah, I can see some clueless exec at a Hasbro board meeting going, "Yeah...lets make her the She-Ra of the TF Universe! I'm telling you, fans will love it!"

*Shudders with revolution*

I was really confused when I saw this quote wondering what the hell I said and when.

Now I get it. the video not working for other counties hence "video crap."

And yeah, kinda a bit overpowered she is, at least I think so

There's something else about the animation I feel is worth mentioning, but it's something that might make folks re-think their positive opinions about it. We were told previously that the animation for this would be in an anime style. Upon watching the video, I kept that in mind and at first thought "This doesn't look like an anime at all. It looks like a normal cel-shaded CGI Western cartoon."

BUT... Then I noticed the mouth movement, and went "Oh... OH! So that's what they meant by... Oh... Oh no... Oh NO! No. No no no no no no nonononononoooooo!"

That mouth movement is exactly the same kind of underdetailed featureless mouth movement that is common to many anime, and which we got back in both Energon and Cybertron.

Sabrblade wrote:There's something else about the animation I feel is worth mentioning, but it's something that might make folks re-think their positive opinions about it. We were told previously that the animation for this would be in an anime style. Upon watching the video, I kept that in mind and at first thought "This doesn't look like an anime at all. It looks like a normal cel-shaded CGI Western cartoon."

BUT... Then I noticed the mouth movement, and went "Oh... OH! So that's what they meant by... Oh... Oh no... Oh NO! No. No no no no no no nonononononoooooo!"

That mouth movement is exactly the same kind of underdetailed featureless mouth movement that is common to many anime, and which we got back in both Energon and Cybertron.

I have seen worse. Not from a Transformers cartoon, but I have seen something. Something that makes Energon look like a film from Studio Ghibli.

Decepticon Stryker wrote:I have seen worse. Not from a Transformers cartoon, but I have seen something. Something that makes Energon look like a film from Studio Ghibli.

Yes yes, we know there's animation out there as bad as Food Fight, but that doesn't change the fact that Energon-grade animation is still bad.

Sabrblade wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:I have seen worse. Not from a Transformers cartoon, but I have seen something. Something that makes Energon look like a film from Studio Ghibli.

Yes yes, we know there's animation out there as bad as Food Fight, but that doesn't change the fact that Energon-grade animation is still bad.

Thank you for not making me say the title to that abomination. I die a little every time I say it. But yeah, mouth movement is Energon-like, but the rest looks rather good in my opinion. Yes it's kinda sluggish, but still better than Energon.

Xarmech wrote:I see Maxima fighting Menasor, but I don't see her anywhere else in the trailer. I hope they don't pull a "Cliffjumper" and kill her off before we get to know her.

P.S. Starscream sounds more like his G1 character, why so mad, and Windblade has been murder crazy in the comics before and at least she's not like her RID counterpart.

"Murder crazy"?

Her and Chromia together couldn't even beat Starscream in Windblade Vol. 1. Now they have her chopping off Combiner limbs..... Defend this all you like but if that wasn't some type of dream sequence or "danger room battle". I might be done with this show before it even starts.

The Developers of this show should know better.

YoungPrime wrote:The Developers of this show should know better.

Ah, but, see, the creators of this series had a similar goal in mind to that of the creators of the Prime cartoon, but whereas the Prime creators set out to make that show as "epic" as possible, this show's creators set out make this show as "bad-A-double-S" as possible. It is evident from what we've seen of this show so far where their priorities lay.

Sabrblade wrote:

YoungPrime wrote:The Developers of this show should know better.

Ah, but, see, the creators of this series had a similar goal in mind to that of the creators of the Prime cartoon, but whereas the Prime creators set out to make that show as "epic" as possible, this show's creators set out make this show as "bad-A-double-S" as possible. It is evident from what we've seen of this show so far where their priorities lay.

Oh God, I hated that show! It was basically 23 minutes of Power Ranger Optimus and friends slaughtering scores of Putties I'm mean Decepticon drones.

Windblade definitely was not murder-crazy in the slightest. You have read the comics, right? Seen her reaction to Starscream killing Chela?