Nickelodeon Juxtaposes Earthspark Characters to their G1 Counterparts

I really love these designs.

Let's hope there will be Generations style toys to do them justice.

I have a feeling that Nickelodeon post will have purists upset that they're giving the Earthspark designs more praise than the G1 shows while everyone else seems more intrigued by Megs and Elita-1 being less Evergreen.

-Kanrabat- wrote:I really love these designs.

Let's hope there will be Generations style toys to do them justice.

I would not get my hopes up at all. As with Cyberverse, what we will get will be deluxe class bots. So probably decent toys but all the same height.

Quantum Surge wrote:I have a feeling that Nickelodeon post will have purists upset that they're giving the Earthspark designs more praise than the G1 shows while everyone else seems more intrigued by Megs and Elita-1 being less Evergreen.

Bumblebee isn't very evergreen either, and Optimus is only partially evergreen in bot mode (then again, his design is as much G1 as it is evergreen). I thought G1 fans would like this post since it shows that Nickelodeon values the roots of these characters and knows where they are coming from, making the show a reinvention of G1. Showing a deliberate throughline in the designs.

Bumblebee is really just our third interpretation of the design that was first started with IDW. Evergreen, Cyberverse and Earthspark can all be traced back to that.






Emerje

I wonder where the G1 Elita One art came from. It is a frame from "The search for Alpha Trion"?

Megatron looks good, but I thought it was pretty cool how Megatron designs kept changing with each cartoon.

Call me crazy, but I swear that G1 Bee art was made for Earthspark, and not a screengrab from a G1 episode. We had seen some glimpses of worldbuilding that presents the Bots and Cons in merchandise/comics in the world they exist in, ala Avengers. So it seems to me that that Bee is an in-universe rendition of the character.

They all look awesome to me.

These all look cool, but yeah, the G1 characters seem to have been photoshopped onto different backgrounds. Elita's right-shoulder stovepipe got cut off, and is that part of Huffer on the left? And are they in someone's house?

Not being critical, it's just amusing. Looking forward to this show, as some of these CG models look even better than Prime.

Megatron and Bumblebee look so sharp. I love the Megatron design particularly

Okay, so some artistic or style changes I can accept, but did anyone notice they made Megatron a lefty for his cannon? Some things, I just cannot accept, and lefty Megs is one of them...
(kidding, I don't really care, just found it odd.)

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Okay, so some artistic or style changes I can accept, but did anyone notice they made Megatron a lefty for his cannon? Some things, I just cannot accept, and lefty Megs is one of them...
(kidding, I don't really care, just found it odd.)

..No? It's definitely on his right arm.

While a show aimed at kids, the Earthspark show will include several G1 characters that many fans would surely be glad to see appear such as Skullcruncher and Swindle. It's always fun to see old favourites have new character models and how their designs fit with a new aesthetic, as we saw with Swindle in Transformers Animated for instance. We also get to hear Swindle speak here. Enjoy!

Notes for cool things:

SUPER MOM! Yeah, we need more of those

Is that Swindle I see there? Really cool! hopefully we get the other combaticons too.

Man, what is her pickup truck made out of?

I wonder if Skullcruncher will actually be in this long enough to warrant a new toy, or we'll just get Cyberverse Skullcruncher in in Earthspark packaging, ala Cyberverse Blurr.

I like how Thrash and Twitch's connection to the kids is reminiscent of Headmaster binary-bonding, relationships explored repeatedly in TF comics, but not so much in animation.

He is more red than pink,like the Knock out BH "Crock out" with a body like Dreadwing,another exemple of a face-chest is PRIME Rumble which i dislike the color scheme of,there's a japanese redeco,he comes out of a very simplistic car,that's funny.

Love the love that Skullcruncher keeps getting lately.

Also, far out hope I know, but given that RiD2015 gave us a new take on Doublecross/Twinferno, and Cyberverse gave us the Repugnus, I want Grotusque in some capacity to show up in the toyline or show briefly here, giving us a complete set up 2010's/2020's Monsterbots

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Love the love that Skullcruncher keeps getting lately.

