Transformers: Rescue Bots Season 3 Episodes 7,8 and 9 Titles and Descriptions

Well, there's one S2 ep

Flashwave wrote:Well, there's one S2 ep

Yeah, so we just need to wait for the other one to surface.

Still, I can't help but wonder why they got pushed back.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Flashwave wrote:Well, there's one S2 ep

Yeah, so we just need to wait for the other one to surface.

Still, I can't help but wonder why they got pushed back.

Maybe for this one they wanted it to air in the winter for the holiday season, but couldn't do so in its proper airing placement. Like how "Walk on the Wild Side" first aired out of order to fall on Earth Day.

As for "Chief Woodrow", who knows.

I just hope that they don't count the two skipped episodes as part of the 26-episode count for season 3.

Episode 57 -

The episode starts already with the Bots aboard the Sigma in space in the past.

This opening with the Bots receiving a distress call from their ship and going after it has a very Star Trek feel to it.

The original command Heatwave would give before coming to Earth was "Rescue Bots, power to the rescue!"

The giant space slug-like creature that attacked the wrecked ship is an energon eater.

The Bots are telling Cody a story about what happened in the past.

Full version of the theme song.

Boulder claims to not have believed that energon eaters were real, thinking they were only the stuff of stories. Blades feels that that might be if no one's lived to about encountering one.

The Sigma has a cloaking shield.

According to Boulder, once an energon eater gets a scent, it never stops hunting its prey. And Chase states that the creature is said to smell flowing energon.

Since the ship can't get its velocity drive up and running quick enough, the bots have no choice but to mask their energon flow by going into stasis, which will freeze their energon into a solid state. They have to shut down the ship as well, since it also runs on flowing energon. Heatwave programs the Sigma to restart once it gets a Priority Prime message, which he suspects will be sent by Cybertron as soon as they miss their check-in.

And the energon eater has let them go. However, they failed to answer the wrecked ship's distress call.

Next thing they knew, their ship was headed for Earth.

Well, the flashback ended pretty early in the episode.

The river's rising and has flooded most of the town.

Mr. Levy's about to go over the falls.

Heh, Mister Pettypaws's jaw dropped when seeing the tidal wave.

As Chase regretted failing to heed the call of the wrecked ship in the past, so to does he regret failing to stop the town from being flooded.

Chase is trying to contact the damaged ship from back then. And it somehow responds!

Chase and Boulder are going into space to find the ship and help it. Heatwave and Blades remains on Earth to continue the mission Optimus assigned to them on Earth.

Blades is filling in for Chase for Chief Burn's patrol.

Heatwave's "helping" Graham with "fixing" some equipment and with Graham's Gremsky Tech homework.

After all this time, even more space wrecks have turned up in the same area that the original was in.

Boulder's found the ship's captain's log: "No one responded to our distress call. The ship has malfunctioned beyond repair. All my crew escaped in survival pods. I am taking what cargo I can and abandoning this vessel. End log."

The timestamp on the log shows that it was made long before the Bots received the ship's emergency call.

All this time, it was the energon eater sending the distress call, by feeding energon from its tail into the ship's computer, allowing the message to keep being sent and luring other vessels into its trap.

"Power Up and Energize!" - Chase and Boulder use all new palm-held rocket thrusters.

The energon eater sucked the Sigma's power core dry.

Chase: "You are under arrest for energon theft! And general unpleasantness."

Did Chase just... drive in space?!

Capturing the creature, they drain its stolen energon to re-power the ship.

Whoa, what? They actually delivered the creature to Optimus? Where is that place that Optimus is at?


Lacey Chabert -- Woman
Maurice LaMarche -- Voice
Jason Marsden -- Fisherman
Not exactly the most descriptive names, huh?


This was pretty cool, letting us get to see what was going on with Sigma-17 before coming to Earth. The energon eater proved to be both a monstrous and, surprisingly, cunning creature. Though, it did raise a few other questions that weren't answered. Like, what caused the river to flood the town in the first place? And just where exactly did Chase and Boulder deliver the energon eater to Optimus? And how long ago did the Sigma go into stasis, exactly? How does this affect the overall timeline? Don't get me wrong, I liked it, but some things in it needed more clarification.

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Episode 58 -

Did Huxley just refer to the hurricane as "Hurricane Opie"? Is that another reference to The Andy Griffith Show?

Doc previously sent Graham, Cody, and Boulder over to the Island of Misfit Tech to retrieve a replacement stabilizier for Doc's damaged one. That don't sound good at all.

The stabilizer should be in a de-barker that Doc discarded to the island after it tried to shred his lab coat with him still in it.

The three had to be sent to retrieve the stabilizer since Doc couldn't beam back just the stabilizer by itself. All that came back was the retrieval tag, which much have fallen off. Graham notices that several tags had fallen off, but they've no time to look into that right now since they need to get back.

Vigil was aware of the three visitors being nearby and transferred its energy into the stabilizer.

Full theme song.

One of the lab's satellite dishes collapsed onto the lab's roof.

The dome is activated. Griffin Rock is now protected, and the atmosphere generator will provide them with clean air at 70 degrees.

Frankie's remote control rocket is out of control.

Ever the humble man, Mayor Luskey has christened the dome as the "Mayor Luskey Dome" (sidenote, does he even have a first name besides "Mayor"?) and has accepted full credit for its success.

Vigil's now transferred his energy from the stabilizer into the control panel's console. Is he some sort of energy ghost now?

Doc tries to retract the dome until the next time it's needed, but Vigil takes control and denies Doc his access to the controls.

