Transformers Prime Beast Bites Bio: Soundwave

The official Transformers YouTube channel has just uploaded the latest in the Transformers Prime Beast Bites Bio series, "Meet Acree". Check out the embedded video below.

Didn't we meet her a couple of years back when the series started!?!

Whats next? Hey everyone, there's this new Transformers series and its awesome but we will kill it off just as its getting really good.

Ravage XK wrote:Whats next? Hey everyone, there's this new Transformers series and its awesome but we will kill it off just as its getting really good.

"Killing it off" would have been stopping the show before episode 65.

I honestly believe the Bay contract for TF 4,5, and 6 is what killed TF Prime. I have no proof, but Im not buying into the official explanations that we indeed got the original script as it was intended. No way are they gonna name a whole series after a term that was only used loosly for a couple episodes (Beast Hunters) Predaking was supposed to have an army and it was very suspect that they were killed off before they became relevant. Yet so many beasts were made in the toy line. And Im not buying the old "CG is too expensive" excuse people have suggested about Lazerback, Ripclaw, Grimwing, etc. Only having one Beast (Predaking) just doesnt seem to go along with any logical reason to call the series Beast Hunters. I honestly believe when they came up with the name, the idea was that the Autobots would be hunting actual Beasts most of the season, not bones for a couple episodes. I think Hasbro just told Peter Cullen, we got something more important for you to work on. Keep the check we gave you, and heres a bigger check. For those of you who believe Hasbro, more power to you. But in the real world, corporations improvise when a decision needs to be made. Then put out a carefully written statement that makes them look good but might not be the real truth.

Rated X wrote:I honestly believe the Bay contract for TF 4,5, and 6 is what killed TF Prime.

They stopped making episodes because they wanted to. The ending that we got is the ending they wanted all along. This isn't like what happened with Animated season 4 getting axed. There was never going to be more story to TF: Prime beyond the resurrection of Cybertron. The fact that we're getting an epilogue movie as a bonus is nothing short of a stroke of good fortune.

Rated X wrote:I have no proof, but Im not buying into the official explanations that we indeed got the original script as it was intended.

Why? What reasons could they possibly have for lying about how the business works when so many other shows that ended without cancellation have done the exact same thing?

Rated X wrote:No way are they gonna name a whole series after a term that was only used loosly for a couple episodes (Beast Hunters)

It wasn't its own series. It was season 3 of Transformers: Prime, with a subtitle forced upon it by Hasbro's wanting to promote a new sales gimmick, just like Armada's "The Unicron Battles", Energon's "The Powerlinx Battles", Cybertron's "Primus Unleashed", and more.

Rated X wrote:Predaking was supposed to have an army and it was very suspect that they were killed off before they became relevant. Yet so many beasts were made in the toy line. And Im not buying the old "CG is too expensive" excuse people have suggested about Lazerback, Ripclaw, Grimwing, etc.

Do you have any experience in the field of CGI development? Or have you researched any history of CG television shows? If so, you would know good and well and that CGI is an expensive thing.

Look at past fully CG TF shows. Beast Wars had a TON of toy characters, yet only had no more than 5 to 7 regular characters per faction each season. Same with Beast Machines. 4 to 7 Maximals, 3 to 4 Vehicons at at a time, and the only armies were duplicates of existing models.

Energon and Cybertron could get away with bigger casts because A) those shows were only half-CG, and B) their CG was utter crud by comparison to the fully CG shows.

Rated X wrote:Only having one Beast (Predaking) just doesnt seem to go along with any logical reason to call the series Beast Hunters.

Hence why the name led to many being fooled by its misleading nature.

Rated X wrote:I honestly believe when they came up with the name, the idea was that the Autobots would be hunting actual Beasts most of the season, not bones for a couple episodes.

More like the toy company wanted to do something that was forced upon the cartoon that already had its ending set in stone, and this is far from the first time the toy makers forced a major change upon the fiction to sell toys.

Rated X wrote:I think Hasbro just told Peter Cullen, we got something more important for you to work on. Keep the check we gave you, and heres a bigger check. For those of you who believe Hasbro, more power to you. But in the real world, corporations improvise when a decision needs to be made. Then put out a carefully written statement that makes them look good but might not be the real truth.

And yet, even when ROTF was being made, that didn't put a halt to Animated's production.

This whole idea that the movies somehow dictate whether a cartoon should or shouldn't continue just reeks of paranoia.

Stinkin' Rescue Bots is still gonna keep going with its cartoon despite TF4 taking center stage. Wouldn't one think that something as minor as that show would get the boot before TF: Prime? I mean, if the movies did have some control over TF cartoons' airing, wouldn't Rescue Bots be the easiest target for TF4 to shut down?