Also, far out hope I know, but given that RiD2015 gave us a new take on Doublecross/Twinferno, and Cyberverse gave us the Repugnus, I want Grotusque in some capacity to show up in the toyline or show briefly here, giving us a complete set up 2010's/2020's Monsterbots

You read my mind! I'm thinking of getting a 2015 twinferno, and if earth spark d[esng giveus a grotesque, I was thinking of making one from movie legends grimlock.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Love the love that Skullcruncher keeps getting lately.

Also, far out hope I know, but given that RiD2015 gave us a new take on Doublecross/Twinferno, and Cyberverse gave us the Repugnus, I want Grotusque in some capacity to show up in the toyline or show briefly here, giving us a complete set up 2010's/2020's Monsterbots

You read my mind! I'm thinking of getting a 2015 twinferno, and if earth spark d[esng giveus a grotesque, I was thinking of making one from movie legends grimlock.

One extra detail:he has a different symbol on him,the same as Bombshell,some theories:

-they are animalformers

-they are fugitifs

-an alliance with Meridian would not be captivating

maybe they are souless clones made by him but he is very close to Swindle

What are you talking about?

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:What are you talking about?

About Skullcruncher,he's the main subject,not Grotusque.

PerfectVision wrote:

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:What are you talking about?

About Skullcruncher,he's the main subject,not Grotusque.

I'm guessing akullcruncher is just another decepticon, butvswindle may have other plans. I hope he has a good toy.

Always nice to see more Beastformers in the mix. And Skullcruncher's robot mode looks great. Here's hoping his alligator mode is good too.

Skullcruncher looks a little out of place. He looks very much like prime megatron if you squint.

Has anyone else noticed Skullcruncher seems to have a new insignia in his chest?

I wonder if that's a new faction spun off from renegade Decepticons, or related to Mandroid (far more likely, given the spider-like legs, in my opinion).

MaximalNui wrote:Has anyone else noticed Skullcruncher seems to have a new insignia in his chest?

No,i'm not even the first one.Are we talking alone or what?

He might be something akin to Animated's reinterpretation of Headmaster.

Or its simply squad markings/rank. Optimus and Elita have similar new markings.

ZeroWolf wrote:Or its simply squad markings/rank. Optimus and Elita have similar new markings.

A squad of animals?Because that's the only common thing with Bombshell.Does it means they have primitive minds?So much that it's worth a new symbol.

PerfectVision wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Or its simply squad markings/rank. Optimus and Elita have similar new markings.

A squad of animals?Because that's the only common thing with Bombshell.Does it means they have primitive minds?So much that it's worth a new symbol.

Who knows. My point was more that everyone was focusing on skullcruncher when others already had new symbols. Unless it's something truly important to the plot, I'm expecting something like squad markings or rank, and nothing more. For example that symbol might be the personal mark of whatever con is leading the squad that skullcruncher is in, and can easily be changed if he goes to serve under megatron directly.

I'd say the Mandroid connection is a strong possibility.

Subsequent series have really had a fetish for dividing the Transformers into more and more sub-factions.

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:Skullcruncher looks a little out of place. He looks very much like prime megatron if you squint.

He definitely looks reminiscent of Prime designs and a similar level of detail in the character model.

We finally have an official release date for Transformers Earthspark. A post from Nickelodeon and Paramount on Instagram give us a new poster stating the release date to be November 11. So 2 month away. it will be interesting to see how close to that date the toys will be readily available at retail. The show will be available on Paramount +.

A little later than I was expecting, but still not too long to wait.

Interesting. A show about war veterans premiering on Veterans Day.

Sabrblade wrote:Interesting. A show about war veterans premiering on Veterans Day.

I thought that was just a thing in canada, I didn't know both canada and the US shared veterans day.

The poster reminds me just how bad (imo) the sister's head design looks, well not the design itself but the size, it's like she has a Transformer sized head on a body, and the eyes too look like they were accidently scaled wrong.

All the other human characters look just fine, which is why it's distracting for me.