During his exile, Vigil learned how to transfer his programming into other devices, and is the one responsible for all of the retrieval tags falling off. But, how did he learn to do that? Is such a thing even possible for manmade, non-supernatural tech?

Vigil claims to have corrected the error in his programming that Cody had pointed out to him last time, but Vigil won't retract the dome since it increases the island's protection by 82%. He's also resynthesized the air molecules produced by the atmosphere generator into a sleeping vapor.

Doc, Chief, and Dani all succumb to the sleeping vapor, while the others manage to make it inside the Bots in time.

Wait, Blades says that he breathes air. What?

Vigil has jumped into the little cement mixing bot and shielded the console with cement.

"Power Up and Energize!" - Boulder's using a jackhammer that kinda looks like the one that comes with Bumblebee's Energize mini-figure.

Everyone in town is asleep. Though, the Mayor is sleep-eating ice cream.

Frankie has given code names to Blades ("Sky Hawk") and Chase ("Blue Ninja").

Vigil keeps jumping around since he can only control one device at a time.

Vigil's in the Robo-Baby from season 1.

Did Kade say that they'd cut Vigil off at Lake "Streak"?

Boulder got through the cement, but the whole system overheated when it was covered.

Doc's secret password is "Doc".

Vigil has one more task to complete before Griffin Rock can be deemed "permanently safe", and transfers into a garbage truck bot to get away.

Vigil seems unable to jump between devices that are far apart from each other, as he only seems to jump when he's close enough to another device. And he's heading somewhere specific in the east.

Wait, the lab that the dome was activated from isn't Doc's lab, but some other facility. Doc's lab is where Vigil seems to be heading, as Graham states that the dome has another set of controls there.

Frankie spots Vigil in a construction site at Pynch Square, where he's jumped into a brick device that shoots Blades down.

Vigil's now in a motorcycle, heading west. Boulder and Graham will head him off by cutting through Sloan Field.

In the scrapyard, Vigil uses a Scrapmaster to bury Heatwave and Boulder under a mountain of old cars.

Frankie has Dither seal all entrances to the lab.

Vigil's possessed Dither, and blasts Chase and Blades with a Collision Foam Cannon.

Heh, Blades complains about the ubiquity of the foam cannons.

Cody grabbed Frankie's rocket, but had to sacrifice himself to the sleeping gas to do so.

Frankie likewise sacrificed her consciousness to trick Vigil into entering her rocket, which she sent flying out of the lab (but, shouldn't Vigil have taken control upon entering it?).

The rocket crashed in the EMP zone at Griffin Crest. That's a LONG ways away reach in a very short time. Still, is seems to have killed Vigil. The first onscreen death in this show, even if it was for an artificial intelligence.

And at last, Blades has Dither retract the dome.

Everyone's awakened, Mr. Harrison's about to puke, the Mayor's covered in food, and Heatwave and Boulder finally find the strength to free themselves from the car pile.

Well, that was a quick ending.


This episode was non-nutritional, non-educational, and a complete waste of time for anyone looking to learn something academic or moralistic. And that's just the way we like it! This was a Saturday morning cartoon, plain and simple. A good old-fashioned suspense thriller with action and conflict short of throwing a full on malevolent villain into the mix. One big chase scene involving relatively high stakes. Vigil proves once more how competent he is in his extremism and single-mindedness, even if he does so in a manner that borderlines on the suspension of disbelief. I mean, really, how did he gain that energy ghost ability? Still, though, twas good.

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Episode 59 -

Graham's constructed a water slide for the local pool.

New girl in town. Name's Amy. She's an engineer, is impressed with Graham's slide, and has rendered Graham as babbling a mess as Eugene Meltsner.

Chief's got a call from Barney (his deputy). Morocco's gone (that was quick). Luckily, there's a GPS tracker in Morocco's cuffs.

They got Morocco back easily (a bit too easily), but failed to notice that he had placed a letter in the mailbox he was next to.

Short version of the theme.

They put Morocco into a special high tech super reinforced cell built by Doc this time.

There's a monkey running loose downtown, who caused Jerry to crash his truck shipment of bananas.

Turns out the monkey belongs to Amy. Its name is Tesla. I'm betting its voiced by Frank Welker.

Kade is gonna school Graham on how to behave around girls. This can't end well.

Boulder can smell Kade's cologne, "Man's Smell".

Barney's made another call about Morocco. The doctor's still in his cell, but now has an ant farm. Huh?

I think Jeff Bennett has finally gotten the hang of his Don Knotts impression. Sounds better here than it ever did.

Kade's plan to get Graham with Amy doesn't go very well.

Of all the Bots, it's Heatwave who gives Graham the most helpful advice of playing his strengths, which is for Graham is science, and let that do the talking for him.

Morocco has reconstructed both the jail's electric fan and radio into a vocal-based command device that he uses to sonically control the ants, ordering them to head towards Doc Green's lab.

Doc's been studying Morocco's MorBot.

The ants have stolen the MorBot's power pod and have reconnected it to the MorBot's head.

Using science, Graham's created his own scent of cologne, which a surprised Kade finds awesome. It works molecularly, able to make people like Graham, making him feel confident, hence his naming it "Confident Me".

Emergency call from Mr. Pfeiffer. Fire at the bakery.

Something chewed through the oven.

Morocco's MorBot is busting him out of jail.

Huxley likes Graham's scent.

An ant hurt Boulder, to the confusion of everyone.

Before departing, Morocco nabs the Vern device from the nearby Chamber of Youth.

