Transformers: Rescue Bots DVD Shout! Factory Releases - Jurassic Adventure and Return of the Heroes

We just keep getting DVDs of random episodes, meanwhile Australia's gonna be getting a complete season 1 DVD box set.

Blasted Internet forcing a double-post.

Episode 63 aired on TV yesterday. It had previously been released via Amazon Instant Video, but now it's on TV too.

Episode 64 -

"Attack of Humungado" is the name of the movie itself, with "Humungado" being the titular kaiju.

Mr. Bunty's running the drive-in's film projector.

The projector booth has caught fire.

Whilst on the job, Kade addresses Heatwave as "Fire-Bot"

Though Mr. Bunty's film projector was destroyed, Doc has come with a replacement built from the same tech as the Imaging Chamber. Called a Holo-Morphic Projector, it recalibrates the polarized light from any two-dimensional movie and converts it with the Holo-Lens(TM) to create a holographic movie.

Humungado fans are referred to as "Humungadorks"

Another monster from the movie is named "Ravenus". Intentional Armada reference, or coincidence? (though, the Armada character's name is pronounced like "Ravenous", while this one's name is like "Raven us").

Kade accidentally blew a fuse in the booth when he microwaved his Nachos del Kade, and a spark struck the holo-projector, resulting in it functioning more like the Imaging Chamber than it was meant to, manifesting a fully physical, real life version of Ravenus.

Chief: "A monster's munching the mayor's mansion. ...And, no, I will not repeat that."

Ravenus has gone underground.

Ravenus can breathe energized ice blasts.

The scene transition replaces the Autobot symbol with the faces of Humungado and Ravenus.

Doc believes a power fluctuation caused the projector's lens's photonic component to overload, and the surge of energy turned the hologram of Ravenus into a solid creature and embodiment of the movie monster, complete with the original's instincts.

To send Ravenus back into the movie, a dynami-pat was hooked up to the projector to duplicate the conditions of the power surge. When the power reaches critical level, they'll reverse polarity which should return the creature back to its holographic state, which can then be sent back into any moment in the movie.

However, the knob on Doc's device breaks off, and while the team looks for it, Humungado himself appears onscreen in the movie, and materializes in the real world while the projector is having its previous power surge replicated.

Humungado easily overpowers all four Bots and starts heading for downtown.

Kade calls Boulder "B"

Kade says tha Humungado hates dinosaurs ever since the second sequel where he and Ravenus team up against as "Supersaurus".

Because of this, the Bots finally bust out their Dino Modes! But without energon patches.

Ravenus broke free of his container and is loose once more.

Though he wreaked havoc, Ravenus was recaptured after being paralyzed again.

Ravenus is used as bait to lure Humangado back to the drive-in.

The dino-moded Bots have to transform first into robot mode before being able to transform back in the vehicle mode.

Humungado shot down Blades!

Ravenus is loose again!

The two kaiju decide to team up instead of fight each other, just as they had done against the Supersaurus and the "Rhinoctopus", and now against the rescue team.

Blades grabs hold of Ravenus while the other three wrestle Humungado.

The team finally manages to get the two monsters in front of the video feed, giving Doc the chance needed to send them back into the movie.

Kade is just astounded that the two Kaiju were allies all along.



Shannon McKain -- "Customer"
Steve Blum -- Mr. Bunty (naturally)



Oh yeah, the dinos made their comeback and took it downtown! As did the Imaging Chamber tech, allowing for movie monsters to be made real. Though it was a bit confusing to see those forms of theirs be assumed without energon patches since previous episodes made it seem like those would be a requirement for every use of the Dino Modes. But on a different note, we got to see a side of Kade never ever seen before: His geeky side. So often do we see him act like a "big man on campus" jock type that to see him fanboying over a series of classic monster movies, and even declare a need to rewatch them all after learning about a new angle of character portrayal he had never considered before, was just so great. And even Heatwave and Blades got some more attention in this one, with Blades learning to overcome another fear of his and show how gutsy he can be, and Heatwave coming around to seeing the better potential in his teammate instead of underestimating Blades' ability. A mutli-layered episode with a fun premise and a great payoff.

Episode 65 -

This episode opens on the first day of spring.

"Power Up and Energize!" - been a while since we've seen an Energize tool. Heatwave's using a Collision Foam Cannon to rapidly construct a wall of Hardening Foam.

Short version of the theme song.

"Power Up and Energize!" - Chase is using a net-launching cannon.

For their ongoing and outstanding work in protecting Griffin Rock, the Burns family will be honored Saturday with commendations from the State Emergency Response Bureau, with the award ceremony being photographed for this month's issue of Emergency Response Illustrated, The Lifejacket Edition.

And to not exclude the robots, Mayor Luskey has declared this Saturday to be the start of Bot Appreciation Week. In addition to such events as Bot Races, Pin the Tail on the Bot, and a Bot Dog-eating Contest, the mayor will personally present the Bots and the Burnses with the key to the city at noon.

Everyone who attends will receive a free miniature souvenir replica of the Rescue Bots that can auto-transform, make lights and sounds, and shout "Re-elect Mayor Luskey! Re-elect Mayor Luskey!"

The Bots were previously scanned by Doc Greene's 3D printer, making the souvenirs exact copies on a smaller scale.

Kade: "Which do you guys think is my best side for the magazine cover?"
Everyone: "YOUR BACKSIDE!"

The mayor ordered another ten crates of souvenir Bot toys, so Doc's up late monitoring the printing process. However, he can barely keep awake, so Frankie has him sent to bed. Unbeknownst to either of them, this gives the perfect opportunity for an intruder to break in from the ceiling pipes. Enter Evan and Myles!

Myles gets to reprogramming the printer to make the Bot toys do "all kinds of neat tricks."

At the celebration, Dither conducts an orchestra of self-playing instruments playing the Griffin Rock Anthem.

Doc arrives with the latest batch of Bot toys. His printer was acting strangely, he says.

Over at the mainland, the Burnses were awarded Emergency Response Team of the Month, and are heading back to the island. But the Darby Ava comes to a halt when its propeller gets caught in kelp. Dani's the only one with a wetsuit aboard the ship, so she's gotta untangle the propeller. However, a swarm of poisonous jellyfish is heading right for them. And Dani can't hear the others' pleas for her to get out of the water. This just isn't their day.

They get her out by lowering the boat's air horn into the water, blowing it, and then pulling her out after she grabs onto it upon seeing the jellyfish.

Huxley wants a "Mini-Boulder". Hey wait! That means the Bots' real names are common knowledge to the civilians.

Myles uses a remote to activate the reprogrammed miniatures, which start sneaking around on their own to stealthily steal people's wallets, cash, and valuables.

The Burnses are stranded at sea until the jellyfish surrounding their boat decide to leave.

The key to the city is gone. And other people have noticed their belongings are missing.

Mayor Luskey can't make up his mind on what kind of orders to give the Bots, o they just sit tight and wait since they can't risk revealing their identities and no one has gotten hurt yet.

Frankie spots the souvenirs making off with everyone's goods, and Luskey accuses Doc of having done something to them, which Doc denies and deduces that someone must have tampered with them.

Unnoticed, Evan and Myles slip away from the scene in their van.

Amid the panic, a fire's broken out.

Frankie gives the Bots an order to protect everyone and to keep obeying said order.

The jellyfish were drawn to the half-eaten shrimp Kade kept tossing overboard. Chief takes the rest of his son's shrimp and casts them far off away from the boat, drawing the jellyfish away and giving Dani another chance at untangling the kelp caught on the propeller.

Evan and Myles begin Phase Two, which involves having the tampered miniatures go around causing all kinds of random destructive mischief, like a swarm of semi-intelligent/competent insects.

