Nickelodeon's Transformers Series Finds its Animation Studio

And they've had a LOT of clients beyond just Disney.

Ubisoft
41 Entertainment
EA
Nickelodeon
Mattel
Netflix
Arad Animation, Inc.
Paramount+
AMC
Warner Bros. Animation
Perfect World

And more.

It's a mixed bag. I've seen the Kong animated series on Netflix, and it is complete garbage, however Disney tends to always pay more, for better quality.


Remember, Polygon did The Clone Wars & Transformers Prime (both Beautiful and amazing Animated series). Polygon also animated RiD15, and the Current Netflix series, so budget is a big factor as well. You always get what you pay for...

That being said, since Prime, Hasbro seems to have been quite reserved when it comes to shelling out cash for an animated series, much to the detriment of the franchise. Hopefully they offer Icon a bit more to make a nice looking show, but only time will tell.

It just seems like only once a decade or so do they hit that "sweet spot" of getting a show that both looks good and is well written. Usually it's one, or the other and sometimes (Prime Wars Trilogy) it's neither. I can only hope that they look at the upper tier of what Icon can offer, as opposed to bargain basement pricing.

o.supreme wrote:I've seen the Kong animated series on Netflix, and it is complete garbage,

Animation-wise specifically, or overall (writing, directing, acting, etc.)? Haven't seen it myself.

From the looks of their website, it seems that they only worked on the second season.

Both. I mean, it is clearly written with small children in mind, but, as you well know, shows like Rescue Bots set a pretty high bar for a well written childrens show. Kong not only looks bad (water effects specifically, Kong for some reason blows snot on characters occasionally, but looks like they are being rained on...??) But from what I recall, the overall story isn't great either, nor is it sensical. They also use music from the 1999/2000 Kong animated series which I find to be very puzzling... I think they did the Netflix Tarzan show as well (I could be mistaken), my kids tried to watch it, but never made it past the 1st episode

What Icon has done for Disney however looks better (thought I can't speak personally since I haven't seen any of it), so like I said, I'm not blaming the studio per se.

I mean I like Hamburgers, and I like Prime Rib also. But if Hasbro expects Prime Rib from a Hamburger Budget... I think we are all in trouble.

o.supreme wrote:I mean I like Hamburgers, and I like Prime Rib also. But if Hasbro expects Prime Rib from a Hamburger Budget... I think we are all in trouble.

I feel like Hasbro thinks that we cynical old farts aren't supposed to be watching the "kids' stuff".

I mean, they certainly never expected Rescue Bots to have such a big adult fan following when Prime was airing at the time.

Yeah, it is kind of frustrating. I get that this show, and BotBots is not "For Me", but then what is? Why am I still involved with this franchise? WFC? - Sure I guess. I mean after the dumpster fire that was Prime Wars, WFC is an improvement, but it is still not Great.

I've stated this for years, and I just don't know why Hasbro doesn't give it a try. If they don't want to commit to making a long term animated series that both Adults & Children can enjoy together, why don't they go the WB/DC route, and give older fans a couple of direct-to-home media films per year?

They don't have to be super grim and dark like the current DC R rated animated films. Prior to 2016, most of their animated films were PG13, some were even PG, and they were really good. I mean there is almost 40 years of Transformers lore to pull from. We could get a film set in proper "Sunbow" continuity. We could get one from Marvel, one from Marvel UK, BW, Unicron Trilogy, DW, IDW....I mean the possibilities are quite open. Two Animated Films per year, that's all I ask as a fan in my 40's. I'll by them all. Then they can make all the cheaply animated stuff for kids they want until the end of time.

This studio, gone to the website and all kiddy fluffy stuff.

Then at the bottom, Warhammer Space Marine. So they did do some teens and above stuff at some point.

I agree with you guys here, they are making these cartoons quite kiddy these days.

But you'all remember X-Men Animated in the 90's? That was a kids show and very cool and serious, Gargoyles was great, Spiderman had it's episodes. And of course Beast Wars was great.