As he tries to get away in his MorBot, Morocco orders his ant army to attack the Bots. The reason they can harm the Bots is because they are a rare mutant breed of marabunta army ants whose bite contains folic acid that can eat through metal.

Morocco has ordered his ants to eat all the metal they can found, so the team is stuck having to choose to either spend the day battling Morocco or save their town from ruin.

Dani and Blades will keep an eye on Morocco while the others stop the ant swarm, which is devouring everything downtown.

Doc suspects that Morocco's ant commanding transmitter, if it uses radio waves, might be sending out electronic versions of pheromones. Since ants can't talk, they use smells to communicate over distance.

Cody suspects Graham's cologne might be able to stop the ants. Yep, it's as silly as it sounds.

The MorBot's left the island and Dani & Blades lost it in a cloud bank.

Some ants got onboard the MorBot and are eating both it and Morocco's command device. The robot has crashed into the sea with the doctor still inside it.

The ants are eating the water slide, but Amy and the Bots got all the swimmers away in time. Too bad for the slide, though.

The cologne is delivered by Blades and is able to attract the ants all the way to Doc's lab, where they are trapped back into their ant farm.

Much to Kade's disappointment, Graham got rid of his cologne since it's dangerous to play with pheromones.

Graham never needed the cologne anyway. Heatave sprayed him earlier, so his confidence he showed when saving everyone at the pool earlier came from himself.

Graham musters the courage to ask Amy to see the final blueprints of the slide.

Chief wishes they had caught Morocco, since he fears they haven't seen the last of him.

Out at sea, Morocco tries to row the remains of his MorBot (which is still being torn apart by the ants). Things are looking pretty grim for him.


Voice cast
Amy -- Hynden Walch
Doctor Morocco -- still Greg Ellis
Tesla isn't credited, but it sounded just like Frank Welker's Abu voice.


This episode wasn't bad, but was pretty simple. A basic "villain tries to escape confinement" story with some diversionary tactics thrown into the mix. Morocco's plan was sorta sound on paper, but also a bit farfetched (then again, this is Griffin Rock, where stuff like this happens 24/7). Though, it wound up backfiring on him in the end, leaving him stranded at sea. However, we also got some more focus on Graham, who doesn't get as much as the others. And we got a new love interest for him, which gives one to every member of the main human cast (Kade/Hayley, Dani/Taylor, Graham/Amy, Chief/Carin, Doc/Baranova, and if you want to imagine their future, Cody/Frankie). Overall, not bad, simple, but charming enough.

Does anyone else find it surprising that they dropped the dinosaur stuff after the firs two episodes of the season and haven't acknowledged it since? Particularly since they showed dino modes for Heatwave, Blades, and Chase at SDCC.

Nemesis Primal wrote:Does anyone else find it surprising that they dropped the dinosaur stuff after the firs two episodes of the season and haven't acknowledged it since? Particularly since they showed dino modes for Heatwave, Blades, and Chase at SDCC.

I gotta admit, it is a little bothersome how bad this show is at advertising its toyline. It barely acknowledges anything beyond the four main characters' original toys and their Energize tool figures. The MHQ, Prime's Rescue Trailer, and now both his and Boulder's Primal Modes have all fallen by the wayside. And being hand drawn with a small amount of CGI, instead of being fully CGI, doesn't give it the same excuse that Beast Wars and Beast Machines had.

However, Quarry's supposed to return later this season, so maybe his resurfacing might warrant some more Primal Mode appearances.

Sabrblade wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:Does anyone else find it surprising that they dropped the dinosaur stuff after the firs two episodes of the season and haven't acknowledged it since? Particularly since they showed dino modes for Heatwave, Blades, and Chase at SDCC.

I gotta admit, it is a little bothersome how bad this show is at advertising its toyline. It barely acknowledges anything beyond the four main characters' original toys and their Energize tool figures. The MHQ, Prime's Rescue Trailer, and now both his and Boulder's Primal Modes have all fallen by the wayside. And being hand drawn with a small amount of CGI, instead of being fully CGI, doesn't give it the same excuse that Beast Wars and Beast Machines had.

However, Quarry's supposed to return later this season, so maybe his resurfacing might warrant some more Primal Mode appearances.

Oh man, I forgot about the MHQ. Shouldn't it at least be in the garage somewhere in the background? Heatwave's boat mode at least sees occasional use, so that's at least something, but still, the rest is kinda embarrassing.

We got two episodes this time instead of one, and the first of which is one of the two skipped season 2 episodes.




Episode 46 -

Note to self, this episode is set between the one where Heatwave first got his boat mode and the one with the Power Planter that ran amok.

Blades has spotted snow on the ground where it shouldn't be. Chief suspects Doc's been using a weather machine again, while Chase worries if Dr. Morocco's been using one again as well (since he did use one in episode 45). But it turns out that the snow is just Mr. Hooten decorating with fake snow for a Griffin Rock-exclusive holiday called Midwinter Morning.

Short theme song.

The stack of logs that crashed on top of Mrs. Neederlander's car was meant for a bonfire for Midwinter Morning, which Kade doesn't see the point of since barely anyone ever shows up for it.

The history of Midwinter Morning involved a terrible winter storm called the Great Nor'easter of 1713 that had buried Griffin Rock deep in snow, trapping its residents in their homes. Supply ships couldn't make the voyage, and food ran out with no way for replenishment. One night, a mysterious visitor slipped unnoticed into every home, and left bread in the empty pantries. His identity was never learned, and thereafter became known as the Rider of Midwinter.