Anyways besides that I like the poster, in general I'm happy to have some main Transformer character that seem to be decently original in addition to mainstays like Prime and Bee, a drone and what I recall being a motorcycle with a sidecar are pretty refreshing for alt modes.

Are those TREE symbols on Optimus Prime's shoulders? Please don't say that Earthspark is going all "Captain Planet" on us...

DeathReviews wrote:Are those TREE symbols on Optimus Prime's shoulders? Please don't say that Earthspark is going all "Captain Planet" on us...

It's just the autobot symbol imbedded within a larger symbol showing his alliance with humans. Megatron has the same symbol but with a deceoticon logo imbedded in it.

william-james88 wrote:It's just the autobot symbol imbedded within a larger symbol showing his alliance with humans. Megatron has the same symbol but with a deceoticon logo imbedded in it.

So, this means there will be or who would ally themselves with other things than humans? Like Aliens or Mole People perhaps? Then all those sub-factions may fight each others?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

william-james88 wrote:It's just the autobot symbol imbedded within a larger symbol showing his alliance with humans. Megatron has the same symbol but with a deceoticon logo imbedded in it.

So, this means there will be or who would ally themselves with other things than humans? Like Aliens or Mole People perhaps? Then all those sub-factions may fight each others?

In this series the war is over and everyone seems to be working together hence the similar symbol motif. The main villain is Mandroid.

I'm really looking forward to this series since it seems to be doing a lot of things that haven't been done (in animation anyway) like the Terrans and non-aggressive Decepticons.

Emerje

Hmmmm..... Very interesting premise.

Emerje wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

william-james88 wrote:It's just the autobot symbol imbedded within a larger symbol showing his alliance with humans. Megatron has the same symbol but with a deceoticon logo imbedded in it.

So, this means there will be or who would ally themselves with other things than humans? Like Aliens or Mole People perhaps? Then all those sub-factions may fight each others?

In this series the war is over and everyone seems to be working together hence the similar symbol motif. The main villain is Mandroid.

I'm really looking forward to this series since it seems to be doing a lot of things that haven't been done (in animation anyway) like the Terrans and non-aggressive Decepticons.

Emerje

But they are agressive.If only Megatron is charitable:he will be a contrarian like Sentinel,different but nothing else.

The terrans from the spawning pool are miraculous pets of death,not a new information from me but a judgement:everything will be solved by the adults or by a miraculous mutation(this part can be fun if there's créativity...The MAX STEEL way,not DIGIMON),i hope they will explain the indestructible mommy truck but i doubt it.Miraculous resolve again and again plus some CODE LYOKO fights whatever it is the authentic inspiration or not,the humans are not allowed to be shoted directly and that's problematic.Sound original only if you lack some références,maybe satisfysing enough in spite of that.

PerfectVision wrote:

Emerje wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

william-james88 wrote:It's just the autobot symbol imbedded within a larger symbol showing his alliance with humans. Megatron has the same symbol but with a deceoticon logo imbedded in it.

So, this means there will be or who would ally themselves with other things than humans? Like Aliens or Mole People perhaps? Then all those sub-factions may fight each others?

In this series the war is over and everyone seems to be working together hence the similar symbol motif. The main villain is Mandroid.

I'm really looking forward to this series since it seems to be doing a lot of things that haven't been done (in animation anyway) like the Terrans and non-aggressive Decepticons.

Emerje

But they are agressive.If only Megatron is charitable:he will be a contrarian like Sentinel,different but nothing else.

The terrans from the spawning pool are miraculous pets of death,not a new information from me but a judgement:everything will be solved by the adults or by a miraculous mutation(this part can be fun if there's créativity...The MAX STEEL way,not DIGIMON),i hope they will explain the indestructible mommy truck but i doubt it.Miraculous resolve again and again plus some CODE LYOKO fights whatever it is the authentic inspiration or not,the humans are not allowed to be shoted directly and that's problematic.Sound original only if you lack some références,maybe satisfysing enough in spite of that.