The Burnses finally arrive back to witness the chaos, and spot a group of souvenirs heading off in a particular direction.

The miniatures break into and rob a bank vault.

Evan and Myles have been spotted, but refuse to go down without a fight, ordering the miniatures into Attack Mode while they drive off.

Blades hooks the twins' van, forcing them to flee on foot. Boulder uses a shockwave to bring them down, and Kade deactivates the toys with Myles's remote.

Doc re-reprogrammed the minis to return all the stolen goods and repair the damage they caused.

Luskey finally presented the Burnses and Bots with the key to the city.



Lacey Chabert -- "Woman"
Jeff Bennett -- Mr. Rubio
Robbie Daymond -- Bot Dog Vendor
Imari Williams -- "Man"



You know, it's episodes like this one that really help me to understand why this show is so likable. This show can take a concept that sounds either dumb at worst or questionable at best and turn it into something really enjoyable. I mean, this episode's main conflicts revolved around toy robots stealing things and jellyfish surrounding a boat. Both of those sound so mundane and simplistic that it's a wonder why anyone would bother going with such plot ideas. And yet, this episode made them both not only work, but work well! There was emotion, tension, suspense! And even with the uber predictable return of Evan and Myles, whom we should all be sick of at this point for how small-time and petty their schemes always seem to be, those two still managed to impress even in their moment of retreat. Myles especially is so confident and so unyielding in his attempts to win in an un-winnable situation that one cannot help but admire his passion and determination to still try to come out on top when all odds stack against him and his brother. And as Chief Burns said at the end, "Today was a powerful reminder that a team performs best when all of its members work together." Though simple, the message reigns true in the end, with so much charm and love put into this episode and the show overall. This show fully deserves its title of being the second-longest Transformers cartoon of all time.

With this new episode, Rescue bots has officially overtakening Prime as being the second-longest Transformers cartoon of all time, as Prime had 65 episodes while this is Rescue Bots's 66th, and is heading on up to 78!


Episode 66 -

This episode opens with a rare instance of Cody actually getting ready for school, as his school life is almost nonexistent in this show.

There's a new clock tower dedication happening later this morning.

Cody got an old pocket watch from Deputy Barney at the the lost and found.

Is that squirrel Mister Pettypaws is chasing voiced by Frank Welker?! Sure sounds like his Abu voice from Aladdin.

Even rarer, we actually get to see Cody and Frankie inside their school building and in class for the first time ever.

Their teacher talks like Ben Stein.

The new clock is run by a magno-fusion power core that will sync up every time-telling device in Griffin Rock (save for Cody's old-fashioned pocket watch).

An accident involving Edgar Prewett's truck and Mrs. Rubio's minvan causes the latter to crash into the "Mayor Luskey Clock Tower". Minimal damage and no one was hurt, though.

However, once the clock strikes 9, Cody undergoes a time shift. He's back home at the beginning of the episode.

Cody's catching on quick to the time shift, realizing that he's definitely experienced these events before and concludes that he went back in time somehow.

Kade asks Cody what tonight's Lotsa-Bucks numbers are, but Cody doesn't know since it was only 9am when he time-shifted.

Though the rest of Cody's family and the Bots aren't quite fully certain on Cody having time-traveled, Heatwave and Chase do feel the need to ask Cody about anything they might need to be cautious of to come later in the morning. That's actually pretty cool.

Cody has the team stop Mister Pettypaws from chasing a squirrel that would later cause Mr. Harrison to get in an accident, and then informs them of the toolbox an fire hydrant that are later going to cause a calamity with Mrs. Rubio at the tower.

Frankie actually believes Cody about having time-traveled and wants Cody to go see her dad.

The teacher's name is Mr. Schulte.

Doc explains Cody's situation as his "experiencing a random distortion in the temporal continuum, perhaps caused by a nucleo-electric anomaly."

Doc theorizes that Cody should be safe from time-shifting again if they can prevent Mrs. Rubio's car from hitting the clock tower again.

Mrs. Rubio almost crashes into the tower a different way this time, but Heatwave saves her from crashing.

However, Cody still time-shifts.

After a long explanation from Cody about the first two mornings, Graham and Kade are gonna examine the clock's magno-fusion battery up close to see what's wrong with it.

Graham has a phobia of ladders.

The floor below the battery casing is covered in peanuts. The battery itself, however, seems completely fine.

Cody's finally realized that the squirrel runs up the tower each time.

Cody's discovered the problem. The squirrel was about to chew up one of the battery's wires, but Cody scared it off. The clock strikes 9 and Cody finally doesn't time shift, but the loudness of the bell is so overwhelming that it sends Cody over the edge of the tower's railing.

Heatwave blasts a geyser of water to slow Cody's descent so he can catch Cody more safely.

Graham states that the squirrel chewing through the wire made the battery momentarily surge, which caused the time jolt that kept sending Cody back.

Frankie and Cody realize that Cody's pocket watch might be the reason that only Cody was time-shifting, since Cody had only just gotten it that morning. Frankie takes it to have her dad take a look at it.

Graham brings back the pocket watch to explain to Cody that it isn't ordinary. It contains the same type of crystal as the one from the time portal in the lab (the Temporal Station from the season 1 finale). The energy disruption in the clock tower battery interrupted with the crystal, forcing the watch to become a mini time machine that took Cody back to the exact time he wound the watch.

There's a smudge on the back of the watch. Wiping it away reveals... Dr. Morocco's insignia! DUN DUN DUN!



Maurice LaMarche -- Utility Worker
Jason Marsden -- Timmy
Jeff Bennett -- Mr. Schulte
D.C. Douglas -- Mr. Harrison



Well, this one seemed like it was going to another generic take on an old Saturday morning cartoon plot, but with that ending, I can't help but feel like it's meant to foreshadow something bigger to come. After all, it didn't really end, but just stopped, kinda like how other Morocco-foreshadowing episodes have. The abrupt way it ended just felt so ominous and intriguing that I can't help but hope for a follow up episode to come later. But aside from that, even though this episode used a plot setup that's been seen many times before, there were still little things in it that I felt were handled very well. For one, Cody was observantly quick to notice his time-traveling and inform the others of his situation. And each time it happened, he was savvy enough to assess his situation with minimal hesitance and a keen sense of what needed to be done. What's more is that, instead of simply writing off Cody as being silly, his family and friends were wise enough to not only listen to him and consider his claims as a possible truth, but also even used said possibility to their advantage by wanting to prepare themselves for any potential dangers to come, even if Cody's claims were to have turned out false. Sure, it would have been a false alarm, but these people are trained to take any and all disaster warnings seriously, and it was cool to see that used here instead of them just writing off Cody as crying wolf.

Still waiting for this big fella to appear on the show!

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Still waiting for this big fella to appear on the show!

Be patient. Those three are coming.

Teaser video for newcomer High Tide... with most of the footage being from older episodes and the only new footage being of High Tide himself at the very end.

High Tide will make his debut in the show in episode 68 (season 3 episode 16), "Turning the Tide".

An old friend of Optimus arrives to train the Bots in ocean rescues.

Courtesy of fellow Seibertronian Sabrblade, we have our first glimpse of the newest addition to the Rescue Bots roster: High Tide

Here's what Sabrblade had to share:

Sabrblade wrote:Teaser video for newcomer High Tide... with most of the footage being from older episodes and the only new footage being of High Tide himself at the very end.

High Tide will make his debut in the show in episode 68 (season 3 episode 16), "Turning the Tide".

An old friend of Optimus arrives to train the Bots in ocean rescues.