Chase: "Clearly, this rider kept his identity a secret for fear of being arrested as a tresspasser." -- LOL!

These days, people give gifts on Midwinter Morning to honor the rider for his good deeds. And what's more is that everyone still finds bread on their doorstep every Midwinter Morning, as someone else is carrying on the tradition started by the rider. But nobody know who the present day benefactor is either.

The bonfire grew from back when the townspeople lit a fire to keep warm after the 1713 blizzard ended.

Speaking of winter weather, a winter storm has come.

The ferry lost its cargo in the storm. Though crewman Mario was saved from drowning, no presents on Midwinter Morning, much to the townpeople's disappointment.

Emergency call from Mrs. Neederlander, who's up at her cabin on the mountain. She needs ALL of the Burnses up there, but the mountain road's iced over. However, the team's heading up in the MHQ!

Mrs. Neederlander brought them up to her place so that they could deliver fresh loaves of bread to the whole town. She's the mysterious present day Rider of Midwinter!

Before her, it was Old Man Delgado. Before him, it was Mrs. Crabtree. Mrs. Neederlander's been the current Rider for the last 49 years.

Riders of Midwinter, roll to the rescue!

AN INSERT SONG!!! THE SECOND ONE IN THE SERIES!!!

"Power up and Energize!" -- Though he speaks no lines when powering it up, Heatwave uses his twin-water cannons as a flamethrower to melt a mound of snow.

He then uses it again to lit the bonfire.

Mrs. Neederlander has decided to retire from being the Rider of Widwinter, and has official passed the torch on to the Burns family; an honor they accept.


Mario isn't credited in the voice cast.


Clint Black performed "Light The Fire"


Like Heatwave said, this episode was about internal combustion, and boy was there a lot of it. I was expecting some cheery holiday special with a bit of cheese and maybe some laughs here and there, but what we got was way better. This episode showed us a side to Mrs. Neederlander we'd never seen before, adding a lot more depth to her character. At first, she's set up to be something like the town's Grinch, but turns out to be its equivalent of Father Christmas himself. And though the episode's message of "giving over getting" was nothing new, it was pulled off in a manner that didn't try to force it upon us in any annoying manner, and charmed us with innocence and sincerity rarely found in a modern holiday special aimed at kids in a medium meant to sell toys. And, as always, the addition of an insert song (and darn good one at that) is always a welcome addition.



Episode 60 -

Giant chess game!

Kade's got a killer cavity and his dentist can't see him until tomorrow.

Ha! Boulder's trying to learn tap-dancing.

Emergency call from Frankie. Doc is being forced into the air and crashing into his walls and ceiling.

Short theme song.

Doc's newest invention, an anti-gravity patch, is the source of his predicament. Every time he tries to reach it (it's on his back), it sends him flying in another direction.

"Power Up and Energize!" -- Heatwave's using a grappling magnet to grab Doc.

Doc was using the patch to work on a device so delicate that it requires zero-gravity assembly. But he'll have to assemble it the old-fashioned way, now... by going into space!

Doc's inviting everyone to join him aboard the Asgard up the space elevator. They'll make it a picnic. Graham declines, though, having been up there before and not enjoying it.

The device Doc's working on is a Binary Diagnostic Link designed especially for medical research. Connect both the doctor and patient to each end of the device, and the doctor can feel exact what the patient is feeling, allowing caregivers to more accurately diagnose and treat their patients.

The music playing during the zero gravity scene is like the kind played in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The device has to operated on in space because of the crystal powering it being very delicate. Any friction or sudden movement during operation could cause the device to work improperly.

Incoming nebula approaching the Asgard.

The Asgard's air filtration system has been compromised by the nebula. Graham's bringing it down before it runs out of air. The hydrogen and carbon particles of the nebula must have gotten inside somehow.

Since the emergency oxygen compartment is only big enough for two, Chief and Doc get inside it while the others take shelter inside the Bots. However, Doc's crystal is still exposed to the air during reentry.

Aaaaand, it's not just everyone's personalities that have switched, but their minds too. Kade & Heatwave, Dani & Blades, Chief & Doc, Chase & Frankie, and Boulder & Cody.

The nebula particles affected the BDL crystal and switched everyone around.

The humans-in-bot-bodies and bots-in-human-bodies doing opposite things are hilarious!

Emergency call while everyone's still switched. This should be fun.

Cody-in-Boulder's-body accidentally dented the water tower, and Dani-in-Blades'-body stirred up the fire more.

Graham to the rescue! He put out the fire and got everyone out.

Heatwave-in-Kade's-body saw the dentist, Dr. Bieber, who thinks Kade should get a new dentist.

They have to go back into space and recreate the switcheroo to undo it. However, the water tower's threatening to collapse on top of some hikers, and near the spaceport as well. If it falls and harms the spaceport, the mission will have to be scrubbed, and the nebula will be gone by then.

"Power Up and Energize!" -- Kade-in-Heatwave's-body is using the claw that came with Chase's toys.

Cody-in-Boulder's-body dug a ditch to stop the water from reaching the Asgard.

Up in space, Doc-in-Chief's-body instructs Chief-in-Doc's-body on how to handle the crystal to reverse the switch just before the nebula drifts away. And it works.