It seems like they think you either go super serious (read boring and extremely slow) War for Cybertron (Netflix) or you go very cartoony and light hearted.

And I don't know about you guys, but I'm sick and tired of 3d animation. It looks like trash, the only 3d I liked was actually the Netfilx one but everything else in that series was lets say a tech demo, nothing more.

Give us 2D cell animation, that actually has soul.
But don't go overboard into Teen Titans Go territory.

It looks like no person at Hasbro has ever seen a Gundam episode.
Give us a 12 episode mini series Gundam seriousness in cell animation.

noctorro wrote:Give us 2D cell animation, that actually has soul.

No one uses cels anymore. It's all digital nowadays.

Sabrblade wrote:

noctorro wrote:Give us 2D cell animation, that actually has soul.

No one uses cels anymore. It's all digital nowadays.

He probably meant digital cells such as in The Simpsons. Yes the Occasional Gundam series as well as Young Justice are great examples of why 2D animation still looks great. Unfortunately we now live in this odd world where CG is actually less expensive to produce than 2D animation for some reason (although- yes- it's all done on computers)

Also yes, it appears the era of the 80's and 90's of having a good action show that appeals to both kids and adults no longer exists. Prior to the Pandemic, the movie industry made billions off riding the PG-13 rating, making films appeal to as many different demo's at once as possible. In animation however it seems to be only G/PG and R (not saying that Netflix WFC is R rated, but at DC you have Harley Quinn and pretty much all their animated films of the last 5-6 years are needlessly violent). They look amazing, but I'm not interested in gore/sex/violence just because "it can be done".

Even great CG shows such as Transformers Prime and The Clone Wars seem just not to exist anymore.

o.supreme wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

noctorro wrote:Give us 2D cell animation, that actually has soul.

No one uses cels anymore. It's all digital nowadays.

He probably meant digital cells such as in The Simpsons. Yes the Occasional Gundam series as well as Young Justice are great examples of why 2D animation still looks great. Unfortunately we now live in this odd world where CG is actually less expensive to produce than 2D animation for some reason (although- yes- it's all done on computers)

Also yes, it appears the era of the 80's and 90's of having a good action show that appeals to both kids and adults no longer exists. Prior to the Pandemic, the movie industry made billions off riding the PG-13 rating, making films appeal to as many different demo's at once as possible. In animation however it seems to be only G/PG and R (not saying that Netflix WFC is R rated, but at DC you have Harley Quinn and pretty much all their animated films of the last 5-6 years are needlessly violent). They look amazing, but I'm not interested in gore/sex/violence just because "it can be done".

Even great CG shows such as Transformers Prime and The Clone Wars seem just not to exist anymore.

Once in a blue moon, we do still get something great like Netflix Voltron and The Dragon Prince.

Sabrblade wrote:Once in a blue moon, we do still get something great like Netflix Voltron and The Dragon Prince.

True. Coincidentally my son and I just started a re-watch of Voltron Legendary Defender. Seasons 1-6 have been released on DVD, but still not 7 and 8. I believe the length of the show was just perfect (78 episodes over 3 years). Unfortunately it just didn't stick the landing. The last season is especially a point of contention for fans. Instead of a bigger bad, (or perhaps having the foresight not to kill off Zarkon so soon) they just kind of went "internal", I honestly at this moment can't even remember exactly how it ends... I still wish they would have introduced Vehicle Voltron. Also there was talk early on of a theatrical film to conclude the series. It's unfortunate they didn't go that route.

Greetings Seibertronians! Straight from the NickALive blog, comes news that the new Transformers cartoon being developed by eOne and Nickelodeon, has gained a storyboard director in the shape of Jordan Rosato. Jordan previously served as a storyboard artist on Nickelodeon's hit show, The Loud House, including on Netflix's upcoming The Loud House Movie. Her credits also include 2019's DC Super Hero Girls and Little Ellen.