Will you be watching? Let us know in the forums, after you watch the included embed above! And since you're on the site, why not drop by our Rescue Bots galleries as well?

Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

I wonder how tall High Tide actually is? As tall as Tidal Wave maybe? Or maybe as big as G1 Skyfire! anyway......the bot mode of him in the show looks superb! just a pity the toy is a bit of a letdown in the fact that IT has no robot mode

Episode 67 -

It's Griffin Rock's Founder's Day celebration, the anniversary of the day Horace Burns founded the town.

Dani's real name is revealed to be "Danielle"

Dani's been chosen to light Founder's Day torch for having organized Griffin Rock's successful clothing drive for the mainland.

Huxley stops the torch-lighting with some breaking news. He claims that Horace Burns's wife, Bertha, was Bertha the Pirate, who in 1652 stole a fortune from Ye Olde Griffin Rock Guild Hall charity fund.

Dani states that Horace's wife Bertha was her great great great grandmother, meaning their son was Zachary Burns's father, his son was Zachary, and his son was the father of Charlie and Woodrow. From Horace to Charlie's children, there have been six generations of Burnses on the island.

Huxley produces a portrait of Bertha the Pirate, who bears a striking enough resemblance to Dani.

Mayor Luskey is so angry over the accidental fire and his hair getting doused off in the aftermath that he can't think rationally and refuses to listen to reason, and suspends the Burnses in his blind fury. He storms off with Mr. Alper, Mr. Harrison, and Milo to form a "Citizen's Safety Board"

Neither Boulder nor Cody understand how someone could be blamed for the actions of another from long ago. Cody's teacher Mrs. Murphy (obviously a different teacher from Mr. Schulte) still yells at him for all the trouble Kade caused in school years ago.

Chase has looked into the Burns' history and has found no piratical record.

Through some "persuading", Huxley confesses that he learned about the Burns' being descended from Bertha via Woodrow Burns, who's currently at the library.

Wait, WOODROW'S BACK! MARK HAMILL!!!!

Woodrow didn't come to the family with the news first because he wanted to surprise them with the map to Bertha's lost treasure.

However, the map doesn't specify exactly where the islands its depicts are located. Boulder scans the map and Graham has him invert the image, revealing that the islands aren't islands, but bodies of water, and that the shoreline resembles the cove by the sea caves near the Griffin Keys.

Cody and Dani are willing to go looking for the treasure with Woodrow, but Dani's reasons are her wanting to get to the bottom of this whole thing and clear the Burns family name (and her face). Naturally, Blades is on board too.

Meanwhile, the traffic lights start acting up, so Luskey's new Citizen's Safety Board attempts to help by having Mr. Harrison direct traffic. He does well at first, until a bee lands on his nose and his swatting it away messes up his hand signals, causing several vehicle collisions.

At the cave, Blades is too big to fit inside, so he stay behind, much to his secret delight.

The three spelunkers search the cave for a long time and wind up falling down a rivered tunnel. The walls are too thick to contact Blades, but they hope he's gone for help by now. In actually, Blades is cheerfully building a sand firehouse on the beach outside the cave.

One of the walls in the cave bears a skull and crossbones. Or crossbone since there's only one.

In the direction of where the missing second bone would point if it weren't missing, Dani's found a lever, which opens the wall to reveal... a chest!

The chest is brought back to the firehouse, and is opened to reveal... nothing, much to Woodrow's disappointment.

However, there is something written on the inside of the chest: "Only the last key will unlock the hidden treasure."

They deduce that it refers to the farthest island of the Griffin Keys.

Chase will stay behind to watch over the command center while everyone else goes out to find some answers.

Kade inadvertently angers a nest of digger wasps, to which Kade is allergic.

Heatwave forces Kade into a nearby pond to ward off the wasps.

Things are getting worse in the town as the Citizen's Safety Board proves more and more inept. The mayor regrets having suspended the Burnses, but he feels compelled to not give up and that he can't just go back on his decision.

X-shaped palm trees mark the spot!

Boulder digs till he hits something, which is... a rotted piece of wood.

Dani encourages boulder to keep digging. The rotted wood is revealed to be a mast of a ship!

Bertha had buried her entire ship!

Inside the captain's quarters is a desk on which a large chest of gold coins and Bertha's log book are set upon.

Bertha's long reads "I, Bertha Carnahan, hereby end my pirate career with my richest booty yet, the Guild Hall charity fund. I wish to start afresh in life as Mrs. Horace Burns, but I cannot return the treasure without revealing my identity. While I would gladly accept my own punishment, I cannot bring shame upon Horace and his family. Thus, I bury this treasure here hoping that, one day, my descendants may find it and do what is honorable. What I do, I do for love."

At "Founder's Day Part 2", Milo protests the Mayor in attempt to "Bring back the Burnses!"

The Burnses present the treasure to the townspeople. It'll be used to pay for any damage caused during the Burns' absence, and the rest will go to charity as originally intended. And Bertha's pirate ship will go to the museum (much to Blades' disappointment).

Dani convinces the mayor that, even though Bertha gave up being a pirate before she married Horace, people should be judged for what they do, not for what others do or have done. Thus, the mayor reinstates the rescue team.

Mr. Alper let's Chief know about the emergencies that still need taken care of.

Cody wants Dani to repeat what she said to the mayor to Mrs. Murphy at Cody's school.

The log book doesn't mention how Bertha and Horace met or how they fell in love, which gets Woodrow excited about finding out more to the story.



This one was surprisingly well done. Woodrow was a nice surprise that wasn't announced before the episode's airing, and as always, he's a fun addition. And Dani got to be the center of attention this time, in which she demonstrated a competent degree of leadership skills and a string willingness to uncover the truth about her family's history. And the end result of the episode was a good lesson about judging people based on who they are instead of who they're related to. And on top of it all, we were presented with a good old fashioned treasure hunt, and who doesn't like one of those? But what's more is how it wasn't an ordinary "follow the map" type of hunt, but one laid out with cleverness and intrigue based on just how cunning a pirate Bertha was by leaving clues and riddles that had to be solved in order to find the treasure. That woman must have been a genius with the lengths we saw her having gone to. I think the only downside of this episode was how bad it made both the mayor and Huxley look in this one, when we've seen before how the two of them are typically good people not prone to such slandering others. But at least the two of them learned the truth in the end and were made better for it.

In the absence of a new episode from this past weekend, I've something else I'd like to try discussing: The timeline chronology between this show and TF: Prime.

Showrunner Nicole Dubuc has stated before that she has a timeline chart that the staff uses to keep track of events that occur in the timeline of both shows, and which they use to keep Rescue Bots in continuity with Prime.

Well, I myself have tried taking a crack at making a timeline of my own to see how the two shows might relate to one another.

I first started with the only truly known exact point in time when the two shows share a direct link, in which the end of "What Rises Above" leads directly into the beginning of "Nemesis Prime". From there, I back-tracked to the beginning of each show to see which episodes lined up with which and where. Then I adjusted things a little to make them flow a bit better with each other to avoid any potential conflicts or confusion. Granted, since we still don't know at which point during Rescue Bots that Prime's third season begins, nor do we know at which point during Rescue Bots that Predacons Rising occurs. Thus far, Optimus Prime continues to be alive as far as Rescue Bots is concerned, so I placed all of the Rescue Bots episodes that have aired so far as of this typing (meaning up to "Pirates Ahoy") in the timeline prior to the Prime season 2 episode "New Recruit", which is the start of the long stretch of episodes that lead directly into the Prime season 2 finale. Should a later Rescue Bots episode bring about new info that would conflict with this, I can make the necessary adjustments since this timeline is very much subject to change.