I guess were just gonna have to agree to disagree.

I don’t believe Hasbro owes anyone an explanation as to what factors led up to their decision and at what production stage of season 3 the decision was implemented. But just because a statement is “official” doesn’t make it truthful. Maybe you believe the official statements made by our government on Roswell and Watergate too. I don’t.

Some of Hasbro's choices with Season 3 defy conventional logic. It just screams "improvise".

Rated X wrote:I don’t believe Hasbro owes anyone an explanation as to what factors led up to their decision and at what production stage of season 3 the decision was implemented. But just because a statement is “official” doesn’t make it truthful. Maybe you believe the official statements made by our government on Roswell and Watergate too. I don’t.

What reasons do we have to not believe Hasbro Studios giving similar explanations to other non-TF cartoons that also run up to 65 episodes?

For that matter, if we were to disbelieve anything Hasbro says, then what's the point in us believing anything that's ever said officially? By this logic, we should distrust anything and everything Hasbro says, has said, or ever will say. And since Hasbro makes or has other people make the fiction under their authority, that means we should distrust all of the fiction by extension. Thus, every single Transformers cartoon, comic, movie, book, game, etc. have all been filled with lies and falsehoods. There is no truth in Transformers.

On a less extreme note, how is TF: Prime ending at 65 any different from how past TF cartoons have ended? Of all past TF cartoons, Animated is the only one that was canned prematurely, as it had a fourth season planned in developmental stages. Beast Wars had no non-BM season 4 planned, Beast Machines had no non-Transtech season 3 planned, RiD was made to be a standalone filler, Armada had Energon as a follow up, Energon had Cybertron as a follow up, Cybertron had no follow up planned, and Rescue Bots is getting a new season despite TF4's approaching presence.

If you can find any concrete evidence of a post-Cybertron's rebirth season 4 of TF: Prime having ever been planned, I will gladly come to see things in new light.

Rated X wrote:Some of Hasbro's choices with Season 3 defy conventional logic. It just screams "improvise".

Season 1 was practically built on the term "improvise", having no clear direction or objective until the last ditch minute with the hasty introduction of Unicron. Season 3 was clear in its objective, being crafted into three coherent story arcs (the Darkmount arc, the Project Predacon arc, and the Cyber-Matter/"restore Cybertron" arc).

It's just that darn subtitle tacked onto Season 3 that got people all worked up over it. Even the upcoming epilogue movie, which is called "Predacons Rising" of all things, is being even more misleading by not having any actual Predacons beyond a measely two more "rising" at all.

If I were in charge, I would have disposed of that "Beast Hunters" subtitle so as not to lead people on with a false sense of hope for something like a whole other group of all new characters that ultimately wouldn't come. Predaking was basically treated as the "Dreadwing" of season 3, with the prospect of more Preds coming being not just a tease to get us excited for something too much to ask for, but a plot device to further Predaking's character arc. This show didn't need Predaking, and if not for the upcoming movie, he was almost completely wasted material.

Well ive stated in every post that this is my personal opinion and i have no proof. I could easily flip your question and ask you where is your solid evidence that hasbros statement is 100 percent honest ? It all boils down to your level of faith in hasbro or any corporation for that matter. I think if there was a reason to cut certain concepts characters, it would be in hasbros best interest not to say. Thag might create fan backlash over what the show could have been. I never really suggested that a season 4 was cancelled. I suggested the script was changed and the beasts were cut from the show. But unlike the show, too much was invested in the toy line to completly erase the beasts from Existance. So they worked them in the script without actually showing them. Thats what i believe.who knows why ? But im sure it involved money or time in ione aspect or anothet.

But the show isn't the only piece of fiction to find promotion of the Predacon toys. Hasbro's own "Tales of the Beast Hunters" ongoing storyline (which itself is pretty much a proverbial middle finger to the cartoon) is all about the "Autobots vs. Predacons" conflict, having every single toy character being focused on and using all of the toys' gimmicks and features as plot devices. Even Dreadwing is featured in this, despite having died in the cartoon and being presented as though he never died at all. Who needs the show when Hasbro's got this storyline to give them all the Predacon exposure they need?

A hardcore fan might know about the alternate stotyline you speak of, but what about your average kid ? If one is only exposed to the cartoon and the toys they will definitely ponder why season 3 is what it is. Wasnt lazerback available in stores the same week season 3 premired on the hub ? Usually leftover molds are saved for final molds. Im just not buying into that these molds were just created for the sake of being created. Thats more along the lines of repaints. Hell even stealth bumblebee from that wave made it in the Cartoon. I believe the whole season 3 was done rushed. Time could have been a major issue. It just didnt seem well executed. At the prices spent, everything should make perfect sense.