While we have yet to see any concept work from this show, it is set to debut exclusively on Nickelodeon USA in 2022, before rolling out to international markets.

The brief of the show is that a new species of Transformer must find their place in the world amongst the Autobots, Decepticons, and the human family that adopts them. The show was announced back in February, and is being animated by Icon Media Entertainment.

Thanks to fellow Seibertron user, Sabrblade for tipping us off about this.

What do you think about this?

Shout out in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

Nice to see we're getting some seasoned staff on this.

I want to comment more,but there is nothing to latch on to right now.Just the Autobot/Decepticon logo.

Ultra Markus wrote:here's a leak of what the show will look like

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What the French Toast? (Shout out to the Godfather Kevin Samuels)

No.

No.

Nooooooooo!!!!!!!

I hope this is a joke, this looks like Star Trek Lower Decks, Teen Titans Go. This looks like Transformers Animated (2007 or something) only 5 times worse.

Well, Generations is doing epic and will go on for a long long time. I hope Netflix ups it's game, so far the visual style and animation are very good. But the story, pacing and 0 humor is making it an extremely dull series.

This is a joke right?

I really enjoyed Cyberverse, they could just continue that after the 2 planned animated movies.

o.supreme wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

noctorro wrote:Give us 2D cell animation, that actually has soul.

No one uses cels anymore. It's all digital nowadays.

He probably meant digital cells such as in The Simpsons. Yes the Occasional Gundam series as well as Young Justice are great examples of why 2D animation still looks great. Unfortunately we now live in this odd world where CG is actually less expensive to produce than 2D animation for some reason (although- yes- it's all done on computers)

Also yes, it appears the era of the 80's and 90's of having a good action show that appeals to both kids and adults no longer exists. Prior to the Pandemic, the movie industry made billions off riding the PG-13 rating, making films appeal to as many different demo's at once as possible. In animation however it seems to be only G/PG and R (not saying that Netflix WFC is R rated, but at DC you have Harley Quinn and pretty much all their animated films of the last 5-6 years are needlessly violent). They look amazing, but I'm not interested in gore/sex/violence just because "it can be done".

Even great CG shows such as Transformers Prime and The Clone Wars seem just not to exist anymore.

Yes, I know there's a lot of digital stuff like digital coloring in todays cell animation. I mean the 2d stuff like Gundam. I miss Gundam, such epic shows.

I think the west is looking toward Japan more and more, also with the rot in western comics (leftist politics).

Here's me sitting here still hoping for a 45 episode season of Transformers in the animation style of Gundam Wing and the seriousness of that as well. (never gonna happen)

noctorro wrote:This is a joke right?

Well, considering that it's three-year-old fanart from 2018 meant to parody ThunderCats Roar...

noctorro wrote:Yes, I know there's a lot of digital stuff like digital coloring in todays cell animation. I mean the 2d stuff like Gundam. I miss Gundam, such epic shows.

I think the west is looking toward Japan more and more, also with the rot in western comics (leftist politics).

Here's me sitting here still hoping for a 45 episode season of Transformers in the animation style of Gundam Wing and the seriousness of that as well. (never gonna happen)

Gundam still exists... in Japan, and has long since hopped on the CGI train as well.

Gundam Wing looks dated as all get out, nowadays, and I say that as one who still loves Gundam Wing. But I hold no delusions that it looks exactly like a 26-year-old thing from 1995, which is just what it is.

Sabrblade wrote:

noctorro wrote:This is a joke right?

Well, considering that it's three-year-old fanart from 2018 meant to parody ThunderCats Roar...

noctorro wrote:Yes, I know there's a lot of digital stuff like digital coloring in todays cell animation. I mean the 2d stuff like Gundam. I miss Gundam, such epic shows.

I think the west is looking toward Japan more and more, also with the rot in western comics (leftist politics).