But for now, here's what I have so far (Prime episodes are in blue, Rescue Bots episodes are in red):


Darkness Rising, Part 1
Darkness Rising, Part 2
Darkness Rising, Part 3
Darkness Rising, Part 4
Darkness Rising, Part 5
Masters & Students
Scrapheap
Con Job / Family of Heroes
Convoy / Under Pressure
Deus ex Machina / Hotshots
Speed Metal / Flobsters on Parade
Predatory / Walk on the Wild Side
Cody on Patrol
Four Bots and a Baby
Christmas in July
Deep Trouble
Return of the Dino Bot
Sick Mind / The Other Doctor
Out of His Head / The Reign of Morocco
Shadowzone / Small Blessings
Operation: Breakdown / The Griffin Rock Triangle
Crisscross / Rules and Regulations
Metal Attraction / The Lost Bell
Rock Bottom / Bumblebee to the Rescue
Partners / You’ve Been Squilshed
T.M.I. / Countdown
Stronger, Faster / The Haunting of Griffin Rock
Little White Lies
One Shall Fall
One Shall Rise, Part 1 / Shake Up
One Shall Rise, Part 2
One Shall Rise, Part 3
Orion Pax, Part 1 / Rescue Boy
Orion Pax, Part 2
Orion Pax, Part 3
It’s a Bot Time
Bot to the Future
Operation Bumblebee, Part 1 / Road Trip
Operation Bumblebee, Part 2
Loose Cannons / Sky Forest
Crossfire / One for the Ages
Tip of the Iceberg
A Virtual Disaster
Spellbound
Prescott's Bots
Blame the Gremlins
Feed the Beast
What Lies Below
What Rises Above
Nemesis Prime
Grill / Space Bots
The Island of Misfit Tech
The Vigilant Town
Buddy System
In Search of the Griffin's Nest
Armada / Bots and Robbers
Flying Mind
Tunnel Vision / Triangulation / Triage / Toxicity / Rescue Dog
Hurt
Changes
The Riders of Midwinter
Movers and Shakers
Chief Woodrow
Odd Bot Out
Out of the Past / The Griffin Rock Express
Double Villainy
Rise of the Heroes
Land Before Prime
Big Game
Too Many Kades
Phantom of the Sea
Unfinished Business
No Place Like Dome
Bugs in the System
Switcheroo
Bot-Tastic Voyage
Quarry's Quarry
Did You See What I Thaw?
The Attack of Humungado
All Bots Great and Small
Time After Time
Pirates Ahoy

New Recruit
The Human Factor
Legacy
Alpha/Omega
Hard Knocks
Inside Job
Patch
Regeneration
Darkest Hour

Notes:

• "Con Job" is selected as the starting point for Rescue Bots since that episode has Optimus excuse himself from the party at the base for most of the episode, enabling him to go to Maine to debrief the newly-arrived Rescue Force Sigma-17.
• Though "Under Pressure" is place with "Convoy", it would have to start a little sooner since Heatwave's team gives Optimus a call early on in the episode, while Optimus is only at the base at the start of "Convoy", meaning the call would have had to have been made before Fowler's call to Prime at the beginning of "Convoy".
• Five RB episodes are placed between "Predatory" and "Sick Mind" to allow "The Other Doctor" and "The Reign of Morocco" to coincide with "Sick Mind" and "Out of His Head", as both two-parters fit well together with "Out of His Head" providing a point where all of the Autobots are away from the Jasper base, during which time Heatwave's attempt to give Optimus a call in "The Reign of Morocco" would go unanswered.
• Continuing the pattern onward allows "Bumblebee to the Rescue" to coincide with "Rock Bottom", during which Optimus, Bumblebee, and Ratchet are not featured, providing an opportunity for Bumblebee to be in Griffin Rock while Optimus and Ratchet are back at the base, where Ratchet will tell Optimus about the virus that the Burnses would tell Optimus about via a communique between both bases.
• "Little White Lies" is place by itself before "One Shall Fall" due to the latter being serialized with "One Shall Rise" while the former is now serialized with its next episode, "Shake Up". This allows enough time to pass between "Little White Lies" and "Shake Up".
• "Shake Up" is place with "One Shall Rise, Part 1", but can really take place during any point within the three-parter during Unicron's global earthquake. This placement is the only way that Unicron's earthquake can make it into Rescue Bots without it just occuring offscreen between episodes. While the giant subwoofer was the given culprit of the quake in the RB episode, one could presume that the RB quake just happened to coincide with Unicron's quake, and that Griffin Rock was miraculously spared the worst of it. It's a stretch, yes, but it's better than handwaving it away outright.
• "Rescue Boy" is place with "Orion Pax, Part 1", but could really take place at any point in that three-parter due to how serialized it is. And it placed during this three-parter rather than in the "One Shall Rise" three-parter due to there needing to be enough time to pass after "Shake Up" for "Rescue Boy" to occur. If "Shake Up" were to take place early enough during "One Shall Rise", "Rescue Boy" can occur late enough during "Orion Pax".
• "It's a Bot Time" and "Bot to the Future" are both place after "Orion Pax" but before "Operation Bumblebee" since both Optimus and Bumblebee appear in them and Optimus is an Autobot with his memories intact and Bumblebee can transform.
• Only "Road Trip" and no other episode is placed in the "Operation Bumblebee" two-parter due to the two-parter being serialized while "Road Trip" and "Sky Forest" are not, requiring more time to occur between the two.
• Eight RB episodes are placed in between "Crossfire" and "Nemesis Prime" to allow "What Rises Above" to lead right into "Nemesis Prime". Plus, it gives MECH more time to complete and perfect Project: Chimera before its formal field debut in "Nemesis Prime". Though, in this regard, some of these RB episodes could admittedly take place at some point before "Crossfire" but still after "Operation Bumblebee".
• "Space Bots" is placed with "Grill" instead of "Nemesis Prime" to give it more time to take place after "What Rises Above" since, as the two are not serialized, "Space Bots" doesn't seem to take place the very next day after "What Rises Above".
• The next bunch of episodes are where things get tricky. Optimus's next appearance in RB comes in "Changes", in which he goes over to Maine to meet with and train Heatwave. However, Optimus has no free time to do that from "Armada" until after "Hurt", requiring that to be the earliest point at which "Changes" can occur. Plus, none of these RB episodes are serialized like the Prime ones are, which means that they need to coincide with at least every other serialized Prime episode. What's more is that the four relic hunt episodes all take place at the same time, permitting only one RB episode to coincide with them. Thus, four episodes are place before "Armada", one during "Armada", none during "Flying Mind", one during the four relic hunt episodes, and none during "Hurt".
• After "Changes", the next four episodes are placed before "Out of the Past" because of "Odd Bot Out", in which both Bumblebee and Optimus appear, and in which Optimus and Blades go after an Iacon Relic. In "Out of the Past", Optimus is seen still trying to decrypt the Iacon Database, so the relic he and Blades got might have been the very first one that Optimus decrypted (and apparently did so before Soundwave). Plus, "Out of the Past" has Bumblebee returning to base from somewhere, so this could possibly be his returning from Griffin Rock after Optimus returned further ahead of him. What's more is that "Hurt" had Bulkhead being more dead than alive, while "Out of the Past" showed him to be alive, awake, and attempting to move around, suggesting a fair amount of time having passed since "Hurt".
• The rest of the RB episodes are all shoved in before "New Recruit" since that's the beginning of the end for Prime season 2. As of "Quarry's Quarry", Optimus seems to still have the freedom to go back and forth between Jasper and Griffin Rock a few times with ease, yet has precious little free time to do anything of the sort by the time Smokescreen arrives. Plus, as of "Did You See What I Thaw?", Optimus is still invested in locating and securing energon deposits on Earth, as he tasks the Rescue Team to do in that episode, when much greater concerns like more relics, the Omega Keys, and the Omega Lock take away all of his attention by the final act of Prime season 2.And most notable of all, "Unfinished Business" has the Jasper base still in operation, as we get a glimpse of its interior in that episode (even though it was the military base hangar in Maine seen in episodes 1 and 45 that was used for the background instead, but Ms. Dubuc's comment about Ratchet suggests that it was meant to be the Jasper base, with the Maine base background just being recycled to represent it).

