Newly Discovered CAD Drawnings for Two Canceled Transformers Animated toys
Wednesday, December 27th, 2023 1:11PM CST
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Canceled designs for heretofore-unknown-about toys for a Deluxe Cybertronian Bumblebee and an Activators Rodimus have been found all these years later!
Transformers Animated scholar Keyan Carlile (who's been making all the big Animated Season 4 documentaries) has received their CAD drawings and posted them to Twitter.
Keyan Carlile wrote:ACTUAL new discovery: At the time Transformers Animated was cancelled, a Deluxe Cybertronian Mode Bumblebee and Activator Rodimus were in active development. I was just gifted their CAD drawings. They never reached the model phase.
Deluxe class Cybertronian Bumblebee
Activators Rodimus
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Posted by DeathReviews on December 27th, 2023 @ 2:01pm CST
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Posted by Sabrblade on December 27th, 2023 @ 8:51pm CST
But think of the remold potential!-Kanrabat- wrote:That Cyber Bee look either like a gorilla or a quarterback.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on December 27th, 2023 @ 9:10pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:But think of the remold potential!-Kanrabat- wrote:That Cyber Bee look either like a gorilla or a quarterback.
We have a whole football team here!
Maybe even two.
Posted by cloudballoon on December 27th, 2023 @ 10:51pm CST
DeathReviews wrote:TFA got the axe WAY too soon and was far too under-appreciated. It's a shame that quality, mold-breaking efforts like TFA always seem to play second fiddle to mediocre, cookie-cutter stuff. It'd be nice to see this show return, though I'm sure Hasbro would again sneer and pretend there's 'no market' for it..
But Hasbro was at least willing to put down R&D for 3 seasons. I think they've put in honest effort. So IMO that's less Hasbro's fault and more the initial fans reaction to the stylized look that might've got Hasbro spooked.
Another factor might be that Hasbro thought they can just ride the Bayverse train and ignore other major media efforts for the brand?
Posted by Sabrblade on December 27th, 2023 @ 11:04pm CST
And they all turn into Space Jalopies.-Kanrabat- wrote:Sabrblade wrote:But think of the remold potential!-Kanrabat- wrote:That Cyber Bee look either like a gorilla or a quarterback.
We have a whole football team here!
Maybe even two.
Posted by Burn on December 28th, 2023 @ 12:38am CST
Sabrblade wrote:And they all turn into Space Jalopies.-Kanrabat- wrote:Sabrblade wrote:But think of the remold potential!-Kanrabat- wrote:That Cyber Bee look either like a gorilla or a quarterback.
We have a whole football team here!
Maybe even two.
Put some wings on them and you've got TFA Prime Steve's!
Posted by Bumblevivisector on December 29th, 2023 @ 3:06pm CST
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Sabrblade wrote:And season 4 would have taken Animated back to Earth.AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Sadly another TF show that started to really hit it's stride after ditching Earth.
Not the point being made. Ditching Earth gives way to Transformers becoming a lot more creative. Often leading to more imaginative world building for the series too. Animated really benefitted from veering away from human-based enemies/scenerios and embracing it's own unique lore.
Agreed. The series finale felt like the show was finally shifting into high gear and taking off, so of course it ended. Reminds me of how the U.S. Marvel book got so good under Furman and Wildman that it could've burst the boundaries of its dead toyline and just kept going like ROM and Micronauts before it...but no, axed. If we could somehow get one long-dead TF cartoon another new season, I'd vote for Animated, no question.
And while that will never happen, we could, in theory, get the occasional new toy based on the hundreds of designs the late Mr. Wyatt drew up...which is why Legacy Animated Prowl with G1-ified face hurt so bad, and is ironically that last toy from the line I'd ever consider buying.
Posted by Sabrblade on January 3rd, 2024 @ 10:46am CST
The merchandise he covers also ranges from the common to the obscure, even covering some items that few have ever heard of before.
He plans to eventually make the same kind of video for the new Bumblebee toy.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on January 8th, 2024 @ 6:42pm CST
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Posted by Rodimus Prime on February 1st, 2024 @ 11:55pm CST
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Posted by Rodimus Prime on February 2nd, 2024 @ 12:00am CST
Does it involve disassembly of the arm?Sabrblade wrote:I did the mod to mine that allows the fusion cannon to sit flush against the arm.
Posted by Sabrblade on February 2nd, 2024 @ 12:03am CST
Nope. Just hacking off a small chunk of the plastic.Rodimus Prime wrote:Does it involve disassembly of the arm?Sabrblade wrote:I did the mod to mine that allows the fusion cannon to sit flush against the arm.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on February 2nd, 2024 @ 2:21pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:Nope. Just hacking off a small chunk of the plastic.Rodimus Prime wrote:Does it involve disassembly of the arm?Sabrblade wrote:I did the mod to mine that allows the fusion cannon to sit flush against the arm.
Care to share?
Posted by Rodimus Prime on February 2nd, 2024 @ 2:37pm CST
Yeah, don't be shy. Share with the group.D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Nope. Just hacking off a small chunk of the plastic.Rodimus Prime wrote:Does it involve disassembly of the arm?Sabrblade wrote:I did the mod to mine that allows the fusion cannon to sit flush against the arm.
Care to share?
Posted by Sabrblade on February 2nd, 2024 @ 3:50pm CST
Looking around for it, I believe this is the tutorial I used for it (it was originally posted back in 2008).Rodimus Prime wrote:Yeah, don't be shy. Share with the group.D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Nope. Just hacking off a small chunk of the plastic.Rodimus Prime wrote:Does it involve disassembly of the arm?Sabrblade wrote:I did the mod to mine that allows the fusion cannon to sit flush against the arm.
Care to share?
Though, contrary to the instructions given, I didn't use a dremel or any power tools. Just a small blade sharp enough to cut and hack away at the plastic.
Other mods from the time that I did were the one that allows Bumblebee's stingers to fold into his arms all the way, the one that allows Grimlock's upper arms to slide deeper into his shoulders, the one that allows Lockdown's hands to properly fold out from his arms all the way forward (though, I didn't not do this mod for Blazing Lockdown since it was pretty tough and time-consuming the first time with normal Lockdown, even if the results were still worth it), and I think that's all the Animated-related mods I did back then.
There was another mod for Prowl that allowed his knees to bend back even farther, but I couldn't get that one done right since it required too much precision to do to some very tiny, very specific parts of his thighs, and the extra bend in the knees really wasn't as much of a difference-maker as the other mods I did were, so I just left Prowl's already-sufficient knee articulation unmodified.