Here's me sitting here still hoping for a 45 episode season of Transformers in the animation style of Gundam Wing and the seriousness of that as well. (never gonna happen)

Gundam still exists... in Japan, and has long since hopped on the CGI train as well.

Gundam Wing looks dated as all get out, nowadays, and I say that as one who still loves Gundam Wing. But I hold no delusions that it looks exactly like a 26-year-old thing from 1995, which is just what it is.

Gundam Wing is just dated period. I tried to watch it on Hulu and it's dull, boring, the characters suck, pretentious as hell and just painful to watch. The action is OK but nothing special.

Now I generally hate prequels more than sequels but Gundam Origin was a beautiful, moving, smart, and for the most part works extremely well and the same with Gundam Unicorn.

Transformers is now a little girls comedy.

Its name is Transformers: EarthSpark - https://twitter.com/Hasbro/status/1493706937577394178

Watch the teaser clip in the link.

There is also a few art pieces on Instagram:

We were supposed to have a new Transformers cartoon for kids this year but had heard very little from it since the initial announcement. Well, now we have our first look at the animation style and designs thanks to a short clip and some stills. We see the bots that are adopted by a human family, they appear to be new characters. We also see Bumblebee for a split second in the clip along with Optimus Prime and Elita 1. The designs are said to be new but that Optimus resembles the evergreen look he has had across different media for years.

We should be getting a toyline for kids to accompany this new show this year too. Lots of fun new stuff coming to the Transformers brand. I know my kid is excited, let us know if yours are as well.









Here is the clip: https://twitter.com/Hasbro/status/1493706937577394178

Looks interesting, i can dig it

This is the first time since Beast Machines that I'm immediately excited for a new CGI Transformers cartoon based solely on its art style.

This looks immensely fun!


All of the following people are also involved with this show:

https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/1493711577509502979
https://twitter.com/NickRoche/status/1493714048243937283
https://twitter.com/americanninjax/status/1493708275908370432
https://twitter.com/EatherStar/status/1493708383722950656
https://twitter.com/marvinnator_/status/1493709226711011328
https://twitter.com/glytchbot/status/1493709658363547648
https://twitter.com/ayehdeluxe/status/1493710168990752768
https://twitter.com/jumblinjack/status/1493710817455271936
https://twitter.com/Steven_Avalos/status/1493711008271155209
https://twitter.com/greychen_/status/1493711391370330112
https://twitter.com/Cee_Willy/status/1493711768220143618
https://twitter.com/ChunksTheMighty/status/1493712522297286656
https://twitter.com/SalvadoRPG97/status/1493712942205833216
https://twitter.com/Dinolich/status/1493713642864332803
https://twitter.com/TheNazzaro/status/1493716846142394371
https://twitter.com/Duecenage/status/1493717050568495104

Nick Roche's involvement makes me even more excited for it

I think...this could actually be pretty cool. I am excited that they appear to be featuring at least a few new and original characters.

Elita One?Cool!

Since this cartoon is on Nickelodeon,I hope that some of staff from TMNT 2012 can work on this.

Day 778 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

-Optimus's face looks...off, he kinda looks like he was stung by a bee.
-Is that an Elita design with actual kibble? And they said it wasn't possible...
-OOH, a new bike character with a SIDECAR? Those are rare, literally the only one I can think of is Samurai Prowl, hopefully we get some good figures of these designs.

There's some interesting looking stuff here, curious to see how it turns out.

TFP & TMNT 2012 were the best toons from that time even for an old bloke like me to LOVE. Both still aged very well. They're well scripted, with spot-on voice acting, top notch animation and CG sets designs. Nothing on them say "cheap." There are precious few TV series that I'll rewatch, these 2? Oh yeah.

The TFP (and early Bayverse) years were the height of TF toys in terms of engineering complexity. Which is the single most important factor why I came back into TF collecting in my late 30's.