Maurice LaMarche -- Dr. Bieber
None of the civilians Graham saved are credited


Okay, I was expecting something silly from this one, and every time I expect something silly, this show delivers on the hilarity ten-fold. Seeing everyone act like each other was a joy to watch, and you really gotta admire the acting props of these people when trying to emulate each other's behavior and mannerisms. Though, Maurice LaMarche as Doc did sound a bit more like a Jim Cummings impression at times, but he gave it his all just like the others. So many times in this episode did we get some great laughs all around, and at the same time, this episode also didn't shy away from how serious the situation could be when it nearly compromised the rescue mission. I just love how the writing of this show can simultaneously be so unashameably nutty while treating its audience with a respectful adherence to our intelligence.

A new preview clip has been posted to the Discovery Family Channel site. This is a preview of the next new episode "Quarry's Quarry". It airs next Saturday December 27 at 1:30 EST. on Discovery Family Channel. Click the link below to check out the new clip.

Enter the Dinobots! Colonel Quarry tries to force Doc to build him more robotic dinosaurs to rebuild his game-hunting business. The result: Heatwave, Chase, and Blades must take on DinoBot forms. Watch this all-new episode of Transformers Rescue Bots Saturday, 12/27 at 1:30pm ET | 12:30pm CT.

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Episode 61 -

Doc's testing out Dither's new bio-electric chip, which is malfunctioning and causing him to steal toasters. First Doc's, then the mayor's, and now it's heading towards Baranova's place.

Full theme song.

Baranova stopped Dither by simply acceptig his offer of toast, and then shutting him off while he's distracted.

The chip malfunctioned due to it being covered in bacteria. Strange thing is, it was built in the Clean Room, which is sealed off from all forms of foreign contaminants.

Time to whip out the Scrub Mites, microscopic cleaning robots programmed to seek out and consume all bacteria, completely sanitizing any area that they're in.

Turns out Doc left his breakfast donut in the Clean Room by accident. It's covered in the same bacteria as the bio-electric chip.

Kade being Kade just grabbed the donut and, having just arrived at the lab only after Doc explained about the Scrub Mites, ate it.

And now he's got some painful hiccups.

Doc's missing six Scrub Mites.

As expected, the missing Scrub Mites are inside Kade.

The mites are likely doing some serious damage to Kade's body by eating the good bacteria in his body. There's no way to shut them off, their batteries are long-lasting, and the recall signal can't penetrate human tissue. And they keep moving, so surgery is out.

Using the Minimizer to shrink down, Chief, Graham, and Dani will ride inside the Bots, who will pilot the Sigma, and enter Kade's body via another eaten donut. Doc and the two kids will keep in touch with the rest of the Team with the ComTab.

"Power Up and Energize!" -- contrary to Heatwave's order for stealth, Blades uses a cannon that fires a capture net.

Since the team was shrunk down a little smaller than they planned to be, the three mites that were in Kade's stomach are too big to fit inside the ship, so they must be fitting to its exterior instead.

The remaining three mites are near Kade's spine.

The first three mites are trying to break free of the ship.

Electric brain pulses are shooting off bursts of energy in the vicinity of the Bots. It's due to the mites eating the myelin sheath off of Kade's nerves.

"Power Up and Energize!" -- Chase is using the claw his toy comes with.

And Blades is using the net cannon again.

One of the mites slammed Blades into a nerve, zapping and injuring him. And now Kade can't feel his legs either.

They got all six of the mites, but the mites are eating through the ship.

The ship has stopped en route to Kade's head. They must have eaten through the ignition panel.

They need an electrical jump to restart the ship. Kade can provide an electric pulse by moving his foot, but he still can't feel his feet.

But, after a little insult, er, I mean reinforcement from Heatwave, Kade finds the strength and will to move his foot, thus sending the electric pulse necessary to repower the ship.

The mites are starting to break free, but thankfully, the ship has reach Kade's nasal cavity, and Kade claims he can sneeze on command.

"Power Up and Energize!" -- Heatwave uses a grapple to snag the one Scrub Mite that almost got away.

Once out of Kade's body, Frankie recalled the Scrub Mites back to their canister.

Ship's back in its hangar and de-shrunk to full size. And according to Doc, Kade's fine.

Doc's got an "experiment" (over dinner) with Baranova, much to Frankie's dismay.


Another decent episode. Since I've never seen Fantastic Voyage, this ep reminded more of certain episodes of The Magic School Bus, only with a greater level of danger for both the body and its guests. Of course, it was obvious that no one was going to die or get seriously injured, but the journey itself was still engaging enough, and even had some things happen that I didn't see coming. Like, Kade's legs becoming immobilized at one point, or Blades being electrocuted by the brain pulse, or even the brain pulses themselves. In fact, the brain pulses being depicted as unpredictable bolts of lightning seemed to me to be more scary than the "evil brain pulses" seen inside Megatron's body in the G1 cartoon episode "Microbots". One could even consider this episode to be like a modern update of that episode's story, but with a less black-and-white notion of good and evil. Whereas the threats inside Megatron's body were obviously wicked, those inside Kade's were of no moral allegiance and far more predictable. And with the host body being one of the heroes, those on the inside had to do their best to avoid harming their friend from within, making their trek all the more challenging. Overall, while the end result was obvious, the steps leading up to it were enjoyable as they were.

Episode 62 -

Baranova's on a fishing trip with Frankie and Doc, the latter of whom is testing out his "laser slice cubes" and also trying to get Frankie and Baranova more interested in each other.

*GASP* WE FINALLY KNOW DOC'S FIRST NAME!!!!! It's Ezra!

Using Heatwave (whom Doc brought along for the trip) to get away, he leaves the two girls alone to let them get better acquainted, only for a mayday alert to come through on the radio. However, something's interfering with both the signal and Frankie's holocomm. So the two have to go after the SOS by themselves.