You entirely misunderstood my point. I was talking about the concept of non-aggressive Decepticons, not that all of them are suddenly non-aggressive (though I have a feeling it wont just be Megatron, he has too many loyalists in any continuity). We got a hint of that in the Unicron Trilogy with Starscream, but then they kinda ruined it.

When I said "in animation" I was clearly talking about Transformers animation, not all animation ever made. I'm more than aware of the whole "pet" concept, I was a teen when Pokemon and Digimon came west. We got our own version with Minicons in the Unicron Trilogy, but this is different. They're supposedly being treated as family members to the humans and they're being promoted as actual Transformers, just born on Earth (rather than spawns of Unicron). It's an interesting take.

Emerje

I am excited for the series, though I will need to figure out how to watch it. The Cons and Terrans have really grabbed my attention

Emerje wrote:

PerfectVision wrote:

Emerje wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

william-james88 wrote:It's just the autobot symbol imbedded within a larger symbol showing his alliance with humans. Megatron has the same symbol but with a deceoticon logo imbedded in it.

So, this means there will be or who would ally themselves with other things than humans? Like Aliens or Mole People perhaps? Then all those sub-factions may fight each others?

In this series the war is over and everyone seems to be working together hence the similar symbol motif. The main villain is Mandroid.

I'm really looking forward to this series since it seems to be doing a lot of things that haven't been done (in animation anyway) like the Terrans and non-aggressive Decepticons.

Emerje

But they are agressive.If only Megatron is charitable:he will be a contrarian like Sentinel,different but nothing else.

The terrans from the spawning pool are miraculous pets of death,not a new information from me but a judgement:everything will be solved by the adults or by a miraculous mutation(this part can be fun if there's créativity...The MAX STEEL way,not DIGIMON),i hope they will explain the indestructible mommy truck but i doubt it.Miraculous resolve again and again plus some CODE LYOKO fights whatever it is the authentic inspiration or not,the humans are not allowed to be shoted directly and that's problematic.Sound original only if you lack some références,maybe satisfysing enough in spite of that.

You entirely misunderstood my point. I was talking about the concept of non-aggressive Decepticons, not that all of them are suddenly non-aggressive (though I have a feeling it wont just be Megatron, he has too many loyalists in any continuity). We got a hint of that in the Unicron Trilogy with Starscream, but then they kinda ruined it.

When I said "in animation" I was clearly talking about Transformers animation, not all animation ever made. I'm more than aware of the whole "pet" concept, I was a teen when Pokemon and Digimon came west. We got our own version with Minicons in the Unicron Trilogy, but this is different. They're supposedly being treated as family members to the humans and they're being promoted as actual Transformers, just born on Earth (rather than spawns of Unicron). It's an interesting take.

Emerje

Megatron is a contrarian like Sentinel,IF he's the only one,rehash of ANIMATED,not a truly new story in animation and that's spéculatif anyway.

They are still overpowered pets even with some semblant of personnality,the concept is large,i'm not fooled:"Can we keep them?They may crush the living room when they play by fighting.But can we keep them?".Their birth is a total miracle while we are at it.The minicons are spawns of Satan?Ouh,that tell so much.

RID 2015 was a worse plagiat of the TV series for LILO AND STICH from TRIPLESIXNEY.It is noticeable and matters invariably.No excuses:"original for this licence".I don't discuss that,"maybe satisfysing enough in spite of that".

I liked RID2015. Though I think what I loved most about it was how old-school it felt in terms of show promoting a Toyline.

william-james88 wrote:I liked RID2015. Though I think what I loved most about it was how old-school it felt in terms of show promoting a Toyline.

Though unfortunately, so many cons did not get toys. I really wanted several of those designs that didn't get toys to actually get them. Chop Shop is still a huge loss for not having a toy

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I liked RID2015. Though I think what I loved most about it was how old-school it felt in terms of show promoting a Toyline.

Though unfortunately, so many cons did not get toys. I really wanted several of those designs that didn't get toys to actually get them. Chop Shop is still a huge loss for not having a toy

And many of those who did get toys didn't get them until a whole year after their debut.