These OP & Elita-1 designs are not that great -- too Evergreen and angular. But the new characters looks much better. Still it's early days so designs might change. If this new 2022 show is anywhere near TFP in quality, I'm SUPER excited and willing to support it with my time & wallet.

My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

One interesting thing to note is that the kid mentions "you're a Transformer". With a tone that implies he already knows what that is.

Which, to me, can mean one of three things: either he finds out early what Transformers are and is reacting to something else also being a Transformer (which sounds...rather manipulative and convoluted editing, but not impossible); or Transformers as a brand is well-known on Earth and he discovers real ones exist, like in Digimon Tamers (which would be confusing at first, but bold and new for the franchise); or Transformers are relatively well-known in this continuity and he's surprised to have met one (far more likely and in line with other continuities we had).

Actually, come to think of it, for a franchise where one of the main taglines is "Robots In Disguise", there's plenty of continuities where the existence of Transformers is well-known to the public, or at least the government.

MaximalNui wrote:My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

One interesting thing to note is that the kid mentions "you're a Transformer". With a tone that implies he already knows what that is.

Which, to me, can mean one of three things: either he finds out early what Transformers are and is reacting to something else also being a Transformer (which sounds...rather manipulative and convoluted editing, but not impossible); or Transformers as a brand is well-known on Earth and he discovers real ones exist, like in Digimon Tamers (which would be confusing at first, but bold and new for the franchise); or Transformers are relatively well-known in this continuity and he's surprised to have met one (far more likely and in line with other continuities we had).

Actually, come to think of it, for a franchise where one of the main taglines is "Robots In Disguise", there's plenty of continuities where the existence of Transformers is well-known to the public, or at least the government.

The best with regards to keeping themselves secret was Rescue Bots, who only revealed themselves to the public in Season 4

cloudballoon wrote:TFP & TMNT 2012 were the best toons from that time even for an old bloke like me to LOVE. Both still aged very well. They're well scripted, with spot-on voice acting, top notch animation and CG sets designs. Nothing on them say "cheap." There are precious few TV series that I'll rewatch, these 2? Oh yeah.

I would add MAX STEEL 2013 but not for the second season,Maybe THUNDERBIRDS 2015.The more i think about all these shows,the less i like them.Oh and TMNT is very ugly and dumb to me.

This new one doesn't look highly original,i have no particular interest.

I like the black white and sky blue color scheme a lot.

ZeroWolf wrote:

MaximalNui wrote:My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

One interesting thing to note is that the kid mentions "you're a Transformer". With a tone that implies he already knows what that is.

Which, to me, can mean one of three things: either he finds out early what Transformers are and is reacting to something else also being a Transformer (which sounds...rather manipulative and convoluted editing, but not impossible); or Transformers as a brand is well-known on Earth and he discovers real ones exist, like in Digimon Tamers (which would be confusing at first, but bold and new for the franchise); or Transformers are relatively well-known in this continuity and he's surprised to have met one (far more likely and in line with other continuities we had).

Actually, come to think of it, for a franchise where one of the main taglines is "Robots In Disguise", there's plenty of continuities where the existence of Transformers is well-known to the public, or at least the government.

The best with regards to keeping themselves secret was Rescue Bots, who only revealed themselves to the public in Season 4

And only after a small alien invasion by the Velgrox forced their hand, even.

The streak continues... (as in not making a great first impression). The last TF show I really was excited for at first glance was TF Prime. But I'm not going to hate on this new show. I'll just put this in the "Not for Me" category, which will probably be a regular thing moving forward.

Still, I'll give it a chance. I've had so many disappointments in the last few years. However the new CG MOTU show on Netflix was a shock in that I actually enjoyed it, so anything is possible.

nope

Looks pretty good so far. And it's nice to see Elita-1 will be getting more love.

Is this what will replace Cyberverse?

Regardless, I'm surprised to see the return of humans.
I'm currently at season two in Cyberverse. I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

That new show looks also NEW and FRESH.
I'm looking forward to it.