Granted, this timeline isn't perfect and doesn't have all of the episodes that have yet to air, and word has it that Optimus is the one who sends High Tide over to train the Rescue Bots in the next newest episode to come (as of this typing), so we'll just have to wait and see how the rest of season 3 and all of season 4 correlate to more of the Prime episodes.

I've been watching this season, and note that Mayor Luskey is up for re-election. Although his opponent has not been revealed, one wonders if the Luskey administration is doomed, especially with some of his recent boneheaded decisions.

We all know who mans best friend is, but who's robots best friend? Say hello to Servo the Rescue Dog, who's making his debut on Transformers Rescue Bots! Hasbro Studios has given us a sneak peak at the new talented robo-pup who appears to a walking tool shed. Have a look at the teaser video and stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all your Transformers News!

FWIW, that video is made up entirely of footage from previous episodes (even Heatwave's "rescue dog" line) except for the few shots that specifically feature Servo.

When I first saw that picture for a split second I thought "Voltron Force's Yellow Lion is joining Rescue Bots!"

even servo is better than kicker

Admittedly I haven't been watching Rescue Bots, so the first thing I thought when I saw this is that they're trying to win over the Paw Patrol crowd.

Shadowdodger wrote:Admittedly I haven't been watching Rescue Bots, so the first thing I thought when I saw this is that they're trying to win over the Paw Patrol crowd.

That's too funny viewed your comments with my son the similarities are funny!

padfoo wrote:

Shadowdodger wrote:Admittedly I haven't been watching Rescue Bots, so the first thing I thought when I saw this is that they're trying to win over the Paw Patrol crowd.

That's too funny viewed your comments with my son the similarities are funny!

To darn funny next they will be making my little pony's as transformers

...Isn't something like this usually a bad sign?

Metroplexsmash wrote:To darn funny next they will be making my little pony's as transformers

I'm all for it, so long as they have her:



...Turn into this:



(No, seriously, she's the pony version of Beast Machines Megatron, and I will not be convinced otherwise.)

Episode 68 -

Heatwave's taking Doc, Graham, Frankie, and Cody over to a Drilling Platform No. 6, A.K.A. "Old Faithful", an offshore oil platform that went dry. They're going to check it out since new owners just bought it and want to turn it back on.

High Tide is here! And huge! Like, Omega Supreme HUGE!

Short theme song.

High Tide's even got an Omega Supreme-esque head and claws.

High Tide can separate himself from his giant ship body into a smaller component, kinda like how a Headmaster can separate from its Transtector.

Hi, Optimus.

High Tide has a very slight, very subtle West Country accent, and is much taller than Heatwave (almost Optimus's height).

Optimus puts High Tide in charge of the team during their training (though, Optimus secrtly lets Chief know that High Tide has much to learn from the team as well).

High Tide finds humans to be beneath him, not worth his bothering with.

Servo appears to be High Tide's personal assistant, for maintenance and supply retrieval and such.

Surf's up, Boulder! Cowabunga!

...Until he hangs far too much more than ten and goes for a sinking nosedive.

High Tide's component altmode is a submarine.

The oil rig is in pretty bad shape. Rusted beams, missing struts, exposed wiring, dangerously corroded well cap... makes one wonder who bought this rig and why they thought it could be useful again.

Blades saved Milo from drowning, but because he left his training under High Tide to do so, High Tide chewed him off for it. However, Cody and Heatwave stood up to High Tide for Blades, getting themselves kicked of High Tide's ship for their insubordination.

Back at the rig, Doc states that the whole area is far too unstable for future drilling with any rig, and that one tremor could trigger a disaster. And that's all it takes for the well cap to burst shortly after he speaks that. A massive oil spill followed by an intense fire is unleashed.

Whoa, Servo can transform into a bin on wheels.

Heatwave: "Rescue Bots, surf to the rescue!"

Doc and Frankie are saved, the rig collapses and explodes, but the well cap refuses to stay in place.

High Tide combines with his ship to become its Mega-Bot mode.

With High Tide stepping down on the cap, the others secure it into place.

Since's Doc's floating lab was destroyed in the fire, Optimus requests that High Tide remain on Earth for a little longer, which he accepts. And Servo is allowed to stay with the team.


High Tide -- MICHAEL BELL!!!!!


Well, this certainly was a surprise! We get a brand new Autobot character who is not only chums with Optimus, but also a very indignant character. He's rude, obnoxious, bossy, condescending, demanding, strict, harsh; just about the opposite of everything one would expect for a role model character in a young-age children's cartoon. A very flawed character. And yet, that's a big part of what makes him so interesting. He's such a stark deviation of the normal kinds of good guys that, until now, the most we had of these characteristics came from Heatwave and Kade, but both of them have come a fair ways from when they each first started out at the beginning of the series. Now, we get this new guy who makes both of them look like legitimate upstanding citizens, and it's such an engaging experience to see a good guy so uncooperative and arrogant in this show that usually only has those who act out like this in villain roles. On top of that, he was even voiced by a G1 veteran to boot!

Have you studied High Tide's body?

I see Dreadwing's head (just a coincidence)

And then we have Flipper patterened Feet, scuba tanks, and external engines... short of an outright figure with knees, I'm going for Gen. SeaSpray. Too bad Dreadwing blew up the real Sea Spray, or we could have gotten another of the Prime Wreckers ticked off the list.

And pleasently pleased: I was ex[ecting a reskin of Heatwve's boat form, as a cost saver but High Tide seems to have an all knew model. So good for them for not cheeping out

Flashwave wrote:And pleasently pleased: I was ex[ecting a reskin of Heatwve's boat form, as a cost saver but High Tide seems to have an all knew model. So good for them for not cheeping out

Well, High Tide has his own toy that Hasbro would want to sell, so the animators would be obligated to make him look like his toy.

Though, I concur with the Dreadwing thing, but primarily in the eyebrows. His Mega-Bot mode, however, is straight up "Omega Supreme as a boat".

So does this mean High Tide will get a dino mode like the rest of the team? Doubtful, and I don't know what "dino" he'd take (personally, I'd suspect a plesiosaur or mosasaur, but worth speculating (not that the main team has used their dino modes that much).

Archanubis wrote:So does this mean High Tide will get a dino mode like the rest of the team? Doubtful, and I don't know what "dino" he'd take (personally, I'd suspect a plesiosaur or mosasaur, but worth speculating (not that the main team has used their dino modes that much).

Not sure why he'd need one since Quarry's been arrested and Humungado's back in his movie.

Sabrblade wrote:

Archanubis wrote:So does this mean High Tide will get a dino mode like the rest of the team? Doubtful, and I don't know what "dino" he'd take (personally, I'd suspect a plesiosaur or mosasaur, but worth speculating (not that the main team has used their dino modes that much).

Not sure why he'd need one since Quarry's been arrested and Humungado's back in his movie.

Considering Evan and Miles keep escaping incarceration (it's amazing they haven't been outright exiled from the island), I doubt we've seen the last of Quarry.