Rated X wrote:A hardcore fan might know about the alternate stotyline you speak of, but what about your average kid ?

Any kid who buys the toy would know about it because the story is literally right there in the instructions.

Rated X wrote:Im just not buying into that these molds were just created for the sake of being created.

At the end of the day, Hasbro's a toy company first and foremost. They make toys to make money, regardless of supplementary advertisement.

Rated X wrote:Hell even stealth bumblebee from that wave made it in the Cartoon.

That's backwards. The cartoon makers came up with that color scheme for the show model first, which Hasbro later made into a toy form (but on a non-show-accurate mold, so there's still no accurate Deluxe toy of BB as he appeared in that cartoon color scheme).

Rated X wrote:It just didnt seem well executed.

Completely ignoring anything that has to do with Predacons, how was it not handled well?

Cuz if your entire argument is based solely on the lack of Predacons, then I can't help you with that.

I guess the only thing left to do is, if you want more Preds, then go watch Transformers Go! since they got nothing but Predacons as the enemy faction in that show.

Sabrblade wrote:

Rated X wrote:A hardcore fan might know about the alternate stotyline you speak of, but what about your average kid ?

Any kid who buys the toy would know about it because the story is literally right there in the instructions.

Rated X wrote:Im just not buying into that these molds were just created for the sake of being created.

At the end of the day, Hasbro's a toy company first and foremost. They make toys to make money, regardless of supplementary advertisement.

Rated X wrote:Hell even stealth bumblebee from that wave made it in the Cartoon.

That's backwards. The cartoon makers came up with that color scheme for the show model first, which Hasbro later made into a toy form (but on a non-show-accurate mold, so there's still no accurate Deluxe toy of BB as he appeared in that cartoon color scheme).

Rated X wrote:It just didnt seem well executed.

Completely ignoring anything that has to do with Predacons, how was it not handled well?

Cuz if your entire argument is based solely on the lack of Predacons, then I can't help you with that.

I guess the only thing left to do is, if you want more Preds, then go watch Transformers Go! since they got nothing but Predacons as the enemy faction in that show.

I leave my instructions in the package and head straight to youtube. Im hoping todays kids are smart enought to do the same. I know Hasbro is all about money, but they did something sort of different this time. And yes my arguement is based soley on lack of Predacons.

Rated X wrote:I leave my instructions in the package and head straight to youtube.

Well, that's you, not everyone.

Rated X wrote:Im hoping todays kids are smart enought to do the same.

Well, come 2014 and kids won't have to bother with instructions since the toys are gonna get so simplistically easy to transform.

But for toys as complicated as, say, the ROTF toys or Alternators or Masterpieces, any kind of instructions (be it the packaged ones or YouTube tutorials) are a must for any inexperienced buyer.

Rated X wrote:I know Hasbro is all about money, but they did something sort of different this time.

How did it differ from, say,

• Beast Wars season 3 (which only brought in three new characters, one of which was last-minute and killed off immediately),
• Beast Machines season 2 (which had the subtitle of "Battle for the Spark" and brought in three new characters),
• Or Animated season 3 (which brought in no brand new main characters, only bringing in more guest characters and upgrading a few existing guest characters to main character status)

Can't reference any other series since G1 wasn't done in the same mold as later cartoons, and the Japanese-based cartoons only had one season each.

Rated X wrote:And yes my arguement is based soley on lack of Predacons.

Well, like I said, it can't be helped. The subtitle simply deceived you and many others. All we can say at this point is that it was stupid of them to tack on a meaningless subtitle to the series main title.

Ratchet:

The official Transformers YouTube channel has added another video to their "Inside the Hunt: Beast Bites" mini-bios. Today, Autobot medic Ratchet is featured!

A thought just occurred to me. These Beast Bites feel very similar to the biographical shorts we got for several characters in Transformers Animated.

And if many people want those included on Shout! Factory's upcoming Animated DVDs, I could see these Beast Bites being good fodder for DVD extras on the Prime season 3 DVD set.

The official Transformers YouTube channel has uploaded another Transformers Prime Beast Bites video. This one is just for fun, check it out below.

Transformers Tuesday's with all new Transformers Beast Hunters! Check out the Autobots as you've never seen them! They're big! They're brave! They're clumsy?! To learn more about Beast Hunters, check out www.transformers.com/beasts

Only I DO find this legitimately funny.

The sound effects help.