Not sure if it's just the shots or whatever but that Optimus Prime looks very...low quality, compared to the other designs anyways, it looks flat and detailess.

Hope the show is entertaining at least.

It looks decent enough, the designs of the Earthsparks (that's what I'm going to call them until we know what their proper name will be) are cool, and the "Wow, you're a Transformer!" line in the teaser suggests that humans in this show already know what Transformers are and they're perhaps publically known, which is a nice idea. Optimus does look a bit out of place among the other designs, like he came in from a completely different show, but I'm guessing this is intentional to hammer in that the Earthsparks are their own unique breed of Transformer by making them look radically different from Cybertronians. Still, it's a shame the show seems to be using the Evergreen designs again instead of something more unique.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Is this what will replace Cyberverse?

Yes.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Regardless, I'm surprised to see the return of humans.
I'm currently at season two in Cyberverse. I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

The lack of humans in Cyberverse was due to budget constraints. Hasbro gave them such a small budget that gradually got bigger over time, but the makers had to fight tooth and nail just to get a few seconds of screentime for a single human child seen that one season 1 episode with the roadside billboard.

Sabrblade wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

MaximalNui wrote:My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

One interesting thing to note is that the kid mentions "you're a Transformer". With a tone that implies he already knows what that is.

Which, to me, can mean one of three things: either he finds out early what Transformers are and is reacting to something else also being a Transformer (which sounds...rather manipulative and convoluted editing, but not impossible); or Transformers as a brand is well-known on Earth and he discovers real ones exist, like in Digimon Tamers (which would be confusing at first, but bold and new for the franchise); or Transformers are relatively well-known in this continuity and he's surprised to have met one (far more likely and in line with other continuities we had).

Actually, come to think of it, for a franchise where one of the main taglines is "Robots In Disguise", there's plenty of continuities where the existence of Transformers is well-known to the public, or at least the government.

The best with regards to keeping themselves secret was Rescue Bots, who only revealed themselves to the public in Season 4

And only after a small alien invasion by the Velgrox forced their hand, even.

Also Car Robots/RID 2001. If I recall correctly, only the token human (and his father once they rescue him from the Predacons) ever finds out who the Autobots are.

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Is this what will replace Cyberverse?

Yes.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Regardless, I'm surprised to see the return of humans.
I'm currently at season two in Cyberverse. I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

The lack of humans in Cyberverse was due to budget constraints. Hasbro gave them such a small budget that gradually got bigger over time, but the makers had to fight tooth and nail just to get a few seconds of screentime for a single human child seen that one season 1 episode with the roadside billboard.

Pretty much. Also, they didn't feel they could do the usual B-plots that come with human sidekicks given their runtime. Which makes it especially weird that the show even bothers to go to Earth in the first place; at least Beast Wars had the excuse of being in the distant past before humanity existed.

MaximalNui wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

MaximalNui wrote:My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

One interesting thing to note is that the kid mentions "you're a Transformer". With a tone that implies he already knows what that is.

Which, to me, can mean one of three things: either he finds out early what Transformers are and is reacting to something else also being a Transformer (which sounds...rather manipulative and convoluted editing, but not impossible); or Transformers as a brand is well-known on Earth and he discovers real ones exist, like in Digimon Tamers (which would be confusing at first, but bold and new for the franchise); or Transformers are relatively well-known in this continuity and he's surprised to have met one (far more likely and in line with other continuities we had).

Actually, come to think of it, for a franchise where one of the main taglines is "Robots In Disguise", there's plenty of continuities where the existence of Transformers is well-known to the public, or at least the government.

The best with regards to keeping themselves secret was Rescue Bots, who only revealed themselves to the public in Season 4

And only after a small alien invasion by the Velgrox forced their hand, even.

Also Car Robots/RID 2001. If I recall correctly, only the token human (and his father once they rescue him from the Predacons) ever finds out who the Autobots are.

Sabrblade wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Is this what will replace Cyberverse?