Quarry's the one who sent the SOS, it was a trap.

Short theme song.

The trap was meant for Doc.

Quarry's captured Baranova, but Frankie was hidden well enough for the Q-Drone to miss her.

Meanwhile's Doc's completely oblivious to the others' predicament, happily making the perfect mustard back at his lab.

Quarry's sent a Q-Drone to project a hologram of himself at Doc's lab.

Quarry believes Doc to have created the "robotic dinosaurs" and the "giant bots", thankfully oblivious to their true nature. Thus, Quarry blames Doc for the damage done to Quarry's island and business, and demands that Doc build three more robot dinosaurs and return the other two from before. Five dinos should cover the debt and rebuild his business. Once he has the five, he'll let Baranova go. Doc has 12 hours to comply and must come alone.

There's no data on where Quarry's island is located.

A wild Optimus had appeared!

Chief called Prime to come after they heard that this was a problem involving "dinobots".

Prime proposes that he and Boulder offer themselves to Quarry in their dino forms, and then rescue the ladies from Quarry once they reach the island.

Since they need five dinobots, Heatwave and Chase volunteer scan dino forms, while Blades is convinced through peer pressure. Though, he ha to scan a flying form, much to his chagrin. And Energon patches are placed on the three to keep them from going crazy.

"Rescue Bots, scan and transform!"

Heatwave scans an apatosaurus (that breathes water), Chase a stegosaurus (with an electric tail), and Blades a pterodactyl... but he fails to transform. Into any form. He fears that the process messed up his T-Cog.

Cody tries to look inside Blades' cockpit to see if anything came loose, but then Quarry arrive to pick up his five dinos. Since Blades can't transform, he has to hide and Doc will have to make up an excuse about the missing fifth dino. Cody's still inside Blades, but he'll get out when Quarry leaves.

Doc explains that fifth dino is incomplete, so Quarry decides to take Doc and the unfinished dinobot (Blades, hiding under a tarp) to the island so that Doc can finish it there. Since Blades was taken, Cody didn't get a chance to get out.

Quarry plans to sell the dinos and rebuild his big game business off the profits.

Cody tried to contact Frankie with his comlink as soon as they arrived on the island, but Quarry's jamming all communication signals.

Quarry's testing the dinobots' abilities.

Frankie found Baranova and tried to save her, but instead tripped the laser sensors and got herself trapped inside with the prof. Fortunately, Baranova had already disabled the external alarm, so Frankie's security breach hadn't drawn any unwanted attention.

Graham's pinpointed where Quarry's island might be based on where Cody's comlink last ceased its transmitting.

Baranova says that she had lived under the sea for 28 years.

With Optimus buried, the others have to pretend to fight each other to work their way over to Optimus and save him without Quarry noticing their true intentions.

Quarry's used this demonstration to auction the dinobots off to the highest bidder, and uses his Amber Drone to cease their fighting and put them into a stasis field.

Quarry's preparing to have the dinobots shipped off, and is reevaluating the terms of Doc's release.

Frankie and Anna use the former's holocomm to trick the Q-Drones and escape.

Doc used Quarry's equipment to build some heat-seeking goggles to find the ladies.

Blades reveals his true self to Anna. Welcome to the team, professor.

Blades finally transforms! Into his dino mode! He disables the Amber Drone and frees the others, who take out Quarry and his Q-Drones.

Quarry attempts to get away but the Darby Ava pulls in just in time. Quarry is arrested and locked inside the boat.

Anna and Optimus have a full introduction to each other.


This episode... I knew it was gonna be cool with Quarry coming back and the other Bots getting dino modes, but having Baranova not only included but also getting in on the Bots' secret was the icing on an already delicious cake. A big game changer episode (in more ways that one, lol) that had a lot going for it and just kept getting better. This is how you combine excellent character-driven writing with a need to advertise toys, along with multiple turning points in the greater story, and make it all work. Now the Bots all have dino forms, Baranova's part of the team, she and Frankie are on good terms with each other, and Quarry's been defeated (until further notice). What's more is that this episode also put in some little things that make us ponder about the much larger continuity of the series, such as when the series takes place (28 years after Project: Midgard) or who Quarry's client was (MECH is possible, but slim).

Sabrblade wrote:Episode 62 -

or who Quarry's client was (MECH is possible, but slim).

You know, I kinda hope they leave it ambiguous, just this once. Although I'd not be surprised if it was Madeline, or maybe the Doc Moroc using him as ususpecting muscle. But I prefer the "Ambiguous".

When's the Next Ep slagging fragit!?

Flashwave wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Episode 62 -

or who Quarry's client was (MECH is possible, but slim).

You know, I kinda hope they leave it ambiguous, just this once. Although I'd not be surprised if it was Madeline, or maybe the Doc Moroc using him as ususpecting muscle. But I prefer the "Ambiguous".

I forgot about Madeline. I could definitely see her being an option.

Flashwave wrote:When's the Next Ep slagging fragit!?

You are in luck.

It just so happens that the second missing episode from season 2, "Chief Woodrow", will be airing on Sunday, January 18th, at 7:00am (between reruns of the two season episodes it was meant to be in between). I guess the reason they held back this one didn't come to pass, and so decided to just let it air in its proper placement during the season 2 reruns.

As for the next episode of season 3, "Did You See What I Thaw?" is somehow already available to watch right now on Amazon Instant Video, when it's not due to air on TV until February 28th.