Archanubis wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Archanubis wrote:So does this mean High Tide will get a dino mode like the rest of the team? Doubtful, and I don't know what "dino" he'd take (personally, I'd suspect a plesiosaur or mosasaur, but worth speculating (not that the main team has used their dino modes that much).

Not sure why he'd need one since Quarry's been arrested and Humungado's back in his movie.

Considering Evan and Miles keep escaping incarceration (it's amazing they haven't been outright exiled from the island), I doubt we've seen the last of Quarry.

I hope so. Quarry's awesome.

But with a dino toy of his own for Hasbro to sell, I can't see High Tide (or the other two forthcoming recruits) getting a dino mode.

Sabrblade wrote:

Archanubis wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Archanubis wrote:So does this mean High Tide will get a dino mode like the rest of the team? Doubtful, and I don't know what "dino" he'd take (personally, I'd suspect a plesiosaur or mosasaur, but worth speculating (not that the main team has used their dino modes that much).

Not sure why he'd need one since Quarry's been arrested and Humungado's back in his movie.

Considering Evan and Miles keep escaping incarceration (it's amazing they haven't been outright exiled from the island), I doubt we've seen the last of Quarry.

I hope so. Quarry's awesome.

But with a dino toy of his own for Hasbro to sell, I can't see High Tide (or the other two forthcoming recruits) getting a dino mode.

I expect us to get more of High Tide's Mega Bot Mode figures before we see a dino. And anyway, I think the Dino thing was a combination AoE tie-in and a shot across the bow for the dinosaur car changer toys that the cartoon ran with.

I'm thinking the Epic Optimus Prime figure could've been better served by being High Tide. It would be the all-important scale, You could do a FLip-change High Tide as the head (or, not)

Anyone found the latest episode yet?..The Last Of Morocco.....coz the regular YouTube poster hasn't put it up yet!(which he usually does on a Saturday night) I know Amazon & torrent sites have it already.....but you have to buy the series or episodes on Amazon....& I'm not a fan of torrent, also.....hasbroepisodes also have it on YouTube! but it's not available for viewing in the UK.

Stuartmaximus wrote:Anyone found the latest episode yet?..The Last Of Morocco.....coz the regular YouTube poster hasn't put it up yet!(which he usually does on a Saturday night) I know Amazon & torrent sites have it already.....but you have to buy the series or episodes on Amazon....& I'm not a fan of torrent, also.....hasbroepisodes also have it on YouTube! but it's not available for viewing in the UK.

It's up -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gev8Mm3OZbA



Episode 69 -

Frankie got accepted to a science camp that she and Cody applied for, but Cody didn't. But if he would be in if he were to take a catch-up math class. Though, Cody doesn't seem that interested.

Instant time portal in the sky! Hot air balloon coming through!

When asked what year it is, Chief doesn't give an answer.

Verne somehow seems to know Heatwave.

Verne has met (or will meet) Cybertronians!

Verne and Morocco met at the London Exposition of 1862. They shared scientific findings, and Verne trusted Morocco enough to give him one of the two prototype devices Verne had been working on. But soon after, their interests went in different directions. Verne focused on exploration to further the advancement of mankind. Morocco, however, worked to advance only himself, tried to make himself younger, stronger, and wealthier. Verne feels guilty for having not intervened, having been so caught up in his work that he let themselves drift apart.

But the morning he left Paris in 1869, he received a message consisting only of some coordinates and the present day's date.

High Tide! He's giving the team a lift to the designated coordinates.

Servo's a Cybertronian Helper-Bot.

Chief overboard! A whale's threatening to eat him! Go Heatwave!

"Power Up and Energize!" -- Chase is using a winched hook

There's a camera on the whale. And the creature somehow seems intelligent enough to motion the team to follow it (as well as to respond to Chief's doubts of it "saying" anything).

High Tide escorts Verne, Chief, and Cody underwater, following the whale straight to... the Nemo. Morocco's undersea base.

Morocco is more aged than ever.

Morocco got the Nemo back in a forced trade of his Verne Device to Madeline Pynch. He had intended on outsmarting her, but with the device, he can't run his Chamber of Youth. However, he took a chance at sending a message on a piece of paper through time to reach Jules Verne over a 140 years in the past.

Morocco could have traveled back himself had Verne shared the energy source of the Verne Device with Morocco, but Verne had taken an oath to never reveal that secret.

Chief attempts to arrest Morocco, but he's ready for such measures. He traps the three in a force field and, using the ant-controlling device that he's since modified into controlling undersea beasts, orders whales and an octopus to attack the team's ship.

The beasts have sunk the ship! And the Bots can't beat what they refuse to kill!

Chief is willing to surrender, but High Tide ain't!

High Tide, Mega-Bot Mode!

Utterly flabbergasted by the sheer enormity and might of High Tide, Morocco surrenders, but begs to use the Chamber of youth when they return, or he shall perish (YES, he said the word "PERISH") within days.

Morocco's young again, and behind bars again.

Cody calls Frankie and tells her that he's going to take the math class so he and her can go to science camp together.

Verne wants to take Morocco back in to the past to serve his sentence in his own era, but Chief declines Verne's offer since the present day facilities are far more secure, and he doesn't want to risk Morocco escaping again.

Cody suggests using the Verne Device to erase Morocco's memories of his life as a villain, thereby giving him a second chance as a new man. However, Graham notes that the younger Morocco of 1869 is already living there, so bringing back the present day Morocco would cause a problem of there being two of him in that year. So Verne says that he'll instead take Morocco to the future, where he can visit him.

Boulder sees that Verne's energy source is none other than an energon crystal. It interacts with the Verne Device in a special way, creating the ability to travel through time. It is how he met the Autobots in the future. And he knows of what Heatwave's destiny is.

Morocco escaped! Again.

He's getting away with the balloon!

Heatwave cuffs him to the balloon whilst holding onto Blades, and helps Verne into the balloon, which disappears into the time portal.

Blades blurts out that Heatwave is going to meet Verne again in the future.

Verne and Morocco made it to Paris in the future, and Verne seemed to succeed at erasing Morocco's memories.



Diedrich Bader -- Jules Verne



Oh man. That was awesome. Even at his greatest moment of vulnerability, Morocco still proved competent enough as a villain, only being stopped by High Tide's Mega-Bot Mode. And even when he seemed to finally be beaten, he still couldn't be stopped. It took a last-ditch attempt at a point of no return for him to ultimately be stopped for good, and then a method of ambiguous morality to cease his term of villainy. Yeah, I'm not too keen on his mind having been erased against his will to forcibly change him into another person. That's more stepping into questionable territory since it's essentially playing god with a person's life. But on the other end of the spectrum, Jules Verne was a neat addition to the episode, serving as the perfect scientific counterpart to Morocco. And what's more is that he served to foreshadow things to come in the show, with his having already met Cybertronians (specifically Heatwave) in a future scenario. I hope we see him again real soon. Maybe he could be involved in the season finale.

You know what I don't like? That Dang Boat's mass shifting. The squid had it nose down completely submerged, and then it ransformed. So if you assume Mega Bot is Length of boat mode+Half again for concealed thighs+Bridge tower's height) It still should be freakin huge enough to be intimidating but it should not be that dang big. And I'm not gonna buy "Convienent Sandbar for it to stand on" in deepwater ocean. Around Griffin Rock? Sure, but not there.

You know what I don't like? That Dang Boat's mass shifting. The squid had it nose down completely submerged, and then it ransformed. So if you assume Mega Bot is Length of boat mode+Half again for concealed thighs+Bridge tower's height) It still should be freakin huge enough to be intimidating but it should not be that dang big. And I'm not gonna buy "Convienent Sandbar for it to stand on" in deepwater ocean. Around Griffin Rock? Sure, but not there.