Yes.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Regardless, I'm surprised to see the return of humans.
I'm currently at season two in Cyberverse. I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

The lack of humans in Cyberverse was due to budget constraints. Hasbro gave them such a small budget that gradually got bigger over time, but the makers had to fight tooth and nail just to get a few seconds of screentime for a single human child seen that one season 1 episode with the roadside billboard.

Pretty much. Also, they didn't feel they could do the usual B-plots that come with human sidekicks given their runtime. Which makes it especially weird that the show even bothers to go to Earth in the first place; at least Beast Wars had the excuse of being in the distant past before humanity existed.

Yeah, all the action could have taken place and stayed on Cybertron. Because for the shiz these robots stir up, it's eerie to never, ever see anyone flee in panic, not a cop in sight, and the military is on strike or something. I could look pass the lack of sidekicks. But NO ONE?

Shudder...

As if the bots has landed on THAT Earth:

MaximalNui wrote:My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

Why not look at Cyberverse. That was a CG show and it had a huge cast of characters. In the end, it will all depend on the story. As you said, a small (or big) cast doesn't spell out how good a show will be.

william-james88 wrote:

MaximalNui wrote:My sole concern is that, like previous CG shows for the brand, they'll have to rely heavily on a short cast and lots of repaints for background characters. Then again, that might not be a bad thing; it's what forced Beast Wars to focus more on character writing than product shilling.

Why not look at Cyberverse. That was a CG show and it had a huge cast of characters. In the end, it will all depend on the story. As you said, a small (or big) cast doesn't spell out how good a show will be.

Prime remains one of the best TF show ever IMO. It had a very small cast too.

So are the silver bots like protoforms or something? In the clip we see one turn into that red quad copter, and in the still images we see a red bot that clearly turns into the same vehicle.







Noticed that only the kids have that one glove which seems to connect them with their bots. I'm guessing the taller one is the motorcycle.

So far I like it, it's better than I was expecting from a new show on Nick. Really thought we would be getting some goofy comedy show or something.

Emerje

MaximalNui wrote:Also Car Robots/RID 2001. If I recall correctly, only the token human (and his father once they rescue him from the Predacons) ever finds out who the Autobots are.

Not quite. The Autobots of that series kept their base's location secret, and they remained in vehicle mode when operating in the field during non-combat situations, but when it came time to engage the Predacons in open combat, they had no qualms with showing their robot modes to human civilians. They just followed a protocol system more rigidly than in most other series. Episode 3 even had a train dispatcher identify Optimus Prime by name (in both language versions) as though his existence was known to some civilians.

Though, Armada and Cybertron both had Optimus want to hide the Autobots' existence from humans as much as possible.

The fact that two of the guys who worked on that god awful Rise of the TMNT show are working on this gives me no hope.

Yes Ciro who worked on TMNT 2012 is also working on it but my point stands

Autobot_Benz wrote:The fact that two of the guys who worked on that god awful Rise of the TMNT show are working on this gives me no hope.

Yes Ciro who worked on TMNT 2012 is also working on it but my point stands

I've actually read more comments about how the people who worked on ROT-TMNT gave them good vibes on the show than otherwise so this is interesting to read in comparison.

The big plus point for me so far is new characters.

-Kanrabat- wrote:I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

Is that just because part of it is set on modern day Earth ? I usually find a lack of humans to make most shows better, ( most notably Beast era shows) but Cyberverse just wasn't for me, and it wasn't because of a lack of humans.

o.supreme wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:I find the complete absence of humans unsettling and creepy.

Is that just because part of it is set on modern day Earth ? I usually find a lack of humans to make most shows better, ( most notably Beast era shows) but Cyberverse just wasn't for me, and it wasn't because of a lack of humans.

No humans makes sense in the right setting.
But when there's an actual WAR waged by extraterrestrials on Earth soil and not a single human delegation or army show up to intervene, it's there that my suspension of disbelief reach its limits.