The following are the names and descriptions for all upcoming episodes:

Episode 48 (season 2 skipped episode): "Chief Woodrow"
During Griffin Rock's biggest tourist event, oddball Uncle Woodrow is in charge of the Burns family while Chief is out of town.

Episode 63: "Did You See What I Thaw?"
The Bots discover a caveman preserved in ice and attempt to help him adjust to modern life.

Episode 64: "The Attack of Humungado"
Monsters from Kade's favorite movie materialize; it's up to the Dino Bots to corral the Kaiju.

Episode 65: "Thieves Like Us"
The Bots must contend with thieving miniature souvenir replicas of themselves.

Episode 66: "Time After Time"
A renovated clock tower causes Cody to relive the same morning over and over.

Flashwave wrote:When's the Next Ep slagging fragit!?

Watch while we can:



Thanks to its early release via Amazon Instant Video.






Episode 63 -

The team is investigating an energon signal on Wayward Island that Optimus contacted them to look into. It's located inside an ice cave.

One of the walls has cave painting on it.

Cody's found something glowing.

It's a man fully encased in ice. The center stone on his tribal necklace is what's glowing.

It's brought back to Doc, who deduces it being from the Neo-Paleolithic Period.

Cody saw the man's finger move. And Dani saw his toe twitch. They're not wasting any time getting to the point where they find him still alive.

Doc deduces that the subzero temperatures interacting with the energon shard on the man's necklace must have put him into suspended animation.

The newly-awoken caveman is at first frightened by his new surroundings, but then lovingly embaces the Bots' legs when he sees them.
Something about the Bots' presence seems to calm the man.

They lend the man some of Kade's clothes.

Since the man can't speak English, the team names him Ira, based on one of his grunts sounding like that.

They attempt to use TV to educate Ira, but a meteor shown striking Earth on the screen upsets Ira enough to send him running. Luckily, the energon around his neck makes him easy to track.

Mayor Luskey is personally escorting Mrs. Dumont, who is one of the benefactors to the island's scientific community.

And thanks to Ira, they've crashed their car and are trapped in a fire.

This time, Heatwave shoots fire retardant out of his knuckle cannons, instead of water, to put out the fire.

Mrs. Dumont is thinking of making a contribution to the new Luskey wing at the museum, so the Mayor doesn't want any more incidents to put a damper on her visit.

Ira's inside the museum, drawn their by a large poster with an image of a mammoth on it.

Ira is depressed by the sight of the caveman exhibit. Boulder manages to persuade Ira into coming with him back to Doc's lab.

Heatwave and Blades head back to Wayward Island to look for more energon.

An unexpected visit to the lab by the Mayor and Mrs. Dumont forces everyone to hide Ira in a closet.

Ira breaks out of the closet, wearing a labcoat. Doc claims him to be a fellow colleague, "Dr. Ira". As for why he's grunting, Doc, Frankie, and Cody claim he's from another country, but I can't make out what its name is (Cody seems to have made it up on the spot). I think he might have said "Fredonia".

Mrs. Dumont is so impressed by "Dr. Ira" that she requests he attend the fundraiser banquet being held that evening. Chief attempts to get Ira out of it, but the Mayor absolutely insists that they do as Mrs. Dumont wishes.

Back at the cave, Heatwave and Blades discover more cave drawings, this time depicting Autobots.

The team's getting Ira all dressed up for the occasion, fancy suit and all.

Heatwave shows the others their findings, and deduce that Ira must have known the Autobots in the paintings. Ira tries to tell them something, which they think means that Ira was saved by those Autobots from a meteor shower in the past, and gave him the energon amulet he wears. Heatwave thinks Ira might know where more energon is, but first, the mayor's dinner awaits.

Ira's bad manners are seen as charming, exotic behavior at the party, but the event's fireworks scare him off.

Ira's scaling the radio tower. He thinks the fireworks are meteors and is trying to protect his family: The team.

The top of the tower's breaking under Ira's weight. But Blades and Boulder got him.

Since Ira's so dangerous and unpredictable, it is decided to let him live on Wayward Island where he can be safe and away from causing trouble.

Boulder tries to ask Ira where more energon is, but Ira responds by drawing in the dirt a picture of a hill, trees and himself waving.

While there doesn't appear to be any more energon right now, they figure that more might turn up in time as the ice caves continue to thaw.

BUT... There IS something else in the cave. What looks like some sort of pod or spacecraft!


Jason Marsden voiced "Caveman Ira"
Jeff Bennett voiced Mrs. Dumont


This episode had a premise that has been seen before in other shows, such as The Powerpuff Girls and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. And frankly, while there wasn't anything inherently wrong with this one, it was kinda bland and uninteresting overall. It's like they started off with wanting to tackle the "caveman in the present" concept at first, but then didn't know what to do with it. Sure, they had Ira do a few things, but nothing that hadn't already been done before and not very funny either. It mostly played itself safe this time around, rather trying for something more impressive. Whereas the aforementioned examples of other shows that did this thing either had the caveman be a mad criminal or being a crazed Fred Flintstone! Here, Ira didn't so much as even roar at all. The only thing this episode had going for it was the search for the energon, which proved fruitless, and the craft reveal at the end. It wasn't a bad episode, just a little boring.