You know what I don't like? That Dang Boat's mass shifting. The squid had it nose down completely submerged, and then it ransformed. So if you assume Mega Bot is Length of boat mode+Half again for concealed thighs+Bridge tower's height) It still should be freakin huge enough to be intimidating but it should not be that dang big. And I'm not gonna buy "Convienent Sandbar for it to stand on" in deepwater ocean. Around Griffin Rock? Sure, but not there. [/rant]

since the present day facilities are far more secure,

Um, can we get a second opinion on that?

Flashwave wrote:

since the present day facilities are far more secure,

Um, can we get a second opinion on that?

What's funny is that that claim came back to bite him when Morocco escaped again.

But, I do believe that in spite of Morocco's escaping it, the modern day facilities are still more secure than those in 1869. Imagine how swimmingly Morocco could get outta one of those.

Feel like we've lost track of the long-running Transformers: Rescue Bots animated series? Zap2it is here to help out! With the latest episode of season 3 (The New Recruits) introducing Salvage and Blurr, the rest of the episodes seem to deal with the new arrivals and whatever they might actually be up to, and leading up to the arrival of Servo the Cyberdog. Check out the synopses below!

E19 The New Recruits Rescue Bots find they have new recruits to train, but these newbies are hiding a dark secret.
Sat, April 25 2015 1:30 pm EDT

E20 Rescue Bots Academy Cody and the Rescue Bots must teach Blurr and Salvage everything they need to know.

Sat, May 02 2015 1:30 pm EDT

E21 A New Hero A solar flare knocks out power in Griffin Rock; Blurr deserts the Rescue Bots and steals the ship.

Wed, April 22 2015 5:53 am EDT

E22 Four-Legged Hero Cyber-Dog Servo puts the Rescue Bots' undercover status in jeopardy.

Wed, April 22 2015 5:53 am EDT

E23 Endangered Species The Bots go to extremes to protect endangered woodpeckers discovered by Boulder.

Wed, April 22 2015 5:53 am EDT

E24 More Than Meets the Eye An injured Chase uncovers many mysteries while Doc's magician sister visits Griffin Rock.

Wed, April 22 2015 5:53 am EDT

Sabrblade wrote:It's up -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gev8Mm3OZbA

"Video has been removed by User"

Archanubis wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:It's up -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gev8Mm3OZbA

"Video has been removed by User"

Gotta be quick when they go up. YouTube eps don't last more than a day or so.

Another outlet - http://www.watchcartoonslive.com/transf ... f-morocco/

Sabrblade wrote:

Archanubis wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:It's up -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gev8Mm3OZbA

"Video has been removed by User"

Gotta be quick when they go up. YouTube eps don't last more than a day or so.

Another outlet - http://www.watchcartoonslive.com/transf ... f-morocco/

Thanks

Someone posted "The New Recruits" on DailyMotion early. I kind of like Salvage; has kind of a "Southern country boy" feel to him, and he's a bit of a tinkerer. Not quite the trained engineer Boulder is, but I can see the two working with Graham on projects. Blurr on the other hand... well, there's room for improvement in his case. Saying any more would spoil the episode.

Archanubis wrote:Someone posted "The New Recruits" on DailyMotion early.

WAHOO! I missed the YouTube upload and don't have an Amazon Instant Video account, or an iTunes account, so now I can see it!

Episode 70 -

There was an earthquake on the previous night. Graham, Cody, and Frankie are checking out the sensors on Wayward Island for info on the quake.

They're checking out the cave where they previously found Ira.

An aftershock helped to unearth the spaceship that was previous glimpsed at back in episode 63.

There's someone inside it.

Short theme song.

The Bots examine the ship and note that it's ancient, way before their time. Heatwave thinks it looks like a cargo ship.

New purple guy thinks he's home and gives each of the "Cybertronians" a hug.

Purple guy's Blurr, "fastest transport pilot in the galaxy and two-time winner of the Cybertronian 500."

Blurr says that he and his loader, Salvage, got hit by a huge meteor storm that caused their ship to crash-land on Earth. That was ten thousand years ago.

Salvage can't remember anything after the crash. His stasis pod was damaged.

Salvage has taken an interest in recyclables, as he likes to tinker with odds and ends.

Blurr doesn't seem to want the others to find out what happened to his ship in the past.

Optimus has come to meet the newcomers.

Salvage and Blurr have chosen their new altmodes.

Hey, Optimus's Rescue Trailer is back. Wish it could turn into its toy's winged jetpack mode, though.

Optimus has talked with Chief about Blurr and Salvage staying with the team as Rescue Force Recruits. Prime makes this offer to the two (despite protests from everyone except Boulder and Cody), and while Salvage is honored, Blurr seems less concerned about being a Rescue Bot than he is about getting keep his sweet wheels.

Optimus requests that Heatwave and his team become Blurr's and Salvage's teachers, and only Chase accepts the task directly (the others are either surprised or in disbelief).

Cody volunteers to mentor Salvage. He takes the big guy to the local junkyard, where Salvage feels like he's in heaven.

Blurr and Heatwave have a race on Heatwave's obstacle course behind the firehouse.

Blurr wins by faking a crash.

Blurr alludes to possibly having had a vehicle mode back in the past, when he didn't have one when he was found in his ship earlier.

Don's trapped under a crane at city hall.

Blurr pull's Don and his car free of the crane, but fails to realize that Don's car was the only thing keeping the crane from falling over. After he yanks the car loose, the crane comes crashing down. While Blurr jumps out of the way, the others grab the crane before it could have fallen onto (and killed) the injured Don.

The crane's also threatening to fall onto city hall. Blurr is really not good at helping.

Salvage used his technical know-how to tinker up a uni-directional dynamic electromagnet out of junk to pull up the crane from the other side.

"Power Up and Energize!" -- Heatwave uses the jackhammer that cam with Bumblebee's toys to finish repairs on the crane.

Optimus has come to confirm what really happened in the past. Though it's true that the ship did crash-land on Wayward Island in a meteor storm, it was Salvage, not Blurr, who risked his life to save the cave people. Blurr wanted to stay with the ship, but Salvage couldn't ignore the humans. Salvage had Blurr help him build a raft to get the humans off of the island, but one of them went missing. Blurr had promised to go find the missing person, but Blurr never came back. Salvage sent off the other humans and went looking for Blurr. Salvage found the missing caveman (Ira), but Blurr was nowhere around. Salvage took Ira to the cave, where he gave Ira an amulet of energon to protect him. But then the ship closed, trapping them both inside.

Blurr attempted to start up the ship to get off of Earth instead of keeping his promise. He was going to leave Salvage behind, thinking he was too slow to make it back to the ship in time. The two bots fought, which scared Ira away. Then the meteors started hitting the cave. All they could do was go back into stasis and hope for the best.

After further consideration, Optimus feels that the team shouldn't give up on Blurr, and Boulder and Cody are the only ones still willing to give him another chance.



Jason Marsden -- Salvage
Max Mittelman -- Blurr



Wow. This one was surprisingly heavy. We got two new Autobot characters and one of them is presented as the black sheep of the family. At first, it seems as though Blurr was gonna be a case similar to Prime Smokescreen, in which the new guy is a rambunctious rule breaker who drives the more experienced members crazy, while still being endearing to the audiences. Instead, we got this turned on its head with Blurr instead depicted in a manner that reveals a shameful past marked by selfishness, cowardice, and an attempted betrayal of Salvage. He was going to abandon Salvage and leave him for dead. Even though Blurr's motivations for doing so had no malice or animosity, it's still surprisingly dark for this kind of show, yet it wasn't dealt with that darkly as much as it was dealt with more solemnly. and the episode even ends with nearly everyone having lost their respect for Blurr, with their being unsure if they can ever trust him. What's more is that very little action happens in this episode, as the majority of the episode is taken up by the characters just standing around talking to each other about very important matters. However, this episode wasn't all doom and gloom. On the upside, Salvage is a very charming addition to the show. Though he kinda feels like yet another Animated Bulkhead-esque character like Boulder (being a big green lovable lug who is mechanically talented and artistic), he felt unique enough to be likable in his own right. Though it was Blurr I was looking forward to the most before watching this episode, it's Salvage whom I look forward to seeing more of in the end.