This morning, a Sunday morning, the 48th episode of Transformers: Rescue Bots aired on Discovery Family. Why it aired on a Sunday morning instead of Saturday night is a bit of a tale. This episode is the second of two episodes (the first being episode 46, "The Riders of Midwinter") from season 2 that were skipped over in that season's original airing, held back to air at a later date. While episode 46 was purposely delayed to allow it to air on the weekend of Midwinter, this episode's reason for not airing in its proper placement has yet to be determined. We can only assume that whatever occasion it was held back for did not come to pass, as its airing this morning occurred during reruns of the other season 2 episodes that it's set between.



Episode 48 -

The tourist event is the Dolphin Wonder Festival. It's an event set up for tourists to see dolphins swim by the island.

Full theme song this time.

Pier 3 is collapsing with people on it due to the weight of Huxley's news van.

I'm betting a lot of these tourists haven't seen the Bots before.

Chief has to leave for a week to attend a Peace Officers Conference on the mainland. Doc and Frankie are also out of town. However, Chief had the foresight to ask someone else to keep an eye on... "things".

Enter Uncle Woodrow. On the "Old Jalopy" itself, which belonged to Woodrow's and Chief's father (grandpa of Chief's children).

Chase is taken aback a bit by Chief referring to the Old Jalopy as the "best car ever."

Woodrow wants to learn more about Cybertronians, their world and their culture, which Boulder would love to do.

Woodrow has been instructed to not participate in any rescue missions since he's "not official".

Since chase can't be seen driving without a driver, he's gonna walk home in robot mode and asks Cody to join him. But Cody's gonna ride with Woodrow in the Old Jalopy, much to Chase's chagrin.

And Woodrow parks the car in Chase's spot.

Woodrow's plans for dinner are Bait Tackle Louis, a little recipe he picked up in the Calliope Rainforest.

The mayor and Mr. Alper launch some beacons into the water to attract the dolphins in an attempt to keep them near the island all week, so as to build up tourism. However, the mayor's impatience and carelessness cause them to release too many and one gets inside the mayor's yacht, causing it to malfunction and run out of control.

Woodrow recalls a game Dani used to play with her toys when she was younger in order to inspire Dani to use Blades a ramp to launch the yacht into the air for the other Bots to catch.

For saving his life, the mayor is awarding Woodrow a medal. And until Chief returns, the mayor names Woodrow Temporary Acting Chief, much to Kade's dismay.

Woodrow was once made Honorary Tribal Leader for the Treepeople of Tatui.

Woodrow's wearing a police uniform.

Woodrow's trying to be useful, but the others don't need his help.

The beacons have headed up the river away from the sea, with the dolphins in pursuit.

Woodrow accidentally overheard the others making a joke about him. They tried to apologize, but he gets it and promises to stay out of the rescues.

The dolphins are stranded upstream in the wetlands. They won't survive there for much longer.

Cody and Chase insist that Woodrow come along since chase needs a driver.

Boulder is determined the most to save the dolphins.

The humans will get the beacons out of the water while the Bots will carry the dolphins out of the wetlands and back in the main river, which will carry them downstream back to the sea. However, as there's so many dolphins, the team is running out of time before the dolphins overheat.

Woodrow suggests they raise the water level of the wetlands by blocking off its two outlets, so that he can "convince" the dolphins to head back to the sea.

Woodrow attempts a dolphin call with a megaphone underwater to lure the dolphins out, but it doesn't work. However, the call he used worked in the Marshall Islands because the dolphins there were Pacific Whitesided Dolphins. What he needs to do is instead speak Atlantic Whitesided Dolphin. Sure enough, this time it works.

The dolphins jump over the Bots.

Chief's come home to homemade pizza. Guess it's now a week later.

And now it's time to say farewell to Uncle Woodrow.


None of the civilians who had background lines were credited.


This episode was a filler, having no affect on the greater storyline whatsoever. But, it was a GOOD filler. A very character-driven episode that focused on a guest character, here being Woodrow Burns. We got to see more of his personality and how he thinks, liking to recall events of the past to help solve problems in the present, and trying to be a mentor, advisor, and a pal to the rest of his family. Though his reputation for being unhinged to rules and regulations put him in a spot where the others didn't turn to him for assistance, the underlying theme of this episode was how first impressions shouldn't be the determining factor in how a person is. Woodrow came off as being goofball to his family, so that's all they took him for. But when worse came to worst, Woodrow proved his worth in the end by showing that has an accumulated knowledge of other places and that such seemingly trivial knowledge can come in handy in times of need. It was Woodrow's knowledge about the dolphins that ultimately saved the precious creatures from dying upstream, and hopefully this kind of usefulness and likeability will hopefully lead to more appearance from him.

Thanks to fellow Seibertronian captain N, we can report on a new addition to the Rescue Bots DVD collection courtesy of Shout! Factory, as well as a reminder about the set out next week. Check out below more information and the cover for Jurassic Adventure and Return of the Heroes, respectively out on 10th February and 12th May, both priced at $13.93, and head here for even more!

Get Ready For An Up-RAAWWR-iously Good Time!

Join Chase, Heatwave, Blades and Boulder — the Rescue Bots — as they encounter five new dino-sized adventures! The quiet little town of Griffin Rock won’t know what hit it when Doc Greene's new pet, Trex, wreaks havoc! Can the Rescue Bots and their human allies save the day? Find out with Jurassic Adventures!

The Rescue Bots Return For More Excitement!

Everyone's favorite emergency first responders — Chase, Heatwave, Blades and Boulder — return for five new adventures with their Griffin Rock friends, the Burns family! And this time, they're joined by iconic Autobots like Bumblebee and, of course, the greatest leader of all time: Optimus Prime!

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!

Stuartmaximus wrote:

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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.