Salvage looks like he's going to fit in with the rest of the team just fine, despite the others' initial objections to him and Blurr being part of the team. I also like how the writers make a point that Salvage and Blurr weren't friends, even though they were the only two on the ship (Salvage even mentions that they didn't interact much beyond what their jobs entailed). They'll probably develop Salvage a little more, but I think this episode's pretty much established his niche.

This is not the most complimentary incarnation of Blurr that's appeared on TV (not so sure about the comics). As you mentioned, Sabre, this Blurr is a self-invested coward who isn't leaving a very good impression on anyone at the moment - I mean, the guy made the rather easy-going Salvage angry enough to attack him. I suspect Blurr's going to have the most development in the next couple of episodes especially since the episode description for "A New Hero" pretty explicitly states that Blurr will steal the Sigma. At the moment though, he's not off to a great start - about the only ones who are willing to give him a chance right now are Optimus, Cody, and Boulder, for differing reasons. Heatwave's the most vocal at the moment (though that's not really anything new) and I suspect the two won't be on the best of terms - and I'm not sure Blurr will endear himself that well to High Tide if the latter appears in the next episode. It's almost a blessing High Tide didn't appear in this episode - he may have mellowed since his debut, but I can imagine that him chewing out of Blurr would still have been a lot worse than Heatwave's was.

We'll just have to wait and see how these two fit into the old Rescue Bots dynamic.

Thought: (Or Fanfiction fuel) of all people, Heatwave goes to HighTide for training advice, since he doesn't want to look like he's letting Prime down, giving High Tide a chance to shine again, ad buid on his past and past interaction with Heatwave.

Yeah, probably more FanFiction fuel, I just hate to see High Tide become "Token Boat guy".

Yep, gonna love Salvage. Just hope he doesn't become "Magic gadget saves the day" dude. And I think I'm gonna love what they do with Blurr's development, even if I don't end up loving Blurr.

Makes me sad that Medix and Hoist couldn't become characters too. Medix, you could right off as Ratchet in the Cybervirus ep, but poor Hoist.

I need a Salvage figure. He might have to be the first RB figure I buy, but I'm just too attached to figures with knees and elbows.

Any one else feel sad for Ira again, having seen his family, a wife or sister sent off to sea without him? And on those same lines, those poor cavepeople on a wooden raft with NO steering in the OCEAN? Not sure that was your brightest idea there, Salvage.

Since the Wiki is currently deeming Blurr to be the same guy as the Velocitronian Blurr from the Exiles novel, I wonder if Salvage could originally have been a Junkion, as I think it woul be cool if both of the new guys had hailed fromm both of the colony worlds featured in that book.

Though, it would alo be cool if High Tide had some connection to Aquatron, but I can live with him being a native Cybertronian.

Thoughts on time that bug me.

-Heatwave says that Salvage an Blurr's ship is "Before theur time."
-The Rescue Bots went into stasis sometime prior to the abandonment of Cybertron, some million or three years ago? (As seen in the pilot, when they say that they need to contact Cybertron Command) Di the Energon Eater Ep. establish a timestamp on that rescue?

Sabrblade wrote:Since the Wiki is currently deeming Blurr to be the same guy as the Velocitronian Blurr from the Exiles novel, I wonder if Salvage could originally have been a Junkion, as I think it would be cool if both of the new guys had hailed fromm both of the colony worlds featured in that book.

Though, it would alo be cool if High Tide had some connection to Aquatron, but I can live with him being a native Cybertronian.

But is there any reason to believe that or is this edmacated speculation based on continuity, because there's thrirty thousan Blurrs running around the Unicron Trilogy too. (or he's running so fast he can be in multiple galxies at once, a speed mirage, if you will.) he mentions being a two time winner of the Cybertronian 500, which implies Cybertron, alhough with no idea as to when that was, I suppose it could have been pre-colony . Doubtful, but possible

Archanubis wrote:It's almost a blessing High Tide didn't appear in this episode - he may have mellowed since his debut, but I can imagine that him chewing out of Blurr would still have been a lot worse than Heatwave's was.

I'm not so sure High Tide wouldn't have just told Blurr to hit the road, regardless of who else was in the room and what they thought about it.

Flashwave wrote:Thoughts on time that bug me.

-Heatwave says that Salvage an Blurr's ship is "Before theur time."
-The Rescue Bots went into stasis sometime prior to the abandonment of Cybertron, some million or three years ago? (As seen in the pilot, when they say that they need to contact Cybertron Command) Di the Energon Eater Ep. establish a timestamp on that rescue?

I don't recalled the Energon Eater episode establishing a time stamp on the events that sent the Bots into stasis. I do believe that they had been out for awhile, and their attempts to contact HQ were being met by silence; that may mean that while the Bots left before Cybertron went dark and when they tried to contact Cybertron in that episode, they weren't aware that it was now a dead planet (Heatwave at least seems familiar with the war, which means either the team left during the initial stages, or the team was briefed on current events when they arrived on Earth).

I will admit Heatwave's comment is odd, as is Boulder's comment that he's never see that particular class of ship. It's possible Heatwave's familiar enough with Cybertronian ship designs to tell that it's an older class of cargo hauler (as opposed to one that was commissioned after the bots went into stasis), but the class was rare enough when they were active that the team hadn't encountered it before the episode. Considering how long Cybertronian ships can (and apparently do) stay out in the vastness of space, it's probably not surprising that it stayed in service long enough to crash in prehistoric Maine - though why Ira and his kin are European looking cavemen instead of a proto-Native American people has me scratching my head...

BTW, was Optimus always so much taller than the Rescue Bots? Last couple of appearances, he looks like he's twice as tall as anyone on the team.

Flashwave wrote:Yep, gonna love Salvage. Just hope he doesn't become "Magic gadget saves the day" dude.

For some reason, I'm expecting Salvage and Boulder to wind up making junk art together at some point.

Flashwave wrote:But is there any reason to believe that or is this edmacated speculation based on continuity, because there's thrirty thousan Blurrs running around the Unicron Trilogy too. (or he's running so fast he can be in multiple galxies at once, a speed mirage, if you will.) he mentions being a two time winner of the Cybertronian 500, which implies Cybertron, alhough with no idea as to when that was, I suppose it could have been pre-colony . Doubtful, but possible

Granted, the RB Blurr info was put onto the Prime Blurr page prior to Blurr's debut in the cartoon, so it's kind of a case like how RID Grimlock's info and RID Sideswipe's info were each put onto the pages for their respective WFC counterparts ahead of their cartoon debuts. Prime Blurr and RB Blurr could be two different guys, but for now the Wiki's defaulting to its typical treatment of Aligned characters unless otherwise is stated.

However, what I was saying was just how I think it would be cool if the two new guys in this show each came from one of the planets from the Exiles novel.

Archanubis wrote:BTW, was Optimus always so much taller than the Rescue Bots? Last couple of appearances, he looks like he's twice as tall as anyone on the team.

Looking over previous episodes he appeared in, it seems so.